Santa’s Workshop in Great Bend was open to the public on Monday, Dec. 8, for children of all ages.

Great Bend High School students, community volunteers and Great Bend Recreation Commission staff transformed the City Auditorium into Santa’s Workshop for the 29th year. Children could participate at holiday themed booths throughout the night and visit Santa with their wish list.

For the first time in memory, there was a live reindeer – one of Santa’s? – outside the auditorium. Garet Fitzpatrick at the Rec said they contacted Dash Away Reindeer out of Towanda to bring it to the event.

“We also brought in StoneLion Puppets to have roaming puppets walking through the crowd,” he said.

“We ordered 700 sugar cookies for the kids to decorate as a snowman and we ran out at the end of the event.

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