Christmas

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX —  “One of the things we did as kids is we would sneak down to see if Santa Claus came yet,” says Joan Butson. “We would pretend we were sleeping, and then we would get up and go down to see if Santa had brought our presents yet,” she said.

By LeAnn R. Ralph  COLFAX —  For Duane Hart, Christmas has always been all about family.  Nothing else mattered as much as getting the whole family together, Duane said. “We had four kids. We had a foster boy who was always with us too. For a while we had two foster sons. And we had…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX —  In years past, the Colfax Messenger has interviewed Bess Jackson and her late husband, Merlin, for a Veterans’ Day story and for a story when they celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Last year, Bess graciously agreed to be interviewed for a Remembrances of Christmas Past feature.

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — The phrase from Jingle Bells, “dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh” carries many good memories for Bernard Meacham. Meacham is 94 years old and is a resident at the Colfax Health and Rehabilitation Center. His wife, Wanda, is 91 and also lives at Colfax Health and…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX —  “Catastrophe” is not generally a word that you like to think of in association with a Sunday School Christmas program. For Beverly Johnson, one particular Sunday School program when she was a little girl started out as a catastrophe — but ended all right, anyway.

By Lynda Cheldelin Fell Have you heard of The 12 Nights of Christmas? Also known as Secret Santa, I came across this concept years ago while reading “In Search of the Real Spirit of Christmas” by Dan Schaeffer. In the back was a chapter describing his family tradition modeled after the 12 days of Christmas.…

Letters to Santa – Mrs. Standaert’s First Grade Class

Letters to Santa – Mrs. Roemhild’s Thrid Grade Class

Letters to Santa – Mrs. Peterson’s First Grade Class

Letters to Santa – Mrs. Kittilson’s 1st Grade Class