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Harry Jones, right, and Will Haas are among the Valle Verde amateur artisans who each year handcraft scores of toys for Unity Shoppe. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk photo)

Santa’s workshop has nothing on Valle Verde residents in terms of productivity.Members of the Santa Barbara retirement community have been working all year to create hundreds of handmade toys and clothing items for children, which they donated to Unity Shoppe last week.

On a recent day, Harry Jones was arranging an army of wooden toys on several tables. A fleet of wooden trucks, wagons, step stools and pull toys were lined up for the Unity Shoppe workers who would stop by later to pick them up. Jones worked with a group of 10 others who met once a week over the course of the last year, and ended up creating 160 wooden toys.

“It’s quite a spread,” he said......

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