Red Sleighs flies Santa to area schools for a visit

SEELEY LAKE – "Do you hear the helicopter?" Seeley Lake Elementary Superintendent Josh Gibbs told the students. "Santa is coming this way."

The students at Seeley Lake Elementary school watched and cheered as a Minuteman Jet Ranger helicopter landed carrying Santa and gifts in the south football field at SLE the afternoon of Dec. 21. The classes took turns visiting with Santa, receiving a candy cane and picking out a small toy or stuffed animal.

Seeley Lake was among 24 stops in Montana and Idaho for the second annual Red Sleighs Over Montana. Although departure was delayed out of Missoula Tue...