COURIER LIFE, D 12 EC. 28, 2018–JAN. 3, 2019 DT
SANTA, BABY: The man in red shared a moment with mom Curlis Mendoza and son Tyler,
who stopped by the event while in town from the Caribbean. Photo by Nina Cochran
Naughty or ice
Santa hits the rink with kids at Prospect Park
BY COLIN MIXSON
You better be good for goodness skate!
Kris Kringle took a day off on Dec.
18 — one week before Christmas Day
— to spend an afternoon in Prospect
Park showing off his ice-skating skills
to kids. And it turns out the jolly old
elf, whose little round belly is known
to shake like a bowl full of jelly, is a
whiz in the rink, according to a mom.
“He was really, really good,” said
Curlis Mendoza, a Trinidadian on vacation
in Kings County, who hit the ice
with her kids Skylar and Tyler.
Santa Claus joined the youngsters
for an afternoon of frigid fun at the Le-
Frak Center in Brooklyn’s Backyard,
where he helped the rink rats hone
their skating skills with some professional
tips he picked up at the North
Pole.
And the fi rst 100 kids who showed
up received vouchers for complimentary
hot chocolate from the event’s organizers
with Park Slope’s Methodist
Hospital, who opened the rink at no
cost to the kiddos, but did not subsidize
skate rentals.
GOOD COLD FUN: Old Saint Nick helped novice
skater Isabelle Kokosza navigate the ice.
Photo by Nina Cochran
The out-of-town mom said it was her
daughter Skylar’s fi rst time on skates,
due to the lack of ice-skating opportunities
on her home Caribbean island,
but that the little lady did a great job,
and can’t wait to lace up again.
“She had a great time,” said Mendoza.
“She wanted to go back!”
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