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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1950
Page
22
Orono Continuation School students are busy making decorations for their annual dance. The event has built a strong reputation as possibly the year's most outstanding social affair.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union held its December meeting at Mrs Robi Allin's home. Miss Sherwin led devotional themes centered on the star as Christmas symbol with carols, prayers, and readings. Eighteen members and two visitors attended, with reports on peace, temperance papers, and charitable cards.
Christmas trees pose a high fire risk during the season with hundreds of blazes nationwide. Experts warn lighting wiring, moisture in the tree, and unsafe decorations as key factors. Keep trees watered, unplug lights when away, avoid hollow candles, and discard the tree by New Year’s to reduce hazard.
The passage humorously argues for a literal naming of Donald Duck as Donald Drake. It also explains why skating works on ice by the weight of a skater melting a thin water film that refreezes. It notes football fields as grid irons and claims a baseball’s center is a cork marble aged 15 years.
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