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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 13 > The ‘Best Santa’

The ‘Best Santa’

Bend man R.D. Mitchell, aka Santa Claus, looks and feels the part

By David Jasper / The Bulletin
December 13, 2008

“This is Santa in New York,” says R.D. Mitchell, of Bend.

Of Bend, that is, when he’s not traveling around the U.S. doing duty as the jolly man himself.

Mitchell, 64, says he was born to play Santa.

Each June, he begins growing an honest to goodness — with....

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