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Home Builders Course
will be held at
Clinton District Collegiate Institute
EACH WEDNESDAY NIGHT
from 7.00 to 10.00 p.m.
for a period of 10 weeks beginning
Wednesday, January 1, 1959
Registration Fee Will Be $4.00
Classes will only be held if 15 or more, register,
Those interested may use the registration form below
or write a letter giving the necessary information,
Please forward registration forms to:
E. A. FINES,
Principal, C.D.C.I.
Clinton, Ont.
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Name
Address Phone
Home Builders' Course at CDCI Night School
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Jolly good wishes
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MERRY, HEART-WARMING
CHRISTMAS°
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CLINTON
(By W. Wilt)
On Christmas Eve, when the last
gift has been wrapped, and the
last stocking filled to the top, when
the turkey is stuffed and ready
for the oven, and the lights glow
warmly in the green of the Christ-
Mag tree, sit down for a minute,
you lucky people, and think about
Christmas.
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You're probably exhausted and
irritable, after the scramble of the
last few days, when there simply
didn't appear to be enough hours
in the day to do ^ all the things
that had to be done to prepare for
the celebration of Christmas. * * 4
Somebody • else, almost 2,000
years ago, was exhausted, too. At
the end of an arduous journey, a
man was frantically seeking shel-
ter, on a black and bitter winter
night, in a miserable little town in
the Middle East, for himself and
his wife, who was about to give
birth to a baby.
* *
Before you turn out the lights
in your warm home and go' up to
your warm bed, try to imagine
what it was like: the harrassed
husband; the white-faced wife;,
their unutterable weariness and
growing dismay; and the rude sol-
ution that provided the simple and
beautiful story that never grows
old.
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And when you come down on
Christmas morning and find the
kids happily smashing their toys,
pause for a moment, •you lucky
people, and give thanks that you
are celebrating Christmas in your
own home, with those who belong
to you, in the midst of peace,
plenty and love. * *
Give a thought, however fleet-
ing, to the derelicts on this blessed
day. The lone, alcoholics who weep
sentimental but real tears, as they
line up shakily for their Christ-
mas dinner at the Mission or the
Salvation Army. The lone, lost
souls, by their thousands, in the
mental institutions. All the poor
devils of both sexes, rich or poor,
good or evil, who are ,alone and
lonely on this day. * * *
I've spent some bad Christmases
myself. There was one of drear
bleakness at an air force station
B. T, Smiley)
in. North Wales. A fog as heavy
as grease Dung- everywhere, It
WAS bitter cold.,There was no-
where to go, noting to do, but
gather in the mess and huddle
about the tiny fire. Most of the
types resorted to the bar, and
grow increasingly melancholy and
sentimental, as they dreamed aloud
of other Christmases: crisp white
ones in Canada; hot, sunlit ones
in Australia; or cosy fireplaces,
hot toddy and plum duff any the
benighted isle itself.
There was another, in a German
prison camp, when, after the lights
went out, we lit a homemade lanip
and lay in 'our bunks, looking at
the tiny flarne'and talking quietly,
.achingly, of Christmas in Ottawa
and Canberra, -in Capetown and
Aberdeen, in Dublin and Warsaw.
*
And, still another, a Christmas
of ghastly gaiety, soon after I
was married, A young wife, newly
with child, and myself newly with
a shadow on my lung, about to be
separated for what I assured her
was three months, she sensed was
six, I expected to be nine, and
turned out to be a year.
Then there was the one, when I
was a kid, during the depression.
My Dad had lost his business.
Things were grim. I was 12 or
13 and knew there was famine in
the land. But I still hoped, as
kids do, that there'd be something
special for Christmas. Anyway,
when I opened my single, nicely-
wrapped Christmas present, and
said how a new suit of long un-
kitchen, and my Dad booming
away like a bullfrog from his
derwear was just what I wanted,
my mother started to cry, I guess
it was the look on my face. * *
But I've never been alone), with-
out friends or family, without love,
on Christmas Day, so I don't re-
gret the few forlorn Christmases
I've had. They serve only to high-
light the good ones, and there have
been many of them. I remember
singing carols, five of us around
the piano, with the smell of roast-
ing turkey creeping in from the
chair in the background. ,* **
Alid when we sing the same
carols now, around the piano, and
New London School
Named For.
Bishop Townshend
On December 10 the 'Epard of
Education in London held a spec-
ial program to mark the official
opening of the Eishop Townshend
Public School in that city, It is
named in honour of the Right
Reverend W. A. ',,Townslienci, D,D.,
Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese Of Huron, and in tribute to his
long, faithful and pfficient contri-
bution to .education in Ontario,
and especially in London.
Bishop Townshend served as a
member of the Board continuously
since January 1, 1934. He has been
Chairman of the Board five times.
He served March 1945 until the
report was issued in 1950. He is
a past president of the Ontario
Public School Trustees Associa-
tion. He was selected for the Ont-
ario Secondary School Teachers
Summerhill Ladies
Helping Hospital
British Columbia
The Summerhill Ladies Club
held their December meeting at
the home of Mrs. Peter Wester-
hout with 23 members answering
roll call. A donation of $1.0 will
be given to the Children's Aid
Society.
The buying committee are to
buy flannelette to make jackets
for the hospital in Hazeltown,
B.C. It was decided to have a
card party in the hall on January
9. Each member is to invite a
couple. After a short program,
there was an exchange of Christ-
mas gifts. •
The next meeting will be at
the home of Mrs, George Wright;
the roll call will be answered by
"My Best Christmas Gift". Those
on ,the program committee are
Mrs. Chester Farquhar, Mrs. Nev-
ille Forbes, Mrs. Percy Gibbings,
and Mrs. Russell. Good. Those on
the lunch committee are Mrs. Pet-
er Westerhout, Mrs. • Bill Murch,
Mrs. Percy Gibbings, Mrs. James
Snell.
I see the two pair of brown eyes
shining heavenward and the little
faces tilted, carolling fervently, I
am content and grateful.
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We wish the very best during the corning year!
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