Christmas surprise for Monessen teacher
By TAYLOR BROWN
tbrown@yourmvi.com
Santa made a special stop at Monessen Elementary Center on Thursday, but he wasn’t just handing out bicycles.
As third grade teacher Chrissy Toye-Zboyovsky sat her students in the gymnasium for the annual Christmas assembly, she had no idea Santa had a special present waiting in the hallway.
The gymnasium full of children in kindergarten through fifth grades cheered, screamed and clapped when Santa showed up to deliver a handful of bikes to four lucky students.
Chrissy sat on the sidelines of the gym among other teachers, supervising the children as names were drawn from a box.
She had no idea that she would be receiving a gift of her own, something a little too big to fit in Santa’s bag of goodies.
After the presents were distributed, Principal Beth Natali said there would be one more surprise.
Pulling one last name — that was not so random — from a box, Chrissy was called to the front of the gymnasium to receive a classroom reward.
She had no idea her son, Ben, whom she thought would not be home from Fort Bragg until next month, was waiting to surprise her.
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