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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1968
Page
16
A nostalgic note proclaims a white Christmas this year in Ontario, recalling the last green Christmas in 1954. It imagines snow for snowmen and skiing, and the charm of snowfall viewed from a warm room as a falling flakes path.
Friday night's semi formal drew a decent band but poor attendance. It marked the first joint effort between the G A A and the student council.
A festive verse spells Christmas with each letter describing elements of the season. Andrea Broostad C presents a playful acrostic praising Christ, holly, reverence, icicles, star, trees, mistletoe, gifts, and Santa, creating a cheerful holiday vignette.
Christmas stays the same traditional pattern with decorations, feasts, gifts, family gatherings, church rituals, and New Year celebrations. The piece humorously notes repeated rituals, social gatherings, and cyclical holiday fatigue, concluding that this sameness defines Christmas.
Deadline for cashing vouchers from the Santa Rama draws is the end of the month. Get shopping, you lucky winners. Churches with Advent wreaths had the final candle lit last Sunday. Please let us know the names of your Christmas visitors or where you have been for the holidays. These personal items are what make a weekly different from a daily paper.
A reflective piece tracing a child’s evolving Christmas memories from magic and joy to aging perspectives. Vivid scenes of trees, elves, stockings, church bells, and carols contrast with the loss ofchildlike wonder and the ache of grown up sight. The narrator notes how Christmas grows colder and harder to parse as the child becomes older.
Balimafad 4H Homemaking girls held their eighth meeting as a Christmas party on Saturday December 14 inviting a friend each. Bingo and charades with prizes, dancing, and recognition for Irene Keir who earned 22 clubs and county honors. gifts donated by Ballinafad W I with presentation by Mrs Jesse McEnery.
Sixteen A D H S classes vied in a room decorating contest with candles, streamers, and a central lighted tree. The 12A room won for total project with a decorative door, while 10A earned second for an authentic stable scene. 11A and 12B received honorable mention.
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