local topics on tv Sunday programs


“Community Connection” (6:30 a.m., WFMJ-TV 21; rebroadcast at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday on Time Warner Cable community access channel): New Certified Angus Beef brand spokesperson and Chef Michael Olliea will join host Madonna Chism Pinkard to showcase easy, quick, inexpensive holiday appetizers using beef.

Next, William Rhodes Dick, alias, “Santa Claus,” will discuss his ministry in the Ukraine for needy children and his new book, “Santa Meets God’s Ukrainian Children.”