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Page 14, Whity Free Press, Wednesday, Doember 22, 1993 MEGAN, LAUIRA AND ~ -~ ___SANTA THE ToyS' CHRL91MAS ()ne night after the storekepper had locked up and gone home, alI the teys started te talk about someone coming and buying them for Christmas. Then one of the toys said "Tou are net going home with enyone. There is only ene more day left before Christmas. A little girl looked in and savi a teddy bear with buttons for eyes and a red and green jacket on. She turned and shovied ber the teddy bear and said I like him the beat" I have got alI the gifle under the tree already." They walked away. When she vioke up she savi a box. She opened it up and in the box vins the beur. She man up the stairs and ber mom and dad said "Merry Christmas!" SraParise Grade 5 R.A. Ilutchison Public School On Christmas there is fun. Happy Holidays. On the firet day of Christmas I got a candy Lovy food Yule loge for dessert. Night time Santa comes I love Christmas Great times Happy Janukkah! The star of Bethlehem shon many years ago. Vivi Kotila CoL J.E. Farewell Publie Sehool It vies December the 24 and it vies snowing. Laura and Megen were very excited. There mom, Ann, vies going te take them te the maIl te see Santa. Laura and Megan were in the itchen drinkIng a hot choclate. Whifle they viere drinking they were writing a Christmas list. Laura p ut down a stuffed bunny and Megan put devin a stuffed doil. They coulden't vait until Christmes. They viere countingdewn the days on the calendar. Ueye lied "Mom when are vie going?" 'We are leaving right novi." Megan and Laura put on there shoeseand coat and they viere off. As soonas they got tethe mal they savi Santa. Thefr mom Ann, said "Go get in lime." Ill be i this store ever here. Laura and Megan said "Okay." They got in the lime. They viaited. Finally it vies their turn. -They jumped on hie knee and gave Senta the list. But Santas elf vies there te, and by accident spilled magie dust on them. When the camera flashed they viere at the North Pole. They viere happy but scared. The elf viho spilled the dust said, "Would you like a tuteur?" Yes please. WVhile they viere walkIng they savi candyhouse and the work shop. The elf said It is time for yoen guys te go back. "The elf sprinkled dust on them, and vihen they opend there - Yes! They viere lying in bed. Mean with ber doil and Laura with her bunny. Sheri Sullivan Grade-5 R.A. Hutchison Publie School Church bell chime The happy time. The snovi flakes falling, The people calling. The belle are ringing. While vie are singing. Thates what I like Christmas! about Rachel Bezener Grade 3 West Lynde Public Sehool re COMM(JMITY VIDEO SUPERSTORE ON VID EOCASSETTE Dear Santa, My naine is Ian P. I arn 8 years oll.I don't think yen cen fit i our chùimney. I hope you enjoy our milk and cookies. We will dust our chimney beforo yen corne. I would like a GI Joe Headqua#ers and a Jurassie Park compound and ail the dinosaure Thank yen Sente. Kathleen Rowe Publi e;x- Dear Sata 1 hope you don't get sick. I hope the elves are okay, eeecaiy Ebony. I hope Mrm Clai feeling fine. Ive been good ail this year. I passed grade 2. 1 know how te write nevi and N'e got lots of friends at echool. Brin Boshart, age8 Kathleen Rowço Publicecho PS. Thanke a lot for the presents lest year. Dear Santa, I would like Rescue 911, outlawi, H.-Jacker, 6x6, It from the Pit, Popin Popcorn, Donut Disaster,Shakermeaker, Super Netball, 3-mn-i tournament table, Grovi te Pro, Super Turbo, Panther 2. Yoeir friond Nicholas Holmes Whitb3' ITHE COUNTY TOWN Singers gave two week at Ail Saints'Anglican Church.I very weil attended Christmas concerts Iast Photo by Mark Reesor, Whltby Fre Press At the JVcILaugh.&lin Scugog artist pit aaIse An exhibition of paintings by artist Michael Reeves will be on vievi at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery from Jan. 6 te March 6. In the catalogue vihich accompanies the exhibition, gallery directer Joan Murray says: "He is a painter viho leaps in head-first te paint vihat possesses him, an exuberant paradise, partly of his imagination, amicably inhabited by ducks, deer, rabbits and bears, knights, pioneere, even boating parties. "What unites his vork is fantasy, hie willingness te juggle subject and landscape to produce a sensuously ripe, paeked, pictorial effect. Reeves' paintings remind us that a relationship to nature ie stili a dominant part of our culture in Canada." Now a resident of Port Perrîy, Reeves emigrated to Canada in 1979. Hie was born in England and trained in the late 1950s at Corsham Court in Bath, the Brighton College of Art followed by studies in Rome. Hie influences include teachers such as William Scott and Howard Hodgin. Reeves worked in the art and antique business in London, Toronto and New York with J. Garvin Mecking. Until 1992, he dealt in antiques on Queen Street East, Toronto. The public is invited te meet the artist at an opening reception te, be held Jan. 20, 7 te, 9 p.m. The exhibition will be opened by the Mayor of Scugog Township, Howiard Ha]]. HISTORICAL FEATURE in-the Whitby Free Press l. .Who established Groveside Cemetery and what was its previaus use? 2. Who provided the site of St. John's Anglican Church at Port Whitby? 3.What Whitby homes have had replicas of their i 9th Century porches buili in the 1 900s, many years after the original porches were torn down? 4.Where is there a block with three houses built for the same family in the i 9th century? Answers on Page 31 Thîs ieature provided by is<. J -1 l"Ial pa4wx PR Il m tit à M MT% RF %1-11% fi)