Q: What questions do kids ask you the most?
A: Where are the reindeer? Are you the real Santa?
Q: What's the most unusual thing you've ever been asked for?
A: I had a small boy, about 5-years-old, ask for firewood so
they could keep warm.
Q: How did you answer him?
A: I told him that Santa can't guarantee everything, but I
would do whatever I could to make sure he got what he
asked for. en, after his class walked out, I talked to the
administrator of the program and told her what he asked for. I said, "If you all can't
do it, I will pick up the wood myself and take it to him." ey took care of it.
Q: Where can people most often find you this season?
A: We do parades, tree lightings, Randolph School's Under e Christmas Tree, and
help out at various charities in North Alabama, Birmingham, and Tennessee.
Q: What do you enjoy doing during other seasons?
A: Traveling. You can't enjoy the sights as much when you're jumping from house to
house on Christmas Eve. (He says with a quick wink!)
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M E M B E R S H I P
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You can follow Santa Gordon Mahathey on Facebook.
Gordon Mahathey donned a Santa suit for the
first time in 1988, when his younger brother
needed a Santa for his square-dancing club
party. Gordon bought that suit from Walmart
for less than $20 and put it away afterwards.
It would be another seven years before Gordon
became Santa again.
Now, more than 25 years later, he is one of
North Alabama's most sought-after Santas,
along with his wife, Ellen, or Mrs. Santa, as the
children call her.
Santa Gordon, a Redstone member since 1978,
paused from planning for a busy Christmas
season to reflect on the jolliest of times.
SANTA GORDON
