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| Say hi to Santa, courtesy of CokeThanks to Coca-Cola USA and the U.S. Postal Service, Santa Claus has been assigned his own ZIP + 4 Code in Atlanta, the headquarters of Coke.Pre-addressed postcards are being attached to 12- and 24-pack cartons of Coca-Cola Classic, but children can also address letters to: Santa Claus,North Pole,30351-1989.Coca-Cola spokesman Bob Bertini says that Santa will read the letters, then send them to a central location where they will be counted. For every letter received, Coca-Cola will donate 5 cents to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots program.“We think that writing to Santa Claus is a time-honored holiday tradition, and we think it's an important tradition to encourage and foster,” Bertini says. “This encourages children to mail early, and it provides funds at the same time for needy ^children.”But for Colorado kids and visitors to Santa’s Workshop, Santa still has his longtime special address and zip in snow country, North Pole, Colo. 80809, and the Coca-Cola campaign won’t affect this at all.Those letters will continue coming to Santa’s Workshop, says president Tom Haggard. Unlike the letters sent to Georgia, those sent to North Pole, Colo., will “get a response back from Santa that he got your letter and he’ll be coming to see you,” Haggard says.FYIDENVER TV ADDED: Two Denver television stations are boosting their signals in order to be received over-the-air in Colorado Springs. PBS station KRMA, Channel 6, is available much of the time without cable on Channel 63 starting this week, but engineers are in the midst of testing the new equipment.“Most of the time it puts out a nice, clean signal,” says spokesman Bill Thorn. The signal travels partway between the cities on the air and then is picked up by microwave.KRMA has a translator facility on Cheyenne Mountain.KUBD, carrying the Spanish-language Tele-mundo network, will rebroadcast the programming of Denver’s UHF 59 on Channel 49 in Colorado Springs and Pueblo sometime this winter. The station’s new transmitter, also to be on Cheyenne Mountain, has been ordered and is expected within a month. KUBD has Telemundo from 6 a.m. to midnight and En-1 glish-language movies from midnight to 6 a.m. It also carries Hispanic specials from the Denver area.SOUP FOR LUNCH: The annual KappaAlpha Theta Soup-Sup for charity is from 11 a.m to 1:30 p.m. today in Worner Center on the Colorado College campus. Approximately two dozen homemade soups will be available for tasting during the luncheon. Tickets are $5 and are available at the door. Soup recipes will be available in a cookbook. Charities benefiting are Center for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Court Appointed Special Advocates.SOVIET LECTURE: The history and politics of the Soviet Union is analyzed in the first of three free lectures at East Library, 5550 N. Union Blvd., at 7 p.m.MANAGEABLE MEN: For those womenwondering how to manage the men in their lives, this Gazette Telegraph classified ad described a service they probably never dreamed was available: “Fiance Manager.’And for males or females wanting to train to manage “fiances, there were promises of benefits, a career and $16,000-$ 18,000 a year. Hopes were dashed, though, when it proved to be just a typo, with a letter dropped out of the more traditional “Finance Manager Trainee.”Compiled by Linda NavarroON THE LIGHTERTOP OF THE DAY
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Wed, Nov 08, 1989
Page 31
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