Seasonal & Holidays
Breakfast with Santa Set for Dec. 7 and 14 at Seasons52 at The Mall
Proceeds benefit Grassroots shelter, crisis intervention, mental health, substance use disorder, and suicide prevention services.

Santa will visit with youngsters, their parents and guardians at “Breakfast with Santa” on Dec. 7 and 14, 8-9:30 a.m., at Seasons 52 restaurant at The Mall in Columbia, 10300 Little Patuxent Parkway. Santa will talk with youngsters and their families at their tables. Miss Julie, the Mall’s Family Fun Day entertainer, will be the hostess of the breakfast.
Breakfast prepared by Seasons 52 will include scrambled eggs, bacon, French toast sticks, fruit, juice, milk and coffee. Student volunteers from Howard County high schools will serve as greeters and wait staff.
Tickets are $15 per guest, children 6 months and younger are free. “Breakfast with Santa” benefits Grassroots, Howard County’s 24-hour crisis intervention center and emergency shelter. Register at https://grassrootscrisis.org/breakfastwithsanta/
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During the last year, Grassroots served 547 people in its shelter programs and 1,371 individuals at the Grassroots Day Resource Center, handled over 78,000 calls to its crisis line and more than 24,000 crisis chats and texts, and helped 3,983 individuals via face-to-face contacts. The Mobile Crisis Team made 1,171 community responses, and 224 individuals received substance use disorder services.
Grassroots services – crisis intervention, mental health, substance use disorder, housing support and suicide prevention – can be accessed via its 24-hour crisis line at 410-531-6677 or 988. Free walk-in crisis counseling is available for free, 24 hours a day at 8990 Old Annapolis Road, Suite A, in Columbia. For more information, visit www.grassrootscrisis.org.