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Dear Santa, It’s me Dixie. I have been good. One thing I really want is a phone. One thing I really need is a PS5. My favorite snack is Hershey’s. Don’t forget my brother and sisters Izzy, Josh, and Amelia. I hope to hear from you soon! Love, Dixie Dear Santa, It’s me Brooklyn. I have been excellent. One thing I really want is an XBox. One thing I really need is socks. My favorite snack is goldfish. I hope to hear from you soon! Love, Brooklyn Dear Santa, It’s me Tyler Johnson. I have been excellent. One thing I really want isSpiderman. One thing I really need is a break. My favorite snack is Charleston Chews. Don’t forget my sister Quinn. I hope to hear from you soon! Love, Tyler Dear Santa, It’s me, Parker. I have been good. One thing I really want is a first edition booster box. One thing I really need is shoes and clothes. My favorite snack is deer meat. Don’t forget my sisters and brothers, Madi, Briar, Corbin, Jayden, and Whitney. I hope to hear from you soon! Love, Parker Dear Santa, It’s me, Owen Anders. I have been good. One thing I really want is the Lanky Box Plushies. One thing I really need is all of the 5 Nights of Freddy’s plushies. My favorite snack is KitKat. Don’t forget my sister Harper. I hope to hear from you soon!

Park Elementary has announced their December Students of the Month. Front row: Natalie Boshears, Callie Morgan, Quinn Johnson and Connor Green Middle row: Karson Hayes, Avery Nelson, Kash Barber, Brody Dillon, Emercyn Liles, Jaycie Hollis and Noah Gaines. Back row: Westen Melton, Blaze George, and Cash Leach Not pictured: Skylar Hill, Laiken Guthrey and Matthew Brady The word for December was CARING.

This time of year people become nostalgic as they watch holiday movies. They remind us of simpler times when character and traditional values mattered. We can rely on a happy ending and that good will win out in the end. We become blanketed in a secure feeling as we reminiscence about childhood memories at Christmas. The movie, “White Christmas” is playing in the background as I write this week’s column. Bing Crosby is singing “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” to servicemen that won’t be home for Christmas during World War II. Here’s a bit of trivia, many people get the movies, “White Christmas” and “Holiday Inn” confused because they both feature the song, “White Christmas” and Bing Crosby. “Holiday Inn” was the first movie to feature the song in 1942 and Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale. Irving Berlin wrote that song and 11 other songs for the movie. The film received a 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song with “White Christmas.” The movie, “White Christmas” came out in 1954 with Crosby and costars, Danny Kaye, and Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen playing the Haynes sisters. You may remember the duet they sang, “Sisters, sisters. . . There were never such devoted sisters.” Crosby and Kaye dressed as the sisters and also sang it as well. My favorite song from the movie is sung by Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney called, “Count Your Blessings”. A verse goes “When I’m worried and I can’t sleep. I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep counting my blessings.” Counting our blessings instead of fretting about our daily problems is good advice for all of us.

Residents at the Corning Therapy and Living Center enjoyed listening to the sweet young voices of carolers from the 4th & Vine Church of Christ in Corning on Sunday, Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. The children traveled room-to-room singing songs and delivering presents of socks to the residents.

Unnatural Death by Patricia Cornwell The Corsican Shadow by Clive Cussler A Christmas Vanishing by Anne Perry The Secret by Lee Child Alex Cross Must Die by James Patterson (also available in large print) The Edge by David Baldacci (also available in large print) Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly (also available in large print) Betrayal by Phillip Margolin Command and Control by Tom Clancy A Very Inconvenient Scandal by Jacquelyn Mitchard The Watchmaker’s Hand by Jeffery Deaver

Dear Santa, I am 5. I’ve been a little bit good, but sometimes I get in trouble. I want a drone camera so I can see Spongebob and Sonic. Love, Zach March Dear Santa, I am 5. I’ve been a little good and a little bad. I want an RC car with tracks and don’t forget the trailer.