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REMINDER/This Sunday, Take a Holiday ``Flight'' to the North Pole; Children from Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Will Visit Santa Thanks to Spirit Airlines.


News Editors/Business Editors/Travel Writers/Weekend Assignment

Editors

REMINDER...for Sunday (Dec. 7)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

    What:   Spirit Airlines is "flying" 25 children, ages 4 to 14, and
            their families from Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital to
            the North Pole to visit Santa Claus.

    Who:    Fort Lauderdale's hometown airline, Spirit Airlines.

    When:   Please arrive by 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 2003.
            The aircraft will "take off" at 10:00 a.m.

    Where:  Spirit's North Pole Check-In Area, Terminal 4, Gate H3
            Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport


Photo/Video Opportunities: Children onboard Refers to a chip or other hardware component that is directly attached to the printed circuit board (motherboard). Contrast with offboard. See inboard.  Spirit's holiday plane during the "flight," Santa and Mrs. Claus Mrs. Claus is a folk hero, and is the wife of Santa Claus in many modern versions of the Santa Claus legend.

In many current versions of the mythos, Mrs. Claus lives with her husband and assists with the production of Santa's toys, sometimes overseeing their production by
, fire trucks and water cascades, plus children with gifts.

Media Notes: Proceed to Spirit's ticket counter in Terminal 4 and ask for Spirit Station Manager Bob Cone or his assistant, Rick Reitz. They will escort you to Spirit's North Pole North Pole, northern end of the earth's axis, lat. 90°N. It is distinguished from the north magnetic pole. U.S. explorer Robert E. Peary is traditionally credited as being the first to reach (1909) the North Pole. In 1926, Richard E.  Check-In area.

Here Comes Santa Claus Santa Claus: see Nicholas, Saint.

Santa Claus

jolly, gift-giving figure who visits children on Christmas Eve. [Christian Tradition: NCE, 1937]

See : Christmas


Santa Claus
 - Event Outline:

-- Costumed greeters will entertain children as they wait to

board the plane. Once onboard, the flight attendant will

request passengers to pull down the shades in preparation for

"take-off."

-- Everyone will sing holiday songs as the plane "taxis taxis (tăk`sĭs), movement of animals either toward or away from a stimulus, such as light (phototaxis), heat (thermotaxis), chemicals (chemotaxis), gravity (geotaxis), and touch (thigmotaxis).  down the

runway for the flight" to the North Pole. Upon "landing,"

Santa Claus will meet the plane atop a fire truck spraying a

celebratory water cascade.

-- Santa and Mrs. Claus will then escort the children to a winter

wonderland Wonderland
See also Heaven, Paradise, Utopia.

Annwn

land of joy and beauty without disease or death. [Welsh Lit.: Mabinogion]

Atlantis

fabulous and prosperous island; legendarily in Atlantic Ocean. [Gk. Myth.
 inside the airport for a holiday party. Festive

food and fun will follow with every child receiving a special

gift, courtesy of Spirit Airlines.
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