Sunday, December 11, 2005

Christmas - - Not too grown up to let Santa go


Not too grown up to let Santa go
St. Petersburg Times - Shannon Kloss knows it's just a matter of time before her stepson Gavin asks the inevitable question. Soon, the 9-year-old will ask about Santa Claus. To buy time, Kloss has been telling Gavin that Santa is her great-great-grandfather. '

Holly jolly giraffes and jellies
San Francisco Chronicle - a wildlife preserve and tent camp outside of Santa Rosa, offers a Christmas Day dinner ($35 adults, $15 Visitors can also spot Santa on the veldt and join him for

To find Santa in El Segundo this week, follow the sirens
Daily Breeze - From staff reports The El Segundo Police Officers Association and the El Segundo Kiwanis Club this season are once again assisting Santa Claus with his pre-Christmas visits to El Segundo.

Letters to Santa: 'Some, all they wanted was a clean pair of socks'
Chicago Sun-Times - reach a child by answering a letter to Santa with a gift, in the $25 range: *Use the click on the Letters to Santa heading on the right side of

It all started with a letter to Santa
San Francisco Chronicle - The Lump of Coal Awards started as an open letter to Santa Claus in December 1996, in which I helped St. Nick sort the naughty from the nice by pointing out who in the fund business deserved only coal in their stockings that year.

Santa run raises charity cheers
BBC - About 1,500 Santas have converged on the centre of Edinburgh to raise money for the terminally ill. The volunteers donned the red and white of Santa to take part in the Great Scottish Santa run on Sunday.