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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2001-12-26, Page 9What Christmas Means To Me Family traditions make Christmas a soft, simple time Christmas for me is a warm time, a soft time, a simple time, a time for family to be together. A time to enjoy your individual family traditions. The traditions you have spent years building - building as a family. As an only child I was part of a very small family; but my father always held Christmas as a family day, we all remained home on Christmas Day. You could have anyone in and everyone was welcome, but we spent the day home together. Christmas celebrations started then, as they do now, with church service Christmas Eve - as a teenager it was important to sit on the left side of the church so you could see who received their diamond. Years later I became engaged at Christmas. Returning home from church you had special foods, one time a year foods and two presents were opened, then stockings were hung and to bed. Early Christmas day you are up and stocking presents are opened. They ate all individually wrapped - mysteries to What Christmas Means To Me start a wonderful and mysterious day. Then a special breakfast has to include peameal bacon and homemade wild black raspberry jam. The remaining presents are then opened - wearing your best sleepwear - after you're dressed in your finest, enjoy your new gifts and partake in a traditional dinner turkey, etc. Now I am still part of a very small family and the traditions I learned as a child have becomes ours as a family today. It is the reason you rush around and work to prepare for Christmas. You never know from one Christmas to the next what will happen in your family, but even if it is only for one day a year no difference is so great you cannot be a family and celebrate Christ's birthday with a family celebration. Traditions bring you together. You can even feel the warmth of family members no longer with you. To all a very merry and happy Christmas. Christmas in Seaforth 7o years ago is memory I'm lucky to have Picture this: I was seven years old. It was 1931. The video - camera and the tape recorder had not yet been invented. Sure, we had the odd old box Kodak, but not for taking pictures at night. So the only real record of Main Street on the Saturday night before Christmas 70 years ago are the pictures tucked away in the minds of those of us still around who were lucky enough to have been there. The treasure of remembering the sights and sounds of the cutters and sleighs on the snow covered street and the cheery jingle ref harness bells is very By Clare Westcott What Christmas Means To Me precious. Imagine teams of snorting, heavy horses blowing their steam -like breath into the freezing air. Some heading home after a day in town, heavy with bags of freshly -chopped grain from Bob Aberhart's mill. Shopping done, last-minute presents bought, and bodies all wrapped up cozily for the bitterly cold ride home. The inner warmth of a bit of Christmas cheer and the rattling harness and jingling bells might lull some into a quiet doze. But it didn't really matter - for the horses knew the way home. From where I stood in the `doorway of my dad's jewelry store, I could just peer over the top of the piled -up snow. The tiny Salvation Army group led by Captain John Dougall, with a horn and a bass drum and a tambourine, played and sang Christmas carols in front of Charlie Aberhart's drug store. On the corner, just over John Street was Tom Dickson's Purina feed store - a gathering place for farmers while the ladies made the See EARLY, Page 10 NEW YEAR RESOLUTION GET THE POUNDS DOWN ISISSELDOEMICLaRIOWLOkt OR START NOW AND BE IN SHAPE FOR THE HOLIDAYS CALL 519-527-2962 TWO HURON EXPOSITOR. 0001111 IS, 1001-0 NEED A LITTLE HELP AROUND THE HOUSE? Get help from the professionals In our business directory! PUBLIC NOTICE Public Road Name Changes Section 210 (111) of the Municipal Act, R.S.O. 1990 Notice is hereby given that the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of Huron East intends to pass a by-law to rename public roads which were previously named and due to 9-1-1 regulations the Council have deemed it necessary to change the names of certain streets/roads in their respective municipalities. The public road naming changes will facilitate the County -wide Municipal Addressing System which is required for the 9-1-1 Emergency Response System. The following are the roads/streets affected by the change: 1. For the Brussels Ward in the Municipality of Huron East Church Street James Street John Street Market Street Mill Street William Street Walnut Street 2. For the Grey Ward in the Municipality of Huron East I. Louisa Street (Hamlet of Cranbrook) 11. High Street (Hamlet of Walton) III. James Street (Hamlet of Ethel) IV. John Street (Hamlet of Ethel) V. King Street (Hamlet of Ethel) VI. King Street (Hamlet of Walton) VII. Main Street (Hamlet of Ethel) Vlll. Mill Street (Hamlet of Ethel) IX. Queen Street (Hamlet of Walton) 3. For the Seaforth Ward in the Municipality of Huron East 1. Elizabeth Street 11. Mill Street 4. For the Tuckersmith Ward in the Municipality of Huron East I. Albert Street (Hamlet of Egmondville) II. Centre Street (Hamlet of Egmondville) 111. Church Street (Hamlet of Brucefield) IV. Church Street (Hamlet of Egmondville) V. John Street (Hamlet of Brucefield) VI. Mill Street (Hamlet of Egmondville) VII. Queen Street (Hamlet of Egmondville) VIII. Victoria Street (Hamlet of Egmondville) McCutcheon Drive Arena Street Walnut Street Flora Street Orchard Lane Meyers Drive Workman Drive Huether Street Brussels Line Pearson Street Bateman Street Ethel Line Humphries Street Brandon Road Lamont Drive Blyth Road Daly Street Sills Street Carnochan Street Thompson Street Scott Street VanEgmond Street MacLellan Drive Doig Street Brown Street Nicholson Drive Additional information relating to the proposed renaming of public roads is available for inspection at the Municipal Office, 72 Main Street South, Seaforth. Any person may appear before Council at a public meeting on Tuesday, January 8th, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. at which time the proposed public road naming changes will be discussed. J.R. McLachlan Clerk -Administrator Municipality of Huron East 519-527-0160 1-888-868-7513 (JDECEMBER 27TH IA.114. 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