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ART CLASS
THE GRUNX THAT STOLE
The Winch- s.3'Leues.
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the mamas display outaidie the It w,as a nice day in Miastown
Vary, did an excellent job of when Johnny Mose woke up at take all the Below. � pierce Is 9111 isaw, they
The
�aY� an ordinary scene 7:30 a.m. Today vAs the day Now it was the 30 a d toe wore also hrb■i,in,aeovraueb
Howick'Grapevine a hwue. blare (xlriatmas and Johnny stud[ was ready to coke aoRhtrmadoItvaryovum bear people ware yr and to ali the .now. It was arristaft Thete was a faanil
y that
It hes a Christmas ties with are town mall whore there was a Eve at about 7:N ice tubus arvafslg. just moved to the outlikic hadof
THE SNOW nay Presents under it. A Bre- flood variety of presents. Even Now mere is sArsetWl■ sped in Iret'dwidu. They rs�ete Jen# and
These are some stories done by place is in the corner. There are though it was a nice day Johnny ads story, tlrat !s, that cues pereson Fwdwa - TbWald and their two
Mr. Park's Grade 2 class. One day I had a snow ball llgbt many different ways to say badn't looked out the windows of knew what the slunk was gPer to children. Dolle and and
their
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dirona Rae with Angela and Dad and when
we came is it was bed time and I -wry Chruitmas from Spain, the house. When Johnny did look do. He know because he wag aThey
HOW SANTA Poland and alrnogt anywhere you Out the 1►todow be was terrified. hiker and want up the lime bill this wake so & &* ��
� � _- NEEDED HELP went to bed. The and. can think of. There was rw now! The quite a we, and would be their white
night Y beard the slunk's
My mother said you have to go by Andrew' Harfoot MERRY CHRISTMAS! before be had gone to Millers Hill plans• When he of bank to Every otl� Christ .
—Laurie Schneider went skiug and colas he house he tad hist mos they had bad bean �a pees
w bed so I bed
my teeth and I It is the and of Dece m- f+rdly, and the Cbristmas oro you can WWW_
= _ - went to bed Christmas Eve. I O°m'log was mistaken a Ma 'may were go excited♦
tried to stay awake but I full a went �• The her and still there's no avow. Ma3"a was angry. stand wb
S skiing on snow. The Mayor went ouQdde and Little y
asleep and at one o'clock in the Maybe some crime stole it. o -o -o "Mom, Mom, come her � � church bell did they know what was
That was the reason Mrs. Did You know ... s.. a me to Soon re going to happen!
u- • _-��•�., mo I heard a tapping sound. quick. Johnny Yelled. floe People of floe little torero were
Tap! Tap! Tap! and I looked out Barley's Grade four's had arises The largest car [easy is the S "I know, Johne I've crowded around-
- the window. I saw Santa Claus. they wrote these stories so reed foot long `Norland' Maya' Ali o[ a auddest a white
them and see which >s Iflcei the North See out ofHullt Eng_e h8 Jonce ohnny,
. I bear from this moa appeared. It was rolling He had trouble and his reindeer Y to this and I know slunk is going to take all �w r .i hallo and
were injured but Rudolph was the happen • land. It accommodates up to 5,20 its the work of the trunk," said nue snow at midNght _
only one alright. I said, you can --Shirley Boonstra can at one time. Mother. todgbt, and dam up to a� ate ,
borrow our ought to do •aomedit about who passed it an up! Then the big
pigs and it',was the Both Johnny and Mother knew it!" snowball
happiest Christmas I ever had. the only solution to to problem Right away all the people disappeared. This
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May, logs and blessings of by Derek Kaufman Vs, Mush ` 04 4 Meary Xmas was to send Grunk ten bags of atm* d to help to make a not IC procedure went an and on until
this Holy Christmas season be I HELPED SANTA �� MONO^ sugar. Mother had already begun keEp the slunk out. there � � mow an the
youa. I wish I could stay up. I went to u M A S ! E ! T s G C M o s to pack to go to the mall to buy I'1�1Y it was midnight and no � �ng was
R ten sugar bags before Johnny one was asleep because they this boa ane PNIM beard or saw
bed. All of a sudden I heard TAP, could sea his f were all waiting pPeninR. These white
Murray and Pat Gaunt
TAP. I ran to my window. I saw 6 R E a T r oy G to C M ! E R E L ttatis ul the news that twice• thi8 to am ff to figures worked ,
St. Nicholas. k! told l g his rob. A L r R A v R A O s A A M s tl+ ak.Christm showed Santa Claus it even slunky got through.slunk came. He of an were called SLUNKNKS.
Stephen and Stephanie laic. "I'm sick! "I'll go, I said. 4s taking apart g
.. I went in his sleigh. The end. E ! V D R 2 t t P It 1 ft s T fl . M3. ♦ Corals the Christmas float. When tangled up in the net they had Finally it was their
c lg. ne
w by Tracey Mino c eor Mother came home from the mall dropped on him. y o tsrtasice �dc-
t C t 0 E It 6 t M K S N e - L .'g s• t*C or 4tion s she said to Johnny, "The Grunk All to People crowded around Peothng to see snow, but what
v. Georry Gets sent a letter saying you have to him. He said be was sfar am9 saw was green grata!
ENL G O 1 1 1/ T D i N 4 9•Grso♦in9 deliver the sugar," so Johnny what he had dale and that be Everyone was sad. The town
started off that ni wouldn't do it People got together at the 6a11
' N t L 4. -Z 0 0 t' e b M v I. Moll night. When again.
R i t CL Joy Johnny arrived at Grunt's house From that day on the people of and had a • They decided
l P O A s R R 11 a A N ! A 10 io• Love a knocked at the door. The the little town never had any see da� would singing and
I I.M4 r Grunk answered but he didn't see more trouble with the slunk and Y snow fell. tN course
IL M• T L! C A A L i M L a C an always Reties family agreed to this,
12. Mer�yy Yedy because he was so big Ys had a white Christmas. anything to bel snow! �
R . F Ir' L Q L ! ' C T A T T M f 13•rlietlZ4 10 and Johnny was so small. The by Lisa S. got to
and started � all
- 114: Noel Grunk stood waiting for some -
It SO L I A O O 1 . R 1 A C :. Rar/deer body to say something. Instead ofTHE SLUNK THAT STOLE ss Ali of a sudden the scow came
0 0 T A 4 t T. Y d M 1 0 A 'V 11.•54n�a Clcus saying anything Johnny walked THE WHITE CHRISTMAS They than beard a voice, `I
A VI- S1wp right in-between between his feet. Johnny It was Dec. 10, everyone in the, love that sing*,'
M M E v ! M 0 t W c3 T R N 4 j it -Star started his adventure. First he village of Fordwich was hum- white figure appy They
started off b setting down nine ming with excitement. Almost knew who it was, the. SLUNK!
A Q E M A 1' 1 V 1 T It p j 4, ! p, Tre s bags of sugar beside the door. He everybody had their Christmas From thea on they he . SL
M D A! M E R It E M A It R T% ventured into a room filled with trees up, and the odd present before h Christmas they
to make am
ng
a O' all lands of computers and snow! underneath them. the slunk wouldn't take away the
Johnny climbed upon the coni- People just crowded the shop- snow.
puters and started wandering
among some buttons. Suddenly
You M^iour chimes! Thanks fl•
he came
upon
abut
ton
called. the
snow -shaker. Johnny pushed it. A
your support and warm friendship �� �: }j ` � whirring sound started andGrunk came in and
Cklatinas Clree*W •�• looking started
to see what was t.:,. re�''/^?
from the Staff and Mangement of the wrong. Johnny quickly stuck his �� ' �
O hand in his pocket and took out J f
MANOR HOTEL. 1144n^a Wri91�+ some Pasti-Tac and stuck it over .
the button. When the Grunk put •
THE YEAR THERE WAS his hand on the button he couldn't e • c
pull it off. Johnny, after quite a
NO SNOW ON CHRISTMAS climb, got into the snowbin and
Early on Dec. 15 the year i996, started digging down in the snow.
I went to visit the shopping
1 to lou some mall
All of a sudden Johnny felt as
Y presents for my ht I w
That night light as a snowflake. He suddenly
. gent to bed
„ realized he was a snowflake.
early so I could go to the sholS�ig
plaza to get stuff cheaper. ung through the air he landed
Special Out in the cold snowy night,"on Millers Hill and went sliding
'an down it on his stomach and he ar-
°ugly creepy looking sloop was '
rived at his house in timefor a
fuming about how he could wreck �*
Christmas for the girls and boys, white, white Christmas.
j Now it'was the 20th and the sloop by Mike K. ~
had thought up a "terrible" idea, 9r0our "cool" friends
he was going to take all the snow:. THA �,� . THAT CHAISTS LE and neighbors 7ve offer our
so their Christmas would be AS /
green but HOW? he yelled. It was Dec. 21st, 1953, and all greeting for a merry -
The next day he went to see the the children were having a joyous season and express our "warm" •'
snow maker. He was a _terrible time hanging up wreaths and_
man and so was his brother the decorating Christmas trees and gratitude for the patronage shown us.
heat maker. They fought over waiting for Santa to come and
Pieces of land either to make- .then receive their gifts: But of Staff and Management
tem "cold" or "hot". He wanted course they didn't know away on
■ ■ the heat maker to melt the snow. the other side of town on the little at
SU Finally on the 23rd the snow hill was a cruel and mean slunk.
ri 'O was starting to melt. On the 24th The slunk had along nose with FROSTY
it was all gone. Children were a suction cup about three feet (WEEN
crying all but one boy who knew long and boy, was it long!
�� Santa so he called him on the * The slunk just loved to play in
inues morning of Christmas and told the snow so much that he would
■ ■$13 him what happened. Santa went try to steal as much as he could.
to the heat maker to tell him to The slunk knew that the children
U.S. or overseas ... *23.75 make the sun shine on the village, of the little town didn't like a • )
Yes only $13.75 will buy a year long Christmas giftl A cheery Christmas card will and he did. green Christmas as much as a O f
The snowmaker was easy to white Christmas.
go out to announce your gift at Christmas time. This offer.applies only on Gift convince. The sloop was angry
as so mean' Md'
Subscriptions to persons outsida,your own household - either as new subscriptions — but the snow was already ack cruel thaThe t hewthought he would s
or renewals of previous gift subscriptions. = and the children were having fun just suck up all the snow.
Price in effect until December 21 1 but the sloop wasn't. He was still It was to 22nd now and the
mad at. Santa. So if you ever see little children were writing their
/ _ no snow on Christmas you know Christmas lists and mailing them
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"ERE IS A PICTURE done by Larry Wilson In Mrs.
Hooffman's grade 2 and 3 class. It looks as if he, Ilkas clowns
quite a bit. Anyhow he shows the fine, makings of an artist.
Greetings from
Staff and Managemont at
TEESWATER CONCRE�'E
"We dry hard"