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Longtime WBCA director recalls career ahead of retirement BY RANDY PAULSON STAFF WRITER
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Santa was invited to attend an event called Paws and Planes. The organization aims to get young children interested in aviation while helping to spread awareness of dogs and cats in shelters who need adoption. Although he can only deliver presents with his sleigh, Santa enjoyed trying out a Piper Decathlon airplane.
AN INTERVIEW Santa Claus is very busy getting ready for Christmas, but he recently took some time out of his busy schedule to sit down with Press Publications and provide a little insight into how the Christmas magic happens. Q: What do you eat before the big night? A: I eat whatever Mrs. Claus cooks for me! But I get hungry on my rounds, so I eat the cookies and snacks the children leave for me. Q: How do you stay up all night on Christmas Eve while you’re delivering presents? A: Lots of Christmas music, hot cocoa and warm cookies! Q: How many hours of sleep do you get before you ride out on your sleigh?
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WHITE BEAR LAKE — Suzi Hudson has spent almost two decades expanding artistic opportunities for people in and around White Bear Lake as executive director of the Center for the Arts. She’s an artist by trade and at heart, however, and is eager to get back to pursuing creative endeavors of her own after she retires from her longtime role on Dec. 31. “The work of the arts center has been pretty much my life these last 20 years, building the community,” Hudson said. “I always dreamt of having an arts center that, when I retired, I could participate in, where I could take classes and where I could continue to grow as an artist.” Her artistic interests — namely, making fusedglass jewelry — are what sparked her initial involvement with the arts nonprofit when she and her husband, Erick, moved to White Bear Lake from San Diego in 1986. The organization sponsored an annual “Fair in the Fields” art show. There, she showed her creations and her husband displayed his handmade woodworking products. Hudson later became a parent volunteer art teacher through a program the arts center sponsored. The program filled a gap in the elementary school where her son was a student after visual arts classes there were cut. During that time, she also worked as a co-owner of Lake Country Booksellers. By the time the center was looking for a new executive director, Hudson had about 15 years of arts and business experience through her jobs in