From the campus paramedics’ traditional Toys for Tots campaign to the A.S. Community Affairs Board’s ambitious effort to collect 100,000 cans in an extended food drive, you don’t need a white-bearded man in a red suit to announce that the holiday spirit has arrived on campus.

Here are a few nuggets from an admittedly incomplete list:

For the Cedarwood apartment evictees’ children, the Associated Students has organized a special toy drive. For details, contact A.S. Rep J.P. Slauenwhite at yeps03@umail.ucsb.edu. And the UCSB administration has directed that all the money donated to a special fund to assist the Cedarwood families—$11,465 by the last week in November—be distributed to those families.

Beginning last week, Transportation and Parking Services started collecting canned food for the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County. Now in its fifth year, the annual Campus Cares Canned Food Drive, which will end on Dec. 18, aims to surpass previous donations, said organizer Elena Ricci.

Collection centers are the Parking Office, the Mesa Parking Structure entrance booth, and in front of the UCen. Drop-off hours are between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The CAB-sponsored food drive, which started well before Thanksgiving and had 800 cans by Nov. 27, will go until the end of January, according to James To, associate director of community affairs. Collection boxes are in all residence halls, the MCC, Visitors Center, library, and other locations.

Other activities this month include the UCSB Professional Women’s Association’s annual Children’s Holiday Party on Dec. 8, which still needs volunteers. Call Katya Armistead (x8113) for details. Also, Isla Vista School’s recent jog-a-thon winning class will receive a holiday buffet lunch on Dec. 13 at the Faculty Club. “We had a lot of fun with the children last year,” said Linda Ruuska, the club’s general manager.

Toys for Tots’ Joe Bloom, rescue operations supervisor, said that new toys deposited in the marked box in the Public Safety Building will be collected on Dec. 13, but that donations can be made until Dec. 24. “We’ll gather them up on Christmas Eve and take them to the Unity Shop,” said Bloom. “It worked well last year.”