{"id":52269,"date":"2013-12-12T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=52269"},"modified":"2013-12-11T20:53:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T01:53:44","slug":"thanks-to-all-of-santas-helpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=52269","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to all of Santa\u2019s Helpers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/letterstotheeditor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-764\" alt=\"letterstotheeditor\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/letterstotheeditor.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>(Hamilton, NY \u2013 Dec. 2013) Hamilton is filled with so many wonderful people\u2014and thanks to them the\u00a0Here Comes Santa\u00a0event was another success as almost 400 kids visited with Santa on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Every Christmas, the Palace Theater donates their space and holiday spirit to be transformed into The North Pole where children visit with Santa, Frosty, and Rudolph, play reindeer games, make holiday crafts, and enjoy cookies and hot chocolate. Once again I thank key people and merchants who tirelessly support this free community event that is a beautiful holiday tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Marv Hamstra, Colgate\u2019s DoRAC (Do Random Acts of Kindness) and Colgate\u2019s COVE students, Kathy Les, Joann Borfitz, Ruth Ransel, Margaret Wehrer and her sons Peter and Noah, Addison Schoonmaker, Emma Dudrick, Lauren LaRuffa, David Morgan, and David Augustine. The Hamilton Lions Club raises money from the sale of photos with Santa to benefit their causes in helping the local community. Hillary Virgil, the Hamilton Public Library Director read holiday stories as children waited in line to see Santa. Maxwell\u2019s Chocolates and Ice Cream created a \u201cjelly bean\u201d count. Holiday cookies, donut munchkins, hot chocolate and candy canes were donated by Kinney Drugs, Price Chopper, Byrne Dairy, and Dunkin\u2019 Donuts. Curtis Lumber donated wood so Roger Bauman and Fred von Mechow could build a gingerbread house that was then painted so adorably by Melissa Reynolds, who portrayed the Gingerbread Craft Lady.<\/p>\n<p>A huge thanks to the Colgate Konosioni Honor Society that continues to provide the best elves ever! Also, Fred von Mechow, my devoted and patient husband, who supports my ideas and events in so many ways. I would like to \u201cpay this giving spirit forward\u201d and invite everyone to celebrate a wonderful holiday by giving a bit of their time, energy and spirit~bring a smile to many faces. Thank you all so much!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patricia von Mechow<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> The Palace Theater<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: (Hamilton, NY \u2013 Dec. 2013) Hamilton is filled with so many wonderful people\u2014and thanks to them the\u00a0Here Comes Santa\u00a0event was another success as almost 400 kids visited with Santa on Dec. 7. Every Christmas, the Palace Theater donates their space and holiday spirit to be transformed into The North Pole where children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}