Clinton News-Record, 1984-12-26, Page 9This time it was Santa Claus who ate The Three Little Bears' food and not Goldilocks.
Charlie Johnson played Santa and Amanda Westbrook was Baby Bear in Mrs. Col-
dough's Kindergarten's Beary Christmas. Mandy Butler was Mother Bear and Stephen
Langendoen payed Papa Bear. ( Anne Narejko photo)
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Chriettragi Netherlands NatChr aCanada does, starts On Advent
Sunday And,, just as in Canada, people have
Christmas trees, go to ehureb, and ex-
change Christmas gifts under the tree on the
25th of December, when they celebrate the
birthday of Jesus Christ.
So, although things look just the same,
there are some differences. The Dutch do
not know the Canadian Santa Claus, nor
have they ever beard of Rudolf the red -
nosed reindeer. And the North Pole is just a
very cold place no one wants to go to, except
perhaps some weird explorers.
The Dutch have their very own Saint,
Saint Niicolaas, or fondly, $interklaas.
Sinterklaas, then, is an ancient Spanish
Saint, who loved children. And he still does.
On the night of December the fifth, he ar-
rives from Spain, by steamship, and he is
usually received by the mayor of
Amsterdam, who goes out to meet him, and
welcomes him to Holland. Sinterklaas is ac-
companied by his horse, a tall white horse,
and his little black knight, Piet, or Pieter-
man- On the night of Dec. 5th, and even dur-
ing the week before, all good Dutch children
put their shoes by the fireplace, and put out
some food for the horde. Carrots, water,
bread, and maybe even a sugar lump or two.
They sing songs of welcome. And if they are
very good, even before Dec. 5, Sinterklaas
may visit them ail\ leave a little candy
made out of marzipan or a small present, in
gratitude for the food for his horse. Because,
after Sinterklaas has arrived in Holland, he
rides on his horse which climbs- on all the
roofs, clatter, clatter, and when he has come
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ut something m ru shoes
to the top, Piet goes down the chimney and sareastWo. Lovers send presents to their
Checks on the children to see if they have sweethearts, quite anonymously
been good, and brings the food to the horse.
The time of anticipation is so hard to
bear...for on Dec. 5 Sinterklaas himself
visits all the homes in Holland where there
are children. He is a tall bishop, and just like
Santa Claus, he is dressed in red, and has a
beard, white. On his head, though, is a
bishop's mitre, and le carries a long gold
staff. Pieter is the one the children are
scared of: he has a sack on his shoulder, and
the story goes that he carries off the really
bad children back to Spain in it. He also has
a roe, or rod, made out of tree branches,
should anyone deserve a spanking. He
smiles broadly, but is his smile really kind?
Sinterklaas has a book, and in this book
the story of every child is written. If you
have been good, Sinterklaas will put you on
his lap and give you a present, but, have you
always been good? Always? And if you pro-
mise to do better, Sinterklaas may forgive
you, and give you a present anyway, but
Pieter smiles and shakes his rod and shows
his large sack. It is an anxious moment.
It is a hard night for children, but usually
it ends up with lots of presents and candies,
the best night of the year. For the adults it is
fun, also. They have decided to make a
special night of it as well. They give
presents to their family and all thier friends.
Large and small presents, and often funny
ones. The most important part is that they
have to make poems for each other.
These paeans must be funny, and often
they point out a special quality .of the
receiver, and sometimes they are even quite
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sometimes, and then the fun is in guessi!g.
Every present has its own poem. The even-
ing is spent amongst much laughter, and
people eat special things: spicy cookies
(pepernoten), almond breads (amandelspi-
js), and you may even getp chocolate letter
with the first initial of you name. How
Sinterklaas does it? Visiting every house,
scaling roof after roof listening at every
chimney? No one really knows. But because
he loves children sb much, he somehow
manages...he is truly miraculous, that
Sinterklaas!
Sinterklaas kapoentje
Gooi wat in mijn schoentje
Gooi wat in mijn laarsje
Dank u, Sinterklaasje! -
(Dear, sweet Sinterklaas
Put somettiing in my shoe
Put something in any boot
Thank you, sweet little Sinterklaas! )
Wish he came to Canada, too!
Last meeting
approves donations
By Blanche Deeves
MIDDLETON - The last meeting of the
A.C.W. of St. James', Middleton for 1984 was
held at the home of Blanche Deeves.
Everyone including the husbands enjoyed a
potluck dinner.
Following dinner- the ladies held their
meeting with Lois Wise in charge. Lois read
a poem and welcomed everyone and thank-
ed Blanche for opening her home. The Wor-
ship Service was taken from the Living
Message.
Vera Miller read the minutes of the last
meeting which were approved as read.
Motions made to give $25 to the Horne
Bound and to CNIB. Lois Wise gave the
treasurer's report. Delores Dutot reported
she sent another bale. Blanche Deeves gave
the card report and reported sending roses
to Mrs. Middleton on her birthday.
Audrey Middleton gave a report on the
new agenda for the up coming year which
was accepted.
Delores Dutot read a letter from Bishop
Allen of the Diocese of Keewatin and to
thank the ladies for the bales sent. A letter
was received from the foster child and her
report card. A. special box was opened with
the total of $57.00 inside, this will continue
next year. The new officers for the coming
year are Co -Ordinator, Audrey Middleton;
Group Leaders, , Lynda Steenstra, Carol
Wammes, Estelle Wise; Secretary, Vera
Miller; Press Reporter, Blanche Deeves;
Treasurer, Lois Wise; Social Services, Blan-
che Deeves; Supply, Delores Dutot; Foster
Child, Audrey Middleton; Resource Person,
Hilda Bell; Prayer Partner, Marion Smith,
Chancel Wbrk, Estelle Wise and Audrey
Middleton.
There are now three groups with six ladies
in each group.
People report
Congratulations to the Rector's wife,
Hilda Bell for honourable mention in the
Christmas issue of Focus.
Ladies please save your stamps from your
-Christmas card envelopes and put'.in the box
in the entrance to the church. '
December 30th at 5:30 p.m. Evensong at
Trinity in Bayfield for both parishes will be
held.
•- Your correspondent would like to say
thank you to everyone for helping to keep
Middleton News in the paper. I would like to
wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a
Happy New year to all the readers of The
Clinton News Record.
Colonihian festivities
By Aubrey Bell
It's about 25 years ago now, so. perhaps
customs have changed but it seems doubt-
ful. I had been for a goodly number of years
working in the West Indies for the Royal
Bank, but was then rather surprisingly
transferred to Colombia, where your coffee
comes from (North American coffee just
doesn't seem to have the 'body' that it does
on the spot where it is grown): This was ear-
ly October, so the rush for Christmas shopp-
ing then began; not in department stores,
,scarce, but from street vendors or small
shops where you could get excellent jewelry
and leather goods. It was amusing to see
how foreign customs were sneaking in, for
just about then a load of Christmas trees
and of apples arrived for the season. The ap-
ples were woody, but nostalgic, and the
trees smelled just right. Even the locals
were buying.
The big surprise came on Christmas Eve
as we were gathering in the Episcopal
church for our own candlelit Midnight Mass
(the buildings were jointly owned by two ex-
patriate congregations, PECUSA and the
Union Church which was a Conglomerate of
all other Protestant bodies.) As we mingled
in the central courtyard before going into -
church suddenly the sky was lit by the light
of large tissue paper balloons sailing off into.
the dark, each multi -coloured and brilliant
from the flames of a small wad of -oil-soaked
i;ags hanging below.Then, BANG, sky-
rocket after sky -rocket exploded in the
overhead sky;. fiery trails mounting, and
thunderous explosions. This kept up 'til the
stroke of midnight when mass began in all
churches. All evening too the pleasant sound
of tiples (12 string cousins of the guitar) and
of voices raised in the singing of villancicos
had ushered in the Buen Navidad. As our
own slightly earlier service progressed it
was often punctuated by the thud of an ex-
pired rocket landing on the tiles overhead.
Later discovery showed that the annual
making of fireworks for Christmas was a
cottage industry, carried out in most of the
barrios surrounding. Bogota. About two
weeks before Christmas each family took up
its allotted spot in one of the plazas in the
centre of town, and the Firework Market got
underway. One year, to the consternation of
everbody there was an almighty WHOOSH
and a mushroom cloud formed over our
.heads. Somebody had dropped a match and
everything had gone off in about a minute's
time. No explosions and no injuries, just this
long Whoosh. As the gunpowder was indeed
made from scratch it could indeed be
dangerous to the maker, but there seemed.
to be few accidents.
Back in Canada Christmas seemed tame
for years after. I still miss it all.
May I wish a Feliz Navidad to you all and
a Buen Ano Nuevo.