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2 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 2018 STAR A-A preschool students write letters to Santa

Students in Joleen Owens’ preschool Dear Santa, Dear Santa, class at Alta-Aurelia Elementary For Christmas this year I would My name is Dominic and my School in Aurelia write letters to Santa. like to receive a motorcycle and a choices for Christmas are a Sonic Dear Santa, racecar. How have your rain deer Toy, Power Ranger, Ben 10, Ma- What’s your favorite cookie? I like been? Will roudolph be leading your rio, a big toy for my baby brother. chocolate chip cookies. For Christmas sleigh this Christmas. I would also I would like a Robot. I I would like playdoh, my little sister like a toy dog. That’s all I would like would like all nintendo characters. would like a bed. My pets would lime for Christmas this year. Love, So basically all I want is all sonic fun doggy toys. I would also like cray- Isaac K. characters. All my brother wants is ons. Love, Dear Santa, Mario. Love, Kailyn A big LOL sign. A big LOL house. Dominic Dear Santa, Baby accessories. A puzzle and sand Dear Santa, I would like a toy cat, a Barbie doll, table. Transylvania costume. A pet I want a Nerf Gun. I also want a Belle dress, Art supplies, A baby doll, ish. Art table and utencils. A toy a Hot wheel track. Ninja turtle. I and baby clothes, Turquoise blankets bird that talks. A Rapunzel book. wanted to ask if you are doing al- and that’s it. Love, Love, right at the north pole. Love, Harper Liv Isaac T. Dear Santa, Dear Santa, Dear Santa, Hi Santa, it’s Ashlynn. Another baby boy dog. I also want Toy train (Thomas the train) and I’ve been good this year. This year I another baby girl cat. I want my own train Tracks. Toy rocket ship, Toy want Birdie toy horse, Big lol, baby real horse. I want a talking bird. I want truck, Toy cran box, remote control cat real, a pencil box to put all my to get my ingernails painted. I want a car, dog toys, camp garage for toy colors in. I also want a real baby STAR PHOTO | STEVE PETERSON baby sister. I want my own kitchen set. trucks, regular train (blue), dino- dog. Can I also get a ish. Bye Santa. Love, saur (white) Odominis rex. Love, I love you. Love, Sing out: Alta-Aurelia Elementary students at Alta Annabelle Griffynn Ashlynn performed Christmas songs at their Dec. 3 concert. Tonja Meier’s preschool students send Christmas lists to Mr. Claus Students in Tonja Mei- Dear Santa, I have been Dear Santa, I have been Dear Santa, I have with Nora. Did Laundry A new big real tractor. er’s preschool class at very good this year. I have very good this year. I have been very good this with Nora. I hope you enjoy the Alta-Aurelia Elementary done these nice things. I done these nice things. year. I have done these My Christmas wishes cookies and milk. Love, School in Alta send let- cheer for my friends. I give I helped my mom with nice things. I have fun at are: My Little Pony Cas- Brock ters to Santa Claus. hugs. I go to Mommy and laundry. I shared my toys Darla’s house. I’m a good tle. New Pony – Sunset Dear Santa, I have Dear Santa, I have been Daddie’s Store. with my brother. I’ve given listener and I have fun at Shimmer. Horse that been very good this year. very good this year. I have My Christmas wishes my brother high ives. preschool. walked by themself – I have done these nice done these nice things. I are: presents, dinosaurs, I My Christmas wishes My Christmas wishes toy. things. Cleaned the liv- helped do the laundry at want to see Santa. are: to play tag with my are: I want an airplane. I I hope you enjoy the ing room for mom. Put home. I help vacuum. Say I hope you enjoy the brother, please bring my want Legos. cookies and milk. Love, my clothes away. Playing “I Love You” to mom and cookies and milk. Love, parents a dog. A real one. I hope you enjoy the Jocelyn with friends. dad. Brayden Please bring me a new cookies and milk. Love, Dear Santa, I have My Christmas wishes My Christmas wish- Dear Santa, I have been sharpie marker for my Mason been very good this are: Big doll of Elsa – es are: motorcycle, mo- very good this year. I have board. Because my mom Dear Santa, I have year. I have done these Lifesize. Big doll of Anna. torcycle man, monster done these nice things. I told m. been very good this nice things. I cleaned up Design hair Barbie. truck. have done laundry with I hope you enjoy the year. I have done these grandma Diane’s room. I hope you enjoy the I hope you enjoy the my Dad. I hug my mom cookies and milk. Love, nice things. I give mom- I give my sister hugs. I cookies and milk. Love, cookies and milk. Love, and she doesn’t stop. Lov- Hannah my hugs. I give my pup- help Daddy on the farm. Georgia Levi ing me in the whole world. Dear Santa, I have been py hugs. I let my puppy My Christmas wishes Dear Santa, I have been My Christmas wishes very good this year. I have sleep with me. I make are: Magnet tiles. A baby very good this year. I have are: a pink bouncy ball done these nice things. I good choices. doll for my done these nice things. with sticks on it like the helped do laundry with My Christmas little sis- Clean the toilet. Cleaned one Miss Tonya has, but mommy. Make my bed. I wishes are: a racecar ter. my room. Helped cleaned not red. An elsa toy with was sometimes nice to my bed. I want lots of new the windows with dad. a button that can sing. A brothers. toys at Christmas. My Christmas wish- pretend unicorn. What are My Christmas wishes I hope you enjoy the es are: Nerf gun, Xbox you doing right now San- are: pretend babies, baby cookies and milk. games, Mine Craft. ta? bottles, baby diapers. Love, I hope you enjoy the I hope you enjoy the I hope you enjoy the Isaac cookies and milk. Love, cookies and milk. Love, cookies and milk. Love, Dear Santa, I have Benjamen Evelyn Beckett been very good this year. I have done these nice things. Put One of the Alta-Aurelia (Alta) preschool teachers opted to not send letters candy in jar for Santa from her class to Santa Claus. – but we ate it. Played STAR CHRISTMAS 2018 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 3 Trimble’s preschool class tells Santa they’ve been good Students in Keisha Trim- a big gummy bear, tiger ro- I hope you enjoy the cook- I hope you enjoy the cook- Th ble’s preschool class at bot, farm to live at. ies and milk. Love, ies and milk. Love, e history of Alta-Aurelia Elementary I hope you enjoy the cook- Jakob Enryken School in Alta send letters to ies and milk. Love, Dear Santa, I have been Dear Santa, I have been Santa Claus. Kendra very good this year. I have very good this year. I have Dear Santa, I have been Dear Santa, I have been done these nice things: I done these nice things: I very good this year. I have very good this year. I have play with my brother. I love shared candy canes. I make done these nice things: I done these nice things: I my mommy a lot. I take care my bed. I sleep with my an- Christmas help mommy clean. I hold pick up my toys. I help dad- of my brother. imals. my baby brother. I say dy. I play with my brother. My Christmas wishes are: My Christmas wishes are: Stockings “please.” My Christmas wishes are: JoJo toys, real phone, clothes. make-up, keys to play teach- Just when the excite- ill and dies, the man My Christmas wishes are: dolls, phone, a car for my I hope you enjoy the cook- er, stuffed animals. ment of opening pre- becomes devastated a new power wheel, police brother. ies and milk. Love, I hope you enjoy the cook- sents abates after the and squanders all of set, Grave Digger. I hope you enjoy the cook- Jayzalyne ies and milk. Love, last of the packages un- his wealth on frivolous I hope you enjoy the cook- ies and milk. Love, Dear Santa, I have been Alexaudra der the things to mask his sad- ies and milk. Love, Dalomarys very good this year. I have Dear Santa, I have been have been torn open, ness. When it comes Emmitt Dear Santa, I have been done these nice things: I very good this year. I have children and adults alike time for the daughters to Dear Santa, I have been very good this year. I have watch good movies. I play done these nice things: I may discover that there marry, the man does not very good this year. I have done these nice things: I nice with my buddy. I play play with my sisters. I pick are more treats to be had have money for a dowry. done these nice things: I help mom put clothes away. nice with my toys. up my toys. I place nice. nestled inside of stock- St. Nicholas hears of the brush my teeth. I play nice I help wash the dishes. I help My Christmas wishes My Christmas wishes are: ings hung on the mantle. plight and knows the with my toys. I play with my wash the car. are: big toy semi (black and puzzles, Barbies, pink paint. The hanging of Christ- man would be too proud friends. My Christmas wishes are: white), regular box trailer, I hope you enjoy the cook- mas stockings is a tra- to accept charity. There- My Christmas wishes are: semi with corn trailer, PJ green loader tractor. ies and milk. Love, dition with an extensive fore, St. Nicholas anon- T.V. player, bed, dump truck Masks set, a little corn semi. I hope you enjoy the cook- Leah history. Several legends ymously tosses three and everything. I hope you enjoy the cook- ies and milk. Love, Dear Santa, I have been attribute the hanging of bags of gold coins down I hope you enjoy the cook- ies and milk. Love, Braxton very good this year. I have stockings to different the chimney. The man’s ies and milk. Love, Bentley Dear Santa, I have been done these nice things: I people or events. Here daughters had done the Francisco Dear Santa, I have been very good this year. I have play nice at home. I pick up is a look at some of the laundry prior and left Dear Santa, I have been very good this year. I have done these nice things: I my toys sometimes. I’m nice stories that have made their stockings hanging very good this year. I have done these nice things: I help mommy. I don’t ight. I at my cousin’s house. Christmas stockings so by the ireplace to dry. done these nice things: play nice. I help mommy and am nice. My Christmas wishes are: popular. The gold landed in the I make things. I help my daddy. I help pick up toys. My Christmas wishes are: giant egg, cars, Pop the Pig. St. Nicholas Day stockings, thus starting mommy. I’m nice to Olivia. My Christmas wishes are: Legos, panda bear, Spider- I hope you enjoy the cook- Rather than hanging the My Christmas wishes are: candy, dolls, go swimming. man robot. ies and milk. Love, stockings on Christmas, tradition. Barbies, Barbie House, po- I hope you enjoy the cook- I hope you enjoy the cook- Issac many countries cele- Italian good witch nies. ies and milk. Love, ies and milk. Love, Dear Santa, I have been brate One stocking story I hope you enjoy the cook- Olivia Ronan very good this year. I have Day on December 6, and does not attribute the ies and milk. Love, Dear Santa, I have been Dear Santa, I have been done these nice things: I this is when stockings tradition to Santa, but Maxine very good this year. I have very good this year. I have help my mom. I eat apples. I are proudly left out for to a kind-hearted Italian Dear Santa, I have been done these nice things: I done these nice things: I play with my friends. treats. The small, inex- witch named “La Befa- very good this year. I have help daddy get the wash. I clean at home. I listen to My Christmas wishes pensive trinkets are lat- na.” La arrives on done these nice things: pick up my toys. I play with mom and dad. I help mom are: car, toy like a robot, real er unwrapped and en- a broomstick the night I clean the dishes. I help my friends. make presents. blocks. joyed on Christmas Day. of January 5 and ills the mommy clean my room. I My Christmas wishes are: My Christmas wishes are: I hope you enjoy the cook- Dutch heritage stockings of good chil- vacuum my room. toys at the store, PJ Mask Paw Patrol iretruck, cars, ies and milk. Love, One tradition says dren with sweet treats My Christmas wishes are: book, soccer ball. candy. Cesar that, in 16th century Hol- and toys. Bad children land, children kept their are awarded lumps of clogs illed with straw coal. La Befana is also Reginald the Blue-Nosed Reindeer; A Rudolph Origin Story in front of the hearth for credited with being the Adults and children alike are famil- retail giant was producing marketing Ward had distributed 2.4 million cop- Santa’s reindeer to ind. old woman who the wise iar with the tale of “Rudolph the Red- holiday coloring books for children ies of Rudolph’s story. They also left treats for men ask for directions Nosed Reindeer.” As the lyrics of the and wanted to come up with a clever The catchy tune came thereafter, Santa Claus. In return, to Christ’s manger in the song illustrate: character. followed by a cartoon short in 1948. Santa would leave gifts Christ child’s story. After Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had Although Rudolph is now beloved, In 1964, the stop-motion animated in the clogs. Over time, turning down an offer a very shiny nose / And if you ever saw May’s original ideas included Rollo and television special further propelled stockings were swapped to accompany them, La it, you would even say it glows. Reginald. Also, Rudolph’s famed red Rudolph to celebrity and became the out for clogs. Befana later carried gifts Popularized by the song written nose almost didn’t come to be. Because most recognizable Rudolph adaption. Merchant’s in search of Christ. by Johnny Marks and sung by Gene a red nose at the time was viewed as a Today, Rudolph is known across family story Christmas stockings Autry, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rein- sign of alcoholism, Montgomery Ward the globe as the reindeer responsible A popular tale tells the have become part of hol- deer dates back to 1939. A copywriter was hesitant to be on board with the for navigating Santa’s sleigh through story of a merchant, his iday traditions, and this named Robert L. May created the story bulbous, red snoot. A blue nose was tricky weather on . He wife and three daugh- beloved tradition has its of the misit reindeer in 1939 when considered, but later changed. In its continues to be loved by many, young ters. After the wife falls own unique history. working for Montgomery Ward. The irst year of publication, Montgomery and old. 4 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 CHRISTMAS 2018 STAR Preschool students send Santa lists Students in Abbey Piercy’s preschool I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. Santa, by any other name class at Alta-Aurelia Elementary School in Love, In the , Santa Claus is Alta send letters to Santa Claus. Nolin also known as Kris Kringle and St. Nick. Dear Santa, I have been very good this Dear Santa, I have been very good this Around the world he is known as: year. I have done these nice things: I have year. I have done these nice things: I went been very nice to my friends. Nice to my to the pool. Going to peoples houses. Have Père Nöel - France family. I listen to my mom and dad. a birthday. Weihnachtsmann - Germany My Christmas wishes are: Jake from Paw My Christmas wishes are: Power Range Patrol. A new bike. A new calculator. set, Mega sword, Batman toy. Babbo Natale - Italy I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. Pai Natal - Portugal Love, Love, - Russia Kinley Joshua Dear Santa, I have been very good this Dear Santa, I have been very good this year. I have done these nice things: I help year. I have done these nice things: help my mom and dad. Plahy with my toys nicely. I mom. Share my toys. I don’t hit my brother. A-A TK students write letters to Santa play with my friends. My Christmas wishes are: stuffed uni- Students in Kelsey Cor- Dear Santa, Dear Santa, My Christmas wishes are: football, corn, movies, new Barbies. lew’s transitional kinder- This year I have been I want a horse and a books, bike helmet. I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. garten class at Alta-Aurelia good. I want to know if you new sister and a new bike. I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. Love, Elementary School in Aure- can bring me a toy car this I also want a cat. I would Love, Presley lia write letters to Santa. year. Santa I want to know name my cat Tilly. How Barrett Dear Santa, I have been very good this Dear Santa, how old are you? How do fast are your reindeer? Dear Santa, I have been very good this year. I have done these nice things: I do nice My name is Harley and you give us the presents? Is one of you reindeer’s year. I have done these nice things: I share things to people. I love them. I put my toys I like your hat. Your hat is Blake names lash? I want to give my toys. I help my mom and dad. I play away. red and I like the color red. Dear Santa Claus, you a laughing elf. I want a with all my friends. My Christmas wishes are: Hot wheels, I want a toy Christmas tree. I love Christmas so spiderman toy with spikey My Christmas wishes are: dinosaurs, dinosaurs, trick trucks. I’m going to leave cookies much and I’m hoping you teeth I would name it Man- blocks, books. I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. out for you on Christmas. will visit me. I love your ny. I have been very good I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. Love, You are very nice. I also reindeers so much and I this year. Love, Sam want a dirt bike for Christ- have been watching them Kendall Don Dear Santa, I have been very good this mas. I also want a cat. on my tablet. I have been Dear Santa, Dear Santa, I have been very good this year. I have done these nice things: I share Thank you for leaving pres- really good this year. Have For Christmas I would year. I have done these nice things: I shared my toys. I wash dishes. I eat cupcakes. ents under my tree. I want you been getting my let- really like some apple- my cupcakes. I let my sister play with my My Christmas wishes are: dinosaur toys, to know how old you are. ters? I was wondering if sauce and strawberries. toys. I help water the plants. robot castle, new boots. Here is my Santa letter. you could please get me a Can I also have a spider My Christmas wishes are: Paw Patrol I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. Harley horse? Along with a pink toy. I love red tractors and movie, dinosaurs, computer. Love, Dear Santa, car for my barbies. Also if I wanted to know what col- I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. Benson My name is Aubrey and you could please get me a or your sleigh is? Love, Dear Santa, I have been very good this I like your shirt. I also like divider. I would also love Trenton Liveen year. I have done these nice things: I have your hat and I also like your some more pretty dresses Dear Santa, Dear Santa, I have been very good this been a big helper with my brother. Help my raindeers. Can I please please. I love your sleigh I already have my dec- year. I have done these nice things: Share mom. I don’t push my friends. have a hoover board, and a and I was wondering if it orations up. I have a big, puzzles. Share toys with my friends. Play My Christmas wishes are: a scooter, doll house (pink). The best was comfortable. I would green Christmas tree. I was with my sister. pony, clothes. things I like about Christ- also like it if I could get hoping Mommy would put My Christmas wishes are: A new color- I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. mas is open presents. I re- some more pretty outits up the Christmas tree. I ing book, stuffed animal, play with my dog. Love, ally like you green, red and please. I hope you do- met you last year? I hope I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. Alivia white elves. I like to play a ing well and I would love your reindeer get lots of Love, Dear Santa, I have been very good this game with your elves called these items please. carrots for Christmas. I Macy year. I have done these nice things: I’m “Elf on the Shelf,” I please, Rosa would like a little, white Dear Santa, I have been very good this nice at school. I’m nice at hom. I’m good at please, please Iphone 2. Dear Santa, dog for Christmas. And year. I have done these nice things: I have grandma’s house. I also like eating cookies, I’ve been really good a blue doggy house too. been saying thank you to mom and dad. I My Christmas wishes are: robot, Bat- chocolate with sprinkles this year. I help with the Please bring me lots of help my mom and dad. I talk to grandma man, Batman car. and making cookies. dishes sometimes. I keep presents this year. I have and pops. I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. Aubrey my room clean. I would been very good this year. My Christmas wishes are: Barbie blend- Love, Dear Santa, like a American girl doll. Rahniya er, science lab, science tools. Maddox Could I have some new I would like a cat. I like Dear Santa, I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. Dear Santa, I have been very good this toys for Christmas. I re- your reindeer. How cold I have been good this Love, year. I have done these nice things: I listen ally like your shirt. I will is it in the North Pole. I year and I want to know Lilith to my mom and dad. I help my mom clean. leave some cookies out for would like lollipops. I like if you can bring me a baby Dear Santa, I have been very good this I help my dad do chores. you when you come. I also cotton candy lavored the car. How do you give us the year. I have done these nice things: I am My Christmas wishes are: LOL, dolls, want my own cat and may- best. I would like a puzzle. presents? Santa I will leave nice at grandpa Todd’s. I have been nice to Barbies. be some more pets. I love I would also like a Bar- you some milk and how Clyde. I eat my food nicely. I hope you enjoy the cookies and milk. Christmas, it’s my favorite bie set. I would like more old are you Santa? I love My Christmas wishes are: dirt bike Love, holiday. clothes. you Santa. clothes, dirt bike helmet, hot wheels. Makenly Robert Kollyns Macy STAR CHRISTMAS 2018 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 5 TK students send holiday wishes to Kris Kringle Students in Lesa Tokheim’s tran- balls. From your elf, Zimmy’s for mom and dad. From, sitional kindergarten class at Al- Lincoln Mattson Cade Bunjes ta-Aurelia Elementary School in Alta Dear Santa, Dear Santa, write letters to Santa Claus. I really want remote control di- I would like Ninja Turle, skate- Dear Santa, nosaurs, a red car, a remote control board, Hatchimal twins, a new vid- I want a remote control car and a motorcycle and little Legos to build eo game, Jurassic Park lego set, a race track, a new lego set that has trucks and motorcycles. new Ipad and a new fishing rod. cars and nerf guns with bullets. I Jackson Herrig I really want a goldfish. I’ll leave have been nice to my sister and play Dear Santa, cookies by the fireplace. From, with her. I’ve been really good. Please bring Drew Lundberg Logan Schable candy for my stocking, an orange re- Dear Santa, Dear Santa, mote control car, a wagon, straws to Please bring me a remote con- STAR PHOTO | STEVE PETERSON Please can I have a teddy bear, a drink my pop with and a toy truck trol robot, a medium sized car, a dinosaur, a X-box for my brother, a for my little brother. From, toy snowmobile, a big motorcycle Young singers: Alta-Aurelia Elementary, at Aurelia, Spiderman cup, an electric car and a Jace Namanny and a Santa toy that you wind- students sing a Christmas song during the TK and to truck, a bike and a toy snowman. Dear Santa, up and it walks. I am leaving you kindergarten portion of the Dec. 11 concert. Kayden Phillips I need a garbage truck, two truck, frosted cookies and milk. From, Dear Santa, a motorcycle, a cement truck, a po- Sawyer Anderson Payne’s class letters I want Mindcraft legos, a green lice car, a dragon lamp and hat, a Dear Santa, shovel to play with in the snow, a white shirt and Warrior one, a mon- Please bring me a football tee, a Students in Penny My game is Glitching Out. big Pac-Man video game, a John ster truck and ire truck. From, remote control motorcycle, a long Payne’s kindergarten class Jaden Blomme Deere tractor that pulls a trailer and Rodrigo Diaz rectangle sled, an x-box game that at Alta-Aurelia Elementa- I want a four wheeler carries wood, a drone and a remote Dear Santa, I can just play, a pink blanket for ry School in Alta write let- and a motorcycle. I am control boat. I made cookies for you. I need Nerf darts and a big gun, a mom to use, hunting stuff for dad ters to Santa Claus. trying to be good. y Grahm Bunjes Mario video game, a new blue bike and games for my brothers. From, Santa I want the Boxy Chance Reetz Dear Santa, that I can ride, Superman and cop Jace Wandrey girl. I was really good this I want hot wheels, a nerf Please bring me a pink bike with legos. I am leaving you a cookie. Dear Santa, year. I hope the reindeer gun, clothes and Fly Guy princesses on it, a Elsa Barbie and From, I would like a toy cat, a toy dog, don’t get lost. I want a book. I will leave cookies Barbie clothes, new clothes for me Gavyn Marshall a Spiderman bed set, a Spiderman mermaid. and milk for Santa. to wear with glitter and unicorns, Dear Santa, superhero with all the rest of the Olivia Fassler Daniel Lopez dress up clothes and shoes, make up Can you please bring me a Thom- hereos and the villians and legos My elf is Thomas. He is I was good. I want legos. and bath bombs, all kinds of Shop- as the Train set, a jack-in-the-box, a to build a big, giant ship. I have on the lamp. I want hot I will give you cookies. I kins and a pink Hatchimal. ring for my mom, a sprayer for Riley been good and help my brother. wheels. I am trying to be want a doll. I hope you Andrea Barajas to use with his tractors, a box of Bar- From, good. can come. I want a mer- Dear Santa, bies for my sister and a “safe” knife Leeam Duhn Riley Kestel maid. I want a gas RC car, a tool bench, for my dad. (Probably a picket one). Dear Santa, I’ve been really good. I Carly Droegmiller a garbage truck, a windup Santa, an From, Please bring me a nerf gun with a want a toy airplane. I hope I was super good. I elf and new clothes for my mom, Taylor Smith scope, Flash slippers, a drone with Santa will not lose his want lots of stuff. I want a new jeans for dad because mom Dear Santa, a camera, a big dog for hunting, a reindeer. stuffed animal. I will leave threw his away. I want an electric motorcycle to remote control monster truck and Oliver Colvin milk and cookies. Braxton Velazquez ride, a green and red bike, a straw a shovel so I can build a pile. I also I want a stuffed unicorn. Tate Heiberger Dear Santa, and cup, Superhero lego set and need a snow launcher to throw I am really good. I am leav- I want a hunting four t I need Barbies and a Barbi House, a shovel so I can build a snowman snowballs at my brother. From, ing cookies for you. I will wheeler. I hope you don’t Barbie slippers and a Barbie dress. in the snow. I’m going to leave you Jake Lundberg give your reindeer carrots. crash. I’ve been good. I Alana Pape milk, cookies and cake. From, Dear Santa, Ryland Kopfmann hope you have a good f Dear Santa, Brayden Tarbill Please bring me the unicorn Hat- I want a dinosaur and a time. I am going to leave you candy Dear Santa, chimal, some dress up clothes and toy car. I want a book too. I Micah Nasland canes and carrots. I want dinosaurs, Please bring me a green remote shoes, new Barbies and clothes for will leave you cookies. I will leave you cookies. Kinetic sand, a dinosaur tattoo, a control four wheeler, a toy snow- them and I need new boots, hats Xavi Orellana-Her- I want to get a Shopkins. I Lego City lego set, a toy garbage mobile, little tractors, Barbies for and shirts with glitter and spar- nandez have been good. ftruck, roses for my mom, Ghostbust- my sister, a monster truck for my kles. From, I am leaving cookies Yumma Sanduk er House and truck, golf clubs and brother and a gift certiicate from Alyssa Lopez for you. I am being good. I I like zombie games. I want a dog for Christmas. like team army games, the I really really wish you Mega Sniper, nerf gun and Political cartoonist created image of Santa come. T-rex. Cattelya Taylor Parker Diischer Nineteenth century political car- which historians feel are invalua- Clement Clark Moore’s poem “A I hope you don’t lose I’ve been a good girl. I toonist Thomas Nast was among ble tools in helping to understand Visit from Saint Nicholas.” Though y your reindeer. I have been want a kitchen. I want to the most infl uential people of his how nineteenth century Ameri- the image of Santa Claus has naughty, but I will be good give food for the reindeer. time, and chances are he’s still cans felt about their country’s civil evolved from Nast’s original in now. I want a T-Rex max. Esmeralda Escobe infl uencing the lives of millions of war, Nast created the now-iconic 1863, he is credited with forming Brantley Sargent I have been good. I want young people today, more than image of Santa Claus. Nast, who the basis of the popular depictions Santa, I’ve been good. a little doll for Christmas. a century after his death. In ad- was born in 1840, created the im- of Santa that have become synon- I want a Minecraft toy. I I baked a cookie for you. dition to his political cartoons, age in 1863 after his wife read him ymous with the holiday season. y want a brand new game. Sophie Carlson 6 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 CHRISTMAS 2018 STAR Kindergartners write letters to Santa

Students in Amy Rohwer’s kindergar- how do the raindeer ly. How do the elves ten class at Alta-Aurelia Elementary in ly. How do you wrap presents. I want a Aurelia School write letters to Santa. stuff unicorn. Dear Santa, I would like a cow and a Allie chicken for Christmas please. I want to Dear Santa, know does it snow a lot at the North Pole? I have been a good girl this year. I did Your friend, my chores, I fed my cat and dog. I have David not been naughty this year at all. How’s Dear Santa, How are you in the North the North Pole? How are the elves and Pole. I’ve been waiting and excited for the reindeer this year? This year I would Christmas. For Christmas I would like a like a doll with a bunch o dolls in it. I am Christmas kitten. Your friend, going to leave you Christmas cookies and Annika chocolate milk. I have a lot of Christmas Dear Santa, cheer this year and am ready and excited I love Christmas, so I’d like to ask you a for Christmas this year. P.S. I want a lot of few questions about it. Like how do elves Slime and Kenetics. Your friend, make presents? Why does it snow in the Journey North Pole? Besides all these questions I’d Dear Santa, like to tell you what I want for Christmas. How are you? I would like some hot STAR PHOTO | STEVE PETERSON I want a kitten, doll, clothes and a Christ- wheels for Christmas this year. How are mas tree. Hopefully I’ll receive these pres- your reigndeer doing? I will leave some Santa time: Macy Huseman of Aurelia tells Santa Claus her wishes at the Aurelia ents for Christmas and will have a good chocolate chip cookies and a glass of milk Commercial Club’s Enchanted Christmas event Dec. 8. holiday with my family. Happy Holidays, out for you. I would also like some books Viviana and clothes for Christmas. You should be Robbins' class sends requests to Claus Dear Santa, careful to be quiet so you don’t wake my My classroom has a kitty and its name parents up. Your friend, Students in Alli Rob- Dear Santa, Please give like a sled for when it is is Cindy. How is the North Pole? Also, Scott bins’ kindergarten class at me a Barbie House. Please snowing. Love, how can your reindeer ly? How were Dear Santa, Alta-Aurelia Elementary give me a new bike. Love, Eastyn Lytle you born? How does your sleigh ly. For How cold is it in the North Pole. For School in Alta write letters Ellie Brown Dear Santa, Christmas, I want Rapunzel and her horse. Christmas I want a dirt bike, a durm set to Santa. Dear Santa, I would like some new Where did you get your sleigh? and Battleship. Ware were you born at Dear Santa, I like tennis shoes. I like clothes. Can I have new Tucker and how was your sled built at. I would like a hover legos. I like kitties. I like shoes? Please bring me Dear Santa, Colton board for Christmas. Please hot wheels. Love, toys too. I have been How goes in the north pole where were Dear Santa, bring me new shoes. I have Brayden Diekman good. Love, you born. How can the raindeer ly. Why How does your Reindeer eat the magic been good. Love, Dear Santa, Alex Romero do we have presents at Christmas. I want food. How are doing are you sad or happy. Stella Musselman I would like hatchimals Dear Santa, a hatchamal. How does Santa have music. How can the elf ly. I will leave cookies and Dear Santa, for Christmas. Love to I would like Pokemon I want a stuff animal that a pony. milk out on the counter. How do get to Santa this Christmas can Santa. Love, let’s go Pikachu for Grace the North Poles. Can we have one of your you bring me a lot of toys? Harley Thompson Christmas and an elite Dear Santa, Reindeer. I want a monster and a real cat. I Also, can you make it so Dear Santa, trainer box of Drag- My names Lincoln. I’m in kindergarden. want a big puppy. Make sure you be quiet when my mommy snaps I want a coffee cup. I on Majesty and an elite I want a monster truck for Chrstimas. so my family doesn’t see you. I want you her ingers the house is want a new bike. I want a trainer bod of Sun and Santa where were you born, I was born to come to my house tonight so I can see clean? So then she doesn’t timer. I want a toy sleigh. Most Lost Thunder for in Storm Lake. What’s the weather like you. I would want a motor cycle. Love, have to clean anymore. I I want chapstick. Love, Christmas and baseball in the north pole. Where did you get your Luke like bikes and marble sets Garrett Anderson cards and a mega chariz- eleves. How did you get a sleigh. Santa Dear Santa, How can the Elf on the shelf too. Love, Dear Santa, ard. Love, there might be a little surprise. Santa for ly, Santa I would like a New Hollend Com- Adela Simacek Santa I want a cat. San- Michael Hansen my last question how does your reindeer bine with a Bean Head and Corn Head, Dear Santa, ta I want the dog. Santa Dear Santa, ly. Dear Santa Can I also have a pet ish. San- I want a Hatchimal. I want I want a horse. Santa, I I want anything but Lincoln ta I have always won’t to know where the a kitchen toy. I want a baby. want a rabbit. Love, coal. Love, Dear Santa, north pole is, have a safe trip. Love, I want a Santa robot. I like Landry DeMuth Renzo Reyes-Pantoja I want kittens Kalvin Santa. I want a toy Christ- Dear Santa, Dear Santa, how does it fael Dear Santa, mas tree on Christmas Eve. Can I please have a I want a trampoline. in the north How is the North Pole? How are your I like Santa to bring me a marble set. Love, Please I want a Hatchi- plane. Were reindeer? Can I please have a reindeer new neclace. Love, Owen Klinkel mal. Please I want a Pik- were you toy? I hope your sleigh ride will be safe Alainah Dear Santa, mi Pop. Please I want a born and you make it here okay. I would also Chanthavysouk I want a cat and a baby stuffed animal. Love and like a Tractor toy. This Christmas I will Dear Santa, doll. Love, Cailey Meyer leave you cookies and carrots for your Please get me a toy dino- Serenity Fitchett Dear Santa, I would like reindeer. I hope everything is going saur for Christmas. Please Dear Santa, for Christmas I would like good. With your elves I cannot can you get me a toy kitch- I would like a pack of a dog and a cat. I’ve been wait for Christmas. Your friend, en? Love, Hatchimals that price is good. Love, Beckett Gable Garling 20 dollars, please. I would Amee Hernandez STAR CHRISTMAS 2018 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 7 Paula Dick's students pen letter to Santa requesting Christmas gifts Students in Paula Dick’s hard places and when is it will give you cookies when leave some carrots for Christmas. I would like a Ways to make kindergarten class at Al- Christmas? you come to my house. your reindeer and leave present in my house. holiday memories ta-Aurelia Elementary Love, Love, cookies for you. Love, 1. Annual memento: Have School in Alta write letters Paytyn Brenner Yamileth Love, Isaac Sanchez the kids or adults make to Santa. Dear Santa, Orellana-Hernandez Emerson Kies Dear Santa, one new handmade orna- Dear Santa, I want a robot that I Dear Santa, Dear Santa, I would like some slime ment each year. I will set out cookies on can clean my room with I would like two Magic I want a My Little Pony for Christmas. I’m being 2. Cookie day: Devote one the counter for you. I want and stuffed animals. I’m Tracks and one controller toy. I also want a inger- good at my house. I will day to making Christmas a real phone that turns on going to leave you some Magic Track. I also want ling. I want a Wal-mart leave you some cookies cookies. 3. Holiday classic: Spend for games for Christmas. I cookies and a Minion book. I am good. toy squishy. I want a pink when you come to my a night in and watch a will bring you some candy, milk. I’m going to clean my You know I’ll leave you bike. I’m going to leave house. classic Christmas fl ick too. room. some cookies. you some cookies and Love, you’ve never seen before. Love, Love, Love, milk. Makenzie Movall 4. Christmas concert: Emma Struthers Nevaeh Rodriguez Tucker Buddenhagen Love, Dear Santa, Host a gathering of chil- Dear Santa, Dear Santa, Dear Santa, Evoleth Sanchez I would like a Spider- dren where they can sing I want an army jeep for I want racecars for I want presents. I want Dear Santa, man car. I am working re- or perform their favorite Christmas. We will have Christmas. I want a real cat to decorate my tree. I want I have been helping my ally hard at school and at tunes for an audience. cookies and milk out for for Christmas. I will leave all my friends to come to baby sister, Kennedy and home. We have cookies for Take it on the road to a nearby nursing home. you by our ireplace. I have you some cookies and my Christmas. I am being a my brother, Miles. I help you. 5. See the sights: Pack the been helping out with the milk. I play with my sister good boy. Miles put his coat and Love, children into the family car dishes and helping my dad. a lot. Love, shoes on. I would like the Rolando Carrizales to tour nearby areas and Love, Love, Quinn Eperiam huge Megazord that is a Dear Santa, look at Lennell Binder Jaxson Martinez Dear Santa, Power Ranger. I’m going I would like some displays. Dear Santa, Dear Santa, I would like a Mind- to leave cookies for you swords that connect. I 6. Wilderness walk: Enjoy I would like some new I would like a real Craft Box that has room and milk on the night that vacuumed at home. We the crisp air and snow and clothes for Chase, my baby brother or sister for for many different charac- you give us presents. might leave you some car- see a local park from a

Build-A-Bear Dog. I would Christmas. I will leave you ters and when you open it Love, rots for the reindeer and winter perspective. 7. Acts of kindness: like a big stuffed monkey. some cookies and milk. up, it has a little play area. Elijah Hinkeldey some cookies and milk for Choose any act of kind- I have been ordering toys I was cleaning my house I would like a MindCraft Dear Santa, you. ness and make it happen online for Christmas but and helping my mom. lego set. I will leave you I would like some can- Love, this Christmas. would like some more. I’m Love, some chocolate chip cook- dy and a yellow star for Graham Murray

going to give you choco- Alondra Maldonado ies.

late chip cookies when you Dear Santa, Love,

come to my house. I will I want a real live lizard Trevyn Mueller set them right by my dad’s and a tank for it. I want Dear Santa, spot on the couch. some bedding for it. I want I want a hacker mask Love, a bowl for it to drink wa- that comes with a hoodie.

Brandon Means ter. I need a wagon for my I want a hacker movie. I

Dear Santa, 4 wheeler. I will leave you am being good at school. I

I’ve been good. I want some milk and cookies and will leave you some choc- a phone for Christmas. some carrots for the rein- olate chip cookies with

I will leave you some deer. milk. cookies and milk. Do you Love, Love, know Nomeo, the elf at my Kolten Iehl Eli Thompson house? He is good and he Dear Santa, Dear Santa, leaves us candy canes on I would like some Play- I want an American Girl our tree. How does he get Doh for Christmas. I help Doll salon. I have been be- them? I know you hide in my mom clean at home. I ing helpful at home. I will t Season’s

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Students in Cary Fried- corn the Elf I make toys. are cool because you buy Hi. My Name is Oliva Because kids like to play girls. Some girls like them rich’s second grade class I like to make unicorns. I them. Bey blades spin re- but you can call me Liv. with them. I also like to and boys do to. I would at Alta-Aurelia Elementary make unicorns because ally fast and you can get I’m an elf. I love mak- make Hatchamals. Kids make pokemon toys and School in Alta answer: If girls like pink, purple, blue a lot of them. Ipad becase ing toys. I miss the toys I love Hatchamals because cards. They are fun to you were an elf, what toys and other stuff. I make you can get a lot of gams make when they leave on you get to pop them open play with. I like to eat and would you make and why? unicorn back pack. Little on it. You can get like loo Santa’s sleigh. Anyway I from eggs. I also like to play. Hello my name is Ava girls like to carry stuff in game. Boosk for kids. The like to make poke’mon make giant loly pops. Be- Ryan and I like making toys. I back packs. I make mer- books would be just right cards. They seem popu- cause kids love candy. I Hi My name is Maken- like making horses. I like maid tails. Little girls feel for them. I like making lar in America and other love making toys. zie the Elf. I like to make them. I like making LOL like a mermaid. Also I like toys for kids. countries. I also make Marie toys. It’s fun. I will make dolls. I like to play with to make coloring books. JW Barbies. I like to play with Hello. My name is ly Hatchamals, because kids them. I like making slime. So they don’t get bored on Hello there. My name them in my free time. I guy an I make toys. I like Hatchamals. I will It is so much fun to play trips. Have a happy Christ- is Dashewr the very awe- love making action ig- would make books. Peo- make a LOL surprise for with. It is so much fun mas. some Elf. I will make Shop- ures from comics, shows ple like reading. I would kids. Kids love to collect making toys. Arianna kins. I think it’s a great toy and movies. They’re fun make toys elefs an Santas. a lot of them. I will make Ava Hello My name is for anyone. I will make toy to set up and play with. I It’s chistmas time. Toys candy a lot of candy. Kids If I was an Elf what toys Nomeo. I will make plush- trains. I think it’s a great… also like making stuffed wolve’s. People like toys love candy. I like making would I make? I’d make es. So they will cuddle up. I toy for a lot of people, not animals. They’re so cute wolves. Tablet. People toys a lot. legos. I’d make legos be- will make a barn for hors- just for boys. I would make and cuddly. I know the like playing game. Toys McKenzie cause you can make stuff. es. So they will put their toy horses and unicorns. toys I make will go to are fun to play wihf. Hello. My name is I would also make coloring animals in there. I will I think it’s a great toy be- good boys and girls. Mason Josie. I like making toys. books. I would make color- make toy horses. So they cause I think they are mag- Kennedy I’m Jake the Elf and I I would make a toy bun- ing books because drawing can play with them. I will ical and fun to play with. I am Matt. Im an elf. I like making toys. I would ny. Some kids are so cute. is fun. Sometimes I would make toy hammers for lit- I would make barbies. I like making. I will make make a nerf gun. I would I would make a lego set. make dolls. I would make tle kids. So they can have think its a great toy be- a teddy bears. I like ted- make a nerfgun because Some kids love making dolls because girls will like fun. Conlusion it is fun cause it’s a good toy to act dy bears. I like to make I lik them. I would make legos. I wold make a lol. them. I would also make making toys. out your life when you are toy cars. It’s fun watching poke’mon cards. I would Some girls love lol even cars. I would make cars Bristol older. It is hard work to be cars. I would make trans- make pokemon cards me. I wold make a horse. because boys like cars. My Hello My name is Cris- an Elf. formers. It is fun to play because they are fun. I Sometimes some kids name is Angel and I make tol. I like making toys I like Keisha with it. Lego is fun to play would make soccer ball. I love playing with horses. toys. making LOL dolls. They If I were an elf I would with it. Because they are would make a soccer ball My name is Josie and I Abigail are cut are they do a wa- make toys. First I would fun. because I play soccer. I love making toys. Hello my name is Ellie. I ter surpise. I would make make bey blades. Bey Luis would make a football. I Blair work in santas work shop. a music player becase blades are fun to watch Hello. My name is would make a football I make dolls like Barbie they play all of the music when they brst. Next, I Snowlake the Elf. I like because they are fun. dolls. Little girls love play- you Love. I would make a would make legos. Legos to make LOLs because I Riley ing with them. I also make computer you can learn are fun to watch kids make like LOLs. I would make Hello my name books like Owl Diaries. how to draw stuff. I would dinosaurs and poke Mon. a unicorns. I Love uni- is the and Boys and girls like to read make Barbies because Then, I would make col- corns. I will make a horse you can call me them. I also make horses. they come in a lot of sets. I oring books. It’s fun to because horses are fun. G. Toys are fun. I love horses myself. Kids am an elf and I like making watch people draw and I will make my owners Transformes are can play horses. I make toys. color. Last, I would make LOLs. They Love LOLs. I best a of all. You can games, too, like Twister so Grace a tablet. Lots of kids want love being an Elf. turn it into a car or a families can play them. Be- Hello. My name is Riley tablets for Chrsitmas. My Maddy robot. I would make ing an elf is a great job. and I am an Elf. I would name is Steve the Elf and it Hello. My name is Legos. You can build Ady make pokeman card. Kids is fun to make toys. Shoipha the elf. My favor- with them. I would Hello. My name is Uni- like them a lot. Bey blads Kenley ite to make is LOL dolls. make unicorns for

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Students in Wendy Cavazos’ is the Christmas tree because it from preschool, snowlags and kid because it tells me when she them and they are dlishis. second grade class at Alta-Au- has fake snow. little santas. My favorite item is was nice. Angel relia Elementary School in Alta Miguel the oranaments of my peschool Dane A tree ornament. A Angle. The answer: Name ive things you A airplane, a traine, a racecar, picher because it’s a picher of My angll. My sparkly odd- lights. The owl. A dog ornament. put on your Christmas tree and a santaclas and a star. My favor- me. ment. Stare. Litse. Odment oof My favorite ornamen is my owl what item is your favorite? ite item is a steem engen becas I Macy my face. My farvet item is the because it helps me remember Tiny Christmas tree orna- like to play with them. A drawing that I made. Realy Angll because it is prity. my dad. ments. Santa. Cicle ornaments. Gavin fun Chistmas lights. An air plane Harpper Maria Present ornaments. My favorite Lit up cerck, a siy in a car, with Santa and prezzents in it. Angel that lights up. A speshal Chrismas lights. Oranaments. is present ornaments because chac, teracrs and pile. My favor- An angel toper that glows. Little ornaments. A little santa. Two Angel on the top. A tree skirt. its hard to put up. ite itsm is cerck because lit up. balls of tinsil. My favorite item is little dear. Lights. My favorite Rainbow lights. My favorite item Logan Ander the lihgts. Because they light up item is the lights because its is the rainbow lights becase they Light, I put santa onumints, Hors. Angel a angel because it the whole room and they make pretty on the tree. are pretty. Santas slay, my preschool picti- is speshole to me. santa a san- me happy. Emily Zoe er and rodlf. My favorite items ta becus it is from my grama. Kimber Star wars stormtrooper ora- I have orumis that r brrit col- is lithgt because I like the colors Seahors a seahors because I Lights. Oranaments. And a ment. Seasame steert specil su- or. Snowman because I mad it of them and they remind me of love it. Stare, a stare because it funny santa. And a oranament pries orament. Star wars Chew- wun I was lttl. Angel because its Chismas. is speshel to me. My hors becus that lighs up. A star. My favorite backa orament. My dinosaur pritte. Re ornament because its Jonathan I made in preskool. item is the oranoment that lighs orament. My favorite orament prette. Wooden ornament little Lights, sporckles, angels, cen- Eva up because it seng a song. is the star wars stormtroper be- girl. My favorite is the snowman deckans and star on top. My fa- Bike, blue otement, red ote- Allie cause it reminds me of the times because I made it when I was vorite item is an ornament be- ment, swimming otement, aan- A star. A ornamant that has a I watched star wars. little. cause it is so shine. gil. My favorit otement is my snowman. A picture of my dog Ray Sabrina Yanmay bike otement becuos my nana on it. A orament of santa claus Candy censes. Spokol orna- Love. God. Jeuses. Mom. Dad. Red bell, candy canes, a made it. on it. A picture of my mom on it. ments. Angel ornament. Sno- My favorite item is god because Christmas tree, a Santa head Connor My favorite ornament is a pic- man ornaments. Star. My can- god is everyone’s dad. and fake snow. My favorite item Lights, a star, an ornaments ture of my mom when she was a dy censes because you can eat Jakson Second graders would serve steak, cake for dinner

Students in Kristi Pesu ranch and macht and milk for a drink. stiks and stake. Also tukey Langschwager’s second putatos. And pop. And Amarie with mashed paees with grade class at Alta-Aure- pepaurne pesus pepurne I would serve some pan- corn and we would all eat lia Elementary in Aurelia pesus. cakes and eggs. I would it. answer: If you were in Korbyn serve some orange juice Matthew charge of planning your I whod serve piye and because it’s elvey for you. I whad serve stak and family’s Christmas meal cake. And I whod serve For my dessert I would the siding whad be rat bei what would you serve? Cris spetowe. And wotrae serve some chocolate. ckem (rootbeer ice cream) I wode make a turkey and I whod serve chock- Addilyn the dring whad be mwtin and ptadow. And sum lite and for dzrt Jelow and I would order peproni dwe. corn and pese. For Drink that whod be all. piozza and coke and bred Gavin I wode have soom wotre Archer and melck. And for dz- I would order pizza. I ert isc crem and cack and would make stake. I also cupcacks and muins and would make sweet corn. I that is it. would buy Mnt. Dew and Lilah G. any drink. I would problly I want stake and corn. have any deserts. I also want apple sase for Kashton dasert pumkyin pi. I woald serve masht pa- Tyler tatos and juies with chikin I wud buy Pizza Ranch legs on the side with soup. pepperoni pizza and cl- For Desert I woald serve zones pizza. And dincks ice cream with a chary on and a also icm crem. top of it. Rance Lilah A. I will give them a root I will cook pancake and bear lowt. And cookies. spirte for brekis. And ice And Popcorn. Sprit and cream for disert. For lunch STAR PHOTO | STEVE PETERSON Pizza and we will eat in I will make stake and root Holiday happiness: Alta-Aurelia Elementary stu- our thatre for the hole beer and cookies for dis- Christmas. ert. For supper I will cook dents at Aurelia performed Christmas songs at their Aliah beef and cake for disert Dec. 11 concert. 12 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 CHRISTMAS 2018 STAR Fourth graders in O'Malley's class explain what they like about Christmas Students in Mary Ann O’Malley’s fourth I like the surprise you get when you Spending time with family, I like to ing snow with the skidloader. Drinking grade class at Alta-Aurelia Elementary in open presents. I love the blankets and spend time with family because we get to hot coco, family, having friends to play Aurelia answer: Name 10 reasons why pjs that you get before Christmas. I love closer and enjoy loveable times. I like go- in the snow with, whering pjs all day, no you like Christmas (listed as one through spending time with family. Opening ing to Santa’s castle to see him and all the chores, no school and making snow men. 10). stockings are cool things in them. We cool stuff in there. I like giving presents Kouper Schulenberg Building snowmen, building snow ig- open presents with my grandma and to the ones in need and hoping it makes The main reasons I love Christmas is loos, having snowball ights, drinking I love being fourth to open presents. them happy. I like going sledding and because I get to spend more time with hot cocoa, listening to , Drinking hot chocolate because it’s nice snowmobiling with friends and when my family. I love the snow you can make Christmas shopping, watching Christmas and warm on a cold winter day. I like were done we drink hot chocolate. I love so much stuff out of snow. I really love movies, putting up the tree, getting pres- watching Christmas movies like the to watch Christmas movies and drink hot getting stuff for my family or making it ents and seeing family. Grinch. Snowball ights because I think it chocolate and eat candy canes. I love to by myself. Santa I love how he comes in Lynsee Ockerman is so much fun. No school. Cuddling mazy. eat all the Christmas candy because it your house and gives you free stuff. Mu- Family, because they love you. Fun, Kamdyn Diischer so good. I like listen to Christmas music. sic I love hearing bells ring. Presents I because we get to be happy. Presents, One reason I like Christmas, is because I love to decorate the tree in my room love getting presents from family. I like because you get to play with them after- we get Christmas break. I like going to and in the living room and all around the watching movies with my family. I love wards. Carols, so I get better at singing. my family’s houses, and spending time house. I like to do Christmas programs at the Christmas colors red and green. I love Decorating, because it’s fun. Food, be- with them. During the Christmas season school and when i’m with grandma go to decorating the Christmas tree. I love the cause it’s yummy. Sledding, because it’s I like to watch a lot of Christmas mov- church. I love going to Christmas parties food that we get to eat. so fun. Snow, because it’s amazing. Cocoa ies. Most we go to santa’s and dress up in Christmas stuff. Braidyn Garlow marshmallows, so yummy. Christmas castle. It’s really fun. I love decorating Mckenna Ricketts It is ’ birthday and every we hang movies, so fun to watch. the Christmas tree with my mom every Celebrating Jesus’s birthday because a cross. I like spending time with my fam- Rory Allen Christmas. I like to go sledding with my I like him alot. Spending time with my ily. I like to get presents. Every Christmas Presents because they’re fun. Santa be- dad and sister. It’s fun going to my fami- family because I don’t see them alot. I like we go to my grandmas church. I like cause he’s traditional. Stockings because ly’s hose to open my presents. I like going making a big snow pile because I make a building gingerbread houses. I like play- therese presents in them. The smell be- to church to the Christmas program. I’m big snowpile because I make a snow fort. ing in the snow. I like moving snow with cause I like the smell of pine. The taste usually Mary. It’s fun trying to ind my I like snowmobiling because we make the tractor. My grandma brings us Christ- because I like snowballs the food. The elf in the morning. It’s something to look ramps. Opening presents because I get mas shopping. I like building igloos. I like look because I like snow. Christmas trees forward to. I also love eating all the food play with them. Making hot chocolate drinking hot chocolate. because they’re pretty. The colors be- on Christmas. These are some things that because I get to drink it. I like the mu- Charlie Corbin cause I like red and green. The movies remind me of Christmas. sic because I like Christmas music. I like Spending time with my family because because they’re good movies. The music Reese Wieland making Christmas cookies because I get I don’t get to see them very often. Mak- because it’s good music. I like spending time with my family. to eat them. Sledding down hills because ing snowmen with my dad and sister Shaela Graham I like having snowball ights and mak- it’s fun. Puting up the Christmas tree be- because I like spending time with them. Eating with my family because I get to ing forts for them. I also like hanging up cause I get to pick the tree out. I like sledding at my Grandpas house be- eat with my brothers and sisters in col- Christmas decorations with my dad. I Jacob Erpelding cause the hill is huge. Getting presents lege. Open my presents because I like to love listening to Christmas music all day. I like Christmas because I get presents. for my family because Liv and Beau are see what other people in my family got. I also love getting Christmas presents I I like Christmas because I get spend time so cute when they open them. Putting Go sledding because when I go back in- usually get one $100 present and the rest with family. I like Christmas because I up the Christmas tree up with my mom side I get hot cocoa. Play with the stuff I are cheaper. My family always watches get to decorate the tree. I like Christmas every year. I like helping my dad put up got so that I can see what they do. Having Christmas specials. We get to go to my because I get to see my grandparents. I the Christmas lights up because he gets a snowball ight with my brothers and grandma’s house on Christmas. I love like Christmas because I like the name so competitive. Making Christmas cook- sisters so that I can see who is better. when I get to go sledding we always go of the reindeer. I like Christmas because ies because my whole family does it. I Make a snowman so I can practice my to this lake with a big hill. Another thing I like Christmas because I like Christmas like the music because the music is cool. I aim so I can win the snowball ight. Make I like is coming from outside and getting songs. I like Christmas because you can like christmas because you get christmas a snow fort for the snowball ight. Watch hot chocolate. The last thing is playing eat candy canes. I like Christmas because break. My favorite thing of all is opening a Christmas movie so that I can spend with my presents. the snow is fun. I like Christmas because presents because it is awesome. time with my family. Opening stockings Matthew Buss you get toys. I like Christmas because you Leah Kannegieter so that I can see what is in mine. Wak- I like drinking hot chocolate and eat- get be days off. ing up my parents so that I can open my ing candy because it’s very good. I like Cole Mier presents. sledding with family and friends because My top 10 reasons why I like Christmas Adrik Kolpin it’s fun. I like opening presents and see- are opening presents, eating with my Celebrate jesus birthday. Because I am ing what’s in my stocking. I like setting family, Christmas trees, getting some of a Christian. Opening presents. You never up the Christmas tree and inding the the things I want, turkey, football things, know what your are going to get. Making elf because it’s very fun. Setting up the Jesus’ birthday, School Christmas break, Christmas cookies. Playing in the snow. lights and the blow up things. I like going toys, church. It is fun. Singing Christmas songs. I love to church to do the Christmas program. Tavyn Sexton singing. Drinking hot coco. It is good. I like going to grandpa and grandma’s Snow is fun. Family is nice. Food is Opening stockings. I just love stockings. house to enjoy family time with them. good. Presents. Sleep feels good. Hot Setting up the Christmas tree. You get Setting lights up because they look cool chocolate. Candy is good. Playing in the to look at the ornaments. Spending time outside when they light up. Seeing what’s snow. Opening presents and recording with my family. I love my family. Spend- in my stocking because we get candy. and posting it on youtube. And having ing time with my friends. They are awe- Drinking hot chocolate and watch mov- fun. some. ies and get cozy. Cash Woltman Ellie Bloom Tegan Robertson Light on the tree. Snowball ight. Mov- STAR CHRISTMAS 2018 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 13 Harms' fourth grade class shares holiday food favorites

Students in Sherry Harms fourth grade ies. So it is pretty easy to make cookies. We have cheeseburgers every Christ- put them in the freezer so it can get cold class at Alta-Aurelia Elementary School It is better with some frosting and stuff. mas. When we do we are so happy be- and hot at the same time. in Alta answer: “What is your favorite Like tiny candies on it for the tiny cookie cause we love them. When my mom or Bryce Lewis Peterson Christmas holiday food and how do you trees. We also make tiny little santa cook- dad cooks them, we always get them eat- My favorite Christmas food is pep- make it?” ies. We also make a tiny cupcake for our en. When we get them eaten, we all wait permint pie. It is so delicious. Last year The kind food I like is . You Elf on the shelf named Crystal. Then we two hours or one hour. Then if we are still mom- Jolene Schaefer made it and me need to put in some lour, then baking lit our trees, then we go to bed. hungry past these two hours or one hour. and dad-Tj Schaefer and me gobbled it powder and some water and mix them Lane Garrison So we get dessert, and we eat all of the up. First, you get a pie pan and crust of all together. You need some leaves and My family’s and my favorite Christmas desert. We love the food and dessert. My course. Then you need heavy whipped make sure that they are all clean. Then food are Tamales, Pupusas, Tacos and sisters eat it, and they are named Tyranny, cream, peppermints and red heavy frost- when your bowl is mixed well, the lour Mashed Potatoes in gravy. The way we Neveyah, Taby Lainie. I love the food and ing. Than you mix them together. Then you need to grab the leaves and grab a make Mashed Potatoes we peel the pota- the dessert. you refrigerate for one hour. Then you spoon and the leaves then you spread it toes then we boil for 10 minutes in salt Daxton Mason add whipped cream. Now you have pep- on the leaves and you can put in some then we drain them then we put them I would eat ham and beans because I eat permint pie. happy holiday. cheese, some jalapenos, some meat and back in the pot so then we mashed them it a lot and I think I know how to make it. Jackie Schaefer some spice on the meat. You can put that over heat, then we put butter and salt in I think I have a can of beans and I think I The kind of food I make is oreo choc- on the tamales when you need some- and then we make the gravy. Here is our have a whole stack of ham. I really don’t olate chip cookies and this is how you thing big to put in the tamales for they Tacos recipe. We make or buy the torti- know how to make ham or beans. But one make them is you need chocolate chips, can all it. When it has been a while and lla and then we make the meat. We put dessert that I think I could make cookies. lour, whip cream eggs, sugar and milk. you can take one out and taste it. It will the meat in the tortilla and make salsa. We might need dough and I feel like I don’t Then you need one cup of chocolate chip be hot when you take it out and then you Our next food are pupusas, my grandma know how to make dough but cookies and two eggs, one and a half of lour one can eat it. makes the tortilla then the mashed beans have sugar. cup of milk 1-4 cup of sugar. Then you Jennifer Castro and cheese so then we put everything to- Juan Munoz-Morales mix it all up in a big bowl. Then you get a Cookies, because they come in dif- gether and put on top of something and To make luff salad, you need some pan and make them into circles and put ferent shapes and sizes. I make cookies I don’t know what it is called. Our last whip cream and pink food coloring. So them on the pan and then you put them every year with my mom and Mary. We food are Tamales so you will need lour, irst you mix the whipped cream and in the oven and it should be in there for 1 take some to family and eat the rest. I eat clean leaves, meat, jalapenos and water the food coloring together. Then you mix hour and your done. the cookie dough with Mary. My favorite so the way you make it you put the lour some fruits in the pink whip cream. Some- Brooklyn Tarbill type of cookie is a sugar cookie. Because in a bowl and add water then mix so after times there’s cherries and marshmallows. Have you ever heard of an “Upside they taste so good. Here’s how to make you smooth the lour with water you put Bryce Lewis Peterson Down Cake?” Do you know how to make it, add lour, baking soda, baking powder, the lour in the leaf and put on a pot after My favorite Christmas holiday food is it? If you don’t know how, want to learn butter, white sugar, one egg and vanil- an hour or two you could eat. brownies. I irst get a bunch of chocolate how to make it step by step! Step one: Of la extract. Mix them in a bowl, cut them Ariana Hernandez at the store and put a lot of chocolate in course irst you need the baking pow- into any shape you want. Then put them My favorite food is mashed potatoes. a bowl and square it out and put it in the der and eggs. The most important thing in the oven. Then after they’re done you Well it is pretty easy, you just boil them stove for two hours. Then you can get to remember is that you need to use the can eat them. in salty water for 10 minutes. Then you them out after a long, long tim. I like to put special upside down cake powder. You’ll Kyler Connolly drain them. When that’s done you take a little frosting and put a little face with need pineapples (the most important My favorite Christmas food is ham. We the skin off. Then you mash them. Then the frosting and if it was a big cake I would part for it to taste right) and cinnamon. go to Walmart to get it and then we cut the best part you eat them. put my whole family on it. Also, you can Step two: You need to combine all the in- it and heat it up and eat it. We have fruit Drew Huisenga put anything in the brownies and I think gredients in a bowl. Of course you need salad we make it with peaches, pears, My favorite food is pie. My mom and I some M and M’s in it would be good. I nev- to stir. You will need to heat the cake up pineapple and whip cream. We have clus- bake our pie. I use whipped cream, ba- er tried it though. Also, some peanut but- for an hour. When the cake is done, let it ters they are made with peanuts choco- nanas, pudding and ice cream. We also ter on it tastes good too. You can put al- cool for thirty minutes, then you can eat late then you put them in the oven and add chocolate chips. monds in it too but I just like the almonds it. then in the fridge. Then we have pie you Cheyanne Leonard plain. And if the brownies are burnt then Tim Williams make that with lour, pumpkin illing and I like to make a gingerbread house. You crust. Then we have some cupcakes we have to get a kit at Walmart. You open make those with cake frosting and you the kit if it is a village kit, there will be cook them and eat them. We have wal- probably ive houses a regular would The origins of some holiday traditions nuts with almonds with cashews. have one house. You have to build them, Christmas tree ious names around the world. The Dutch called Colton Diischer so you have to igure out where they go. Christmas Trees are everywhere this time of him Sinter Klaas, which was eventually trans- year. The use of evergreen trees predates Christ- formed to Santa Claus. The jolly persona came My name is Yuliana Flores, and my fa- Then you have to use the frosting to stick mas and is associated with the pagan festival of later when 20th century advertisers — especially vorite Christmas holiday food is mash them together. Then you can decorate it. Saturnalia, which celebrated the agricultural god the artists responsible for Coca-Cola ads — por- potatoes. My mom does not make them You can put gumdrops, peppermints and Saturn with partying and gift-giving. During the trayed Santa in a red suit with a big smile. often but their good. This is how you a lot more candy on it. winter solstice, green branches served as a re- Mistletoe minder that spring would arrive anew. Germans Mistletoe is hung in doorways, and couples make it. you peel the skin from the po- Eric Lopez are credited with fi rst bringing evergreens into who stand beneath are encouraged to share a tatoes. You boil the potatoes and add My favorite food is mashed potatoes. their homes and decorating them. kiss. The tradition of hanging it in the house goes salt. You boil it for like 30 minutes when First, you boil potatoes for 9,000 min- Santa Claus back to the times of the ancient Druids. Mistletoe you’re done you mash it. You put butter utes. Then you peel the skin of the pota- Santa Claus’ origin story can be traced to St. was thought to bring good luck to a household Nicholas, a Christian bishop who lived during the and ward off evil spirits. The custom of kissing un- and milk and mix then put on the stove toes and add some milk. Then you add fourth century. St. Nicholas was very generous der mistletoe can be traced to England. Original- and mix it. Put pepper and you’re done. some more butter. And some more salt. and gave away his fortune to help the needy. He ly, a berry was picked from the sprig of mistletoe Yuliana Flores Then you add pepper next you enjoy it. also did various other good deeds. St. Nicholas before the person could be kissed. When all the So my favorite holiday food is cook- Anthony Maldonado became infamous and began to be known by var- berries had gone, there could be no more kissing. 14 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 CHRISTMAS 2018 STAR Sherry DeRoos’ fourth graders talk about favorite Alta-Aurelia Elementary students in Sher- together too and we have a lot of them. We play all together. Also, when we are done, we Christmas. Family comes over every Christ- ry DeRoos’ fourth grade class at Alta answer: make brownies for Jesus Birthday Party. Ev- cook pancakes and I say what a fun Christ- mas and we have a lot of fun. What is your favorite Christmas holiday tra- ery Christmas we try to ind our elf on the mas year. Nolan Reeves dition? shelf. We celebrate my great papa Nike’s Adyson Greene My favorite holiday traditions is that I get We go to our grandmas house and eat food birthday party. We help my dad put lights on My favorite Christmas tradition. Is that on to spend time with my family. At my house I and then after everyone is done, we go sit in the roof. Every Christmas we get hot coaco Christmas Eve I get to open the gifts that my take a shower and get ready then we eat food the living room. We open our presents one and drive are car around the town and look mom and dad give me. I like it when we open that my mom made. When we are inished person one by one and then after everyone at lights. them on Christmas eve because on Christ- eating we get are coats and go in the car and is done opening percents, some of us just go Austin Droegmiller mas we can just worry about being thankful. go to Mass. When Mass is done, we go back to and play with what we got. While we open My favorite holiday is Christmas because We normally eat turkey as well the whole my house and we open our presents. When presents, we take pictures with each present. when we have Christmas break my family family likes turkey so that is why we make a Christmas is over, I get my stuff that I got from Then after that we just go on and then we and I get to celebrate my sister’s birthday turkey to eat. When we make the food it is my Santa and play with it. I have fun. talk and tell stories and sing. Then me and on Dec. 28. I like to celebrate Christmas too grandma that makes it we eat it as a family Berenice Rodriguez my cousin go outside and play with our toys. because it is Jesus birthday on Christmas. most of the time. Something I do at dads is First, we will open some presents then we We might slip and fall and laugh at each other. My family comes over all the time for Christ- when we stay up until 11 p.m. then we open will eat breakfast. Then we will play outside. We go back inside with the rest of the family. mas and I love to spend time with my family. the gifts it is just fun to do it that way. Those Then we will open all our presents. Then we Kevin Flores When we have Christmas break, my grand- are my family Christmas traditions. will open the toys and play with my brothers My favorite holiday tradition is when we ma stays all through Christmas break when Miah Ibarra and sisters. We get to open our presents one get to eat tamales. We also always get togeth- we don’t have school because all my cousins My favorite holiday traditions are at the day before Christmas at my mom’s house. We er with our other family members. We always come that don’t live that far away, but they al- time of Christmas on Christmas Eve we will make cookies for Santa. Then we will go let the young ones open their presents irst. ways leave irst. When my sister comes, they make our own cookies for Santa. It’s fun be- to a store for Christmas. Then we will open all Before Christmas we go to our uncles house might stay the whole Christmas break if they cause it’s like a cook off with treats. When of our presents. We will have a party with the to celebrate Christmas. My dad comes home don’t work that week. My sisters are the 28. it’s Christmas Eve I try to catch Santa. I never wrapping paper but the worst part is picking early for Christmas. My aunt always keeps us We can barely get to do anything since it al- caught Santa. If I catch Santa I will beg him for up the wrapping paper. The End. in a room so we can’t see the presents. My ways snows all the time because my dad or more presents. I hope he takes my cookies. Dakota Ryherd grandma is the one who makes the tamales. my mom don’t want to ruin there vehicles John Keyanye I like to wrap the presents if I can. My mom My mom makes the rest like rice, beans and since they just got new vehicles. The day after On Christmas Eve we go to my aunts house and I wrap the presents that are not mine. chicken. We always help mom and dad put up Christmas we usually watch Christmas mov- to eat and play games like bags. The whole That’s how help my mom wrap the presents. the Christmas tree. We always gather around ies. On the weekend we go to my Grandmas side of the McCoy family is there which is It’s fun to do. We make food, we eat, then we the Christmas tree. Sometimes we eat some sometimes on the weekend. But she doesn’t my dad’s side of the family. We play a game unwrap presents. I like when they unwrap pie after. We sometimes help put the pres- get anything for her birthday because she al- with present that everyone brings a present them. I also give them clues sometimes they ents under the tree. Sometimes our other ready got what she wanted. So this year was and we all pass them around until everyone ind out what it is sometime they don’t. It’s a family members would bring some presents. just going to have a cake this year. I love to cel- has rolled the dice. Then we go home and set lot of fun. Have a happy holiday and a Merry Mercedes Carrizales ebrate my sisters birthday. We love to spend cookies out for Santa. On Christmas morning Christmas. My favorite Holiday is Christmas and we time with our sister since she moved. The we all open presents then in a few minutes Juan Carlitos Sanchez have quite a few traditions. We put up the presents and gifts that we get on Christmas we go to church. After church we go to my My favorite Christmas holiday tradition Christmas tree in November, so we already Eve, we sometimes get to open that we get grandpa’s house which is my mom’s mom are when we all play in get to hot cocoa and have it up in December. We always go to my from my mom and dad. and dad. Then we open presents and play then we sit around open our present, but that grandma and grandpa Marron irst which is Alyvia Foust games and eat pie. is not how our family does it. We travel place my mom’s side. At my grandma and grandpa First, we will wait for everyone to get here Maddux McCoy to see other things not just thing in Iowa for Marron’s I always see my cousins Lyla, Lock- at my grandpa’s house and my cousins and My family tradition is a annual celebration example my mom went to Israel to see the en, Josie, Kasey and Jordan and some other my cousins would bring their dogs to my at my uncle Rogers house. My uncle has a big world. She got an Israel rock and coin. Last people. At my grandma and grandpa Mar- grandpa’s house. Then when everyone got to garage for like where we hang out. I usually year we all went to Omaha, Nebraska. We ron’s, we eat delicious food like mashed pota- my grandpa’s house, we would eat together. hang out with my cousin. This year we are sang songs like Silent Night. Then we into the toes and gravy, ham, green beans, bread with Then when we were done, me and my cous- having it at the Ida Grove Rec Center where basement and we all ate talk I play with my butter and other yummy foods. After that, ins would play together. Then when every- we get to swim and also play basketball. I cousins Paul, David and Mure. Then we all we play and talk and all that stuff and when one was done we would pass the presents have only been there once so it might be fun dance around and laugh and have a lot of fun. we’re ready we open presents. After we open around each other. When everyone got their well I hope it well. We also get to open pres- That is all of my favorite Christmas holiday presents we just play and talk some more. presents, we would open them. Then when ents with my family. I usually get stuff that is tradition. Sometimes we go to church too. When we go we would get most of our presents we want- cool even if I don’t it doesn’t matter because Levi Sanduk home and go to bed. On the real Christmas, ed for Christmas we would have a little happy it’s not just for presents. Its for getting togeth- I love spending time with my family and we open our presents at our house. Then scream. My cousin Bella Sprecker and Bralin er and having fun with your family. When we friends. It’s so awesome to have a great life. some days later we go to my grandma and Sprecker have two dogs named Max and Jax- are inished we give hugs and say bye to our Without God or Jesus we would not have fam- grandpa DeMuth which is my dad’s side. At son. The next day we would get ready and family. Some of our family members we don’t ily or holidays we wouldn’t even have a life. I my grandma and grandpa DeMuth’s I always say goodbye. Then we would go to my other get to see a lot. love my family with all my heart even when I see Violet, Eliot, Neve and Baley and some cousin’s house in Omaha and their names are Jaxson Page get mad at them. You always got to think pos- other people. We open presents, eat yummy Isabelle and Nolin their dog name is rocky. My holiday traditions are opening present. itive. When you get presents thank the lord foods, play and some other things, and that’s Then we would go to my Grandma Greene’s I get a lot of stuff like candy and games some- you get to have these toys because some kids my tradition. house and we also would open presents play. times. Another tradition is we eat with my don’t have as many toys as you, they might be Ledger N. DeMuth We would go to my Grandma Klatt and when grandpa and grandma and my Aunt and my poor so on Christmas if you have poor peo- Every year we hang our Christmas tree up everyone is in the living room the kids would sisters. At my grandma’s, we open our pres- ple living on the streets you can share your together. Our Christmas tree is as bright as open their presents wildly but funny though ent on Christmas Eve. On Christmas at my toys with them. All of us people are the same the sun. We make green and red countdown and then we would eat all together. When we house we open presents, and then we play it doesn’t matter what skin color or what chains until Christmas. We make cookies were done opening our presents, we would with are stuff we got. Then we eat food on See page 15 for more traditions STAR CHRISTMAS 2018 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 15 ¥!DEROOS!!CLASS!!TRADITIONS!¦ CONTINUED from page 14 they look like or if your rich and there ly nice thing if you read this you will be of it and walk away. Maybe you can tell poor Christmas and all holidays are for proud and want to do this too. This is a your parents how you feel. Do your best giving and sharing. If I were able to go really nice thing to do. I hope that this to earn your presents from Santa do not to a big city and give all my presents goes to the kids that don’t get to do like be naughty. Everyone who reads this away to poor people I would. And this what kids like us get to do. Don’t count I hope you respect this nice message year I would love to do that because anyone out of what they can and can’t I hope you do good in life have a very it’s not all about presents it’s all about do. I respect all people in this world. Be good day. family, sharing, caring, giving, thank- a kind and respectful kid to others. You Cline Edward Kirsch Sievers. fulness and kindness. We must all help should be nice and respectful wherever First, in 2016 Dec. 25, my mom made people who don’t have toys. I love the you’re at. Think of it donate to children tacos and a lot of guests will come - my toys that I get from my family and Santa who don’t get toys and your opportu- uncle, cousin and my ant came to my but I’d love to share with other children nity would be this Christmas. I would house to eat and virgen de Guadalupe who are in the Faith, Hope and Charity. love to get the chance to meet people is one tradition was the virgen de gua- Those kids do not have as much as us from the Faith, Hope and Charity and dalupe. Some people pass the virgen kids so I would donate all of my pres- share my presents with all of them. It for all the houses on 24th of December ents to them. I do not care about what would be a really fun time. My family to the end to month 29th of December they look like or what they can and can’t and I always open presents together we are going to the house of my uncle do they are the same as us children. We but this year I want to give my presents at 6 p.m. We did plays and dancing. If must treat other people how they treat away people who don’t have toys need you win you get a present. At the end of STAR PHOTO | STEVE PETERSON us. Everyone must respect their Elders. my toys more than me. That’s how I feel the night at 8 p.m. we have en toy full of My family is really kind when they see about everyone else. I will respect ev- ireworks. Then they go off until 12 a.m. Crescendo: All grades from Alta-Aurelia Elementary, this they will be proud and accept what eryone who respects me. Be nice if you until another year. at Aurelia, came together for the finale of the Dec. 11 I want to do for other kids. This is a real- get in trouble say your sorry don’t think Betty Tello Christmas performance.

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