A brief parade preceded extensive festivities at Telegraph Square in Carson City Saturday, a sunny day that attracted parents and kids for a visit by Santa Claus.Santa abandoned Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and sleigh for a bright red, top-down convertible. The sportster, which led the parade, was driven by a crimson-and-white clad distaff member of the Claus clan. Santa, alias Vince Mack, was driven to his destination on the square by his mother, Mrs. Claus, better known in Carson City as Doreen Mack. “I started this about four years ago,” the local designer said of the event, sounding joyful about …