Santa gets his shot as retirement home comes to the rescue
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&quot;I tell all the kids that sit on my lap to believe in the magic, and I guess it really happens,&quot; Santa, aka Nick Pallotto, said Tuesday shortly after being vaccinated at a retirement home in Colorado Springs.
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If Christmas came early for a backpacker in Budapest and a novice racquetballer, what would Santa be toting down the chimney? Easy, a day at the spa.
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At a time when local governments are in a whirl of planning for aging baby boomers, folks in one Montgomery County community have mastered the art of delivering senior-friendly services.
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The jingling bells, smiling face and clanking red kettle have become as much a signature to the approach of Christmas as shopping-mall Santas.
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As Hurricane Charley whipped toward his retirement home, Burton MacLeod didn&#39;t budge, telling his worried family he was going to ride it out, no matter how hard the winds blew.
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Santa isn't the only one busy around this season - mail carriers are putting in extra effort with two weeks left for holiday shopping.
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Christmas came early for some 200 children who got to play at Michael Jackson&#39;s amusement park and meet Santa Claus. By Aaron Lambert, AP/Santa Maria Times.
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Belfast's Black Santa raises at least Â£180,000 in his annual Christmas sit-out for charity.
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'Tis the season for youngsters to get some quality face time with Father Christmas. If they can still find him, that is.
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Making toys for all the kids in the world is joyous work &#151; but it's a tough job, too. That goes double for Nick Snowden, who's in charge of the family business when, just three days before Christmas, one of his reindeer is snatched and sold to the local zoo. As if there weren't enough to worry about this time of year, Nick has to rescue Buddy the reindeer &#151; and fast.
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The story of a special Christmas treeâ¦ and wishes for a happy holiday season.
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Shaquille O&#39;Neal came to town to play Santa Claus to 250 kids, and it didn&#39;t matter that the grinning basketball star was no longer a member of the home team.
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Seeking a novel remedy to revive its rickety economy, the tiny ex-Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan has declared itself the new home of Santa Claus.
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By Beth Lucas, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Dec. 9--Santa's sleigh will glide through the Gilbert Islands tonight -- across the lake in the community's traditional Parade of Lights.
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Santa Claus can build toys, shimmy down a chimney and harness flying reindeer. But one thing he can't do any more is skydive near Disneyland.
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MINNEAPOLIS - A prosperous businessman didn't think he was entitled to his 2004 Social Security payments, so he became an early Santa Claus for the Salvation Army.  Last week, the man dropped a check for $14,845 into a bell ringer's red kettle outside a bookstore in downtown Minneapolis.
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By Bill Michelmore, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Dec. 9--NIAGARA FALLS -- Santa Claus, cleverly disguised as Major David Cedervall of the Salvation Army, carted away three large bags of toys from the KB Toy store in the Fashion Outlets mall this week.