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Dear Santa 12-25
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Updated: Dec 24, 2016, 8:00 PM
Published: Dec 24, 2016, 1:49 PM

Dear Santa,
Thank you so much for being such a good friend to children all over the world. This year I would like a hot chocolate maker, some books about the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and a Boot, and some ornaments for my Blue tree. Also help my sister Bliss get off work to come home for Christmas.
Thank you Santa, and Merry Christmas to Mrs. Santa and the Elves
Love, Tallulah

Dear Santa,
Me and Hailey try to be the best we can. I don’t know what I want. Hailey wants a I pad. I will teach Hailey what the meaning of Christmas is. The meaning of Christmas is about giving not getting. My favorite seasens are February and December. Haileys favorite season is april.
Love, Hunter and Hailey

Dear Santa,
I have been very nice this year. Some of the things I did were play with friends and eat all my food. My Christmas wish list is an activity center.
Love, Abi

Dear Santa,
I have been very nice this year. Some of the nice things I did were give love and share toys. My Christmas wish list is a Minnie and mickey toys, books, movies.
Love, Sophia

Dear Santa,
I have been very nice this year. Some of the nice things I did were give hugs and play with friends. My Christmas wish list is power wheel 4-wheeler, ball, big truck, candy.
Love, Easton
Dear Santa,
I have been very nice this year. Some of the nice things I did were eat all my food and play with friends. My Christmas wish list is bat mobile and ball pit.
Love, Cooper

Dear Santa,
I have been very nice this year. Some of the nice things I did were share toys and putting toys away. My Christmas wish list is basketball goal and lawn mower.
Love, Owen

Dear Santa,
I have been very nice this year. Some of the nice things I did were share toys and play with friends. My Christmas wish list is baby doll, smart trike and clothes.
Love, Lynlee

Dear Santa,
I have been very nice this year. Some of the nice things I did were playing with friends and giving love. My Christmas wish list is musical toys and baby doll.
Love, Evie

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were share with friends and helped my teacher. My Christmas wish list is baby doll, candy, elsa doll and gold fish.
Love, Chloe

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were use my manners and helped my friends. My Christmas wish list is big airplane, choo choo train (a big one), pink doll and heart candy.
Love, Emma Kate

Dear Santa,
I want a cook bike and helmet and xbox 1S.
Love, Dawson

Dear Santa,
I want a drone and a toy train.
Love, Christian
Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were share with friends and clean up toys. My Christmas wish list is a real big puppy, swimming pool, car to drive and choo choo train.
Love, Alivia

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were help my teacher and held the flag. My Christmas wish list is dog, hard candy, baby doll and baby brother too.
Love, Hope

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were helped my friends and listen to my teacher. My Christmas wish list is power rangers, candy, shoes and car.
Love, Nathan

Dear Santa,
I have been very nice this year. Some of the nice things I did were helped my friends and picking up my toys. My Christmas wish list is giant marshal, paw patrol and little chase.
Love, Leyton

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were listening and picked up my toys. My Christmas wish list is shopkin stuffed animal, shopkins shirt, coffee maker and ice cream maker.
Love, Arya

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were helped my momma and nice to my friends. My Christmas wish list is shopkins, doll house, play-doh and princess clothes.
Love, Briar
Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were made a gingerbread house for my friends and listening. My Christmas wish list is train tracks, bridge and air patroller.
Love, Carson

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were be nice to my friends and help anyone that needs my help. My Christmas wish list is baby doll, doll house, airplane and paw patrol.
Love, Amelia

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were I’m always smiling and help my friends get up. My Christmas wish list is a book, Teddy Bear, a computer that works and block center.
Love, Karter

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were helped my friends and cook with mommy. My Christmas wish list is a computer, cups, a puppy and blocks.
Love, Brennan

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were comfort my friends when they are hurt and help people. My Christmas wish list is big truck, gator and motorcycle.
Love, Dodge

Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were used my manners and help my teacher. My Christmas wish list is big truck, blocks and airplane.
Love, Colton
Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were listening and picking up my toys. My Christmas wish list is princess guitar that I can hit a wolf with, doc vet pet, stage and cart to roll patients on.
Love, Abby

Dear Santa,
I have been trying to not be mean. I have been good. For Christmas, I would like a snuggytail, trex underwear, Kubota tractor with a scooper, rock ‘em sock ‘em robots, big trex, big nerf guns and walker talkies. Please bring my sister, Lacy, a baby doll.
Love, Isaac

Dear Santa,
I have been good this year. For Christmas I would like a toy dirt bike, essential handbook, red stone hand book, R2D2, bbq, minecart figers, walking dead figers, fighting robot, bone heads, parashut people, army sets, mega mastodon, hyper fire, and for sister a toy dog and I got a secret for you.
Love, Eli

Dear Santa,
I have been good all year. I want a drone for Christmas and an x-box 35 too and thank you invited us to the north pole.
Love, Grayson

Dear Santa,
I will give you milk and cookies.
Love, Genesis

Dear Santa,
I would like to have a horse, cowgirl doll, truck and trailer to pull my hose with.
Love, Emmie

Dear Santa,
Can I have a drone. Can I have crish cross cash. For my baby sister a baby doll.
Love, Preston
Dear Santa,
For Christmas I want a tablet. I want a Chris Kriss Cross. I want a necklace. I want new boots.
Love, Alexa

Dear Santa,
How are you doing? I can’t wait to see you. I would like a mustang for Christmas.
Love, Wesley

Dear Santa,
I have ben a good girl scout. Merry Christmas. All I want for Christmas is a moana necklace.
Love, Raelyn

Dear Santa,
Thank you Santa for my cat Sofia. I hop you have a merry Christmas.
Love, Violet

Dear Santa,
I want a gold xbox, and a drone. I also want a bird and a new cat.
Love, Antonio

Dear Santa,
I rile want Skyland sooper charges and a magnadrs I oso wot sonektroops my big toy I wot is a jumpe house.
Love, Raiden

Dear Santa,
I want a sky dri and skat bld and a vedo game.
Love, Guillermo

Dear Santa,
I want a night kit, and a pack with harry potter stuff for my room.
Love, Matthew West

Dear Santa,
I have been good this year. I want a green play kitchen and Paw Patrol stuff. I want you to bring my baby brother a turtle toy. Me and nannie will make you M&M cookies for my house and leave carrots for the reindeers.
Love, Knox
Local farm partnership brings fresh beef to Warren County Schools
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Published: Apr 2, 2025, 11:31 PM

Warren County Schools has beefed up lunch menus this school year through a new community partnership. Thanks to a collaboration between the district’s School Nutrition Department and Barton Creek Farms, students at Warren County High School, Warren County Middle School, West Elementary, Eastside Elementary, and Dibrell Elementary are enjoying locally sourced, farm-fresh beef in their lunches as part of a pilot program.

The initiative, spearheaded by Terri Mullican, Director of School Nutrition, has already shown great promise in its first few months. The partnership with Barton Creek Farms, located in Rock Island, Tennessee, ensures that the beef served is not only local to Warren County but of the highest quality. Barton Creek Farms specializes in farm-to-fork beef, with grass-fed and grain-finished cattle. Each calf is born and raised in Rock Island and goes through USDA-inspected processing, ensuring it meets the strictest safety and quality standards.

“When the opportunity arose to provide fresh, local beef, we knew it was a no-brainer,” Mullican said. “The fact that it’s a product from right here in our community makes it even more special. We can’t wait to implement it district-wide.”

Barton Creek Farms delivers fresh ground beef to the district monthly, and the nutrition

department incorporates it into homemade recipes such as lasagna, meatloaf, chili, and tacos.

As of now, the beef is being served at five schools, but the ultimate goal is to expand the program to all ten lunch-serving schools in the district.

The pilot program originated from a conversation between Mary Roller of Barton Creek Farms and Mullican. Roller, recognizing the farm’s potential to support local schools, reached out to gauge the district’s interest in serving local beef to students. Around the same time, a Warren County school board member contacted Mullican to share information about a similar partnership in neighboring Dekalb County, which helped push the initiative forward.

The timing worked in the district’s favor, as the nutrition department was able to fund the purchase of the beef using existing resources, eliminating the need for additional funding. Now that the pilot program is enjoying a successful run, the department has budgeted to extend the partnership district-wide for the 2025-26 school year.

Dr. Grant Swallows, Director of Schools, praised the program’s economic approach to student nutrition.

“This pilot is a perfect example of how we can use local resources to continue providing nutritious, healthy meals for our students,” he said. “We are grateful for partnerships like this one that benefit both our students and our local community. We always strive to support our local businesses when we can because our community is so good to us.”

In addition to working with Warren County Schools, Barton Creek Farms also partners with local restaurants to offer farm-fresh beef on their menus. The farm’s offerings include ground beef, steaks, roasts, and custom cuts by the quarter, half, or whole cow, meeting diverse consumer needs.

As the program continues to grow, the district hopes to expand its focus on farm-to-school meals, benefiting students’ health and connecting them to the agricultural roots of the community