Tacoma Mall’s longtime Santa, Rick Harden, dies at 63

BY KENNY OCKER
kocker@thenewstribune.com

EXCERPT: Rick Harden was a matter-of-fact web developer, a straightforward former Navy sailor. But give him a big red suit trimmed in white, a matching cap and a oversized belt buckle with his other name on it — he already had the beard — and he became someone else entirely: one of Santa Claus’ look-alike helpers.

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