.e.......s 't p . m h . ..t h ... d l .....l Thisiwaould involve a decritinof a ngrownTma hanging from the eaves ig aie-force winds, the ligbts stigi i ad aig as ntebnso a drunken cowboy. We will also spare the reader the need to icture a Èe patio littered with shards of broken bulbs. dtrings of hights do not bounce. No, we will go straight to the weekend trip to the corner store. First, the snow. Big, fat juicy snow shaken out of the sky, driven by anry winds. Snowhakes as big as rhubarb leaves swirli around the blue spruc-; snowflakes caugLit i the h notic glare of flood-lights_________________ like a deer on a niidnighthighway; snowflakes big enough to paste into greeting cards. Next cornes the mnan. Hie has car keys in bis hand. Ho enters the ag*g red car. The car aneezes to lifeir ou. ni like a bad case of asthma. The man backs the car out of the drive. Tires slide on the greasy snow. lie makes a mental note to have new front tires instaJled this week. lie drives slowly. Fifty feet and two doors down, 4;; the road turns nînety degrees to the right. Fifty more foot and -two more doors down, the street turns te a walI of snow almost a metre bigb. Beirig a brilliant educated person ho calculates trajectory. The car wl flot be able te ieap a four-foot-high wall, even one made of snow. Ho is turning the car into the first dniveway when the first snowball bits. Thunk! - like that, heavy wet snow against hollow metal. Kind of like kicking a fridge door. Thunk! He is still completing the tbree-point turn when tbe third and fourth snowballs land. Thunkl Thunk! Thon he stops- backs up; starts again, Thunk! Thon lets the carAide greasily te the curb. Thunk! ThUJIk! He o pens the car door Whizzz! to see another snowball Spiat! on the pavement. Someone bas JOHN T. MATHISON' MONUMENT WO] scraped snow from the street, side to. side, from fifty John Tait Mathison is shown here carving feet one way, fifty feet another. The scrapings have Pimento's Restaurant is now. Mr. Mathisor beon deposited i a metre-high wall across the full century, and retired in 1926, three years1 width of the road. postmaster of Oshawa, fromn 1927 to 1945. The kids remaining behind tbe juniper snicker twice. A short kid with a tail shovel dashes across the lawn in front of bim. A second, taller kid starts te mun, then gives up. Caught is caugbt. 10 YEAR Anoter an oeg e sow 15from the Wednesday, Decem' Ant a mrges from the hadow f hW WHTBY FR] garage. The first kid ru.ns intoh hi ui flight. 0 Councilor Ross Batten wants recreatior «Wat have we bore?" says the n, holdn up bis besides Iroquois Park. sonns;hovel and ail, by th~e scarf. ALosbke some 0 Tony and Dora Vesters celebrated their 50ý I "Hey! Lancelot!" cails a female voice. After all I i ublic auction aithte RoyafHotel on Dec. 1 that, 9id you remember to, get the milk?» It LBrown is closing bis grocery store in Wl Hie heads again ite the now sleeting Decomber. LI ýRKS, BROCK STREE NORTH, C. 1913 g a tomb stone in bis shop, located where i started bis business in the late l9th before bis death. One of bis sons was Whltby ArchivcB photo tSAGO iber 12, 1984 edition of the LEE PRESS nal facilities in other parts of the town th wedding anniversary on Nov. 29. es', Santa Clause Parade on Dec. 8. larigold Dinner Playhouse, Larry Solway, IS AGO ber 10, 1959 edition of the EKLY NEWS Vhitby on two consecutive nights. )eputy Reeve Stan Martin in lone of the dl. iew building at Brock and Dundas Streets per cent off the regular price. RS AGO ber 9, 1869 edition of the Whftby Free Preso Wednesday, Deoember 14, 1M94 Page 7