Final day for Santa House 12-21-08

Maddy Ronchetto and Santa

This makes it so perfect. When Maddy was born her first picture with Santa was with this Santa. Here we find her repeating history with Santa again. Maddy is President Ann Ronchetto's granddaughter and boy is she a beauty. All of us who were working were just saying how beautiful and grown up she is getting. Ann, you have a winner there.

The Santa house finally is closed and with it a total of 345 kids that came through the three weekends to see Santa. We did not disappoint those who made effort to come and see him on this cold cold day. For the second day, we used the Historical Society to help with the visit to Santa. We saw 37 kids on this day and we welcomed them to the warm building instead of having to deal with the cold weather they would of been facing outside. Thanks to all of you who worked the weekends. We would not have been able to do it without the energetic Jr. Optimist and as Chairperson of the event, I would like to say thank you to all of you. Whether you worked once or more than once, I appreciated the reindeer and elves. Jim, you have a great group.
We are closing the house for the season and will move it when the weather gets a little better. We are already passing out the items from the drawings as I am writing this. Those who are picking them up were pleased with the sleds the Arnold's got for me and also the big bears for the smaller kids. I will put a closing article in the two papers and see if they will post one of the pictures I have. I may put a different one at each paper to get more than one. So thanks to Jim, Chuck, John and Kevin for your time on the chair, all of those who worked on the cold days. The Historical Society for the use of the building on our last weekend.
I will post our winners on the blog when I get the last three prizes passed out.

Maddy talking to Santa

Miss Maddy


Visitors



little visitor




one of our small ones

This little one came in with a sign that her grandpa gave to her to give to us. Richard Smith from the Muffler Shop donate this for to use in the future. Nick gave it a try and went outside and used it as people passed by.