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A warm cockle to the volunteer Center of Southern Arizona, which presented its annual Community of Hearts Awards on Thursday. Five individuals and groups were honored.

Tucson Police Officer Tom Rizzi launched the Santa Cop Program when he came across a child who was playing with a toy he had personally given her the year before. Santa hadn't come this year, she told him. Rizzi transformed his personal on-duty gift-giving program into a department-wide effort. He coordinated the wrapping and distribution of more than 950 toys to 270 Tucson Police Department patrol cars.

Others included Joseph Heller for his work with the Primavera Foundation, and much more; Vicki Mongeon, program manager/volunteers coordinator at Catalina Community Services; UA junior Drew Abromowitz for his work with the Students in Free Enterprise Team; and the board of the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault, which is now part of the Arizona's Children Association.

A filigreed plaster flower to the eight Downtown buildings that have won up to $7,500 grants toward design fees for improved facades. And the winners are: the W. A. Julian Building at 111-121 E. Congress; Wig-O-Rama, Grill, Arts Incubator, Vaudeville Cabaret, at 98-110 E. Congress; the Rialto Block, 300-320 E. Congress; The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress; The section from 256-278 E. Congress between Arizona Avenue and 5th Avenue; The Beowulf Alley Theatre/Johnny Gibson Building at 11 S. Sixth Ave; Art Fare at 51 N. Sixth Ave.; and the southwest corner of Scott Avenue at 64 E. Broadway.

A thorn for some confusing traffic lighting along the Interstate 10 project. Twice recently we have seen cars in east-west traffic run a red light at the frontage road; the drivers were apparently focusing on a green light beyond the frontage road on the other side of the underpass. Once this happened at the Speedway intersection; the second time was at Grant Road. Let's be careful out there.