The candy was piled up on tables in colorful heaps, mounds of Reese’s peanut butter cups and KitKat bars, Snickers and Baby Ruths, Oreos and Tootsie Roll pops.

Olena Poole, 42, dumped another plastic grocery bag of treats onto the growing pile as the side door in the auditorium opened Thursday night at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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