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Ralph Rotella’s annual Christmas shoe drive for the Rescue Mission aims for new record

Ralph Rotella’s annual Christmas shoe drive for the Rescue Mission aims for new record

Ralph Rotella likes to say that when he started his annual drive to collect shoes for the needy in Syracuse, back in 2010, he had jet black hair. Today, his hair is fully white. “It’s all those shoes that did it,” he said. The more important change from Rotella’s first shoe drive 11 years ago is this: That first year, …

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