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Santa’s New Home
| After 52 years of residing by the sea at Santa Claus California, Santa decided to move a little south. The owners of Santa Claus decided that the 22-foot-tall statue that beckoned motorists on Highway 101 to drop in was no longer appropriate for their planned conversion to a seaside-whaling village. So after much consternation a home was found in Oxnard in a field next to the freeway. About 300 people, including some from the South Coast, attended the noon party along a freeway frontage road, where the plaster and chicken wire structure has resided since Jan. 29. The statue got a new finish; a new coat of paint, and soon his surroundings will blossom with life including a redwood forest. As one resident said, “it’s kind of nice to see a smiling face and him waving at you when you go down the freeway.” |