"SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN" everybody

FYI Tomorrow at 3:00 pm there will be a Land Bank Meeting in the Basement of the Key Bank Building at\8 N. State St.

Makin' a wish checkin' it twice
Gona' find out who's naughty and nice!


Not one to be judgmental but when did Santa Claus become political?

Here is a story found in yesterdays Cleveland Plain Dealer

Painesville's Latino-themed Christmas party postponed until Tuesday
By  Grant Segall

PAINESVILLE, OHIO-- A bad forecast has postponed the second annual La Navidad  Para Ninos (Christmas for Children) party from tonight to Tuesday night.

The party is now scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, December 20, at Elm Street Elementary School in Painesville, Registration is closed.

The event is meant to unite Latino and other families

"This will help us a lot," said Painesville's Claren  Estrada, mother of three. "It takes the tensions from their minds of what's going, from fears of their parents being taken away."

Co-host Nelson Cintron Jr. a former Cleveland councilman who owns Painesville's La Nueva Mia 88.3 FM, says the father of at least one of the party's has been deported.

Immigration lawyer Richard Herman considers the La Navidad Para Ninos holiday party a way to tell local Latino children, " You're not alone."

Many Latinos across the U.S. are fearful because President-Elect Donald Trump threatened during his campaign to build a wall at the border to keep out Mexicans and make their homeland pay for it. He said Mexico forces drug dealers, rapists and other criminals into the U.S.

Politics aside, Estrada says the party helps families from Mexico adjust to the U.S. Back home, she says, Christmas isn't a big deal as Three King Day, so the Navidad parties help her  and her children learn America's holiday customs.

Immigration lawyer Richard Herman, co-host of the party, considers the event a way for the wider community to tell Latino children "you're not alone."

The party will feature a special guest; Santa, of course. Herman played the role last year but has hired a professional this time around. With help from his family, he has bought gifts for the children, and Harvey High students have wrapped them.

Other party hosts include the Painesville Schools Family Resource Center; local activists Brittany and Chalio Payne, lawyer Dennis Seaman and Nelson Cintron.

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I hope the school administration as well as the board realizes getting political can be a slippery slope. I wasn't crazy about when the Tea Party held rally's in the Harvey Auditorium, and this seems more of the same.
So much for diversity "we will hold our own party" Believe me it doesn't take any kid of any nationality long to figure out Santa Claus.
This smells from politics and Santa will not do anything to reassure them of Donald Trumps intentions. Assimilate? United we stand, divided we fall. That should be Santa's message.