Kiwanis Club's Lunch with Santa popular again

Over 100 local kids had a great Saturday, thanks to the members of the Tupper Lake Kiwanis Club and its supporters here.

Saturday at noon at the Knights of Columbus hall was the Kiwanians' annual Lunch with Santa- a tasty hot dog and drink, various sweet treats including some delicious cookies and a chance to get close and personal to the Jolly Old Elf and his missus. There were plenty of soft whispers in Santa's ear at the popular holiday event.

The Kiwanis Club has been teaming up with the Adirondack Federal Regional Credit Union and the local Knights for nearly a decade sponsoring the Lunch with Santa. It was sponsored before that dating back to its start about 1980 by the Tupper Lake Chamber of Commerce.

The Kiwanis Club has also been running Tupper Lake's very successful Kiwanis Castle of Toys for also about a decade, having assumed it from the Dan and Issy Cassell family who started it in the late 1970s.