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ne - 3 "il 38 A be RF SECSS TRE SAS AE - By John Gast N Christmas, 1975, was packed by No. 13. It came in a 3x3x2 brown cardboard box. It rattled, .and it smelled like a half-assembled plastic model airplane. |, always the traditionalist, sentimentalist and romantic, objected. But my wife brought it in anyway, 'threw it on. the recreation roo chesterfield and ordered me to open it. So | slipped the knife under the restraining tape and pulled. SPRONG!!! In a split second, like a green jack-in-the- box, scores of green bottle brushes bounced out of the box, followed by two green broomsticks, which clattered onto the recreation room floor. Clutching one of the two broomsticks now, | glared at my wife. She was always a sucker for Fuller Brush, but in this order, there was enough to clean 150 bowls, two flushes a day, for 10 years. "Dammit, woman," | moaned. "I thought you were going out for the Christmas Tree.' Which is when she told me | was holding onto a piece of the trunk. So there it was, Chargexed. 1'd been voted out. | choked back a tear as | dreamed about | A Chris tm as Past | We want to wish all our customers : RAL LD HER Ci Za re soazanascs: PORT PERRY STAR -- Monday, Dec. 22, 1975 -- 13 - ~~ ol ~~ v » No v ~ l on RE and friends o that heavy smell of pine, the feel of the sticky AVery Mouy Cluistmas " - Dw 3 i ooze on the rough bark, and the sprattle as the : Bi needles rained on the packages underneath. ; and a © od "No problem,' says my wife and pulls a can Prosperous New Year 7 fi of aerosol out of her. purse and squirts here and \ BY there. The whiff of ,imitation pine tree 'is fh overwhelming. ; ' DUSOME &. So, with the room misty with Pine Tree, | iq reluctantly screwed the skinny green trunk WIN DOW PRODUCTS 5 = IO Le tN, Pir Tad together and centred it upright into a little cereal bowl marked "stand". | tightened the three wing nuts to hold the broomstick, and set about on hands and knees - SETS a & EN ra Ce ets Tete whe TTT Te Trains - Boats 4, NAA NAAT FRED'S HOBBY SHOP 233 Queen Street - Port Perry - 985-8035 MODELS - SLOT CARS Games - Puzzles AC 525252505052525¢ Cac Holiday Season -- BUSINESS HOURS -- "collecting all the color-coded green bottle Lo brushes. With the brushes assembled and piled 5k in groups of white-tip, green, blue, orange and Ai red, | start sticking the twisted wire stems into ba ~ the broomstick. Reds first, blues second, and so £37 forth, until the entire structure looked like | pA something you'd see in the Jolly Green Giant's pg ¥ bathroom, propped up next to the bowl. ill d #4 So later, with a little love and a lot of bucks Still a goo gi worth of extra decorations, the tree was Bay actually looking like one. selection i: The kids? . ¥ It was their sparkling eyes, broad smiles and . ¥ : 'squeals of delight that made me face my for Christmas A 3 prejudice. The tree was beautiful, | admitted i x J begrudgingly, and even told my wife to cut the spray can pine tree routine. The fihal acceptance came when Gertrude, our cat, perched under one of the low-hung branches and widdled on one of the brightly- wrapped parcels. Ruddy Electric Wholesale Ltd. 75 RICHMOND ST. WwW OSHAWA 725-3539 Good enough for Gertie, good enough for me. | STAR reprints call 985-7383 Monday, Dec. 22 - 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23 - 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24 - 11:00 a.m. CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY Friday, Dec..26 (Boxing Day) - Saturday, Dec. 27 - 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 28 -'11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday, Dec. 29 - 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30 - 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31 - 11:00 a.m. NEW YEARS DAY (Jan. 1) - Noon to 8:00 p.m. Friday, Jan 2 - 11:00 a.m. to 12 Saturday, Jan. 3 - 11:00 a.m. to Come in and enjoy a Hamburger REGULAR WINTER HOURS STARTING SUNDAY, JAN. 4, 1976 to 7:00 p.m. Noon to 8:00 p.m. F5AGICICICICC p Low oye Uo 7. Price 2ae9e5e5e5ese 26252505252525 25052525 to 7:00.p.m. © Qutdoor Lights fo ! A eo Indoor Lights Midnite ® ¢ Miniature Sets 10:00 p.m. e Replacement Bulbs or Chicken Dinner! 252525252525 5852525252 WE HAVE "MINCE MEAT PIES" AVAILABLE FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON -- CCRC GIVE US ACALL Bayshore Take-Qut 99 Scugog Street - Port Perry, Ont. _ ID : Nl nN : D) \ \ HWY. 7A AT THE LAKE PORT PERRY ONT. 985-7235 PHONE 985-3282 G2 COO OCI OCC CCC