Christmas
Dear Santa – By Mrs. Garnett’s 2nd Grade Class – 2019
Dear Santa, How are you doing and you’re family? How are you’re reindeer doing at the Noth Pole? How is RudolPh doing? I want a big bear like Eva’s but a lighter color for Christmas. Is Elfey being good? I am being soo good! Merry Christmas! Sincerely, Celia Roff, 7 year’s old Elk Mound Dear…
Read MoreDear Santa – By Mrs. Mohr’s 2nd Grade Class – 2019
Dear Santa, I have been doo. I do all my chorse and then I play. Thank you for gift last year. I would like a LoL doll this year. I would like you to bring a LoL doll for Emma. Why do you like cookes? Sincerely, Alice Burgraff, 7/8 Colfax Dear Santa, I have been…
Read MoreDear Santa – By Mrs. Ryan’s 2nd Grade Class – 2019
Dear Santa, My name is Lillian I am 8 years old. I have been good at school I was piking up Paper. Thank you for the Hatchamals last chistmas. i wish for anything you get me. We are puting lites up I wish for my brothre to be happey. Merry chistmas. Sincerely, Lillian Brown,…
Read MoreDear Santa – By Ms. Bommarito’s 2nd Grade Class – 2019
Dear Santa, I bean good to my sisters this year. thanks for minecraft lego Last year. I want a cumputer this year. can you bring a dress for my sister? How do you diliver present so awick? Sincerely, Garyson Bauer, 7 Colfax Dear Santa, I did chores, disis. thak you for sliprs last year. I…
Read MoreMy Favorite Christmas – By Mrs. Hovde’s 3rd Grade Class – 2019
My favorite Christmas memory is amazing. My family had christmas at my grampas house with my cousins and my mom, Dad, Jacob, Mat, Karen, Spencer, Elijah, addy, Jody, Jada, Jennie, grama, grampa, grama, Grampa, Grama. We traveld to three houses. The night before Christmas i could barely sleep because I was thinking about presents. On…
Read MoreMy Favorite Christmas – By Mr. Secraw’s 3rd Grade Class – 2019
At Christmas, I get up super early. Then I go downstairs to wake Jeanetta up. I wake her up. Then I go upstairs and open up my presents. After awhile my cousins and family members come to my house – I pass the presents out. We take each at a time opening our presents. After…
Read MoreMy Favorite Christmas – By Mrs. Kiekhafer’s 3rd Grade Class – 2019
My favorite Christmas was 2 years ago. I got a big hot wheels garage. It was pretty big. I like it is brig because I have a lot of cars because I collect them. I was at my house with my mom and my dad and my brother. I like to fall asleep hurly because…
Read MoreChristmases Past: Irma Lindholm: Feed sack dresses, nuts in the shell and squirrels on a branch in the parlor
By Amber Hayden GLENWOOD CITY – Irma Lindholm says she has very few memories from growing up, but what she does remember are the important pieces. From memories of the farm where she grew up between Plum City and Elmwood to the holidays she and her husband spent with their children at the lake house…
Read MoreChristmases Past: Helen Krizan: Lefse, butternuts and “hymn a sing”
By Amber Hayden GLENWOOD CITY — Glenwood City resident Helen Krizan recalls that while her family was not wealthy when she was growing up, she and her siblings always knew there would be a present for Christmas. Helen, age 96, was the second oldest of seven children in the family. She is a resident at…
Read MoreChristmases Past: Vergene Viets: Santa Claus and a walk in France
By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — What do you do when your serious-minded middle child stubbornly refuses to believe in Santa Claus? Answer: you take him for a walk in France on Christmas Eve. Vergene Viets, age 94 and a resident at the Colfax Health and Rehabilitation Center who grew up on a farm in…
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