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24 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday December 20, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com A Child's Christmas Tremendous Success for the Oakville Fire Fighters and Oakville Mazda Toy Drive In conjunction with the Santa Claus Parade and the Oakville Fire Fighters Association, Oakville Mazda was again tremendously successful with their annual Toy Drive. The Oakville Fire Fighters Association has a long-time parade tradition of holding a Toy Drive to benefit kids who may have otherwise not received gifts for the holidays. Oakville Mazda contributed as an official Toy Drop-Off location and accepted new, unwrapped toys for all ages including tweens and teens. Oakville Mazda also donated the use of a MAZDA5 to the Fire Fighters to help them collect the toys. With the help of other local businesses, Oakville Mazda suppliers, and the generous support of Oakville residents, Oakville Mazda was able to fill two MAZDA5's full of toys. "The Oakville community has shown their generosity year after year. Thank you to all who donated" says Graham MacNab, General Manager of Oakville Mazda. If you would still like to make a He was the son of god. Some people hated Jesus but that didn't stop him from teaching. Later he became a life saver. He save somebody's life by putting his hand on his chest and saying "get up boy." There are a lot of other miracles but I don't think you'll want to hear them so I'll just say Jesus is the son of God. Good Bye The End. By Ben Grima Christmas Vancouver in Collected donations are displayed in the back of a MAZDA5 toy donation, please bring a new and unwrapped toy to your local Fire Hall. For more information on Oakville Mazda, their community support, and special offers, please visit www.oakvillemazda.com. Oakville Mazda was established in 1978 and was purchased in 2006, by Mr. Jason Guttman and Mr. Graham MacNab. Oakville Mazda is a provider of New and Pre-Owned vehicles, Parts and Service. Ranked as one of the top ten Mazda Dealers in Canada for Customer Service and pricing by JD Power, Oakville Mazda's goal is to provide customers with a Positively Different dealership experience that offers great service, fantastic prices, and a relaxed environment. I would go get a real tree and decorete it and make home made ginger bread Houses. My brother and I have an annual snow ball fight. Last year James and I ran down stairs as fast as we can and made breakfast for my parents so they would get the best Christmas ever. Now back t James and me opened the biggest and went down and the snow and put up the Christmas lights. Jesus was born on the first Christmas. I woulder what it would be like Would the they have Christmas light's. I woulder if they would have snow. Christmas it is so much fun it is the Best it's fun warppin the peresent's. I was fun going to the parties. By Aaron Lewis What Does Christmas Mean to Me? Christmas means... 1. Family I have a big, big family, I have 1 sister and 2 brothers. When I was 7 I had a big Christmas party. I saw uncles, auntys, cousins and people I didn't even know I was related to. I was shy but at the same time happy to celebrate Christmas with my family or should I say big, big family. 2. Jesus A long time ago in Bethleham Jesus was born, and best of all on Christmas!!! So now people celebrate all over the world. People celebtare Christmas, or even Hanukha! 3. Giving At Christmas people give gifts. Every Christmas until I was 6 we did secret Santa. This is how you do it in Calgery... (were I am from) Step 1 Frind out how many people are doing the secret Santa Step 2- Double the numbers and buy that many gifts Step 3- You should have 2 Christmas trees, put them both up on ether side of the room. Step 4- Put half of the fits that are wrapped under the tree and the other half that are not wrapped under the other tree. Step 5- Each person should be abe to pu their name on sticky not paper and put it in a hat Step 6- Then let each person pick a name from the hat and pick that person a gift from one of the trees. Step 7- Then extange gifts and open them Step 8- Last if the person does not like their gift they can pick a different gift from the other tree. (That are not wrapped) I LOVE CHRISTMAS! By Madison Donohoe Christmas Christmas is my favourite special event. I get so excited on Christmas eve that I cant sleep. Santa comes and he leaves presents under the tree!!! I hop I get everything on my list. Im getting The Webkinz hedge hog, The little kinz humming bird and Fureal tumbes!!! I cant wait! Christmas is also about Jesus' birthday when we was born. I love Christmas. I like cristmas trees they are pretty with the star the lights. Tinsel glass iceicals and onaments. I like the lignts on the buses and tree outside there are red lights, pink, blue, green, orange yellow and white. I love snow so much you can build snow men, forts you can thew snow balls at your brothers!!! Christmas is so much FUN. I love getting presents so much!! I just love Christmas. On Christmas eve I go to the church with my family then we go home to bed but I have a hard time sleeping. Christmass Jesus, 3 wismen brought Jesus presents and we presents on Christmas too. Christmas is the best. By Kaitlynn 7:00 am my mom and dad got up and went down stairs to open presents. I would always be done first because I would open it, not even look at it and go open the next. We turned it to a channel where it shows a l og burning. One of my presents was a lego ship and I spent the whole day making it. That was my favourite Christmas. By Darren Kocken My Christmas Memories At Christmas my family and I got my omas and gramp's house to have Christmas tea. Then we go to my house and have a big snow ball fight with my family. Then we go caraling and throw snowballs at the people. Then we go to my Oma's house and have supper and gifts. We wake up in the morning an go to church and open our gifts and have breakfast at MacDonald's. Then we go to a movie. We see "the Elf" It is really funny we go to florida for Disney then we go and have a dig sown ball fight on the street. We win a video for the family and it was elf! But it borke. By Aidan K The Birth of Jesus Christ One day the angel of God came down to tell Mary that she would be having the son of god and that her husband would be Jesus. The king at that time was not happy. So he sent three of his men to see what as going on. They did but didn't want to return because he would tell them to kill Jesus. Instead they brought him Gold, frankincense and myrrh. He was born in a stable with shepherds, lambs, horses, a cow and a donkey with is parents surrounding baby Jesus was born. The King eventually found out about it and demanded to kill him by crucifision. But Jesus kept strong and He did die but Jesus was know for his miracles, and his teaching about Religion which still goes on thoroughout the world. My Favourite Christmas My favourite Christmas was last year. I went to sleep at 1:00 am and got up at 5:00 am. I first woke up my brother, then my mom, and dad, but my mom and day will always say, "Open your stockings first," and that's what we did. Around