Page 24, Whitby Fro. Press, Wednesday, May 3.,1M9 By Gavin Crisp Theres a home in Brooklin that's filled with treasureo of a fuzzy, cuddly variety. Jan Hackett has, along with husband Norm, acqred many teddybara duringtheir travelo including trips to Germany anci Hawaii -- wherever they *ran into new ones to add to her collection. 1 When we moved to Brooklin (10 years ago), I only had about three or four bears bMu then we found that it starteâ to explode. 1"-My husband is a very kind and generous person and he likes to give me things. He would go to flea markets and go to different places on his own and would always like to bring me sorne- thing back, and that s really how it started. 'Mhen when we started to get quite interested in them and look at the different kinds of them that were around, it got to be fun to find out somethinig different about what you get." Since then, the Hackett home has become adorned from base- ment to ceiling with teddy bears -- 150 to be exact. Although certain rare bears, can only be found with a price tag in the hundreds of dolas, each one can only be described as being aspecial love ini Jan's life. uIts hard to tell (my favourite). It's like asldng a mother which kid is her favourite -- they are al quite special. «Most of them were bought by my husband who gave them to me so I figure they were bought with love and given with love and so that makes them al special." Needless to say, that's why none are ever sold. JAN HACKETT of Brooklin poses with just part of the large collected over the years. The more than 150 bears make their group of bears she husband Norm -- "the buyer"' -- have home in the Hackett's living room. Photo by Mark Reesor, Whltby Free Press 1 KRIïu:HL, TAKEN WITH TEDDIES Gift-giving by husband 'explodes 'into hobby 1-9 vi ' - LRieflectio