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InsideSanta letters and greetings This annual Christmas edition features pages full of letters to Santa and holiday greetings from lo-cal businesses.

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City police raidlocal game room For the second time this year, an alleged gam-bling location operating as a game room was raided here last weekend.

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Reception setfor firefighter A come-and-go reception honoring retiring Assistant Fire Chief Raymond Garcia will be held Tuesday at City Hall.

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Klondike hostshoop tourney Area hoop fans should be in store for quite a treat this coming week at Klondike with the Cougars hosting a huge three-day boys and girls basketball tournament.

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When asked about their favorite Christ-mas memories, most people recall family gatherings and the fun they re-

member with everyone opening their Christmas packages and sharing in the joy of the season.

For most people, Christ-mas traditionally is a time of happiness, gift giving and sharing of good times with family and friends. Some people have sad memories about personal events that may have oc-curred around a previous Christmas time, but most try and make the best of the holi-

day season each year. But almost everyone can recall at least one favorite memory of a past Christmas season that they have en-joyed during their lifetime. While most of those mem-ories seem to be centered around the closeness of their families when they were younger, others remember

something special that hap-pened in their lives at Christ-mas. The Press-Reporter staff asked several local residents to recall at least one of their favorite memories of Christ-mas for publication in this holiday edition of the news-paper.See CHRISTMAS, Page 2A

Joy of ChristmasLocal residents share their favorite memories

MAKING MEMORIES Regina Crutcher/Press-Reporter

Local churches invite all to seek the Spirit of Christmas Day by beginning the holy day in church. Friendship Baptist Church parishioners were to serve the Lord’s Supper on Christmas Eve, beginning at 5 p.m. Satur-day. That congregation will have its Christmas Day service at 10 a.m. Sunday, but no Sunday School will be held. The Christmas Night Mass at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church will be marked by the Kids’ Pageant, re-enacting the Nativity Scene. The First Presbyterian Church parishioners were to host a Christmas Eve service at

5 p.m. Saturday. That worship service was to include spiri-tual readings from the Christ-mas story, favorite traditional Christmas carols, and an open Communion Service for all Christians with a candlelight closing. Sunday worship on Christ-mas Day will begin at 11 a.m. for the Presbyterians. Casual attire is urged. The service will include telling the story of the birth of Jesus Christ in Christ-mas cards and a fun, congrega-tional participation telling of the Christmas story. There will be no Sunday School held on Christmas Day at the Presbyterian Church.

See CHURCHES, Page 2A

Christ is bornLocal churches holdingChristmas Day services

By Russel SkilesLamesa Press-Reporter Beleaguered Lamesa Memo-rial Park could wind up being owned and operated by Daw-son County pending an upcom-ing court decision and the po-tential lack of any purchasers. Following a closed session last-ing more than an hour this past Tuesday afternoon, the Dawson County Commissioners Court agreed to accept ownership of the property if offered to the county within the next 30 days by the Texas Department of Banking. “There’s nothing set in stone yet,” County Judge Foy O’Brien said on Wednesday. Any such action is dependent on the outcome of a hearing set for Jan. 11 on a lawsuit fi led by the state in district court here this past September seeking

to revoke Lamesa Memorial Park’s corporate charter. With the Texas Attorney Gen-eral’s offi ce alleging a long list of legal and other problems with the cemetery’s ownership and opera-tion, District Judge Carter Schil-dknecht in October appointed a temporary receiver to take over the cemetery’s operations. She also issued a temporary injunction at that time basically barring the cemetery’s owners, Lamesa Memorial Park LLC, from operating the cemetery and handling any cemetery re-cords or funds. Russell Reese, director of spe-cial audits for the Texas Depart-ment of Banking, was appointed as the temporary receiver and has been overseeing the ceme-tery’s operations since that time.

See CEMETERY, Page 2A

County eyeingpossibility oftaking cemetery

After almost a year of very little ac-tivity at the construction location for Lamesa’s new Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in the 800 block of North Lynn Ave-

nue, work has progressed rapidly in last three weeks. The exterior walls of the building have been erected and work is underway inside the structure.

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By Russel SkilesLamesa Press-Reporter Oilfi eld activity in the area south of Ackerly is creating a demand for groundwater in the southeastern part of Dawson County.

For the second straight month the directors of the Mesa Underground Water Conservation District this past Wednesday approved a permit allowing millions of gallons of water to be trans-ported out of the county.

The district issued a transport/operat-ing permit to allow Callon Petroleum Company to export an estimated 153 million gallons of water from the coun-ty during the next year. With an export fee based on the dis-

trict’s property tax rate, Callon will pay an estimated $2,450 annually for the permit, in addition to an initial $500 administrative fee, said Harvey Ever-heart, general manager of the district.

See DISTRICT, Page 2A

Water district approves permit to export water

The Mesa Underground Water Conservation District likely will have a slightly different name by this time next year. General Manager Harvey Ever-heart said he has been informed that the Texas Legislative Council will be recodifying the legislation that created the district in 1989. That process, he said, basically brings the legislation up to date with changes in the Texas Water Code and any other legislation that affects the district. “This is something that they do for groundwater districts every ses-sion,” Everheart said. “They take

four or fi ve districts, and we are one of the four or fi ve this year.” Also called nonsubstantive statutory revision, the process is designed “to clarify and simplify the statutes and make the statutes more accessible, understandable, and usable,” according to the Council’s website. It involves, among other things, rearranging the statutes in a more logical order; eliminating re-pealed, invalid and other ineffec-tive provisions; and improving the wording of the law without alter-ing the sense, meaning or effect.

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Th e following were among the many calls responded to by the Lamesa Police Department between 6 a.m. Tuesday, De-cember 20, and 6 a.m. Wednes-day, December 21: Tuesday, December 20 10:24 a.m. – A female reported a minor, two-vehicle accident in the 2200 block of Lubbock High-way. The caller advised there were no injuries. Officers responded and an accident report was com-pleted. 12:44 p.m. – A male at the emergency room of Medical Arts Hospital, 2202 North Bryan Av-enue, reported that a male, whom he identified, had been attached by a dog. Officers responded and attempted to contact the owner of the dog. An arrest was made. 1:50 p.m. – A female in the 100 block of NE 25th Street reported a

male, whom she identified, was at that location and being violent. Officers responded and the male subject advised that he was trying to retrieve his personal property from the residence. An officer ad-vised the male subject was leaving the area. An incident report was completed. 2:38 p.m. – A male in the 1500 block of Boston Avenue reported criminal mischief to his vehicle. The complainant advised that someone had scratched up his ve-hicle. Officers responded and an offense report was completed. 4:14 p.m. – A female in the 500 block of South 6th Street re-ported that her husband, whom she identified, was trying to break into the residence. Officers responded and an offense report was completed. 4:58 p.m. – A female reported a minor, two-vehicle accident in the 1000 block of North 4th

Street. The caller advised there were no injuries. Officers respond-ed and met with both drivers – a 28-year-old male from El Paso and a 42-year-old female from Lamesa – and an accident report was completed. 8:23 p.m. – A female reported a suspicious person/vehicle at a business in the 1100 block of Seminole Highway. Officers re-sponded and one male subject was arrested. 8:50 p.m. – A male reported a theft at a business in the 2200 block of Lubbock Highway. The complainant advised that an item belonging to his wife was stolen at that location. Officers responded and an incident report was com-pleted.

Wednesday, December 21(No offenses, accidents nor arrests were reported by 6 a.m. inside the city limits.)

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CHURCHES........................................Continued from Page 1 The worship schedule for the Grace Lutheran Church was to include a Christmas Eve ser-vice at 6 p.m. Saturday. Holy Communion will be cele-brated on Christmas Day at 9 a.m. Sunday at the Lutheran church. The First United Method-ist Church was to conduct a

Christmas Eve service, begin-ning at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, followed by a Come-And-Go Communion Service from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Christmas Day’s service will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday with no Sunday School at First United Methodist Church. The First Baptist Church will

celebrate Christmas Day with a service at 10:30 a.m. Sun-day. There will be no Sunday School classes conducted on Christmas Day. The Second Baptist Church congregation will observe a candlelight service on Christ-mas Day, at 10 a.m. No Sunday School classes will be held.

Continued from Page 1 O’Brien said Reese joined the commissioners court in Tues-day’s closed session, which was listed on the agenda “to delib-erate the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property.” Also in that closed meeting were County Attorney Steve Payson, County Auditor Rick Dollahan, and Terri Stahl, pres-ident of the county’s cemetery board. According to O’Brien, Reese has not had anyone make an offer to purchase the cemetery

if it becomes available. The action taken by the com-missioners court authorizes O’Brien to accept Lamesa Memorial Park as a gift to the county if it is offered by the Banking Department. “We’ll just see where it goes from this point,” O’Brien told the Press-Reporter. “We are ready to accept it for the county if it comes to that.” He said county offi cials sim-ply want to ensure the cem-etery is properly operated and maintained.

The county already owns and operates the Dawson County Cemetery adjacent to Lamesa Memorial Park. Both are lo-cated just south of Lamesa. If the county does eventually take control of Lamesa Memo-rial Park, O’Brien said, they would need to hire additional employees and face a lot of work in restoring the facility to a satisfactory condition. “We all have ties to that ceme-tery,” he said. “We all have fam-ily and loved ones out there. It just needs to be taken care of.”

Continued from Page 1 As part the process, howev-er, Everheart said the name of the district will be changed to Mesa Groundwater Conserva-tion District. If approved by the legisla-ture as expected, Everheart said, that change likely would go into effect next September.

Board member Brent Staggs expressed concern about the cost involved if the district has to change the name on its building, on stationary, and other locations. Everheart said that while the offi -cial name of the district will change there will be no requirement that the district suddenly change every-thing to refl ect the new name.

Noting that another groundwa-ter district in the area uses word-ing on its vehicles that is slightly different than its offi cial name, he said a slight difference in how the Mesa district’s name is written should not be a problem. “We will not have to change anything unless we want to,” Everheart said.

CHRISTMAS..................................................................................................Continued from Page 1 Those memories follow:

— — — — — Mirl Clement loves Christ-mas. She says it is her favorite day of the year. “Family, food, music, the lights – I love it all,” Clem-ent said. “Having family come back, cooking a big meal for everyone – I love to cook. “They always want the same thing ... my turkey and dressing. As long as I can cook it, I’m going to.” To Clement, it seems that people are happier than usual at Christmas. “The beautiful music and the beautiful lights just put a smile on your face. People just seem happier. I’m so glad that we live in a small town so we can drive up and down the streets and enjoy the lights,” she said. Clement plans to welcome home her children, six grand-children and eight great-grand-children for Christmas this year. Clement volunteers some of her time at the Dawson Coun-ty Senior Citizens Center in Lamesa.

— — — — — Louis Chapa does not spend much time thinking about his childhood Christmases. “We were very, very poor. I was think-ing about this earlier,” Chapa said, “I don’t remember getting a gift when I was young. We just didn’t

have the money.” Chapa is a Knights of Co-lumbus member who helps hand out fruit to children who go to see Santa Claus in the Lamesa Head Start and A Bright Beginnings programs. “I enjoy the kids being hap-py. I see those big smiles. See how happy they are?,” Chapa said. “That’s what I remember about Christmas. I’m gonna do this as long as I can.”

— — — — — Victor Borrego played Santa Claus for the fi rst time when he was still a freshman at Lamesa High School. “They needed a Santa at the Head Start building. It was over there behind the Sky-Vue back then. I volunteered to do it,” Borrego said. “I was so skinny the suit didn’t fi t and there weren’t any boots for me, so I had to wear my yel-low tennis shoes. “I had one little kid ask me why Santa had on yellow shoes. I remember that.” Borrego was wearing his old-fashioned, Father Christ-mas red suit this past Tuesday as he welcomed to his lap the children from Head Start and A Bright Beginnings. “I have three (Santa) suits now and now I don’t need a pillow to stuff them. I do that naturally now!” he laughed. “I still wear suspenders, even though I can keep the pants up ... can’t have Santa lose his pants!” Borrego has played Santa periodically for many years. This is his eighth consecutive year to be the Santa for Head Start and A Bright Beginnings. He also has donned the red suit for several years at the Daw-son County Public Library, the Lamesa Boys and Girls Club and for the Christmas on the Square.

“For these kids, I’m the real Santa. They see Santa on mov-ies and on TV, but they can touch me, sit on my lap and we can talk. I’m real for them and I love doing this,” he said. Borrego even surprised some of his family several years ago when his nephews and nieces were younger. “We had gone to midnight Mass and then I snuck out and put on the suit. The nephews and nieces were so excited. It’s going great, then my brother-in-law says, ‘Where’s Victor?’ Everyone started laughing. He really didn’t know it was me. We still tease him about that,” said Borrego.

While Santa’s quaint “Ho, Ho, Hos” may seem old-fash-ioned, Borrego says the smile on his face is genuine. The ex-citement of the children is con-tagious. “Most of them are excited to see me. They can’t wait to talk to me and ask for toys. But you sometimes get the sad wishes about kids wanting their Dad-dy out of jail. That’s hard, but I just tell them that Santa is praying hard for their Daddy. I try to make it a happy time, but I take each heartache with me,” he said. Borrego makes it a priority to win over any suspicious or crying child.

“I don’t want to scare the kids. That’s why I really try to connect with them. I don’t want this to scare them,” he said.

— — — — — For Dawson County Clerk Gloria Vera the large fam-ily gatherings at her parents’ house are her fondest memo-ries of Christmas. “There were seven of us girls and two boys and we would all gather together along with our families at mom and dad’s house on North 10th Street,” Vera said. “It was just a small house and it was fi lled with people and love. “I remember everyone joy-ously opening their pres-ents with the wrapping paper strewn all over the living room fl oor and almost to the ceiling, it seemed.” Vera said her mother would make tamales for Christmas and everyone enjoyed the food and visiting. “Those were the best of times,” Vera said, “and even now all my nephews and nieces still remember and talk about those Christmases spent at my parents’ house. “You really appreciate those times and cherish the memo-ries even more after both of your parents are no longer alive.” Vera said her children and grandchildren now all come to her house for Christmas and they all are making memories of their own.

— — — — — Christmas is always consid-ered as a special time of the

year, Dawson County Judge Foy O’Brien said, since it is a time spent with family and friends. “I look forward to every Christmas, but I still remember and miss the Christmases past,” Judge O’Brien said. “I couldn’t wait until we had Christmas at my grandpar-ents’ house, Cecil and Rene O’Brien. There always was lots to eat and I sure couldn’t wait to open presents. “The house seemed to have a certain special smell at Christ-mas that just wasn’t there any other time of year.” Judge O’Brien said Christ-mas at his Mamma and Papa Foster’s house was just as ex-citing. “Every year Mamma would lay the law down to us kids about throwing wadded up pa-per that had been used to wrap our gifts,” Judge O’Brien re-called. “We seemed to get by with it until one year her hair piece was knocked off. That was the end of that, so they say.” Now Judge O’Brien’s family meets with his Mom and Dad – Joe and Betty O’Brien – and with Kelley’s Mom and Dad – Scott and Jerre Pepper – along with all other family members for Christmas. “It’s just as special now as it was back then,” Judge O’Brien said about Christmas. “I may be older on the outside, but I’m still young inside. “I hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas and I thank God daily for all the blessings He has given me throughout the year.”

Victor Borrego has been playing the role of Santa Claus since he was a freshman in Lamesa High School and visiting with the children is one of his favorite parts of Christmas.

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DISTRICT............................................Continued from Page 1 Everheart told the board the company has purchased water rights from two landowners, John Snell and Reggie Ham-brick, in the Ackerly area. He also informed the board that a transport/operating per-mit issued last month to Select Energy Resources has been amended to include additional acreage. The permit initially called for an estimated 101 million gallons of water to be trans-ported out of the county from about 1,152 acres of property owned by Marion Lea and Joy Snell in the Ackerly area. Everheart said that permit has been amended to include another block of land owned by Gaskins Double G. “All of this is north and east of Ackerly,” Everheart said. The amendment to the Se-lect Energy Resources permit only added additional acre-age to the permit but did not change the amount of water to be exported, Everheart said. With that additional acre-age, however, Everheart said the amount of water exported eventually could increase sub-stantially. “They have the authority to export a lot more water than their export permit is for,” Everheart said. “If you take all of the land that they have signed contracts for they could get a permit for about 200 mil-lion gallons of water.” Board member Brent Staggs, who lives and farms in the Ackerly area, said oil compa-nies are offering a premium for water rights in the that area. “Most (landowners) are re-

ceiving 40 cents a barrel,” Staggs reported. At that price, he said, a sin-gle well producing 100 gallons a minute, if operated 24 hours a day, could net $30,000 to $40,000 per month. Everheart said he expects the demand for water to increase. Several of the water well permits issued this month were for oilfi eld supply wells in that area, and Everheart said anoth-er person came to the offi ce on Tuesday seeking permits for 10 wells to serve the oil indus-try. The well permits approved on Wednesday by the board included fi ve for Marion Snell, four for Terry Brown, three for Billie Estes and one each for Dan Shortes and Ronnie Tay-lor. Vehicle usage policy Also on Wednesday the board approved a new policy regarding personal use of dis-trict-owned vehicles. That policy will require dis-trict employees – specifi cally Everheart – to reimburse the district the standard mileage rate, as set by the Internal Rev-enue Service, for personal use of a district vehicle. Derek Ray, the district’s fi -nancial auditor, last month en-couraged the district to adopt a policy for use of district ve-hicles. That policy, he said, could either require the employee to reimburse the district, require personal use of vehicles to be treated as taxable compensa-tion, or simply ban employee use of district autos. Everheart currently uses a

district-owned pickup while at work and also drives it to and from his house. That mileage to and from home is consid-ered personal use of the pick-up. “I think this is a Derek is-sue, not a Mesa UWCD issue,” Everheart said of the situation. “For 27 years we haven’t had a problem.” While board members said it might be easiest to require the pickup remain at the offi ce each night, leaving it outside in the offi ce parking lot could expose it to vandalism. Everheart said he would not have a problem reimbursing the district for a three-mile round trip each day from his home to the offi ce. That would amount to about $8.10 per week if he drives the pickup back and forth fi ve days a week.

District sells trailers Board members accepted bids submitted by Whitney Williams, husband of Admin-istrative Manager Whitney Williams, for three trailers be-ing sold by the district. Nine people submit-ted sealed bids, which were opened at the meeting, on one or more of the trailers that are no longer being used by the district. Williams submitted the high bid on all three trailers, offer-ing $3,977 for a large trailer containing a welder and other equipment, $566 for a smaller box trailer, and $450 for a wa-ter trailer. Board member Al Crisp was not in attendance at Wednes-day’s meeting.

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Receptionset Tuesdayfor Garcia A come-and-go reception honoring retiring Assistant Fire Chief Raymond Garcia will be held from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27, at Lamesa City Hall. Garcia will be retiring effec-tive Dec. 31 after 35 years of service with the City of Lamesa and fi ve years of service as a volunteer fi refi ghter. Everyone is invited to attend the reception.

Tony Brown, a 1993 graduate of Lamesa High School, recent-ly was elected as a 2016 Dal-las Independent School District (DISD) Teacher of the Year. On receiving this award, Coach Brown refl ected on the values that were instilled in him by countless teachers, coaches, and friends in the Lamesa com-munity. He said he was taught the value of hard work, persis-tence, giving, back, and most importantly that education is the key that unlocks many doors. These core values have made him passionate for helping young people reach their poten-tial. Through the Distinguished Review Process, Dallas ISD recognizes teachers who dem-onstrate leadership, pursue learning opportunities, contrib-ute to the profession of educa-tion, and promote academic excellence. “These award-winning facul-ty showcase a passionate com-mitment to engaging students in teaching and learning,” said Cynthia McFarland, principal at Edna Rowe Elementary. “We are proud to recognize Coach Brown’s important contribu-tions on our campus.” Brown has taught Physical Education at Edna Rowe El-ementary School for 14 years. As part of his contribution to the teaching profession, he developed and implemented a mentoring program for fi fth grade males at Edna Rowe. The program is designed to improve the academic performance of the students and provide char-acter development. The men-

toring program has been a huge success, helping boost the stu-dents’ self-confi dence, and sig-nifi cantly decreasing behavior-al problems and offi ce referrals at the school. Students were able to take the information they learned as part of the program and use self-control when handling dis-agreements with other students and/or teachers. In addition, some students’ academic per-formance and standardized test results improved. Brown also served as the Af-terschool Program Director at Edna Rowe and was responsi-ble for providing children with a safe, academically enriching and fun environment. Under his leadership the school was able to increase the student participation rate to 75 percent with the diverse programming offered. Programs included sports, music, arts, Destination Imagination, and academic tu-toring among others.

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For the second time this year, an alleged gambling location operating as a game room was raided here last weekend at 905 North Lynn Avenue. The Lamesa Police Depart-ment executed a search warrant for the game room just before 2 p.m. last Saturday, according to Lieutenant Tommy Arguijo. The gaming devices and cur-rency were seized by police, Arguijo said this past week, but no arrests were made and no charges had been fi led. “This case is still under in-vestigation,” Arguijo told the Press-Reporter. Although the game room was in the same rented location as one that was raided back in July, Arguijo said it was a dif-ferent person who was operat-ing the game room this time. “The current game room only had been running a couple of months, but we had received information that illegal gam-bling still was going on at that location,” Arguijo said. Following an investigation, he said, the search warrant was obtained by police. Back in July, Chief of Police Dale E. Alwan Sr. said Texas law allows game machines

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to be used only for entertain-ment. They are limited to pay-ing out no more than ten times the amount charged to play or a maximum of $5, whichever is less. He said the players are sup-posed to win tokens and are not supposed to get large amounts of cash.

By Herrel HallmarkLamesa Press-Reporter Members of the Lamesa City Council only took fi ve minutes to address two items that were on the agenda for a special called meeting held this past Wednesday evening. Those agenda items were for the separate awarding of engineering and administra-tive services for the proposed 2017/2018 Texas Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) water system im-provement projects. Mayor Josh Stevens had opened four requests for quali-fi cations that were received for those services during the coun-cil’s regular meeting on Tues-day evening. Members of the city staff and Administrative Commit-tee were directed to score the packets that were submitted and to make a recommendation at Wednesday’s special, called council meeting. Out of the three fi rms that

submitted packets for engineer-ing services, Parkhill Smith and Cooper was recommended and approved by the council as the most qualifi ed fi rm to be desig-nated as the city’s fi rst choice for those services. City Manager Shawna Bur-khart said Parkhill Smith and Cooper scored higher than the other two fi rms because “it has the most similar projects within this region.” The other two fi rms that sub-mitted packets were KSA En-gineers and David B. Stephens and Associates, Inc. Only one fi rm, HOWCO Services, Inc., had submitted a packet for the administrative services of the project. Council members approved the designation of HOWCO as the city’s fi rst choice for those services. In addition to Mayor Ste-vens, those in attendance for the meeting were Council members Brant Stewart, Fred Vera and Marie Briseno.

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The Ackerly area in south-eastern Dawson County contin-ues to be an area of interest for oil exploration efforts. The Texas Railroad Commis-sion in recent weeks has issued two permits for new oil drilling operations in that area, as well as a permit for recompletion of an existing well. A permit also was issued for a new drilling operation near Punkin Center. Texland Petroleum of Fort Worth received permits to drill two new wells about six miles northwest of Ackerly and a short distance west of Highway 87. Both the No. 108 and the No. 109 Northeast Ackerly Dean Unit are permitted for a total depth of 8,800 feet.

Ackerly area sees drilling activity Survey location for the No. 108 is 1,975 feet from the north line and 1,123 feet from east line of Section 30, Block 34 T4N of the T&P Railroad Co./A.M. Rendleman Survey, Abstract 644. The No. 109 will be located less than 1,000 feet to the northwest of that site. Legacy Reserves Operating of Midland obtained a permit for recompletion of the No. 1 Shavano “35” which, according to the permit, is located about two miles north of Ackerly. Work on that well is sched-uled to a depth of 9,257 feet. The survey location is 767 feet from the south line and 1,776 feet from the west line of Section 35, Block 34 T4N of the T&P Railroad Co. Survey. A permit was issued to Lub-

bock-based Smith Energy Op-erating to drill the No. 1 Riddel 14 about 12 miles northwest of Lamesa and two miles north of Punkin Center. That drilling operation is scheduled for a total depth of 9,000 feet. Survey location is 191 feet from the north line and 1,918 feet from the east line of Sec-tion 14, Block M of the EL&RR Railroad Co./W.E. Gaines Sur-vey.

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Please Join Us FOR A COME AND GO RETIREMENT RECEPTION FOR

ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF, RAYMOND GARCIA

11a.m. till 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 27, 2016Lamesa City Hall, 601 S 1st

Garcia will be retiring December 31st after 35 years of service with the City

of Lamesa and 5 years of service as a Volunteer Firefighter.

You may recall “been there/done that” experiences differ-ently. If so, be my guest. Mine

is a mundane wish that you close out the old year as you choose. It is, after all, your life, and only a few hours remain before peals of 2017 bells are heard. During an aborted springtime trip to San Diego – one of the world’s most beautiful cities – I beheld the grandeur with just one eye. It was a strange way to awaken that fateful morn-ing. Loss of half my vision overnight was not anticipated. Dashed were plans to explore a city where all seasons yield to spring. Taking priority were plans to change plane reser-vations for a return home to the Metroplex ASAP. Back home, Dr. Parchue – an oph-thalmologist whose name sounds like a sneeze – diagnosed a damaged and detached retina. Within hours, he had performed surgery, and my pilgrim-age back to restored vision – albeit slower than preferred – was under-way. Caring friends asked if I’d been a wreck or sustained a blow to the head. “Can’t anything be the result of high mileage?” I countered. It’s a plus that the “mind’s eye” is 20-20. Heading the recall list is akin to “California dreaming.” To some readers, my memories of a shortened trip may seem to be in an unlikely order. We had spent our last “full vision” day at the San Diego Zoo, SeaWorld and beach walking near the San Diego Hilton Resort and Spa, where the grounds were awash in greenery, fl owers and leisurely walkways. What we most remember, however, were not “up close” visits to destina-tions featured in travel brochures. Instead, we recall the joy of children being children. Some busied them-selves in simple joys of pursuing a mother duck with her ducklings. Others were enthralled by a collec-tion of dogs, cats, birds and pigs. The “collection” – at least a large majority – has one thing in common. Before they were trained for “stardom,” they were shelter-adopted animals. The children seemed oblivious to promotions, particularly at SeaWorld, where Shamu’s whale act is ending its long run this year. Of course, the youngsters joined adults in applaud-ing Shamu. Their prolonged clapping, however, was for the rescue animals. And why not? These “lesser stars” – devoid of pedigrees and portfolios – performed as if their lives depended on fl awless performances. Maybe it is more likely they anticipated pet treats awaiting them at acts’ end. Back to the ducks. As the sun was in descent’s fi nal rays, I chose to “sit a spell” on a hotel bench. I marveled at my wife’s careful inspection of numerous fl owering plants. She even spelled their names so convincingly that I would have challenged anyone suggesting corrections. Soon to command my attention, however, were a couple of tykes, likely brother and sister. The older was perhaps six years of age; the other, around four. They fell behind a mother duck and her 10 trailing ducklings. They mostly kept a safe distance a few paces behind. When the mother duck accelerated, her brood scam-pered to keep pace, and so did the children. I resisted the temptation to pick up a duckling for the children to feel their soft yellow down. I did, however, reseat myself several times as they paraded up and down walk-ways. As dusk drew in, the parents herded the children toward the res-taurant. The youngsters looked back, however, for fi nal glimpses of the little ducklings as they followed their mother, waddling away into the night. I was grateful for my doctor’s dismissal some three months later. Surgery had been successful, and vi-sion in my damaged eye was at least 95% renewed. It’s a grand feeling, at year’s end, to enjoy reasonable vision and generally good health. There’s much for which to be thankful, including the “mind’s eye,” which seems never to age. I intend to depend on all three eyes in 2017, however, and wish for you and yours good health and much happiness. Don Newbury is a speaker in the Dal-las/Fort Worth Metroplex. Inquiries/com-ments to: [email protected].

Forum‘Mind’s eye’vision 20/20


Forester Sisters offered beautiful harmonyWhen Russel Skiles an-

nounced that he was looking for regular folks to

write a column in the Press-Reporter, I knew it was an opportu-nity too good to pass up. I’ve been writing as long I can remember. My love affair with the written word has covered almost everything. I’ve written poems, short stories, essays for school, even letters to the editor that have been printed in the local paper. Writing is one of my favorite pastimes, and so is music. There are many people such as myself who prefer the songs of yester-year to the obscenity-laced rappers and “auto-tuned” voices that currently populate the radio airwaves. One group that was popular in coun-try music when I was growing up was

the Forester Sisters. They began their string of hit singles in the mid-80s but it wasn’t until the end of the decade that I became attached to their music.

For those who don’t know who they are, the Foresters were four sisters who grew up in the small community of Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Their names from oldest to youngest were Kathy, June, Kim and Christy. They were signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1984 and released their debut single, “(That’s What You Do) When You’re In Love,” that same year. It reached the top 10 on the country

charts and their next 13 singles would follow suit, with 5 of them going to #1. By the mid-90s, the Foresters were faced with a dilemma. After work-ing a hectic touring and recording

schedule for the past decade Kathy, June and Christy had already started families of their own. Would they continue living the country music lifestyle or settle down at home and watch their children grow up? They chose the latter. Kathy and June resumed their teaching careers they put on hold to pursue music full time, while Kim and Christy went back to school and earned their degrees in interior design. The Foresters and their families still reside in Lookout Mountain. In 2013 the group was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame along-side other music greats from their home state. As much as I enjoyed listening to the Forester Sisters back then, I can still enjoy them today thanks to YouTube. You just don’t hear good country music or beautifully blended harmonies like theirs anymore.

Guest columnBy Steven Waldie

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from

Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was fi rst made when Cyrenius was gover-nor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her fi rstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fi eld, keeping watch over their fl ock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall fi nd the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shep-herds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

The Holy BibleLuke 2:1-20(King James Version)

TheChristmas

Story

The IdleAmerican

by Don Newbury

4th of 4

Matthew 1:17: “So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen gen-

erations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations. 18“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 19Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not will-ing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. 20But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. 21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. 22Now all this was done, that it might be fulfi lled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying 23Behold, a virgin shall

be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. 24Then Joseph being

raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: 25And knew her not till she had brought forth her fi rstborn son: and he called his name JE-SUS.” This morning is Christ-mas, and thousands upon thousands of gifts are going to be opened. They will be gifts with vari-ous time limits on them. Some will be outgrown; some will become old and worn and discarded; some will be taken back and

exchanged for something else, and it goes. Some homes will be fi lled with gifts in an unimaginable amount. Some, and probably too many, have been looking all year to this day because there will be presents under a tree. Over 2,000 years ago The Great-est Story Ever came to this earth in a virgin womb... a womb that only God knew fi rst, placing that holy Seed in it to be born Jesus. God gave one Gift, once and for all, having in it (Him)

such content that the one receiving it would never have need again. Joh 1:12: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” Joh 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” Ro 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Php 4:13: “I can do all thing through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Php 4:19: “But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” 1Jo 4:9-10: “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” If you don’t have the Gift of God in your heart, you are lost forever and all other gifts are actually meaningless in the end.

Charles Empey is the pastor of Crest-view Baptist Church in Lamesa.

Sharing OurSavior’s Wordby Charles Empey

The Greatest Story Ever - the gift of God

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Gold Star Members180 ExpressAaron’s Sales & LeaseAcevado’s RestaurantAdcock Gin Co.Addison Custom Builders, Inc.Advanced Auto RepairAurora CoopAuto Zone Stores, Inc.Lee BarronBeeHive Homes of LamesaBest Western – Lamesa Inn & SuitesBethel Nix RealtyBoost MobileBranon Funeral HomeBrock Veterinary ClinicBob & Elena BrownBush’s ChickenRoy & Marylyn ByrdCaprock Federal Credit UnionCASA of West TexasChef’s HubCity of LamesaClaiborne’s ThriftwayCommercial ElectricConsumer Technology SolutionsCornerstone FellowshipCraig Cowan DDS, Inc.Creative InksCrop Production ServicesDaddios Burrito ExpressDal Paso MuseumDawson County CommissionersDawson County Public LibraryFamily Harvest ChurchFarm to MarketFarmers Machine ShopFirst Baptist ChurchFirst United BankFollow the Smoke BBQ & CateringJulie FrizzellGary, Bowers & MillerGebo’s Get & Go CasserolesGlobe Energy ServicesGrub HubDorothy HaneyNelda & Jerry HarrisH & R BlockH2 TaxidermyHelena Chemical Co.Helton ChiropracticHenry Norris Ins. AgencyHigginbotham –Bartlett Co.Home HospiceHoward CollegeHughes PlumbingMike & Peggy HughesHungry Bear PizzaPam HuseIce TowerJ Ferg ProsJae FitnessJeanie Coor - State Farm Ins.Jonathan Goode Ins. AgencyJones McCall PharmacyNora Ortiz-JuarezK-Bob’s SteakhouseKiwanis Club Kwik Kar Oil & LubeLa Vedera RV ParkLamesa Cotton Growers Inc.Lamesa Country Club Lamesa DelintingLamesa DentalLamesa EDC/LEAPLamesa Industrial FoundationLamesa Irrigation Co. Lamesa I.S.D.Lamesa National BankLamesa Press ReporterLamesa Rental StorageLamesa Rotary ClubLamesa Tire & Battery, Inc.Lavish Spa and BouTEAqueLaw Offi ce of Roxanne CoxMargie’s Flowers & GiftsMartinez Auto ShopMasonic Lodge, Milam 11McCall’s by JulieMcDonald’s RestaurantDavid & Betty MerrickJane MerrickKelli MerrittMesquite Creek Wind, LLCMidwest FinanceMichael Munk, District AttorneyMike and Greta MiersMirror Mirror Names & NumbersNAPA Auto PartsNewberry Leonard Horton & BairringtonNix ImplementNTS CommunicationsPayton PlumbingPedroza’s Mexican Food RestaurantPedroza’s Travel AgencyPosh SalonRK Custom Boots & LeatherworksRaider Pump and Supply, Inc.Reed A. Filley. Attorney at LawReid Bethel TireChris & Alisa RigginsRite Shine Car WashRiver of Life FellowshipRoy Motor Co.Russell Cellular (Verizon Wireless)S & C Oil, Co.Sage Healthcare CenterSam Stevens, Inc.Carter Schildknecht, District JudgeSharon Youngblood Realty, LLCShiloh InnJim & Brenda ShookSissy’s DiveWayne & Connie SmithWayne & Shanna SmithSonic Drive-InSouthern Inn & SuitesSouth Plains Public Health DistrictStephens, Stephens & TelchikTascosa Offi ce Machines, Inc.Texas A&M AgriLife ExtensionThairapy SalonTruck TownTwilight ElectricUnited SupermarketWest Texas 6 Man Youth Sports, Inc.Wiley’s Food StoreConnie Williams – Forrest Fest

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Happy New YearThe Chamber of Commerce will be closed on Friday, December 23rd

and Monday, December 26th in observance of Christmas and Monday, January 2nd in observance on New Year’s Day.

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We will be taking nominations for Man of the Year, Woman of the Year

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A Special Thank You to the sponsors of the OW Follis Varsity Boys and the LMS Girl’s Basketball Tournaments.

We couldn’t have done it without you!

OW FOLLIS SPONSORS

Aurora CoopBeeHive Homes of LamesaBethel Nix RealtyBob & Elena BrownCaprock Federal Credit UnionClaiborne’s ThriftwayCope Sand & GravelDr. Craig Cowan, DDS, IncCreative InksFulbright & Casselberry, Attorneys at LawHenry Norris Ins. AgencyJones McCall PharmacyK-Bob’s SteakhouseKwik Kar Oil & LubeLamesa Boys & Girls ClubLamesa ButaneLamesa DelintingLamesa ISDLamesa National Bank

McCall’s by JulieMcDonald’s RestaurantMedical Arts HospitalJane MerrickKelli MerrittMorningstar Donuts & CoffeeNewberry, Leonard, Horton & BairringtonNix ImplementGeorge & Win NormanNTS CommunicationsOasis Gin, IncFoy O’Brien, County JudgePaul Wade State Farm Ins.Reid Bethel TireWayne & Connie SmithTwilight Electric Charles WarrenWiley’s Food Store

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Aurora CoopBeeHive Homes of LamesaBethel Nix RealtyBob & Elena BrownCaprock Federal Credit UnionClaiborne’s ThriftwayCope Sand & GravelDr. Craig Cowan, DDS, IncCreative InksFulbright & Casselberry, Attorneys at LawHenry Norris Ins. AgencyJones McCall PharmacyK-Bob’s SteakhouseKwik Kar Oil & LubeLamesa Boys & Girls ClubLamesa ButaneLamesa DelintingLamesa ISDLamesa National Bank

McCall’s by JulieMcDonald’s RestaurantMedical Arts HospitalJane MerrickKelli MerrittMorningstar Donuts & CoffeeNewberry, Leonard, Horton & BairringtonNix ImplementGeorge & Win NormanNTS CommunicationsOasis Gin, IncFoy O’Brien, County JudgePaul Wade State Farm Ins.Reid Bethel TireWayne & Connie SmithTwilight Electric Charles WarrenWiley’s Food Store

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Spike Dykes FordUnited SupermarketsClaiborne’s ThriftwayMcDonald’sStripes-Laredo Taco CompanyBush’s ChickenPedroza’s/Grub HubLamesa Fire RescueDaddio’s Burrito Express

Shanna SmithPam HuseShawna BurkhartCookie ShookShelley BarronMelissa MatlockBrent & Jeannie FowlerCharles and Duronell WarrenRobin Wiley

Aurora CoopBeeHive Homes of LamesaBethel Nix RealtyBrenda Wilson, CPABob & Elena BrownCaprock Federal Credit UnionClaiborne’s ThriftwayCope Sand & GravelDr. Craig CowanFred DaffernDavis Furniture & Hardware Co.Family Harvest ChurchFirst United Methodist ChurchFollow the Smoke BBQFulbright & Casselberry, Attorneys at LawHenry Norris Ins. AgencyIndian Canyon RanchJones McCall PharmacyKiwanis ClubLamesa ButaneLamesa DelintingLamesa ISDLamesa National BankLamesa Press ReporterLamesa Senior CitizensMatlock & Associates, IncMedical Arts HospitalJane MerrickKelli MerrittMorningStar Donuts & CoffeeNewberry, Leonard, Horton & BairringtonNix Implement Co.George & Win NormanNorthland Cable Ventures, LLC.NTS CommunicationsOasis Gin, Inc.Foy O’Brien, County JudgePaul Wade – State Farm Ins.Payton PlumbingPugh’s JewelryRaider Pump & Supply Reid Bethel TireShannon ForbesSharon Youngblood RealtyWayne & Connie SmithSonic Drive-InStephens, Stephens & TelchikTascosa Offi ce Machines, Inc.Truck Town DodgeTwilight Electric Charles WarrenLarry & Vicki WhitmanWiley’s Food Store

A special Thank You to our Christmas Sponsors

The Lamesa Chamber of Commerce presents

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Located at Main and South 1st StreetThe show runs every night from 6pm – 6am

Turn your radio to 88.5FM Bring your friends and family and enjoy the light show

from the warmth and comfort of your car.

A Special “Thank You” to Adam Oliva and his family for their hard work and dedication to

making our fi rst Annual Christmas Light Show a success.

Congratulations to the winners of the Merriest Window Contest 1st Place

Pedroza’s Restaurant2nd Place

Farm to Market3rd Place

Pugh’s Jewelry

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“Deck the House Contest” There are 4 houses entered in this year’s contest. They are all AMAZING. You will want to drive

by and see them. Pictures and addresses are on our website at

www.lamesachamber.org Voting is open through December 27th.

The winners will be announced on our websiteDecember 28th

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The nomination of Scott Pruitt as admin-istrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging news for Texas farmers and ranchers threatened by the agency’s regulatory overreach, accord-ing to the Texas Farm Bureau (TFB), the state’s largest general farm organization. President-elect Donald Trump selected Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, to head the federal agency. “We anticipate Scott Pruitt, as adminis-trator, understands that common-sense pol-icies are needed by EPA, not burdensome

regulations that threaten the livelihood of those who work every day with natural re-sources,” said TFB President Russell Boe-ning of Poth. “We’re confi dent Scott Pruitt will steer EPA to end the aggressive and punitive approach to regulating that has unfortunately become the agency’s trade-mark in recent years.” Boening said Pruitt has indicated he in-tends to run EPA in a way that fosters both responsible protection of the environment and freedom for American businesses. Boening said he hopes Pruitt can rein in

an agency that is operating, in some cases, outside of its constitutional and statutory authority. As Oklahoma attorney general, Pruitt has been active in legally challenging EPA’s controversial Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule. “Farmers and ranchers want a different philosophy at EPA. Mr. Pruitt is an indi-vidual who represents the real change at an agency that has been adversarial against family farmers and ranchers for too long,” Boening said

Farm Bureau leadership pleasedwith nomination to head EPA

The Southern Mesa Agricultural Con-ference has beens scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 16, at the Forrest Park Community Center in Lamesa. The conference will focus on regula-tions and policies affecting Texas agri-culture. The program also will feature information on the latest technology for dryland and irrigated production of cot-ton. Speakers from across the state and the South Plains area will make presentations concerning current research production trials. Producers will have the opportu-nity to discuss their experiences with ex-perts, specialists, and other growers. Registration will begin at 7:45 a.m. and the program will start at 8:00 a.m.

Topics and speakers include: “Multiple Topics Covering Weed Management” by Peter Dotray; “Irrigation Programs and Develop-ments in the High Plains” by Dana Porter; “Successful Production Through Management Control Strategies of Cot-ton Diseases” by Jason Woodward; “TDA Laws and Regs” by Steven Boston; “Improved ways to Manage Nema-todes in Cotton” by Terry Wheeler “Production Input From Variety Tri-als of 2016” by Seth Byrd; and “Cotton Market Outlook and Insur-ance Implications” by John Robinson. A report also will be presented by a rep-resentative of Plains Cotton Growers.

Registration fee is $40 and includes a complimentary gift, technical sessions, door prize ticket, lunch, refreshments, educational materials and access to ex-hibits. Registration forms and fees, payable to “Dawson Ag Fund,” should be mailed to the Dawson County Extension offi ce at P.O. Box 1268, Lamesa, Texas 79331. “We are encouraging everyone to please pre-register so that we may be able to more accurately prepare for all those attending,” said County Extension Agent Gary Roschetzky. Producers who wish to register early may do so at the Dawson County Exten-sion Offi ce at 901 B South Houston St., Lamesa, TX 79331.

Ag conference set Jan. 16

By Blair FanninTexas A&M AgriLife Extension Unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous tractors and other technologies will contin-ue to emerge as producers meet world food needs in the near and distant future, accord-ing to experts. Those experts believe technology will continue to emerge and make possible gi-ant leaps throughout the next decade as ag-riculture industries and producers work to meet world food needs in 2050. Presentations at the recent 2016 Texas Plant Protection Association addressed the theme of this year’s conference: Advanced Technologies for Texas Agriculture. From smartphone apps to unmanned aerial ve-hicles, also known as UAVs, speakers said there are big changes in how food and fi ber is going to be produced. Bob Avant, program director for Texas A&M AgriLife Research corporate re-lations, provided an overview of farm-ing in the next 10 years. He said the “10,000-pound gorilla” agriculture faces is feeding 9 billion people by 2050. “It’s going to affect agriculture greatly in terms of food supply,” he said. “We are go-ing to have to increase protein production plus protect how much we waste in terms of spoilage and portions on the the table.” He said farmers in the future will con-tinue to rely on data to make decisions. He said larger farms will be more effi cient “because the equipment is getting more ex-pensive. We will likely see more sharing or partnering on equipment use and systems.” That’s because the price tags on autono-mous tractors and related equipment will continue to be more expensive to own, though farmers will utilize the ability to push a button and have an autonomous tractor with a grain buggy pull right up be-

side a harvester when needed. Precision applications such as planters, sprayers and strip-till cropping systems will play an even bigger role in the next 10 years. He predicts farmers will go from big iron to small iron, in other words using less horsepower tractors as farmers continue to switch to strip till methods rather than con-ventional disking that requires large equip-ment. Technology and new information will help producers increase per-acre yields while reducing the use of natural resources like water, Avant said. “Ten years ago we were dealing with sor-ghum lodging, two-bale cotton to the acre and yield variance on corn,” Avant said. “Nowadays corn is much more drought tol-erant, we’re seeing 100 bushels to the acre, and three to four bales of cotton to the acre is expected. And it’s not just the equipment, crop genetics are going to be another excit-ing thing 10 years from now.” He said soil health and cover crops will be two important areas to watch over the next 10 years. “There will be a total systems approach

to how we farm,” he said. Texas A&M AgriLife currently has more than 40 scientists involved in a UAV project that is evaluating soils, plant stress, insects, and weeds as well as developing decision support aids for farmers and ranchers. Avant said the program is the largest in the U.S. “We can take data collected from a UAV and measure plant height, other aspects of plant health and other characteristics far more than just measuring predictive pro-duction yields,” he said. These experiments are taking place at the Texas A&M Farm near College Station as well as Corpus Christi and Weslaco. Avant said the average farmer might not go out and spend thousands of dollars on UAV equipment, but they they may see val-ue in the information the technology would make available to them. “I don’t think a farmer will want to be-come a GIS expert,” he said. “Will there be a farmer that wants to know what’s go-ing on in the fi eld and how to remedy it? Yes, there will be some that will go out and spend the money on a simple UAV system. But the remedies will be beyond the scope of farmers because of the sophistication of information. Farmers will likely rely more on crop consultants to translate that infor-mation.” The big data collected from UAVs and other sophisticated machinery will lead to dashboard systems, hubs of information that will integrate all facets of crop pro-duction concurrently going on in the fi eld, Avant said. The conference technology theme drew more than 300 attendees consisting of ag-ricultural producers, industry representa-tives, as well as Extension and research scientists.

Extension expert: Big datais coming to agriculture

“ And it’s not just the equipment, crop genet-ics are going to be an-other exciting thing 10 years from now.

- Bob AvantAgriLife research director

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Cougar Classic set to tip offKlondike tourney to have 48 games starting Tuesday Area hoop fans should be in store for quite a treat this com-ing week at Klondike with the Cougars hosting a huge three-day boys and girls basketball tournament. Counting both divisions, there will be a total of 48 games played in that tourna-ment. There are 12 teams in both the boys and girls divi-sions in the three-day hoop tournament at Cougar Gymna-sium. There will be 16 games on the opening day of Tuesday with games being played at both Klondike’s old and new gyms. “We’ll have lots of basket-ball out here this week – just the way we like it,” Klondike head boys basketball coach Chad Myers said. “Last year, we had this tournament back on that second weekend in December. It just seemed like everybody else was having a tournament that same week-end, so we decided to go ahead and move it back a couple of weekends. Getting 12 teams in both divisions, we ended up fi lling up pretty quick this year.” Klondike head girls basket-ball coach Jordan Beall also is looking forward to an exciting week of high school hoop ac-tion at Cougar Gym. “It’ll take a lot of hard work, but we’ve always got a lot of good people out here who are always willing to do whatev-er they can to help us,” Beall said. “Just having this many people come out to our school, we can’t help but feel like this will be something good not only for our school but also our community. “With all the quality teams that we’ve got signed up, we’re looking forward to having three real good days of basket-ball.”

Both Klondike’s girls and boys will play their fi rst game in their tournament come Tues-day morning with the Cougar girls taking on Sterling City at 9:30 a.m. at their new gym and Klondike’s boys taking on Sterling City at 11 a.m. also in that same gym. Other fi rst-round girls games on Tuesday will match Daw-son against Forsan at 9:30 a.m, in their old gym, Monahans will take on Midland Trinity at Midland Trinity at 12:30 p.m. in their new gym, Klondike’s JV against Midland Christian at 12:30 p.m. in their old gym, Sterling City against Van Horn at 3:30 p.m. in the old gym, Forsan against Plains at 3:30 p.m. in the new gym, Midland Trinity against Buena Vista at 6:30 p.m. in the old gym and then Midland Christian against Water Valley at 6:30 p.m. in the new gym. Other fi rst-round boys games on Tuesday will match Dawson against Seagraves at 11 a.m. in the old gym, Plains against Ira at 2 p.m. in the new gym, Buena Vista against Sundown at 2 p.m. in the old gym, Ster-ling City against Van Horn at 5 p.m. in the old gym, Seagraves against Water Valley at 5 p.m. in the new gym, Ira against Midland Trinity at 8 p.m. in the old gym and Sundown against Ballinger at 8 p.m. in the new gym. After having a total of 16 games on that fi rst day of Tuesday at Cougar Gymnasi-um, hoop action will continue throughout Wednesday and Thursday with the champion-ship games in both divisions set for Thursday evening. The girls’ championship game will tip off at 6:30 p.m. with the boys’ championship game set to tip off at 8 p.m. Both fi nals will be played in Klondike’s

new gym. “We just want to do what we can to have a good, quality basketball tournament for the smaller schools in our area,” Myers said. “Now, we’ve just got to hope that the weather cooperates like you’ve always got to do this time of year. “We realize that a lot of hard work always goes into having one of these tournaments, but we’re looking forward to it.” After they both guided the Cougars to the Class 1A state hoop playoffs last year, both Klondike hoop coaches be-lieve this will be a good time to have this tournament. Last year, both Klondike’s girls and boys ended up going three rounds deep in those state hoop playoffs. After fi nishing a banner sea-son in their volleyball program at the Region II-IA Tourna-ment in San Angelo, Klond-ike’s girls currently are ranked 16th in this past week’s Class 1A state girls’ hoop poll. “After this break, we’ll be looking forward to getting back on that court again. After getting off to a late (basket-ball) start due to volleyball, hopefully it turns out being a deal where the more games we can get these girls together that much better they’re only going to get,” Beall said. Coach Nye Field’s Dawson Dragons could be one of the area hoop teams to watch this coming week at Klondike in that tournament’s boys divi-sion. After beating Morton. 51-37,in their last game, Field’s Dragon boys are a hot 12-3 go-ing into the holiday break. “Our guys have been play-ing really good defense. My expectations have always been high for all of our teams.

We’ve just always looked at that as one of those life lessons our business helps teach kids,” Field said. “Our ultimate goal is to win the state champion-ship. We want our kids to go about their business that way since a big part is having that right mind set. “A new coach bringing in a new system sometimes can take time. It didn’t take us long to like what we saw in our guys.” Apparently, people in Dis-trict 11-1A hoops also are start-ing to take notice of Field’s Dragons to a point where that league’s coaches are mention-ing them in the same breath with always tough Grady. “They’ve got a lot of tradi-tion. They’ve got a couple of kids back from last year’s state team. We’re going to open (11-A) at their place, which will be a tall order for us,” Field said. “But the way people like Klon-dike and Sands are starting to come on and O’Donnell has athletes, we better come ready to play every Tuesday and Fri-day.” This coming week’s Cou-gar Classic should help each of those tournament partici-pants get prepared for that road ahead. “It’s going to be tough. It defi nitely won’t be a walk in the park for any of us,” Beall said. “With all the good qual-ity teams we’ve got coming should help make for some pretty tough games this week.” Myers anticipates the same in this coming week’s boys di-vision. “It’s not only a big tourna-ment but, with all the good teams that we’ve lined up, it should also be a real quality tournament. You can see that by just looking at some of those rankings,” Myers said.

Eagles, Coyotes face each other in Ropes A couple of area hoop squads will be returning to the hard-woods this coming week fresh back from their holiday break by squaring off against each other. It will be business as usual for both the O’Donnell Eagles and Borden County Coyotes come Thursday afternoon when they will tip it off against each other in the Ropes Holiday Classic. Both area school’s girls hoop squads will renew an old ri-valry by taking on each other at 12:30 p.m. with the Eagles and Coyotes boys squaring off against each other, starting at 2 p.m. “We had the chance to see their girls play Dawson in their Borden County Tournament. Borden County has some girls who can shoot the basketball, especially from the perim-eter, plus they can play pretty good defense, too,” O’Donnell Coach Terry Collins said of the Coyotes. BC head girls coach Mike Skelton anticipates an interest-ing test out of the state-ranked

Eagles for his Coyotes. “No doubt, they’ll provide some match up problems for us. We’ll just want to see our girls come out playing hard,” Skelton said. “It’ll be the same ol’ O’Donnell in the way that they always like to put a lot of pressure on their opponents and shoot threes.” This week’s Ropes Tourna-ment should help give these area hoopsters one fi nal tune-up before district play tips off next month. “We’ve all been building to-ward that (district). Dealing with the different injuries and illnesses that we’ve had on our team, it’s all been about con-tinuing and maintaining. But the people who we’ve needed to step up have been doing it,” Collins said. “So far, we feel pretty good about the way we’ve been playing, but it (Dis-trict 11-A) should be very, very competitive.” O’Donnell head boys bas-ketball coach Blake Nichols also anticipates a tough test for

his Eagle boys out of Borden County come Thursday after-noon at Ropes. “Borden County has been a Top 10 team without even play-ing a game yet,” Nichols said of the Coyotes, who just started their high school hoop season this past week after their state championship six-man football season. “They’ve got a lot of kids back from last year. They’re al-ways well coached. But, more than anything, their kids are still in playoff mode from football.

Their kids are just always ready to compete. Any time you get the chance to play one of (Bor-den County Coach) Bubba Ed-wards’ teams, it’s only going to help make you better.” Edwards anticipates a tough test out of the Eagles for his Coyotes in only their second game of this season. “Blake’s got his guys playing pretty well. He’s got a good lit-tle group,” Edwards said of the Eagles. “He’s got those guys running and gunning and play-ing with confi dence.”

GOLDEN TORNADO HOOP Golden Tornado head girls basketball coach Alan Ayers discusses strategy with his hoopsters during a recent home game. Ayers’ girls will be in this week’s Caprock Clasic at Lubbock while the Tor boys w ill be in the Little-field Tournament.

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Holiday tourneysgood final tune-up The Golden Tornadoes’ state-ranked boys’ hoop squad will be looking to build on the suc-cess it has enjoyed in its fi rst two tournaments of this season. After going 5-0 in their own annual O.W. Follis Tourna-ment at Follis Gym before go-ing 4-1 in the Abilene Cat Claw Classic, the Tor hoop boys now have their sights set on the Lit-tlefi eld Wildcat Classic that tips off this coming Thursday. “It’s a good way to get back from the holidays, trying to get your legs back underneath you again and get back into good playing shape again,” Golden Tor Coach Gregg Moreland said. “Hopefully, this tourna-ment helps us get tuned up for district. We’ve always used this tournament to fi nd any weak-nesses, which hopefully we can work on to where we’re even a better team.” With their sights set on mak-ing an eight straight playoff appearance in that program, the Golden Tor hoop boys will open up the District 2-4A hoop race on Jan. 13 at Levelland. The Tor boys will open up this coming week’s Little-fi eld Tournament by taking on Lubbock Roosevelt at 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 29. “As long as we can get past that fi rst game up there, there’s a good chance that we’ll end up seeing Portales, N.M. in our second game up there,” More-land said. “They’ve got a very good basketball team. We’re talking about one of the best teams in New Mexico. “It sounds like they’re very athletic. They should be anoth-er great game for us.” The Tor boys’ only two set-backs in the fi rst month of their season have came against Class 5A Fort Worth Chisholm Trail and 6A Midland Lee. While the Tor hoop boys will be in Littlefi eld, Lamesa’s hoop girls will be in the big Caprock Classic at Lubbock. The Tor girls will open up that tourna-ment by taking on Lubbock Trinity at 9 a.m. Thursday at Lubbock Trinity. “This tournament will not only help get us back into good playing shape again, but hope-fully also help us get some things fi xed. We usually end up playing four or fi ve games up there, which makes for a great way to knock off some of that rust after the holidays,” Gold-en Tor head girls coach Alan Ayers said. “Playing a 9 a.m. game against Lubbock Trinity at Lubbock Trinity is about as good as it gets. “But looking at the rest of the bracket and you’ll see (Lubbock) Coronado playing Big Spring at Coronado, Lub-bock High taking on Green-wood at Lubbock High, Lub-bock Monterey taking on Fort Worth Dunbar at Monterey and Lubbock Estacado up against

(Odessa) Permian at Estacado.” Thursday’s Lubbock Trinity match up will be a reunion of sorts for Ayers. Ayers was once the head girls basketball at Lubbock Trinity for fi ve years, where he once coached that school to a state TAPPS cham-pionship back in 2003. “We still run into a lot of those girls that we had on that team back then – most of them at their weddings,” Ayers said. “I guess any time you do some-thing like we did that year – win state – you end up getting invited to their weddings. “Any time we get together it usually doesn’t take long to bring up that one season.” Ayers also has good recent memories from the Caprock Classic. “Our girls have played some pretty good basketball up there. Last year, we ended up playing against (6A) San Angelo Cen-tral and we ended up sticking right with them, which turned out being a great game for us,” Ayers said. “But, we’ll never care for that snow which you might run into up there, especially this time of the year.” A tenacious and pesky de-fense has been a Moreland trademark in this game since he fi rst made the move to Lamesa. “Our guys have been not only playing hard, but practic-ing hard. As long as we keep that up, we’ll not only continue to get better but everything else will continue to take care of it-self, too,” Moreland said.


Champ Coyotes dominate District 5A list The same way that they dom-inated their league en route to their ninth straight district championship, without even one setback along the way, Borden County’s 14-1 Division I six-man state champs also ruled the nest when it came to the all-District 5A Six-Man Football Team that was re-leased this past week. Borden County not only fi lled a whopping 16 spots on that league’s fi rst team, but also took top honors on both sides of the line of scrimmage. Another good example of how the Coyotes dominated their league was how they out-scored their four league oppo-nents by a whopping combined margin of 236-6 in their four league games. BC’s all-everything running back Corbin Sumners is Dis-trict 5’s Offensive MVP. After being tabbed as the Offensive MVP in last week’s Division I state six-man football cham-pionship game at Arlington’s AT&T Stadium, Sumners still has one more game remaining in his school boy career. Sumners, along with Ira’s Anthony Sosa, were picked as that league’s representatives at next summer’s six-man all-star football game at Wichita Falls. The Coyotes’ junior Trace Richey and senior Jayton Lew-is were tabbed as District 5A’s Co-Defensive MVPs. Other Coyotes tabbed to District 5A’s fi rst-team of-fense from Borden County are sophomore tight end J.W. Nix, senior wide receiver Kale Yar-bro, senior spread center Brax-ton Coor, junior fullback Trace Richey, senior spread back Hunter Jones, junior kicker Easton Edwards and junior spe-cial teams player Morgan Wil-son. Joining Richey and Lewis on 5A’s First Team Defense from Borden County are se-niors Braxton Coor and Steven Carrillo on the defensive line, sophomore linebacker Ben Jus-tice, senior cornerback Corbin Sumners, senior safety Hunter Jones and junior Ryan Will-born. A couple of other area stand-outs who earned fi rst-team all-district honors are O’Donnell junior Jaden Benavidez at run-ning back and punter, as well as Klondike junior Jayden Cole-man at wide receiver. The 14-1 state champion Coyotes also fi lled nine more spots on that league’s second

team. Sumners had an unbelievable high school football career at Gail for the Coyotes. Sumners rolled up 2,000 yards on 150 carries and scored 34 touch-downs this season for the D I state six-man champs. Sum-ners hit that coveted 2,000-yard rushing barrier each of his four years of high school football. It is no wonder that Sumners has been recognized as one of the top six-man running backs in the state each of the past three years for the Coyotes. Sumners made second-team all-state running back his soph-omore year before earning fi rst-team all-state at that position his junior year at Gail. This past season, Sumners also hauled in 18 catches for 422 yards and nine other TDs, while also completing 11 of his 15 passes for 231 yards and six other scores. “Corbin not only had a tre-mendous year stat-wise, but by also being a very unselfi sh player it helped make him a tremendous leader in our pro-gram,” BC Coach Trey Richey said of Sumners. “Corbin also became a tre-mendous defender, which helped make him a complete player.” This past season, Sumners was also in on 101 tackles, while also picking off seven passes – three of which he ran back for touchdowns. “He’s just been a lot of fun to watch throughout his career the way that he not only played hard but a lot of times also played hurt, especially dur-ing the playoffs this season,” Coach Richey said. What players like Sumners meant for these state champi-ons’ offense, players like Trace Richey and Jayton Lewis fi lled the bill for the Gail Gang’s de-fense. Despite the fact that he missed three and one half games due to injuries, Trace Richey still ended up leading the champs in nearly every de-fensive category, including a whopping 131 tackles. Richey also picked off seven intercep-tions, three of which he ran back for touchdowns. Lewis fi nished right behind Richey in the Coyotes’ defen-sive stats, including his 107 tackles. “Those two guys were our spark plugs on that side of the ball,” Coach Richey said. “Trace ended up leading us in

2016 DIVISION I ALL-DISTRICT 5ASIX-MAN FOOTBALL TEAM

Offensive MVP: Corbin Sumners, senior, Borden County.

Defensive MVP’s: Trace Richey, junior, Borden County; Jay-ton Lewis, senior, Borden County.

Newcomers of the Year: Luis Gonzales, sophomore, Herm-leigh; Asher Fowlkes, freshman, Ira.

FIRST TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback: Dylan Sorrells, senior, Hermleigh. Running Backs: Booker Brasuel, senior, Ira; Jaden Benavidez, junior, O’Donnell. Fullback: Trace Richey, junior, Borden County. Spread Back: Hunter Jones, senior, Borden County. Tight Ends: Anthony Sosa, senior, Ira; J.W. Nix, sophomore, Borden County. Wide Receivers: Kale Yarbro, senior, Borden County; Jayden Coleman, junior, Klondike. Center: Rand Martin, se-nior, Ira. Spread Center: Braxton Coor, senior, Borden Coun-ty. Utility Back: Eli Garza, senior, Hermleigh. Kicker: Easton Edwards, junior, Borden County. Special Teams Player: Mor-gan Wilson, junior, Borden County.

FIRST TEAM DEFENSE Nose Guard: Eddie Ervin, senior, Ira. Linemen: Booker Brasuel, senior, Ira; Braxton Coor, senior, Borden County; Steven Carrillo, senior, Borden County. Linebackers: Antho-ny Sosa, senior, Ira; Ben Justice, sophomore, Borden Coun-ty. Cornerbacks: Corbin Sumners, senior, Borden County; Ramiro Rios, senior, Ira. Safeties: Hunter Jones, senior, Bor-den County; Hunter Cotton, senior, Ira. Utility Players: Ryan Willborn, junior, Borden County. Punter: Jaden Benavidez, junior, O’Donnell.

SECOND TEAM OFFENSE Tight Ends: Diego Bernal, senior, Borden County; Chase Carr, senior, Hermleigh; Hagen Montgomery, senior, O’Donnell. Wide Receivers: Shay Coleman, sophomore, Klondike; Mor-gan Wilson, junior, Borden County. Center: Geronimo Lara, senior, Hermleigh; Bry Todd, senior, O’Donnell. Spread Cen-ter: Cade Barkowsky, junior, Klondike; Steven Carrillo, senior, Borden County. Quarterback: Hunter Cotton, senior, Ira. Run-ning Backs: Payton Merket, sophomore, Borden County; Pat-rick Grant, senior, O’Donnell; William Barker, senior, Klond-ike. Fullbacks: Kale James, junior, O’Donnell; Tucker Barton, sophomore, Hermleigh; Ramiro Rios, senior, Ira. Spread Back: Kelby O’Brien, junior, Klondike. Utility Back: Ben Justice, sophomore, Borden County; Matthew Wiebe, senior, Klondike. Kickers: Marco Rodriquez, freshman, Klondike; Justin Wilson, junior, Hermleigh. Special Teams Player: Caden Cornutt, se-nior, Hermleigh.

SECOND TEAM DEFENSE Nose Guards: Tracker Dugan, sophomore, Hermleigh; Cade Barkowsky, junior, Klondike. Defensive Ends: Dylan Sorrells, senior, Hermleigh; Luke Smith, sophomore, Klondike; Diego Bernal, senior, Borden County; Hagen Montgomery, senior, O’Donnell. Linebackers: Kale James, junior, O’Donnell; Matt Gonzales, junior, Hermleigh; Payton Merket, sopho-more, Borden County. Cornerbacks: Trevor Balague, junior, O’Donnell; Tucker Barton, sophomore, Hermleigh; Emman-uel Cabrerra, senior, Ira. Safeties: Easton Edwards, junior, Borden County; Shay Coleman, sophomore, Klondike; Eli Garza, senior, Hermleigh. Utility Player: Morgan Wilson, ju-nior, Borden County; Jayden Coleman, junior, Klondike.

nearly every (defensive) cat-egory, but Jayton was right up there behind him.” “Jayton has started for us on defense since his freshman year. We looked at this big honor as a great way to culminate his great high school football ca-reer. Those games when Trace wasn’t out there reminded us just how much he meant to our football team. You could just always tell how much better we were whenever we had Trace back out there on the fi eld.” There is an old saying in sports that reads along the lines that there is no I in team. Richey looks at Borden Coun-ty’s fourth state six-man cham-pionship team at Gail as a per-fect epitome of teamwork. “No doubt, this was a com-plete team effort,” Coach Richey said. “Nobody’s ever been able to get this far with just that one guy, instead it’s always been a team effort. At the end of this season, there’s not a better example of great teamwork than what these guys were out here for us. “Watching all the differ-ent things that our guys had to overcome this season, starting with all our injuries, it’s pretty rewarding to see just how many of our guys are on this (all-district) team. A great example

there is how we ended up with a guy who spent 80 percent of the time at quarterback in our last three games, who didn’t even throw a pass back in the regu-lar season. Those are among the things now which helped make this such a storybook season for us.” Being in the same league with the eventual D I state six-man champs made any mention on this elite squad even that much of a bigger honor to get. That is why Klondike Coach Chad Myers is so proud to see Cougar junior standout Jayden Coleman make 5A’s First Team at wide receiver. “Any time you’re up against a team which ends up winning state makes it even tougher to get these honors. Plus, we’re in there with a lot of good se-niors. Both Borden County and Ira had a few of those,” Coach Myers said. “Being such a good all-around athlete like Jayden’s been for us, we felt he deserved to be on this team. “He’s one of those good kids in our business who just works his tail off at whatever he’s do-ing. You can just always count on kids like Jayden to always give it everything he’s got. That showed this year, fi rst on the football fi eld and now on the basketball court.”

ONE FINAL HURRAHIn addition to being picked as District 5A’s Offensive MVP, Borden County’s Corbin Sumners has also been selected to play in next summer’s six-man coaches association’s all-star game.

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NEWLY GRADUATED The Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC) awarded high school GED certificates dur-ing a graduation ceremony held this past Thursday. Those receiving their diplomas

were (from left) Alexis De Los Santos, Ni-cole Santos, Raquele Cardenas, Oralia Dominguez, Niralben Bhakia, Kelli Neault and Trina Garcia.

CWJC graduates receive diplomas Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC) of Lamesa celebrated the achievements of the 2016 GED graduates this past Thursday. Board vice-chair Diana Henderson awarded the di-plomas to the ladies. Linda

Campbell gave the com-mencement address, encour-aging the ladies to put God fi rst in their lives and to rely on Him. CWJC seeks to equip wom-en, in a Christian context, for life and employment.

Information about CWJC is available at the Lighthouse Community Center located at 1013 North 2nd Street in Lamesa; or, by contacting Karen Presley by phone at 872-5627 or by e-mail at [email protected].

MENU Monday: Lima beans and ham, mixed greens, carrots and dessert. Tuesday: Chili bowl with beans, shredded cheese, salad and dessert. Wednesday: Baked chick-en, mashed potatoes, green peas, salad and dessert. Thursday: Cheeseburger, chips, carrot-raisin slaw and dessert. Friday: Salisbury steak with brown gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, salad and dessert. Medical Arts Home Health provides Blood Pressure Clin-ics every Tuesday, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. These weekly checks are available to every-one, regardless of age or need. We would like to thank the following for their generous donations: the Lamesa Solar Project, Donna Norris, Gebos, Claiborne’s Thriftway, United Supermarket, Northside Bap-tist Church, Lamesa Christian Fellowship, Morningstar Do-nuts and Medical Arts Home Health. The Senior Citizens Center offers its services to all per-sons 60 years of age or older. The center offers Meals on Wheels delivered to home-bound senior citizens. Those seniors who are not homebound are encouraged to go to the center for congre-gate meals and recreation. Call 872-3324 for transportation, if a ride is needed.

Head Start assistantretires after 22 years

Maria Galindo

Maria Galindo clearly re-members when she started her job with Head Start 22 years ago. “I started with Tabrina Ti-jerina in the blue building (at the original Head Start cam-pus near the Sky-Vue) with the three-year olds. We had two classes of them back then,” she said. A teaching assistant, Galin-do is retiring and was recently honored with a reception. As a long-time resident of Lamesa, she and husband, Humberto Galindo, sent their three youngest children to Head Start. “I’ve had six of my grand-kids go here, the ones that live in Lamesa anyway. I even have one in Room 4 this year,” she said. Galindo has been employed by Head Start long enough that she has taught several of her former students’ children. “I’m on some of the second generation,” she laughed. “I’ve always loved seeing the difference in the kids from the fi rst day of school to the last day. You can tell they have learned things and they’ve got-ten bigger and all that. I’ll miss that too.” Campus Director Jimmie Pace will miss Galindo next semester. “She’s so good at what she does. So dependable. She will be hard to replace,” said Pace. Many of Galindo’s family

attended her reception where they presented her with a bou-quet of roses. “I was excited about quit-ting, but now I’ve got all these feelings, so I don’t know,” she said. “I take the other grand-kids to school and I know on Monday after Christmas when I drop them off I’ll probably just drive here (to Head Start) because I’ve done it for so long!” Galindo’s husband works for Key Energy and has indicated he’s not ready to retire yet. The Galindos have six chil-dren and nine grandchildren. “I’ll probably help with the grandkids more and crochet. I like to crochet,” Mrs. Galindo said.

Frankie Sauseda, Jr.

Sauseda graduates from TSU Frankie Sauseda, Jr. earned a Master of Arts degree in Social Work from Texas State Univer-sity in San Marcos last Satur-day. Sauseda was inducted into Alpha Chi, a National Honor Society which is limited to the top 10 percent of an institu-tion’s juniors, seniors and grad students. Sauseda serves as the social worker and website administra-tor for Lamesa ISD, a position he hald held for the past fi ve years. He is the son of Frank and Carmen Sauseda of Lamesa and the grandson of Tiofi lo and Irene Sauseda of Lamesa and Nora Alvarado of Seminole. Sauseda graduated from Lamesa High School in 2004.

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1304 S. 14th N. 22nd Street612 N 23rd609 N. 23rd1201 N. 7th1805 N. 13th208 N. 22nd Pl2102 N. 7th 2503 NE Hartford123 N. 23rd St505 N. 19th704 N. 19th 404 Avenue V2406 Juniper Dr1205 CR 231012 N. 9th2409 Juniper Dr506 N. Ave Y1400 N Bryan504 N. Ave Y

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$325,000.00$377,500.00$180,000.00$394,500.00

Residential lot, Mobile Home hook ups, approx. 7,000 sq.ft. 5 Residential lots on the North side of 22nd Street Residential lot, Front 85’, Rear 85’, Lot Depth 130’, total 11,050 sq.ft. Residential lot, Front 85’, Lot Depth 130’, total 11,050 sq.ft. NEW LISTING 3 bd, 2 ba, 1 carport, approx 1500 sq. ft. NEW LISTING 3 bd, 1 ba, 1 gar, approx. 1,268 sq. ft. 4 bd, 1 ba, 1 garage, approx 1,318 sq. ft. 3 bd, 2 ba, 2 gar, Outside of City limits, Est. 1440 sq. ft. 3 bd, 2 ba, 2 gar, approx 1,462 sq. ft. NEW LISTING 3bd, 2ba, 2gar, approx 1,331 sq. ft.SALE PENDING 2 bd, 2 ba, 2 gar, fireplace approx 2,492 sq. ft. 3 bd, 2 ba, 2 gar approx 2,327 NEW LISTING 3 bd, 2 ba, 2 gar, fireplace, approx,1,982 sq. ft.REDUCED 3 bd, 2 ba, 2 gar, approx 1895 sq. ft., built 2012NEW LISTING 5.1 ac, 3 bd, 4ba, 2 gar, 100' x 60' barn 3 bd, 3 ba, 1 gar, 2 carport, office, sunroom, approx 2750 sq.ft. New Home, approx 2,466 sq. ft., 3 bd, 2 ba, 2 gar, open concept New Home, approx 2,772 sq. ft., 3 bd, 2.5 ba, 2 gar, office, 2 living area NEW LISTING Historic Home, 4bd, 2.5, 2 gar, approx 2828 sq.ft.New Home, approx 2,681 sq. ft., 3 bd, 3 ba, 3 gar, office, 2 living area

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NEW LISTING Elmwood RV Park, 10 spaces, Owner Finance AvailableFormer gas station. Tanks removed. Busy intersection.Former gas station,Tanks have been removed Commercial property, corner lot, 22, 500 sq. ft..8 ac, approx 4,824 sq. ft. building Commercial property well located on Dallas Ave. 21,000 sq.ft.Margie's Flower & Gift Shop property, 1.63 ac, Great Location 15,864 sq.ft. warehouse w/loading docks, office on 1 acreCommercial building, west side of square, 3,500 sq.ft. CHA Oil Mill, 24 ac, Zoned for Heavy Industry Zoned 11.2 ac, with large office & 2 nice shops. 625' of Hwy 87 frontage. Will divide Former ELCO Gin 5 mi east of Seminole. 26 ac & 4 buildings.

1110 N 13th411 N Bryan Ave1210 N Lbk Hwy905 N. 4th St.702 N. Lynn611 N. Dallas Ave502 N. 4th 701 Lynn Ave108 N Austin AveSouth 8th & Elgin Ave1615 N Lubbock HwySeminole, TX

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The History Channel On Dec. 30, 1903, a fi re in the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills more than 600 people. The fi re inspector had declared the theater “fi reproof beyond all doubt,” even though it had no fi re alarm and no sprinkler system over the stage. An asbestos curtain turned out to be made of paper, and the exits were locked.On Dec. 27, 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, thou-sands turn out for the opening of Radio City Music Hall, an Art Deco theater in a formerly derelict neighborhood in Manhattan. Since its opening, more than 300 million people have attended events at Radio City.On Dec. 29, 1940, London suffers its most devastating air raid when German planes fi rebomb the city. The next day, a newspa-per photo of St. Paul’s Cathedral standing undamaged amid the smoke and fl ames seemed to symbolize the city’s unconquerable spirit.On Jan. 1, 1959, a popular revolution led by Fidel Castro quick-ly takes over Cuba. After Castro nationalized American-owned property and allied himself with the Soviets, the U.S severed dip-lomatic and economic ties, and enacted a trade and travel em-bargo.On Dec. 26, 1966, the fi rst day of the fi rst Kwanzaa is cele-brated in Los Angeles under the direction of Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach. The seven-day holiday celebrates African-American fam-ily, community and culture.On Dec. 28, 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “literary investiga-tion” of the police-state system in the Soviet Union, “The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956,” is published in the original Russian in Paris. Soviet offi cials were livid, and Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his citizenship and deported.On Dec. 31, 1985, former teen idol Rick Nelson dies in plane crash in Texas. Nelson launched his pop career in 1957 by singing in an episode of “The Adventures of Ozzie And Harriet.”

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a block of wood and a knife I would loveDear Santa, Haw wus your christmas last year? I wont a legoset and match-box and hunting Sisons.Merry christmasAlex Wiebe -2nd grade- 2016

Dear Santa, How are the elfs? I want a phone and a play-stashin 4. I want a 3Des.I want a dra-gin.Brodie Boss -2grade -2016

Dear Santa, I been good all the’s time and my cmrms gift is a 3ds and the games for The 3ds and i whesh a game for the Xbox 360 and the game is halo4.Merry Christmas,jorje gardea 2nd Grade

Dear Santa, How are the reinder doing? I want Drome pool helcopter, motcontrol bgode conpuoder Love,Jordan Bergara 2grade 2016 o’Donnell Elm-enche

Dear Santa, Jackfrost kame to o’donowl elmenche an her dowl snow in o’bonow elm-

enche. Adoxlive an threebes an collofbobyops three I’ rou-dot o’donnell elmenchelovekaiden vela - 2ebgrab 2016

Dear Santa, I have been a very good girl this year. For Christmas I would like a computer, a new purse, and lots of toys. Love,Jaylyn Castillo - 2nd Grade- 2016

Dear Santa, How is donner doing.I was prank calling you I said I was nauhty but I was just kidding. I`ve been good I would love if you got me cenetic sand you know the one I got me last year and if you got me a block of wood and a knife I would love all that for Christmas i`m won-dering what your putting in my stocking I would love if you put putting in my stocking your friend,john manuel pedroza - 2ed grade -2016

Dear Santa, How was Mrs. Claus was she great today? How are your raindeertoday? I want a nom noms truck and. pom pom wow for Chist-mas.LoveDelaney Velasquez -2016 -2Grade

Dear Santa, How are you? I am sorry if I did anything worng but if I did do anything worng please for-give Me but at school I make good grades And at home I am good to my famley. Can I please have a ps4 mdamadnce-Thinking puddy wich is on vat19.comAnd one more thing I need a new I phone.Senserele,Billy Hogan 2nd grade – 2016MERRY CRISTMAS!!!!!!

Dear Santa, How do you go round the world in one night. What I want for chistmas this year are a youtube cam,a catcher EDS. and a year supleise us cheetos puffsmerry chistmasJohn Kelby EARNEST -2th grade-2016

Dear Santa, Have any scout elves lost their magic? I would like some hair feathers clothes and some suprises Love,Jaityn Mires --O’Donnell Ellementry --3rd grade 2016

Dear Santa, How is the raindeer and mis clos are you ok I hope you are happy? May I have a naildecer-ater? May I have a doll? may I have a necles pleas?

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Dear Santa, How are the scout elvs and the raindeer? And can I have a cotton candy maker, ice cream maker and a wild thing? Love,Micah Lowe-- 3Grade –2016--O’Donnell Elm



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I will love a pupy and some mony.Dear Santa, I know you and your elfs work very hard all year to make presents and I am not going to make it hard. So this is what I want for x-mas make-up, sta-tionary and art sand crafs and paint thank you.From,Haylee Castilla2nd grade Dawson ISD

Dear Santa, I want a xbox 360 and a xbox ds and some cars and a narf gun and can I have a candy can and books and ds and a 3ds and some ds games and some games for the ds. and is tinsel wacht-ing us. and is jack frost ror son. and night vision googles.Derek Shae2nd grade Dawson ISD Dear Santa, For christmas I want a puppy, swing, monky bars, mini school burd, scateburd and a pet turtle.From,Zoe Esparza

Dear Santa, how are you doing. How is Mrs. Claws doing. what I want for christmis is an rc 79 foot wide monster jam blue thuhnder and 2 dolys whith 2 fl at bed tralers.FromTrevor

Dear Santa, How was is going at the northh Pole. Im doing good. I just wanted to say where is Pnelp. I miss her very much. but there is some stuff that I want for christmas. I want a di-ary that only opens to my voice. and I want make your own mini erasers. and pony days set. and I love Hedgehogs staionery. and Deluxe crystal Lab. and Loom bracelit kit. and spy 101 spy watch. and night visin go-gles. and a eds Polar Bears sta-tionery and winter knit critter. and make up your own hold rubber band bracelit. and put your hair in the air and trolls.FromMileyanetha Howard2nd grade Dawson ISD

Dear Santa, I want a barbe with a barbe set and with a blue dress and a pink, and a green, and a purple and a orange. And Loom bras-let kit. Shopkins, Berry Spesial Poster Book. The Power Puff Girls The SuperFromMaKayla Alaniz2nd grade Dawson ISD

Dear Santa, for crismas I want a air hogs thunder trax, mastudone nerf gun. A new air soft pistel. and a BB gun, and a lot of hot wheels, foos ball tabell. A toy sound gun a romote contrle hel-lacopter, a remot controle car. and a lot of spy stuff.FromJett Napper2nd grade Dawson ISD

Dear Santa, hi Santa my name is tony and what I want for christmas is a fast and furuis mostercar, fast and furius car a gt, new phone, and a eltoric scooter, and hot wheels, and hot sheels, monster truck and this year I have been very good because I did what my dad what he want and I did I fi lled my mom’s cup what she wanted.FromTony Nickel2nd grade Dawson ISD

Dear Santa, so how is the elf i bet there good and how is your wife i just want a x box 360 with gta5 and madden 17 and call of doty and i want my own iphone 7 and one of your elf and i want 100,00000,0000000 dollers and 8,000 candys and 8,00000,00000,000000,00000 dollers agien ther i want a xbox 15.From,Nathan Mitchell2nd grade Dawson ISD

Dear Santa, I have been good and I want a nerf gun and I want a bunch legos. I want a bunch of nerf guns.Thank you,Brandon Guzman

Dear Santa in the North Pole: I want the nerf disc Nitron. I loved it because it shoots fast at 20+ miles per hour. I love disc guns becaus they are high tec. I would also like some elf shoes and a hat. You don’t have to give me both things but I really want the disc Nitron. Thanks Santa.Love,Korbin Schmidt

Dear Santa: I would like some lego’s. I really want a rival called the Kahos. Can I have some more elf shoes. If you can’t make the rival you can give me a disc gun. Can you make me a back-pack that says my name on it. I want a few more nut crack-ers. I would like you to fogive me for touching Buddy. I did it on accident. I would like if he came back before Christmas. I would all so like to know if he would lose his magic if I touched him on the legs. I re-ally touched him on accident. I would like it if you forgave me.Your close friend,Kelton

Dear Mr. Claus How are you? I hope you are awsome that is a mogy whith dum’s up. This is my Christ-mas list....a nerf gun a set of headphones.fromDavidDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear Santa, I wan’t a phone and a Ipad and computer elf on the shelf and nails and makup and stuff dog and bress.AzaileiyahDawson Dragons 3rd gradeDear Santa, I want money and a phone. I also wnat a rocket fi shing rod. I want a frog to go with that stuff. I also wnat a rabit That poops out choclate. I want a BB8. I want sooper powers. I also was a goat skin coat.Luke SmithDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear, Santa Hi its Sophia im going to tell you what I want for Christmas. I want some skates and a Fit-Bit. I want it to be purple. And my skates could be blue. I’ve been nice so can I have what I was asking for. Please. I also want a gumball machine. Is it fi ne if you give me that stuff. I also want some clothes. Thats all bye!Sophia R.Dawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear. Santa Stuff paw dog. And a cristle for him. A robot cat that is show and water proff so is cant

brake. a smart watch. a robot suit. I want a phone that can talk And a new game. Pug. And a BB* to with the watch. And pet Rudolph’s. Bron-croow.Santiago SalasDawson Dragons 3rd gradeDear Santa, I want a nearf gun for criss-mas. I also want a football game on a eybox. I want a phone for chrasmas. I want candy for chrismas I wat a ipad for chrismas. I also want a tv. I want a sniper to shoot in the house. I want a elf on a shelf for crismas. I want’ a pizza for chrismas. I want a fi shing road for chrismas.JonathanDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear Santa, I relly want a nerf gun four of them. I need school sup-ply. I need a toy helcopter for chamas. I want a hipoponmes for chrames. I relly want to have a bike for chramas. I want a Texas Tech chramasa light for chrasmasa. I want pizza for chrasmas. I want Anthony for chrasmase. I relly want a bebe gun a realy won. I want a gumball mash-en. I want Anthonys glasses. I want a robot butler. I want boxing gloves. I want the fl ash costome. I want a longorn sine. I want a dog. I want a cat. I wnt a randeer. I want a sniper. I want a goat. I want a jetpack. I want a big pool. I want a big cow.Jaken BoltonDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear Santa, I’ve been wishing for a game for the Xbox360 caller Sky-lander’s Imaginators. It looks fun. When you beat the bat guy he looks like this. I also want a ice cream ma-chine. I want to make some strawberry ice cream.Love, AnthonyDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear Santa, I want aphone and nefgon, Legos, and a laptop I will al-sowe I will love a pupy and some mony. a lots of present and I pad. I will love enithang you will get me. I alsoe want a ELf long or shelf the lego demenchen, a lot of game like football and other stuff four chrismas.AveryDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear Santa, it’s aiden sanchez For christ-mas I want a xbox 360. and I want a bilion dollars and a phone. and a smart match and a rocket fl shing rod. and lego destiny megablocks and a xbox games like call of duty black ops 2 and halo reach and a hovre board and a gumball ma-chine. And a tsum tsum toys and beef jerkey and cornnuts lut ranch and a butler. and bb8 and super powers.sincerely Aiden SanchezDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear Santa I want a nurf gun. I want a batman vs superman toy I want a book I want a sweater I want a toy car I want a toy mortacian I want a toy turck I want a toy puppy. fromWilliamDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dir Santa I wot a x box if and alf and a toy rudolph toy and a ribit that popout choclit. And a Santa hat.Luve,Ethian TorresDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear Santa, have a very mery christmas. I bet you live in the north pole. I want to tell you ten things that I want for christmas. I want a new ipod. I want a easy bake oven. I want a tabllet. I want one hundred shop-kins. I want a big backpack. I want a fancy jacket. I want a twenty hundred bill. I want some rudolph slipers. I want a rill Santa hat. I want a red velvet stockings.Merry Christmas Santa.Love,AnahiDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear Santa, for chrismtas i want a lago sat and moar lago sats. and a nearf gun to and a ningtartle.fromNateDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear Santa, all I won’t for chrismis is my famly to bey happy and a phone and a big bell and mon-ny and a tadlet that.s all.cammi torresDawson Dragons 3rd grade

Dear Santa, Hi my name is Jr. i just want to know how is it up ther is it cool is it fun on chrismas send me a leter to know plese What i want for chrismas is pokemon cards and two ps.4 remots and a new tv and a new house and new food and 8 bed’s and 7 doghouses and how are the dera and one wish that will come true.Love,Jr

Dear Santa, My name is Desirae and when I new you I got happy when I fownd out was whene I was 5 and I aliso whent to now how is your whif and the rander now are whalf and the randeer and what I whan fover.

Dear Santa How is the elfs doing I got tow elfs at my hoses so this year I want to have some stufe of me and my falmye frist I will till you what I wat of chrismis I want of chrismis is a new American Girl doll and a barib hoses mad out of wood but I wan it to have the paned fencher how it ok now I’m go-ing to tell what I want you to give to my falmy so frist I want you to give my mom a mk pu-ras ok now my Dad some new pare of host ok now my brouth nathen is some games ok now for my brough josph is clouse.Love,Bella

Dear Santa, I want a elf on the shelf plz I been wanting cont next chris-mas I that ok.Love,Nehemiah

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What’s going on at the North Pole?Dear Santa, Thank you for all the work you did to make all of us toys! I hope erevbody has a won-derfull Chirsmas this year. And this year for Chirsmas me and my litle brother realy realy want a trampoline for chirs-mas. And I hope you have a good chirsmas.Love,Marilyn Galindo2016

Dear Santa, Hi who are the radirs Dear Santa I want for chismis a fi n-fun mermaid tail and a ring and a ifon 6 and a hachmail and face snow and the new pieface game and the mona doll and so me stuf from Justice and 3Des a super smash brose game and a tv mona move and a easy backe aven and a zpes.Love,Maribel Martinez

Dear Santa, How is your wife doing how are you doing oh, how are the reindeir doing how is Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vix-son, Comed, Cupid, donerd, blitson. What I want for Christmas is a bike 25 in bike, intendo 3DS blue one, Jordans shoes size 5’s. Clothes size 1416. I Phone 6, books. Oh how are the elf’s. color-ing books. and we were need-ing a car please oh and make it a silver or black dooge charger, movies like Scary Movie 5, Christmas movies, daddy bun-ny, not a baby bunny a dady bunner, crayons, mapcolor, marker. Please make the care a su-prise for my mom. Can you rite me a letter back.Love,Sophia Lynn Garcia

Dear Santa, I want a puppy for Christmas and a xbox 360 hoverbort, vr system, cotton candy machine, laptop. Hows Rudolf hows Mrs. Claes. Oh hows Arthur. I want a ted for Christmas and a snow machine. Merry Christmas Santa.Love,Joshua Guzman

Dear Santa, How are you Santa and your wife I was just guna say what I want for Christmas mini bmx bike for Christmas and a PS4 with a call of duty game and a baseball game, basketball game.Love,Nathaniel

Dear Santa, For Chrismas I want a fam-ily Chrismas. by the way how are and Ms Claus. Well happy Chrismas. anyway for chris-mas is a remote control robot. I bet it is fun being Santa. You get cookies and spread joy to the world you also give kids beleive to kids. It must feel good to have such a pure soul to be jolly and happy. All I want for Christmas is every body in the world to be together with family and friends to have happieness and joy. Wow the sleigh the reindeer it sure must be really fun now well have a happy chrismas and have a happy year because we know what you say happie-ness and presents for all.Love, Coby Hewett

Dear Santa, Thank you for all the fun Crismases. I loved them. I what a puppy. I also what a phone. I realy what some more Shopkins. And a bike. And also some legos. Thats all Santa.Love,Melinda S.H.

Dear Santa, How is it at the north pole how are the randers, elvs and your wife and all I won’t for Crismis is a puppy, hamster, snow and my Mom and dad.Love,Suriya

Dear Santa, How are you doing How is your elves One more thing I want the shopkins small mart and a Shopkins tall mart and a shokins 5 pack and a 12 pack. Thank you!Love,Gisselle

Dear Santa, How Rudogh the Red No-esed reaindeer and the others and your wife and your elves and Santa what I really want for chistmas is the new game Call of duty infi nate warfare and the xbox 15Love,Jose

Dear Santa, How are you and fof Christ-mas i want a drone whith ve-rachal reallity and the nerf centrion 2 more PS4 control-ers and better controll charger madden 17 and that nerf vone.Love,Ivan F.

Dear Santa, How are you. I want for chirsimas is some jordans, cloes, pants, boots. thats all I want for chirsimas.Love,Jalissa

Dear Santa, I won’t for cricmas is a haverbord and a Amarcans Girl Doll, cloz, hihels and cutt stuff.Love(unsigned)

Dear Santa, Dinosaures, power rangers, cars phone t-rex.Love,Casarez

Dear Santa, How are you Santa. I would like an IPhone 7. For Christmas. and a Kinndle. To Please and Ice Scates. And a tablet to even a 4 wheeler. A golf cart.Love,Katie Hewett

Dear Santa, You are nice how are you. I want a pokemom card stack that is like 1,000 oh and i want a Amarican girl doll some clothes to go with her a closet to and a 100,000000 of Shop-kins watch 12 and 3 a iphone a tablet and a touch screen com-puter 4 kittens (real) 4 puppies (real) 1 gerbal (real) the movie trolls cat toys, 8 (real) dog toys 8 (real) a toy baby (fake) a purse (black), dress some black high heels black tigts a chris-mas shirt green tights.Love,Jolie

Dear Santa, How are you I’m doing good But I hope you are doing better I am 8 now I have Loker

number one. What I whant for chrismiss is a lot of pokemon cards and a lot of energy. Prismacules a water pruff wach cruoly spra punt a new bike art stuff like sharpis goud pens good pencur like I am using now curis cov-ers nikes Jordens and clos.Love,Melanie

Dear Santa, How are you? I am fi ne. How is the shop going? Are you wall? So is it ok if I tell you want for christmas. Well i’m going to ok. I want please a PS4 and a iPhone7 and the Apple watch. Plese Santa.Love,Caleb

Dear Santa, I what to it d use my self. I am 9 years old. And I have 4 sisters I dose not live with me She lives some were else. You now want I raele want a tadulit with a keybord that khase to it.formZayd

Dear Santa, How are the elfs Santa Clase randear Santa Clase and the wife and may I get a phone and may I get a tablet SantaLove,Justin

Dear Santa, I want a present I want a eve mrstinson a present den a big present for Mrs tinson a eve me a present OK Santa and Santa it sowin today.Love,Louis Garcia

Dear Santa, He Santa haw you bin good OK i wot a ninja trlir car and a ninja trlir home. I wot a ninja trlir shaph and ninja trlir macks i wot the blue, and, birpo red and ogen and they sors.Love,Marcos

Dear Santa, How are you Santa. What I want for Chrismas is stuf for art. And I want you to give a presen to everyone arond the world. I am graet just to say.Love,Kelsey

Dear Santa, I luve you Satnta. I wunt 300 praset I wunt a futbol in a plastashion in a lit up shous in a phone I huv been goot.Love,Elisio

Dear Santa, How are you Santa? I love you Santa, Have a good day.Love,Jaelyn Long

Dear Santa, Ou are you and or elk and or faidinse Santa i am doing good Santa I wot you to have a good crmismis and I wot for crismis is a xBox360 gamse and bord games and a toy for my cat and a sop wot for crimis I love you Santa.Love,Noah Cortez

Dear Santa, My leter to Santa. 1. Pokemon IM

The Santa deves kez to santa look at Sant.Love, Jordan

Dear Santa, I love yuo satu yuor a best satu ever. You hat to livrde a sta tv kid form Gabby me re kismis I wat a my little pony and most hie and pokeron and a zaebrr a bow iva looty oe and pugmone Jiand boa pug harse and tralls and a shrek in and a vet toy set.Love,Gabby

Dear Santa, Santa how are you? I am a good kid. I want a new viteo game Maddin 17. and a new IPhone 5, wwe 2k17. and a new wre-sler Klesto. and polec car game. and a new soker a new fl at chren tv. and a tony romo poster. and a new football he-mit and a new Dak Preskte Jrse. and a new set of pokemon cards.Love,Xavier Ray Vela

Dear Santa, How are you How are your elvs and Ms. clos and your rand-ers. do you whont a presint? if you did whut would you whont all i wont is Shopckins and. Litup shos playdow artsp-lis and chock so Thats it so have a good Chrismus.XXXXXXLove,Makayla

Dear Santa, I have been very good Santa if u can get me a live husky, xbox1, xbox 1 games, Skippy jon Jones books, phone, hair bow’s, a real white horsey, 1 cat, toy’s, traoling, electic skooterLove,Aurianna Garcia

Dear Santa, I wod lick from christmas a four wheeler a ebox 1 and a motercly and sum tape. and a latop and a cat and a dog to and a mustang for my mom and dad a moctrow helcoptr and a moc-

trow car.Love, Carlos Retreya

Dear Santa, I want scooren on vemtoe contol car drone an bold shoes overo ive an dear santa I hop I git my perest.Love,Ethan Gallegos

Dear Santa, I have been nice this year. I want rarypupys I want a bunch of sopkens and some jaket but wut I wil want monster high books and monster high doll some cronys a bunch of book a bunch of erasers I want a new babake. I want some new shoe. I want a new binder. I want a sensey and a new houes.Love,Serina Gonzales

Dear Santa, I wut a huvbord in a xBox 360 in a bike in a plastchenz in a specerse in a noow tv in that

it haxe on the wall in a big is fahr. be cuz I dont hav one in a wut the axly a I pod becus I got good gradse. I wut a gocart in I wunt a berpike.Love,Ja’kobiz Dimas

Dear Santa, this year Mery Christmas! How are you? I have been good. I whant a pone. I whant a x a xbox 360. I whant a bike. I what a 3 whiler. I whant a 4 whiler. I what all of the poke-mon Kards. I whant a com-perter. I whant some games. I whant a plasten 3 whith games. I whant a x xbox one. whith games. I whunt a tablet. I whant some Jordens. I whant some jaket. I whant some led pensells. I whant all of the mincraf books. I whant a re-meuk cather I whant a football. I whant a baskball. I whant a elf on the chelf nets crismis. I whant mincraft games.Love,Xavier Sauseda

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Dear Santa, I want a Texans football hell-mite. I want all JJ Watt stuf. I want a Texan bed. I want a Tex-ans JJ Watt jrze. I want Tex-ans dekarashans for me room. I want a JJ Watt sind postr. I want a TJ Watt sind postr. I want a JJ Watt sind helmet. I want for JJ Watt sind postrs. I want a TJ Watt sind helmet. I want for TJ Watt postrs sind. I want for sind Eliott postrs. I want Texans Fooball gluvs. I want Texans heypads. I want a Eliott sind helmet. Dack Prescott sind postrs. Dak Prescott sind hel-met. I want a JJ watt Calindr. I want little JJ Watt socks. I want WWe ordamets. I want a JJ watt postr. I want a JJ Watt shrt. I want a sind football biy JJ Watt.Love,Cannon Scott

Dear Santa, Can I have a playstashne 3?Love, Josiah Ortiz

Dear Santa, How are you and Mrs. Claus doing? We hope that you are both doing well. Please tell Rudolph and the rest of the reindeer hello from the stu-dents in Mrs. Banuelos Pre-K Class. We are sending you a list of the students in our class and a couple of things that we would like for Christmas. Have a Merry Christmas,Lamesa Pre-K Class Room 47Klarisa – A robot and a Moana doll.Jazirea —A water gun and a Barbie house.Noah – A robot and a dinosaur.Alexander – A Robot and a car.Alexis B.- T-RexRaul B. –A Robot and animals.Matthew – A Robot and a train.Logan – A transformer and a Christmas tree.Clarity – Sofi a and friends.Margaret – A Barbie toy and a pool.Juan Pablo – Un avion y una casa de juguetes.( an airplane and a toy-house)Jaime- A helicopter and a war tank.Lily – A doll house.Anthony- Many toys. Kenlee- A toy box and a ring.Avery – A bear and an Ameri-can doll.Aiden – A Robot and a helicop-ter.Adam – A train and a airplane.Makayla – A toy puppy and a Barbie dream house.Alexis S.– A boat and a ham-mer.Julia– A Christmas doll and a music doll.Mrs. Banuelos– Good health and happiness.Mrs. Cuellar-Peace and love around the world.

Dear Santa, Our class sure hopes you have safe travels. We are thankful that you are making the trip this Christmas Eve. Here are some requests as we have been very good little boys and girls, for the most part!Lani - a doll with a real phoneLuke C. – pajamas, bike and a trampolineJaden - an airplane and legosKhilee - Minnie Mouse bike and a scooterIsaac - a toy carSamyra - Mermaid tail towel and an Elsa dollBraylynn - A scooter with handlesJakub - Ninja Turtles that eat pizzaJovani - ship with a cannon-ball, remote jetCecilia - blocks and little shape basketsSebastian – Buzz Lightyear and bumper carsTaven - teddybear and an X-BoxVinnie - Scream toy and a Mustang for MomLuke T. - hot chocolate and a planeEfrain - an elfMartin - a big Batman caveMarina - a Barbie, Barbie clothes and a carJeremy - Batman costumeRocky - a Joker Batman toyAdriana – a white puppyMs. M. Wright’s ClassSouth Elementary

Dear Santa My name is Lupe Garcia. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a skateboard Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the fl y-ing.

Dear Santa, How are the rainder? did mrs.class make cookies?I want a fury blanket. And pjs. And new rains for my horse. Senserely,Reece Redwine --2nd grade 2016

Dear Santa, I want a bike and a now shos and a dollhoes. how are your randeeer like roodof and how are the eifs santacios and how is mis. class santa class and I love all of you. SensleeMarissa PerezMerry Christmas santaclass and mis. Class --2ed graed HOHOHOHO.

Dear Santa, Is the randeer ready to fl ie wut I want for crismis is a veor headset for x box and a ifon7 and 4 100 dallrs ituns cards. Kasen James - 2 grad - 2016Dear Santa,

I been good all day. how is the randers? are the randers rety to fl ey? Wus chrismas fun lashtier? I wunder wut you are breng me. Do you thank christmas? I wunt a makeup set and I wunt a tablit? How are the elfs? Are you being good to? Is it fun up there? From briley coxsanta. 2d 2016 ho ho ho ho ho

Dear Santa, You are the best santa you make mericles happins also I rilly want a gun and I want a nabe also I hop your elfs still have power?.Cameron Renteria - 2d grade - 2016.

Dear Santa,How are the rainders? are thay redy to fl y? is Rodoph redy to fl y? thes are the thengs that I want a xbox a new leap frog a coputer thes are the thangs I want. Meery Charismuss. From araceli brook cookie Lara

Dear Santa, Hao are your Randeres and you for Crisnes I wod like a shopeeningfood. and lots uf candes. os a her stils but fac. santa ples ansr me back ples wak me up you are the best frend evr I thenk you wrk hord santa I hav a cweshten do you help the Elfs do the present. dear santa wod you mind if you gaf bille won mor toe beecs he nit git sad beecs he ole git ole 3 toes so do you mind giving bille wond mor toe to bille nd me ples and vere Crisnes HO HO.Reyna Martinez - 2nd grade - 2016 elm

Dear Santa, Have Mrs.clas made cookes ? I would like a phone and I would also like close and shoos . and how are the elfs? And is it fun being santa .Ariel gonzales -2nd Grade 2016

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BELOVED SAINT Regina Crutcher/Press-Reporter

The Virgin Mary is depicted as Our Lady of Guadalupe in a green veil with stars all around Her for the Catholic cel-ebration of the Feast for Our Lady of Guadalupe, which began with a procession from Lamesa’s St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church at 908 South 2nd Street to Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church at 401 North Hartford Ave-nue. The procession with floats, matachines dancers and crowds of the faithful took place last Monday afternoon.

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Kayden MartinezParents: Ruben Martinez & Kim Lopez

Grandparents: Reynaldo & Elvira Lopez, Omar & Carolina Ramon, The Late Ruben Martinez

Parker Ann WileyParents: Cindy & Kevin Wiley

Grandparents: Johnny & Patsy ShookKen & Robin Wiley

Great Grandparents: Waynda Shook, Frank Wiley

Luke Michael DimasParents: Caleb & Krista Dimas

Grandparents: Joe & Elida Dimas, Michael & Stella Hernandez

Ezekiel Kai MartinezParent: Nydia Sanchez

Grandparents: Patricia Martinez & Pennie Gonzales

This year I Plan to be even Better!

Kyle Cope FrixParents: Willie & Kortney Frix

Grandparents: Kenneth & Betty Allen, Linda McCumber & The Late Gary McCumber

Lilly Ann AssafParents: Amgad Assaf & Christina Archer Assaf

of Los Ybanez, TXGrandparents: Ricky & Dorothy Archer of Los Ybanez, TX,

Lolla Mahoub and the late Bahaa Assaf of Cairo, Egypt

Benjamin James RodriquezParents: Edward & Dakota Rodriquez

Grandparents: Jimmy & Delia Rodriquez,Pablo & Abigail Vasquez

Dear Santa, Mery Christmas I have Been good this yer...sow For Christ-mas I want Curry Shoes He is a Basketball. Plar. and shirt. and a Basketball. and wwe wresler. and a I phone. and a ActionFig-ure. and a Romotecantrollcar. and a Folder. and a Football. And a Lago. And a Halo Toy. and a Marvlsoperhero. and a star wors Toy. and a MusR Chruck.Love, Felix Casarez

Dear Santa, I want a hoverboard and a Xbox one and a dog and new clothes new shoes new and a new skyrover and new house and a new toy and new jacket and new books new bible new journal new xbox360 new games new pet new iphone 7 new samsung ipad. Love, Lenard Hernandez

Dear Santa, How is it going at the north pole for Christmas this year I want a Wubble bubble, a phone case, I emoji pillow, squishys, dig its, a bike, a basketball, M&Ms that Say my name on them, a candy cane holder that has starburst candy in it, a Candy Cane, a light that has that stuff in it, and 1 more thing Please let the people that don’t have please give them presents and food and water and medisn. that’s one more thing I want for Christmas. Love, Cambry Chavira

Dear Santa, I wish you a merry Christmas for Christmas I what ninja Tur-tle Legos and a Play Satation 4 and I want the New call of Duty for PlayStation 4 and Pokmon cards and one bordgame please and mortal Kombat x for the Playstation 4 Please and army man one please and a Sd card Please and One Batman toy please and one kite please and one robot pleaseLove,

Kolin Rodriques

Dear Santa, How is the north pole what I want for X-mas is a ps4, tablet, laptop, phone, radio, pack of pokemon cards, bike nerf gun, A stuffed bear, pokemon balls, A rudoph toy, A toy car, A santa toy, $50, red/white sneakers, A big tree house, brain Saw, ninja swords, kid guns, A puppy, A crystal ball, A pb&j with all the super powers in the world, A stuffed charmander, A ds with a pokemon game & a monkey game, A stuffed bobusour, A toy t-rex clothes, an elf toy, pe-cuchoo, A basket ball, 5 packs of crayons, 6 pack of markers, A gap jacket, A tornado Toy , A elf on the shelf, A robot that moves talks and listens to me only, A boxing kit, A jingly pencil, All the 39 clues books, an omoji pillow, Santa you your elfs, raindears are the best that is no lie.Love, Jordan Antu

Dear Santa, I was good This year can you please get me a game it’s called destiny. And I want a lot of new Pokemon cards And I want a lot of legendary Pokemon cards. And I want blackopps 3. And I want garden Warfare 2. And I want Gold Jordans. And I want a Gold headset. And I want a white controller. And I want mincraft. And I want a nerf gun. And I want a romot helicopter. And I want a romot control car. And I want halo 5.Love, Jeremiah Campos

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! How are you? i have been good this year I Listen to my science teacher my math teacher and my read-ing teacher? I want for Christ-mas is some shoes a ripstick and a dit bike and a dallas cowboy Jersey and a stephen curry jersey a goat cart a car for my gradma and a truck for my grandpa and some pokemon cards and curry shoes some toy

cars. WWe wrestlers. a kevin durant Jersey and a westbrook Jersey and some clothes a air-plance some Lego and some New Jordans a bke a hover-board play station and Xbox one and Madden 16 and 17 and a new basketball and a football. Love Jadaren Heasley

Dear Santa, I was good this year. I hope rodof is ok and ready for Christ-mast. I want a sister, a cat, a unicorn. My brother and my cosin. I want a hoverbord.Love, Ali Cottingham

Dear Santa, merry Christmas! how are you? I have been good this year Hoverboard, elf on the shelf, remote contol car, Jacket, tab-let, iphone7, laptoP, Jorden-shos Christmas shirt, elf shirt, ladepeiles, elf bleanket elf shirt, christames hat foodballe, Book, Santa hat, hades Fond, Jorden tawnll, Boots, cowbays Jaket Jaket, Gruble, hat, must-ing, Jorden Back pack, Bowble, blanket, christmaes hat, christ-mas shirt, Gt bleank, pants, pe-nes hepll, wenter penter, benes, clokes, raescar, car, cowboys shirt, cat in the hat Book, ninja, thing 1 and thing 2 shirt, cow-boys hat, fl ower red shirt, blue shirt, blak shirtLove, Christopher Vidaurre James

Dear Santa, I been good this year I will like a copter and a dron a paly stion 4 a bmx bike and a lot of lagose and a baskball a cham-pling and a por scooter a helmet skatebord nfl foot ball nuja and a rc car a gapor water pruf rc helcoper.Love, Robert Robles

Dear Santa, Merry cristmas How are you? I have been good this year and I want a lot, and I know I will get a lot, and I know that and the thing that would love is my

family , and that is what crit-mas is what it is all about, and I know that I will get a lot that I will love and take care of and I will love everything I get and probaly won’t ever take back, and me and my family want a crazy cart than you santa.Love Tiffany Leeann Meares

Dear Santa, Mery chrimas how are the elfs i hope there good well i want a laptop a phone and pokemon sun and a DS and a pokemon card its a grenija soas draginit and mega charzard ex that what i want and i hope mrs santa claues is okay so as the elfs i beat they like bilding toys & make childrin happy santa you to i will give you a cooke Love, Draven

Dear Santa, I what a makeupset and I what a I what a iphone and tede bar and can you git my family a lott sfuf. I have been good this year. I wat a rdov.Love, Leslie Hernandez

Dear Santa, How are you I want sum Kds. and sum the brons. and sum the brons shurt. and sum kurs soks and sum shows and sum shurts. and I am going to leve sum kokes and sum melk and I wont a oll boxes of pokemon kurds and sum vans and sum jo-geres. and a kewl jaket and sum sokes. and I wont sum pokyball and sum wwe resler all fo the resler and his jury for cerry and sum hiy tops and sum comvers and acrrinfi xiser and sum new shurt. Love, Michael Moreno

Dear Santa, I have been relly relly good this year what I want for Christ-mas is red nike forces but low tops a white shirt and a white pants and a play station 4 video game watch dogs 2 and a sam-sum galxuy S7 Edge and le

bron socks and cloths for my school only for my teacher and a hufferbord Love, Matthew Rodriquez

Dear Santa, How are you, well I been good this year so I thought you can get me some stuff here this is what I want, 3DS transform-ers rise of the dark spark, 3DS Avengers rise of ultron, 9 litlle containers of germ X gust to keep the germs off, and emo-gee bean bag all I want on it is a smile and eyes and I want 3DS pokemon Sun and goose bumps Horrorland for DS. well that is it byLove, Rico Enriquez

Dear Santa, I want a Dallas Cowboys Jer-sey motorcycle and a dirt, bike and some Jordan Alots of Poke-mon cards monster trruck and Husky and 9t supercor all mov-ies I phone 7 and a wii u and a Xbox 360 and golden controller for my xbox one and a playstion 4 playstion 3, playstion2, play-stion goosebums 2 , awesome movies, spectocler movies ac-tion fi gure wrestler fi gureLove, Braylen Harris

Dear Santa, What I want for xmas is a iphone 6, playstaion and a mo-tecontro drone for the playstion I want the game whatch dog 2, manden13, left 4 dead2 , forse, hinch men, hitma, drivers linse and a head phones. and a ipad. new shose, new cloths and pants, shorts and everything white, red , and black, pink, and colorful and a car 1997 su-per clasic that car for my dad wanted I really want to get it for him. And a mustan for my brother and me a toaty that has all the songs i want to hear how are you? are you good? Love, michael Rodriquez

Dear Santa, all I want for xmas is a ps4

and 2 cochers and a ps 4 head set and a cloocamra and a face camera and TV and make it a Jolly life For me and a camra stick and cosmo and takis and plants vs zombiesLove, LJ Posada to santa

Dear Santa, Iwant a xbox 360 and a xbox 1 terascout dron and a are hog thunder dron a white vijow dron and a bb gun and my on safe and four willer and a Iphone seven and a sky viper miny , roun and a elf on the shelf and mind craft game and a bouns off rock and rolw and a siens cit and a staft sharktooth nectes from a grat whaite and a charmander stuft anmil and a picashow stuft anmil and a magic pin and a for willer. How are you santa how are the ran-deerLove, Jayce Doster

Dear Santa, I would like for christmas is a laptop, a lot of playdou, a new big baire houes, a lot of lego sets, a play houes, ameri-can girl doll set, american girl doll kichen set, get my big sis-ter a dog that is half German Shepered half Great Dan that looked like Loyo and I want it hiper, a fake vakqum cleaner and amenican girl doll bed, macing clothes, american girl chil, and american girl baby longryset. Have a merry christ-masLove Myleigh Ravae Moore

Dear Santa, Este anio hesido un buen niño. Y le hago caso a mis padres me gusta ir a la escuela. Yo te quiero pidir un ipad, un skate board, un tren, y tambien, un telescope. Gracias por todos los juetes. Te desa un Feliz Navi-dad. y quiero que sepas que voy a sigir siendo un buen niño. Love Elias Villanueva

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is rudoffs nos polishdDear Santa, Quiero decirte que he sido un buen chico este año. Me gusta ayudar a mi mama por la casa. Lo que quiero para navidad son legos, un juego de Batman, un rifl e de juego y una pelota de baloncesto. Quiero desearte una Felis Navidad y prometo ser un buen chico.Love, Misael Isla Hernandez

Dear Santa, How are you i want anything but i want you togive the poor a house and i also want a bed, mini fridge and a new elf on the shelf and can you put a picture of you a miss claus and can i have a iphone 7 to. Santa clausLove, IReland adams

Dear Santa, How are you for Christmas I will like a Holle Kitty mini play hous wethher mom and her dad and Holle kitty and the Holle Kitty mini play hous. and I will ike a Holle Kitty cherehous with holle Kitty and her stiser and the litte mous and this is wut come with it come with a hot airblon and a spen and a swing and a stirs. and a hous. and a I will lika Holle Kitty Kisle with a chaer and a klocit and her piris and her cinan and her shoos and the caling and the hors and the pirechand Holle Kitty. Love, Caleigh Vidaurre

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas Santa I wood like A Plus Size borbi and A Plus size borby clos and clos and A big borby hous and A huverhood borby shoos and borby fi ters. and A borby car and A ifon7 Ap-ply Cpiter and A chere hous and A emoge Pillow and A lechick stodranda hermit.Love, Raven Salasar

Dear Santa, Hoaver board and madden 17 and a xbox one and a new tv and nba 17 and a new phon and a playstation one and a toy I want comepltubLove Antonio Rodriguez

Hope the elfs are fi nished with the toys. what I really want for Christmas. Is a xbox one with madden 17 and basketball goal a minecraft game for xbox one and a old nitendoLove, Jayden Lopez

Dear Santa, merry chrismas is rudoffs no-spolishd and I hope you are macking the toys that I wunt are the randere ok and are the elvs doin Fine macking toys for cismas and eating kooces and I hope you’r wiFe is ok I kant wate intil y git thisLove, Macy Roberts

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! How are you? I have been good this year. Don’t get a cold because you need to get all of the kids toys and tell Rudolph I said hi. Ru-dolph you don’t get sick be-cause he needs to lead all of the raindeer’s. Eat good food Santa and you to Rudolph and all of the raindears. Oh I forgot to tell you tell all of the elf’s I said hi. Make good presents for the kid’s. Oh tell Mrs. Closs I said Hi. happy Christmas!Love, Ariella Vidaurre

Dear Santa, My name is Isabella and I’m 8 years old and I feel sad for the people wHo don’t get A lot of food so for Christmas I want to give to the people WHo don’t have the stuff we have and I want to give back to the com-munity and to help others I will have people in the community come togeter and Help. Love, Isabella Arguijo

Dear Santa, can you give me a xbox 360 and a phone and geers of war game mircraft story mode. and brand new shose elf on the shelf and arobot. And be rich. I want a toy chane saw. and tell mrs. claws that I said hi. Love,James Garza

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I have been good at school. I also keep my grades up. In additon, I’ve gone to church all year. Since I have been so good, may I please have a laptop? I also would like a baby brother. Another thing I would like is for my grandma to get better. This year, I plan to be even better! I will clean up my room. I also will be good to my sis-ter. Another thing I will do is be good for the rest of the year. Thank you for your time and Merry Christmas!Love,Maria Barron

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I helped my grandma do chores. I also cleaned my room for her. In ad-dition I have an elf on the shelf. Since I have been so good, may I please have a hatcha-mail? I also would like a boy elf on the shelf. another thing I would like is a phone. This year, I plan to be even better! I will clean the dishes. I also will get food for her. anoter thing I will do is do whatever she says. Thank you for your time and Merry Christmas!Love,Tegan Salazar

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I take care of my Brother. I also wash the dishes. In addition, I hlep my family a-lot. Since I have Been so good, may I please have a piano, pup-py, shopkins. I also wouldlike a computer that turns into a tab-let. Another toy I would like is Glitter Sand. This year, I plan to be even better! I will Listen Better. I also will not give additude. Another thing I will do is Be Sweet. Thank you for your time and merry christmas!Love,Jozlin Gonzales

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year.I listen to my teacher’s. I also been nice at school. In addition, I have been nice to my elf. Since I have been so good, may I please have a bascet-ball goal? I also would like is a minect’s, Data. Another toy I would like is a yaceyate mushyn. This year, I plan to be even better! I will be nicer. I also will be respectful. Another thing I will do is be nice to mysister’s

Thank you for your time and Merry Christmas.Love,Eternity Cortez

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well and I have been good this yearI help my mom clen her car I asol help my mom clene here house. and in addition I help my mom ma-sic evry day. Since, I have been so good may I please have some New close? I asol would like New shoos and a new Bike pleese. Aother toys I like is ramoe con troll stuf lik a drone This year I plan to be even beter I will lissn to my mom I’ll also will help my mom evre Day Ather things I will do is I will lissin to win she tells me go usleep I will go usleep and I will go usleep Thank you for your time and merry christmasLove,Unsigned

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I have help with my baby sistiers. I also have done aroond the house is clean my room. In addition, I mostly helped around the house. Since I have been so good, may I please have a real life puppy? I also would like a brand new bike. This year, I plan to be even better. I will get gooder grades. I also will be very sweet Anoth-er thing I will do is help more at my house. Thank you for your time and MerryChristmas!Love, Jessie Gutierrez

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I want some pokemon cards. I also

want Madden 17. In addition I want a jerman sheper. Since I have been so good, may I please have some poke-mon cards? I also would like a play stastion 4 and halo with it. Another thing I would like is Madden 17. This year I plan to be even better. I will listen. I also will clean my room Another thing I will do is be have. Thank you for your time and Merry Christmas!Love,Christian Zorola

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I clean my room and. I also clan my living room. in addition, I am doing good. Since have been so good, may I please have a miny BMX bike? I also would like a sckooter. Nother toy I like is a ripstick This year, I plan to be even better! I will help peple, I also will suve up mony Another thing I will do is go see my mom.Love,Joeangel Robles

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I clen my room not talk back I also not lie had not be bad in addi-tion, I make poploe happy and happe pole Since I have been so good, may I Please have Donadm’s book? I also would like string puppet Cozmo Another toy I would like is Michel Jaxson’s Jacket This year I plan to be even better! I will don’t make sondes I also will do as am tolb Another thing I will do is make goob grades Thank you for your time and Merry Christmas!Sincerely,Josue Morales

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope. you are well. I have been good this year. I have opend a door for a very sick man. I also have not talked Back to anyone in addition, I helped my mom with cristmas presents Since I have been so good, may I have My Grandma come and see me? I also would like

a razor dirt bike please and a Another thing I like is for Mrs.sosa and mrs. carther have a good Holladay This year, I plan to be even better! I will help take out the trash I also will take reaspons-billity Another think I will do is doing my mom favers Thank you for your time and merry cristmas!Love,Jeremiah Williams

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I clen mi room and. I also Help prea with mi mom in addition. I clen mi home to. Since Ihave been so good-may I please have a Jrem-ca-chr? I also would like a mine-craft poster and Another toy I like is a titechrch. This year I plan to be even better I will lisin and I also will be nice and another thing I will do is keep mi room clen Thank you for your time and merry christmas.Love,Cody Marquez

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Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I hleped my mom clean her Room, I also helped my grand-mal walk. In addition I cleaned my Room Today Since I have been so good, may I Please have a new computer? I also would like a new woody toy another thing I will like is a new monkey this year I Plan to be even better! I will help my Parents. I will also take care of my brother another thing I will do is be kind Thank you for your time and merry christmasSinerely, Love,DV Lopez

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. i have been Good this year. I also would like to be 13 tine. Another toy I would like is atoll. This year, I plan to Be even better! I will thow the trash I alos will do my chors aother thing I will do is lisen to my mom Thank you for time and merr Christmas!Love,Madelyn Garcia

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I hav Ben good to my grama. I also Do my home work Be nice in addition I will try to Do good at school. Since I have been so good, may I Please have abron I al-sow would like Re car and aniga star Another toy I lik is a Playstarion this year, I Plan to be even Better I will try to be good at school no be notey Do my homework merii crismisLove,Ayden Puente

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I have not talked back as al-ways. I Also have been help-ing my neighbor. In Addition I have been Reading more like Always, Seirosly. Since I have been so good, may I please have my mom feel better? I also would like A hole much of Amarican cloths. Another toy I would like is A barbie camper. This year I plan to be even better! I will get my grades up I also will help my mom I also will be helpful to mom thank you for your time and Merry christmas!Love, Rosa Hernandez

Dear Santa, How are you Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I work on writing read to someone for 20 mines. did my homework. do my chros evryday. Since I have been so good may I have a go card? a book a nuther toy I would like a coler Book. this year I plan to be even better I will pase my erads wosh the car be nice thant you for your time and merry ChristmasLoveAlazay G

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I Kept my grades up I also lis-ten to my mom. In addition I lerned how to add Since I have bee so good, may I please have Jordans? I also would like a drone and new clothes. Another toy I would like is a nerf gun. This year, I plan to be even better! I will respect people. I also will do the pledge. An-other thing I will do is listen to my teachers. Thank you for your time and Merry Christmas. Love,Ivan Garcia

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I put the Dishis up. I also folded landry. In addition, I cleaned my room. Since I have been so good, may I pleas have one melon Dolers? I also would like shop-kins, Another thaning I like is Clos. This year, I plan to be even better! I will clean my mom’s

closet. I also will clean my dads room. Another thing I will do is clean the deen. Thank you for your time and merry christmas!Love,Kali Campos

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I help my mom take out the trash. I also fi nd my brother’s shoses alot. In addition, I clean my room realy good. Since I have been so good, may I please have VR glasses? I also would like a snar drum to complyt my drum set, An-other toy I like a Irobot cobra This year I plan to be even beter! Iwill clean the whole house. I also will help my dad with the trucks. Another thing I will do is help light of love Thank you for your time and Merry ChistmasLove,Jesse Hernandez

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I Been good, and I also been cine. I also een swet, and Re-spefe, and obedite In addition, I also been vere, vere goo, and I been in a HS liche.Since I have been do good may I please have Jordan’s and a tocewace? I also would like a huvabord, and a toy I like is Pokemoy cards, and a Ro-bot dog This year I Plan to be even Better! I will be good i also will be swet Another thing I will dois just sa that Thank you for your time and merry Christmas!Love,Samantha Duran

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well! I have been good this year. I clean my room. I also thror the trast. I also will wash dishtes. Since I have been so good May Iplaeses have a Havr-bord? I also would like a showes? Another toy I like is Wrestling toy. This year I plan to be even better! I will quit blarting out. i also do my chore Anther Won’t get in truble. Thank you for your time and merry Christmas.Love,Frankie Rios

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I help my mom do the dishes. I also help my dad do the yard. In addition, I do good in my house. Sinse I been so good, may I please have my dad get home early. I also would like a ipod another toy I like is barbies. This year I plan to be better! I will try to be good in class. I also will try to be betterat my grades. Another thing I will do is my homeworkThank you for your time and Merry Chrismas!Love,Alyssa Dominguez

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I want a basketball goal. I also want a phone and two ball. Since I have been so good, may I please have a ps4 and a ps3. Another toy I like is train. This year, I plan to be even better! I will listen, I will help my mom clean house Another thing I will thing I will clean my room. Thank you for your time and Mery Christmas!Love,Brody Castillo

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Cris-mas! hope you are well. I have been good this year. I cleand my house and I cleand the dog. I also I also cleand my room to help my gramall I made my-grampalls land with the more. Sine I have been so good may I please have a play stashon? I also would Like a Bike Another toy I would like is some legos and a mot con-troll car This year I plan to be evan better I will do my londry I also will be good in school I will try to not go to the offi ce and try not to Thank you for your time.Love,Edward Castillo

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I clean my rom I also help my mom In addition, I help Oth-ers Since I have been so good may I please have a gocart? I also would like x box One an-other toy I like is grand theft auto game This year I plan to

be even better! I will brush m teeth I also will do the yard another thing i will do help my family Thank you for your time and merry christmasLoveBilly

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year, I learnd to cook, I also cleand my room, Me and my dad cleand our truk, In addition, I helped clean the yufa. Sinc I have been so good may I Please have, a remotcet-ro car? I also would like a re-motcotrol heliltopter. Another toy I like is a toy car. This year, I plan to be even Better! I will. Be Better at my math I also will, Be Better at my reading Thank you for your time.Love,Joe Gonzales

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I helped mymom move into a different house awhile ago. I help my mom clean. I addition I help my mom take out the trash. Since I have been so goo may I Please have an xbox one? I also would like an play-station four. A norther thing I like is an xbox 360 and an 3ds? This year I Plan to be even better! I will listen to my teacher I also listen to my mom another thing I will do is my chores and listen Thank you for your time and Merry ChrismasSincerely,Cylis McCurley

Dear Santa, How are you Merry Christ-mas I hope you are well I have been good this year I gave a poor old man my Burger I also gave my cousin his Bear Last night in addition I would like to have a phone whith internet Since I have Been so good may I please have a nin-tendo 3ds whith a pokemon sun game I also would ike a pokeball whith charzard in it I thank you for you time and merry christmas! SantaJayden Benitez

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I get the groshrys. I also help my brother clean hIS room in addition I help my mom make brexfest.Since I have been so good may i Please have a move? I also would like a wwe ring. anoth-er toy i like is wrestler.This year I plan to be even better I will be gold in scool. thank you for merry cresms!Love,Alex

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I want a xbox. I also want my grades to go up. in addition, I let my mom use my hetter. Since i have been so good, may i please have a Basket-ball? I also would liketo go to get in trouble. Another toy i like is a toy car. This year, I plan to be even better! I will help my clean I also will help my grandma plant. Another I will do is help my family out. Thankyou for this time and Merry Chrismas!Love,Juan Torres

In the spirit of this holy season, we’d like to join our friendsand neighbors throughout the community in giving thanks for all of the blessings our Lord has so graciously bestowed upon us.

We have so much to be grateful for, including your kind support. Thank you for your business.

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Another toy I Like is a dinours.Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. Ithrewthe trashI olsofi xed my Bed. In odition, I cleand my room. Since I have been so good may I Pleas have a darewolf? I whold olso like pok-emon-cards. Another thing I whant is snow on christmas. This year I plan to be even Better I will help I will olso say thanks onother thing I will Do is walsh my own dishes.Thank you for your time. Merry Christmas!Love,Abram Gutierrez

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I lisen I did all Homeworck in addition. I lisen I do all my school worck. Since I have bee so good may I Please have a phone I also would like shoes and clothes and pants Another thing I like is astuff dog This year, I Plan to be even better I will help my mom and dad I also will help others Another thing I will do is worck really hard Thank you for your time and Merry ChristmasLove,Kamila Garia Estrada

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I did chors. and hilp mom win she was eile in addition i did good Since I have been so good may I please have xbox one and I also would like iphone toy i like is drowon This year i plan tobe even better I will do chors a lot I also will cline the cat and his later box. another thing i will do this i will thow the trash and i will wash

Thank you for your time and merry ChristmasLove,Jace Prado

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I can cook Tortillas. I also was dishes. in addition, I Lisin in school. Since I have been so good, may I Please have a toy gun? I also would like a cool Jacket. a Durt Bike and a 4 welwer. Another toy I Like is a dino-urs. This year, I Plan to be even better! I will be good for th teaher. I also will in school.Another thing I will do is my homework.Thank you for your time and merry christ-mas! Love,Ernesto Villarreal

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I help mom take out the trash. I also clean my room In addi-tion, I also never blert out in school. Since I have been so good, may I please have an xbox one I olso whould like minecraft, call of duty Block ops Anoth-er toy I like is gfo.5 This year I plan to be even better! I will be good to my mom Another thing I will be have to my mom. Thank you for you time. and Merry Christmois! Thank you for your time.Love,Christopher Tomez

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well I have been good this year. I have been help my mom I also doing my job in school in ad-

dition, a 3ds, gamas, BoBll-hads Plese Since I have beeen so good may I have a spiker toy I like is Bike this year, I plan to be even better xbox one thank you for your time.LoveJordan Martinez

Dear Santa, How are you? Merry Christ-mas! I hope you are well. I have been good this year. I be-ing good I help my mom Since I have been so good may I Please have golf carts I also would like xbox Jordens Another toy i like is pokemon cards This year, I plan to even better! I will listen to mom I alsowill behave in skhool. Another thing I will do is read moreLove,Angel Cortez

Dear Santa Hows Rudolph Hows Mrs Clas I have ben good how are you are the elf smacking toys I well leaf cookes and mild I want a toysYour friend,EthanDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa Is it colbe at the north pole. Have I ben good Santa. I hop I get a prezeint Santa. I Love you Santa. I will like a perit.Your friend,SarahiDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, Had is Rudolph is bo hall ror you hab ben good ble I wot a gams to play with my brob. Ho is Mrs ClausYour friend,ChristianDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, Bo you loved kosi. I em 6

I loved you. Santa or you bis. I loved you Santa. How was Rudolph doing. Santa yro you gife me a truk Your Friend,DyvanDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, Is ti cold at the north pole. I need a big hemet. Ime a good boy. I need a ro bote. I need a go cod. Tel Mrs. Claus hi.Your friend,GrahamDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, I am a Good boy. Dot put me on the node lest. I am gona lev you koges. Wel you Stop by mi has I wot a big hl-metYour friend,Peter NeufeldDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, How ir Roblph? I hoq Mrs claws is feeling well. I hoq all of your faindeors like my carit. I want 2 D s and a Poke-mon moon and pokemon sun and a itoon card. I will give you Dr. PePer and choklit coockiesYour frindCadenDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa Is Rudolph is not cold in the noth pult Santa is it cold at the north pole and I going to gisv you milck and cackes. I want a thracktr and give my sistr a dollYour Frind,StevenDawson 1st Grade

Dear Senta, How or you and I wunt a x spox 1S.Your friendBrandon

Dawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, We are trying very hard to be good boys and girls. We hope you can fi nd our hous-es on Christmas Eve. This is what we would like you to bring us:Mercedes-a horse, playdough, a castle, and a trampolineAlexandria-a Barbie and a big dollMayzie-a doll and a ballKynleigh-a big doll and a basketballBranson-Skye the Paw Patrol toy and a tractorLuca-a toy snake, a toy lady-bug, and a toy mouseKayson-a Ninja Turtle ToyGavin-a drum and a giraffeMariah-a Frozen bed, new clothes, and a trampolineKorbynn-a baby and a dollMia-a baby dollNicholi-a ball and a carSophia-a kitty and a horsieZailyn-Sophia and Santa ClausAubrey-Peppa Pig and all the toys We will leave cookies for you and carrots for the rein-deer.Head Start- Room 4

What I want for Christmas: I whant makeup and whant a pupy and ty boos and a laptop and a phoncase and a bag and some clos and a short a silcon and a swheter and a poster and beeds and an American Girl. Alina Cardoza

I wont for Christmas is makeup and an American girl doll. I want is a puppy and her name is sofy and a new bike. I want is a Junie B. Books and a phone and a laptop. I want for my dog is some clothesGabby Perez

I whant a Rapuzel doll. I want to see my mom and my

dad happy. I want a toy dra-gine. You give it tack food and you get to chanch her diper. I want a mermaid tail and to be happy for Christ-mas. Christmas is special to because it is God’s birthday. Leilene Matthews

I want a fnaf toys, the num-der 1, 2, 3, 4 and a foxy plushy. I want a mangle plushy and a bonnie plushy and a chera plushy. I want all the anmul-chronics plushy and I want a night mere. Christmas is spe-cial to me because it is a holi-day. Mariyah Hernandez

I want a new Nerf gun. I want a hot wheels, a hot wheel track. Christmas is happy andit is Jesus’ birthday. It is spe-cial to me because everybody is happy.

Five nights at Freddies, Toy version, Wither version, Phantom version. Christmas is special to me because Santa is coming to give all the good girls and boys presents. Archilles Rodriguez

First, I want a phone and money and toys. Next, I want a tablet, a good Christmas and I want to go to Florida. Then I want to go to Hawaii. I re-ally want to have a nice car when I grow up. Last, I want a manchin when I grow up. Christmas is special to me be-cause Santa is nice and I like it when he brings me presents and games.Jason Echavarria


To Our Friends& Neighbors

We’d like to wrap up the year, by wishing all of you the very merriest holiday season ever!

For the gift of your friendship, we are sincerely grateful, and we look forward to the opportunity

to serve you again next year.

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Season’s GreetingsFrom our team to yours,

our very best wishes and heartfelt gratitude.

REINDEER EVERYWHERE Photo courtesy LISDNorth Elementary students entertained their parents and friends at an annual Christmas Pageant. LISD students will resume classes on Jan. 9, 2017.

I want a swimming pool for Crismis. I want a wodrbed for Crsmis. I want to see my mom happy and win I see her happy, she gives me some toys. I behav and win I get toys and I play with my sister. My brother get sum toys only if he behavs and my mom gets him some toys. Christmas is special to me be-cause I love it so much and I want a lot of presents. Bella Quintanilla

First, what I want for Christ-mas is a box of halo’s. Next, I want a tablet and a phone and a good Christmas. Then, I want to go to Florida. Last, I want to see my Dad in Lubbock and see my old friends in Florida. Christmas is special to me be-cause I get to spend time with my family. Dax Oliveras

First, I want to spend time with my sister cause she moved. Next, I want for Christmas is my friend. Then, I want for Christmas is a cute and fl uffy dog and name her Shergr (Sugar). Last, it is about our family that givs presents. Ellyana Quinteros What I want for Christmas. I want a LaBlite. I even want is some dog toys and a blanket for me. I want is a doll house that has a lot of Barby’s and Elsa Dolls and Anna Dolls. Christmas is special to me be-cause Santa brings all the toys. Blanca Lopez

First, I want a hachimal. Next, I want a Bible. Then I want a Lego Freinas Party set. Last, my thing I love for Cris-tmas is having fun with my family. Leah Sanez

First, I open my prestels. Then I play when my toys. Next, I go to play with snow a lot with snow. Then, I want a chicken in an oven, a kickball and a phone. Last, I open my presits it was a lot of presints then I play with snow. Cruz Perez

I want an American girl doll, Leah dark and Julie and Rbec-ka and close and shoos and lugej and stuf what they yoose to play whith and I want that princess car. Christmas is spe-cial to me because when you have not seen your cozen and when it’s Christmas you get to see your cozen then you get to openen presents together. Anayeli Rosales

I want a puppy for Crismis. I want a swimming pool for Crismis. I want a wodrbed for Crsmis. I want a cunedic sand for Crismis. I want a little trtol for Crismis. I want a cumpu-trtor Crismis. I want a tablit for Crismis. I want to go to the zoo. Crismis is special to me cus I want to see my Mom and Dad happy.ViviAnna Cisneros

Dear Santa, My name is Levis. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like aT RoboTme.Merry Christmas Santa!P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies I med FoR you we left out for you.

Dear Santa, How are you and Mrs. Claus doing? We hope that you are both doing well. Please tell Rudolph and the rest of the reindeer hello from the stu-dents in Mrs. Silipo’s PreK Class. We are sending you a list of the students in our class and a couple of things that we would like for Christmas. Have a Merry Christmas,Lamesa PreK Class Room 46Raven– an Elsa dress, a cell phoneHannah — a real phone, a charger for when it’s deadAracely – a toy elf, a toy Elsa PhoneRhett – a truck (big, big not a pickup), a choo choo trainAubree- a horsey, a phoneJayton –Thor, HulkPiper – A big Rainbow Castle, a tiny play horse that can go fastJordan – an angry toy on a motorcycle, a Spiderman real phoneEaston – a boat, a cowboy hat and everything to be a cowboyHayden H. – a boat, a fi re-truckJacob – a spider, a fake phoneLoxley – a football ball, foot-ball shirt Eisarey – an Xbox, a dronePaisley – a Barbie house, a Frozen phoneKneilee – real Elf, a real Mickey Mouse, real kitchenAva- a pink carriage, a prin-cess packHayden R.- a real Mickey Mouse phoneHunter – Police car, a fi re-truck, SheriffAmaris – a glowing light, Elsa paint (nail polish)Emily – my own skateboard, Magic Trax Mrs. Silipo– a good cotton crop Mrs. Gutierrez – some new

boots

Dear Santa, I love Christmas and the preses. I whnt two pupys. I whnt a fone and I whnt Eric too come too my home. I need soks, pokemon krds. From, Moises Jaramillo

Dear Santa, Thank you for Ms. Max-well. I would like a puppy. I need a toy. From,Adrian Ruiz

Dear Santa, Thank you for Christmas fun. I would like a fone, ta-blit? I need a computr. From,Amelia Sanchez

Dear Santa, I want a phone. Win you come can you breeing me some toys. From,Nahyla Vasquez

Dear Santa, I wunt a thacter with a thal-er. My bruther wunt a hose with a man. I wunt Moises too come to my hous. From,Eric Solis

Dear Santa, I wat a puppy. I wot a sood-ru. I wot a goldfi sh Crayola. I wot a tall th. I wot a fone. I wot a pizza. From, Malachi Gonzalez

Dear Santa, Thank you for Christmas. I would like Nobi. I need a puppy. From, Abigail Antu

Dear Santa, Thank you for Christmas. I would like Elsu Dol with a spek butn. I wut a big brb has. I need a fone and a Cat in the Hat dol and a Fox in Sox dol. From,Alaina Moreno

Dear Santa, Thank you for magic wand and Barbie. I would like a phone, cryns, pisl, mrcrs. I need braslts, reng, Christmas decorations, chapstik, and a brbe dol. From, Alize Sanchez

Dear Santa, Thank you for Christmas. I would like a brbi has. I need chos. (clothes) From, Madison Gonzalez

Dear Santa, Thank you for Christmas. I would like xobocs. I need shrt hats. From, Brody Rodriguez

Dear Santa, I want a xbox 36 and a play shchtnr and a macup set and a toy doll. From,Tsiliana Espinoza

Dear Santa, I wunt the big Jingu game. I wunt unuthr toy it is a weu and games for my weu. From, Ethan Toscano

Dear Santa, I want a toy dog for Christ-mas. I wan a new jackit. Thak for Christmas. You breeng me toys.

From,Miriam Cortez

Dear Santa, Thank you for your nase manrs. I would like a skap-bord and a br n erow. I need shoes. From,Avery De Los Santos

Dear Santa, Thank you for red pasins. I would like a shokin buble gum mashen. I need toy for Christ-mas. From, Liriana Guerrero

Dear Santa, Thank you for purple. I would like a motrsicl. I need a Christmas tre. From,Angel Moreno


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With joy in our hearts, we wish you and yours a multitude of blessings during this holy season. For your

business, we are truly grateful.

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We will be closing at noon on December 23rdand closed December 24th & 25th in order to

celebrate Christmas with our families.

REJOICEIt’s Christmas!

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Dear Santa, My name is Ryan Vasquez, I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a remote control car, walkie talkie, superman, batman. MERRY CHRIST-MAS SANTA!P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies and milk we left out for you!.

Dear Santa, My name is Jaze, I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a hetcoper, baby food, pampers, clothes for baby. MERRY CHRISTMAS SANTA!P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the hugs we left out for you!.

Dear Santa, My name is Katalyna, I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a hoberboard, cell phone, and a dog. MERRY CHRISTMAS SANTA!P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies and milk we left out for you!.

Dear Santa, My name is Eli Gonzales, I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christ-mas I would like a gum ball machie, ladder bed, a robot. MERRY CHRISTMAS SAN-TA!P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies we left out for you!.

Dear Santa, My name is Alejandro, I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a tigershark and dirt bike. MERRY CHRIST-MAS SANTA!P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cook-ies we left out for you!.

Dear Santa, My name is Jordan Ortega, I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christ-mas I would like a Barbie, toy train, trampolone, cookie and coke.. MERRY CHRISTMAS SANTA!P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the voy ice crème we left out for you!.

Dear Santa, My name is Karlely, I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a shopkins, a doll-house, and a doll.. MERRY CHRISTMAS SANTA!P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies and milk we left out for you!.

Dear Santa, My name is Ms. Crutcher and all I want for Christmas is for my students and their families to have a fun and safe break! How is Rudolph? I hope you enjoy the hot choco-late we will leave out for you!

Dear Santa, I wot a shocins. I wot a shoos. I wot smele mrkrs. I wot a toso.Love, Sarita Padilla

Dear Santa, I want a hrb bord ade afac so brade ade cats ade dogs ade robt.Love, Samuel Baracevic

Dear Santa, I wunt a ex box four and a psp and a smele mrkr and a dkoceckog game and a batman toy and a toy car and a robot and a toy bot and a toylego gam and a foll.Love,Ayden Escobedo

Dear Santa, I want shopkins and a fone and a skoodr and a shopkin book.Love, Jillian Gonzales

Dear, Santa I wut a little roban a bran sall on a rec eball.Love,Zayden Manriquez

I want shopkins and a fone

QUIET TIME Photo courtesy Glenda Kennedy/SCISDSands junior Brittany Sandoval reads a library book to kindergarten student Re-becca Loewen before Sands dismissed for the Christmas break. The upperclass-

men spent some time reading with the elementary students before the break. Sands returns to classes on Jan. 3, 2017.

Dear, Santa I want a barbe jren house and Areol doll that sings and a Barbehead that you can play with her. And a doll and klos and playpupe.Love, Orianna Gonzales

Dear, Santa I wut a drone and a IFon and a IPad mineye. And a ex box 1 and a UK pudr and a robot and a jram lene and robotgame.Love,Kinley Gipson

Dear, Santa Santa I wont a cat. Santa I wont a noo bed. Santa I wont a noo toi. Santa I wont a noo chran. Santa I wont a kanecan. Santa I wont noo shoz.Love, Isabella Vasquez

Dear Santa, I want amaecin grl dol or cups. I wont a comrptr.Love,Kaelynn Garcia

Dear, Santa I wut a toy dog and shociesand noo close and p.j.’s and noo Tede ber.Love,Myranda Hernandez

Dear, Santa I wut a samile mockr and a dog a little.Love, Melina Walker

Dear, Santa I wont a shopkin. I wont a smele mrkr. I wont a wublex. I wont a cup. I wont neu clos. I wont a locit. I wont a brbey.Love,Mollie Brown

Dear, Santa I want a now game its name is Madden 17. And a big rolbot. And a football lego stademe. And a now football necklace. I want now shoos.Love,Cayden Barrera

Dear, Santa I want a fone and a little cat.Love,Jose Torres

Dear, Santa I wont a smele mrkin. I wont wablex. I wonta locket. I wont a DJ. Love,Jessica Garza

Dear Santa, I wut a hubr bord. I wut noo shoosh.Love,Zachariah Barron

Dear, Santa I want a jeep but I want a touy jeep with sum cops with jeep thin I want a fon and a comepur and a tlablit and a hed fons.Love,Ajhminayha Lopez

Dear, Santa I wunt my fafrit toy. I wunt a leshric scootr.Love, Nattie Hernandez

Dear, SantaI want a esx box. And I wont a dog and I wont a cat.Love,Jeremiah Barrioz

“Dear SaNta, Ihave been Good this year. I want to have one phone and one drem book.”Zaeline Baltaza “Dear Santa I have been good this year. I want a remote control air Plane. I want a horse. I want a x box. I want Play Doh.Dreyden Barrera “Dear santa, I have been good. I would like to have a dirt bike. I would like to have a bike. I would like to have a kite.”Cameron Bordayo “Dear Santa, I have been good. I want a tree and a t box and a doll.”Kyla Boyd

“Dear Santa have I good. Hope I for Kismus I want game from Lu-buk”Josiah Calicuitt “Dear santa I have been good, this year. I want like a RoBot.” Quinton Castillo-Abram “Dear Santa I have been good this year. I would like biskl, legos, sop-kinz, horse, car, dog, kanga-roo, troll, pig, fi sh.”Sophia Chavira “Dear Santa I have been good this year. I would like shokins, PlayDoh, Goo.”Aubree Cortez “Dear Santa I Bin good this year. I wut A tablit and A laptop and A shopkins.”Megan Garcia

“Dear santa, I have been good. I wud a xBox1 and Bata max.”Jacob Gonzales

“Dear santa I have been good. I want a dirt Bik And Hoverboard,”Braylon Hawkins “Dear Santa, I have been good this year. I want A romot contro car and red bickle and lot of mincraf And tablit.”Siejae Hawkins “Dear Santa I have been good This year. I want a x box one and I want a shopkens and I want a camru and I want hiheels and I want Goo and I want Play Doh.”Aaliyah Hernandez

“Dear Santa I have been good this year. I wan sholderz, Big guys, tank, and helicopter.Ismael Lara

“Dear Santa I have been good This year. I would like a gitar. I want a snow globe”Ismael Lara “Dear Santa I have been good this year, I want a x box 360. I want the game for my x box left 4 dead.” Jake Morado “Dear santa, I have been good this year. I woud like some gams.”Ian Perez “I have been good this yer. I like snow. I like a toy elf. I like fakie money. I like to ride a randeer. I want to go the park. I like a dog.” Nevaeh’ Lea Vara “I would want money. I would want rudoff and a Elf. I want Playstasin and a x box 1.”Jadrien Zapata

Dear Santa, I want a fone and a I pad.Love,Maya

Dear Santa, How are you. Are you sleepy. I want a wii. I want a bible. I want a darthvader toy set.Love, Eli Maxwell

Dear Santa, how ar you doing I want a x box won. And a x box wos. and a vido game for the xbox. Love, Cooper Taylor

Dear Sata, Hal are you at the nrth. I want a skylander for cismas. Iwant a box one. I want a cat mare.Love, Emiliana Gonzales

Dear Santa, I have been good. Every-thing is okay. Please bring me a zootopia book. Thank you and safe tavols. Love, Madison Lynch

Dear Santa, Could you plesal get me a Elf on the shelf and a zoomer kitty and a frozen little king-dom.Love,Abigail Bara

Dear Santa, I wut a legos and a eletrik scootr. I want a jrasik park legos set. Iwant a motitoer .Love,Peyton

Dear Santa, Iwant a noo tablit. My sisdr lose mine. And a fone and a cupootr. I love you. Oliyva Rendon

Dear sanu clos, I want a I fone.Luf,Santiago Esparza

Dear Santa, How r you dooen. I want a x box aod a x box 360 aod a x box 4. Luv, Enrique Moreno

Dear Santa, I want a nwho bike for Cris-mis. A x box for cismus. A fon for cismis. And a tablit.Luv,Christian Barajas

Dear Santa, I want a wee2k17 and I want a NBA 2k17 and I want a ma-don17. And I want a pez shrt. And I want a Odell Beckm jr. Shrt.Love, Jadyn Jaramillo

Dear, Santa. I want a xbox 360. I want a mar bike. I want a now television.Love,Eli Riggins

Dear Santa, How are you dowing. I want a xbox 360.Love,Ben Riggins

Dear Santa, I want a madin and a tabli-tand a noo york sine and I want another laqtop and a cool noo postr and I want a noo york jrses , nubr 13. I want legos. Love,Kase Woodul

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Dear Santa, My name is Roman. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a tank made of legos. Merry Christmas, San-ta! P.S. I hope you and the reindeer enjoy the cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, I want a video game, ipad, ninja turtle, and batman. How is Rudolph?LionelDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How are youf. I want a tab-let, mechanic skooter a and a camerf.JulianDawson Kindergarten Dear Santa, How are you I want a nerf gub, a car that transfrorme by iteetf and drives.GabrielDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How is Rubolph? I waant a helicopter anb tractorsm with a cab. Love,Jacob Dawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How is Rudolph? I want a doll and dress to fi t.Love,ReynaDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How are you? Please bring me a senta, a reindeer toy and mud boots.Love, BettyDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How is Mrs. Claus? Robot the Activator I want a remote control. I loveCollinDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How is Mrs. Claus? Please bring me robot wth kitty a furry tail.Kensley,LoveDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How is Rudolph? I want a bat mobile and a swing set.Love,GavinDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How are you I want a camera, water gun, special book and a Barbie.Love,CatherineDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, Hwo is Rudoplh? I want trolls and a bik.Love,EmeryDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How is Rudolph? I want a babie, fi sh tank, real turtle and bunny.Love,TristahDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How is Rudolph? I want a dollhouse with dolls and a pretty swing set. Love,WhitneyDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How is Rudolph I barie house, dog house, play house. I want a talet.Love, McKennaDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, How is Rudolph? I want an elf on the shelf, nerf gun, wa-ter slide and remote controlRobot.Love,Micah

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Dear Santa, How are yous I want a tab-let, stuffed bunny and dog.JazzlynDawson Kindergarten

Dear Santa, I would like a drone for my dad and a ex-box 360 with a remote centroe with it and Texas Tech p-j’s and house shoes, and remote centroe Heleckopter, and a pocket nife, and a happy chrismes, and a skateboard.Love,Miguel

Dear Santa, I would like a phone and a labtope and ipade and a pres-ent exbox 3-60 to. and one more thing and some lede pensils and playstatatson and a rei little puppy.Love,Jesse

Dear Santa, I would like a seahawks jacket, and a new seahwawks hat, and a seahawks bean, and seahawks toys, and seahawks shirt, and seahawks pants, and seahawks shoesLove,Evan

Dear Santa, I would like a laptop and sum 6 nise Jordens and ifon 7. Love Jake

Dear Santa, I would like a big phone and ledpensles and three hover boards and a twenty-two gun and two skateboards and a four ten. I want for my house to be pade allreaddy.Love Marco

Dear Santa, I would like for to to bring me a bike. I would like for you to bring me a hover board. I would like for you to bring me a play stachin. I would for you to bring me a x-box one.Love Draven

Dear Santa, I would like a control for my x-Box one, a puppy and a ps4 and a nerf gun and a xbox one and new shoes.Love,Jocob R.

Dear Santa, I would like would like a hover board and a Cowboys shirt. I’ve been nice.Love,Benji

Dear Santa, I would like a dog and a puppy and fi ve shopkins and shoes and some pensalls and a youanacorn.Love,Nancy

Dear Santa, I would like a hover board. I want a cat and a dog. A new x-box 360 one and a x-box 360. I want a PS four. I want lots lots of money for my family.Love,Robert

Dear Santa, I would like to have light shoes neons. And a chube puppy. And a cat and hor-erboard, and a grocery gang and a rolskat and a slad ana a fon and a ipod and a tab-let and a elfse on a self. And chapstick and shos.Love,Koby

Dear Santa, I would like four bows and nine monster high dalls and new shoes and all the shop-kins, and a dall house and new clothes and gewlery box and four my family to happy. I get thees things because I am good.Love,Lilly

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I will leave you oreosDear Santa, I would like a youanacorn, soomerkitte, a kitty and you to come to my house, because I’m good at my house.LoveIzabella

Dear Santa, I would like for chrixme is 3 snakee and shoes and zoomer-munke and shopkins a ifon 7 Love,Jayliyah

Dear Santa, I would like a hover bord and a lot of money and ifon 7 plusLove,Rae’Lynn

Dear Santa, I would like to have a 5 doll uf the shopkins, and I would shop-kins nel polish and shopkins stickers and I would like shop-kins blankits. And one more thing a gelry box I been good.Love,Cathylynn

Dear Santa, I would like converse, doll home and Iphone, I wot all thes thegs because I love you.Love,Zava

Dear Santa, I would like 5 shopkins dolls, toys and shopkin blankets, nal polish, stickers and shoes.Love, Katelyn

Dear Santa, My name is Jordin Castillo. I am 5 years old and I live in O’Donnell, TX. I thought you should know that this year I have been extra NICE. My fa-vorite thing that happened this year is getting to watch TV. For Christmas I would like a Power Ranger tool, an IPod, A tablet and markers.Thank you!Jordin Castillo---Pre-K --- O’Donnell Elemen-tary

Dear Santa, My name is Rhyder Arthur. I am 4 years old and I live in O’Donnell, TX. I thought you should know that this year I have been extra NICE. My fa-vorite thing that happened this year is playing Power Rangers with Santa Claus. For Christ-mas I would like a Spider Web Shooter and a robot dogThank you!Rhyder Arthur ---Pre-K --- O’Donnell Elemen-tary

Dear Santa, My name is Blaze Tomlin-son. I am 4 years old and I live in O’Donnell, TX. I thought you should know that this year I have been extra NICE. My fa-

vorite thing that happened this year is when I got to play cen-ters at school. For Christmas I would like a real dinosaur. I want it to be a Brontosaurus.Thank you!Blaze Tomlinson ---Pre-K --- O’Donnell Elemen-tary

Dear Santa, My name is Eva Lynn Plaza. I am 4 years old and I live in O’Donnell, TX. I thought you should know that this year I have been extra NICE. My fa-vorite thing that happened this year is playing with Robert. For Christmas I would like a phone, a Barbie and a pony.Thank you!Eva’Lynn Plaza ---Pre-K --- O’Donnell Elemen-tary

Dear Santa, My name is Soraya Miranda. I am 4 years old and I live in O’Donnell, TX. I thought you should know that this year I have been extra NICE. My fa-vorite thing that happened this year is moving up to purple in my classroom. For Christmas I would like a Barbie house, Bar-bies and a snowman house.Thank you!Soraya Miranda --Pre-K --- O’Donnell Elemen-tary

Dear Santa, My name is Arianna Reyes. I am 5 years old and I live in Lamesa, TX. I thought you should know that this year I have been extra NICE. My fa-vorite thing that happened this year is when I got to go to Pre-K. For Christmas I would like a Sofi a castle and a Trolls sleep-ing bag.Thank you!Arianna Reyes ---Pre-K --- O’Donnell Elemen-tary

Dear Santa, My name is Kohen Cagle. I am 5 years old and I live in O’Donnell, TX. I thought you should know that this year I have been extra NICE. My fa-vorite thing that happened this year is when I got to play out-side. For Christmas I would like pom poms and that is it.Thank you!Kohen Cagle --Pre-K --- O’Donnell Elemen-tary

Dear Santa, I have been a very good girl this year. For Christmas I would like a new doll, and a coloring book with some colors. Love,Eleanor Moore – Pre-K -2016 - O’Donnell El-ementary Dear Santa, I LOVE you Santa! I can’t

wait for Christmas! This Christmas I want stuff to prank my brother KO and my mom! That would be so hilarious. I also want a stuffed unicorn. I want a gingerbread house also that comes with a gingerbread boy and a gingerbread girl. I also want the Bean Boozle game. I think I have been good this year. How do elves move and HOW did the elf get into my house? Tell me about the magic of that elf. I will leave you oreos.Love, Harley Ray– KA – 2016

Dear Santa, Is your elves doing good if they are doing good can you make me a hoverboard and a monster remote control car and xbox one’s and a Drone its a plane and a silver shoos and a dirt bike and bike and a lazer gone that a toy and phone and a conpueter.Love,Idian Gallegos

Dear Santa, I have ben good i rele wunt a hover board in a iphon 7 in a sweng set in a drone in a chle-drafi t in how are the els in m.s. clos in how are you Santu i hop you in the efs can dlivr the prasit on crism ev i mit lev a cooke for you merry christmas in i hop roodof has his nos polish to lead you to see the house ho is the north pole mery christmas!!!!Love,Sady Barrioz

Dear Santa, How are you and the elves? I’v been very good this year. This year I want a hov-erboard and a playstation four. And some pokemon cards and I want a spy drone. And a I Phone 7. And a new basketball. And a new bike. And a new skateboard. And a four weeler and a dirtbike. And a new bas-ketball goal. And a new pear a Sphen curry’s shoes. And a new comeputer and a new blue thoot speeker. And I will leave yo usum cookies.Love,Ruben Cardoza

Dear Santa, How are you today I hope you have a great time. This is what I really want for Christ-mas is my family to get togeth-er and other stuff but that’s the most one. I wannt these are the others I want a football, lama, nutcrack-er, cross, poster, cap, I phone, shoes, bike.Love,Brendon Kibler

Dear Santa, how are you and elves? I’v been good this year. And this year I want a hov-erboard and a hippo and a play station four and a xbox one S and a iPhone 6 and a new shoes and a new bike and a skate board and a four weeler and a dirt bike and a baseball bat and a basketball goal and a new pear of sphen Curry shoes and a three weler and a new conpu-eter.Love,Chase Zorola

Dear Santa, How are you? I do my home-work. I want iPhone 7, ipod, mincraft, cloths, skateboard, bike, books, a mikerphone, a camera, a telecom, lava lamp, a leather chair, blue one, jackets, shoes, hats, Roblox, led pen-ciles, hoverboard, cars, pants, lunch box, bracelet, wach, xBox 3, games, headphone, paper, drone, pictures, shirt, in-visible ink, poopemoi, gloves, gold shoes, just dance 2017, a little table, a chalkboard, a white board, lazor tag game, all the modle mincraft, blanket, pillow, toy car, toy airplane, markers, lazer, candy, tea cup, latte cup, backpack.Love,Alizae Rosales

Dear Santa, I have ben good this year im planning to putt cookies and milk out for you. I really wan’t a hoverboard this year and a iPhone 7 and a drone. I hope your evels are steel rap-ping presents im sorry someone touched your elk in mrs. Marti-nezes class and I want dradens and clothes Thank you,Love,Jace Mojica

Dear Santa, I want a xbox 1 PS4 and a bike pocemon cards I want a play car Legos rasing chrac a football and a fi sh a play mo-torcycle and pokemon games new skats and a state bord a real live dog and a cat and a elf on the shelf a Santa toy 50 dollers rudoph toy some red and white sneakers dig tree house nerf gun, brainsaw, ninja turtls sords kidguns super powers.Love,Ivan Escoto

Dear Santa, Hello Santa class I whut a hoverboard a bick a bart bic a I Phone and a I pad and a I wut to mite you. riting by andrew I wunt a silver chain I waut brfi ck hal I wunt a landb-gine car I want pokemon carts.Love,Andrew Vasques


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CAROLING AND SIGNING Regina Crutcher/Press-ReporterSouth Elementary music teacher Mary Ben-ton leads students and others in Christmas carol singing and signing for the hearing

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Dear Santa, How are you? How are the reindeer? Are they ready to pull your sleigh? Can I pretty please have a go cart and a race car set? I also want some tools for my tool-box. I like to help my dad work. I also need some new Hot Wheels. I am going to leave some snowman cookies for you to eat and some yum-my hot chocolate with extra marshmallows. My sister, Lizzie Cook, needs a special surprise also. She has been really good this year. Love,Caleb Cook– KA – 2016

Dear Santa, I like you! You are so cool! I will leave you a jelly sand-wich and snowfl ake choco-late chip cookies. I will also leave some root beer to drink. It will be cold. Can I have some new toys? I want a scooter bike so that I can drive to work and school ex-cept when it is muddy. Paw-paw can drive me when it is muddy. I also want some tools and tool belt so I can fi x broken stuff. Will you bring something pretty for Yari? I think she likes pink.Love, Braxtin Pina– KA – 2016

Dear Santa, My mom and me are going to make you some cookies. My brother is going to help too. They will be chocolate chip and white chocolate chip cookies. I want a lizard, tur-tle, and a baby shark. Can I have a toy alligator too? That would be so cool! I want some godzilla toys and new dinosaurs. I also need a cal-endar. Thank you Santa!Love,Connor Vaughn– KA – 2016

Dear Santa, Hi Santa! Can I have some new toy cars this year? I also want a pet turtle to keep in my room. Can I also have a brand new iPad? I have re-ally been good this year I

promise. Do you believe me? I will help you fi nd my house. It is brown and light brown. I love you Santa!Love,Rickey Prado– KA – 2016

Dear Santa, I like your hat and belt. They are really cool! I wish I could meet all of your elves. I want Hot Wheels cars and a track to race them on. I also want this toy that looks kinda of like a truck. It can fl ip on the stairs. I really want it. It looks so cool. My brother and me want Pie Face to play to-gether. Can I have a toy grill to pretend to cook food on? I want my friends to come play with me and I will share all my new toys.Love,Derek Dunlap– KA – 2016

Dear Santa, I am going to give you heart cookies because I just love you. I will leave you 5 cookies to eat. I will also leave you a giant glass of milk. The fi rst present I want is toy dog that walks around. It is a robot. I also want a nail polisher for me and Kohen. I want a toy pony to play with after school. You are so awe-some! Thanks for bringing me and my sister nice things. Kohen wants dolls and barbie clothes. Thank you Santa!Love,Rylan Cagle– KA – 2016

Dear Santa, How is your day? I hope you are doing good. I have missed you a lot. Do you al-ready have lots of presents packed? I want work tools and a tool belt so I can work and fi x stuff at my house. I also want roller blades for Hunter and me. I think I need a drone too. That should be it. Thank you!Love,Bryson Bolton– KA – 2016

Dear Santa, This is Dustyn. I like you!

Thank you for all the pres-ents last year. They were so fun! I want a blue dirt bike, Pie Face Showdown, and a cool truck that fl ips. I also need some new Hot Wheels. Please can I have those pres-ents? I am going to leave you milk and cookies. Promise. I will leave your reindeer some carrots. Have a good trip!Love,Dustyn Gonzales– KA – 2016

Dear Santa, Is it cold and snowy in the North Pole? I want a toolbox, tools, and tool belt. I also want a scooter with a red but-ton to make the wheels roll. Will you bring presents for my mom and grandma too? My mom needs some new lip-stick and my grandma needs a new snowglobe. I drew a San-ta picture at school. I wish I could show you. Love, Andrew Hernande– KA – 2016z

Dear Santa, I want a Frozen bike for Christmas this year. I also want a Barbie house for my Barbie’s to live in. Can I have new movies? I want the Trolls movie and the Moana movie. I also want a playhouse for my backyard. Thank you so much for my presents last year. I can’t wait for you to come back and visit! I love you Santa!Love,Violet Gonzales– KA – 2016

Dear Santa, I am on the good list. I cleaned my closet out and sorted them. And put the shirts in a pile and a sock pile and I did my underwear in a pile. My mom was happy for cleaning my closet out. I want Cosmo for Christ-mas and XBOX 1 controller gold. My brother and I want a real 4 wheeler. Please. I left you milk and cookies and thank you for the toys.Mason Clark – KB – 2016

You are so cool!

Dear Santa, hope you and the rundeers are doing good merry christmas are teh elfs doing we have an elf but sombody touched him and so now he don’t move. But I want a tablet a hover board, a new skates, that’s mostly it merry christmas Love you.Love,Carly Lugo

Dear Santa, Story mod for the xbox, a laptop, DS, phon, bike, poke-mon carbs, 1,000 pokemon bolls, PSU, nef guns, xBox one, pokemon moon, pokemon sun, pokemon games on the xbox, pokemon moon and sun for the xbox a Santa toy, 10$, Rudoph toy, red and whight snekers, a big tree houes, bransaw nerf gun, ninjas words, kids guns, a bady cat, a jar with super pow-ers, a stuf chacmuder same thing as the vensoc, a pokemo DS game all the pokemon stuff.Love,Isaiah Capetillo

Dear Santa, What’s going on at the North Pole? Anyway the fi rst thing I want for Chistmas is a Frozen bike with a a helmet. 2 that I want is a baby kitten toy (remote con-trol). 3. A mermaid Barbie doll. 4. Jel pens, 5. a pink purse 6. The book The Giving Tree.Love,Alivia Atkinson

Dear Santa, Merry Christams Santa, What I want for Christmas is an Xbox one for me and a 100$ gift card and a game for the Xbox one like Mincraft, and a Elf on a shelf please please get me an xbox one I really want it. or an gift card please oh and have a wonderful Christmas and tell the elfs I said “hi” and give the reindeer a hug for me.Love,Julia Aguirre

Dear Santa, How are you are you ready for christmas I want 2K17 and a mastedon and a surf bord hover borad an a car and a hipopode-mus for christams hohoho! and ow. I want for my family family to have a good Christmas ho-hoho and a bike.Love,Ryan Hart


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Deck the HallsHow is Mrs.clause?CAROLING CUBS Photo courtesy Kerry ByBeeLamesa Cub Scout Pack 722 recently went caroling at the two BeeHive Assisted Living Homes where they also handed out gift baskets to the residents. The Cubs cel-

ebrated Christmas with pizza and cookies at Grace Lu-theran Church. They received achievement awards for their books. Santa handed out gifts.

Dear Santa, I hope you have a great day Santa. I want you to know what I want for Christmas. Please bring me a Troll Pillow. Also a Rudolph stuffed animal. Can you please give me a scarf for Christmas? I want a Trolls movie for Christmas. Please bring Sebastian a bike and a skateboard. I love you Santa!Bella Gonzales – KB – 2016

Dear Santa, i wno a robat bow cat and i wno a robat bow dog. santa and ms. santa i hav a list i hav all of my toys on my list.Love,Zaydee barrientos --1st Grade 2016 --O’Donnell Elementary

Dear Santa, What I want chritmas is the project. mc 2 ultimat spy bag and the project mc 2 ultimate lab kit.Love,Kyndall Halfman ---1st Grade 2016 --O’Donnell Elementary

Dear Santa, I hop you are haveing fun at the nroth pol are you okay? wil you kum to are hos with mi presins? Truktradr.Merry Christmas,Tristen arthur --1st grade 2016

Dear Santa, I wot a toy car, fl ash cosu, trample.Love,Jayden Costa --1st Grade 2016

Dear Santa, I will tel you santa wat i want ok. I love santa. I wut a 22 gun and a nerf gun with a skop. And that is all I love you santa.Your friend,Krew Mires --1st Grade 2016

Dear Santa, the two toys I want from you plees. I waNT pokEMON moon and lego city.Love,Landon Bishop ---1st grade 2016

Dear Santa, i want a candy can and i will lev you aoot sume cookes are you and the reinder good to fl iy on clismismsev heve a safe trip in crismsisev and can you breg us sume noow bols sume dogs chood up are bols.Love,Myleigh Morado --1st Grade 2016

Dear Santa, I want a prestent. I want chistmas tree with dec light. I would like lights for my treeloye; maddy nelson ---- 1st grade -- Odonnell El-ementary Dear Santa, How are you reindeer doo-ing fl ing? Are getting reting for crism ev I want a Candy and thank you from payton sanchez --1st Grade 2016 --love you

Dear Santa, i wont laggs. wunt mune your friend,Benjamin Gonzales --1st Grade 2016

Dear Santa, Thahk you for the toys. Haw are yor randirs dooing? I love you. Wil you bring namnams and ds?Merry Christmas,Kynadie Pyle ---1st Grade 2016

Dear Santa, What I want chritmas is the project mc 2 ultimat spy bag and the project mc 2 ultimate lab kit.Love,Kyndall Halfman --1st Grade --O’Donnell El-

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Dear Santa, I want a stuf anml. I want the the stuf anml wil be a ti-ger. I also want a dandancing fl owerawr.From,Jessica garcia --1st Grade 2016

Dear Santa, I want to have a ds and a new hat for Crismis.love,Damien Taylor --1ST Grade 2016 --O’Donnell Elementary

Dear Santa, Hope you had a good year. I hav been a good girl. I want a toy for Chrisastmas. I wanr a fl ipzoo. Love, Kim Wiebe --1st grade – O’Donnell El-ementary

Dear Santa, Thank you for the toys I love them.i even love my bubl gumm shen.i want nomnoms.they are so cool.mere kismis.Love,Chloe miranda ---1St Grade 2016 – O’Donnell Elementary

Dear Santa, I want a big Ferddy Plush and pop trl Car and a hotwil ras track and a mincaft da-mind sowrd and a marecris-mus from you.Love,Deven Ramon --1st Grade 2016 – O’Donnell Elementary

Dear Santa, How is Mrs.clause? may I have a nitendo3ds,pokemon moon and yokai watch Bony spirits,super mario maker a z-ring,a Rudolf toy and a poplio plushtoy loveMax Tamez --2016 2Grade

Dear Santa, I think working is hard. I have been working so hard. You are the best. You make my family have a wonderful chist-mas time of the year. This year i would like a nabi. I also want a iphone7 for christmas. How are your elf`s are they working on are present`s. I would also like a xbox for my brothersLoveLola Vasquez ---2nd grade --2016

Dear Santa, Hi santa can you git me my xbox please. Thack you for giving all of us are presing ever crsm eve. If you git me my xbox plaese and can I haf a gam with it can I haf football 13 pleae and a stowors gam please. I hope that L is doing good and win London tuch him. You fi nd,Lincoln Graham -2grade -- 2016

Dear Santa, Haw you bin cand you git me a 60 dolrs wwe2k17 60dolrs for my mom and bronstomin and playstashin and xbox360 .Willie Pantoha Luera--2nt grade –2016


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I would like a neckles for my momchristmas Eve hope your elf’s are okay!!!Love,Melanie Ortiz

Dear Santa, I hope you are haveing a good year. What I want for Crismas is a hoverbeorad and a razor bike and a TV and a bike and a trapling and a cun-puter and a xBox 1s and call of duty infi nit warfair and planted earth ball. Thank you Santa.

Love,Jesse Cervantes

Dear Santa, How are is you i have been good this year. This year i want some clothes and a new back-pack and a plane bike and new shoos and a new binder and a phone a new tv and a littel desc and a cher that gose with it and a camra and a cumpyooter and a real dog.Love,Aushlyn Gonzalez

Dear Santa, Is cocoa going to be in the reindeer group this Christmas? And where did you go this summer? And for Christmas I would like a balance beam,2 mats, and a bar to do front fl ips on. Last but not least how are you,Mrs.Claus,and elfi e SincerelyMia Childress --3rd grade-- O’donnell El-ementry 2016P.S. please write back

Dear Santa, How was the raindeer and Mrs.Claus ? May I have Night vision gog-gles? Can I have the Half Shell Ninja Turtles collection? May I have a transformer? Merry Christmas,Adrian Taylor3rd grade O’Donnell Elemen-tary.Have a merry Christmas

Dear Santa, How is mrs.Claus and are the rainders ready to fl y can you please bring me a computer and a set of pom pom wow and a make sand and have a very very merry christmas thank you for all you have done your friend Desiree Velasquez 3rd grade 2016

Dear Santa, How is the raindeer are they able to fl y? And are you doing well? And can I please bring me a xbox 1 and an wii and play stashoinFromFabian Baeza -3rd Grade -2016 -O’Donnell Elemetray

Dear Santa, How are the elves? Have Mrs. Claus been making cook-ies? Can I have the new zorda game. And a new video game. And a new d.s. Love,Frank Perez - 3rd grade -2016

Dear Santa, How are the reindeer? I would like a German she-perd puppy. I would like a neckles for my mom. I would like a Texas Tech shirt and cap. Merry ChristmasBryson Clark - 3rd 2016 - O’donnell Elemen-tryp.s. right me back

Dear Santa, How are the skout elfs? I yount a xboxone and a dirtbike also a drone. FromBrian Batchelor - 3rd grade 2016 Elementary -ps can you right back.

Dear Santa, How is Mrs. Clause is she baking you cookies? What about the scout elfs and the reindeers? Are you getting your reindeers ready? Can I have a puppy, phone, clothes.Merry charismasfromBrylee Renteria -3rd Grade 2016

Dear Santa, Please I want for Christmas is a phone and a Texas tech shirt and eleached ripstick. And I wonder Mrs. Clous makes you cookies. and I won-der if your reindeer are doing good. and I like your coca and winter. Draedon Barrera – 3rd grade 2016

Dear Santa, Hi how are you? How are your reindeers. Santa we re-ceived your elf end do rein-deer. We named Cocoa and winter. Santa for Christmas I want a iPad and head phones hover board.LoveIsrael Lopez 3rd 2016 O’Donnell elemen-tary

Dear Santa, How are the reindeers? How are the elfs? ?ay I have a cotton candy maker and a new bike? and a new scoter Sincerely Jaeda-Fielder-Baltazar 3rd grade 2016 O’Donnell El-ementary p.s. can I have an elf?

Dear Santa, Please give me a dalles necles and a Texas tech neck-less and a bick how is dasher doowing this Christmas and misesclos doowing and how are you doing this Christmas I hope you get a good night sleep mere Christmas ho ho ho good nightJace Batchelor I am in 3rd grade 2016

Dear Santa, How are the reindeer? please bring me a present for Christ-mas. I want a I phone 7 and some shopkins the last thing I want noum noums.from your friendAbigail Perez. I am in the 3rd grade. Ps how are the elves.

Dear Santa, How are the reindeer? Has Mrs. Claus been making cook-ies? Are the elves doing well, I hope so. But more important how are you? Thank you for the reindeer, elf and Yoda. We named them Winter and Coco. May I have Minecraft Story Mode the Complete Edition, Mortal Kombat VS Universe New super Mario Maker.SinisterlyJames Velasquez - Elementary 3RD Grade 2016 - P.S Please Write Me Back.

Dear Santa, Please may I have a phone, a remote control airplane and a remote control car. Coca been good. Someone hung up win-ter. Was handing out candy canes and then that’s when he got hung up. Winter I never knew cocoa writes his e’s backwards. So we wrote winter notes and we stuck the notes in the tree. I will write you a note after computers. I will write nice things. Next year can we have cocoa and winter?Storm Perez 3rd Grade 2016

Dear Santa, How are your reindeer and ya’ll? May I have an easy bake oven. May I have a orbeez. May Logan and Allison have 4-1 toys. Merry Christmas!Love,Jillian Acosta 3rd grade O’Donnell Elemen-tary 2016 - ps right back please!

Dear Santa, “Are the reindeer ready to fl y? Please can I have a puppy, PlayStation and a swing.” To: Santa Love: Kaden Dunlap, O’Donnell Elementary, 3rd Grade 2016

Dear Santa, How are you and how are the reindeer? May I have a d.s and a ninge turtles for d.s. and a carrying case for d.s. Merry Christmas, Lance Dunlap 3rd Grade 2016

Dear Santa, How have you been Santa? Can I have a chew toy for my dog Poco and can I have a Xbox one. Please let it come with a game for it and a re-mote. can I have a irobot. You have awesome Christmas.from your friend Jonah Lowe and I am in 3rd grade 2016

Dear Santa,Is Cocoa going to fl y with you and the other reindeer? For Christmas I would like 4 backstage concert tickets to see Chris Tomlen, an art set, all Judy Moody books. Thank you.Merry Christmas,Lizzie Cook - 3rd grade O’Donnell Elemen-tary 2016 - P.S please write back

Dear Santa, How are you doing? Is Mrs. Claus giving you a lot of her good cookies? We named the reindeer Cocoa and we named the elf Winter. How are the reindeers doing? May I have a baby puppy and a reindeer next year and I want a baby koala love you Santa,Merry Christmas to you allRaya Ramos 3rd grade -2016

Dear Santa, How are you today? Can I pleas have a new Phone and a new ring for me and a new pair of shoes please. Love,Maria Garcia - 3rdGrade - O’Donnell el-ementary

Dear Santa, Our class has been good and would like a few things this year. Please bring: Emily Maxwell a Rabbit or Fox Zootopia toy, Peyton Langston a talking puppy dog and a blue singing thing, Reese Ferguson a little Elsa and some more books,

Kailey Mojica a paw patrol track, my own make-up, two American Girl Dolls for me and Kaitlyn, Martha Vargas a choo choo train, dolly, and cat and the hat, Mae’ Lynn Quinteros a doll and doll house, and Levi Shaw an Xbox and Mario Game, and a Spider Man thing that is so big that webs come out. Thank you Santa, Mrs. Stokes’ class

Dear Santa, I want a I pod and a ric stick and a rumote centroel moder sickel. I hope you make it in time to all of the kids in the rorld. and Santa who do you make all the’ys stops so fast?Aaron Smith2nd grade Dawson ISD

Dear Santa, Santa will you bring me pro-zs. I wish for a 3DS and I wish hellacopter.From,Martin2nd grade Dawson ISD

Dear Santa, I want a pur blue white num-ber 4 prescott Dallas cowboys’ jursey and a x-box 1s and a pitbull that will always gard me and some nice Jordans and a bouncy house and I want a monster shirt and i want snow for chrismas and hot choclit and my own phone and a chri-mas mirrical and for this chris-mas to be good and for Santa to bring me lots of presents and for Santa to take me a ride on his sla and to see the rudloff and all the other rainders and pleas mak this chrismas really good.Love,Ethan Ledesma

Dear Santa, I halp everthige is gowing good at the north pol....for chirsmus I wan’t a xbox and I won’t gear of war 1, gear of war 2, gear of war 3 gear of war 4 and a laptop, sumsum and a ipad and a dirtbick.Love,Zaymam

Dear Santa, I have been good this year So I want xbox one, laptop and rc car.Love,Joel Ray

Dear Santa, I have bin good this year Merry Christmas Santa this year I want a hoverboard, 250 bino bags, shopkins, laptop, a phone, a elf on the shelf, a phone watch and I hope win ever north needs something thay rase enogh money to do anything North is the best school I have ever bin to in my entire life. I love North.Love,Mireigha Molina

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas!!!! This time I want a telescope or a drum or a ball. Hope your do-ing good I can’t wait for christ-mas Eve hope you have a good

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and me and my sister do not won’t to bea on the badlist.Dear Santa, My name is Alizandra. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a Troll poppy, Cor-nashnin pod and a talking direy. Merry Christmas Santa! P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies and milk we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Stetson. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a telescope and nerf gun. Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookie we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Jordan. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a Dirbick, Gutar. Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the reindeer enjoy the milk and Koociez we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Cali Martinez, I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a Penk eze bak uven Robot dog. Merry Christ-mas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookes and milk we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Kainna. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like cars, trucks, legos, video game, zombie game, tv Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies and milk we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Christian. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like x-box Merry Christ-mas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Kaitlyn. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like Doll Clothes, Video Games, Magic Pens. Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the carrots cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Azyen Rodri-guez. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like phone and computer motorcycle Mer-ry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies and milk we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Haileigh Loza-no. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christ-mas I would like Ipad and a pink Phone and a Frozen Hut and Tro Popoe Merry Christ-mas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies and milk we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Andrew. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like Skylanders Imagi-nators Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Micah Annalla. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christ-mas I would like Spider-men costume Spider-man web hand venom Army walkie talkies with army stuff Merry Christ-mas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies and milk we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Kaleb Ruiz. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like A gun for the zom-bies Football, Dog, Basketball Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Riley. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like stuffedog Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-

deer enjoy the cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Joziah Lopez. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I want a Drone, a fi retruck and a army helicopter Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Amariah. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like Frozen Toys Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies and milk we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Le’Ann Perez. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like Pet shop scooter computer elf on the shelf Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the two cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Kane. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like Army stuff and a zoom in gun. Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cook-ies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Charley Ange-ley. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christ-mas I would like husky shoes, trolls back pack and trolls lunch box. Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies and milk we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Adam. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like Batman wings, roller skates. Merry Christmas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Justtice. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like white sperrys and fake makeup. Merry Christ-mas Santa!P. S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, I wot lattop and book and toy and clos.Love,Berniece Alfaro

Dear Santa, I want a xbox and a toy. I was good and baby siting may little frother.Love,Alan Mendoza

Dear Santa, I want Atranss for me RSf or Christmas. I was vere good today and my brother was good and he wants a hiperfi re and my wants makeup for christm and Santa hav a marry chritm.Love, Michael Saenz

Dear Santa, I want a bike and a bible and a puppy and a cat and phone and a ipad and a toy and a brby that has shoes and a bow and clots.Love,Ashley Hernandez

Dear Santa, I want a Sonck game.Love,Ramiro Gaona

Dear Santa, I want a g.t.a. 5 and a XboX one’s and a bon tra Panda P5 and a drum and a elechgechar and loodovers and a kupyter and a laptop.Love,Julian Garcia

Dear Santa, I have been good this year I want all of the nomnoms and shopkens and a shopken doll and a new bed and ten gift ams-girls.Love,Vada Marmolejo

Dear Santa, I really want a toy of roodof a little toy puppy a toy kitten a freak rind a toy fo blicsin a shopkins a dig horse a dig un-ackorn a foxy and mangle a laptop a toy bird a toy lalpoles a skirtLove,Sasha Natividad

Dear Santa, I ben good this year and I would love fi ve gift them’s and one lalaloopse and six nom-nomse and a braze doll.Love,Danna Acosta

Dear Santa, I want a Michel myers mask and a vanoss mask and a pone and a blacktops 2 game on a PS4 and a ll the maps on the game remot control golden fredey mincragt for PS4 and a nerf mine gunLove, Zayden Campos

Dear Santa, Can I plece have a Hacha-bool and my sister Jaze wood as well like one to Santa and me and my sister do not won’t to bea on the badlist.Love,Alize Delgado

Dear Santa, For Christmas I want the whole entire Mcdonalds, the taco villa, unicorn, and a big-ger brain, a trampoleen, magic, robot, and a little toy of roodof.Love,Layla Luna

Dear Santa, I want legos and a spiderman legos and xbox.Love,Javin Medrano

Dear Santa I wot a box whons. I wat a Plsd. I wat a tory. I wat a peat Dearson.Love,Joseph Marmolejo

Dear Santa, I vont viagodemechens and DS game marei and toy and la-gos.Love,Andrew Pineda

Dear santa, I wot a I pad and I wot a biok and toy and nis free piland bant.Love, Lisa Cuellar

Dear Santa, Oll I wont for for crimsts is you p.s. and a ponee. and I rille wont smor sesen 5 shopkens.Love,Karmen Medrano

Dear Santa, How are you and Mrs. Claus doing? We hope that you are both doing well. Please tell Rudolph and the rest of the reindeer hello from the students in Mrs. Regalado’s PreK Class. We are sending you a list of the students in our class and a cou-ple of things that we would like for Christmas. Have a Merry Christmas,Lamesa PreK Class Room 44J’vyn – See sawEmmitt- Castle Jody– a catJoseph – a dogGabriella- a pink bearCamila – American dollMiguel – a robotAlyssa – PuppyMelany– a toy daddy and a babyAlfonso– Paw patrol toysCadence– Ice cream machineVeronika– Elsa dollXavier– RobotAddam – PhoneRomi– RobotKing – Power ranger and mo-torcycle Mrs. Regalado– sport shoes color aqua Mrs. Robles – a camera

Dear Santa My name is Jacob Bergen. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a bron truk. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the truk.

Dear Santa My name is Larissa Chavez. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas Iwould like a doll that pats with accesorios. Merry Christ-mas Santa. I hope you and

your reindeer enjoy the tMerry Christmas.

Dear Santa My name is Kaylee Morales. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a stuffedt poy, Elsa doll, play food, Shimmer and Shine Stickers, Light ups. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the cookies and corn we left out for you.

Dear Santa My name is Jordan Criss-well I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a police car. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the cookies.

Dear Santa My name is Aaralyn Esc-obedo. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a Popppy and make up and shop-kins.. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the cookies and milk.

Dear Santa My name is Noah Flores. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a Ice cream maker and paint brush. Merry Christ-mas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the cookies milk.

Dear Santa My name is Sara Gonzalez. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a Doll. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the night

Dear Santa My name is Amirah Her-nandez. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a Doll house , Dress. Merry Christ-mas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the cookies

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COMFY PJs Regina Crutcher/Press-ReporterThe teachers and staff at South Elemen-tary held a Christmas Extravaganza on their campus. The children were urged to wear their pajamas and sit on Santa’s lap,

listen to Christmas stories being read in the library, sing-a-long Christmas songs and a craft time in the cafeteria. Lamesa students report back to school on Jan. 9.

I will leave thirty cookies for youDear Santa, Can I hae a emgey laptop and lost and lost fo shopkins and a little live pet and a baby alive doll and a MC square Science kit.From Your Friend, Queen GraySecond Grade

Dear Santa, Santa I want a c Box one and I want a game thats mainctgt comes with xbox one. Santa How are you fi ne or not fi ne? Can I have a punching bag? Can I have a huberbord? Sum Jordans. Santa I love you so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so much, Love, Raider PerezSecond Grade

Dear Santa My name is Kairlynn Hern-endez. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a shoes highhils, atoy phone, Barbey, anikmooll, elfe, rootorooks elf book. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the Christmas.

Dear Santa My name is Zhaidyn Black. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a kskateboard, a big white beartowniteon, football with a tekickitoffof. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the cookies and milk.

Dear Santa My name is Esteban Jimenez, I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a Jor-dan 5 Legos 5 Teamhot wheel k. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer en-joy the Candy.

Dear Santa My name is Jayden Carba-jal.. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a volcano dino-sour. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the cookies

Dear Santa My name is Landon Mat-thews. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a drag-on and light shoes.. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the Christmas.

Dear Santa My name is Xavier Medina. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a Tablet kindle, Dog Robot, pogo stick Minion toys, clothes, phone, bike, toy air-planes, legos, TV, Super pow-ers, DVDs Santa Toy. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the cookies and milk

Dear Santa My name is Joe Angel Or-tiz. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a Tablet. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the hapyt Goodnight.

Dear Santa My name is Marcus Ro-driguez. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a Com-puter, cAr, PS4. Merry Christ-mas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the snow

Dear Santa My name is Fernanda Gue-varra. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a Tavlet and Barbedanll.. Merry Christ-mas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the milk and cookies.

Dear Santa My name is Favian Castro. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice For Christmas I would like a blue truk. Merry Christmas Santa. I hope you and your reindeer enjoy the giving presents.

Dear Santa, We have been waiting a long time to write you this letter! Mrs. Sanders says, we have been really good this year- well mostly! We have even eaten some of our vegetables. We would really like it if you brought us these things:Eiyan Annalla - TrainEsabella Benitez - Baby doll, baby StrollerJayden Brown - Robot, Napa truckLuke Cardoza - Motorcycle power wheelVeronica Caudillo - Teddy bearAubrie Cortez - Doll houseYanari Dominguez - Barbie houseJoshua Froman - Submarine Noah Garcia - Hot wheelsLillyanna Garza - TabletJesse Gomez -Shark toy, Ben ten and Wild Kratts Kassidy Gomez - Make-up, shopkinsDani Hernandez - Coloring booksMary Ann Marmolejo -dog, a bike, and a Barbie dollJaymey McCormick - Doll houseJordan Medrano - Robot

Braydon Navarro - Robot dogJeremiah Ramos - TabletAllie Scott - ReindeerMichael Eric Solis - Soldiers Alexander Torres - Paw- Pa-trol setWe love you Santa,Mrs. Sanders Class P.S. Please tell Rudolph that we love his songs.

Dear Santa, If you wanted a present what would it be? But for Crismas I only want six things- three thangs are for my sister. Can you please get it? Present num-ber one a reall phon. Number tow gift a pin huverbord please and nuber three gift a toy cat that you can drive please. These presents are fo rmy sister Araceli please and for my pres-ents I want a real phon and a pink huverbord with two bows and amarcan spy bag and Santa for chirstmas I will leave thirty cookies for you and a present for you. Love, Zariah ContrerasSecond Grade

Dear Santa, I hop you can get me a hu-ver bord. I hop you have a god crimsis. Love, David Gomez

Dear Santa, I want a docxmaxe stufen doll, ples. I love you Santa.How dow you mack your rand-ers fl iy?Love, Abby Michels

Dear Santa, I want a xbox 360 and a foot-ball for christmas. Hows the raindeers and elfs?Love,Trae HastingsSecond Grade

Dear Santa, How are you at the pole? Can I hae a shokins and emonj and a two huverbld for me and my sister and a on pese of cole and a makeup and amecuin girl doll. I am going to give you ext milk and cooks and I will give your render sum carots.Love, Araceli RodriguesSecond Grade

Dear Santa, HI Santa. How are you and your Randers im being good and how are you elfs too? Can I have a puppy named ruffl es please and orbeas and chocolate pen and emogy and makeup and the end bye Santa. Love, Hannah MartinezSecond Grade

Dear Santa, Can I hae a emgey laptop and lost and lost fo shopkins and a little live pet and a baby alive doll and a MC square Science kit.From Your Friend, Queen GraySecond Grade

Dear Santa, Santa I want a c Box one and I want a game thats mainctgt comes with xbox one. Santa How are you fi ne or not fi ne? Can I have a punching bag? Can I have a huberbord? Sum Jordans. Santa I love you so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so much, Love, Raider PerezSecond Grade

Dear Santa, How you been? Are yo ok? Can I hav a chloclit pen? Can I hav a eszbake? Can I have a bike/ I want to get my stister a bike. Can I hav a toy girl car? Your Friend, Emma ContrerasSecond Grade

Dear Santa, I want to no if your raneders are ok. May I plees have a DS? May I plees have a amercen gerl dall? May I plees have sum be-does?. May I pleese have or-beebs? May I plees have a notebook?Love,Leah MillerSecond Grade

Dear Santa, What i want is a toy car and a phon a computer a toy truck a hellacopter with a cran.Love, WIlliam WhitleySecond Grade

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For Christmas I would like A 4 wheeler.Dear Santa, How you been? Are yo ok? Can I hav a chloclit pen? Can I hav a eszbake? Can I have a bike/ I want to get my stister a bike. Can I hav a toy girl car? Your Friend, Emma ContrerasSecond Grade

Dear Santa, I want to no if your raneders are ok. May I plees have a DS? May I plees have a amercen gerl dall? May I plees have sum be-does?. May I pleese have or-beebs? May I plees have a note-book?Love,Leah MillerSecond Grade

Dear Santa, What i want is a toy car and a phon a computer a toy truck a hellacopter with a cran.Love, WIlliam WhitleySecond Grade

Dear Santa, Can I have a ipod and a phone please and a computer thats it.Love, Ceth LozanoSecond Grade

Dear Santa, For Christmas I wish I could have a huverbord. For Christ-maas I wish I could have new dres. For Christas I wish I could have my famaly.Your Friend,Navidad Moralez

Dear Santa, For Christmas can you bring me some toys, and bring my family some presents too. How have you been? Your Friend, Hector Gurrola Second Grade

Dear Santa I ben a good girl this yeer. I want a spo bob toys.Alize Pewitt

Dear Santa, Sanata I wo a cat. Santa i mis you. Santa I Love. Santa I Love. H r Uye? I Love you. Santa I Love Smuf gr. Santa I love you. Santa I love you.Madeline Lopez

der Sata, I hop yoar had a good yir. an har your been Sata? an I bin a good bue. an Wat a drunn fur Cimis!LuJames Morales

Dear Santa How you do? I’m being a good bou. I want for christma an xdox z saidermanLoveOctavio Diaz

Dear Santa I Ben a good boy This year. I hop you rant bzze. Oli wont is a tablit.LoveAaron Guevara

I lvu Santa, I woa dog. I bde good a hom. I woa dinusoar. I woa cat. I wot a dog. I hav b doog. I woa scad bd wit vir vams. Lvu Zadyn Urias

Dar Santa how have you been? I been good today. I want a ball and a clolring book and a doll and a bike. Love Aleashia

Dear Santa, I hop yoar hod a good yir. Oh har you. I hop you hve bin bize. I bin a good bou. I wat a drum. Love Nick Vasquez

Dear Santa, I hav binu good. Haw have you binu dec yir. Santa, I want a x-box and cat and dog.Love Kyelen Vasquez Love Santa

Dear Santa I hve wrook ard. You are do-ing ya des. I wt nija trtls.Love Julian Marmalejo

Dear Santa, I have been a good boy this year. I want ps4 remot in I want a ps4 games in a bicke that dusint have chraning wills. You are a hoerd werker. Santa I hop you are not werken hoerd this year. Ravi Patel

Dear Santa! Santa! how do you do. I love how you do all the wurck. San-ta how you bid? I want a cat. I want a fi sh. I want a TaBlit. Love Annalena Natividad

hi Sansta, you er so nis. Srey for bin men to mi brudr. I yot bey men. I wot spidrymen.Love Corey Cardona

Dear Santa How have you bine. I have bine good girl. Theis year I wont a coloring book and a fl ufe char and minny mouse shoes.Love Madison Sanchez

Santa, I am a good bu. I ms you. I look to fi n you. Im nis to you santa. Mi sisr wats prsnts. I wat gamz.Manuel Perales

Dear Santa, Hi. Hw r yow dooyn? R yow wrcyn a loty? W wunt a Mer-kins dal clos four Crisms. I bin good but I koodit make mi binde on who to sta at Crisms. mi mom mi dad oar granma.Love,Josslyn Sauseda

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Dear Santa, My name is Dee Dee Hilburn,I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a Barbie Dream house. Barbies.Kendal tablet. Shopkins.Merry Christmas Santa. P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies car-rots. (Heart) we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is K’LeiGh SAN-cheZ I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like A toY Cat, SOMe TroLL DoLLS, MAGIC Markers AND Lite UP ShoesMerry Christmas SAnt! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the CooKIes MILK AND OATS we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is XzaVier. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like dominezREX to. Merry Christmas Santa. P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the COOLKIES we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Dane. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like A 4 wheeler. P.S. I hope you and the reindeer en-joy the CArrotS and Juice. We left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is KoRBYn. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like ROBotAIRPLAINDarkvaTER Merry Christmas Santa! P.S. I hope you aond the reindeer enjoy the cookies And oaR-Rots.

Dear Santa, My name is Mia ACOSta. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like tabletSlEePers Merry Christmas Santa! P.S. I hope you and the reindeer ejoy the COOKiAs we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Josiah. I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like a guns and a robot. Merry Christmas Santa! P.S. I hope you and the reindeer enjoy the MilK and cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Ramon Mal-bonabo. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like A Big TreeA Xbox3 TRAinsMerry Christmas Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies And MilK we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Fabian. I am fi ve years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like toy Gun, caR, mon-ster truck, train, fi re mam, fi re truck. Merry Christmas Sants! P.S. I hope you and the reindear

enjoy the cookies, MilK, car-rots we left out for ya.

Dear Santa, My name is ISABELLA. I am 6 years old. This year I have been nice. For Christmas I would like troll bag gingeread dinosaur. Merry Christmas Sants! P.S. I hope you and the reindear enjoy the cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Ava. I am 5 years old. I have been nice. For Christmas I would like Barbie shower Barbie ClOset Doll-house secorations. P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the COOkies, car-rots we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Kolby. Tuller. I am 5 years old. I have been nice. For Christmas I would like I want ZOMBIE, ALieN, Ant, And A Christmas tree with A remot. Merry Christmas San-ta! P.S. I hop you and the rein-deer enjoy the coockies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, I have been a good boy. I would like a dirt bike for Christmas. I will keep being a good boy. Thank you.Love,Danile Garcia

Dear Santa, I wont a elf on the shel and how is roodof and mis Claus? And mare Cresmis Santa. And I wont one barbe and a Little Life pet. And how yors elfs and yors randese.Love,Elena Lee Martin7 yeers od

Dear Santa, How are you and Mrs Claus doing? How are the Elves and the rane deres doing? Thanck you for the gifts you brot me last year. I wanat a tablit and a bike and a elf on the shalf. LoveShaun Logan Grayson

Dear Santa, How are your elvs doing. Are they ok. Are you ok. Is Mrs. Claus doing ok. And how is Roodof doing. I hop everybody that’s over thair is ok. How is it going at the north Pole and thank you for the zoomdiow that you gave me last year. I want a huverbord.Love,Makhi Anthony Carden

Dear Santa, Hollo is Rudofph okay? Is Rudofph okay I Love Rudofph and Kan you gime me a elf I Love you Santa. Is clus doing is she okay. Kan you gim a Godzilla and a a traformers toy DinosorsLove,Rueban Hernandez

Dear Santa, How are you and Mrs. Claus and how is your elfs and Root-off can you Please git me a lot of Shopkins and a elf on a shelf and a Real Cooking seat and a iphone tabl for Real friande.Love,Cameron

Dear Santa, How is Rudolph? I would like a hatchamal, a robot kit-ten. Finally a fur-real-friends. Merry chistmas. Love,Ember Erman-SanchezP.s. Please bring presints on Desember 3. Ho Ho Ho!

Dear Santu, Thanecyou for the theings that you gave me last yer can you get me the Barbedollhaws ples and can you get me the jron that has a camra and lise can you get me a girl elf on the Shelf.Love,Kylie Sanchez

Dear Santa, How is the eif doing How are youdoing I hope you can come hier at Amaericu., Will you dring me three cresmis. I wont a case four my Fone thanc you.Love,Eric Cruz


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Are your going to Africa? How is the North Pole?Dear Santa, How is Rudolph? Are your going to Africa? For Chirstmas I want three Science books.Love,Zachary Caudillo

Dear Santa, I wish I had a Barbei home. I want a barbe is for crismis. I want Bear and merry Crimisr.Love,KatelYn Casarez

Dear Santa, How is the North Pole? How is Rudolph? Merry Christ-mas thank you for every thing. Now I will tell you what I want for Chistmas. A keyboard, dog and my family. And I hope you have a great year.Love,Kayle Rodriguez

Dear Santa, How is you elves? I have a quechen can you mete me? So now the presents I want sklanders imagenaiderss.Love,Thaddeus Presley

Dear Santa, I world like to now win bude is cuming back. And how is Rudolph and how is Mrs. Claus? Meare Christmas? I world like a iphone I world like it green iphone 5C.Love,Kayden Luis Ramirez

Dear Santa, How is Rudolph? And meare chistmas. And how is Mrs. Claus? And how are the elves? Santa, cad I have a Shkins backpack and a Shkins-es and a Shkinsbed? Love,Nayeli Sosa

Dear Santa, How are you doing how is Mrs. Claus? Is it very cold in the North Pole? Iny way this Chrstmas I wan’t a yorky pup-py because I really wan’t one but if I don’t get one I don’t wan’t iny thig at all thank you. Merry Chrstmas!!Love,A’lasiah Joseph

Dear Santa, Thank you Santa for all of the gifts you have brot me ev-ery years ago. Can I please have a ipad thank you Santa? My Birthday is on the 17th of December! Love,Haley Barry

Dear Santa, How are you doing? Is miss Claus doing is she ok? My birthday is December 1st. I need my two elves two come to my birthday. Oh I forgot Mer-ry Christmas. I want a puppy and a color seat. And thank you for my presens last year. Love you santa.Jordyn Lynn Roschetzky

Dear Santa,My name is Kathy. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice. This Christmas I would like A BIG Doll Play and ShoPknS. Merry Christmas Santa! P.S, I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is J’Lei. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like Puppy Georgie Toy Doll Elsa Doll.Merry Christmas Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cookie weleft for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Keston. I am 6 years old. I have been nice. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like MtjaRth bad guys. Merry Christmas Santa!P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookie milk.

Dear Santa, My name is Landon. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice. For Christmas I would like Cars, Paw Patrol. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the ice cream we left for you.

Dear Santa, We are very excited for Christmas and we have all been very good! Here is a list of what we would like for Christmas this year!Aidan Alonzo wants a SantaDante Rafuse wants a CowFaith Mojica wants a I-PadHarleigh Aten wants a dogKasun Clement wants a little RobotKyree Hunter wants a Lego RobotKiari Mancias wants a Teddy BearLeilana Vasquez wants a Black BugLuis Arzola wants a RocketMailynn Perales wants a snowmanMarisol Villareal wants a skateboardNoemi Lugo wants a Snow-manNevaeh Granado wants a LaptopPaxton Barry wants a RobotRuben R-Jay Luera wants a KittenRamiro Banuelos wants a BullfrogVictor Ortiz wants a Skate-boardXandor Fletcher wants a SkateboardLove,Mrs. Finley’s Pre-K Class

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas!!!! I woat a bage uve bulms and tablet. Be-cause I a good boy. I love you Santa,Sabastian Garza

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! I wot a kumptur.Serena Hernandez

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! I wot clos and pupe. Mireya Ornelas

Dear Santa, I wot a mosntr truk. Merry Christmas!Ben Cavasos

Dear Santa, Merry Chastrmas! I been a good girl. I want a bed, T.V., and a drawing kits. Thank you,Karla Barrera

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! I am a good girl. I want a bike.Thank you,Josefi na Estrada

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! I want a table, pool, little dog and a little cat. Because I am a good girl. Thank you,Viridiana Barron

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas. I want a Xbox 360. I was a good boy.Thank you,David Hernandez

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! I gri good. Hamstsr.Janissa Arredondo

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas, I, been a good! Boy. I want a Xbox 1X. Thank you!Draven Carrejo

Dear Santa,Merry Christmas! I want a Xbox 1s. I was a good boy.Thank you Santa,Nathan Martinez

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! I ben good gorl. I wot a doll. I wot a mak-up, I wot a gtr.Averia Vela

Dear Santa, I been a good boy. Merry Christmas. I want a Pokemon named Pekuchoo, Xbox and Pokeyball, the masterball, the great ball and white pokey ball.Thank you Santa,Ty Martinez

Dear Santa, Christmas! Merry. I wer good gur. I wot a Xbox 1.Alexis Robles

Dear Sante, I want a nitdoe and a car wih a rmot and a dog and a car, clos, Xbox 1.Thac you,Zephaniah Perez

Der Sata, Mer Crismis. I wot a hamp-str. I wot a Xbocs 1, I wot a I fon 6.Thc yu,Jazlynn Mojica

MerryChristmas! I wot a helpoter. David Romero

I wot a garbage trash car. Lucus Mojica

Dir Santa, I wot a cat, dog, big doll house.Thac you,Skye Sanchez

Dear Santa, My name is Yesenia. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a baby doll and a Barbie. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookie we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Nikki. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a Barbie, a baby doll with a bottle, a purse, and

a toy car. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookie we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Khaleb. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a train with train tracks and a monkey toy. Mer-ry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookie we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Araceli. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a TinkerBell and a cupcake machine. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Elijah. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like legos, a TV, and Xbox 360. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookie we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Zaden. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a phone and a bike. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cupcakes we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Nathaniel. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like legos and a Batman lego set. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Jesse. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a Batman robot for my brother and a Superman ro-bot for me. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the cookie we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Lucero. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a phone, a toy car, and a purse with keys in it for my toy car. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-

deer enjoy the cookie we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Kinley Hag-gard. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a Min-nie Mouse kitchen and fun toys. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cook-ies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is June. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like Elsa with snow that sings, a Barbie pop-up camper, and a troll microphone. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cook-ies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Jordan. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like Steve the zombie

and an Iron Man toy. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cook-ies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Jae’li. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like an Elsa doll, Anna doll, and a Barbie doll. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cook-ies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Rihanna. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like Shopkins, a phone, Peppa Pig playhouse, and a new backpack. Merry Christ-mas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cook-ies we left out for you.

Happy New Year!


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The holiday season is here, and we want to wish our many friends The holiday season is here, and we want to wish our many friends and neighbors all good things now and far into the future. and neighbors all good things now and far into the future.

Thank you so much for your loyal support.Thank you so much for your loyal support.

Merry Christmas from the Officers, Directors Merry Christmas from the Officers, Directors and Staff of the Lamesa National Bank.and Staff of the Lamesa National Bank.

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DEAR SANTA Submitted photoO’Donnell Postmaster Stella Arguillo ac-cepted “Dear Santa” letters from some O’Donnell pre-kindergarten students. This issue of the Press-Reporter publishes

Santa letters from students in Lamesa, Borden County, Klondike, Dawson, Sands as well as O’Donnell.

I would like a seahawks jacket, and a new seahwawks hat, and a seahawks bean...

Dear Santa, My name is X’Zayvian. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like talking Minions, Ninja Turtle weapons, a foot-ball, and legos. Merry Christ-mas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is CJ Perez. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a big Batman toy, a trampoline, a big dinosaur, a new tablet, a Chevrolet power wheels, and a big heart pillow for my baby sister, Mia. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the turkey we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Chiki Perez. I am 6 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a Barbie kitchen, reindeer book, and a box of paint. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the KFC chicken legs we left out for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Zaiden. I am 5 years old. This year, I have been nice! For Christmas I would like a Xbox game, Spi-derman bike, and headphones. Merry Christmas, Santa! P.S. I hope you and the rein-deer enjoy the milk and cookies we left out for you.

Dear Santa, I want a trampoline. I want a dog. I want an apple tree. I want a Superman game. I want a horn so I can blow. I want a baby cat for my cat. My cat is a mama cat. I’m supposed to have two cats. I wish for a cake for my mommy and daddy. My mom likes the colors pink and green. Nick likes Ratchet and Clank games. My brother likes a monkey spinner. Thank you for the presents.Love,Mark Sanchez

Dear Santa, I want a big doll house for Barbies and a new blanket. I want brand new shoes. I want brand new books. I want a dress for Christmas like a Christmas dress. You are the best Santa Claus!Love, Kamilah Mendoza

Dear Santa, I want a dress for my dolls. I want a dress. I want a new Bar-bie. I wish I had a Barbie truck. I want a new Barbie game. I want a teddy bear. I like your clothes, Santa.Love,Jolee Jordan

Dear Santa, I want a four wheeler and a bookshelf. I want a Monopoly game. I like when you bring toys. I want a black belt.Love,Johnny Klassen

Dear Santa, I want make-up for Christ-mas. I love you. I wish my sister wouldn’t hate me. I want a toy Christmas tree and a toy Santa. I want a cute baby dog that is so precious. I really, re-ally, really, really, really love you, Santa!Love,Mia Connell

Dear Santa, I want a doll and a doll house. I want a dog and a teddy bear. I want books and a bookshelf. I want a bird with a cage. I want a panda and a turkey. Cupcakes would be yummy, too. I want a box full of peanuts. I want a desk to do my work on. I want a giant elf. Love,Marissa DeLaRosa

Dear Santa, I want trucks and books and crayons and pencils for Christ-mas. I want a lot of boxes to put stuff in. I want some toy money. I also want a comput-er. I want some apples. I also want a Christmas tree. I would also like some CDs.Love,Francisco Neufeld

Dear Santa, I want a real phone and a shiny pony. I want some spar-kly trolls. I would like a fake camera. I love you, Santa. Love,Brittanie Rogers

Dear Santa, I want a doll and a crown. I want a bracelet. I would like a little turkey. I want a neck-lace and an Elsa dress. I want a panda and a little table. I would also like a puppy, a kit-ten, a mouse, and a rabbit. I want trampoline. I want a hen and a little box. I want a little Mustang bow.Love,Rebecca Loewen

Dear Santa, I want a sled and a race car. I want a teddy bear. I want a stuffed turkey and a stuffed panda.Love,Layne Hataway

Dear Santa, I want a tiger, a rat, a bear, and a deer. I would also like a girl deer. I like cats and dogs. I also like foxes and fl ow-ers. I want some markers. I want pumpkins. I like plants. I would like some dolls and some bubbles. I want some books.Love,Magaretha Banman

Dear Santa, I want a drum set and a teddy bear. I want a race car bed, a new pillow, and a new room. I want a new desk, some new books, and new chairs. I want some costumes. I would like new shoes and new clothes. I want some animals.Love,Blevin Miller

Dear Santa, I want a sparkly play phone and some boy and girl Bar-bies. I would also like a Barbie house for them. I want some Legos.Love,Agatha Wolf

Dear Santa, I want the game Pop the Pig, the Pie in the Face game, and playdoh. I want a toy puppy and a toy robot. I would also like a toy turkey, a toy chicken, a toy monkey, a toy panda, a toy squid, a toy snake, and a toy zebra. I want a toy Santa Claus. I would like a toy that makes songs. I also want a toy phone, a top, and a gingerbread man. I want a hat and a toy man. Love,Max Rodriguez

Dear Santa, I want two stick men and Chinese people.Love,Rodrigo Anzua

Dear Santa, I want a phone and a toy San-ta. I want a desk and a play-house. I would also like a Bar-bie and a sharpie maker. I want a rock star.Love,Lyleigh Higgins

Dear Santa, I wish I had a stuffed animal dog and a transformer. I wish I had a race car track. I wish I had a kitten and a puppy. I wish I had a rescue bot.Love,Donovan Herm

Dear Santa, Hello. I hope you and Mrs. Claus are doing well. We have enjoyed your elf, “Elfi e” this year in our classroom. Our class has tried to be good, es-pecially since we know Elfi e is watching and reports to you ev-ery day. Here is our list of what we want for Christmas, we are counting down until you come every day on our link. Mrs. Ramford, Mrs. ArcherAt South Pre-K Angelina-A carriage for babiesBella- Baby Alive Doll that eatsBlake-BikeDylan-A big lizardJeremiah-Batman and Super-manJoe-Stinky Car/Garbage Truck that talksKaylee-Big Barbie House with bathtub and Barbie teepeeKyle-Pirate Ship with Lego as-sassinsLexi-Ariel that has legsLilly- Monster High the movie and dollMaddy-KiteMathias-A school busMatieu-Giant Ninja TurtlesMaya-A baby dollPaisley-A strawberry carriage with two horsesRichard-Star Wars LegosThomas-TruckXander-Paw Patrol and Christ-mas TreeZackariah G-A boatZechariah S-A toy dogMrs. Archer-Peace and Hap-piness Mrs. Ramford-Never ending, bottomless ATM oh and what

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Dear Santa, How is Rudolf? I want a nightmarfred bear. I will leave chocolate chips and milk.Love, Zaeven Ogeda

Dear Santa, How r u rdifs? I wnt a shrt. I will lev a kukue.Tak kar,Javier Rodriguez

Der Santa, How r you doeng? I vant a mustag. I vant noleschnr. I vil put kukez mik.Bi,Noah Ramon

Dear Santa, How is Prancer? I wot a noow love and I a cat. I will give you a prevt.Love,Amelia Dunbar

Dear Santa, Wut the regn dear? I have been good. Dear Santa, I want a little dog. I also would love to want a car. I wud git a ckles for you I love you Santa.Love,Nathan Ortega

Dear Santa, How are you Santa? I have been a good boy. Will you please bring me 40 drones? $10000000000000000 dol-ers!!!!!!!!!!!! I will leave milk and cokies. Merry Christmas.Love,Carson Wade

Dear Santa, Can you ask Mrs. Clos can she give me a cooky? I have been so good. Santa I want a little grls but give me a toy I do not make it reel? I will give you millk and 8 cookys on a plate plees eat off of the cookys I love you Santa say hi to Mrs. Clas for meLove,Mia Lopez

Dear Santa, How do you bild the toys? I have been rile good boy. Can you please breeg me legos and buboolbee the tratformr? I will give you cholikt milk and coo-ies. I love youLove,Aaron Roy


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Dear Santa, I love yor radirs they fl ie godIs roodof dooie godI have been extra goodPles giv me a toy you can not atoo I wot a ril can? I will leave chips coces in pink milk in keris.I love you Love,Nicson Parks

Dear Santa, How is roodofe? I have been good.I what 16,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000I will leve you coc co lu and couces. I love youLove,Hunter Roschetzky

Dear Santa, How is Roodof? I have been extra good Can a toy car PLeeSa and make it Fast PLeesa and? And a rel Fona PLeeSa and I will LeeV you sum wotr and cooces. Merry ChristmasLove,Olivia Daw Vargas

Dear Santa, Have you Do? I have a good. I wood like a setenulilis stick? I wood like a noew latop? I wood like tow elf? INI wood like mile in shopcis I wood like a justn Bebr postr?Love anna shrt? I wood like to lea sum mik I cookezLove,Araceli ReNae Lopez

Dear Santa, I want a Peppa house. I want a playground. I want lego Min-ions. I want Disney channel.Michael Flores

Dear Santa, My name is Adi’Anna. I have been nice. I want an ice cream machine and a Barbie doll.Love,Adi’Anna

Dear Santa, My name is Madison. I have been nice. I want a jeep, com-puter, and a Barbie doll.Love,Madison

Dear Santa, My name is Niomi. I have been nice. I want a robot. I want a tablet. I love you Santa!

Dear Santa, My name is Ava. I have been nice. I want 10 Barbies. Love,Ava

Dear Santa, My name is Cayce. I have been nice. I want a Mindcraft on an X-box and a robot and legos.Love,Cayce

Dear Santa, My name is Chris. I have been nice. I want a Peppa House.Chris

Dear Santa, My name is Devin. I have been nice. I want a dirt bike and a puppy.Love,Devin

Dear Santa, My name is Miguel. I have been nice. I want a Mindcraft on my X-Box, Legos, and a dirtbike.Love, Miguel

Dear Santa, My name is Cynthia. I have been nice. I want 10 puppies and a real computer. I love you Santa.Cynthia

Dear Santa, My name is Rheanna. I have been nice. I want an ice cream machine, and a tablet.Love,Rheanna

Dear Santa, My name is MyKael. I have been nice. I want a dirtbike.Love,MyKael

Dear Santa, How are you? I want a PSu,Xbox4,DogI love you SantaAnthony

Dear Santa this is Amber I want a fake dog, a fake car and a fake play school house.

Dear santa , I want a lot of presents please. Thanks Nevaeh

Dear Santa I now that you are vere bise giving the other baby and kid toy’s but they need ther Christ-mas. How do you get to the city? From George

Dear Santa, I like December but one question your manshen is a ho-tel for elves? Love Patrick

Dear santa Claus May I have shopkins,baby alive,lipstick,tew set,Elsa Doll,platow,and mermaid fi ns love Alaina

Dear Santa, Merry Christmas. May I have logos?Love Miley

Dear Santa How you doing? Can you bring me a cool present pleasPJ

Dear Santa, I want a slime maker,and I I’m gunu leave you some cookies. And milk. Miriam

Dear Santa, I want a dog ,cumpuyooter,fon,please,I love You Marissa

Dear Santa You have been nice to us. May I have a Ice cream macker. May I have a kids carlike you know. May I have a puppy.From Lillly

Dear Santa Can I have a dog,makeuop,shoos,journal,chapter book.Elizabeth

Dear Santa I hop you get this letter Pleas get me some toys, I want an elfWeesy

Dear santa I want a huver bord.gold shoes.and one hundred dollars to put in my bank acountand please a wallet and a bike and fi ve nights of fredeys Angel

Dear santa, Can you please give me 200 and huver bord and Golden Retriver,and please sum presits and fi ve nights at freddys from Kim

Dear Santa, We have been very nice this year. Here is our wish list. Zerenity wants a pretty but-terfl y Natalie would like a horse under the Christmas tree Roquel is asking for a princ-es doll Elizabeth wants the biggest Christmas Tree Aleya wants you to bring her a fi sh Zayd’n would like a toy di-nosaur Madyson is wishing for a big unicorn Exavien wants a real puppy Marysa is asking for a real lizard Myranda wants a red fi sh Jeremy is wishing for Christmas Tree Michael wants Batman and Robin Zariah wants a car, Iszabelle is asking for a hamburger & coke Aubrey wants a dog, Barbie House, Car Zaymian just Me Kaleb wants a pretty whistle We love Santa,Lamesa Head Start Room 1

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas, I would like a big TV, and I want new Xbox 360 games. There are also som items I need some new socks and, new cloes, and new shoes, and the last thing I need is a Kayak to exerciece. Pleas bring Amy chocolate, Ray a tly ting kit, Ruben a fi sh-ing pole, Will a new cast net, Cyrus a tety bear hamster, and Callie dog food and toys. We will leave cookies and some milk P.S. We will be in Ok-lohoma.Merry christmas,Blue Jackson McMorris

December 2016,Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas, I am wanting two things. I would like a German Shepherd, and I want a Iphone seven. There als some things I need. Those are a toothbrush, a new big jacket. Mom: I want to have bring her and she needs it a car. Dad: He needs some new tools. Sis-ters: I want both to have dolls. Grandpas, I want them to have a better life. PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they get it.Merry Christmas,Love Bradyn Cuellar

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas, I am wanting two thing. I would like a new Nerf gun. I want a new fl ash toy. Ther also some item I need. I need some new shoes and a new bord game for my family. My Mom would like a new purse. My Dad would like a new car parts. My brother would like a Paw Potrow toy.

My sister would like a new per-fume. I hope you stay warm on your traveling. We will leave cookies and some milk PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. please make sure the get it Merry ChristmasCarlos plata

Dear Santa I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year I want two things for Christmas. I would like a new set of Legos and a clock. I also need some things. I want a shot gun 23 greage, and some new shoes. My family needs some shoes and socks. my brother wants a shotgun 20 gage. my dad wants a bigger deer stand and my mom wants a new deer stand. we will leave cokeses and milk. Please be careful when your traveling.Ps. My class is going to make raindeer food for your rainde-re. pleas make shur they get itMerry Christmas,Colby Walker

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for christmas I want 2 things. I would like a gun and a nother snake. There are also some things I need like a Kyak, a heavy coat, some new glasses, and one more thing new socks. I wold like to list some things for my family, My mom wold like a baby Bloodhound. My Dad would like a new pocket knife. My brother Blue would like a bunch of Legos. Please bring all of these presents. Ps. My class is going to make some, Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they get it.Have a Happy HolladayCyrus mcmorris December 2016Dear santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas I want 2 things. I would like a new iPhone and American Girl Doll stuff. There are also some things I need too I need bord games, a new sheets for my bed. I would also like to list some things my family would like. Please bring my Dad some new hunting things. Mom would like a new soft blanket. Brother would like a new monster truk. Sister would like some new Paint. I hope you stay warm on your travel-ing. We will leave you cookies and a coke. PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for you reindeer. Please make sure they get it. Merry Christmas,Delila Miller

Dear Santa, I hope this Letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas I want 2 things. I would like a new RC car and a new dog. There are also some things I need. Those are shoes, cloths, sokes. I would also like to List Some

things for my mom and dad. My mom would like new mix-ture. My dad would like a po-cet knife. PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they get it.Merry Christmas,Evan Segundo

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas, I am wanting two things. I want an Iphon(a), and a xdox 360. there also some items I need. I need stok for winte? I want a bord games lik Chese or monoplyI want to leav for Santa mady a present decause it is chrishmas cheer for Santa has a Chrismas guy How are you my dad pro-bly wants T-Sherts or boots or a Car. hav a very marry Jolly Dolly Christmas Santa Im sorry wath I don ting and back-talkingMerry Christmas,JC Woodard

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas I want 2 things. I would like a bike and a Phone. There are also some things I need socks, un-derwares, more clothes, and paper. I would also like to list some things My family would like. Please bring my Dad some tools. Please bring my mom some more dishes.PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they Get it.Merry Christmas,Johnny Heide

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas I want 2 things. I would like a new

Bike. and a lego set. there are also things I need. underwear, socks, pant’s, and shirts. My brother all want leg’s my mom & dad like new cups.PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they get it.Merry Christmas,Justin F. Enns

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I need socks and a walmart giftcard.Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas, I am wanting two things. I would like a new Pottery Cool and a Dog. There also some items I need. I need some new jace-lets, and a game and new shoes, and gloves. I would also like some stuff for my family. I would like a oven for my mom. And some new shirts for my Dad. I would like for my little breather a car set. And for my big brother would like a Xbox 6. PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please Make sure they get it. Merry Christmas,Lahela Aguilar

DecemBer 2016Dear Santa, I hoPe this letter fi nd you well. how has year for christ-mas, I am wanting a new Ger-man Shepherd and a Bike. things I need Socks, clothes, shoes that can fl y. Things My family would want, my mom would want New Perfume and maKe-up, my Dad would want a New gun, my sister would want a New blanket so would My brother. And we would leave cooKies and Milk. PS. My class is going to mak ReinDeer food for your Deer Pleas maKe Sure they get it.Merry christmas Leonard guzman

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? this year for Christmas I want 2 thing. I would like a new pup-py Books and some Shopkins things I need is shoes clothes and a Brush and my fam-liy wants things to. my mom wants a cook Book my Dad wants Some hunted clothers and tools. ps. My class is going to make Reindeer food for your reindeer. please make sure they get itMerry Christmas,Mariana Vixana

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas I want 2 things. I would like 100$ for Christamas and a bike. For Christmas in need socks, and a book a new shirt and a big paint set. My sitter needs a dress. And My little brother wants a little lego set. My big brother wants a bike. My Dad need a new worker. My mom needs new windows. P.S. My family wants a new house but only if you can afo-frod it, and we are going to make raindeer food make shur The raindeer get it.Merry Christmas,by Pete klassen December 2016Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for cristmas I want 2 things. I would like a nerf ma-galadon, and a nerf mega gun. There are also some things I need. I need socks and a walmart giftcard. I would also like to list some things for my family. Please bring mom as-partin coat, and my dad some socks. I hope you stay warm

on your traveling we will leave you cookies and a coke. P.S. My class is going to make some reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they get it.merry cristmas,Ryan turner December 2016Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How have your year been? This year for Christ-mas, I am wanting two things. I would like a coumputer, and I want toumbling mats. there also some items I need. I need a family board game, and I need new shoes, and I need new socks. and I would also like to list some things my family would like. my mom would like a new ear peace, and my dad would like new tools my two brothers video games. hope you stay warm we will leave you some cookies and milk P.S. my class is going to make some reindoer food for your reinder.Merry Christmas,Sophia Watson

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been. This year for Christmas I want 2 thing. I would like phone and a piano. there are also some things I need, they are a door bell, winter clothes, air tank, and a bord game game of life. PS. My class is going to make raindeer food for your raindeer. Please make shure they get itMerry ChristmasStetson Sharp

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been. This year for Christmas I want 2 thing. I wod like a keyboard and a book. I need sume socks and clenrs for my glasis and sume T Shrt. And for my famly wons. mom wons a fake ele-fent Dad wons a fi shing poll Alex wons some legows Angel wons a Dom Bos snglob.Merry christmas Viviana Martinez Dear santa, How has your year been? This year for Christmas I am wanting two things. I would like Mario Bros stuff and I want playdough. I hope you stay warm on your traveling we will leave you cookies and a coke. Thank you and Merry Christ-masLove Jesse

Dear Santa I hope this letter fi nds you well. How have you and Mrs. claus been? This year for Christmas I am wanting two things one of thows things are a Dumbow, Snowglob and Seknd Present is a eletriks-kuter. for my Mom she wonts a good Christmas, my Dad wans a Akforty7, my sister wons a now barby and my broter wonts a Zomby nerf gun frum the woking Ded. Wat I ned I ned now sliping clows and un-derwar and sum now blankets. P.S My class is going to Make some Reindeer food for Your rander. Please maks sor the get it.

Merry christmas Angel Martinez

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas I whant 2 things XBOX one and Call of duty black ops III for Xbox one. Things I need a toothbrush and a dog house and a nother dog house. For my mom I whant her to get a tent. And my dad needs new tires. My sister whants all elvolved versions of evez. my brother wants games for his ps4. Me and my mom are going to leave you cookies and milk.Merry christmasAnthony Haston

Dear santa I hope this letter fi nds You well. How have you and Mrs. Claus been? This year for Christmas, I am wanting two things laick new gaims for my DS, I want to go to Dallas to see my tia, to go to Houston to see my tia and my tio, corpos cristy to see the beach. There are also som things I need. There are pajamas hair robber bands. I woud also like to list som things my family would like. Pleas bring my mamy a new set of dishes. Pleas bring my dady a new tools. I hope Yoo stay warm on your travel-ing. We will leave you cookies and a cake. PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your rendeer. Pleas make sure they get it.Merry chrismas,Aurora Luna

Dear Santa I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas, I am wanting two things I would like a red fi t-bit and a Ham-mock. There also some items I need new tall socks and new cloths. I would also like to list some things thing my family would like. Please bring my Dad some work shirts my sis-ter would like a Elsa dress and a little thing that you hang your dress up soes and dresses on my mom would like some new dresses. I will leave you some cookies and milk. I hope you stay warm on you traveling Have a wonderful Chrismas P.S. My class is going to make some render food for your reinder. Please make sure they get it. Merry ChristmasCali Howard

Dear Santa I hope this letter fi nds you well. How have you and Mrs. Claus been? This year for Christmas I want pokemon cards. Also, I would like a new iphone fi ve. Four things I need for Christmas is new sock and also new shoes. Also, I need a new pare of jeans. I do also need some new boxers. I realy want to get something for my mom. She has been wanting soming to massage her feet. Between me and you I don’t realy want to do it. PS. My class is going to make raindeer food for your raindeer make sure they get it please. Thank you Santa ClausSincerely, Chayson Clay Vitte

December 2016Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas I want two things. I would lik a hover-board. I would also like a lab-top. I need some socks, shoes, and clothes. I would also like to get some things for my fam-ily. My mom would like some more kitchen material. My dad would like some new Cowboy jerseyes. My sister wants an itunes card. My brothers want some new toy trucks. P.S. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they get it. Merry Christmas, Chloe DeAnda

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How have you and Mrs.Claus been? This year for Christmas, I am wanting two things. I would love to have an Orbeez crush body spa and a drone/car. I need some new underwear,PJ’s,socks,and new winter clothes/boots. For Christmas my dad would prob-ably some new hunting clothes like a sweatshirt and boots. My mom would maybe like some new clothes for church and a vacume that cleans your house for you. My little sister defi natly wants a new iPod and a Zoomer Chimp. My brother has been asking for some type of big gun that he’s been asking for. Hope you have a wonder-ful Christmas! P.S. my class is going to make some Reindeer food for your Reindeer. Please make sure they get it.Merry Christmas!Chloe Gillespie

Dear santa I hope this Letter fi nds you will how have you a Mrs. clause been? This year for Christmas, I am wanting Two things i want is pokemon and htc and legos so i can play with them I will get for my Dad and mom for my mom is those old ninttedo ds and my Dad a new van for free and my brother is a new tv and my other Brother a xbox 1 my sister is a dress BarBies. P.S. my class is making rain deer foodGiovanni Guerra

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? I would like 2 things for Christ-mas this year. I want a lego Minecraft set and a hover-ball. I needs some new socks, a new set of hair bands, and a towel hanger. My family would like Niall – poop emoji stuff. Landry – new cool pair of shorts. Mom – school vacation. Dad – school vacation and a person that keeps people calm. P.S. Reindeer food will be made for your Reindeer and you’ll get a cup of coco and Gingerbead-men cookies.Yours truly,Hayley

Dear santa, I hope you have a nice win-ter. This year for Christmas I want two things. Those things are a drone and an Airplane, both remote controlled. I only need a few things: a few pants, and socks. I also want you to give me some presents for my family. I’ll just list what I think my family wants. My dad, some sockets, my mom, some new silver ware, my brother, hotwheels, and my sister, bar-bies. I hope you stay warm and have a Merry Christmas!Your friend,Henrich Wolf

December 2016 Dear santa I hope this letter fi nds you well. How have yoy and Mrs. claus been? This year for christ-mas, I am wanting two things. I want a playstation VR. I also want new tools so I can buld. My mom probably wants some earrings. My dad never wants anything but please bring him a gun a 300 wind mag. My broth-er J.t. prabally wants a new gun too I do not know what kined. But I do Know it needs to be a rifl e. p.s My class i going To make some reindeor food for your reindeer. please make sure they get it. merry christmas Jake christopher December 2016 Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas I want 2 things. I would like a hoever-board and a new airhog drone. There are also some things I need like shoes, clothes, and pants. I would like to list things my family will like. Please bring Addy a picture of our family my Dad a German she-perd and my Mom a billion dollers for her. I hope you stay warm on your travling. We will

leave you cookies and some eggnog. PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they get it. Merry Christmas,Kasey Hogue

Dear Santa I hope this letter fi nds you well. How have you and Mrs. claus been? This year for chris-mas, I am wanting two things. My Mom wants a new eaar-ings? My Dad want’s a Ak 47 for hunting? My sister want’s a new phone for her last christ-mas. And my Grandma want’s a new phone? My Ganpa want’s a new car? And I want a new phone to? And my dog want’s a new toy to play with. And I will leave you cookies for you and a coke. PS. I will give carrots for your reindeers for lunch.Merry ChristmasLuis Gonzalez

December 2016Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How have you and Mrs.Claus been? This year for Christmas, I am wanting two things. I would like iPhone6s and and a gui-tar/how. There are some other things I need such as socks, pajamas, and zit popper thing. My family would also like some things. My Mom would like some new boots. My brother would like some Paw Potrol toys. My dad would like some new stuff for his gun. I hope you stay warm on your travelingnight. We will leave you cookies and milk. P.S. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for you reindeer.Please make sure they get it.Merry Christmas,Madison Hataway


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I am wanting two things a Phone and a crossbow. Dear Santa I hop this letter fi nds you well. How have you and Mrs. Claus been? This year for Christmas I am wanting two thangs. I would like to have a vr headset, and a new laptop and for my dad he want to see the cowboy play in the stadium, and for my mom she want a new coach. I need is cloths socks, shoes and pants PS My class going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. please make sure they get it.Merry ChristmasMason Rodriguez

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas I want two things. I would like a pony toy, and some new ice skates. My brothers would like some Star Wars Legos. My dad would like some new shoes, and my mom would like some new slippers. My other brother would like a new video game. There are some things I need. I need new pajamas, and some more clothes. I hope that you stay warm on your trip. I will leave you some cookies and milk. P.S. My class is going to make some raindear food for your raindear. Please make sure you get it. Merry Christmas,Love Myah

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How was your year been? This year for Christmas I want 2 things. I would like a new iphon and a new tv and I would like to git my family some-thing. I would like to git my dad a cow boy motorcycle, and I would like to git my mom a new microwave, I would like to git my borther the whole movie set lightining McQueen. I hope you have a nice trip around the world. We will save you cook-ies and milk PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they git itMerry ChristmasNate Ybarra

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How have you and Mrs. Claus been? This year for Christmas, I am wanting two things a go pro and a Samsung Galaxy 7 Active. My dad wants he wants a phone cace. My MoM wants Samsung Galaxy 7 Active like me. My brothe wants a madden 17. My littel brother wants dippers. I hope you stay warm on your travel-ing. We will leave you cookies and a coke. P.S. My class is going to make some reindeler food for your reindeer, Please make sure they get itMerry ChristmasRamiro Arriaga

Dear Santa I hope this letter fi nds you well. How have you and Mrs. claus been? This year for Christmis I am wanting two things a Phone and a crossbow. I have things I want for my family mom, fl ower dad cross-bows sisters Dolls. We will feed your reindeirr it’s going to light up so they know where it is we will have cake and cookie. I re-lay want a helicopter toy all of mine broke. P.s my class is making some reindeer food for your rriendeer please make shure they get it.merry christmisRush Ramey

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been I hope you and Mrs. Claus are do-ing well! I would like 2 things which are a miniature fuseball table, and the board game Clue but in the Harry Potter version. My mother and father would like a Kuerig coffe machine. My little sister Lauren would like a Puppy-in-my-Pocket. My little brother Ryan would like Minecraft Pocket Addi-tion. Something that I need for Christmas is my family and my amazing very fun Grand-parents. I will leave you some yummy homemade coockies! P.S. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they get it.Merry ChristasTaylor Wall

December 2016 Dear Santa, I hope this fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year for Christmas I want too things. I would like Star Wars legos because I love building, and playing, and there both, next I want a drone, because I love fl ying robots, its so fun, so thats all I want for Christmas, but I want to tell you what my family want for Christmas, my dad wants a tool that he doz-ent have, my stepmom wants a dress or pillows, my brother want a cartoon toy, from nick jr. so thank you Santa, and good luck delivering all those presents. PS. Me and my class are go-ing to make Reindeer food for your reindeer. I hope you can stop bye.Merry Christmas,Wyatt Herm

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well how has your year been? this year for Christmas I want two things for Christmas and one of them is lots of legos and a phone a IPhone 7 please and I also need to tell you what my family wants, my sister wants a Dallas cowboy helmet. and my other sister wants a niall horen poster and my mom wants a new car. and my dad wants a truck. so I don’t know what where going to get. and I will make sure we give you some cookies and milk. and write me a note about how mrs. claus is doing and that’s it bye. PS. MY class is going to make some riendeer food for your riendeer please make sure they get it.Merry ChristmasXavier

Dear Santa, I hope this letter fi nds you well. How has your year been? This year Tor Christmas I want 2 things. I would likes some tools. I want soms mor Legos. I need new socks. I need a new drawe. My mom want a new sewing. My dad need a naw lunchboex. PS. My class is going to make some Reindeer food for your reindeer. Please make sure they get it.Merry christmas,Peter Neufeld

Dear Santa, How are the raindeer and Mrs. Claus? I’ll leave cookies and milk and even apples for the raindeers. I think I saw your slay. All I want is my brother.From Jess Hernandez

Dear Santa, How are your elfs? I hope they’re doing good. How is Miss Claus? I hope she’s good too. For Christmas can I please get a guitar, harmonica, and mittens? The guitar is for me. The harmonica I’m giving away. The mittens are for my brother Kasen. For Randen a Santa hat.Thank you,Cooper Williams

Dear Santa, How is Mis Claus? May I please have a hatchamal, kitty, real bowandarrow, and a Fan-tastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? Is Rudolph real?Trinity Fleck

Dear Santa, How is it at the North Pole? Can you get me a stuffed wool-ly mammoth and crash test lab? One more thing please get me a robot maze.Thank you,Kellar Estes

Dear Santa, How are you doing this year? Is Mrs. Claus ok? How are the reindeer? Can I please have these things: Some gymnastics stuff, beats headphones, and a speaker? Merry Christmas hope you have a wonderful year.Love,Tatum Runge

Dear Santa, I appreciate everything you gave me. I hope you are having a very good time at the North Pole. Here is a list of things I want: a pet guinea pig, a four wheeler, and an apple ipad.Sincerely,Collin Grant

Dear Santa, May I please have Orbees with a set, like a slide for the Orbees? How are your rein-deer? I bet they’re doing ok. Hey, how’s Mrs. Claus? Is she ok? How are you doing? I hope you have a Merry Christmas.Grace Cooley

Dear Santa, Santa, how are you? I hope you are doing good. May I have a Yoki 2 boney spirits 3ds game? May I have a pokymon XY 3ds game? How are your reindeer?Thank you,Cason Cribbs

Dear Santa, How are you? I hope you’re happy. I want to have a game for my playstation 4. How is Mrs. Claus? Is she happy? How is Rudolph? Is his nose still shining? How are the elves? Are they making lots of toys?Your friend,Andrea Dommar

Dear Santa, May I have a Non touch Lap-top? How do reindeer fl y? How do you travel the world in one night? How many elves do you have?Shawn Fields

Dear Santa, How are you doing? For Christmas I want a PS4 with minecraft and a computer. See you at Christmas.Love ,Juan Andrade

Dear Santa, How are you doing this year? I love Christmas! This year I want a 3ds, The Saddle Club books, and some clothes. Have a Merry Christmas!Thank you!Love,Evie Stansell

Dear Santa, Please can I have these things for Christmas? Can I have a go cart? And please can I have a real life gerbil? The last thing I want is a stuffed Coyote.Love,Reagan Beaver

Dear Santa, How is Mrs. Claus doing this year? This Christmas I’d like a hoverboard, a hoverball, a zoomer kitty, and a stuffed animal.Love,Hagen Smith

Dear Santa, I would like some pj’s with BRW on them. I would like 100 stress balls, a hoverboard, and make up set. A book named Duke, and a pair of earrings.Thank you!Love,Brogen Walker

Dear Santa, How has it been at the North Pole? I can’t wait until Christ-mas. I hope you won’t have a hard time. I hope that you eat my cookies and milk. I hope you have a nice trip. Can I please have a phone? Can I please have num num?Love,Rosie Fraire

Dear Santa, How are you? I am good. I would like metro bot, and a new lego set, and a new trap.Sincerely,Ethan Scott

Dear Santa, How are you and Mrs. Claus? How are your reindeer? How is your sleigh? How are your elves?Sincerely,Kason Law

Dear Santa, I hope you can make this if not, it is ok. For Christmas I would like a RC pickup truck. If you can’t make it, it is ok. I don’t have to have it. How is Rudolph? If he is guiding your sleigh? Tell him I said good luck!Love,Randen Williams

Dear Santa, I want a new pair of Jordans for Christmas also a gun, lap-top, my mom, dad and adam to have a good life, and a new GTA and that’s all.fromIvan Delrey Garcia

Deear Santa how are your randir? What cind fo coocees do you like? Would you want a presint for your hard work? I would like a nerfgun.from Adam Gutierrez

Dear Santa, I would like a fl uffy puppy. I want some cookies and Mick-ey and Minnie Mouse toys. Don’t forget Pluto, Goofy, Donald and Daisy too. I want a

pup pad and ice skates. I want a mommy kitty and two baby kitties.Emily Kate Jimenez (4)

Dear Santa, I want a puppy for Christ-mas. Mima doesn’t like inside dogs, but she said I could have one if it doesn’t bark too much and it doesn’t eat the furniture. Please, please, please bring me a puppy. I will be good forev-er! I love you Santa!From,Aubree Nash Crutcher

Dear Santa, I try to be a good girl! Can I pleas have a Eagles jersey! Thanks for all your hard work! Pleas can I have a art set! Can I get a Eagles jacket! Thanks for the things you gave me last year! Now can I have a I phone 7!Merry ChristmasSavannah RodeaMrs. Moore, Room 3South Elementary

Dear Santa, Santa do you think I have been a good girl? If you think I was, leave me something please. I want a hachamul pelease. Could you leave me a sled please. Could you leave me a unucorn with wings. The coler I want it is whight and turkeys please. Thank you Santa! I love you, you are my hero. You are the perfect guy for Cristmas. I hope you have a good Christmas.Mariela GonzalesRoom 3

Dear Santa, I tried to be good girl. I love you Santa! Fun top, tablit, and a tent plesse for Christmes? I love you Santa!!!!! Thank you for being so good to me. I will love you forever! Have a good Christmes!Nicole ParksMrs. MooreRoom 3, South Elementary

Dear Santa, I have tried to be a good girl. I love you Santa! Can I pleas have a Americin girl doll, and a paket of shopckends, a Bar-bie house, and a skuter pleas. Also a Ipade.Merry Christmas!Naomi AguayoRoom 3

Dear Santa, Santa I love you! I want a pokimon. I want a hamul peales. Thank you Santa! I love you!Malehky WalkerRoom 3

Dear Santa, I have tried very hard be-

ing good! I want a guinea for Christmas and a drone and a 3ds/2ds.Merry Christmas!Kanyah GrayRoom 3

Dear Santa, Thank you for the toy last Chriimas! I want a big teddy bear and a book to read and a Chrismas tree.From Ben to Santa, Merry Chrismas!Benito TorresRoom 3

Dear Santa, I love you Santa! Santa, I want a tablet Santa and a phone. Santa, I want to see you! Thac you Santa four the present!I love you Santa a lot!Aubrey RendonRoom 3

Dear Santa, I love you! I chrid to be a good girl and want a pogo stick and please a skatbord too. Thank you!I love you!Olga Gutierrez Room 3

Dear Santa, I want a Dron and a Ipad, the bigest one please and a bigest speaker that has Bluetooth. I trid to be a good boy. I love you Santa! How was your day? My day was good!Nathaniel ValleRoom 3

Dear Santa, I miss you! I would like to have a phone, Americin girl doll, gift candy, and Shopkins ples. Thank you for the elvs for making the toys.Love, Alexa PerezRoom 3

Dear Santa, Thank you for the toys last year! Can I have a new tablet and a toy gun and a pogo stick and a skate bord? I would also like a ninja turtle playset with all of the action fi gures.Merry Christmas!Seth Waters, Room 3

Dear Santa, Thank you for all your hard work!!! I want a basketball set. I would like to have a Eagles jersy too. I will love if I could also have a new pair of Jor-dens. Could I also have a chek-ers game bord? Could I also have a pair of Jorden pants? And I thank you for all you lisend to what I wanted.Merry Christmas,Isabella Barron, Room 3


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Dear Santa, I want a lokit and toys and a ring and a little tetty bear and a ipone6 and a wach.I love you, Kambrei SmithMrs. Moore, Room 3

Dear Santa, I want a xbox 360 and a new xbord and a phone.Love, Milo Moreno South Elementary, Room 3

Dear Santa, I have been very good this year! I want a hoover board for Christmas, Ariel stuff, books, a movie, and a cookbook. Merry Christmas!Love, Miranda Poag

Dear Santa, I have been very good this year. I want farming stuff and tractors and plows. Merry Christmas!Love,Cason Peterson

Dear Santa, I have been good this year. I would like an 18-wheeler for kids that has a trailer. That is all.Merry Christmas!Love,Payden Zant

Dear Santa, How are your reindeer do-ing? I want aqua beads begin-ner studio. Merry Christmas!!Love, Emma Buchanan

Dear Santa, I want for Christmas a tram-poline, I want a toy unicorn, and books so I can practice reading, I want a toy car my size I can drive. Merry Christmas Santa Claus!Love, Bralie Loyola

Dear Santa, I want a football helmet, and pads, and cleats. Merry Christ-mas!Love,Josiah Orosco

Dear Santa, I want a 3DS, and I want movies, and I want dress up clothes, and I want a little bit of Christmas movies, and I want a play computer, and some paja-mas, and socks. Merry Christ-mas!Love,Paizlee Gass

Dear Santa, I want a dirt bike, and a 4 wheeler, helmet and pads and a toy motorcycle. Merry Christ-mas to Santa.Love,Theodore Skelton

Dear Santa, I want some Orbies, Shop-kins, some Littlest Pet Shop, and I think that’s all. Happy Christmas!Love,Kembri Stipe

Dear Santa, I want a Mario Vs. Be Bowz-er and I want a toy motorcycle. I love you. Love,Issac Martinez

Dear Santa, I want an ice cream maker, and a snowcone maker, and then I want a toy car that I can ride in, and then I want a pop-up Barbie camper, and then I want a light up glowing track, and I want an Easy Bake Oven, and I want a bean bag chair, and I want a toy mixer, and I want my own tiny chalkboard, and then I want a some smelling stampers, and a brown-headed baby alive, and then I want a chart that can hold stuff, and a dvd player, and a bottle for my baby dolls. Merry Christmas!Love, Kurstyn Grant

Dear Santa, I have been very good. May I have a Nerf Gun, please, San-ta? Merry Christmas, Santa! Can I have two kinds of Nerf Guns, please? I hope I’m not on the Naughty List! Merry Christmas!Love,Cash Cribbs

Dear Santa, How do the reindeers fl y? My dad says I really don’t need much toys, because I have a toy box full of toys. I can only have like two or three toys. I want a karaoke box, socks, gloves, underwear, a toy tractor, overalls, a toy drum set, and a remote control car. Merry Christmas!Love, Klete Rinehart

Dear Santa, I want an iPad and a football. Merry Christmas!Love,Carlos Ruedas

Dear Santa, How are your reindeer do-ing? I want a Texas Tech shirt, a Texas Tech football, and Tex-as Tech shorts. Merry Christ-mas!Love, Jackson Cooley

Dear Santa, I want Mine Craft toys, Mine Craft cars, Mine Craft motor-cycles, and Mine Craft house. Merry Christmas!Love,Eathen Fraire

Dear Santa, I want a cotton candy ma-chine, and I want an American Girl doll. Merry Christmas!Love, Lindsey Walker

Dear Santa, I want a drum, and a toy Mack truck, a toy fi re truck, and a remote control toy rap-tor. Merry Christmas, Santa!Love,Kaiden Meegan

Dear Santa, I want dresses, new shoes, some more earrings, makeup, games, puzzles, high heels, some books, and a pet butter-fl y. Merry Christmas!Love, Emily Howard

Dear Santa, I want a remote control car, a guitar, and a DS. Merry Christmas!Love,Colt Carpenter

Dear Santa, I would like a blue yo-yo, and a log truck (they’re at Tractor Supply), I want a football hel-met, and I would like a cattle truck, and I’ll take a few long-horns, and a few horses, too. I would like a little 18-wheeler, and I would like a Case back-hoe, I’ll take a few bulls, and I will take a few calves, and a Case clock. Merry Christmas, Santa!Love,Guy Miller

Dear Santa, I would like an Xbox 360, and a Minecraft CD to go with it, and an 18-wheeler, and a 4-wheeler. Merry Christmas to you!Love,Jaten Hataway

Dear Santa, I want a motorcycle, and I want an Xbox, I want a helmet, and a racecar that I can drive. Have a Merry Christmas!Love, Tripp Roberts

Dear Santa, Hi Santa how are you doing? All I want for Christmas is a stuffed animal. I still know you are busy. I know you have a lot of kids to give toys. I love you Santa. From Madison C 8 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, How are you doing santa and mrs. clos? Can you get me a nerfgun please? and get my dog something please. and my dad something please. and my mom something please and my sister a toy and my class and teacher please and my grand-mal and something for my grandpal. Love Austin C 8 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, I am 7 years old this year. How are the rain beer? All I want this year is the hot wheels ai and can you get all the por peple something from me? I now that you have a lot of peple to give to so that is all I want. Love Abel G 7 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, Hows mises clos and you? Do you love her stil after all this time? What I’m ascing for this year is for my classmates family to get lots of stuf for Crismis. I no he needs new shoes and some toys. Also for my teecher to have a girait Crismis. Thaink you santa. Love Bekah R 8 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, How are you doing santa? Can you please make the old people feel happy! And make people be nice! And can I please have snow. Thank you!Love, Josefa E7 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, How did moodoff get his red nose? I want a football and a nerf gun this yer. i hope my sis-ter gets her shoes ples.from Isaiah T 7 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, I want a doll for Christmas please. How are the rander? And I want my mom and dad to have a gift to. And a gift for my brother .Love Breanna H.7 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, I wot to git is a scoodr. Then I wot to git is a elsa scates. I wot to git is a dog toy. I wot to get is a jorsee for my mom. The jorsee is goin to be a prar-triets. I wot to git is a puppe.from Elianna M 7 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa how are you? Santa I wont a xbox 360 2 remot cuntrolrs, and I wont a nurfe gun santa I wont a elf on shef. Love, Damian R7 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa how is rodof? I woud like a sopkin in a baby doll in a snak toy with red eyies. I wills leve u milk in cookees. Love Kezly B 7 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like a bike.Love Nathan V 7 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, I want a americandoll and a barbie house and things for my dog and I hope I have a good Chirismas and a light up shoes. Thank you,From Ryan D 8 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear santa How are elfs doing? I want my grandma to feel better. I hope my family is ok. Love Brooklin G 8 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, I want a four realer and a Xbox 1 and a 360. I know my dad been wanting a motocicle so bad. Can you get my mom a diomand ring. Love Braiden H8 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, how are you doing and mrs. clos and radear and can you gave ma a bike and a play car and plese gave eberyboty in the world and God a gif on christmas.Tank you.From Larissa H 8 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, All I won’t four Christmas is four the orfi nage to have sum presents. and the pore people to and the people that have surgery and that all I wont four Christmas and I hope you have a grat Christmas.Love Ambree M 7 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, I love you. how are you and ms. Clows doing? And the raindeers. I do ot want nuthing for chistmas. Can you please let my faimly get wut thay wunt. I love you so much! Love Janica R 7 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Sant, I am wuntin to get a lot of stuf for othrs this yeer. For my family i wunt my mom and dad and brothers and granny and grannpow and dads sis and class and mrs. sevedge to all get sumthing. Next I wuld like poke’mon cards and to give a present to my dad who isnt here. I also wunt a tablit.Thank youFrom JB H 8 years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, How are you? I’m good. How old are you? I alwais be-lived in you! I would like a elf on a shelf for my whole class and that is all i wan to konw about you. Please will you give my whole class wat I wanted. god bless you.Love Jaime L8years old2nd Grade - Teacher : Lyndi Sevedge

Dear Santa, Mrs. Pearl and Mrs. Andie would like to say our kids have been very good this year so we hope you can bring them what they ask for:Christopher B.-A singing Mickey Mouse also a doggieJeremiah C.-I want a Candles, Power Ranger, and a PhoneJake D.-Super Heroes, Power RangersKeona ED.-Mickey Mouse and DonaldSerenity G.-Frozen toys, Puz-zlesJacob G.- A Ninja Turtle Backpack, a Breaker BoxMarilyn H.-T want a Frog and Minnie MouseJolene L-Peppa Pig HouseMailey L.--Shopkins, Bar-bie’s, and a Doll HouseChristopher L.-A Dinosaur ToyBraiden O.- Clothes and Trucks and a Front YardGenesis R.-A Princess DollXiomara T.-Big Toys, and BooksBrooklynn V.-Fake Make-Up, a Dress, High Heels, A Crown, and Sperry’sDrennan W.-A Supper Dirt Bike, and a Baseball ShirtKyrie W.-A Pirate Dog, Bat-man Jacket Zerenity W.- Barbie Dolls and Cars

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Dear Santa, How are you doing Santa? I hope you are having a good day. How are you doing Ru-dolph? I want drums and my room to be fi xt and my dog to have a blanket and bowl and my cat gold rings.Love, Rayce2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, How are the elves? This is what I want from you. A hover board, nerf long strike, Halo Master Cheaf costume, Halo Needler, and some Stephen Currys.Love,Mason2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, I love Crismis becus that was the day win Jeses was born. Yor elvs are rily good at making toys. I bet Mr. Klos is doing just fi ne. You sur are a rily good sidsin. I want Kristle pets. It dus not mater if blue. I want ten of thum and I aso know care that is ril.Love,Shayleee2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, How are you doing. Santa can I have a bebe gun, a droan, and a traplene, coyote helmet, a new 3ds card and a new surfes pro? Can I have a gocart and a new megagun? I hope you have a safe trip.Love,Eli2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, Haaa Santa! How are you doing? This is what I want. A drone, a new 3DS, a fi sh-ing rod, and new champalene. Some new cloes, a gocart, a belt, a mot conchrol. A new clock and sum books. A soopur meggu nerth gun, and a new toy for my dog. Think you for evry thang you do.Love,Landon2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, I hope your having a great year! Say hi to miss Claus for me. Hear are a few things I want. We are doing the four things Chrismas challage.1. Purple Bible2. Play Kitchen3. Silver Boots4. Mermaid blanketThank you for your time. Drive savely. P.S. Say hi to Dasher, Doner, and Blitsen.Love,Harbor2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, How is ms clos? I whood like some stike hands. For my brothr a bike. I whant a plan, xbox1 and xbox 1 gams. 100 water bloons.Love,Bryson2nd Grade BCISD


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How many elfs do you have? How big is your slay?Dear Santa, How is Roodoff? I want a baby kiten and baby alive stuff and I want the 120 pack of crayons and a stapler and a compyouter and I will giove you cocis and milk and I want pincels and books and pante and I want a pootle dress and I want all of the dog stuff thats why I can take care of my dog.Love,Victoria2nd Grade BCISD

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Dear Santa, How are you Santa? Santa if you just have a little bit of room can you fi t a present for me please. I want a small toy horse, a little toy indian, a horse stuffed animal. Be safe on the trip Santa.Love,Ella 2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, How is Roodoff? Santa I have bin tringing to good. If you have room can you save a cool toy please. I want drone please. I want a dodge truk. I want a ball that I can get in and out of. I want a DS. I want a nearf gun. I want farming simulater.Love,Josh2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, How are you doing Santa and how is Mrs. Santa? I will give you a coke and Mrs. Santa too. I want a indian dolls and a indian bed too. And a indian mask too Santa. I love you Santa. I hope I get to met you Santa. And Mrs. Santa too. I am a big fan. Merry Chrismas Santa.Love,Addie

Dear Santa, How are your reandear and your whife? I hope you are doing good. What I want for Christmis is a lego airshow and a turensformur.Love,Granger2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, Be safe as you travel to are homes. I want a 3DS and Sueper Mario, a ipad, and Mad-den 17 and Farming Simulator 17. Tell the elfs hi. Bye!Love,Luke2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, How are you doing? How’s Frostee? Thank’s for think-ing about me. Travel safely on Christmas Eve. I bet your pretty busy in your shop. For Christmas I want an xbox1 and Madden 17. I want an iphone 7 and a football.Love,Tye2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, Hey Santa. How are you do-ing. I hope your raindeer are doing good. I been good this year. I am glad you are think-ing about me. For Chrismas I want madden 16 for xbox 1 and a phone 6.Love,Josh T.2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, I hope mis clos is doing oright. This yare I ben good all yare. I want a 2DS. And a 3DS pleas. I want a new bike. I want games on my 3ds and 2ds. One is mariow cart and souper mariow bruthers. And I want on my 2DS and my 3DS I want pokemon xy. And a drown. And a nerf gun. And I want a stuft animal pwangwen. That is all I want.Love,Layne2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, I hope you are doing all rite. This is what I want for Chris-

mas. I want a elf on the shelf. A cat, a doll house, a miny Chrismas tree, scates, a drone, a ramot conchrol car, and that is all I want. I hope you have a merry Chrismas.Love,Taytum2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, How is your home? How much do your elfs work? How big is your hoshe? How many elfs do you have? How big is your slay? How light is Rodoffs nose? Love,Kellen2nd Grade BCISD

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a doll?Love, Christina

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a Barbie bunk bed and a Frozen headband?Love,Zaelynn

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a remote-control race car?Love,Makao

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me an elf named Chippy, a Barbie car, and a new back pack?Love,Aliannna

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a toy robot?Love,Jahsiah

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a robot game?Love,Jude

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a doll and make up?Love,Paizley

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a guitar?Love,Karter

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a sleeping bag?Love,Eden

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a remote control race car?Love,Jakob

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a bike?Love,Ziegen

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a robot?Love,Zavier

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a toy box with toys?Love,Eli

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a Doc Mc Stuffi n’s toy?Love,Chloe

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a big bike, a troll emoji, and a big lady bug?Love,Alba

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a necklace, bracelet, and some dresses?Love,Mary Jo

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me necklaces, bracelets, and shirts?Love,Savannah

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a mini fi gure robot and a papa troll? Love,Mason F.

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a bike, some Captain America toys and some No David books?Love,Mason Joe

Dear Santa, I have been really good this year. Would you please bring me a tall doll and a real dog.Love,Nevaeh

Dear Santa, was i a good boy this year. how is Mrs. Claus. Can I have a play stayshone two. I wold like a Lego’s and Monster truck from hobbelob-be.Your friend,NoahDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, How is Rudolpf? I’m deem good. I want a set of doll. Hi Santa we are going to put co-oshies. How is Mrs. Clas do-ing ok. My sise want a dollYour friendLove EllaDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, Hal is Rudolph. I hav bin good dis year. I wont a capdr.

Merry chris.Your friend, ZachDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa How is Mrs. Claus and you also Rudolph I have den a good girl ples dreing me play doh and a dall hose and a dall for my dall hose I will have you cookies redee for youYour FriendLeahDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, Haw is The North Pole. Haw is Rudolph is he raum. Haw is Mis clos. Haw is you are you calld. Haf the snow thant I have bin good can you breeg me a noow for feelr.SlaydeDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, I am a good girl. I want a baby doll. I want a toys. Hall is Mrs Claus. Hall is Rudolph. I want a doll.Your friend,DanielleDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, My name is Alondra I want a toy truk Rhimotcnl I will give you cookis and milk. Are the elfs bias Santa?Your friend, AlondraDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, I have been a good girl. I am 7 year’s old. Haw is Rudolph. I will leaf you some milk and ckockies. I won’t a ipod for chrismus. My name is Dan-iela. Haw are the elfs doing. Santa plese say Hello to Miss. Clos.Your friend,DanielaDawson 1st Grade

Dear Santa, I wot a kod hat, doots, cold-oy short, coldoy lite shoozYour friendDavidDawson 1st Grade


May the gifts of peace, love and joy light your way to fulfi llment this Christmas.

1705 N. Bryan872-7400

Pat Githens, Interim PastorCandlelight Christmas Day Service 10:00 a.m.

January 1st Prayer Breakfast 8:00 a.m. at Second Baptist Activity Building

Second Baptist Church

409 N. 3rd872-5409

Rev. Scott SeymourCome & Go Communion Service

Christmas Eve 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.Christmas Day 10:00 a.m.

(No Sunday School)

First United Methodist Church

912 N 1stLee Lennon, Pastor

Christmas Service 10:30 a.m.

First Church of The Nazarene

801 S. 1st StreetChristmas Day Service: 10:30 a.m.

First Baptist Church 1002 North 11th Street;

Corner of North 11th & Ave I.872-2858

Alan Korinek, PastorChristmas Eve Service 7:00 p.m. Christmas Day Service 9:00 a.m.

Grace Lutheran Church

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