On a cold December night, the inside of the St. Marks Lutheran Church in Aurora was filled with warmth thanks to Santa Claus and a group of excited youngsters.
Santa and Mrs. Claus both made an appearance for more than a dozen families with deaf and hard-of-hearing children. To their surprise, Santa knew their language, and used American Sign Language to learn each child's wish this holiday season."It's nice because we could take her to see a mall Santa and she’d have to talk through an interpreter, but here she can talk directly to him which is fantastic," said Kim Cancio, who brought her 5-year-old daughter Kimberly.
"It's good for them to be together and know there's other people like them," said Susan Koepke, co president of the Aurora Lions Club along side Randy Brown. "It fills my heart," said Lions Club member and East Aurora hearing itinerate Carrie Snyder."It's a community within a community... The students who often times may be the only one in their school with a hearing loss, with hearing aids or a sign interpreter, they're able to meet other students that also sign.
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