Each Christmas for the past 40-plus years, Mel Campbell, 71, has bought the Life Savers Sweet Storybook for his daughters’ stockings. When his three grandchildren were born, he started doing it for them too.
But for the first time in all those years, Campbell hasn’t been able to find the rolls of hard candy packaged in a little cardboard book — in recent years sold in Canada under the name “Fun Books” — and he’s worried it will mark the end of a longstanding holiday tradition.
“This year for the first time, it’s been very difficult to find them,” he said. “Past years, I’ve even been
