Mike Cantlon's one-time favor became a 30-year gig as the Holiday Pops Santa Claus

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Mike Cantlon’s new children’s book Nym’s Sleigh Ride, inspired by his work as Santa, is available at the Fox and Auntie’s.

“I’m going to tell you the truth,” Mike Cantlon says, as if there’s a murky, confidential reason why he’s been appearing as Santa Claus at the Spokane Symphony’s Holiday Pops concert for over three decades.

“I did this gig for Mitch Miller.”

Miller, who died in 2010, was known to a certain generation of Americans for his ripe-for-parody Sing Along

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