And it came out in the newspaper.

Well you would think after doing something nice the comments would be positive, yet its just full of cancer.

Kinda sad...

http://nctimes.com/articles/2008/12...529006000f9.txt

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REGION: Family distributes meals to day laborers on Christmas Eve 'We're going to have to make more next year' ENCINITAS ---- This Christmas, instead of giving each other gifts, members of the Swanson family in Encinitas decided to do something for others. They spent their morning Wednesday delivering tamale meals to day laborers. Barbara Swanson said her son, Andy Swanson, came up with the idea. He said he sees the day laborers every day on his way to work and thought it would be nice to give them some Christmas cheer. "I always feel bad for them," Andy Swanson said. "I always wondered, 'Where do they go at night?' I can't afford to hire them all, but we can give them a meal." Members of the family and their friends handed out the meals to dozens of men huddled in the brisk morning at the corner of Encinitas Boulevard and Rancho Santa Fe Road, and at a home improvement store on El Camino Real. Gumercindo Ceteo, a migrant worker from Guatemala, said he would save his tamales for lunch, because jobs and money are scarce. He was one of more than 60 people waiting for work on Rancho Santa Fe Road. "This is very good of them," Ceteo said in Spanish. "There is not a lot of work. The economy is not doing very good." After coming up with the idea, Andy Swanson said he sought help cooking the tamales from a friend, Luis Gracida, whose family owns Bety's Tacos Restaurant on Encinitas Boulevard. Gracida did not hesitate. "I thought it was a great idea," he said while helping bag the tamales at the restaurant with his mother, Bety Gracida, and members of the Swanson family Wednesday morning. Gracida said many of the day laborers were customers, but not many have visited the restaurant lately because of the bad economy. "They used to come in all the time, but they can't anymore because they haven't had any jobs," he said. Tamales, a traditional Mexican treat, date back hundreds of years in Mexico and several other Latin American countries. They are made with cornmeal dough and often stuffed with cheese, meat or a thick sauce called mole. Gracida said tamales were his favorite meal at Christmas. His grandmother cooked them for him as a boy when she visited from Mexico. The idea to cook them for the day laborers immediately appealed to his mother, too. "I remembered my son (loving tamales) and it reminded me of family," she said. The restaurant cooked about 200 tamales. They placed two to three of them in each bag along with a bottle of water, some cookies, fruit, a candy cane and a brown wristband. The wristband was in memory of a friend who died of a drug overdose in 2006, Swanson said. He and some friends started a foundation in memory of his friend, Matthew Grant Luke Perlatti, to promote awareness of the dangers of illegal drugs. After delivering more than 60 meals to the men at Rancho Santa Fe Road, the family went to the Home Depot store at El Camino Real, where they found another group of more than 50 men. The few meals they had left were not nearly enough for everyone. They were distributed within a matter of seconds. As quickly as they received them, the men retreated to the sidewalk to eat ---- and to avoid the watchful eye of the store managers. "Gracias (Thank you)," one man said. "Que Dios los bendiga (God bless you)." Andy Swanson looked at the group of men and said, "We're going to have to make more next year.