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A.J. Green's Christmas helper

This Green Party doesn’t need a re-count.

Rebeka Beach, homeless liaison and school counselor at Taft High School named for a senator and son of a president but home to an eighth-grade prince named Emmanuel always hopes her kids get in A.J. Green’s group.

She has brought students every year since she can remember to the Marvin Lewis Community Fund’s Christmas shopping spree sponsored by DICK’S Sporting Goods. On Monday night MLCF and its Learning is Cool Program transformed the Newport, Ky., store into a sprawling playground for 40 Greater Cincinnati students with great grades, tough finances, and a limitless credit card.