Townsman, 1991-11, Page 4bCATR U21
Greetings
of the season
It's a strange time of year, that period between the
colourful melancholy of autumn and the gaiety of the
Christmas holiday season.
November seems to go so slowly and to have so little
purpose. It seems like we're just waiting around. The
weather is cool enough that already we hardly venture
out but without the stark beauty that winter puts on the
landscape. It's the most unbeautiful of the seasons in
western Ontario, the one time when you have to look
hard to see the beauty of our land.
But now the waiting is nearly over. December
beckons and with it the growing tempo and excitement
of the rush towards Christmas. We're busy shopping
and baking and cleaning and preparing for that most
family-oriented time of the year.
Our readers have helped provide a Christmas touch
to this issue. Readers from all corners of our coverage
area have provided favourite Christmas recipes. We
hope you'll enjoy trying them out.
You can go to a toy store and buy lots of moulded -
plastic toys from Taiwan but if you're looking for
something different, Bonnie Gropp sought out some of
the many craftspeople in the area who make their own
toys from scratch. It may give you some ideas of a
different kind of Christmas present.
Of course we're all worried about the environment
this time of the year so Sandra Orr gives some tips on a
"green" Christmas, ways you can conserve and recycle
Editor and Publisher: Keith Roulston
Staff Writer: Bonnie Gropp
Contributing Writers: Jim Fitzgerald, Sandra Orr, Dean
Robinson, Rhea Hamilton -Seeger, Jerry McDonnell,
Sheila Richards
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to put more into your Christmas with less.
For all the festivities of the season, however, it's not
going to be a happy time for many in our midst. Times
have been particularly harsh on our farming community
which still represents the biggest industry in Western
Ontario. International competition has driven prices
down to levels that mean farmers get less today in real
buying power, than they did at the height of the
Depression. Government aid, grand as it may seem to
those who hear the big numbers, amounts to only a
gesture of goodwill by the time it's split between the
hundreds of thousands of farm families across the
country. Jim Fitzgerald studies the problem and the
effect it may have on our whole way of life in a major
article.
And now for a little romance
Our next issue will include our annual section for
wedding planning but for those who have already tied
the knot, we'd like to know about your favourite
romantic spots in Western Ontario: romantic
restaurants, romantic weekend hideouts, romantic
places for a walk. We'd also like to hear stories about
how you met your husband or wife. Write us in 300
words or less to tell you story. We'II need your entry by
January 15. Those with stories published will receive a
copy of McGillicuddy's Diary.
Don't forget our special subscription promotion lasts
only until Dec. 31. Buy a subscription, including gift
subscriptions and renewals, and use the form on page
7, and your name will be entered in the draw for a
weekend for two at The Little Inn.
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2 TOWNSMAN/NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1991