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Make a new friend
• Loneliness is perhaps the most difficult hardship
to cope with at Christmas time. To be alone at -
Christmas, which is such, a family time, is • a very •
depressing experience.
Make someone happier this Christmas and make a
• new friend while you do it. Through the co-operation.
•4 the Lucknow Kinette Club and Pinecrest Manor
Nursing Home a "make a friend" program •is
offering everyone in thii community the opportunity
to give something of themselves this Christmas. The
Kinettes are asking people in the community to
• purchase a small gift and to bring the gift and visit
• with the person 'the gift is given to, instead ofjust
sending it to the ',Nursing Home for a resident.
Through Kinette Jan Langlois who will co-ordin-
• ate the program, each resident will be matched with
a friend who Will bring the gift and visit with the
• residents before Christmas.
The Kinettes are asking that children be involved
•• in the' program but that an adult accompany the
•• child when he/she makes their visit to the nursing
Some of the residents have no family living in the
area and they rarely receive visits. In our mobile
society, many children do not have grandparents
living in this community and they are missing the
opportunity to know and love an elderly person, that
special relationship that develops between a child
• and a grandparent. The "make a friend" program
offers the opportunity to relieve the loneliness of
Pinecrest residents at Christmas and the chance for
people of this community to give of themselves in a
• special way. •
It is Jan's aim to have a visit arranged • for
everyone of, the 60 Pinecrest residents before
Christmas. It isa chance to observe the spirit of -
Christmas in a special way, in a time when the magic
of Christmas is lost inl the commercial hustle and
To arrange your visit with a Pinecrest resident,
• phone Jan Langlois 395-5224. The gift you receive
from this special act of giving will warm your 'heart
• for the whole year to come. •
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"Merry Christmas Mr. Snowman -7..
Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Bell's classes presented "Merry School Christmas concert December 7. Clockwise from the
Christmas Mr. Snowman" at the Lucletem,Central Public upper left are The Bears, from the left,•' Peter Neahle,
. • 'Tagan Crimmings, Dale Hutchison Kenny Gordon, Chad
• Stanley and Pat Broome; The Snowflakes, from, the left,
• Lisa Neabel, Cathy Conley, Angela Jardine, Amy Falconer
[behind] and Heather Askew. Jack -lit -the -box, freni the
left, Michael Johnston, : Anidly Fano* • and •Mark
McDougall; Santa, Adrian Helm, Mrs. Claus, Jennifer
Porter and elves, left, Eric Furness "and Robbie Furness,
•• right. ' • • •• . •. [Photos by Sharon Dietz]
• It was July before the plans for the
• marriage between Teddy Murdoch and
Lucy Lockhart were finalized, but the delay
. was justified; it was the finest wedding the
people of Redtrees had ever seen!
• The bride wore a white silk wedding
gown obtained by Kathleen Jamieson from
one of the most fashionable ladies' shops in
Toronto. Although the veil too was attrac-
tive, ,the women of the community
• painstakingly embroidered the hem with a
facimile of little red roseand sprigs of
purple heather; it was said to be unlucky
not to contribute something to the bride's
attire.
•Kathleen had taken a special interest
and delight in the wedding preparations,
• and seemed determined to add a little Irish
folklore to the occasion. She insisted that
for a long and happy life, the bride should
wear "something old, something new,
• something borrowed and something blue".
"Something old" was a lace crocheted
handkerchief which had once belonged td
Doctor Cameron's mother. The gown of
course, was new, and a pair of white gloves
• were/ borrowed from the minister's wife:
• "Something blue" •was not •easy to
visualize. Everybody agreed that 'no other
colour should be attached to the white
• wedding gown. And yet the answer to their
dilemma was right before their eyes in the
general store - a piece of blue ribbon to tie •
the golden locks of ,the bride's hair.
• The wedding took place on a Saturday,
afternoon and the church was filled to
overflowing. Whilst Kathleen played a
selection of appropriate organ music,
Teddy Murdoch stood nervously before the
minister, awaiting the arrival of his bride.
By his side was the best ,man - • Ewan
Brodie. The congregation kept turning
their heads towards the church door in
excited anticipation of Lucy's appearance.
Lucy •Lockhart was transported to the
church in a bUggy, gaily decorated for the
occasion. A variety of coloured paper had,
been wrapped around the spokes of the
REDTREES
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by Don Campbell •
• wheels, and streams of the same material
floated from the back of the carriage. The
horse was deeked out in ribbons, the
• harness brass burnished to shine like gold,'
• and a loop of sleigh bells completed the
•adornments'. The merry jingling of the
• latter announced the arrival of the bride, to
those waiting patiently in the church.
To the strains of the wedding march,
Lucy paced slowly down the aisle on the
arm of Ian Jamieson. Her approach was
accompanied by sighs of "oos" and "ahs"
from the onlookers; for she was indeed
• most radiant and beautiful to behold.
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here
• today to•join this man and this .woman in -
• holymatrimony," the Reverend Duncars,
• MacLeod said, his voice boonrting over the
• • heads of the congregation. He was all
smiles and obviously as intrigued by the
cereinony as any other member of hisflock:
• The voice of •Teddy Murdoch was very'
subdued and only these in the front row
'heard him reply to the minister. But Lucy's
voice was lightand clear. , She sounded
really joyful when she repeated the minist'
er's words: "For richer • for poorer, •'In
sickness and in Ivialth,, 'till death do us
part." There was hardly another sound hi
the church eXcept for Mrs. Mudoch's sobs.
• she intended everybody to know how much
she grieved because she was losing "her,
Teddy".
• When the happy couple went into the
vestry to sign the marriage register, most
of the people left their seats and formed
two lines outside the chUrCh. Mactrimmon
remained inside, and as the newlyweds
emerged from the vestry, he began piping
the ancient marriage pibroch of Clan
MacLeod.
• There were shouts of glee when Teddy
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