St. Paul Place security manager Jerry Merwin (pictured) didn’t have a big reaction when he got hold 
of this final Christmas tie. It was a Christmas gift from “one of my step-kids, maybe three years ago,” he recalled. “I just said, ‘Thank you.’ ” Asked what he’d say to someone who thought the Santas on this tie looked a little crazy or weird, Jerry smiled. “They are weird,” he said. “But I’ve had a lot of people tell me they really like it. I just wear ’em; I don’t think about ’em,” he said of his Christmas ties. 
Then he added: “Merry Christmas!”
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