Sandy Claus?
Santa is one of the world's busy guys,
and needs lots of help to get to December
26th and his well-deserved rest. In
Denver, one of Santa's best
"roadies" is Sandy Sanden.
Better known the first 11 months
of the year as Robert V. (Sandy) Sanden,
Jr., Sandy was born in Wichita but
was raised in the Chicago area. He
moved west in the mid 1970s, first to
Montana, where he went to work for AT&T.
After a few years he transferred
to Tucson and in 1986 moved to Denver with
USWest.
He's been a telephone operator,
a service rep, and an operations tech,
and is now a central office tech for Qwest.
But he didn't find his true calling
until after the acquisition of
grandchildren (11 + two of them!) by marrying
his incredibly beautiful, wonderful and
fantastic wife, Georgia. He
discovered he was the perfect Santa Claus
sub.
We should also mention Sandy's new great
loves, his English Bulldogs! With these furry kids
nothing will ever be the same..... Unfortunately, his
beautiful Sarah died this year, so he got a new puppy,
Reba. She's so cute, ya gotta love her!
This is the tenth (or eleventh?) year Sandy has been
a stand-in for Santa, and he has never
had a dissatisfied customer. Check
him out with the world's
great real estate guy -- in Sandy's
opinion at least -- Jace Glick!
(see below) and one of Denver's prettiest and most fun
photographers,
Jean Banovich of Jean's Photo Scene, 303-646-9081.
Jean says, "Always
a joy to work with you! . . . for you
are the ONE & ONLY SANTA!" Other
references on request.
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Sarah
Cyril
Reba
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