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Mother Anne (Barker) Mace’s Sun-Maid Rock ’N Roll Raisin Mix (A 1960s version of Merry Mix)

1/2 c butter or margarine

1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1/2 tsp seasoned or savory salt

1 c peanuts

2 c pretzel sticks

2 c small wheat squares

2 c small rice squares

1 1/2 c Sun Maid Raisins (red box)

1 tsp Chili powder

Heat butter with Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, seasoned salt in large pan, stirring to combine. Add peanuts, pretzels, wheat and rice squares, mix gently until all pieces are coated. Spread out on a flat baking sheet and bake in 250° oven for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add raisins and bake 15 minutes longer. Store in tightly covered container. Makes about 8 cups.

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From the kitchen of Joe Warren Tater Tot Casserole

1 lb of lean Ground Beef

Directions

2 cans of cream of mushroom soup

2 can of whole kernel corn

1 small yellow onion (chopped)

1 Tbsp of minced garlic

1 tsp of salt

1 tsp of pepper

1 bag of tater tots (crispy or regular)

1 one bag of grated cheddar cheese

Brown hamburger in a large skillet. Add chopped onion while browning. Drain and add 2 cans of soup and can of corn, salt and pepper. Spray a casserole dish with Pam. Add the meat mixture to the casserole dish. Even out and add tater tots on top. Cook at 425° until tater tots are golden brown. Add shredded cheese and cook until cheese is melted. Take out of oven and let stand 5 minutes before serving. SEASONS

From the kitchen of Siah J. Kennedy

Chocolate Mint Dessert

Cake Layer: 1 c Flour 1 c Sugar 1/2 c Butter - Soft 4 Eggs 1 16oz Can Hershey Syrup

9”x13” Pan - Grease Mix - Pour Into Pan Bake 350° 25 Min Cool Completely in Pan - Refrigerate

*Mint Cream Center: 2 c. Powdered Sugar 1/2 c Butter - Soft 1 Tbsp Water 3/4 tsp Mint Flavor Green Food Color

When Cake Layer is Nice & ColdMix & Spread Mint Creme Center Over

Cold CakeCool Again

Chocolate Topping: 1 c Choc. Chips 6 Tbsp Butter

Melt Over Low HeatCool SlightlyPour Over Cake & Spread Evenly Cool For 1 Hour in Fridge

*Be Careful Not To Leave In Fridge Too Long or Topping Will Crack When You Cut It Into Squares

Decorate Squares.

*You Can Make Filling Center In Many Different Colors. I Have Used Yellow, Blue, Lavender, Pink - With Matching Flowers On Top.

This year we asked second and third graders at South Prairie School to send us their letters to Santa so we could get them to the North Pole in time for Christmas and Santa’s visit to Tillamook.

South Prairie Elementary School Second Grade

Dear Santa I wot a bepset for Crismis. Jackson

Dear Santa, I want a X Box

Dear Santa Santa pleas give me play station 5 and a manchair

Dear Santa, I love you Santa because you are fun. You are the best!

Nick Dear Santa Please give me a TV a phone and a big dog and PST mas 4. Yasiel

Dear Santa How are you Santa? I want Pepl to be nice to me, ples I wot Fisbac Nova

Dear Santa Thank you Santa you are so kind. I want playstation 5, I want a tree house. Silas

Dear Santa I now that u already gave you my list, but can I have a loopo Littlle live Pets and a turtle Lncy

Dear Santa I want a Iphone 4 and a baby puppy and a puppy placsbooks and a puppy loows and a wach that is pink and a dog toys and fort that is pink and a play station 5 and Merry Christmas. Abilene Continued on page 4

Will Chappell’s Kitchen

Aunt Marie’s Brown Sugar Pound Cake

3 sticks butter or margarine 1 box brown sugar 1 c White sugar 5 eggs 3 c flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 2 tsp vanilla 1 c milk 1 c chopped nuts

Mix as ordinary pound cake. Bake in greased & floured tube pan. Bake 1 1/2 hrs at 350°.

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From

Dear Santa, I hope your not to old because I still want presents, but anyways I really want an Apple wach and I hope you and me get the best Christmas. Oh I also want a puppy but I want it my dads house or at my moms house ok. Love you Santa. Hadley

Dear Santa May I have Sa Lol’s and so much Calicoe writer’s and a has for them and a Merry Christmas for my family and a merry Christmas for Lucy Guage, Michael, Jude Hadley Abilenl, Nova, Dakota, Liam, Maria, hunter, Yasiel, Ssilds, Kinloeek and Mrs. Valdez Clara

Dear Santa, I want a puppy and poohraboacha nan pise boland I leeinveuga Basann

Dear Santa, I just want coins and Buffloo nikil and a I phone5 Jude

Dear Santa, I would like a new toy for Christmas, I also would like a I Phone 14. I like Christmas. Archie

Dear Santa, What is your favorite cookie? How cold is it at the North Pole? Brenan

Dear Santa, Can I have a wator gun for Christmas as to play with the poo Jace

Dear Santa I want a draone for Christmas, I also what a elecff motor cycle Kqyden

Dear Santa I would like a bke for Christmas I wiauld also like a scooter. I need new clothes I want new shoes and Christmas things Elaiha

Dear Santa, Can I have golden ballet shoes for Christmas please. I love my elf. I love making cookies with my famly is fun. Tell hottle I love Him. Santa when you come to my house please enjoy the milk and cookies. Charley

Dear Santa

My name is Nellie. I bet you know joy sugercooky and dogy. What I want is family and family and family. Just family my family means very thing to me. I love my family so so so much. Thank you so much Santa. And all give you cookys.

Nellie

Dear Santa,

I awant a sled, electric bike. I want a neon Pokemon card with 1000,000 health. I want a real Football. Switch/electronics. I want to be your elf. I want a cookie from you Santa. I want a x max just for me. I want a Chrismas Sweter Brody

Dear Santa,

I want a lot of Pokémon cards and I want a Pokémon card with 10,000 health and rare and neon Pokémon cards. I want an electric scooter. I also want a Switch and a pair of headphones and I want a Snake. I also want a Chrismas book and I want a real life sword I also wnt a 1000,00000 bills

Peter

Dear Santa

I want ten thousand Pokemon cards. Lots of neon cards to. And I want a pair of blue running gloves. And I want a Nintendo Switch. And I want a pair of blue ear muffs. And I want sixty of the Pokemon cards that are golden and eigtht hundred pokemon cards thtat have 50,000 health.

Arthur

Dear Santa

I want a desk with a mirror please and a char that is purple please Thank you

Ava

Dear Santa

Hi my name is Lukas I want a BMX and Pro Scooder a gaming chrer and a TV so I can play my stuff Lukas

Dear Santa, I want to get a Doll Hous and a Doll a Barbie Doll Hous with a elevator and with that doll I awant a Chrismis dress on the dress get raindear with bells on its ears and little bolls for its lesha Pink balls a green dress please and thank you?

Hazel

Dear Santa,

I want some pokemon cards please Aarron

Dear Santa, Can I ples hav a itedo swich and Pokemon cards 10000 health 100 hrs an ofoh Annabell

Dear Santa, I want 1,000 pokémon and a I pod please pretty please and I want 1,000,00 good tag teams and upside dowe glasis.

Luke

Dear Santa, My name is Flint, I would like a guineapig and Thank you if you give me this or it will be ok if you give me coal. I won’t cry or anything, your friend

Flint

Dear Santa, How are the reindeer doing? They are all good animals. Hour’s Mrs Claus? And I wood like a virtual reality system Joey

Dear Santa, How is Elf on the Shelf and Rudolph and you doing good? Can I have look goldev V Bux Bragen

Dear Santa, Can I have a taraht w/a and I wood like a x-box and a lynky box stuff and a kitty and a sed the elf and all of the Jahky Box and a clock Theo

Dear Santa, How is Mrs Claus? Can I please have 20 golden v-bucks cards and 1000 dollars Robus card and lanky box merch Thank you Levi

Dear Santa, Thank you for buing a good friend. Will you get me a golden retriever for Christmas Waydon

Dear Santa, Is Rudolph being good? My mane is Becca and im 7 years old please can I have a Baby pitbull Rebecca

Dear Santa How have you been? Also is Dasher there? He’s my favorite reindeer. I hope Mrs. Claus is doing fine. Oh and

my name is Macy and this is what I want for Christmas. One Squish Mellow. Two Pusheen the cat stuff like the coloring book. Three lego for this get Lusy back please.

Macy Jean

Dear Santa

Please may I have an X-Box40 and a Switch. I want a kid motorbike.

Kayden

Dear Santa

Are you doing for Christmas. I would like bunch of Minecraft Legos.

Brdgen

Dear Santa

How are the reindeer and the shining srar Rudolph doing? And How are you doing? Merry Christmas Santa I wis to come to the North Pole bye Santa.

Rue

Dear Santa May I have a gift elf but let me keep my elf. And may I have Dragons from Schleich too and I like you so much. And Math Books and lols and lol pest. And live pets

Evelyn

Dear Santa

I hope you have a good Christmas. My name is August and I my 7 what I want for Christmas is a art maker kit and cute boots. Thank you!

Santa August

Dear Santa

My name is Westyn. I am seven. For Chiistmas May I have a Wii and a Nintendo and a Play Station5.

Westyn

Dear Santa

I love you. Mrs Clause I hope get a puppy! I really want a nice puppy. Love, Ariu

Dear Santa

My name is Brian I’m 7 years old. I ant a travis

scott riguhe, travis scott caotan. Thank you Brian

Dear Santa

My name is Evan. Will you please Now toy fam Christmas Santa you are great because you make the kids happy. Evan

Dear Santa

I want four Christmas Bloom Doll. Kynley

Dear Santa Merry CChrismas, I want Iphone Kristopher

Dear Santa

I want a PS5 and a headset and merry Chrismas Lane

Dear Santa Merry Christmas, all I want for Christmas is a Hoover board and my family to be happy. A soccer ball, slime, Bklato Legos a makkup kint a real Alf on a shalf. Ilove you Santa and missis clos Kenna

Dear Santa

I want a nitido Swich and the coolest car ever and in Iphone and little Mars Bets Karim

Dear Santa

I won an Iphone Sadie

Dear Santa

I want a red hat for Christmas and a gift for my teacher MS. G Waverly

Dear Santa

I want football gear, hover board and Iphone. Javier

Dear Santa

I want to have the Best Christmas and Family to be happy. Juliet

Dear Santa Merry Crismis Santa we love you so much love, Audrey

Dear Santa

I wots am noow roolrblads please. And a noow citin please. And New shoos please. And a miney pool please. And sum pigey and Jarold blocks please. Last but not lesty new dols Ella

Dear Santa

Please can I have for Chrismas a LOL set to play with for a day of happiness and laffier and som much joy and love to you and a barbey doll house and barbeys.

Kaitlyn

Dear Santa

I want little magnets I want a glu on MIS Sadie

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South Prairie Elementary School Third Grade

Dear Santa, Cook chicken for me mom.

Dear Santa, Can I have pirates? I also want an x box. I want Lamborghini. I also want all the pokemon cards.

Chase

Dear Santa, I would like some new toys for Christmas. How are things going in the north pole? I want a lamdaghini.

Wyatt

Dear Santa, I would like an electric scooter. I want colored pencils.

Adam

Dear Santa, Toy cars, toy dog, roblox toys, minecaft toys, yoyo, spider man toys.

Mason

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Dear Santa, I would like some nails for Christmas and make up to. I would like new hairclips.

Litzzi

Dear Santa, I wont pokemon cards and a x box. How is dasher?

Noah

Dear Santa, I want a doll snowman because I want more present went you go my home.

Iris

Dear Santa, I would like some slime for Christmas. I would likes some dolls too.

Dayanitza

Dear Santa, I hope youre doing good please don’t get sick. Merry Christmas. Aries

Dear Santa, I want a Ferrari. I hope you re doing good, Izaiah.

Dear Santa, I want legos, and stuff to make more legos. I also want stickers. I want a happy meal. Cayden

Dear Santa, I whould like a pet rabbit if you can’t mange that a squish-mell whould do. P.S. you can take the carrorts for the rendeer.

Adaline

Dear Santa, I want a phone for cristmas because I don’t have one. Iv’e veeb wanting one for a long time I want one for this cristmas so please.

Liam

Dear Santa, I want tech deck. I want a phone. I want bakugon. I want hot weels. I want electic scooter. I want baby german shepard. I want dart bike. I want footboll gear. I want a skatebord.

so I can find shous.

Josephine

Dear Santa, I know this might be crazy but I need a classroom elf please and also I want a special compuder for my mirco chip and a phone please please please please.

Brandon

Dear Santa, I want a elf please and blue stuffed animal and mommy long legs stuffed animal. Please.

Anna

Dear Santa, I want a phone, I want a new Nintendo game card, a 35 gift card for amazon. And no cole!!!!

Tyler

Dear Santa, I would like a kerbe and the forgotten land swich game card and a logs mansion game card.

Logan

Dear Santa, I wut a scootr, a electrical rodot and a electrical trane and a bus rodot and a soking. Konner

Samuel

Dear Santa, Huverbord , mircrortend, I love my ter. I wut to have pet vish. I wut a cat a lombreing.

Kohner

Dear Santa, I would like a pupy and makup kit, slime, piant, stickers, colering book, a box, a water bodel, paper, colths, shos, markers, paint bushes, and my moms cedit card (whant most)

Bianca

Dear Santa, Wut I want for crismis I wot a offrod rc, big truk and a kis shot gun.

Ethan

Dear Santa, For cristmas I whant pokimon cards a camra a mirophone Swedish fish a amozon gift card, maybe a little coles and last of all … love. Kaidan.

Dear Santa, I woud like more presents this year becus you on get me my stocking. And plez get teddy some presents I rilly want a puppy and I want a small hous smallll. And for my mom plez get her a lot of mony for a new home.

Braelyn

Dear Santa, I realy want pink high top convers because I have a hard time finding shous in the morning

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas thank you for the presents but I riley wunt a pet gold fish for Christmas. Love, Bristol.

Dear Santa, Please bring me a hermit crab and a axolotl. Charlie (our elf) has probley told you we were of to a roghf start. We have been better though.

Carter

Dear Santa, This year I want for Christmas I would like is a target gift card and a stuffed reindeer. Also I wish for an apple watch. Happy holidays. GG

Dear Santa, I want a ren panda stuffed animal and a giant panda stuffed animal.

Brantley

Dear Santa, Thank you for all of the joy and presents and can I get an axalotal, an x box and a kiten and $500 whith a raindeer that has magickale powers and a bunch more Nintendo switch game cards.

Jackson

Dear Santa, I want spongebob toys. I have been doing good this year. Maybe more spiderman toys. Mason

Dear Santa, Can I have a minecraft legos set. Can I have som minecraft toys. Can I have a ice crème mushing. Can I have a goint tedeaber. Can I have som minecraft plushee fore crishmis.

Damon

Dear Santa, I want is a iphone and a apple watch. And a horse and a cow. And do you know way snowlak (my elf) will not move I askt her whay whot you move?

Callie

Dear Santa, You are the best holiday evr. Vis yere i relye relye relye relye relye relye relye relye relye wont a babye buny. Ith you do you wil mac me so so so so so so so so so so so so happy. I hav ben very gud vis yere. I love you santa.

Abygail

Dear Santa, Can I have presents? I’m Kayla if I can have presents I want air pods with no string 5 little stuffed animal it’s called mini something and 5 big ty’s. ty’s are stuffys as well 5 sqish mellows.

Kayla

Dear Santa, Can u pleass make it snow. There is just 2 thing I want can you please get me a ty ing toy and some books.

Ella

Dear Santa, I will be good. Can you say hi to the Easter bunny for me and mrs claus and marry Christmas and I want a lot of stuft animals and phone. O and can mrs claus make me a rally good cooky.

Love, Gavin Dear Santa, I want a phone, gizmo, my parents to get a bigger house and makeup.

Jensen

Dear Santa, I hope you can get me a iphone for Christmas. I will be a goob boy for Christmas.

Joseph

Dear Santa, Can you please get every one the true crismiss spearit on crismiss night because that whoud be the best gift ever because I love to see my litl broider smill and him to be nice.

Gus

Dear Santa, If your actually real please bring me 3 slimes. Tape too to tape my sisters mouth when she complains for everything. My last thing is for my dad to come home for Christmas and world peace if you can get that.

Jackie

Dear Santa, What I ant for Christmas is a warm fuzzy Christmas sweater for Christmas.

Savannah

Dear Santa, X bux, robbik cub.

Anthony

Dear Santa, I think we need to help the homeless kids how doen’t get presints why because there is the fun to of unraping presints also they miht not have unof mony to buy a present for there kids so please give them presints.

Sophia

Dear Santa, I want a ipad for Christmas so I can bowling game and call my mom and friends like Sophia or Sierra.

Macy

Dear Santa, This year I would like people to stop litering and fo people to stop shooting deer unless there is to many and a xbox, dog and phone. Easton

Dear Santa, Can you please get me a PC for crismas Braden

Dear Santa, For Christmas plese I want a huw woch and lagos and pokmon and tel evrebute to stop lidering. Jasmine

Dear Santa, I want maby a fyoo tekdek and robuks and maby pokmon. Masen

Dear Santa, Ho ho ho I want foxy boxy rocky mostr truck toy, sok monky, sonic plush mistry box popy platim green plush. (no name)

Dear Santa, I want bath boms, cap top, bagy shorts and rip jens, jen shorts, cat strach pol and scrat

plates and sock. Adelyaine

Dear Santa, I wont a PS5 and a zedda teeers and a 40$ gifard I will get the milk and cookis to you but not where wen you are delivering the presens and 21 pokemon cardsand I will get picure with me.

Jordan

Dear Santa, I want candy and ininifty buxks and a PS5 and I want to be 8t feet tall.

Colin

Dear Santa, I want money this year because I have a small house and my mom is not healthy. At least 100 dollars.

Aubrey

Dear Santa, I want a car, house, 10,000 $, 2 billion v bucks cards, PS5, 10x10 tv, the rock to me at me bape, clothes, iphone 13, Disney world, no shcool.

Justice Continued on page 8

Dear Santa, Can I have a remote control log truck ples and tell misis clos hi for me ples.

Jaxon

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like a trachulu.

Bryson

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like a xdox seres x and a pc and a new farming set and a led lit.

Colton

Dear Santa,

For Christmas I would like a new laptop or computer or a german shepard.

Mason

Dear Santa, For Christmas I will like a VR.

Anthony

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like 99 v-buck and a ps5 and fortnite cloths and a fortnite backpack and fornite shoes and a iphone 14.

Rory

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like a gameing set up and a pc and a controller for Christmas and a led light and a pokemon cards I need v bucks and a iphone 14.

Arlo

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like a new xbox for Christmas I would also like 2000 million vbucks please! And I would like a new headset please and also I would like a kitten please! And that’s it.

Natalie

Dear Santa, For chistmas I would like a basketball hoop to practice my shooting at basketball games Love, Paisley

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like rollerskats and knee pads so I can praktis Skating and the pads so it dusin hrut as much whin I fall.

Ragan

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like like a VR for my dad. Jeffrey

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like a mi litl pone set and a VR set for mi bruthr hayden. Now back to me I also wunt difrint ball set.

Emma

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like pokemon card and family and VR. Olly

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like a makeup. Danika

Dear Santa, How are you taday. But can I get a American girl doll. And a iPhone 14 big doll house and a chalk kit and a full sockting please and thank you k bye. And a mary Christmas.

Adrienne

Dear Santa, Whut is your favorite kind of cookie santa can I have a air hokey set and a foosball set and a set of roller blad set and an a outside romote control car whut is your favorite reindeer and also whut is your favorite milk and can you get me a laisr tag set.

Porter

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Dear Santa, Can I ride one of your reindeers can I get 8ball, pool and a miny basket ball hoop with a basket ball sinde by lamella ball please. I’v ben being good. Can I have one of your reindeers to? Thank you for giving us presins Santa.

Ryder

Dear Santa, I really want another elf cause my brother is always being not nice. So if we can get another Elf for me that would be great! Also I really wanted a new volley ball because mine is not so good and also my elf hasn’t came yet I know I been super good but I really want my elf to come so can you tell him to come to my home?

Sierra

Dear Santa, My mother thinks I’m not responsible enough to have my own kitten. But I am! I take a shower when she tells. Mom tells me to I keep my room clean and I stop when she says to. So I would like my own kitten for Christmas. I would like fake nails too. Fluffy blankets and that’s pretty much all!

Kinsey

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Dear Santa,

I hope you give me a iphone and a tablet because ive ben reley good this year but save some for ather kids to thare probly reley good to. I hope you have a good Christmas.

Avery

Dear Santa,

I want fake nails for chrismas. I also want hair clips I hope my family can have a new cat I also want new makeup. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Litzzi

Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas is to be blind so I can see my grampa and can you just give me other things too, also can I have those glasses that help blind people please.

Logan

Dear Santa,

Can I have a miny basket ball hoop set with a ball and a new race car battery and say you are the best prsen ever I love santa.

Jack

Santa Letters from City of Tillamook’s Tree Lighting and Holiday Light Parade event

Dear Santa

My name is Elijah I’m 8 years old This year I was very nice. Nice to see you.

Elijah Dear Santa

My name is Elleroe, I’m 4 years old, this ye;ar I have been very nice, I want a live unicorn.

Elleroe

Dear Santa

My name is Ayden, I’m 8 years old, this year I have been very nice, I want a Nintendo Switch please.

Ayden

Dear Santa

My name is Charleen I’m 5 years old, this year I have been very nice, I want a Barvie House.

Charleen

Dear Santa

My name is Zach, I’m 10 years old. This year I have been very nice, This year I’m wishing for a PS5 Nintendo and a ocuius.

Zach

Dear Santa

My name is Anya, I’m 11 yeaers old, this year I have been very nice, This year I want a Mackbook with a pen.

Anya

Dear Santa

My name is Faith Smith, I’m 6 years old. This year I have been very nice. I want a real house for my family. Chistmas tree, Barbie dream house Love you Santa, you are the best.

Faith

Dear Santa

My name is Isaac, I’m 5 years old. This year I have been very nice. I want Dino Smasher, Lego Batman game.

Isaac

Dear Santa

My name is Kaden, this year I have been very nice. I want to be good at fortnite.

Kaden

Dear Santa

My name is Keegan, I’m 10 years old. This year I have been very good. I want a lego Minecraft.

Keegan

Dear Santa

My name is Leilani, I’m 5 years old. This year I have been very nice. I want magic mixies.

Leilani

Dear Santa

My name is Willa, I’m 7 years old. I have been very nice. This year I want a good Christmas and battle bots.

Willa

Dear Santa

My name is Alden, I’m 5 years old. This year I have been very nice. I want battle bots.

Alden

Dear Santa

My name is Paige, I’m 13 years old. This year I have been very nice. This year I wish for a boyfriend!

Paige

Dear Santa

My name my name is Vicky, I’m 11 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for many, many toys and love from my family.

Love, Vicky

Dear Santa

My name is Yiine I’m 9 years old. This year I have been very nice. This year I am wishing for a pokemon plush a doll and a good Christmas.

Yiine

Dear Santa

My name is Kim I’m 9 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for shoes that have lights and wheels Oculus aquest2, Christmas Hoodie, a hat, 2 toys for my dog, 2 evil eye braclets, blue stickers, soccer shirt.

Kim

Dear Santa, my came is Colin, I’m 8 years old. This year I have been very nice. This year I’m wishing for Candy.

Colin

Dear Santa

My name is My name is Bottn I’m 7 years old, I’ve been very nice this year. This year I want Air Jordan shoes.

Bottn

Dear Santa

My name is Evelynn, I’m 5 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for: Barbie color changing barbies. I wish everyone will be a bunch of presents for Christmas.

Everynn

Dear Santa

My name is Emily, I’m 2 years old. I have been very nice this year. This year I’m wishing for a baby doll.

Emily

Dear Santa

My name is Sayd, I’m 10 years old, This year I have been very nice. This year I wishing for: I don’t know what I want for CM. Sayd

Dear Santa

My name Renee, I’m 4 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a puppy and all

my toys at the store.

Renee

Dear Santa

My name is Nathan, I’m 6 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a skateboard and roller skates.

Nathan

Dear Santa

My name is Justin, I’m 13 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a ne Xbox Pro Center.

Justin

Dear Santa

My name is Jasmine, I’m 13 years old. This year I have been very nice. This year I’m wishing for more confedences, and more friends and to be on the Boys Tournament basketball team and head phones.

Jasmine

Dear Santa

My name is Cedar, I’m 3 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for Mickey mouse, Baby Shard and art supplies.

Cedar Continued on page 10

Merry Christmas!

Dear Santa

My name is Ame I’m 6 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a stuffed unicorn phone.

Ame

Dear Santa

My name is Skylar, I’m 5 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a toy cart with fruit.

Skyler

Dear Santa

My name is Muylia, I’m 6 years old, this year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for an electric scooter, stuffed kitty, kitty tablet case, butterfly sweater and cat bed.

Muylia

Dear Santa

My name is Sammy, I’m 7 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a sowing machine.

Sammy

Dear Santa

My name is Brian, this year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a soccer doll and choo choo train.

Brian

Dear Santa

My name is Annamaria I’m 5 yars old. This year

I have been very nice. This year I’m wishing for Rainbow Corns, race car, princess scooter, Peppa Pig Dream House, Bluey friends, Henrys little sister to get better.

Annamaria

Dear Santa

My name is Steven, I’m 4 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a football.

Steven

Dear Santa

My name is Jeremiah, I’m 6 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a Batman detective mask and kit.

Jeremiah

Dear Santa

My name is Aaron I’m 11 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for Call of Duty MWIV, PS5 a new gaming chair.

Aaron

Dear Santa

My name is Harlynn, I’m 5 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a Paw Patrol, their turcks, Barbie doll house, santa hat, barbies glove playdo, headphones, Reneil Cage, Markers and pencils.

Harlynn

Dear Santa

My name Tyson, I’m 6 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a Black Panther Claws, robot and remote control race car.

Tyson

Dear Santa

My name is Clara, I’m 8 years old. This year I have been good and very nice. I’m wishing for a happy Christmas and a new Barbie house. Clara

Dear Santa

My name Everly, I’m 2 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a roller Blade.

Everly

Dear Santa

My name is Kade, I’m 3 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a Dirt Bike, Big truck, big race car, Rockie, Marshall, Skye, Zuma, chase and his truck.

Kade

Dear Santa

My name is Joel, I’m 7 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a Bath kit with suction cups and a Samsung tablet. Joel

Dear Santa

My name is Laila, I’m 4 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for, dolls, presents, princess doll cloths.

Laila

Dear Santa

My name is Jessie, I’m 10 years old. This year an attempt was made to be nice. I’m wishing for some toys and treat for my dog. Jessie

Dear Santa

My name is Keyleigh, I’m 9 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a hippo and a pal woch.

Keyleigh

Dear Santa

My name is Zendaya, I’m 10 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for Mini brands Disney Horse and stuff for it.

Zendaya

Dear Santa

My name is Henry, I’m 8 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a Godzilla toy and that’s kind of all, but my little borther wants a bow and arrow and is so cute.

Henry

Dear Santa

My name is Reese, I’m 4 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a bow and arrow, a play house, toy car I can sit and drive in, a stuffy Godzilla, Huggy Wuggy and be with my family on Christmas.

Reese

Dear Santa

My name is Lilian, I’m 9 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for 2 tickets to U.K.

Lilian

Dear Santa

My name is Brett I’m 15 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a light saber.

Brett

Dear Santa

My name McKinnley, I’m 9 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a happy Christmas.

McKinnley

Dear Santa

My name is Lorelei, I’m 13 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for honestly, I ant happiness and joy and a pony. That’s all.

Lorelei

Happy Holidays from all of us at Tillamook Ford

Dear Santa

My name is Lindsay, I’m 13 years old. This year I have been very nice. I wish for a dog.

Lindsay

Dear Santa

My name is Henry I’m 5 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing foor a RC Car, Nerf gun, Drone, Nike Sweatshirt, Nike Shorts.

Henry

Dear Santa

My name Amelia, I’m 5 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for aa shiny crown.

Amelia

Dear Santa

My name is Harlow, I’m 7 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a skate board helmet, goat halter, roller skates, Kneepads, elbow pads and a pony.

Harlow

Dear Santa

My name is Ari, I’m 9 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a phone. Ari

In 1897, Dr. Philip O’Hanlon, a coroner’s assistant on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, was asked by his then eight-year-old daughter, Virginia O’Hanlon (1889–1971), whether Santa Claus really existed.

O’Hanlon suggested she write to The Sun, a prominent New York City newspaper at the time, assuring her that “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” He unwittingly gave one of the paper’s editors, Francis Pharcellus Church, an opportunity to rise above the simple question and address the philosophical issues behind it.

Church was a war correspondent during the American Civil War, a time that saw great suffering and a corresponding lack of hope and faith in much of society. Although the paper ran the editorial in the seventh place on the page, below even one on the newly invented “chainless bicycle,” its message was very moving to many people who read it. More than a century later it remains the most reprinted editorial ever to run in any newspaper in the English language.

“Is There a Santa Claus?” reprinted from the September 21, 1897, edition of The New York Sun:

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

Dear Editor—

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon

115 West Ninety Fifth Street

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as

measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.

We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see

what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Francis Pharcellus Church

Virginia O’Hanlon

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Dear Santa

My name is Emma I’m 4 years old. This year I’ve been very nice. I’m wishing for a Robo dog that poops out beans. I also want a unicorn doctor kit and an Advent calendar.

Emma

Dear Santa

My name Dominic I’m 6 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a Kitchen set and Lego Ironman.

Dominic

Dear Santa

My name is Mavis, I’m 2 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a Monster Truck.

Mavis

Dear Santa

My name Haylee, I’m 9 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a dog, I phone and a fitbit watch.

Haylee

Dear Santa

My name is Joseph, I’m 7 years old. This year I have been very nice. I’m wishing for a Nintendo Switch a TV and Lankybox Plushy.

Joseph

Dear Santa

My name is Nathen, I’m 6 years old. I have been very nice this year. I wish for a Skatebouafd and Sky, I love you.

Nathen

Dear Santa

My name is Theo, I’m almost 2 years old. I have been very nice this year. I’m wishing for, walkie-talkies, toys, and some clothes for Christmas. I’ll hang up my stocking for you and will leave you milk and cookies and some carrots for your reindeer.

Theo