Wellington has its first Black Santa Claus
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Wellington resident Tony Nelson is the first-ever black Santa Claus in the history of the village.
and last updated 2020-12-24 23:40:21-05
WELLINGTON, Fla. â Wellington resident Tony Nelson is the first Black Santa Claus in the history of the village.
Nelson says when village employees Paulette Edwards and Kim Gibbons first asked him, he was reluctant. I m always concerned about representing something appropriately. You want to do all the right things, you want to say all the right things, and I wasn t sure, he said.