Santa Fred News Today

The Midlands community is mourning the loss of Fred “Santa” McCurdy, who brought joy into the life of children for decades.

Chelsea Self / Post Independent 2020 is Fred Andersen’s — also known as Santa Fred’s — third season working as a professional Santa. The role sort of found him — not in a Tim Allen knocks real Santa off the roof kind of way, but a simple decision to grow out his beard caused a domino-style chain of events. “I started growing my beard out, it was the first time growing my beard in about ten years and it started coming in mostly white, to my surprise. Everybody kept commenting that I ...