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For 44 Years, Covering Northeast Jackson, Madison and Ridgeland Vol. 44, No. 10 Two Sections, 32 Pages, Thursday, December 23, 2010<br />
Breaking News<br />
Gov. Haley Barbour eyeing top position at North Pole<br />
IN A SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT,<br />
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour announced<br />
he is not going to run for president of the<br />
United States. Instead, he plans on running<br />
for the position of Santa Claus.<br />
“As president, I would have to cut a trillion<br />
dollars from the budget. As Santa<br />
Claus, I get to give away a trillion in toys,”<br />
Barbour told the Sun. “This is a no-brainer.”<br />
Special inside sources say there are other<br />
reasons for Barbour’s surprise announcement.<br />
“Marsha had him drinking diet Fresca<br />
in preparation for a presidential run,” the<br />
source revealed. “The real no-brainer was<br />
<strong>HO</strong> <strong>HO</strong> <strong>HO</strong><br />
Merry Christmas<br />
The children of the Sun staff got a special opportunity to<br />
visit with Santa while he was at Highland Village. This has<br />
become a tradition with the Sun staff and is Santa’s way of<br />
thanking us for publishing his letters which appear in this<br />
week’s edition. Enjoying the visit were (from left, back)<br />
Pawn<br />
Shop<br />
A two-story metal building is under construction<br />
on Old Fannin Road near Cox Road in<br />
Brandon that will be a pawn shop. Completion<br />
is expected in early March.<br />
the choice between diet Fresca and Maker’s<br />
Mark.”<br />
Pollsters estimated Barbour would have to<br />
lose 30 pounds for his presidential role. As<br />
Santa Claus, Barbour needs to gain about 30<br />
pounds.<br />
Factoring in calories, that’s equivalent to<br />
swapping out one bourbon on the rocks for<br />
one diet Fresca for the rest of Barbour’s natural<br />
life.<br />
“The governor, like any American, was<br />
willing to sacrifice for his country, but at<br />
some point you have to draw the line,” our<br />
confidential source informed us.<br />
Photo by Beth Buckley<br />
Andrew Sweat, Walker and Katelynn Williams, Santa,<br />
Walker Dean, Lawrence and John Emmerich, Cody and<br />
Petyon Poe; (middle row) Elizabeth Sweat, Nate Woodruff,<br />
Sebastian Smith, William and Patrick Dean; (front)<br />
Hayden Smith, Bekah Woodruff and Ruth Emmerich.<br />
Increased water<br />
rates could save<br />
city millions<br />
in interest, fines<br />
SESSION<br />
RITA MARTINSON SHARES GOALS FOR 2011 LEGISLATIVE TERM<br />
IF ONE lawmaker has her way, Big<br />
Bird could be forced to do more pledge<br />
drives.<br />
The 2011 legislative session begins<br />
next month, and lawmakers will have an<br />
opportunity to mull over one bill that will<br />
cut funding for Mississippi Public<br />
Broadcasting (MPB).<br />
The bill is authored by District 58 Rep.<br />
Rita Martinson. She said state funding<br />
needs to be cut because money isn’t<br />
being spent appropriately.<br />
She points to the agency’s budget for<br />
fiscal year 2010 as an example. “They<br />
spent $21,000 on lunches and dinners for<br />
In addition, as Santa, Barbour will have an<br />
almost unlimited supply of milk and cookies<br />
throughout the holiday season.<br />
THE CHANCE TO BE president of the<br />
United States is a once-in-a-lifetime decision,<br />
but the chance to be Santa Claus is a<br />
once-in-a-millennium decision. Experts are<br />
already debating which position has greater<br />
impact on the overall global good.<br />
“As president, Haley could alter the<br />
course of the economy, global politics and<br />
world peace,” our source said. “As Santa<br />
See Breaking News, Page 15A<br />
staff,” she said. Martinson believes that<br />
money could have been better spent on<br />
more programming.<br />
“They haven’t made a new episode of<br />
‘Mississippi Roads’ since February 11.<br />
The previous 13 episodes were produced<br />
for $20,000. Where is that money<br />
going?” she asked.<br />
If passed, Martinson’s bill would<br />
reduce funding by 20 percent for MPB<br />
for the next fiscal year and then by 20<br />
percent for the next five years until state<br />
dollars are phased out.<br />
Margaret McPhillips, director of public<br />
relations for the state agency that pro-<br />
By ANT<strong>HO</strong>NY WARREN<br />
Sun Staff Writer<br />
WHAT AMOUNTS to roughly a dollar a<br />
week increase for water and sewer service in<br />
the capital city has the potential to save Jackson<br />
millions of dollars in interest and fines down<br />
the road.<br />
The Jackson City Council recently approved<br />
raising water and sewer rates by 13 percent and<br />
six percent respectively.<br />
Officials say the revenue generated by the<br />
increase will allow the city to hold on to its<br />
superior water and sewer bond rating, which<br />
can be used to float lower interest loans for<br />
infrastructure improvements.<br />
Standard and Poor’s upgraded Jackson’s rating<br />
in the spring, moving it from an A to an A+.<br />
“Because of the rating, if Jackson issues a $76<br />
million bond for the remaining water and sewer<br />
repairs outlined in the 1996 master plan, we<br />
would save about $5 million in interest over the<br />
course of 30 years,” said Director of<br />
Communications Chris Mims.<br />
The rate hikes will take effect on January 1.<br />
Residential customers should notice an $8 to<br />
$10 increase on their bimonthly statements.<br />
The city mails out water and sewer bills every<br />
other month, Mims said.<br />
On November 30, the council voted 5-1 to<br />
raise water rates from $2.20 to $2.48 per hundred<br />
cubic feet. Sewer rates were bumped up<br />
from $2.03 to $2.15 for the same amount of<br />
wastewater that is discharged back into the<br />
city’s system.<br />
Public Works Deputy Director David Willis<br />
said a hundred cubic feet is equal to 748 gallons<br />
of water.<br />
Those voting in favor of the measure included<br />
Ward Seven Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-<br />
Simon, and Councilmen Frank Bluntson,<br />
Charles Tillman, Tony Yarber and Chokwe<br />
Lumumba. Outgoing Ward One Councilman<br />
Jeff Weill voted against it, and Ward Three<br />
Councilman Kenneth Stokes was absent.<br />
The city’s bond rating is based on several factors,<br />
including one that requires Jackson to<br />
maintain 120 percent more than the amount of<br />
its monthly bond payment in cash on hand,<br />
once its day to day operations are met.<br />
The increases will generate about $378,000 a<br />
month in new revenue.<br />
“In the last three years, our costs have<br />
increased and it’s eaten into our 120 percent<br />
coverage,” Willis said.<br />
See Water Rates, Page 15A<br />
vides educational television and radio,<br />
said MPB’s budget for the 2010 fiscal<br />
year was approximately $13 million.<br />
Sixty percent of that came from the<br />
state’s general fund budget, while the rest<br />
is made up in grants, pledge drive donations<br />
and other sources.<br />
The governor has proposed cutting<br />
MPB’s budget by a fifth for the 2011 fiscal<br />
year as part of the state’s efforts to<br />
tighten its belt as a result of the economy.<br />
Experts have projected that the state’s<br />
general fund budget will be more than<br />
$300 million less than two years ago.<br />
See Rita Martison, Page 10A
Page 2A Thursday, December 23, 2010<br />
City better prepared to face<br />
harsh winter weather with<br />
improvements to system<br />
By ANT<strong>HO</strong>NY WARREN<br />
Sun Staff Writer<br />
JANUARY IS right<br />
around the corner, and<br />
Northsiders and city officials<br />
alike are keeping an eye on<br />
their thermometers and their<br />
water pressure.<br />
That’s because in January<br />
2010, water mains across the<br />
city of Jackson burst as the<br />
area experienced 10 days of<br />
record-low temperatures.<br />
The breaks crippled the capital<br />
city, causing businesses<br />
to shut down and residents<br />
to be without water or water<br />
pressure for days.<br />
But experts say below<br />
freezing temperatures likely<br />
won’t be a factor in the<br />
coming month.<br />
And Jackson city leaders,<br />
with the crisis about a year<br />
behind them, say they are<br />
better prepared to address<br />
another water crisis, and<br />
cited several steps that are<br />
being taken to prevent more<br />
water system break-downs<br />
in the future.<br />
Jackson Mayor Harvey<br />
Johnson Jr., though cautioned<br />
that being more prepared<br />
doesn’t mean that<br />
water main breaks couldn’t<br />
occur once again, especially<br />
if weather conditions don’t<br />
play in the city’s favor.<br />
“People have been pushing<br />
me to put my hand on the<br />
Bible and say ‘we’re not<br />
going to have a problem,’<br />
and I refuse to do it,”<br />
Johnson said. “If we have<br />
sub-freezing temperatures<br />
and the soil shifts, I can’t<br />
guarantee it won’t happen.”<br />
IN THEIR EFFORT to<br />
prevent another catastrophe,<br />
officials aren’t relying on the<br />
right weather conditions<br />
alone to make it through the<br />
winter.<br />
Johnson outlined several<br />
steps the city is taking to<br />
lessen the severity of breaks<br />
in the future.<br />
During the 2010-11 fiscal<br />
year, the city is set to spend<br />
$29 million on water infrastructure<br />
improvements. A<br />
portion of those funds will<br />
be used to install the last<br />
segment of a 54-inch water<br />
main to connect the J.H.<br />
Fewell to the O.B. Curtis<br />
water treatment plants.<br />
“That should start at the<br />
first of the year and take 18<br />
to 24 months to complete,”<br />
he said.<br />
Johnson said having that<br />
line in place will allow the<br />
city to maintain pressure<br />
during line breaks.<br />
Maintaining some continuous<br />
pressure keeps the city<br />
from having to issue boil<br />
water notices once the leaks<br />
are patched.<br />
Johnson said the city has<br />
also learned more about<br />
addressing a water crisis following<br />
a water main break<br />
in June. “We overcame that<br />
quickly,” he said. “I wish<br />
this was something we could<br />
correct in the next six<br />
months to a year, but it’s<br />
not.”<br />
But luck - and a not so<br />
well-known weather pattern<br />
called La Nina - might be on<br />
the city’s side this year.<br />
“As far as temperatures go<br />
for January, we’re not<br />
expecting a high chance of<br />
seeing prolonged periods of<br />
freezing,” said Daniel Lamb,<br />
a meteorologist with the<br />
National Weather Service in<br />
Jackson.<br />
Lamb said a La Nina pattern<br />
has developed in the<br />
Pacific Ocean. Because of<br />
that, he doesn’t expect the<br />
mercury to dip below the<br />
mid-30s for an extended<br />
period of time.<br />
“What we saw last year<br />
was prolonged lower temperatures.<br />
In a La Nina, we<br />
will likely experience colder<br />
temperatures come in behind<br />
a storm system, but they’ll<br />
only last a day or two.”<br />
“We’ll see a quicker<br />
recovery to warmer temps,<br />
but there will be more rainfall,”<br />
Lamb said.<br />
A La Nina occurs when<br />
the sea surface temperatures<br />
in the Pacific fall lower than<br />
normal. That anomaly causes<br />
winter temps to remain<br />
mild in the Southeast, he<br />
said.<br />
“We had a La Nina in<br />
2000, and the average temperature<br />
was closer to 40,”<br />
he said.<br />
Last year, El Nino conditions<br />
were present in the<br />
Pacific, causing temperatures<br />
to fall dramatically in<br />
the Southeast.<br />
The average temperature<br />
for the first 10 days of<br />
January 2010 was 29.9<br />
degrees. That weather<br />
caused surface water temperatures<br />
to plummet.<br />
That factor, coupled with<br />
the age of the city’s infrastructure,<br />
led to 156 main<br />
breaks, leaving thousands of<br />
people high and dry.<br />
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a conversation with<br />
Santa Claus on Christmastime<br />
“I’ve been doing this almost 1,700<br />
years and I can count all the bad<br />
kids I’ve seen on my two hands.”<br />
--Santa Claus<br />
EDITOR’S NOTE:<br />
Thanks Santa, and<br />
Merry Christmas from<br />
the Sun Staff!<br />
Santa Claus recently took a break from<br />
his busy schedule to sit down and have<br />
some cookies and milk with the Sun staff.<br />
He had dropped by to personally pick up<br />
some of his letters from the Northside Sun.<br />
At his request we publish the letters to save<br />
him time. You see, while he’s reading the<br />
Sun he can also read the letters. While<br />
Santa was here, the staff talked with him<br />
about his hectic journey Christmas Eve.<br />
Gee Santa, it seems like only yesterday we<br />
were here in the conference room drinking<br />
hot chocolate and talking about the same<br />
things. It’s amazing how time flies.<br />
“Well to you and me it seems that way.<br />
We’re old. But to the young ones it seems<br />
forever ago. And today is probably the<br />
longest day of the year for them knowing<br />
that tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I’ve got lots<br />
of things to get done.”<br />
Although you seem to have a great job,<br />
it must be hard, especially around this<br />
time of the year.<br />
“Actually my work is easy. I have so many<br />
great helpers in my workshop. The children<br />
tell me exactly what they want and y’all<br />
make it easy for me by publishing their letters.<br />
All that is the easy part and this is the<br />
most fun time of the year for me. The hard<br />
part of the job comes after Christmas. You<br />
think I’m fat and jolly now. Well on<br />
December the 26th I’m fatter and not very<br />
jolly. HoHoHo. I don’t know if you realize it,<br />
but I consume thousands of calories on my<br />
delivery. So many that from January till<br />
about July, I’m on a very strict diet. That’s<br />
the hard part of my job. Thank goodness<br />
there’re not many swimming pools at the<br />
North Pole because I wouldn’t look too good<br />
in my bathing trunks. HoHoHo.”<br />
Tomorrow’s the big night. Are you<br />
ready? Is the list ready?<br />
“Yes, we are ready. Everything is going<br />
pretty smooth. I will be very busy and I will<br />
not get a break until the day after Christmas.<br />
“But we will pull it off, we always do.<br />
“As far as the list is concerned, it is complete<br />
thanks to our teamwork.”<br />
Are you looking forward to all the milk<br />
and cookies the children leave for you?<br />
“Of course. Wouldn’t you? HoHoHo.<br />
People are always tormenting me about my<br />
weight. You know it’s funny, I see all these<br />
pictures of myself in books and on TV and<br />
I look chubby, like I do now. But if you’ll<br />
notice, I’m always on my way to deliver<br />
presents in the pictures. My sleigh is always<br />
fully loaded. You never see me on my way<br />
home. If you did, you wouldn’t recognize<br />
me.<br />
“I bring gifts to almost 400 million children<br />
in more than 90 million homes around<br />
the world. I have about 31 hours to do it,<br />
thanks to the different time zones and the<br />
rotation of the earth, but I still have to work<br />
at a brutal pace. I have to eat those cookies<br />
and drink the milk or I’d waste away to<br />
nothing.”<br />
Many people have come to know you<br />
by your outfit. How did you choose it?<br />
“Well, that’s really kind of an interesting<br />
story. As you know, I’ve been bringing toys<br />
to girls and boys for well over 1,500 years.<br />
And I’ve been coming to the United States<br />
since before it was the United States.<br />
“I used to be a bishop of the church. Ever<br />
since the fourth century, and up until the<br />
19th century, I wore my bishop’s garb. It<br />
wasn’t very comfortable, but I was proud of<br />
my work as a bishop and liked to wear it.<br />
“Then, in 1823, the poet Clement Clark<br />
Moore wrote ‘The Night Before<br />
Christmas,’ and in the 1860s, Harper’s magazine<br />
started publishing paintings of me by<br />
the artist Thomas Nast.<br />
“Moore and Nast did good work. They<br />
got most of it right, but they missed on the<br />
outfit.<br />
“The poem and the paintings were so<br />
popular, though, people just expected me to<br />
be in the furry red suit and this crazy hat, so<br />
that’s what I started wearing.<br />
“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind. In<br />
fact, this suit is warmer and I’m a lot more<br />
comfortable now. I just think it’s funny. ‘Art<br />
imitates life,’ they say. Ha!”<br />
Santa, you seem a very educated man.<br />
“Well, I guess I learned a lot on the job.<br />
For instance, I grew up speaking a form of<br />
what is now the Turkish language. As I<br />
began giving gifts to children in larger and<br />
larger areas of the world, I had to learn dif-<br />
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ferent languages.<br />
“If I got a letter addressed to ‘Father<br />
Christmas,’ ‘Sinter Klaas,’ ‘Pere Noel,’<br />
‘Julenisse,’ or ‘der Weinachtsmann,’ I had<br />
to be able to understand it. So, I learned<br />
many different languages.<br />
“In the same sense, I have become familiar<br />
with many different cultures. I don’t just<br />
blindly give children gifts they request, I<br />
make it a point to test them first. So, I have<br />
not given a book I did not first read, a CD I<br />
did not first listen to, and so on. I’ve<br />
become very well-acquainted with the different<br />
cultures of the world and I stay up-todate<br />
as they shift and evolve. I guess you<br />
could say I have a pretty good vantage<br />
point. HoHoHo.”<br />
So, how do kids in Jackson stack up to<br />
kids in other places? Naughtier or nicer?<br />
And what about kids today as opposed to<br />
other times in history?<br />
“Good question. The level of naughtiness<br />
in youth remains constant no matter what<br />
point in space or time. Kids in place X are<br />
just as nice as kids in place Y. Kids today<br />
are just as good as ever. The statistics show<br />
it.<br />
“And, to tell you the truth, there aren’t<br />
very many bad kids at all. I’ve been doing<br />
this almost 1,700 years and I can count all<br />
the bad kids I’ve seen on my two hands.<br />
Sure, kids are mischievous, but even most<br />
kids people think are bad aren’t truly bad.<br />
They just make mistakes or they’re sometimes<br />
misunderstood.”<br />
What do you have planned when you<br />
get back to the North Pole after your<br />
rounds?<br />
“Mrs. Claus and I have a little routine. It<br />
has been the same for years. When I get<br />
back, she has a big cup of tea waiting for<br />
me. We sit by the fire and as I drink my tea,<br />
I tell her all about my trip. Usually, some<br />
pretty fun things happen on Christmas Eve,<br />
so she loves to hear about it.<br />
“After my tea, I go to bed and sleep for<br />
about 18 hours. Those next few days is our<br />
only vacation during the year. After a few<br />
days off, the elves, the reindeer, Mrs. Claus<br />
and I have a big New Year’s Eve party and<br />
then, on January 2, we start getting ready<br />
for Christmas all over again.”
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Work to start on Lake Harbour Drive<br />
By ANT<strong>HO</strong>NY WARREN<br />
Sun Staff Writer<br />
PRELIMINARY work for the Lake<br />
Harbour Drive widening project continues,<br />
with crews expected to begin relocating<br />
utilities in the coming weeks.<br />
The Ridgeland mayor and board of<br />
aldermen recently entered into an agreement<br />
with Entergy to relocate approximately<br />
30 utility poles located within<br />
the footprint of the much-anticipated<br />
widening project.<br />
The agreement will cost the city<br />
approximately $118,000. In addition to<br />
removing the old wooden poles, that<br />
cost will also cover replacing the old<br />
wooden poles with new metal ones.<br />
Mayor Gene McGee said once that<br />
work is completed and the remaining<br />
easements are obtained, the city can<br />
advertise for contractors.<br />
“I hope to have it bid out early in<br />
2011,” he said. The mayor previously<br />
had hoped to have the project bid out<br />
sometime this year, so a contractor<br />
could begin in the spring.<br />
McGee said obtaining the easements<br />
has been complicated for several reasons.<br />
In one case, the city has had to<br />
work with an out-of-state lending company.<br />
The Internal Revenue Service had<br />
placed a lien against another property.<br />
“We’re in final negotiations on the<br />
other one,” he said.<br />
Easements, unlike rights-of-way, are<br />
taken temporarily by governments for<br />
projects to be completed. The properties<br />
are repaired before they’re returned and<br />
residents are compensated for their<br />
inconvenience.<br />
The $16 million project calls for transforming<br />
the two-lane road into a fivelane<br />
thoroughfare from Northpark Drive<br />
to U.S. 51. A bike trail, curbs and gutters,<br />
as well as new signalization will<br />
also be added. In all, about 2.5 miles of<br />
roadway is included in the project.<br />
Work should take about two years to<br />
complete, weather pending.<br />
The project is being funded with an<br />
80-20 matching grant awarded through<br />
the Central Mississippi Planning and<br />
Development District (CMPDD).<br />
Because federal money is being used on<br />
the project, all plans have to be<br />
approved through the Mississippi<br />
Department of Transportation (MDOT).<br />
According to the Ridgeland Area<br />
Master Plan (RAMP), the road would<br />
run south of Freedom Ridge Park and<br />
possibly allow for another entrance into<br />
the popular public facility.<br />
Earlier this year, the city hired<br />
Bulldog Construction for $84,000 to<br />
complete the demolition work for the<br />
project. In all about 14 homes were<br />
identified as needed for the project to be<br />
a success. Residents in each home were<br />
relocated to other spots in the city.<br />
CMPDD identified Lake Harbour as a<br />
top priority for the metro area in its<br />
2030 Jackson Urbanized Area<br />
Transportation Plan. It is one of a few<br />
east-west corridors located in the fastgrowing<br />
southern section of Madison<br />
County. The transportation plan is<br />
updated every five years by the planning<br />
district. It lays out road projects<br />
that ideally should be completed in the<br />
30-year period to meet the demands of<br />
the region’s growing population.<br />
business<br />
notes<br />
Lori Reed was recently named sales<br />
manager for the Cabot Lodge<br />
Jackson North property located in<br />
Ridgeland off I-55 at County Line<br />
Road. The announcement was made<br />
by Scott May, general manager of the<br />
property. Reed, a graduate of<br />
Mississippi State University, previously<br />
worked as a sales representitive<br />
for WraSer Pharmaceuticals within<br />
their Pain Speciality Division.<br />
happenings<br />
History is lunch<br />
Mississippi Department of<br />
Archives and History<br />
resumes its History is Lunch<br />
programs January 5 with<br />
Andy Anderson talking about<br />
his book “Memoirs of the<br />
Original Rolling Stones,” and<br />
January 12, preservationist<br />
Jennifer Baughn discusses<br />
Mississippi’s Rosenwald<br />
schools and equalization period<br />
schools. Meetings are held<br />
noon - 1 p.m. in the William<br />
Winter building.
N’sider dragged down North<br />
State Street for $150, purse<br />
By ANT<strong>HO</strong>NY WARREN<br />
Sun Staff Writer<br />
CRIMINALS left a<br />
woman stunned and prostrate<br />
in the middle of North<br />
State Street, having been<br />
dragged 100 yards by a car<br />
following a late-night<br />
purse-snatching in Fondren.<br />
The robbers had grabbed<br />
the woman’s purse as they<br />
drove by her as she was<br />
leaving a restaurant. She<br />
was unable to release the<br />
straps from her shoulder and<br />
was dragged behind the car,<br />
her legs simultaneously<br />
bumping the wheel and the<br />
pavement. Fortunately, the<br />
road was recently paved and<br />
the victim had no serious<br />
injuries. A chain e-mail<br />
report claimed the robbers<br />
were laughing as they<br />
dragged the woman up<br />
North State Street. She was<br />
able to free herself in front<br />
of the old Precinct Four<br />
building.<br />
The victim’s husband confirmed<br />
that his wife had<br />
heard laughing. He declined<br />
to comment to the Sun further<br />
regarding the situation.<br />
On Monday afternoon,<br />
Jackson Police spokeswoman<br />
Colendula Green<br />
would neither confirm nor<br />
deny that a suspect had been<br />
named in the case.<br />
Publisher Wyatt Emmerich<br />
drove by the crime scene<br />
business<br />
notes<br />
Derek W. Knepple, CPA<br />
has joined Matthews<br />
Cutrer and Lindsay, PA,<br />
Certified Public<br />
Accountants as a senior<br />
accountant. Knepple completed<br />
his bachelor’s degree<br />
with an emphasis in banking<br />
and noticed the woman<br />
lying in the street. “I<br />
assumed she was a pedestrian<br />
who had been hit by a<br />
car,” he said. “Several people<br />
were attending to her.”<br />
Emmerich had just left<br />
Walker’s Drive-In with his<br />
family. “I stopped and asked<br />
if they needed someone to<br />
call an ambulance, and they<br />
said one had already been<br />
called.”<br />
The woman was taken to<br />
the University of Mississippi<br />
Medical Center, where she<br />
was treated for minor<br />
scrapes and bruises.<br />
According to e-mails<br />
obtained by the Sun, the victim<br />
suffered no broken<br />
bones and no head or face<br />
injuries. “She did suffer<br />
scrapes to her left shoulder,<br />
back and hands. She was<br />
wearing some tall leather<br />
boots, which protected her<br />
feet and legs during the<br />
attack,” the e-mail stated.<br />
The incident occurred<br />
around 9:30 or 10 p.m. The<br />
woman was released from<br />
the hospital around 2:30 the<br />
next morning.<br />
The suspects got away<br />
with the woman’s purse,<br />
three credit cards and $150<br />
in cash.<br />
The couple is from<br />
Ridgeland. The husband,<br />
who was reached by telephone,<br />
declined to com-<br />
finance and managerial<br />
finance from the University<br />
of Mississippi. He also studied<br />
at Lipscomb University.<br />
He has worked in public<br />
accounting and commercial<br />
lending and will focus his<br />
practice on auditing and<br />
forensic accounting.<br />
ment.<br />
Babalu is located on the<br />
east side of the Duling<br />
School development.<br />
Watts said the couple had<br />
just walked out of the<br />
restaurant when two unidentified<br />
black males pulled up<br />
beside her, and the driver<br />
grabbed the woman’s purse<br />
and attempted to drive off.<br />
“The woman still had her<br />
arm in the purse when the<br />
suspect grabbed it,” Watts<br />
said.<br />
The driver was described<br />
as a black male with a light<br />
complexion and wearing a<br />
multicolored shirt. The passenger<br />
was also a black<br />
male, but no further details<br />
were available. Watts said<br />
video surveillance obtained<br />
from the scene provided little<br />
information as well.<br />
Video shows a light in<br />
color vehicle similar to a<br />
Saturn. Watts said detectives<br />
were unable to make out a<br />
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BILL LATHAM, coowner<br />
of Babalu, said he’s<br />
beefing up security as a<br />
result of the incident. He’s<br />
also contacted the victim,<br />
and said she is “doing OK<br />
under the circumstances,”<br />
and was “in unbelievably<br />
good spirits.”<br />
Latham said the restaurant<br />
has a well-lit parking lot, as<br />
well as a security guard on<br />
duty during business hours.<br />
Cameras also blanket the<br />
inside and outside of the<br />
Latin American eatery.<br />
The security guard was<br />
apparently inside during the<br />
December 11 incident.<br />
“We’ll make sure the security<br />
guard is parked so he<br />
can see everyone when they<br />
leave the restaurant and<br />
walk to their cars,” he said.<br />
“I can assure you, we’re on<br />
top of this.”<br />
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Page 8A Thursday, December 23, 2010<br />
northside facts<br />
Crime Report<br />
Madison Crime<br />
The Madison Police<br />
Department received the following<br />
reports for:<br />
Aspen Drive, credit card<br />
fraud, December 10;<br />
Bayberry Lane, house burglary,<br />
December 6;<br />
Colony Crossing, burglary,<br />
December 9;<br />
Gabriel Place, credit card<br />
fraud, December 10;<br />
Pecan Hill Drive, credit card<br />
fraud, December 10;<br />
Pine Place, house burglary,<br />
December 13;<br />
West Tidewater Lane, business<br />
burglary, December<br />
13.<br />
Ridgeland Crime<br />
The Ridgeland Police<br />
Department received the following<br />
reports for:<br />
Arbor Drive, 300 block, burglary<br />
- dwelling,<br />
November 23;<br />
Bayshore Drive, 100 block,<br />
burglary - dwelling,<br />
December 10;<br />
Berridge Drive, 600 block,<br />
burglary - dwelling,<br />
December 7;<br />
Centre Street, 800 block,<br />
grand larceny, November<br />
21;<br />
Charmant Drive, 100 block,<br />
identity theft, December 7;<br />
Commerce Park Drive, 200<br />
block, auto burglary,<br />
December 5;<br />
Commerce Park Drive, 200<br />
block, auto burglary,<br />
December 5;<br />
Copper Ridge Drive, 7000<br />
block, credit card fraud,<br />
November 29;<br />
Copper Ridge Drive, 7000<br />
block, identity theft,<br />
November 29;<br />
Copper Ridge Drive, 7000<br />
block, petit larceny,<br />
November 29;<br />
County Line Road, 1000<br />
block, auto burglary,<br />
December 10;<br />
County Line Road, 1000<br />
block, auto burglary,<br />
December 9;<br />
County Line Road, 1000<br />
block, motor vehicle theft,<br />
December 5;<br />
County Line Road, 1000<br />
block, motor vehicle theft,<br />
December 5;<br />
County Line Road, 1000<br />
block, motor vehicle theft,<br />
December 9;<br />
County Line Road, 1200<br />
block, petit larceny,<br />
December 11;<br />
County Line Road, 2000<br />
block, petit larceny,<br />
December 10;<br />
Eastpark Street, 200 block,<br />
identity theft, December<br />
10;<br />
Eastwood Avenue, 300<br />
block, petit larceny,<br />
November 17;<br />
Highland Colony Parkway,<br />
1000 block, grand larceny,<br />
November 18;<br />
Highland Colony Parkway,<br />
1000 block, identity theft,<br />
November 27;<br />
Highland Colony Parkway,<br />
500 block, grand larceny,<br />
December 9;<br />
Highland Colony Parkway,<br />
900 block, grand larceny,<br />
November 22;<br />
Highland Colony Parkway,<br />
900 block, petit larceny,<br />
December 7;<br />
Highway 51, 200 block, petit<br />
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Kinsington Court, 600 block,<br />
burglary - dwelling,<br />
December 7;<br />
Lake Harbour, 500 block,<br />
auto burglary, November<br />
15;<br />
Lake Harbour, 700 block,<br />
auto burglary, November<br />
15;<br />
Lake Harbour, 800 block,<br />
auto burglary, December 6;<br />
Lake Harbour, auto burglary,<br />
December 6;<br />
Northlake Avenue, 300<br />
block, grand larceny,<br />
November 30;<br />
Old Canton Road, 6000<br />
block, burglary - dwelling,<br />
December 11;<br />
Old Canton Road, 6000<br />
block, motor vehicle theft,<br />
December 6;<br />
Pine Brake Circle, 400<br />
block, auto burglary,<br />
December 4;<br />
Pine Knoll Drive, 100 block,<br />
aggravated assault,<br />
December 6;<br />
Pine Knoll Drive, 100 block,<br />
burglary - dwelling,<br />
November 27;<br />
Pine Knoll Drive, 100 block,<br />
credit card fraud,<br />
November 16;<br />
Pine Knoll Drive, 100 block,<br />
identity theft, November<br />
16;<br />
Pine Knoll Drive, 100 block,<br />
shooting into dwelling,<br />
December 6;<br />
Porter Street, 300 block west,<br />
burglary - dwelling,<br />
November 23;<br />
South Ridge Drive, 300<br />
block, burglary - dwelling,<br />
November 15;<br />
Sunnycrest Drive, 100 block,<br />
credit card fraud,<br />
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Northpointe Parkway, 600<br />
block, robbery - individual,<br />
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Northside Drive, 1000<br />
block east, house burglary,<br />
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Northside Drive, 1300<br />
block east, larceny,<br />
November 7;<br />
Northside Drive, 1500<br />
block west, robbery -<br />
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Northside Drive, 200 block<br />
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Northside Drive, 200 block<br />
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Northside Drive, 2900<br />
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November 6;<br />
Northside Drive, 700 block<br />
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Madison accepting bids<br />
to create new town center Bethlehem tree<br />
By ANT<strong>HO</strong>NY WARREN<br />
Sun Staff Writer<br />
PLANS ARE still a go for a project that<br />
will create a new retail and recreational hub<br />
in Madison’s downtown corridor.<br />
City officials are slated to open bids for the<br />
Madison square on January 18.<br />
Community Development Director Alan<br />
Hoops said the city has had a good bit of<br />
interest in the project, and expects three or<br />
four bids to be submitted for consideration.<br />
Originally, the city, along with the Madison<br />
Square Redevelopment Authority (MSRA),<br />
was planning to open bids in mid-August.<br />
However, the deadline for proposals was<br />
extended at the request of two or three interested<br />
parties.<br />
Since the deadline was extended, Hoops<br />
said the city has received several new<br />
inquiries into the project. Most of those<br />
showing interest are from out of state. “I had<br />
someone get in touch with me last week, and<br />
I sent him an RFP,” he said. An RFP is a<br />
request for proposals.<br />
The square will be located on roughly 17<br />
acres of land bordered by Madison Avenue,<br />
U.S. 51, Main Street and Magnolia Street.<br />
MSRA purchased the property on behalf of<br />
the city years ago, with plans to develop it in<br />
the future.<br />
Madison city officials recently brought on<br />
Memphis architect Henry Frank Ricks to<br />
draw up a master plan for the property.<br />
According to a copy of the 25-page master<br />
plan, Ricks envisions a project with professional<br />
and retail space, spots for restaurants, a<br />
120-room boutique hotel and a 25,000square-foot<br />
specialty grocery store.<br />
The square will also include a large public<br />
green space, a main street retail and restaurant<br />
district and an area for city government.<br />
Space will be set aside for a 1,600-seat performing<br />
arts center, a public library and an<br />
18,000-square-foot city hall.<br />
Tulane University, which is currently locat-<br />
ed in part of the old Madison Square Center<br />
for the Arts, will be given an opportunity to<br />
build a permanent facility on the square once<br />
its lease expires. Right now, the New Orleans<br />
school is operating a satellite campus in the<br />
city as part of a three-year pilot program.<br />
If the program is successful, the school will<br />
consider opening a permanent satellite campus<br />
in the city.<br />
A MAJOR FOCAL point of the development<br />
will be a grassy area called the town<br />
square.<br />
Ricks states that the spot “is both the geographic<br />
center of the urban core and heart of<br />
the property.” The plan states that it could<br />
include not only green space, but a civic<br />
pavilion and amphitheater, making it perfect<br />
for meetings and outdoor events like concerts,<br />
picnics, and arts and crafts fairs.<br />
Another public park would be located on<br />
the northeast corner of the property near<br />
Main Street.<br />
In addition to green space, Ricks proposes<br />
a new main street district, to run along a<br />
street parallel to Highway 51.<br />
The street would be a pedestrian-friendly<br />
retail and restaurant hub, with large sidewalks,<br />
trees and landscaping, as well as<br />
pedestrian benches, street lamps, directory<br />
kiosks and signage. Ricks said both national<br />
and local retailers and restaurateurs would be<br />
included in the mix.<br />
RFPs were issued by the city in July.<br />
Developers interested in submitting a proposal<br />
are asked to include a statement that says<br />
whether or not they are planning to lease or<br />
buy the property; a description of the development<br />
team; a statement of qualifications;<br />
and details about their vision for the project.<br />
Hoops said the RFPs will give the city an<br />
idea of what types of retailers builders hope<br />
to bring to the area. “We’re not interested in<br />
just any retailer, it has to be a right fit for<br />
Madison,” he said.<br />
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY<br />
December 23: Charles and Peggy Furlow. December 24: John and Nell Osborne.<br />
December 25: Wade and Martha McKoy, John and Lynn Odom. December 26: Marion<br />
and Mary Sue Spencer, Annette and Duane Switzer. December 27: Lynn and Jan Ross,<br />
Ralph and Billie Henry. December 28: Bob and Naomi Ridgway. December 29: Phillip<br />
and Terri Galloway, Gary and Becky Conley.<br />
happenings<br />
The Mississippi Museum<br />
of Art will feature an 18th<br />
century creche collection,<br />
“Bethlehem Tree: Younger<br />
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Page 10A Thursday, December 23, 2010<br />
Rita Martinson happenings<br />
Continued from Page One<br />
In 2008, about $4.9 billion was in the<br />
state’s general fund. For 2011, that amount<br />
will drop to roughly $4.58 billion.<br />
Even with the one-time 20 percent reduction,<br />
Martinson said MPB will receive $6.8<br />
million in taxpayers’ dollars.<br />
MARTINSON has also authored bills to<br />
make it easier for students to obtain the<br />
Mississippi Eminent Scholars Grant<br />
(MESG), require residents to pass vision<br />
screenings every other time they get their<br />
driver’s license renewed, as well as a bill<br />
that will allow school districts to include<br />
GED recipients when calculating graduation<br />
rates.<br />
“(Madison County Superintendent) Mike<br />
Kent asked me about this,”she said. “If a<br />
person drops out of school and decides to<br />
go to a community college and get a GED,<br />
the district doesn’t get any credit. But the<br />
biggest portion of their education still happened<br />
in one particular school district.”<br />
She said graduation rates affect a school’s<br />
accreditation, as well as a district’s bragging<br />
rights.<br />
Kent said schools receive star status and<br />
other recognition based on a formula called<br />
the High School Completer Index.<br />
A school will receive 300 points for each<br />
child who graduates high school. If a child<br />
doesn’t graduate, the school loses 300<br />
points. If a student gets a GEDthrough the<br />
district, the district receives 150 points.<br />
However, if a student decides to go to a<br />
community college to obtain their high<br />
school equivalency, the school gets zero<br />
points.<br />
Although Kent said Madison Central and<br />
Ridgeland High both have graduation rates<br />
in the upper 90 percent range, he does<br />
believe the scoring system should be<br />
changed.<br />
RATES<br />
AS<br />
LOW AS<br />
1.99%<br />
Higginbotham<br />
We Get The Nicest Trades Because of What We Sell, Mercedes-Benz And Porsche!! These Are All<br />
Mercedes-Benz or Porsche Trade-Ins or Lease Returns! Not Auction Cars!! Hurry! They Go Fast!<br />
2002 TOYOTA EC<strong>HO</strong><br />
4DR AUTO-HATES<br />
GAS!!! $4,977<br />
2006 LEXUS GS430<br />
LOCAL TRADE LOW<br />
MILES $25,977<br />
2006 PORSCHE<br />
CAYMAN S, ONLY<br />
21K MILES,<br />
$33,800<br />
2008 - 2009<br />
CERTIFIED C300’S<br />
7 TO C<strong>HO</strong>OSE<br />
FROM $27,800<br />
2009 MERCEDES E320<br />
DIESEL 20K MILES UP<br />
TO 700 MILES PER TANK<br />
$36,800<br />
MERCEDES-BENZ CERTIFIED PRE-OWNED SALES EVENT<br />
1996 FORD BRONCO<br />
EDDIE BAUER 4X4<br />
$5,987<br />
2005 NISSAN ARMADA<br />
LE LOADED NAVI REAR<br />
ENT $13,877<br />
2000 MERCEDES<br />
SL500 NEW SOFT<br />
TOP “BEST BUY!!’<br />
LOW MILES $17,977<br />
2006 INFINITI M45<br />
TECH SPORT PACKAGE<br />
“NICE LIKE YOU READ<br />
ABOUT!!” $21,877<br />
2005 LINCOLN<br />
NAVIGATOR ULTIMATE<br />
EDITION ONLY 26K<br />
MILES $22,977<br />
2008 LEXUS ES350<br />
W/NAVI $27,977<br />
“Say you have a kid who comes up a few<br />
points short of graduating. Summer school<br />
is 37 days long and four hours a day, it’s<br />
pretty grueling,” he said. “Instead of doing<br />
that, the student can go over to Holmes<br />
Community College and get his or her<br />
GED.<br />
“We should get credit for those who go<br />
that route. Who got them to the point where<br />
they could get their GED? We did,”he said.<br />
Kent said Madison Central and<br />
Ridgeland High School both have obtained<br />
star status as a result of having a high completer<br />
index.<br />
ANOTHER BILL, if passed, would<br />
remove the GPArequirement for students<br />
seeking the state’s eminent scholars grant.<br />
According to the Mississippi Institutions<br />
of Higher Learning <strong>Web</strong> site, students can<br />
receive up to $2,500 a year for tuition<br />
through the program.<br />
Eligible students must be a legal resident<br />
of the state for one year prior to high school<br />
graduation; score a minimum of 29 on the<br />
ACT or a minimum of 1280 on the SAT<br />
college entrance exams; be accepted at an<br />
approved institution in Mississippi; and<br />
have a cumulative grade point average of<br />
3.5 on a 4.0 scale.<br />
Martinson believes the GPArequirement<br />
is unfair because grade point averages are<br />
calculated differently at some schools. For<br />
example, she said some high schools have<br />
weighted courses, which count for five,<br />
instead of four points. She also points to the<br />
fact that some students taking advanced<br />
placement courses might have a lower GPA<br />
than students taking regular courses,<br />
because their academic work is more rigorous.<br />
Martinson proposed the bill last year,<br />
but it died in committee.<br />
2005 MERCEDES C230<br />
LOCAL TRADE “NEW<br />
BRAKES TIRES ETC”<br />
$13,977<br />
2003 HUMMER H2<br />
LUXURY THRID ROW<br />
$18,977<br />
2008 CHEVY<br />
SIVERADO 4X4 CREW<br />
CAB $21,877<br />
2007 JEEP WRANGLER<br />
UNLIMITED 4X4 29K MILES<br />
$22,977<br />
2000 CADILLAC<br />
SLS $5,997<br />
2008 LEXUS IS-F<br />
0 TO 60 IN 4.6 SECONDS<br />
AND 416 <strong>HO</strong>RSEPOWER<br />
DR.S TRADE $37,977<br />
2006 PONTIAC<br />
SOLTICE 25K MILES<br />
LOADED “CHRISTMAS<br />
SPECIAL” $14,857<br />
1997 FORD F150 XLT<br />
EXTENDED CAB<br />
3 DOOR VERY CLEAN<br />
$5,977<br />
2004 TOYOTA<br />
TUNDRA<br />
1 OWNER LOCAL TRADE<br />
$14,977<br />
1998 MERCEDES<br />
C230 ONLY 69K “CREAM<br />
PUFF GRANNYS TRADE FOR<br />
REAL!!” $8,888<br />
WWW.MERCEDESPORSCHE.COM<br />
2007 MERCEDES BENZ C230<br />
$19,800<br />
2009 VOLKSWAGON<br />
JETTA MANUAL W/LEATHER<br />
ONLY 19K MILES $15,977<br />
IF YOU CAN FIND A BETTER DEAL, TAKE IT!!<br />
5 to Choose, Holiday Special<br />
or<br />
$276/mo.<br />
2.99% for 66 mths. Certified 100k Warranty<br />
$3,000 Cash or Trade Plus all Taxes and Fees<br />
2007 MERCEDES E320<br />
DIESEL “UP TO 38MPG<br />
& 700 MILES PER TANK”<br />
$28,322<br />
Higginbotham<br />
Art exhibit<br />
“Adventures in Color,” an<br />
exhibit by Mississippi native<br />
and artist Bewey Bowden,<br />
will hang through December<br />
30 at the Mississippi Library<br />
Commission, 3881<br />
Eastwood Dr. The exhibit<br />
can be viewed Monday<br />
through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5<br />
p.m. For more information<br />
visit www.mlc.lib.ms.us.<br />
2009 INFINITI QX56<br />
HARD LOADED<br />
$39,877<br />
CERTIFIED<br />
CARFAX<br />
DEALER<br />
2008 LEXUS<br />
RX350<br />
$28,877<br />
CERTIFIED<br />
CARFAX<br />
DEALER<br />
2002 LINCOLN TOWN<br />
CAR LOW MILES “93<br />
YEAR OLD LADYS CAR!!”<br />
$10,977<br />
2007 MINI COOPER<br />
27K ONLY $16,455<br />
2008 ACURA TL<br />
TECHNOLOGY PACKAGE<br />
1 OWNER NURSE’S<br />
TRADE $19,977<br />
CERTIFIED<br />
CARFAX<br />
DEALER<br />
2003 HUMMER<br />
H2 SUPER CLEAN<br />
$22,800<br />
2007 LEXUS ES350<br />
PEARL WHITE 50K<br />
MILES $23,977<br />
2006 MERCEDES E55AMG<br />
“SUPER CHARGED MASTER<br />
PIECE!!” 26K MILES $90,000<br />
MSRP NOW $41,800<br />
CERTIFIED<br />
CARFAX<br />
DEALER<br />
CERTIFIED<br />
CARFAX<br />
DEALER<br />
2005 VOLVO XC90<br />
LOADED “REAR ENT,<br />
LEATHER ,ROOF”<br />
$16,977<br />
2004 PORSCHE<br />
CAYENNE 6CYL AUTO<br />
“SUPER CLEAN!!”<br />
$19,977<br />
2005 LAND ROVER<br />
LR3 DR’S TRADE<br />
NEW TIRES & BRAKES<br />
$22,877<br />
2005 LEXUS LS430<br />
PREMIUM $25,800<br />
CERTIFIED<br />
CARFAX<br />
DEALER<br />
RATES<br />
AS<br />
LOW AS<br />
1.99%<br />
2005 HARLEY<br />
DAVIDSON SCREAMING<br />
EAGLE VROD ONLY 5K<br />
MILES “FALL BLOWOUT”<br />
$11,977<br />
W W All All<br />
2005 BMW 645CI<br />
CONVERTIBLE 37K<br />
MILES $30,800<br />
CERTIFIED<br />
CARFAX<br />
DEALER<br />
2006 PORSCHE 911<br />
CAB 22K MILES, CERTIFIED,<br />
NAVI “MANAGER’S SPECIAL<br />
$49,800<br />
CERTIFIED CERTIFIED<br />
CARFAX CARFAX<br />
DEALER<br />
DEALER<br />
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CERTIFIED<br />
CARFAX<br />
DEALER<br />
2008 MERCEDES S550’S<br />
LOW MILES GOOD<br />
EQUIPMENT<br />
$63,800<br />
2008 GMC YUKON<br />
SLT 49K $29,977<br />
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DEA
Suspects arrested in string<br />
of N’side auto burglaries<br />
By ANT<strong>HO</strong>NY WARREN<br />
Sun Staff Writer<br />
RIDGELAND police have<br />
captured four suspects<br />
involved in a string of auto<br />
burglaries and thefts on<br />
County Line Road.<br />
And they were caught in<br />
the act. What’s more is police<br />
say the crooks are tied to a<br />
series of burglaries in<br />
Northeast Jackson.<br />
On December 10,<br />
Ridgeland authorities arrested<br />
Jackson residents Eddie<br />
Miller, Alvin Lacey, Patrick<br />
Burnett and Kenyatta Stubbs<br />
in connection with two auto<br />
break-ins and two auto thefts<br />
in the parking lot of Tico’s<br />
Steakhouse, at 1536 East<br />
County Line Rd.<br />
The suspects are being held<br />
at the Madison County Jail.<br />
Miller, Lacey and Stubbs are<br />
each being charged with<br />
three counts of auto burglary,<br />
two counts of motor vehicle<br />
theft, one count of receiving<br />
stolen property and one<br />
count of possession of a<br />
firearm by a convicted felon.<br />
They are each being held on<br />
a $350,000 bond.<br />
Burnett is facing all of the<br />
charges, minus the charge for<br />
possession of a weapon by a<br />
felon. He is being held on a<br />
$300,000 bond.<br />
All charges are felonies,<br />
said Ridgeland Police Lt.<br />
John Neal.<br />
Neal said the suspects<br />
happenings<br />
Watercolor exhibit<br />
The Mississippi Museum<br />
of Art will host the<br />
broke into one car and stole<br />
another on the night of<br />
December 5, and did the<br />
same thing again on the night<br />
of December 9.<br />
“We knew we probably<br />
had a group that was targeting<br />
the parking lot,” he said.<br />
“We had a general idea of the<br />
time they came in and surveillance<br />
that showed a vehicle<br />
description.”<br />
“We staked out the parking<br />
lot and our officer spotted a<br />
vehicle fitting the description<br />
come into the parking lot. He<br />
watched it for several minutes<br />
as they broke into a car,”<br />
he said.<br />
At approximately 8 p.m.,<br />
the plain-clothes officer<br />
called for backup. Additional<br />
officers arrived on the scene<br />
and the suspects were arrested<br />
in the parking lot without<br />
incident, Neal said.<br />
Neal said Ridgeland had<br />
been working with the<br />
Jackson Police Department<br />
(JPD) and said the suspects<br />
fit the description of the<br />
group involved in a series of<br />
burglaries in North Jackson.<br />
“We called JPD and told<br />
them that we had them in<br />
custody and asked if JPD<br />
would like to send an investigator<br />
up to talk to them,”<br />
Neal said.<br />
The suspects were driving<br />
a 2000 model Chevrolet<br />
Suburban, a vehicle that also<br />
fit the description of the car<br />
Mississippi Watercolor<br />
Society Grand National<br />
Watercolor Exhibit through<br />
January 1. For more information<br />
visit www.msmuseumart.org.<br />
that appeared in the Rolling<br />
Meadows area on the night<br />
of December 9.<br />
Neal said the vehicle was<br />
searched and several items<br />
located in it couldn’t be tied<br />
to the Tico’s burglaries. The<br />
items, however, did fit the<br />
description of several things<br />
stolen from North Jackson.<br />
Precinct Four Cmdr.<br />
Wendell Watts believes the<br />
four were involved in eight<br />
or nine burglaries in the<br />
Rolling Meadows, Lake<br />
Trace and Northpointe areas.<br />
On the night of December<br />
9, burglaries were reported<br />
on Rolling Meadows Drive,<br />
Moss Forest Circle,<br />
Northlake Circle, Kristen<br />
Drive, Northpointe Cove,<br />
Plantation Boulevard and<br />
Northpointe Parkway.<br />
“They stole items from<br />
sheds and cars,” Watts said.<br />
Neal didn’t know what the<br />
suspects will be charged with<br />
in Hinds County. The four<br />
were expected to appear in<br />
Ridgeland Municipal Court<br />
on December 21 for their<br />
preliminary hearing.<br />
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Lakeland Drive<br />
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3169 W. Tidewater Ln.,<br />
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1730 Florence Ave., Ridgeland,<br />
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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST<br />
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338 Lake Harbour Dr.,<br />
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305 E. Capitol St.,<br />
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EPISCOPAL<br />
1954 Spillway Rd., Brandon,<br />
992-2691<br />
ST. PHILIP’S EPISCOPAL<br />
5400 Old Canton Rd.,<br />
956-5788<br />
EPISCOPAL (Cont.)<br />
ST. STEPHEN’S REFORMED<br />
EPISCOPAL<br />
5049 Lakeland Dr.,<br />
992-4317<br />
JEWISH<br />
BETH ISRAEL<br />
CONGREGATION<br />
5315 Old Canton Rd.,<br />
956-6215<br />
LUTHERAN<br />
ASCENSION LUTHERAN<br />
Old Canton Rd./E. County Line<br />
Rd., 956-4263<br />
CHRIST LUTHERAN<br />
4423 I-55 North<br />
366-2055<br />
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN<br />
Hwy. 25, 992-4752<br />
NATIVITY LUTHERAN<br />
495 Crossgates Blvd., Brandon,<br />
825-5125<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
ALDERSGATE UNITED<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
655 Beasley Rd.<br />
366-6630<br />
ANDERSON UNITED<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
6205 Hanging Moss Rd.,<br />
982-3997<br />
BELLWETHER, Flowood<br />
2625 Courthouse Cir.<br />
BRIARWOOD UMC<br />
320 Briarwood Dr.,<br />
956-4035<br />
BROADMEADOW UNITED<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
4419 Broadmeadow Dr.,<br />
366-1403<br />
CHRIST THE WAY<br />
FREE MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
978-3423<br />
CROSSGATES UMC<br />
23 Crossgates Dr., Brandon,<br />
825-8677<br />
CHRIST UNITED MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
6000 Old Canton Rd.,<br />
956-6974<br />
EAST JACKSON UMC<br />
855 S. Pear Orchard Rd.,<br />
957-0515<br />
EMMANUEL UNITED<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
100 Shands St., 372-9424<br />
FIRST INDEPENDENT<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST CHURCH OF<br />
MADISON<br />
551 Ridgecrest, 605-9950<br />
FIRST UNITED MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
Ridgeland, 856-6456<br />
GALLOWAY MEMORIAL<br />
UNITED MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
305 N. Congress St.,<br />
353-9691<br />
MADISON UNITED<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
2050 Main St.,<br />
Madison, 856-6058<br />
PARKWAY HILLS<br />
UNITED MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
1468 Highland Col. Pky.,<br />
Madison, 856-2733<br />
RIVERSIDE INDEPENDENT<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
1127 Luckney Rd<br />
Flowood, 919-8311<br />
ST. LUKE’S UNITED<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
621 Duling Ave., 362-6381<br />
ST. MARKS UNITED<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
400 Grants Ferry Rd., Brandon,<br />
922-2131<br />
ST. MATTHEW’S UNITED<br />
MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
7427 Old Canton Rd., Madison,<br />
856-9581<br />
WELLS CHURCH<br />
UNITED MET<strong>HO</strong>DIST<br />
2019 Bailey, 353-0658<br />
WESLEY BIBLICAL<br />
SEMINARY CHAPEL<br />
787 E. Northside, 366-8880<br />
NAZARENE<br />
FIRST CHURCH OF THE<br />
NAZARENE<br />
5416 Lakeland Dr., Flowood,<br />
992-8680<br />
ORT<strong>HO</strong>DOX<br />
ST. PETER’S ORT<strong>HO</strong>DOX<br />
180 St. Augustine Dr., Madison,<br />
856-3894<br />
<strong>HO</strong>LY TRINITY, ST JOHN THE<br />
THEOLOGIAN GREEK<br />
ORT<strong>HO</strong>DOX CHURCH<br />
1417 West Capital St<br />
Jackson, 601-355-6325<br />
PENTECOSTAL<br />
APOSTOLIC REVIVAL<br />
CENTER-UPC<br />
301 W. Washington St.,<br />
Ridgeland, 856-2385<br />
DAVIS TEMPLE CHURCH OF<br />
GOD IN CHRIST<br />
1700 Dalton St.,<br />
969-9519<br />
FIRST PENTECOSTAL<br />
5000 I-55S, 373-9000<br />
LANDMARK CHURCH<br />
Springridge Rd., 372-7761<br />
PARKWAY<br />
1620 Mannsdale Rd., Madison,<br />
853-2607<br />
PRESBYTERIAN<br />
BRIARWOOD<br />
PRESBYTERIAN<br />
620 Briarwood<br />
956-4553<br />
COVENANT<br />
PRESBYTERIAN<br />
4000 Ridgewood Rd<br />
981-7236<br />
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN<br />
1390 N. State, 353-8316<br />
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN<br />
CHURCH OF MADISON<br />
7717 Old Canton Rd.,<br />
856-6625<br />
FONDREN<br />
PRESBYTERIAN<br />
3220 Old Canton Rd.,<br />
982-3232<br />
GRACE CHAPEL<br />
Hwy. 463, Madison,<br />
856-7223<br />
HIGHLANDS<br />
PRESBYTERIAN<br />
1160 H.C. Pkwy., Ridgeland,<br />
853-0636<br />
LAKELAND PRESBYTERIAN<br />
5212 Lakeland Drive, Brandon,<br />
992-2448<br />
LAKESIDE<br />
PRESBYTERIAN<br />
2070 Spillway Rd., Brandon,<br />
992-2835<br />
NORTH PARK<br />
PRESBYTERIAN<br />
4624 Old Canton Rd.,<br />
362-2886<br />
PEAR ORCHARD<br />
PRESBYTERIAN<br />
750 Pear Orchard Rd.,<br />
Ridgeland, 956-3283<br />
TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN<br />
5301 Old Canton Rd.,<br />
977-0774<br />
REDEEMER CHURCH<br />
640 E. Northside Dr.,<br />
362-9987<br />
SEVENTH DAY<br />
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COLLEGE DRIVE<br />
ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN<br />
CHURCH<br />
110 College Dr., Pearl<br />
664-1408<br />
NON-<br />
DENOMINATIONAL<br />
CALVARY CHAPEL<br />
109 Jetport Dr., Pearl,<br />
932-9673<br />
CONGREGATION BEIT<br />
LECHEM - MESSIANIC<br />
110 Jones Ln. Ste F, Flowood<br />
601-933-4913<br />
CORNERSTONE CHURCH<br />
2460 Terry Road,<br />
371-3323<br />
RIDGELAND FAMILY<br />
CHURCH<br />
Old Agency Rd., Ridgeland,<br />
856-2101<br />
CHURCH TRIUMPHANT<br />
5075 I-55N, 898-2527<br />
UNITARIAN<br />
UNIVERSALIST<br />
4872 N. State, 982-5919<br />
UNITY OF JACKSON<br />
4660 McWillie, 981-9412<br />
VINEYARD CHURCH<br />
600 Grants Ferry Rd.,<br />
919-1414<br />
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in memoriam<br />
Obituaries<br />
Byron Kelly Green<br />
Memorial services were held December 15 in<br />
the sanctuary of First Baptist Church for Byron<br />
K. ‘Buck’ Green.<br />
Green, 92, died of heart failure December 12<br />
at the Lake Lorman home of his loving daughter<br />
and beloved son-in-law.<br />
Green, affectionately called ‘Buck’ by all who<br />
knew him, was born in Leakesville July 10, 1918. After<br />
graduation from Leakesville High School, he attended<br />
Mississippi State University until World War II prompted<br />
him in January of 1942 to enlist in the United States Navy.<br />
He served in the Pacific Theatre as Yeoman First Class on a<br />
destroyer, the USS PURDY, and was part of the initial landing<br />
force on the island of Tarawa. He later was awarded the<br />
Bronze Star and Navy Unit Commendation Medal for ‘outstanding<br />
heroism’ during the battle of Okinawa.<br />
After honorable discharge from the Navy, he went to work<br />
for the Standard Oil Company, where he met and married<br />
his wife of 55 years, Martha Kennedy of Magee, who predeceased<br />
him in 2003. In 1954, he founded Central Heating<br />
Company, which he built into one of the top five residential<br />
mechanical contractors in the Southeast, serving as its president<br />
until his retirement in 1978.<br />
Green was a deacon and faithful member of First Baptist<br />
Jackson for more than 65 years, serving on numerous committees.<br />
He was a major supporter of the Revelation Choir<br />
youth music ministry, accompanying them on mission trips<br />
in the United States and Europe. In the realm of civic activities,<br />
he was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Order of<br />
the Jesters, and was cofounder of the Buck and Wing<br />
Hunting Club near Port Gibson. He and his wife, Martha,<br />
were active supporters of the Jackson Symphony League.<br />
Buck Green was blessed with exceptional people skills,<br />
‘never met a stranger,’ and his positive attitude, along with<br />
his quick and unfailing sense of humor, endeared him to<br />
adults and children of literally all ages.<br />
In addition to his wife, Martha, he was preceded in death<br />
by his parents, Hubert Lavender and Edna Killian Green,<br />
brother Frank Green, and sister Mickey Green Brunson. He<br />
leaves cherished loving memories to his only daughter Beth<br />
Green Dean, son-in-law Richard M. Dean, and grandsons<br />
Morgan and Carson Dean, all of Madison; nephews Mark<br />
Green (Sherye) and Bert Green (Rhonda) of Jackson; niece<br />
Darian Gibson of Ridgeland; nephew Bill Brunson (Tricia)<br />
of Austin; niece Cindy Brunson of Madison; nephew<br />
Richard Furr (Robin) of Wesson; niece Ann Tornyos (Karl)<br />
of Houston, Texas; numerous great-nephews and nieces; and<br />
dedicated caregiver Dipti Suthar of Ridgeland.<br />
Pallbearers were Morgan Byron Dean, Carson Kennedy<br />
Dean, Richard Kennedy Furr, Hubert Franklin Green Jr.,<br />
Hubert Franklin Green III, Mark Richard Green, Mark<br />
Richard Green Jr., Lt. U.S. Navy, and Richard Lewis<br />
Ridgway Jr. Honorary pallbearers were the Rev. Larry<br />
Black, William C. Brunson, Gray Hilsman, Charles Hood,<br />
Horace Kerr, Granville Tate, Gene Tolley and the Explorers<br />
Sunday School Class.<br />
Memorials may be made to Lottie Moon Christmas<br />
Offering at First Baptist Jackson; Hospice Ministries; or the<br />
American Heart Association.<br />
Obituary Policy<br />
The Sun publishes<br />
obituaries of Northsiders and their<br />
families. Typically, we receive obituary<br />
information from the funeral homes.<br />
For a small charge, we invite readers<br />
who are so inclined to supplement this<br />
with more descriptive text capturing<br />
the spirit of the person’s life.<br />
Jane Eliza Luter Comfort<br />
Graveside services were held December 17 at Lakewood<br />
Memorial Park for Jane Eliza Luter Comfort of the reservoir<br />
area.<br />
Mrs. Comfort, 51, a longtime Jackson area resident, died<br />
December 15, at River Oaks Hospital.<br />
She grew up in Jackson, attended Duling Elementary<br />
School, and was graduated from Woodland Hills Baptist<br />
Academy.<br />
She was graduated from Mississippi College with a<br />
bachelor’s degree in education and worked in the daycare<br />
field. She participated in Explorers Bible Study at Christ<br />
United Methodist Church taught by her cousin, Becky<br />
Luter Howell of Clinton. She was a member of First<br />
Baptist Church of Jackson.<br />
She is preceded in death by her parents, Dr. and Mrs.<br />
J.C. Luter Jr.<br />
Survivors are her husband Randy Comfort and son<br />
Randall both of the Reservoir area; brother Jesse (Jay)<br />
Crawford Luter III and his wife Cecelia of Laurel; brother<br />
George Scott Luter and his wife Janie of Jackson; sister<br />
Nell Luter Floyd of Ridgeland; and numerous nieces and<br />
nephews.<br />
Memorials may be made to the Lottie Moon Christmas<br />
Offering at First Baptist Church of Jackson or a favorite<br />
charity.<br />
Don Grillo<br />
A funeral mass was conducted at St.<br />
Richard Catholic Church December 20 for<br />
Don Grillo of Jackson.<br />
Dr. Grillo, 77, passed away December 16<br />
at Baptist Medical Center.<br />
A native of New York, Grillo was a graduate<br />
of Columbia University and Albany Medical College.<br />
He retired as a colonel from the United States Air Force.<br />
He helped establish the first ob-gyn residency at Keesler<br />
Air Force Base where he taught gynaco pathology and<br />
became chairman.<br />
After retirement, Dr. Grillo worked for 20 years with the<br />
Mississippi Department of Health, where he established<br />
the first statewide ultrasound and mammogram program<br />
for health department patients. During his career in<br />
Jackson, he taught midwives, nurses, UMC Family<br />
Medicine and Ob-Gyn residents. He served as District<br />
Five health officer for many years.<br />
Survivors are his wife of 53 years Lee Grillo; daughter<br />
Frances Hess and her husband Trey of Ridgeland; sons<br />
Kevin Grillo of Houston, Texas, and Thomas Grillo of<br />
Jackson; the light of his life, grandchildren Katie and Beth<br />
Hess; and sister Louise Viola of New York.<br />
He was preceded in death by his parents, George and<br />
Mary Grillo; brother Joseph Grillo; and sister Molly<br />
Ciminelli.<br />
Memorials may be made to the American Kidney<br />
Foundation or the American Cancer Society.<br />
Interment was at Natchez Trace Memorial Park<br />
Cemetery.<br />
happenings<br />
Welty exhibit<br />
An exhibit of Eudora<br />
Welty’s photographs from<br />
the 1930s, “Welty<br />
Snapshots: At Home and<br />
Away,” will be on display at<br />
the Eudora Welty House<br />
Education and Visitor<br />
Center on Pinehurst Street<br />
through January 17.<br />
Moving nativity<br />
St. Matthew’s United<br />
Methodist Church in<br />
Madison will feature a moving<br />
nativity scene on the<br />
church grounds through<br />
January 6. Call 601-856-<br />
9581 for more information.<br />
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William Bryant Ridgway<br />
A family graveside service was held at<br />
Lakewood Memorial Park December 16 for<br />
William Bryant Ridgway of Madison. A<br />
Celebration of Life service was held at Galloway<br />
Memorial United Methodist Church.<br />
Ridgway, 91, died December 13 at St. Catherine’s Village.<br />
Ridgway was born in Jackson February 12, 1919, and was<br />
graduated from Jackson Central High School in 1936. He<br />
attended Millsaps College and was a 1940 graduate of the<br />
University of Mississippi. He was a member of Kappa<br />
Alpha Order.<br />
In October 1941, Ridgway joined the United States Army<br />
Air Corps. He was an instructor for advanced pilot training<br />
for two years, then served as a B-24 Liberator pilot attached<br />
to the 467th Bomb Group with the 8th Air Force in<br />
Rackheath, England. He flew 14 combat missions before the<br />
war in Europe ended in May 1945. He was honorably discharged<br />
from active duty in the Air Force in October 1945,<br />
but continued service in the U.S. Air Force Reserves until<br />
October 1968, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel.<br />
After returning to civilian life, Ridgway was graduated<br />
from the Jackson School of Law in 1947, and was admitted<br />
to the bar. He was a real estate broker, a principal in<br />
Ridgway Management Inc., and was active in the oil and<br />
gas, real estate and timber businesses. He was an active<br />
member of Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church<br />
for 85 years, where he served on the visitation committee,<br />
delivered meals on wheels, taught Sunday School, served as<br />
lay leader and chairman of the administrative board.<br />
Ridgway was a member of the Monday Morning Bible<br />
Study Group at Galloway for almost 40 years, and served on<br />
the board of the Methodist Children’s Home. He served as<br />
president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Men’s Y<br />
Club, and the Jackson Central Lions Club. He served one<br />
term in the Mississippi House of Representatives as a representative<br />
for Hinds and Yazoo counties.<br />
Ridgway was a charter member of the River Hills Club,<br />
where he enjoyed weekly tennis games until age 80. He was<br />
a member of the Chancellor’s Trust at the University of<br />
Mississippi, and he was a passionate fan of Ole Miss football.<br />
He loved time with family and friends, enjoyed traveling,<br />
hiking, and fishing, and believed serving anyone in need<br />
was a privilege. He felt blessed beyond measure each day of<br />
his life.<br />
Ridgway was the son of Charles Robert Ridgway Jr. and<br />
Hattie Lewis Ridgway. He was pre-deceased by his daughter,<br />
Patricia Ann Ridgway, his parents, sisters Alice Blount<br />
and Ruth Boswell, and brothers Richard Ridgway and<br />
Walter Stevens Ridgway II.<br />
Survivors are Juanita Wallace Ridgway, his loving wife of<br />
60 years; son William Bryant Ridgway Jr., and his wife,<br />
Creed; daughter Ruth Ridgway West and her husband Eric;<br />
son Douglas Wallace Ridgway and wife Deana; son James<br />
Lewis Ridgway; grandchildren William Bryant Ridgway III,<br />
Mary Kathryn Ridgway, Shannon Grace West, and Haley<br />
Elizabeth West; and by his older brother Charles Robert<br />
Ridgway III.<br />
The family would like to thank the caregiving teams at St.<br />
Catherine’s Village and Odyssey Hospice for providing genuine<br />
loving and compassionate care. Dad loved, appreciated,<br />
and treasured your friendship.<br />
Memorials may be sent to Galloway Memorial United<br />
Methodist Church, 305 North Congress St., Jackson, 39201-<br />
1602, Millsaps College, 1701 North State St., Jackson,<br />
39210, or a charity of choice.
Dear. Santa<br />
1. I pod<br />
2. trampoline<br />
3. World record book 2010<br />
4. PoGo Stick<br />
Love Bekah Woodruff<br />
Fire truck<br />
Fire man<br />
Fire house<br />
Nate Christmas lit Love Nate Woodruff<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you Santa. I’v been very good<br />
this year. This year for Christmas I want a<br />
Kid Drum Set. My sister Maggie want’s<br />
an Ituch and and a Motor Skouter and<br />
that’s all. I will miss you and Polly Elfis. I<br />
will have cookies and milk for you and<br />
your rindeers to.<br />
Love,<br />
Julia Eidt<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for bringing me an early<br />
Christmas present, my baby brother Parker<br />
Lee Cocke. I want you to bring me Tinker<br />
Bell, a kitchen and a pink dress! I’ve been<br />
a very good girl and helped out a lot with<br />
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baby Parker. I hope you like the milk &<br />
cookies I leave out for you.<br />
Love,<br />
Mary Pyatt Cocke<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Please can I have a singing duck like I<br />
gave Doc. I want my own toy tractor. I’d<br />
like my own truck that carries cars that<br />
been broken. And my own Flash Gordon.<br />
And my own building blocks. Santa-How<br />
your reindeer flies? How you get on the<br />
roof cause your reindeer can’t get on there<br />
cause it is a slippery rectangle and they will<br />
slide off?<br />
Hotty Toddy!<br />
Felton Walker<br />
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Claus how are you<br />
doing? I hope yall are doing good. I want a<br />
basketball baseball and football star wars<br />
General Grecous mask darth vaders Light<br />
saber stormtroopers zuga guk<br />
thank you<br />
Love Jack Harvey<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
How are you and Mrs. Claus doing? Are<br />
Rudolph and the reigndeer doing well. I<br />
would like a white soft i-dog, seleng game<br />
& music, LG Script phone case, Nintendo<br />
DS lite games: Petz Nursery 2, Nintendogs<br />
(daschunds), My Fashion Mall, Vet Life.<br />
Wii games: Dancing with the Stars. Radio<br />
Disney CDs, Limited Too / Justice for Girls<br />
clothes or gift cards, Board games: We all<br />
Scream for Ice Cream, Meatball Madness.,<br />
Liv Dolls Alexis.<br />
Thanx!<br />
xoxo<br />
Love,<br />
Anne Clark Harvey<br />
Dear Santa<br />
This Christmas I would like a NFL Wii, a<br />
dirt bike, a remote control monster truck<br />
and my own puppy chihuahua.<br />
I will leave some oats for your reindeer,<br />
and my sister is going to make her family<br />
famous cookies for you so don’t get too<br />
full for them.<br />
From John Martin McGee<br />
P.S. Merry Christmas!<br />
Dear Santa<br />
I love you so much. how are your reindeer?<br />
How is my Elf, is he good? I am<br />
going to feed your reindeer. Can you write<br />
on are white board? I hope I get some great<br />
presents. Can you leave one present by my<br />
B<br />
Ashley Rotolo Camden Yates Caroline Hill Don Waller<br />
miny tree in my room I wood lik that.<br />
Love Sydney Sanders<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I really want littlest pet shop toys. I want<br />
an American girl doll. I want a webkin. I<br />
want a barbie. I want a movie. I want a ds<br />
game. I want my stocking filled with a lot<br />
of candy. Christmas is my favorite holiday.<br />
Christmas is a great holiday! I want a doll<br />
house too. Is it cold where you live? Love,<br />
Cas Simpson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Can you tell me how is the north pole?<br />
Also can you tell me all about where you<br />
live?<br />
Love,<br />
Elliot Guzman<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
This year I want a DSI.AX box 360. I<br />
also want a wii. I really hope you can get<br />
me these things for Christmas. Have a<br />
great Christmas. I hope your elves have a<br />
great Christmas too!<br />
Love,<br />
David Greene
Dear<br />
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Santa...All I want......<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I want a new pink bike. I want some more<br />
DS games. I want a easy bake oven. I want<br />
a dippin dot game. I want a fin fin friend. I<br />
want a pink Barbie Jeep. I want a little<br />
music box that sings Rudolf the red nose<br />
reindeer. I want a bunny stuffed animal and<br />
a Rudolf stuffed animal and I want a kitty<br />
stuffed animal.<br />
Love,<br />
Clare Cole<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
My name is Shanay Desai. I have one sister<br />
named Hailey. I go to St. Anthony<br />
Catholic School. I have been good this year.<br />
This year I only want four presents and they<br />
are: K’nex roller coaster, Airplane book,<br />
Harry Potter Animal Braclets, and a DSI<br />
with four games.<br />
Love,<br />
Shanay Desai<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I really want a DS thats light blue and a<br />
littlest pet shop DS game with it. I also want<br />
a barbie nail printer thing for Christmas. I<br />
also want things in my stocking from you. I<br />
hope you bring what I want for Christmas.<br />
How are your elves doing? I bet it’s really<br />
cold up there where you live Santa.<br />
Anna Clare Sheehan<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How many presents do you give each<br />
year?<br />
How cold is it every Christmas in the<br />
North Pole?<br />
How many elves do you have?<br />
Is there any place in the North Pole with<br />
warmer weather?<br />
Phillip Wright<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I hope you will have a great Christmas<br />
when you are making toys for kids pleas<br />
make me one.<br />
Love David Warnock.<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
This Christmas can I please have a puppy<br />
and a paint set. Also a growing frog set and<br />
a pillow pet. I am going to put reindeer food<br />
in the yard and animal bracelets. Also glowing<br />
bracelets, and a gingerbread house with<br />
candy.<br />
Augusta Hirn<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I wish I was an elf. I would wrap the presents<br />
fast. I would love to deliver presents.<br />
Do you get cold in the north pole? I bet the<br />
North Pole is wonderful. And I wish I could<br />
fly.<br />
Love,<br />
Sam Harrison<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
I wish I could go on your sleigh and pick<br />
up all the thrash.<br />
Is Rudolph and Dasher Dancer Prancer<br />
Vixen Comet Cupid Donner and Blitzen<br />
doing.<br />
I love love Rudolph and all the other reindeer.<br />
Love<br />
Mary Palmer<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Do you get cold at the North Pole? I wish<br />
evreyone would be nice. I want evreyone to<br />
be happy. Is it fun doing things at the North<br />
Pole? Do you ahve a big sleigh? I hope<br />
everyone gets on the nice list this year. Love<br />
Emma Bridges<br />
anna katherine ray<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Can you please make my sister stop tackling<br />
me.<br />
I hope Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer,<br />
Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner Blitzen are<br />
okay for Christmas!<br />
Love,<br />
David Ames Richards III<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I hope you are haveing a grate time in the<br />
North Pole. Can you Please help the poor.<br />
Love,<br />
Aly Praytor<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
I would want a thing that tells me what to<br />
do good. Like to pick up trash. But only<br />
stuff that is good. Like saying sorry to some<br />
bouty that you did bad to.<br />
Sincerely<br />
Sydney Hall<br />
Santa letters 2<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
For Christmas I want orginally an<br />
American girl Doll Rebecca.<br />
Your friend,<br />
Jordan Muse<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I want some chapter books.<br />
Michelle Bramlett<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I am in second grade at St. Richard<br />
Catholic School. For Christmas I want to<br />
spend time with my family.<br />
your friend,<br />
Mina Leffler<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
For Cristmas I want a play staytoin and a<br />
Wii. I want lots of games on my wii and my<br />
playstaytoin.<br />
Andrew Johnson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I want the Lego Harry Potter castle.<br />
Your friend,<br />
Daxton Murphy<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I am in the second grade at St. Richard<br />
Catholic School. For Christmas I want a<br />
DSi.<br />
Your friend,<br />
Elizabeth Weisenberger<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
For Christmas I want a wii. Ren Steevens<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
My names is Solomon Naylor. I am in the<br />
second grade at St. Richard Catholic School.<br />
For Chistmas I want a drum set.<br />
Solomon Naylor<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
For Christmas I want a drum set.<br />
Your friend,<br />
Joseph Uecker<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
My names is Bella Smith. I am in the second<br />
grade at St. Richard Catholic School. I<br />
want Go Go My Walken Pup. Your friend,<br />
Bella Smith<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
My names is Cooper Klien. I am in second<br />
grade at St. Richard Cathlic School. for<br />
Cristmas I want nothing.<br />
Cooper Klien
Dear Santa...All I want......<br />
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Dear Santa,<br />
For Christmas I want a DSI<br />
your friend,<br />
Luke Rooks<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
For Christmas I want a pet<br />
bunny<br />
your friend,<br />
Sayde Fortner<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
For christmas I awnt a Xbox<br />
Kinect.<br />
Kevin May<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
For Christmas I want a Voido<br />
girl.<br />
Your fined,<br />
Grace Goodloe<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
For Christmas I want more<br />
books so I can read mroe books<br />
then any one in my family.<br />
Your friend,<br />
Iliana Ramos<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I am in the second grade at St.<br />
Richard Catholic School for<br />
Christmas I want a wii<br />
Your frind Ethan Williams<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
for Christmas want a drum set<br />
with drum sticks.<br />
Alex Mungan<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
For Christmas I want wii game.<br />
Robert Nguyen<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been very good this year. I<br />
would like <strong>Web</strong>kinz for Christmas.<br />
Would you please get my brothers<br />
candy canes for them? I bet<br />
Christmas Day will be fun.<br />
Sincerley,<br />
Nathaniel Morgan<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? I want a skatebord.<br />
I want a Drew Bress shirt.<br />
My brother want a yoyo. My mom<br />
wants one thing so dose my dad. I<br />
have waited for this all year. Love,<br />
Riley Maddox<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? I have been very<br />
good this year. I would like a Zhu<br />
Zhu pet. I would also like a DSI. I<br />
aways will leave cookies and milk.<br />
I love Christmas.<br />
Love,<br />
Charles Mungan<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you to night. I would<br />
like a D.S. and a D.S. game. Could<br />
you pleas give my sister a pillow<br />
pet. I love Chrismas.<br />
Love<br />
Abigail Starnes<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been very good this year. I<br />
would like a paper jam and a vedio<br />
game. I will give you milk and<br />
cookies.<br />
Love<br />
Elliott Stephen<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? I would like a<br />
New bike and a toy for my brother.<br />
I love Chistmas.<br />
Love,<br />
Austin Terry<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been good this year. I<br />
would like a new bike. I would<br />
like a motorscooter with a seat. I<br />
love Christmas.<br />
Love,<br />
Sylvia White<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I love Christmas alot. I really<br />
want an Itouch for Christmas. I<br />
love decerating the house so you<br />
can see our house. Hug all the<br />
reindeer for me!<br />
Love,<br />
Mary Hazel Bellan<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you Santa? This year I<br />
want a new bike and a video game.<br />
I’ve waited for this a long time.<br />
Can you give my big sister something<br />
nice for her. Christmas is<br />
really fun for me.<br />
love<br />
Mathis Billman<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been very good this year. I<br />
would like a ipod and a dog. this<br />
year for Christmas. Would you<br />
give my brother a bike for<br />
Christmas? I hope you come soon.<br />
And I love Christmas very very<br />
much.<br />
Love,<br />
Jaden Boykin<br />
Ginny Dyess
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Dear Santa,<br />
Hi my name is Michael<br />
Jason. I would like a Laptop<br />
and an Ipad. I will leave<br />
you cookies and milk.<br />
love, Michael Jason<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
I am six year old. My<br />
birthday is December 29,<br />
2004. I have being good in<br />
school. And I have never<br />
bin bad. My favret hollyday<br />
is Christmas.<br />
How do the Elf get their<br />
powers? and How do the<br />
Elfs disapier every<br />
Christmas night? and when<br />
is your birthday. How do<br />
your elfs build toys? We<br />
named or elf Snowflake.<br />
Tristan Ballard<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? I would<br />
like a Balance Board this<br />
year for Christmas. Can you<br />
give Charlie Corkern a we<br />
game. I love Christmas.<br />
Katie Corkern<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been very good this<br />
yaer. I would like a I-pad<br />
and a wi-fi-card for<br />
Christmas this year I have<br />
been wait for Christmas all<br />
year.<br />
I love Christmas.<br />
Love, Dallas Ford<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? I have been<br />
very good this year. I would<br />
like a new bike and a nintendo<br />
DSIXL. I’ve waited a<br />
long time for this. I am so<br />
exited. I will leave you milk<br />
and cookies. I love<br />
Cristmas. Andrew Ignatius<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been very good this<br />
year. I would like the new<br />
dragonoy backagun classis<br />
for Christmas. And I would<br />
like a Paper Jam. Would<br />
you give reindeer a hug for<br />
me?<br />
Matthew Jones<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you today. I<br />
would like a Balance Bard<br />
this year. I would like a<br />
ZHU ZHU Pet named<br />
Nuget. Can you bring my<br />
sister an Amaraken girl doll.<br />
Tell the deer I love them.<br />
Hannah Kelty<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I won’t a game and some<br />
shoes and a tree hose and a<br />
wii. Love Kaylan Robinson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I wont a x-bot<br />
I wont a wii<br />
I wont a game<br />
I wot a sled<br />
I wot a shoes<br />
I wot a trampoline<br />
I wot a big ball<br />
I wot a mitten<br />
Jordan Price<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I want a x-box and skates<br />
and a playstation. And a<br />
game and a Wii basketball.<br />
Love Cameron Moore<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been good all year.<br />
I want a X-box and a DS a<br />
trampoline a Reindeer a wii<br />
game a big sled a DS game.<br />
Love Addie Matthews<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I wote a trampoline and<br />
Mrs. Clause a x-box sled<br />
lov Alex Lyle<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I want a baby Jesus and a<br />
pillow pet<br />
love Walker Hart<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Christmas I won’t like a<br />
X-Box Knat and a Dak<br />
Spus3 and a new biek and a<br />
wesuling wii game and a<br />
big cratr and a new ds. Mis<br />
Clus<br />
Love Charlie Corkern<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Santa I want a ninga costume.<br />
I like your Slad.<br />
I love your elf.<br />
I like you.<br />
I am good. love, Wils Davis<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
I want a DSI or sum can<br />
goods my Birthday is April<br />
26 and I want a race track. I<br />
don’t thinc I am not good,<br />
my Mom only wants me to<br />
have 3 presents. How big is<br />
yoru sleigh/ Hou meny<br />
presents do you have to<br />
carry/ I thenk this is How<br />
Big it is. Sully Moorehead<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Do you expect me to be<br />
niys all the tiym? I want a<br />
DS for crinsmis. Do you<br />
have magci pawrs? Do you<br />
have a magli elf?<br />
Love,Chloe Vizier<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
I been good. How do the<br />
elf get power? I want a doll<br />
Uoh come and video game<br />
and ipod a raceing pig.<br />
Love, Ava Rachal<br />
Dear Sait Nichola’s<br />
Im am six years old. My<br />
birthday is April 28, 2004.<br />
A Elf in a shelf came to<br />
school We named him<br />
Snowflake. I never pull my<br />
card in school. My favret<br />
holliday is Christmas. I’m<br />
probably aks for five things.<br />
How do Elfs get their powers?<br />
Love Isabella Flores<br />
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Dear Santa,<br />
How are you. I would like an ipod for<br />
Charistmas. Will you get my big sister a<br />
DS game. Will you give Rudolp the<br />
reindear a hug for me? I LOVE<br />
Chrismas.<br />
Love, Gracie Toombs<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I hope you’re having a good winter at<br />
the North pole. Thanks for that Ole<br />
Miss mug. My favorite raindeer are<br />
Cupid, Blitzen and of course Rudolph. I<br />
want a bobblehead of Larry Fitzgerald.<br />
And a Donavan Mcnabb jersey.<br />
Your pal, <strong>Web</strong> Watkins<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you and Mrs. Claus? I’ve<br />
been extra good this year. Thank-you<br />
for the bike from last year. Please give<br />
Drew a computer. Please can I have a<br />
guitar?<br />
Your friend, Claire Waddell<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I hope you’re having a extra nice holiday<br />
season. The only thing that I can<br />
think of that I want is really Lego<br />
Universe. I hope you have a Merry<br />
Christmas.<br />
Forrest Hutchinson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? I hope you are getting a<br />
lot of work done with your workers the<br />
evs. How is Thoumas doing? Can I<br />
have a itouch please? How are the<br />
Raindeer doing? sencerely Tristan Welch<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you and Mrs. Claus doing?<br />
Are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen,<br />
Comet, cupid, Donner, Blitzen and<br />
Rodulf ready to fly?<br />
Will you please bring me white Ice<br />
skates, drums, bath junkie, green bike,<br />
mind flex and please, please, please,<br />
please a kitten.<br />
Love, Lilly Noble<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
how are you? Are you having a good<br />
year? I hope you are making alot of<br />
presents. Are you having a good season?<br />
I loved all my gifts from last year.<br />
Merry Christmas!<br />
love Brett Ashy<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you and Mrs. Claus doing?<br />
Thank you for all the gifts from last<br />
year I’ve had a realy fun time playing<br />
with my toy’s this year. Hope you have<br />
a super good year. Good luck.<br />
For Christmas I would like a school<br />
outfit for Rebecca and a lunch box for<br />
her and a webkinz. Love, Olivia McKee<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? I’ve been trying to be<br />
super extra nice. I really liked my stuff<br />
that you got me last year. I would please<br />
like these things Mind Flex, i-pod<br />
touch, wii sports, and a kitten. How are<br />
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet,<br />
Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolf, you,<br />
and Mrs. Claus.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Allison Santa-Cruz<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? Thank you for all the<br />
great presents that I got last year. I have<br />
been good. I would like a new indan<br />
barbey doll. and some new walkeytalkeys,<br />
and white nayle palish.<br />
Your friend, Rece Raju<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? How’s Dasher, Dancer,<br />
Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner,<br />
Blitzen, and Rudolf?<br />
I’ve been relly good. This year I<br />
would like to get a Club Penguin element<br />
of Water card Its a the one with<br />
the Sensi power card. from, Ryan Garrett<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you and how is Ms. Clas?<br />
And how is your year? And could you<br />
give something good to my Mom and<br />
Dad.<br />
And some treat for the dogs. And<br />
some toys and treat for the cats.<br />
Merry christmas Love, Aidan McGee<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How is Comet? Thanks for Elfi. He’s<br />
asume. For Christmas can I please have<br />
a skateboard in my stocking if you drink<br />
coke or any drink with a bottle top give<br />
it to me.<br />
your pal, Coleman Dinkins<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I hope you are having a nice holiday<br />
season. I loved all my gifts last year. Ive<br />
been so good. I want for Christmas is 3<br />
Big Lego sets.<br />
Love, Jack Gatlin<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you, your elvs, and Mrs.<br />
Claus? Thank you for the wii you gave<br />
me last year!! This year the two things I<br />
would like the most is a metal detector,<br />
and an Ipad touch. I’ve been trying my<br />
hardest to be nice. And how are Dasher,<br />
Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid,<br />
Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolf? And<br />
Merry Christmas!!!<br />
Sincerely Christian Simms<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Do you love Dasher, Dancer, Prancer,<br />
Vixen, comet, Cupid, Donncer, Blitzen,<br />
and not last but least is Rudolf? How<br />
are you? I’ve been really really good all<br />
year. Could you bring me a phone,<br />
books, puzzles too. sincerely, Nilah Miller<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
How have your year been? Ive been<br />
relly good Yesterday. Thank you for<br />
everything last year. This year will you<br />
please bring me a Magic Kit, a Soal<br />
Silver with a poky walker for my DsO<br />
one more Soal silver game and poky<br />
walker. And a PSP and a Indiana Jones<br />
PSP game to come with it. And $10000<br />
too.<br />
Love Gorge Giddens<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
How are you doing well I’m doing<br />
good. Thank you for all the presents last<br />
year. this year for Christmas can I<br />
please can I have a wii a DS and I ipod<br />
and I have speciae present for you.<br />
Love, Meritt Devoss<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How has your hear been? I’ve been<br />
really good this year. Thank you for<br />
everything you gave me last year.<br />
Would you please bring me a DSI and<br />
some pokemom cards and a Play<br />
Station 3. Would you please bring a<br />
NBA Jam and some chocolate<br />
Love,<br />
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Dear Santa Claws,<br />
How has your year been?<br />
I’ve been really good this<br />
year. Please will you give me<br />
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trap, two tickets to a orlando<br />
game.<br />
Love<br />
Hudson Bataille<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
How has your year been?<br />
I’ve been really good this<br />
year. Thank you for everything<br />
you gave me last year.<br />
This year will you please<br />
bring me a Classic guitar, a<br />
camra, monney, chocolate<br />
and animal bracelets. Love,<br />
Maddie Conerly<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How has the year been?<br />
How are the elfs doing?<br />
Have I been good? I hope<br />
you have been good yourself.<br />
Can I pelase have a regyler<br />
Ds, Pokamon games, Dog<br />
for chester, game boy aktive<br />
with pokamon game. I hope<br />
you have a good christmas.<br />
Stafford Barton<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? I like the<br />
things you gave me last year<br />
I liked the Guitar I would like<br />
a Barbie drem haues, adress<br />
up dress, chocolate, a Santa<br />
doll, a elf doll, a raindeer<br />
doll.<br />
Love,<br />
Carmen Sumrall<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
What have you been doing<br />
this year. Are your raindeer<br />
really for a fly this year. For<br />
christmas I would like<br />
Nintendo DS syeseme or XL.<br />
For my mom and dad a Hair<br />
Dry, and a back Heater.<br />
Love, Michael John Davis<br />
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Dear Santa,<br />
How have you been? I<br />
think I’ve been good this<br />
year. Thank you for everything<br />
I got last year. Will you<br />
pease give me two D.S.<br />
games and legos.<br />
Thank you<br />
Love, Nathan McNabb<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How have your raindeer<br />
been? Thank you for everything<br />
you gave me last year. I<br />
would like Ivy the American<br />
girl doll and some clothes to<br />
go with her. I also would like<br />
a make up set wit pretty<br />
makeup.<br />
Love your friend,<br />
Sarah Beth Greener<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How was your year last<br />
year? I hope you have a better<br />
year this year! We will<br />
make cookies and milk<br />
before you come. Hope you<br />
like them. For Christmas I<br />
would like a snap rover a<br />
map and a water proof watch<br />
that has numbes like this<br />
2:24.<br />
Love,<br />
Jett Manley<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
first I would like to ask for<br />
three things then I have three<br />
questions. The first thing I<br />
would like is a frog to put in<br />
my tank with the other.<br />
Second I would like my own<br />
sewing machine. And third is<br />
a mini refrigerator.<br />
Now my three questions.<br />
One how old are you? Two<br />
why does Rudolph have a<br />
red nose? And three how do<br />
you stay alive for ever?<br />
Your friend,<br />
Claire Azordegan<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How is your wife? I really<br />
hope that you can come to<br />
my house. What kind of<br />
cookies do you like? I hope<br />
that you can give me all the<br />
presents I want. Did you<br />
have a nice summer last<br />
year!<br />
Love,<br />
Erinn Kim<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How has it been going thes<br />
past years. Well heres my list.<br />
Please bring me some<br />
Bakugan. Also a HTc hero.<br />
Also a lego Harry potter<br />
Hagrids hut. Also a lot of<br />
lego city and a cute puppy<br />
love Jack Evans<br />
Dear St. Nick,<br />
How are you? I hope you<br />
liked the cookies we set out<br />
for you last year. I hope you<br />
think I been good this year.<br />
May I please have Molly The<br />
American girl doll, Wii<br />
game, Just dancez or kids,<br />
sheltie book, Chrimas bells<br />
from your slegh.<br />
Love Grace Ellen<br />
Crongeyer<br />
Dear Santa Claus<br />
How are your raindeer?<br />
Thank you so much for what<br />
you gave me last year. This<br />
year will you please bring me<br />
a DSI, a slinky, some chocolate,<br />
a fish, a cristle kit and<br />
my two front teeth.<br />
love Ellie Peterson<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
How is your year been<br />
going? I have been a very<br />
good girl this year. May you<br />
please bring me a American<br />
girl doll named Lanny with<br />
all her things, a paint set with<br />
everything, a laptop, a Ellf on<br />
the shelf, a new bike, Dsi, a<br />
sticker book. I’m appreciative<br />
what you gave me last<br />
year.<br />
Love, Katie White<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Please give a at least two<br />
present to the homeless kids.<br />
Can I please have a pok’mon<br />
Ds game. I think you are the<br />
best Santa I know. Where did<br />
you go to colloge?<br />
love, Jackson Bataille<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
Can I please have Wooly,<br />
Buzz, Jessie, Bullsie, Rex,<br />
Hamm, 2 aliens, Potato<br />
heads, and others like the<br />
ones in Toy Story 1, 2, and 3,<br />
baseball cards, Creepy<br />
Crawlers Items, Star Wars<br />
Legos, adventure books,<br />
Gardield’s Stupid Cupid and<br />
Other Silly Stories, for all<br />
children to get what They<br />
want; Other tipes of legos;<br />
cat toys; and a build your<br />
own doghouse kit? May I<br />
please have a school jacket<br />
with a hood.<br />
your friend<br />
Byron Martin Bishop<br />
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Dear Santa,<br />
I hope no one gets switches<br />
in my family. I hope you<br />
have sensational Christmas. I<br />
would please like to know if<br />
your reindeers only fly on<br />
Christmas? The main thing I<br />
want for Christmas is a mini<br />
computer. I would like my<br />
mom to get presents. I would<br />
also like my dad and stepmom<br />
to get presents to. I<br />
don’t want anyone to be on<br />
the nauty list in the whole<br />
world. No one should be on<br />
the nauty list.<br />
Love, Austin Brown<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I’m so glad to have Daniel<br />
back. Would you kindly put a<br />
new art kit for one of my<br />
presents I don’t know about<br />
the rest. Thank you for the<br />
presents from last year. I will<br />
leave some food for your<br />
raindeers. Daniel poped up<br />
on my train and on my<br />
Christmas tree. Merry<br />
Christmas!<br />
Love, Abigail Calimaran<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
May I please have a eletric<br />
guirtar and Yusas hole deck<br />
plus Jack’s hole deck? What<br />
is your e-mail edress? May I<br />
please have one dark side<br />
deck in cboding a duel disc<br />
plas a dark spenkro monster?<br />
Where do you live in the<br />
north pole? Can a ranedeer<br />
relly fly? Does the elf bring<br />
you our Crismis letter if we<br />
throw it to him in a paper airplane?<br />
Do you know where<br />
the elf hides every night?<br />
How is the elf so quiet we<br />
can’t hear him at night?<br />
love, Tanner Hendrix<br />
Dear Santa Clause,<br />
I would like a light brown<br />
uggs. I would like a doorbell<br />
for my room. I would like a<br />
orange, pink and brown<br />
rolling backback from pottery<br />
barn. I would like the<br />
pack of Judy Moody books. I<br />
would like a frog. Santa, do<br />
you know Leon? Santa who<br />
is your favorite raindeer? Is it<br />
cold when you go outside.<br />
Love, Hollis Hewes<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
May I have an ipod and a<br />
tiny pepperment factory? I<br />
would also like a puppy and<br />
a flat screen tv for my room.<br />
May I have a flash master<br />
and playdough? May I also<br />
have the suplise to make a<br />
modle of plymouth massachusetts?<br />
and a dsi. And a<br />
mini computer.<br />
Love, Ave Clair Ketner<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
I think you are just so cool!<br />
I hope you have a lot of<br />
Christmas spirit to make the<br />
slay run. May I please have<br />
something that I would just<br />
love? I would like my family<br />
to be safe. If you see Jesus<br />
could you please tell him that<br />
I will light a bunch of candles<br />
for him? Thanks if you do.<br />
Even if you don’t, I will still<br />
light a bunch of candles for<br />
him.<br />
Well, Merry Christmas!!!<br />
Love,<br />
Thomas Mullins Arnold<br />
P.S. May I please have<br />
some more things?<br />
I want a <strong>Web</strong>kinz white<br />
poodle, a DSi (or xl that’s<br />
light blue or white) Pikimin 2<br />
for the Nintendo Game<br />
Cube, and an X-box 360<br />
Kinect with Kinectanimals.<br />
(Sorry if I’m asking for to<br />
many things.)<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I would like a barbie jet<br />
house for Christmas. What<br />
do you do during Spring and<br />
Summer? I would like roller<br />
skates too. How cold is it at<br />
the North Pole? How do you<br />
get the raindeer to fly? I like<br />
snow! I’m glad your bag<br />
refills itsself. You are<br />
awsome.<br />
Love,<br />
Maya Rose Leflore<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I would like two ameican<br />
girl dolls - Laney and Ivy. I<br />
would also like red or blue<br />
toms. Witch raindeer do you<br />
like best? Do you know<br />
Chistafur my elf? We’ll ride<br />
with you latter.<br />
Love, Mimi McCraney<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
All I want for Christmas<br />
from you is for people to<br />
know that it is not just about<br />
toys and presents. It is about<br />
God’s love and birthday. So<br />
the people who are greedy<br />
for toys and that stuff should<br />
show respect to gods birth.<br />
love, Aaron Moore<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I would like to know how<br />
do you diliver all the presents?<br />
Thank you for all the<br />
presents. I hope you are<br />
happy. You are very nice, to<br />
give us all these gifts.<br />
Yours trewly,<br />
Rand Raju<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
May I please have a lilttle<br />
ornament? of you and a little<br />
elf on the shelf? and a nutcracker?<br />
I hoep your having<br />
a good time in the North Pole<br />
and do you always eat<br />
cookeis or do you only eat<br />
them on Christmas.<br />
Love, Lara Moriarty<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
May I please have lego<br />
Harry Potter Howats castle?<br />
And I really want to be<br />
suprised the rest of my presentes<br />
because I can’t really<br />
thick of any thing. My Elf<br />
would tell you what I am<br />
thinking of.<br />
Love,<br />
Gibson Smith<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
I think that you are very<br />
nice. You give people things.<br />
Thank you for everything.<br />
Why do you like to give people<br />
things like chess sets. Are<br />
you so nice because you like<br />
children or because you like<br />
giving things? Can I have<br />
your chess set that is not<br />
glass or plastic please?<br />
Love,Preston Difatta<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I wish I could live on the<br />
North Pole. I got a lot of<br />
cool presents from you last<br />
year. I want to be a elf to the<br />
are majic like you.<br />
Love, Hayes Corrigan<br />
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Dear Santa Claus,<br />
I would want my sister to stop copying<br />
my faorivt songs. I hope you are<br />
doing well.<br />
Hudson Sandifer<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I can’t believe it’s Christmas! Please<br />
send me the Mississippi State sleep<br />
pants. I would love an xbox 360. I<br />
hope you give my brother something<br />
good. I will leave you some cookies<br />
and milk. I hope you have a safe trip.<br />
Mitchell Medlin<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I can’t wait until you get here. It’s<br />
begening to look alot like Christmas.<br />
My mom wants a new mirror. I’m so<br />
glad Jake my elf on the shelf came. He<br />
loves hershies. I want a barbie house.<br />
Have a safe trip.<br />
Love<br />
Emma Liddell<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I love how you give everyone toys<br />
for Christmas and games. Please get<br />
me a game for Christmas and get my<br />
brother some cool cars. He’ll love cool<br />
cars. And can you get my friend a wii.<br />
Love, Rayyan Jameel<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I’m so excided that it’s almost<br />
Chrismas! Thank you for my<br />
American girl doll I loved it! Can I<br />
have a DS and another American girl<br />
doll. Mom wold like some jewelry.<br />
Dad wold like a book and another<br />
cookbook. Sarah Bradford Seawright<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I hope you enjoy my milk in a coffee<br />
cup. Well I think we can put it in are<br />
a/c up in a real cup with lots of cookies.<br />
I really hope you have a safe trip.<br />
Please get me juwelry for my mom.<br />
can I get a geard baplel gone ball!<br />
Jack Noel<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
from Buckley.<br />
I loved evering you gove me last<br />
year! Did my Elf open the door for<br />
you? yes or no. Will you give me<br />
hunting clothes.<br />
love<br />
Buckley Speights<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I just love love all of my stuff you<br />
gave me last Christmas. This year I<br />
would like a Bratz Chat girl, a Mt and<br />
a Live Camper! That is all I want and<br />
I mean that is all I want. I love you,<br />
Sign your friend Isabelle Dyess<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I love your elfs and my elf on the<br />
shelf. I hope you have a womderful<br />
Chrismas.<br />
I would like...a tranchela that is<br />
remote controle. My sister would<br />
probly want some Ed Hearty shoes. I<br />
love Chrismas!<br />
Samantha Smith<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I want a Lamborghini litle car. We<br />
are going to give you cookies<br />
Choclate chip cookes. Hope you<br />
enjoy! I want a transformer name<br />
Barikada. Love Chaun-Michael Bynoe<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I can’t believe a whole year has<br />
passed. Last year you gave me a<br />
Backugan Braler. This year I would<br />
like a new Wii game called Mario<br />
Bross. I’ll leave some eggnog out for<br />
you.<br />
your friend<br />
CJ Hammond<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I hope I’ve been nice this year. I<br />
don’t want a puppy anymore because I<br />
already got one. I know Hannah wants<br />
Harry Potter jolly gands. I want Harry<br />
Potter wand. I also want a girl elf<br />
please! I hope you like my pizza and<br />
cake, cookies and milk. THANK<br />
YOU!<br />
Love<br />
Madeleine Halford<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I can’t beleive that there are only 25<br />
day intill Christmas. thank you for<br />
Screetcher. This year I want the new<br />
tarudactle.<br />
I know my sister wants jewelry for<br />
her jewelry holder. I also want a new<br />
Bow in arow. My dad wants a<br />
HAPPY CHRISTMAS. Alec Bowie<br />
John Eric Clark<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How is Roodof? Thank you for each<br />
toy you got me for last Christmas. I<br />
would like some rocks. My Mom and<br />
Dad will like something nice like a<br />
mug and some sleep. I love YOU<br />
AND THE DEER. I hope you will<br />
like our gingerbread man. Be Safe<br />
traveling.<br />
Harper Evers<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I think I have been very good! Could<br />
you get me some targets and a gun1 I<br />
want a pelet gun. Have a safe trip!<br />
Alex Brown<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I am so happy that starting today<br />
there is only 24 more days til christmas.<br />
I would like a new D.S., an Ipod,<br />
and some zowzow pets. I have been a<br />
good girl.<br />
Love<br />
Victoria Callahan<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I can’t believe that a whole big year<br />
has passed. Thank you for the stuff I<br />
got last year. It’s been so long I can’t<br />
even remember what you got me! This<br />
year I would like some blue dangly<br />
earings shaped like this. Caroline Croft.<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have ben a very go boy and I hop I<br />
get presents I want a Ipad and a XBox<br />
360 and candy and big tegs for<br />
Chrismas.<br />
Love Holden Benner<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Santa you are the best person I can<br />
think of. And God. I hop you will give<br />
me my stuff I ask for. Everybody<br />
loves you.<br />
Love<br />
Larry Day<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I really want a D.si that is black. I<br />
have been very good joly is very nice.<br />
I want to have a D.s game. And a<br />
moter scooter like a modercikle. And I<br />
touch. And a i pod. And a movie of<br />
Iron man 2. And the lego fire boat plus<br />
the fire 4 weler.<br />
from you pal<br />
McNeill Dinkins<br />
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John David Hendrix Bekah woodruff<br />
Dear Santa...All I want.....<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been very good this year.<br />
Please send Charlie to visit us.<br />
Have a good christmas. Sarah has<br />
been good to this year. But I still<br />
wish for her to not hit me enymore.<br />
I wish for A....<br />
New bike! Animals! I touch with<br />
a sebra case! stuff animals! Wii<br />
games! x box games! Townhome!<br />
convrtible coup! pobgo stick! sing<br />
along star micerphon! choclets!<br />
drawing cit! movies! And whatever<br />
els you want to give me.<br />
P.S. Jolly is so fun. Avery Gerrets<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I was very good all year long. For<br />
christmas I want a: speedemonoster,<br />
brakegun kumgzhu neutrasidir<br />
blaser<br />
From Sam Herring<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
I have been very good this year. I<br />
hope you are doing good. May I<br />
have a kitten, barbie dream house,<br />
play confortabole, yorke, a visit by<br />
Selena Gomaz.<br />
Thank you, Emily Herrington<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I was a good girl this year! I hope<br />
you know that I want a eletric sooter<br />
and much more. I love you.<br />
Love, Arielle Hooper<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been very good this year.<br />
For Christmas I want a drumset<br />
that’s silver, an eletric razor scooter<br />
that is blue, and the racers legos. I<br />
want some DS games too.<br />
Walter Johnson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been very good this year. I<br />
hope you are doing well with makeing<br />
the presents that everybody<br />
wants. How are you doing this<br />
year? I hope you give me lots of<br />
presents this year.<br />
I want justin bebier tickes an a<br />
justin bebier bunck bed. A I pod<br />
with a justin bebier cother. I want<br />
an justin bebier baby CD. I want an<br />
justin bebier I pad.<br />
Love, Mackenzie Langston<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I will be a good girl this year.<br />
Santa I will send my Christmas list<br />
soon. I hope you like the cookies<br />
and milk. I hope you maeckit to<br />
Mississippi. PS Merry Christmas.<br />
From Julienne McKinley<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I love you. I want to give my sister<br />
a ring. Could I have a guitar? I<br />
hope you have a merry Christmas.<br />
Your friend,<br />
Ava Crawford<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been a very good boy this<br />
year. I have been listeing to my<br />
teacher and parents. I want a blue<br />
gear bike, an iPhone, a Despicable<br />
Me, A Elf on the Shelf, A Wii game<br />
and D.S. games.<br />
Make sure you bring these to me.<br />
Love, Jacks Mitchell<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have bin very good to my family<br />
and friens, teecher’s to. I want sum<br />
wii gam’s, moovys. I want anuther<br />
marikin girl doll.<br />
love Tatum Pettit<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been good. I want aqua<br />
sand and mighty beans, also just<br />
dance the wii game. I want xbox<br />
360 and the game Kinectamals I<br />
want a dq blizzard maker.<br />
I want a dippin dots maker.<br />
Love, Blair Smith<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Iv’e been good this year. For<br />
Christmas I want a i pod touch, JB<br />
tikets, skates, craola glow dome.<br />
Love, Eliza Warnock<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you and Tucker. On Dec<br />
1,? I could not find Tucker Taddy.<br />
We just went to Flora and saw<br />
Tucker there. My brother wants a<br />
helcopter that vides something. I<br />
want a Projector and surround<br />
sound.<br />
Your cookies will be closest to the<br />
fireplace.<br />
Your friend,<br />
Garner Hixon<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How is Comet? My brother<br />
would like a new basketball goal. I<br />
would like a 26” flat screen and a<br />
kinect xbox. Thank you for coming<br />
to my house.<br />
You friend<br />
Jonathan Lucas<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
You are so nice I hope you will<br />
give me a lavalamp and an ipad.<br />
And I hope you give my mom and<br />
dad a flat screen tv. You are too nice<br />
Santa!<br />
Your friend,<br />
Emily Thompson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? I hope the poor<br />
people get presents this year. I want<br />
an elf on a shelf and an i pad. Hope<br />
you have a safe trip. Your Friend,<br />
Drew Williams<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
You are the best. I would mostly<br />
like a phone and to be the smartest<br />
one in my class. Don’t worry please<br />
I am going to be good. I love you.<br />
Be safe on Christmas. I have the<br />
cookies baked.<br />
You friend,<br />
Mackenzie Coburn<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How is Petey doing? I would like<br />
a Kettle for my sister.<br />
I would like an I touch with a<br />
bubble gum cover. I hope you have<br />
a nice Christmas.<br />
Your friend,<br />
Alice Williams<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How is your day? I want to give<br />
my brother a guitar. I want a pool<br />
table and money.<br />
Is my elf on the shelf coming<br />
back?<br />
Your friend,<br />
Josh Oden<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are all your reindeer? I bet it<br />
is going well. I want my sister to<br />
get a Christmas sparkley ornament.<br />
I would like a Mrs. Claus picture<br />
because she is pretty and nice. I am<br />
going to make santa cookies.<br />
Your friend,<br />
Juliette Finch<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have been very good this year.<br />
When is Larry my elf coming to my<br />
house and how is Mrs. Clos doing?<br />
I want an Ipad a Xbox 360 conent<br />
Love, Cameron Snypes<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are your elves? I hope I am<br />
not on the naughty list. How is Mrs.<br />
Claws doing? I hope you are ready<br />
with the toys. How are the reindeers?<br />
I hope they are ready to fly. I<br />
hope it’s not to cold at the North<br />
Pole and I hope there is a bunch of<br />
good boys and girls. I hope you get<br />
to eat my cookies and milk. and I<br />
hope you like them. My brother<br />
wants an MSU snuggie and my<br />
other brother wants an ipad and I<br />
want a big dry erase board and an<br />
xbox 360. I hope you have a good<br />
time at the north pole and I’ll<br />
remember to give you a present and<br />
have a merry christmas. Your friend,<br />
Jordan Fortenberry<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I’m glad you’ll be visiting us on<br />
Christmas Eve. Please help the<br />
needy. Can you give my sister an<br />
Ipad and can I have a sparkley<br />
ornament? I hope you have a very<br />
Merry Christmas.<br />
Your friend,<br />
Emma Collums<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Can you tell that Rudolph has a<br />
cold? My dad wants a new hat. I<br />
would like a scooter. I hope you and<br />
the elves are doing fine. thank you.<br />
Your Friend,<br />
Graham Laseter
Dear Santa...All I want.....<br />
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Dear Santa,<br />
How are you and the elves<br />
and the raindeer. How is Mrs.<br />
Clause. I want a puppy and a<br />
trampline. My brother wants<br />
an Ipad. I will leave you<br />
cookies and milk.<br />
Your friend Evie Hudgins<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you? I want to<br />
give my brother a Mario<br />
game. I want a DS Cooking<br />
Mama game and I want an<br />
itouch please. And I will set<br />
out some cookies.<br />
Your friend,Emory Ann<br />
Laseter<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Have I been good today? I<br />
am having fun today and I<br />
can’t wait tell Christmas Are<br />
you and Rudolph having a<br />
great time at the North Pole?<br />
I want a psp and an xbox.<br />
Turner Easley<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are the elfs doing? I<br />
would like a dragonoid cobis<br />
and a elf on the shelf. and for<br />
my brother the xbox 360<br />
game. Its name is dead rising<br />
2. I’m going t leave your<br />
cookies where they aways<br />
are.<br />
Noah Sullivan<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the snuggie<br />
that you gave me last year<br />
this year I want a Glow station<br />
Glow Bowl. My mom<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
You are a very jolly man.<br />
My grandmother would like<br />
a mp3 player. I want a itouch<br />
and I want a signed Babe<br />
Ruth baseball.<br />
Your friend, Parker Kirby<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How is sparkle working at<br />
the North Pole? You are the<br />
best. I want to get my sisters<br />
an icarly microphone and for<br />
me an itouch and a new zhu<br />
zhu pet and the set. Merry<br />
christmas!<br />
Callie McKinney<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
How are you and the reindeer?<br />
I would like a new blanket<br />
with Christmas stuf on it and<br />
a Christmas pillow. My sister<br />
would like a video game.<br />
Have a safe Christmas.<br />
Delaney Williams<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Hello, how are you Santa?<br />
Santa maybe you could give<br />
my cat a collar and tag for<br />
Tommy. The mantle will<br />
have a stocking for my pets.<br />
For me, I would like an uno<br />
moo game and battleship<br />
game. Santa, thank you for<br />
the ice maker you gave me<br />
last year.<br />
Rosemary Caldwell<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my DS that<br />
you gave me last year. I<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
Thank you for the bike you<br />
have me three years ago<br />
when I was four but I’m<br />
seven now and it’s too little<br />
for me so I want a new bike.<br />
Ranger needs a new bed<br />
because he took his old bed<br />
to the middle of the yard and<br />
chewed it up! Pepe needs a<br />
dog jacket because it’s cold<br />
outside and she’s a old dog. I<br />
hope you have a MerryMerry<br />
Christmas.<br />
Your friend Kate Rushton<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
Thank you for the bike that<br />
you gave me last year. I<br />
would like a new jump roap<br />
and a alarm clock. My brother<br />
would want Uno cards.<br />
My other brother would like<br />
some shoes. My Mom would<br />
like some earrings. My Dad<br />
would want a corvette. Santa<br />
Claus I hope your reindeer<br />
and Elves are doing good and<br />
I hope they are not being<br />
noty too. I hope I’m doing<br />
good things.Thomas Davis<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thanks for the bouncy ball<br />
you gave me last year My<br />
brother wants cars. I want a<br />
Art set and some book. My<br />
mom wants a Experiment<br />
book. Do you thinks the<br />
Northpole is cold as ice are<br />
hot as sun? Everyone has<br />
been wating for Christmas<br />
and you the hole year. Have a<br />
Merry Christmas.<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the DS you<br />
got me last year. For this year<br />
I would like, two xBox<br />
games, and you can get me<br />
what ever you can make. Get<br />
something good for my mom<br />
and dad.<br />
And I hope you have a<br />
good trip.<br />
Love, Rob Mahaffey<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the bike last<br />
year. I would like a drumset<br />
this year. My sister would<br />
like a guitar this year. My<br />
Dad would like a tool box.<br />
My Mom would like some<br />
jewelry. I hope all the reindeer<br />
and you get back safely.<br />
Natalie Thompson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my xbox<br />
360. Please bring my dad a<br />
new jacket. Please bring me<br />
the kinect for xbox 360.<br />
Please tell Bobby that I will<br />
leave cookies and milk on<br />
christmas Eve for both of<br />
you.<br />
Love Alex Summerford<br />
PS you and Bobby rock.<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my scooter<br />
you brought me last year.<br />
Could you bring my brother<br />
an x box game. I would like a<br />
Ben ten Ultimate Alien<br />
whatch. I will put cookies<br />
and milk out for you.<br />
Ben Sigler<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my hair<br />
Dryer you Brought me last<br />
year. will you bring Sophie a<br />
puppy? And bring Lola a<br />
winter hat? And me some<br />
snow boots? Tell Rudolph I<br />
hope he is haveing a Merry<br />
Christmas!<br />
Lily Rhoden<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for wii games<br />
you gave me last year. I have<br />
so much fun whith it. I whant<br />
a I pod touch. My dogs want<br />
some bones and chew toys.<br />
My brother whant a new<br />
phone. Are the reindeer good<br />
Ruth Emmerich<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the b.b. gun<br />
last year. Could you please<br />
bring new boots for my Dad.<br />
I would like operation. Please<br />
Tell Rudolph I will leave<br />
treats for him.<br />
Katie Youngblood<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the marble<br />
set that you gave me last<br />
year. Can you bring Papaw a<br />
trail camra. And can you<br />
please bring me a 246 gun<br />
and a fore wheeler 4 x 4.<br />
Your friend, Caleb<br />
Hernandez<br />
Dear, Santa<br />
Thank you for the Zhu Zhu<br />
pets from last year. Could<br />
you bring my sister a iphone<br />
sixtey from the app store.<br />
Could you bring a puppy<br />
please. Please tell Rudolph I<br />
will leave treats for him.<br />
Jenna Daly<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my penguin<br />
pajamas you gave me last<br />
year. Could you bring my<br />
Mom a blue scarf? I would<br />
like a Ipod touch this year.<br />
What kind of cookie do you<br />
want?<br />
Zoe Ladner<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my dirt bike<br />
you brought me last year.<br />
Could you please bring my<br />
mom some perfune? I would<br />
like a new dirtbike this year.<br />
please tell Rudolph I will<br />
leave treats for him! And I<br />
hope you have a mery<br />
Christmas.<br />
Ford Hudson<br />
want’s the best Chrismas<br />
ever. My Papa wants a<br />
Chrismas party. Have I been<br />
good? How is Mrs. Claus?<br />
Gabrielle Newman<br />
would like a spy helicopter<br />
and Tony Hawk for the wii.<br />
My dog would like some dog<br />
treats. My sister would like a<br />
doll. Merry Christmas!<br />
Love Jude Reeves<br />
Love, Priyadarshini Ray<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the moader<br />
skooder you brought me last<br />
year. Will you please bring<br />
Margaret an ituch. Can I have<br />
a microphone for Cristmas.<br />
Tell the reindeer I said hey.<br />
Love, Emma Dye<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
Thank you for my phone<br />
last year. I would like a new<br />
trampoline, American Girl<br />
doll, and Toms this year. My<br />
dogs would like new bones<br />
and toys. My mom would<br />
like new make up and<br />
Jewelry My dad woulw like<br />
new shoes. I hope I am being<br />
good I hope you have a good<br />
christmas!<br />
Emmy Brown<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the DSI you<br />
gave me last year. Could you<br />
please bring another frog to<br />
my little sister. I would like<br />
some American Girl accessories.<br />
What kind of cookies<br />
do you like vinnila or<br />
choclate sprinkles or none?<br />
Do you want white or<br />
choclate milk?<br />
Love, Isabelle Lee<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
Thank you for sending my<br />
elf last year. This year I<br />
would connect for chistmas.<br />
My grandmother’s dog<br />
would like a chew toy. My<br />
grandmother would like earings.<br />
My dad would like a<br />
watch. My mom would like<br />
earing also. How are the raindeer<br />
doing. Love<br />
Natalie DeRusso<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I liked the fatheads that<br />
gave me last year. This year I<br />
want a ipad and a remote<br />
control boat, and my cousin<br />
wants a ipad to. I hope every<br />
body get presents. Merry<br />
Chritsmas.<br />
Gus Gordon<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the wii<br />
games that you gave my last<br />
year. I would like an I phon<br />
this year. My mom would<br />
like some makeup. And my<br />
dad would like a new shirt. I<br />
wonder how the reindeer are<br />
doing? I hope most of the<br />
kids in the world get gifts.<br />
Michael Lowe<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my new four<br />
wheeler you gave me last<br />
year. I would like an Itouch<br />
and a Ihome this year. My<br />
dog wants a new bone. How<br />
are the reindeer? Have I been<br />
good this year? Simms Baker<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
Thank you for my new bike<br />
you gave me last year. I want<br />
a Ipod touch this year. It<br />
would be great to have one!<br />
Next, Ellie would love a<br />
snowflake chewtoy. Ellie<br />
would love it! My mom<br />
would love new earrings,<br />
Surprise mom! Reed would<br />
love a ant farm. Last, Jack<br />
would want a IPhone. I hope<br />
your reindeer are good!<br />
Kate White<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Last year I got a ipod. I<br />
enjoyed it! This year can I<br />
have an iphone? Can my Dad<br />
have a tool box? My mom<br />
would like some new earings.<br />
How are you reindeer doing?<br />
Are all the elves doing good?<br />
I hope all kids in the world<br />
will be good before<br />
Christmas. Anna Leigh Allen<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my batman<br />
toy last year. It was really<br />
fun. This year, I really want a<br />
enw pair of church shoes.<br />
Also this year I want some<br />
new pants because my oterrs<br />
are too small. I also want a<br />
phone for my self. for my sister<br />
she wants a Hanna<br />
Montana doll.<br />
love Caleb Sullivan<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the bike last<br />
year Are you doing good? I<br />
would like a Corduroy doll.<br />
My mom would like jewelry.<br />
Oh and I would like a ipond<br />
and my Dad would like a<br />
Santa Claus hat. I will feed<br />
the reindeer. Hope that your<br />
trip is great!!! Parker Bracken<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the art utensils<br />
you gave me last year. I<br />
loved using them. My brother<br />
wants a new Nerf gun. I want<br />
a new Ipod with head<br />
phones. My dad wants some<br />
new socks because they have<br />
holes in them. My mom<br />
wants the new Mack book.<br />
That is what my family wants<br />
for Christmas. I hope you<br />
have a good Christmas.<br />
Love, Andrew Holmes<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
Thank you for my DSi and<br />
i pod that you gave me last<br />
year. I want a new American<br />
girl doll and a new Wii game.<br />
Can you give my mother a<br />
good gift because I don’t<br />
know what she wants? Can<br />
you give my aunt a new<br />
computer game please? How<br />
are the elves doing on the<br />
toys? Have a good trip.<br />
Zharia Hill<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for everything<br />
last year. Sarah B. wants an<br />
american girl bed. I would<br />
like evrey thing on my list.<br />
Ya’ know TELL ME<br />
WHERE THE NORTH<br />
POLE IS!!!!!<br />
Love, Timothy Usey jr.<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the computer<br />
last year. Could you please<br />
bring my sister some rapunzel<br />
hair this year please? Can<br />
you bring me the Barbie Jet?<br />
Do you like vanilla cookies<br />
or choclate chip? Do you like<br />
white milk or choclate?<br />
Love, Lauren Anne Smith<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the Dream<br />
House you brought me last<br />
year. Could you please bring<br />
Mrs. Carter and her family<br />
lots of things and a wonderful<br />
Christmas? I would like an<br />
AR book a good one under<br />
3.5 with lots of points to. I<br />
hope you have a Merry<br />
Christmas!<br />
Lila Robertson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the Drum set<br />
you brought last year. Could<br />
you please bring a new bottle<br />
of purfuame to Mrs. Brent? I<br />
would like college basketball<br />
eleven for my playstation 3. I<br />
will not forget the milk and<br />
cookies.<br />
Love<br />
Cameron Brent<br />
Anna Roberson
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Santa...All I want.....<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the animal<br />
bracelets you gave me last year.<br />
Could you please bring my sister a<br />
binder like the school gave her but<br />
it’s fresh and new. And could you<br />
please bring me a golden retriever<br />
puppy. Thanks Santa. I’ll leave you<br />
some good cookies.<br />
Love, Brantley Johnson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for every thing you<br />
broght me last year. Could you<br />
please let my family have a Merry<br />
christamas? I would like a i pod this<br />
year. Please have a Merry christamas.<br />
Ally Sessums<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my JA bag that<br />
said my name on it. Can you bring<br />
my mom and dad an ipod stand?<br />
thank you. can you bring me the<br />
kinect? Thank you. What kind of<br />
cookies do you want?<br />
from Owen Ridgeway<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the gifts you gave<br />
me last year. Could you give Caleb<br />
a nurf gun? I would like a lavalamp<br />
this year. Thank you for all you<br />
have done.<br />
Conner Meadows<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my bike you<br />
brought me last year. Could you<br />
please bring my mom a new pair of<br />
ear rings? I would like some books<br />
this year. Please tell Rudolph to<br />
have a great Christmas?<br />
Love Nicholas Bryan<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
thank you for the presants last<br />
year. May I please have a barbie?<br />
My family would like a drumset.<br />
Hope you like the cookies!<br />
Ava Couey<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for everything you<br />
gave me last year. Santa, would you<br />
please give my brother a book<br />
about manners? I would like a new<br />
drum set.<br />
Santa how are your elves?<br />
Hudson Bridges<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the telescope.<br />
Santa would you please bring a diamond<br />
neclace for my mom? I<br />
would like an xbox 360 Kinect<br />
Kinectimals.<br />
What would you like for<br />
Chrismas?<br />
Anna Maria Dowdy<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my GIJoe.<br />
Santa, would you please bring my<br />
sister a new baby toy?<br />
I would like a GIJoe.<br />
Santa how are the Elves?<br />
Tristan Foster<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my nano last year.<br />
Santa would you please give my<br />
mom a pear of real uggs. I would<br />
like a camra, please. What is your<br />
head elf’s name? And what happens<br />
when the fire is on in the fireplace?<br />
Can you turn it of with your magical<br />
powers?<br />
Meagan Gautier<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the American Girl<br />
Doll stuff. Santa, would you bring<br />
my mom an old spirograff! I would<br />
like a camera! Santa do you really<br />
come down the chimny?<br />
Hallie Gray House<br />
Nora Pickering<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
thank you for my Drew Brees jersey.<br />
My little sister would like a<br />
baby doll. I would like a<br />
Mississippi State football that is<br />
real. How are the randeer?<br />
from your friend<br />
Bryant Seago<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for everthing you gave<br />
me last year!<br />
Santa would you please bring my<br />
mama a I phone? I would like a ton<br />
of apps all ready on my I-Touch.<br />
Santa how are Blitzen and Dixon?<br />
Jack Varner<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my new bike. May<br />
you bring some Barbie dolls for my<br />
sisters please. Santa I would have<br />
some Star war toys a new psp with<br />
new games. Santa how do you fit<br />
down the chimney?<br />
Your friend Jairen Williams<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the camera you<br />
gave me last year.<br />
Santa give my mom a laptop.<br />
Santa, I want an XBox 360 with the<br />
funny football game.<br />
Santa how are the Elves?<br />
Emery Thigpen<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the Hello Kitty<br />
Puzzle book last year.<br />
This year I want a big bag full of<br />
Tbone steak flavored bacon strips<br />
for my dog Polly. You know she<br />
loves bacon strips!<br />
For me, I want a black Grizzley<br />
bear.<br />
How is Rudolph?Elizabeth Pedigo<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my hair solon you<br />
gave me last year. Me and my sister<br />
have been enjoying it. We have<br />
been playing buitie shop.<br />
I would like for you to bring my<br />
sister a Barbie Doll with the house,<br />
car, cloths, pet and a pet house.<br />
Please bring me a DSI. I’ve been<br />
wanting one for a long time.<br />
Who is your faverit elf?<br />
Kalee Ashford<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Santa, would you please bring a<br />
new ring for my dad? Would please<br />
bring a drum set and spygear for<br />
me?<br />
William Meck<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my cross neckless<br />
last year, it broke. I loved it the<br />
most of all my gifts. Santa would<br />
you please bring my grandparent<br />
some greenish bulish paint, and me<br />
a DSI XL and an Itouch pelase and<br />
a psp.<br />
Does Santa know Peace? Peace is<br />
my Elf on the shelf?<br />
Ari Jackson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the American girl<br />
doll stuff and American girl doll.<br />
Santa, would you please bring my<br />
brother a TV and Jesus a Merry<br />
Christmas?<br />
I would please like Barbie furniture,<br />
American girl doll set, clothes,<br />
and stuff.<br />
Santa can you really deliver all<br />
those toys in one night? Marce Liston<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you. I’ve enjoyed each and<br />
every present you have given me. It<br />
is so much fun playing in my bigwheel.<br />
And I love my American<br />
Girl doll.<br />
I would like for you to bring my<br />
mom a aprin withe ruffles on it.<br />
And I would like for you to bring<br />
my dad a new computer.<br />
Please bring me a DSi because<br />
I’ve been wanting it for a long time<br />
and I will play on it all the time.<br />
When did you start being Santa?<br />
Ann Ridgely McIntyre<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the feild goal you<br />
brought me last year. I still love it.<br />
I would like for you to bring my<br />
cousins some Mickey things. They<br />
love Mickey.<br />
For Christmas I would like a new<br />
pistle air soft gun. I would shoot it<br />
all day long.<br />
How cold is the North Pole? Have<br />
a great Christmas!<br />
James Smith<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my shoulder pads.<br />
I realy lik them. Their fun to wear.<br />
Their realy big, but their realy<br />
heavy.<br />
Will you bring my dogs a bone?<br />
Please bring me an Exbox 360.<br />
Is the North Pole cold all the<br />
time?Denton Smith<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the clone gun! I<br />
love you! I’m glad you still like me.<br />
I’ve enjoyed everything you’ve<br />
brought me before.<br />
I would like for you to bring my<br />
mom and dad an Elf on the Shelf. I<br />
think they would like it.<br />
I would like a clone turbo tank<br />
(Lego). I love legos! I see it every<br />
where. Why is your home called the<br />
North Pole?<br />
Zack Russell<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the wii you gave<br />
me last year. I’m still playing my<br />
wii.<br />
I would like for you to bring my<br />
dad a Xbox. He’s been wanting<br />
one.<br />
Please bring me the lego universe<br />
computer game. I’ve been wanting<br />
it for years.<br />
Where is the North Pole?<br />
Lachlan McLendon<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thankyou for my dog Bella.<br />
Santa would you please bring a<br />
Gun for my dad.<br />
Would you please bring me a box<br />
of wii games. How do elfs make the<br />
toys?<br />
Tori Johnston<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
Thank you for the pillowpet you<br />
gave me last Christmas. I enjoyed<br />
it. I would lik you to bring my brother<br />
a new computer because he<br />
wanted one.<br />
I would like to have a pinkclub<br />
pengin with the costume.<br />
Santa, how can you get back to<br />
the North Pole afer you deliver the<br />
prosents?<br />
Dodie Funderburg<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the itouch that you<br />
gave me. Santa, would you please<br />
bring my mom a jewlry necheles?<br />
I would like a real camera, an<br />
itouch and I know you already<br />
brought me one but I lost it. I would<br />
like a DS because my DS does not<br />
work any more. I want a toy Santa<br />
and some more webkins, more<br />
chokers, and bracelets and a very<br />
floppy puppy.<br />
How are you so sweet? How is<br />
Ruldough? How are you doing?<br />
How are the elves?<br />
Pryor Mehrle<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
Thank you for my Barbie doll<br />
house and my Barbie doll you<br />
brought last year. I like you to bring<br />
my motehr a neckgolit.<br />
Please bring me a puppy toy and I<br />
will name it Meg.<br />
How old are you?<br />
I think you are 25. Olivia White<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the gifts and the<br />
guitar from last Christmas. I really<br />
love them.<br />
I would like for you to bring Ellie<br />
a baby doll. She loves baby dolls.<br />
Please bring me the American girl<br />
Lanie. I’ve always wanted her.<br />
How can the reindeers fly?<br />
Madeleine Pettus<br />
Dear Santa Claus,<br />
Thank you for the books you gave<br />
me last year. They were the best<br />
books. My mom read most of them<br />
to me.<br />
I would like you to bring my<br />
brother a cars tent. He loves tents<br />
but hes never been camping.<br />
Please bring me monk season 6. I<br />
like the show a lot.<br />
Why is your name Santa? Why<br />
are you fat? How do raindeer fly?<br />
How old are you? Why do you eat<br />
cookies? Can you do a cartwell?<br />
Rett Stanley<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the riprider 360<br />
from last year. My brother and I like<br />
to ride it down the hill.<br />
I would like you to bring my dad<br />
a kinect. He would like one very<br />
much. I would like the game Epic<br />
Mickey. I would enjoy one.<br />
How many gifts are there at the<br />
North Pole every Christmas?<br />
Wes Thomas<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my Elf on the<br />
Shelf you brought last year. I have<br />
enjoyed trying to find it. My sister<br />
and I have had fun trying to find<br />
him.<br />
I would like for you to bring my<br />
sister an I touch. Her other I pod<br />
broke.<br />
Please bring me the Mario<br />
Brother wii game. My freind has it<br />
and I like to play it.<br />
How do you get everywhere<br />
around the world and go back to the<br />
North Pole in one night? How<br />
many elfs do you yhave? Do you<br />
have any children? How do the<br />
reindeer fly?<br />
Sophie Hays<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for the Mario Super<br />
Sluggers game you gave me last<br />
year. I enjoyed it. My brother plays<br />
with it now. Well it’s both of ours,<br />
me and Thomas.<br />
Could you bring a light weight<br />
jacket for my dad? I asked him<br />
November 30, 2010 and he needed<br />
one.<br />
Please bring me the wii game<br />
capcod vs. setsunoka. I wanted this<br />
game but we couldn’t buy it. We<br />
were just looking at the games. It<br />
was 50 cents anyway. Where did<br />
you get that pixi dust for the reindeer<br />
to fly?<br />
Drew Antici<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I have enjoyed my elf on the shelf<br />
that you gave me last year. I am<br />
also enjoying my guitar I like to<br />
play it. Thank you!<br />
I would like for you to bring my<br />
grandmother Ole Miss slippers. She<br />
loves Ole Miss.<br />
Please bring me a Wii I love the<br />
Wii.<br />
Is Elfie a good elf at the North<br />
Pole?<br />
Love,<br />
Elise Robinson<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my cute baby doll<br />
you brought me last Christmas. I<br />
love it. I have played with it a lot. I<br />
have loved my ballet dress. Thank<br />
you so much.<br />
Could you get my mom and my<br />
dad a DSI? Thank you.<br />
Please bring me a small white real<br />
puppy that has the named Dodie.<br />
Santa, how cold is it in the North<br />
Pole?<br />
One more thing does Roudolph<br />
really lead the sleagh?<br />
Love,<br />
Avery Hendrick
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Dear Santa,<br />
I have enjoyed my presents so much that<br />
you gave me last Christmas. I love my<br />
Raider blanklet and my baby doll. They’re so<br />
much fun.<br />
I would like for you to bring my mother an<br />
ornament. She loves them.<br />
Please bring me an Elf on the Shelf<br />
because I love it.<br />
How old are you? Are you 94?<br />
Mary Grace Downs<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my presents last year. I<br />
loved them. I love the camra you game me. I<br />
took a lot of picters. I had so much fun with<br />
it. I took it every where.<br />
I would like you to bring a ornament for<br />
my mom because our christmas tree fell and<br />
our ornaments broke and I want it to be a<br />
round ornament.<br />
Please bring me bronesh cowboy boots. I<br />
all reddy picked the cowboy boots at the<br />
store.<br />
How do raindeer fly?<br />
Meredith Fielder<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I would like a genenpig, bb gun, snowballs,<br />
babysister, toy frog, toy pigs, gardin, jet, toy<br />
truck, Olivia, Annalee, baby boy, toy baby<br />
boy, Itouch, teddy bear, ball, laptop, calendar,<br />
I love you, I hop you are not tired. I love<br />
Santa.<br />
Addison Armstrong<br />
Dear Santa, I would like a x box. Santa I<br />
would like a American Girl doll. Santa I<br />
would like a big party at bowling. Santa I<br />
would like a creepy craney. Santa I would<br />
like a Blizz Makeer. Santa I woul dlike a diping<br />
dots. Santa I would like a pool. Santa I<br />
would like a Icy Makeer. Santa I would like a<br />
trampoline. Santa I would like a Moxie Gir<br />
Magic snowflake world. Santa I would like a<br />
skate board. Santa I would like a Bat Man<br />
cave. Satna I would like a furry friend.<br />
Jade Bennett<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I would like a go kart hexbugs Itouch<br />
creepy crawlers laptop or bees Jet pack, Real<br />
airplane stars Nerf gun clay treehouse<br />
Blizzard maker Dipping Dot maker pool<br />
school Desk.<br />
Andrew Burks<br />
Santa I would like a The American Girl<br />
Doll Kit, The American Girl Doll redeoca, a<br />
The American Girl Doll Elizbeth’s bed, a<br />
American Girl Doll ice skates, a Rapunzel<br />
Doll, a skateboord, a trampoline, a Moxie<br />
Girl magec snow flake world, a Slinke, a<br />
karaoke machino,, a ice skates, a sled Santa<br />
how can your raindear fly.<br />
Betsy Burrow<br />
Dear Santa is it cold up north?<br />
Santa I would like a xbox 360.Santa I<br />
would like a a ball, a zoo zoo pet, iPad2,<br />
Ipod touch, a new DSI, a Karaoke machine,<br />
a Blizzard Maker, a teddy Bear, a Littles<br />
pet Shopsm, a Dipping dots Maker, a<br />
Laptop, a trampoline, a pool, a slinky, a<br />
Icy Maker, a Amercan girl doll, a skate<br />
Board, a School desk, a Baby Doll, some<br />
books, a jump rope.<br />
Love Mia Kate Cade<br />
Santa I love you. I would like a America<br />
girl doll kit, Barbie toy plan, ipod 2, vidyou<br />
Barbie girl, cand machine, toy elf, drums,<br />
drowing kit, pink saints hat, cat, Karaoke<br />
machine, Tangle the Movie, School dest,<br />
trampline, hot tub, labtop, pool, private jet,<br />
moxie girl, mighty beans, littlest pet shop,<br />
America Baby Doll. Love Caroline Courtney<br />
I would like a Nerf gun and the stampede<br />
and a new wath and a Iphone 4 and skies<br />
and a Imac and a video game and a vidoo<br />
bat man. Hi how are you doing you are very<br />
nice your raindeer are to is the North pole a<br />
nice place How many raindeer do you have<br />
Is my hand writing good would you tell me I<br />
hop you have a safe trip. your frind<br />
Gunner Cress<br />
Santa I would like a Teddy Bear American<br />
Girl Doll yes Thank you is it cold yes and a<br />
toy a lot of toys Ipod Migty Beans a lot of<br />
Migty Beans please lots of candy in my<br />
stoking a Moxie Girl Birbie Doll desk<br />
school supplies Dear Santa I am in first<br />
grade<br />
Allee Hadden<br />
oxoxox<br />
old Miss Towell Old Miss shoes a moon<br />
what has a light a back pach I phone four<br />
Old miss hat a desk whith crayola a pin and<br />
treaure chest with toy roller skates a whip<br />
with Indiana Jones hat jacet. I love the North<br />
Pole Santa and you.<br />
Hudson Hadley<br />
Sont I would like a drum set, cat crown,<br />
psp, ipod, dsi, gem, pony, mighty beans,<br />
baby doll, tangle wii game, littlest Pet Shops,<br />
skates, Moxie Girls mogic snowflake<br />
Abby Jacobs<br />
Dear Santa how are the Elfs?<br />
Dear Santa how are you?<br />
Dear Santa how are the RinDeer?<br />
Dear Santa how is the Work shop?<br />
Dear Santa I would like a I pod.<br />
Dear Santa I would like a shot gun.<br />
Dear Satna I would like a pool.<br />
Harrison Johnston<br />
Santa I would like a pinsel holder, pincel,<br />
Ipod-touch, legos, coloring book, nerfgun,<br />
creepy crolers, drawing kit, laptop, markers<br />
Brooks Magee<br />
Santa I would like a DSi pony psp ipad<br />
gem horse bird mighty Beans ituch Tangle<br />
wii game Dog cat real little laptop baby doll<br />
toy unicorn Moxie Girl Magic Snowflake<br />
World how is your raindeer?<br />
Love Amy Nguyen<br />
Santa I would like a Ipad Santa would like<br />
a American Girl Doll Santa I would like a<br />
school desk Santa I would like a Laptop<br />
Santa I would like a Easy Bake oven Santa I<br />
would like a Tangle movie Santa I would like<br />
a pak of markers and a drawing set<br />
Love Olivia Quin<br />
deer Santa<br />
What are yer doowing now. What are yer<br />
elfs doowing. are yer raping presons.<br />
Noah Ramey<br />
Dear Santa I would like a gun, a I pad.<br />
Santa I am in First Grade.<br />
Santa I would like a hixbug, a Nerf gun, a<br />
Creepy Crawley. you friend, Will Rodes<br />
dear Santa I am in the first grade and I only<br />
wont artsplise. I would like a ease, a penbox,<br />
a hot gluer, a Gluestick, a Drawing kit,<br />
Markers,a crayon Box, a staples Box, a staple,<br />
coloring Books, a calender,art bucket, a<br />
electric sharpener. love John Moak Scarbrough<br />
Santa I would like q. Itouch and a metal<br />
detector Mississippi State helmet and jersey.<br />
Dear Santa. how are your raindear and<br />
you?<br />
Tripp Thomas<br />
Sant<br />
I would like stuff anmle. I want a trampolline.<br />
I want a puppy. I want a skooter. I<br />
want a Nerf gun. I want a school Desk. I<br />
want a pack of animal prlaseit. I want a Ds<br />
and Ds game.<br />
I love you Senta Claus Reed Travelstead<br />
Deer Sant<br />
i am in 1st grade Santa I would like gatey<br />
towe wheel sant I would like a ipod sant I<br />
would like a tv in my room on the seling<br />
sant I would like Ipod Sant I would like a<br />
private shool Sant I would like a Itouch<br />
Sant I would like a Ipad Sant I would luke<br />
a X-man claws<br />
Sant I would like a nerf gun game for<br />
xbox three sixty Sant I would like a mighty<br />
beans sant I would like a pool hay Sant<br />
how is the wether out there Lachlan Welsh<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
I’ve bin rele good. I helpt all around the<br />
hous. I even hept my mom whith the dishis<br />
last night. I hop that Rudolph is OK. My<br />
brother wants a I pod and my sister wants a<br />
American Girl doll and I want a gum ball<br />
mushin.<br />
Ridley Dehmer<br />
Dear Santa,<br />
Thank you for my bean-bag Santa would<br />
you please bring my dog a bone, mom<br />
some shoes, Dad a belt, brother a foot ball,<br />
sister ear rings, grandmother a neckliss,<br />
grandfather a shirt? Santa would you please<br />
bring me a zoobels?<br />
How does you slay fly?<br />
Ella Jane Simmons
Page 14B Thursday, December 23, 2010<br />
Celebrate 60<br />
Bill and Carroll Waller were married November 11, 1950 at<br />
First Baptist Church Jackson. A 60th anniversary reception<br />
was held at the church recently by their children, Bill and<br />
Charlotte Waller, Bob and Margaret Waller, Eddy and Bae<br />
Waller, and Don and Yonnie Waller. Bill and Carroll, except<br />
for his service during the Korean War, have lived their<br />
entire married life in northeast Jackson. Son Eddy could<br />
not be present because he is currently on active duty in<br />
Afghanistan with the 184th TCE, Mississippi Army National<br />
Guard. All 14 grandchildren attended the celebration.<br />
FRANCE BEARD was<br />
crowned Miss Madison<br />
County Outstanding Teen<br />
2011. She is the 16-yearold<br />
daughter of Ann and<br />
Clay Beard of Madison.<br />
She is a junior at St.<br />
Joseph Catholic School.<br />
“P.A.W.S. Promoting<br />
Animals Worth Saving,”is<br />
her platform issue. For her<br />
talent she performed a<br />
contemporary jazz piece<br />
to “La Fleur.” She was the<br />
recipient of three preliminary<br />
awards for best<br />
Interview, Lifestyle and<br />
Fitness in Sportswear and<br />
Evening Wear. She will<br />
now compete in the Miss<br />
Mississippi Outstanding<br />
Teen Pageant to be held<br />
in June.<br />
SAMANTHA PETTUS was<br />
recently named one of the<br />
top 10 campus beauties<br />
at the annual Ole Miss<br />
Parade of Beauties. She is<br />
the daughter of Robby<br />
and Debbie Pettus.<br />
luncheon<br />
clubs<br />
Heritage<br />
The Heritage Luncheon<br />
Club met September 28, at<br />
the Country Club of Jackson<br />
with President Eleana Pope<br />
presiding.<br />
Jan Clifton offered the<br />
invocation.<br />
Hostesses were the new<br />
officers for 2010-2011:<br />
Eleana Pope, president; Jan<br />
Clifton, vice president;<br />
Phyllis Parker, recording<br />
secretary; Sherry Ford, corresponding<br />
secretary; Mary<br />
Morris, treasurer; Jeanette<br />
Farrow, assistant treasurer;<br />
Edythe Gore, reporter;<br />
Ramona Hill, assistant<br />
reporter; Jean<br />
Coppenbarger, parliamentarian;<br />
and Francine Conerly,<br />
historian.<br />
Guests were Ruth Frazier,<br />
Lauren Reynolds, Joanne<br />
Davis, Joanna Hunt, Helen<br />
Wall, Mabel Hurt and Nita<br />
Junior teen<br />
Kelly Kennedy was recently named first runner-up in the<br />
National American Miss Mississippi Junior Teen Pageant<br />
and will compete in the national pageant in California for<br />
the title of National All-American Junior Teen. She is a<br />
sophomore at Jackson Prep. She is shown with her father,<br />
Dr. Ronald Kennedy.<br />
Bigelow.<br />
New members were<br />
Bobbie Miller, Frances<br />
Brooks, Betty Springer,<br />
Jeanne Eubanks and Robbie<br />
Bauer.<br />
Lloyd Turner presented a<br />
program of music.<br />
Other members attending<br />
were: Katherine Alford,<br />
Sue Beall, Martha Brooks,<br />
Josephine Bryan, Bobbye<br />
Butler, Jane Colvin, Betty<br />
Cooper, Martha Crisler,<br />
Teenie Dale, Dee Davis,<br />
Sue Dillon, Martha Fisher;<br />
Also, Sarah Flanagan,<br />
Elizabeth Fugate, Robbie<br />
Bauer, Jeanette Graham,<br />
Jean Greer, Carolyn Harrell,<br />
Cathy Jeffcoats, Marian<br />
McClintock, Judine<br />
McDonald, Lynn Macon,<br />
Pat Marshall, Gerri Martin,<br />
Ann Moak;<br />
Also, Clarice Mooney,<br />
Bettye Moore, Georgianne<br />
Muirhead, Lucille Nichols,<br />
Helen Nielsen, Carolyn Orr,<br />
Dean Pentecost, Georgie<br />
Prince, Betty Roberson,<br />
Goldie Schimpf, Polly<br />
Shanks, Gayle Smith,<br />
Louisa Thigpen, Evelyn<br />
Vaughn, Kathy Vomberg,<br />
Frankie Warren, Pat Weir,<br />
Sue Williams, Hettie Jo<br />
Williams, Sue Williams,<br />
BeckyeYarborough, Lois<br />
Leigh and Trudy Lipscomb.<br />
The answer for the<br />
December 16th<br />
crossword puzzle<br />
will be published in<br />
the December 30th<br />
edition.<br />
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF THE FIRST` JUDICIAL DISTRICT<br />
OF HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI<br />
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF<br />
MARY FRANCES OWENS TOMLINSON, DECEASED<br />
NANCY TOMLINSON BREWER, PETITIONER<br />
NOTICE TO CREDITORS<br />
I, the undersigned, NANCY TOMLINSON, hereby gives notice that on the 1st day of<br />
December, 2010, I was appointed Executrix of the estate of MARY FRANCES OWENS TOM-<br />
LINSON, deceased, in the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County,<br />
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probate and register their claims in said cause in said Court, as required by law, within ninety<br />
(90) days from the date of the first publication of this notice or they will be forever barred.<br />
THIS the 1st day of December, 2010.<br />
/s/ NANCY TOMLINSON BREWER<br />
W.E. GORE, JR.<br />
P. O. Box 186<br />
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(December 9, 16, 23, 2010)
social news<br />
Gardening Glimpses<br />
Christmas treasures frequently arrive under<br />
the tree in recognizable shape and heft<br />
ALL MY LIFE Christmas has meant<br />
new books. For the last half of that lifetime,<br />
the favorites have been the newest<br />
(or rarest, or oldest, or hardest to find) gardening<br />
books, about plants and by and<br />
about the people who love them and grow<br />
them well, who share their interesting horticultural<br />
adventures and what they have<br />
learned.<br />
I’ve good reason to be confident about<br />
some packages of recognizable shape and<br />
heft already under the tree. But meanwhile,<br />
I’ve been enjoying a brand new gardening<br />
book for two months now - Ray Rogers’<br />
“The Encyclopedia of Container Plants.”<br />
It’s good to sit down regularly for coffee<br />
with a good friend, but usually hard to<br />
manage from New Jersey to Mississippi.<br />
But thanks to the still-potent magic of the<br />
printed page, it can be managed. Most<br />
mornings since the first of October, I’ve<br />
enhanced my first and second cups of coffee<br />
with a dip into this book.<br />
By its nature, any encyclopedic book is<br />
best enjoyed and absorbed in small snatches,<br />
as well as staying handy for answers to<br />
odd or even very basic questions about<br />
plants. I’ve been needing a reliable basic<br />
reference for container plants for many<br />
years, and had never found a satisfactory<br />
one - until now. (I wish I’d had this book,<br />
a few years ago, when my great pleasure<br />
in Allen Lacy’s and Nancy Goodwin’s “A<br />
Year in Our Gardens,” needed only some<br />
knowledge of the new plants they were<br />
sharing to make it perfect.)<br />
FIVE HUNDRED PLANTS, gorgeous<br />
pictures on nearly all of the 340-plus<br />
pages, and in-depth information about all<br />
of the entries. And since to Ray, every<br />
plant on the planet is potentially a container<br />
plant, worlds of useful gardening information<br />
about plants we also grow outdoors<br />
in our climate.<br />
This book is a highly successful team<br />
effort between the author and the photographer,<br />
Rob Cardillo. I asked Ray, “Do you<br />
write the book and then ask Rob to go take<br />
the accompanying pictures, or do you<br />
browse through what he already has in his<br />
vast store of garden pictures and make<br />
choices?”<br />
“Both,” he replied. “Rob is very cooperative<br />
about looking for something, for anything<br />
that I need, or think I need. But he<br />
has a keen eye for the great plant combinations,<br />
the containers placed in just the right<br />
spot.” This isn’t a yearbook collection of<br />
head-on plant portraits, one after another<br />
into the sunset. These are pictures of<br />
plants, in lovely traditional or offbeat containers,<br />
as you could use them.<br />
Cardillo, in the front of the book,<br />
expresses his appreciation to the garden of<br />
Chanticleer in Wayne, Pa., “where poems<br />
are written with plants.” This tribute merely<br />
reinforces the status of Chanticleer as<br />
number one on my list of gardens to visit<br />
which I’ve not yet seen.”<br />
Ray is an excellent writer (you don’t get<br />
published by Timber Press if you are not)<br />
but a thoroughly educated horticulturist,<br />
with not just the requisite school background<br />
but also the assimilated learning<br />
from a lifetime of continuing education<br />
working with plants. He expresses his<br />
appreciation to Ken Selody II, the owner<br />
of Atlock Farm in Somerset, N.J., a unique<br />
specialty nursery, where he lets Ray work<br />
his imaginative magic on the container<br />
plants, and, I suspect, much of the landscaping<br />
in season.<br />
FOR MOST OF US, Christmas or our<br />
birthday is the highlight of the year. For<br />
Ray, it is the week each spring of the venerable<br />
and spectacular Philadelphia Flower<br />
Show. So he knows each year, probably<br />
every month, what’s new and desirable in<br />
the plant world. But he has a good memory,<br />
too, of his own experiences with the<br />
“Grandmother’s garden” plants that many<br />
of us cherish and depend on.<br />
He feels obligated to use the latest<br />
approved garden plant terminology and<br />
botanical classification. Here I mostly<br />
ignore him, and freely tell him so. It took<br />
me 30 years to accept “pothos” as the<br />
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By Mrs. Herman McKenzie<br />
proper name for my beloved houseplants<br />
which I’d grown up calling “philodendron.”<br />
I simply refuse to shift over to<br />
“epipremnum.” (Have you noticed that<br />
every time the botanical scholars reclassify<br />
plants, it is always into a category even<br />
harder to spell?)<br />
One thing this book is definitely not -<br />
bedtime reading. It’s much too heavy, but<br />
also it is likely to inspire you to get up and<br />
make lists, or stay awake planning your<br />
own new plant combinations. (I wish Ray<br />
would someday write his own paperback,<br />
non-illustrated book about the gardens and<br />
gardeners he has known in a plant-dedicated<br />
lifetime, one with decades left of active<br />
gardening.)<br />
But if you have a smidgen of the gardening<br />
gene, you will enjoy having this book:<br />
“The Encyclopedia of Container Plants.” It<br />
serves admirably much of the time as the<br />
requisite hefty and lavishly illustrated coffee-table<br />
book we often need to display.<br />
But it’s always handy for you to enjoy and<br />
absorb bits of gardening ideas, especially<br />
valuable in this gloomy, dreary season of<br />
the year.