The Citizen, 2007-12-20, Page 14Holidays before the Christmas
holidays was the idea a few locals
had.
Returning from a trip to Puerta
Viarta, Mexico is Ed McClure. He
reports that his resort was beautiful,
the food was great, the weather was
perfect. He did plenty of four-
wheeling and reports a great time.
A couple of Walton-area men also
have returned from a week’s
vacation to Puerta Plata, Dominican
Republic. Away for a good time
were Gary McNichol and Bruno
Braecker. They enjoyed their week’s
getaway with great food, weather
and the resort was wonderful.
A group of young people,
including Andy Pethick, also
returned from a week’s vacation at
Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic,
the week after Gary and Bruno.
They had a blast was their
description of the trip.
They rented dirt bikes and
travelled over 200 kms. exploring
the area around Puerta Plata.
Unfortunately, the news of an
approaching hurricane almost
dampened their vacation but it
changed course and a day of tropical
rain storm was all they received.
They had a great time.
All these vacationers were headed
to warmer climates and I guess the
same can be said for Ray McClure.
He’s arrived from Forrestburg,
Alberta which is northeast of
Edmonton where the temperatures
have been substantially lower than
here in southwestern Ontario. Ray is
here to spend a couple of weeks
catching up with family and
celebrating Christmas.
The McClure Christmas, usually
held at Kinburn Hall, was cancelled
due to weather Sunday.
Taking a day trip were Sherry
McCall and Cindy Holland. They
were off to Toronto to attend a
taping of the City Line TV show.
According to the folks watching,
Sherry was a lucky one to be having
a makeover hairstyling.
At the end of the show, a shorter
styled Sherry was presented and
then she tried to show the hosts how
to dance. That was interesting to be
sure.
I haven’t seen the new “do” on
Sherry but now you will know where
she had it done.
Another day trip to Toronto was
experienced by Evelyn Blake andCarolyn Sommerville. They took abus trip to the Royal AlexandraTheatre to see Dirty Dancing.Evelyn agreed that the show asfantastic. The music, the dancing,the way the scenes and stagechanged, all was great.Also on the bus were BonnieGlanville and her sisters. They also
enjoyed the show.
Ken Dalton reports that the week
of deer hunting was too much – too
much snow that was. The gang
managed to get 12 deer after a lot of
tough slugging through the snow.
Oh well, there’s always next year!Pat Dalton hosted her annualladies take a break afternoon lastweek. Many of the neighbours andfriends attended to enjoy coffee, hotcider and Christmas goodies alongwith an afternoon of relaxing andchatting. What a nice Christmas ideato share time with friends.Congratulations to Kevin and
Heather Dunbar on the birth of a
daughter last week. Destiny Raine
arrived to the delight of big brother
Dawson. This makes the count even
for Grandpa and Grandma,, Jim and
Evelyn Blake with two grandsons
and two granddaughters. Great-grandparents, George and MarieBlake are excited of course.The barn on Nelson Ryan’s farm isbeing taken down. Bit by bit it isbeing dismantled.Celebrating Christmas at theWalton Hall on Saturday was theHeibein family. They enjoyedChristmas dinner and a nice time
visiting with their families.
The Thamer Christmas was to be
held on Sunday at Walton Hall but
again due to weather it was
cancelled.
There were many people out
enjoying concerts on the weekend,
in Brussels and in London.The Scott Woods Concert atMelville Presbyterian Church hadover 300 in attendance. Howard andAudrey Hackwell report that it wasfantastic. The music, thestepdancing and everything was justgreat.Travelling a little farther toLondon to the Keith Urban concert
at the JLC were numerous folks
from the area. Keith and Gloria
Wilbee and Pat and Don Dalton
were there as well as Marlene,Anita,
Sara and Heather Little who saw
Mike and Nicole Noble there.
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A child is born
The Christmas Story, a cherished one, provided the
framework for Grey Central Public School’s production of
The Christmas Guest earlier this week at their Christmas
concert. The play started there, but soon was brought into
the present day and instead of an innkeeper, there was a
shopkeeper who was at the door. From left: Nikki Van
Brugge and Michael Gulutzen. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
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