Letters to Santa getting spruced up mailbox in Arnold; holiday event planned
Brian C. Rittmeyer | TribLive
Joe Lebert of Fawn will unveil a new Letters to Santa mailbox outside his mother’s home on Rankin Street in Arnold during a free community event on Saturday, Nov. 30. Students in the auto body class at Northern Westmoreland Career & Technology Center in New Kensington refurbished a 1930 relay mailbox that Lebert bought from an antiques dealer in Altoona.
Brian C. Rittmeyer | TribLive
Joe Lebert (center) of Fawn meets Monday, with students in the auto body class at Northern Westmoreland Career & Technology Center in New Kensington who worked on his “Letters to Santa” mailbox. They are (from left) Burrell students Morgan Colledge, 18, and Brandon Grimm, 15, and Kiski Area’s Heavenli Hall, 16, and Gavin Fowkes, 18, from Kiski Area.
Brian C. Rittmeyer | TribLive
A tag for Van Dorn Iron Works of Cleveland is bolted to a 1930 relay mailbox that Joe Lebert of Fawn bought from an antiques dealer in Altoona. Refurbished and repainted by auto body students at Northern Westmoreland Career & Technology Center, it will have a new life taking children’s letters to Santa in Arnold.
Courtesy of Joe Lebert
Here’s how the mailbox looked after Joe Lebert and a friend added a mail slot to it and before students in the auto body class at Northern Westmoreland Career & Technology Center in New Kensington worked on it.
