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PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> – Santa Claus made a special stop in South Philly, bringing the North Pole magic to a Christmas event hosted by the Philadelphia Police.<\/p>\n Santa’s festive visit\u00a0 <\/p>\n Philadelphia’s Third Police District transformed into a winter wonderland, with officers dressed as elves to spread holiday cheer.\u00a0<\/p>\n “To enjoy a great day, with all the elves, Santa Claus and the 3rd Police District,” said Officer Juan “Ace” Delgado, a Community Relations Officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Children received gifts and had the chance to pick out winter clothing.<\/p>\n The event also featured a table full of sweet treats, including chocolate bombs and cupcakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We’ve got chocolate bombs, we’ve got eggs with goodies inside, cupcakes, we have cookies,” said a participant.\u00a0<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Nori Brown, a 6-year-old, was thrilled to meet Santa. “I told him Merry Christmas,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Her father, a Third District police officer, was proud to see his daughter enjoying the festivities.\u00a0<\/p>\n Serhii Horbnko, a grateful dad, shared, “She wanted to see Santa. That was her dream.”\u00a0<\/p>\n His wife, Lena Horbnko, added, “It’s very good. I think most kids very happy. For kids it’s magic.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Vicente Lopez, 7, was excited about the sweets and seeing his uncle, a police officer, dressed as an elf. “My tio was an elf costume,” he said, noting the presence of the Grinch as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n News<\/a>Holidays<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – Santa Claus made a special stop in South Philly, bringing the North Pole magic to a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":456937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,7709,50,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-456936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-holidays","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115744153337309546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}