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3 So be RA I ri IE Se 2 Bien nn ATS LE CAL EA PEN SES S Se S10 SRA Sr os Sb Se? RE FE POMP BA EAN ite nein SELES Fa 16 Port Perry Star Christmas Edition. 1972 May the many blessings of Christmas fill your hearts with peace and happiness. Marten's Masonary May the Spirit of this Christmas Season The Country Store NESTLETON -- Peg and Norm Johnstone Season's Greetings A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the people of Port Perry and Prince Albert areas. a Also To The HILLCREST NURSING HOME & STAFF FRED C. MIDDLETON HILLCREST NURSING HOME May holiday 3 os Many thanks blessings 3 y for being brighten g able to your serve tree. MANCHESTER COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION PSII CRAS RAST IFAD S2 S 0A Scots Celebrate Hogmanay, Day Of First-Footing What's Hogmanay? It's the Scottish name for New Year's Eve and first foot- ing is what they call the adi that dictates Scot- Hr bospRality for the New Year celebration The first person to cross the'threshold of any house on that occasion is sup- posed to do so bringing gifts to his or her host gifts of food or coal, both tokens of warmth and friendliness. In return, the first-footer re- celves a drink. But that's not all. People used to compete vigorously for the honor of being a first-footer, and ran races from door to door. Their hosts might or might not be happy to welcome the visi- tors. If the first-footer were a woman, it meant bad luck for the year. But it was good luck if the first person across the threshold were a man, especially one known to have been born feet fore- most----still better if he hap- pened to be dark rather than fair. Why the word Hogma nay? That's a mystery still similar words occur else- where, but origins are un- certain, at best. Holly in Legend In the legend and lore of Christmas, holly has both a merry and melancholy signi- ficance. Fairies, so it is said, loved the holly. They found its leaves such a comforting shelter that even after holly was cut from the trees, they lingered about, allowing themselves to be car- ried indoors, where they pro- tected the home from evil spirits. Later, Christian believers saw the thorny leaves and bright red berries of the holly as symbols of the Crown of Thorns and the sacrifice which the Christ Child, grown to manhood, made on Calvary. 1] ¥ ~ » a FINA a ID SALE PE EA AT ITS CHRISTMAS TIME! We'd like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas. Thanks for your patronage! Old Anglican Church, Greenbank, Ontario Now Greenbank Centennial Hall To the people of Port Perry, Reach and . Scugog who supported us so well in 1971 we wish a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Prosperous'and Happy New Year : LAKE SCUGOG HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOHN who have done much to make the past year a memorable one for us, we thank you most heartily. fis BALLARD LUMBER AND STAFF "Hello" to our many friends and neighbors .