By NEAL WAGNER / Managing Editor

ALABASTER – Santa Claus will take a break from his preparations at the North Pole on Christmas Eve to visit children throughout Alabaster.

The Alabaster Fire Department will escort Kris Kringle on a fire truck through the city beginning at 1 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Santa will visit the following streets and neighborhoods at the following times:

1 p.m. – Portsouth, Norwick Forest, Kingwood, Spring Gate and Cedar Grove

1:30 p.m. – Cedar Grove Mobile Home Park and Sterling Gate

1:40 p.m. – Northwest and Olde Town

1:45 p.m. – Southwind, Meadowlark, Willow Creek and Willow Point

1:50 p.m. – Woodland Hills

2:15 p.m. – Cambridge Pointe I, Summerbrook and Chinaberry

2:25 p.m. – Eaglewood Estates and Navajo Hills

2:40 p.m. – Greenfield

2:45 p.m. – Applegate and Knox Mobile Home Park

2:50 p.m. – Maylene

2:55 p.m. – Cabridge Point II

3 p.m. – The View Apartments and Grande View Gardens

3:05 p.m. – Grande View Estates

3:10 p.m. – Ashford Heights

3:20 p.m. – Northeast, Hickory Hills and Shalimar

3:25 p.m. – Autumn Ridge

3:35 p.m. – Bermuda Lake and Oakwood

3:55 p.m. – Amberly Woods

4 p.m. – Peavine Mobile Home Park and Berryhill

4:15 p.m. – Lake Terrace and Southwest

4:20 p.m. – Wellington Manor

4:25 p.m. – Apache Ridge

4:35 p.m. – Weatherly, Maplewood and Shady Oak Lane

4:45 p.m. – Mission Hills and Navajo Pines

4:55 p.m. – Wynlake

5 p.m. – First Avenue and 2000 block

5:10 p.m. – Silver Creek and Stoney Meadows

5:20 p.m. – Siluria, Cedar Meadows and Park Forest

5:30 p.m. – Fox Valley

5:35 p.m. – Woodbrook Apartments

5:50 p.m. – Park Forest Village and Buck Creek Landing

6 p.m. – Meadowview, Willow Glen, Douglas Meadows and Smokey Ridge

6:10 p.m. – Park Place

6:15 p.m. – Tanglweood

6:25 p.m. – The Meadows

6:30 p.m. – Windy Oaks and Timber Ridge

6:35 p.m. – Keystone Mobile Home Park, Southeast and Iron Wood

6:45 p.m. – Stage Coach

6:50 p.m. – Kentwood and Scottsdale

7 p.m. – Dogwood Forest and Forest Hills

7:10 p.m. – Lake Forest

7:20 p.m. – Carriage Hills

7:25 p.m. – Terri Lynn Mobile Home Park

7:30 p.m. – Green Valley and The Grove

7:40 p.m. – Wisteria

7:45 p.m. – Mountain Lake