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It's not even December, but Santa has already been fired from Charleston's Hollings Cancer Center.
For each of the past two years, hospital volunteer Frank Cloyes spent one day as St. Nick, spreading good cheer and snacks to patients sitting through chemotherapy treatments. The 67-year-old James Island resident, a retired insurance executive who calls himself a "gregarious guy," paid for his own costume rental.
On Tuesday morning, a volunteer coordinator told Cloyes his services no longer were needed.