It may not be the most glamorous holiday present, but it’s one of the most important there can be for a woman — the gift of a mammogram.

That’s why I’m eating up the fact that 90 uninsured and underinsured women will be getting just that, thanks to the Mag Mile-based Garrett Popcorn family. Garrett donated $12,000 from sales of their October pink tin fundraiser to Dr. Sandy Goldberg’s A Silver Lining Foundation, a nonprofit ensuring access and treatment options to underserved people affected by cancer.

It’s the kind of present that I love best, the one that keeps giving, because as Dr. Goldberg pointed out about the mammograms and breast cancer: “It’s not only the women, it’s their families.”

Now I know this isn’t really cheery Christmas chatter, but according to the American Cancer Society, the chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer during her life is a little less than 1 in 8, which is scary. The chance of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 35. Yet on the bright side is a true gift, that right now there are more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States, according to ACS.

I applaud Garrett Popcorn’s second year donating to A Silver Lining, which was founded in 2002 by Dr. Goldberg, who works in Streeterville as NBC-5’s on air nutrition contributor. The generous and family-owned popcorn company also is involved in various charitable initiatives with the Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Gateway Green, Boys & Girls Club and more throughout the year.

“They were kind enough to have A Silver Lining,” Dr. Goldberg said. “With this single check from Garrett, 90 women will have access to a free screening mammogram.”

And after all, isn’t that what the spirit of Christmas is all about?

Playing Santa… is the Central Lake View Merchants Association, which is so clever with its holiday promotions that I had to share them.

Spend $200 at any of the 250-plus Central Lake View merchants and you get a free Lake View Monopoly game, being offered for the first time. So instead of landing on Park Place or Reading Railroad, you might find yourself sitting at Houndstooth Saloon or at the Belmont el stop.

“It was great to put together,” said Tyler Stanfield, business relations director at CLMA. “Everybody seems to be enjoying it.”

Also, meet — and give a big hand to, please — Ted Henderson, CLMA’s newest employee, whose days are especially busy because he’s spending them working for free at a number of CLMA member businesses, helping out part-time with whatever they need. So far, Henderson has put up holiday decorations, worked a Christmas tree lot, and assisted at a Business Expo at Truman College.

“We’re here to lend a helping hand and help the businesses any way we can,” said Stanfield of Henderson’s good-deed doing.

May all of you do a good deed too for the holiday, and have a safe and peaceful Christmas and Hanukkah. I hope all of your holiday dreams and wishes come true.