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School's out, but some service-minded teens are still hard at work, doing their part to help bring a happier holiday season to thousands of hospitalized children.
At the Happy Hats for Kids warehouse, dozens of volunteers from the Kiwin's Club at Torrance's South High School and Vistamar School in El Segundo are pressing and labeling the colorful felt hats that are delivered to each inpatient child year-round at 101 hospitals nationwide.
"It helps the child to not be real scared in the hospital -- it kind of breaks up the tension," said Rosella Braden, head of fund raising for Happy Hats. The Torrance-based nonprofit also gives each child in its "Hero Kid" program a book and crayons.
Mizuki Yamauchi, 17, president of South High's 180-member Kiwin's Club, said the nonprofit student organization usually rallies volunteers during the holidays to work on the city of Torrance's Rose...