New SANTA on the chair for the kids on Saturday December 15th.
As indicated earlier, this year we had the pleasure of having 4 different Santa's for the project. This is Santa Jim Brown who had the opportunity to be our Santa and he was not disappointed as he had 49 kids who came to see him. Even with the snow coming down, we got visitors who were anxious to see Santa, bought some popcorn and kept warm in our tented area. We put our heads together and determined which was the best way to set up our tent and again it was with the opening facing east. This is great for us as we kept the wind out of the tent but we could not see cars as they came in and we had to listen for the cars. We quickly shuffled the kids into the tented area and at one time had three groups waiting for Santa. Our early shift were Carol Barnes, Kathy and Erma Doty and Nick. We kept things rolling and by the end of the first shift we had 30 kids. The other 19 came in during the last shift and we did not have any who came at 5:00 which is always happened to us, where someone comes at the end of the day. Jim was ready for his debut and after John helped him put the finishing touches on his wardrobe he was ready for the kids. Again, we had someone waiting before 1:00. John was our photographer and said that Jim did a great job for his first time. Now he is has been crowned an official Optimist Santa. When asked Jim if he was nervous, his response is a little but them after a while, he felt comfortable and enjoyed being a Santa. Thanks Jim, you did a great job and below are some pictures we took of our workers.
After helping Santa get ready for the kids, John took time to take his picture with one of his students, Santa Jim.
Kathy Doty's son Nick, went in to see Santa and got his picture taken for our blog. He actually help us out in the tent.
Erma Doty came out and helped on the first shift and yes, she was dressed very warm.
Mary Harper was on our second shift of workers and took her picture with our Santa. 
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