Calling All Santas -- Healthy Kids: Santa Cares

Santas, please support us in getting the message out: kids need to be healthy. Santa cares about kids. He cares if they are healthy, getting proper exercise, and eating the right foods. He also cares if they have been naughty or nice; however, eating too many sweets and not getting enough exercise has now become naughty behavior. Join us in San Jose on August 16, 2008.

Please consider lending your presence to our media event on the Saturday morning with the cameras capturing the finish line where all Santas and children are winners. We are addressing childhood overweight and obesity prevention to help kids stay active, encourage healthy eating habits, and promote healthy choices. Santas support children in exercising and in eating healthy foods with a morning ‘Walk With Santas’ and with ‘Eat Healthy With Santas’ for lunch. We would be thrilled for you to join us.

Dozens of us Santas and Santas Helpers from around the country will be here to participate. There will be Mrs. Clauses and Elves in costume as well. The morning ‘Walk With Santas’ in the beautiful Guadalupe Park and Gardens of San Jose (Coleman and Taylor, near the San Jose Airport) starts at 8:00 and culminates by 9:00 AM at the finish line. The media will be there just before the end of the event. The print and TV media are expecting to do interviews from 8:45 or 8:50 to 9:15 or so. All participating Santas will leave with a photo CD and press release packet for personal use, as well. We do not yet have confirmation that the Surgeon General, or Governor Schwarzenegger, or Mayor Chuck Reed will be able to attend. Other celebritites and politicians are expected also.

Kids being healthy is vitally important; your being at this event will showcase its importance. The Santas of Northern California, who are hosting this event, will be not only telling children the importance of exercise and diet, we will be setting an example, even if we are technically senior citizens. Several National and Regional Santa societies are behind this effort. Please come and support the message to the kids: eat right and exercise. As the Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Steven K. Galson, told Mike Underwood of the Boston Herald on November 29, 2007, “It is absolutely critical.”

Sincerely,

Santa Walter,

Santas of Northern California