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Cowboy Bob Switzer for KIDNAPPING SCROOGE! Prince Albert and Area News by Earline Armstrong The Couples Club are holding their dance and Christmas party this Sat. Dec. 6th. there are still tickets, just call Debbie at 985-8575 and she will help you. Thursday evening guests with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Armstrong were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Pearson from Brooklin. Virginia Treavena and spent Friday and Saturday with "The Armstrongs" on Quaker Road. Happy birthday to Irene Harris, our good lady crossing guard on the main corner of Prince Albert, Nov. 29 was her day and not for guard crossing neither. llean Pugh my co- writer for this column, she was another vear older on the same day. Happy Birthday to you both. To anybody that doesn't get the Oshawa-Whitby this Week, there was a feature addition in the Friday paper on Prince Albert. We'll make that Toronto Star yet. Sylvia Lindsay went to New York to spend Thanksgiving with her sister. Son Bob from California also joined her. Please phone Ilean Pugh with news next week at 985-7873. Stephanie also called in on The Arm- strongs the same evening. Thursday evening saw ten tables of euchre players at the Prince Albert Hall. Ladies high was Pear! Gostick, second was Ella Venning and low was Clara Whitter - over on the men's side, high was Phyllis Clark, second was Herb Jones and low was Murray Geer. Lucky door prizes went to Annie Bowman and Richard Manns. Please do come out next Thurs. Dec. 4, and talk about what you want from Santa Claus. Don't forget the Sunday School Christmas Concert on Dec. 7 in Prince Albert. Please have the children at the church by 6:30 to get them dressed. U.C.W. on Tues. Dec. 9in the form of a pot-luck supper at 6:30 in the church basement. Glad to report that Grace Beacock came home from the hospital last Monday. Grace has to take it very easy for a long while. Just remember the turtle that won the Cowboy Bob and Santa Claus have teamed up until Christmas, offering the best deals in Durham and giving away the fattest turkey you "race, Grace. can find with every deal, so catch the spirit and Happy Birthday to Lindsay Glan- save. ville, she was 6 years old on Tues. Nov. 25th, but celebrated on Sun. ) 'Nov. 30th with a birthday party with 1984 Pontiac 6000 : 21 of her classmates from Grade 1983 Cutlass Sierra -- One. 1982 Honda Prelude Happy Birthday Lindsay from all the rest of Prince Albert. J Sou pun Pickup Mrs. Willa Preston and her ing when parishioners hosted Soup With Santa before the Santa on * daughter Miss Grace Ann Preston Claus Parade, complete with soup, hot tea and mounds of goodies. 1982 Cutlass fans of Trenton, Ontario visited their Apove, elves Jennifer Tingle, 11, and Jeremy Davidson, 12, help cousins Mr. and Mrs. Earl Martyn serve. THE SAGA CONTINUUES. . . The Anglican Church Hall was a busy place Saturday morn- on Wed. Nov. 26th. They all enjoyed dinner at Conway Place in the even- ing. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne McKinnon and children of Stirling, Ontario ALY'Z COLD CUT CENTRE ®.ocyor & BAKE SHOP CHOOSE FROM Peameal Bacon Sliced Breakfast Bacon Kurz Polish Sausage Fresh Outside Round Roast N 2.99 FROM OUR BAKE SHOP - White or Brown Bread 3/ 1 99 Bran Muffins... ------_., RS 6/1.49 - REACHING OUT - courtesy | WAGG-McDERMOTT-PANABAKER FUNERAL HOME, } PORT PERRY | Are Funerals Barbaric? From the beginning of history, mankind has marked major transitional life events with ceremony. The ceremony or the reason for the ceremony may differ from culture to culture but every culture has its ceremonies. In our culture we have the ceremony of baptism or dedication at birth, birth- day ceremonies, celebrating each year of life, commencement ceremonies marking the accomplishment of education, and wedding ceremonies celebrating the union of two people. The funeral is a ceremony in which we mark the end of a life. A philosopher once said "Show me how a culture cares for their dead and I'll tell you about their value of life." The reason we have ceremony is because we place major value on those significant life events which mark a change in the state of life or a passage. In the funeral ceremony we especially show our value of life, as is in- dicated by the philosopher, because the very thing we are commemorating is the life which was lived by the deceased. We have all heard the statement "When | die just put me in a garbage bag and cremate me." This statement is a selfish one. Humanely speaking, there is nothing we can do for a dead person which should indicate to us that the funeral ceremony is for the benefit of the living. As with most ceremonies, the funeral has risen out of human need. It would take books to describe every psychological value of a funeral, but for our purposes, let us just look at a brief overview of some of these values. When someone we love dies, every fibre of our beings attempts to find some way to avoid admission to this death. Without admission to the death, we would be living in a mental fantasy which is of course, psychologically unhealthy. When our eyes are assaulted with the reality of death in viewing the dead person's body, it is near impossible to escape admission to the death. Visitation allows us to share the pain of our grief with friends who help us remember accurately the life of the deceased. Grief shared is grief dissipated -- meaning that the intensity of our pain is lessened. We then have a funeral service which often reaffirms religious beliefs and helps us to have hope for the future. The disposition of the body represents the separation of the living from the dead in that we leave the body in a cemetery or crematorium and go back to society. It a person truly wants his survivors to "get over" his death as quickly and as painlessly as possible, he will have a funeral ceremony. The pain of grief will surface sooner or later. If we choose to handle this grief in a healthy manner, we will be much better off as a society. The choice is ours to make. Are funerals barbaric? In the light of this writing, it could be more ac- curately said that not to mark the end of the most valuable of all human possessions, that being life itself, would be barbaric. Perhaps we should re-examine the value of our life and begin to celebrate it daily. Please direct your comments to Harold Wagg 985-2171. + 1.99 3 LOCATIONS FOR YOUR SHOPPING CONVENIENCE 180 Queen St. - Port Perry PHONE 985-2818 5 Points Mall - Oshawa PHONE 725-3834 'B 118 Brock St. - Whitby PHONE 668-9931