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All non-profit organizations can email their special events to newsroom@cloverdalereporter.com EVENTS 18TH ANNUAL WINTER ICE PALACE The Cloverdale Arena, 6090 176 Street, is transformed into the Winter Ice Palace over winter break. Come and join in the fun. Admission is $4:50, but skate and helmet rentals are additional. Open Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Call 604-502-6410. Running daily (hours vary) to Sunday, Jan. 3.
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TREE CHIP AND BOTTLE DRIVE Tree chip and bottle drive, by donation, at Cloverdale Athletic Park Saturday, Jan. 2 to support the Surrey United Soccer Association. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
TREE CHIPPING/BOTTLE DRIVE Cloverdale Catholic Elementary School is raising funds to update their classroom lighting and move towards more energy efficient, greener fixtures. To support the initiative, the school hosts a tree chipping and bottle drive event Saturday, Jan. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 17511 59 Ave. Suggested donation $5/tree. SURREY FIREFIGHTERS TREE CHIP Surrey Firefighters present a tree chip Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Newton Athletic Park, 7395 128 Street. All proceeds go to the Surrey Firefighters Charitable Foundation; 100 per cent of all money is used for programs within the City of Surrey. ANNOUNCEMENTS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Cloverdale Better at Home is looking for Volunteers to take senior clients out grocery shopping once or twice a month. Mileage paid. For more information, info-referral@comeshare. ca or call 604-531-9400 ext 204. CLUBS/GROUPS CLOVERDALE LIONS CLUB The Cloverdale Lions Club is looking for new members. Meetings are the second Thursday of the month. Please volunteer your time to assist us in serving our community. Call Terry Riley: 604-576-9248 for more information. FOOD PROBLEM? Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you go on eating binges? Is your weight affecting your life? Overeaters Anonymous offers help. No fees, no dues, no weigh-ins, no diets. We are a fellowship. We meet every Thursday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Cloverdale United Church basement, 17575-58A Ave. Everyone welcome. TOPS TOPS – Take Off Pounds Sensibly – meets at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Cloverdale Library, 5642, 176A Street, Surrey, in the upstairs meeting room. For more information, phone LInda at 604-462-9326. FORGET ME NOT FAMILY SOCIETY Education, consultation, peer counselling and support to those touched by adoption. The Cloverdale Support Group meets on the first Thursday of the month. The meetings are on the second floor of the Cloverdale Library, 5642 165A Street, Surrey, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Open to adoptees, birth/natural parents, and adoptive parents. For more information contact marnietetz@shaw.ca or 604-862-4432.
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Well, plenty, apparently. t’s the most wonderful time of the year. An editor’s inbox offers a veritable holiday That’s what the ads keep telling us, at least. And in many ways, it is. buffet of issues you didn’t know you were supposed to be fretting over each December. That is, until things blow up in your face like some kind of faulty ChristOne that arrived last week mas cracker. warned of the pros and cons of “closet gifting.” I’m mercifully oblivious to Although I’m familiar with most of the social conventions — the must-haves and the the practice — even a bit guilty must-dos — that accompany the of having employed it from time to time — I’d never actually season for hard-core Christmas heard the term. enthusiasts. Essentially, you buy generic I don’t really understand, for example, why a woman being items on sale all year long and interviewed on the radio in store them in a closet until you need to produce a Christmas mid-December placed her 1-10 holiday stress level at an 11 — gift at the last minute. When someone you hadn’t too many viewings of Spinal Brenda Anderson Tap, maybe? — when mine is more thought to buy for arrives bearlike a 2. ing gifts — voila! — you whip out a pre-purThings will get done or they won’t; dinner chased item and then act casual, like you’d been planning to give it to them all along. might be amazing or simply edible; the cat It seems like the perfect solution — and might eat (and then puke up) chunks of decorative plastic foliage or she might not. honestly, it is. For me, at least, it’s far less awkward to (Spoiler: she will). It helps to have a small family, with a uni- give a gift to someone who hasn’t reciprocated than it is to be the one standing there form mindset. We’re together, we’re eating too much, enjoying a few glasses of Christwith a present in hand and nothing to offer mas cheer, playing games and watching in return. But it turns out a lot of people are offendCousin Eddie empty his chemical toilet into ed when they receive a gift that betrays a the Griswolds’ storm sewer for the umplack of thought or effort on the part of the teenth time. What’s to stress about? giver.
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One assumes the level of hurt feelings will vary according to the nature of the relationship. A hastily wrapped box of chocolates from an acquaintance you see only a handful of times each year is a bit different, obviously, than unwrapping a drug store-quality treetop angel from your brother on Christmas morning, for example (true story). It’s a situation we’d all love to avoid, but how, exactly, does that conversation go? “Are we exchanging gifts this year?” can be an awkward lead-in, depending on whether it had occurred to the other party that it was even a consideration. “Great, back to the mall on a Saturday. That’ll be fun.” Like most of my friends, I don’t want or expect anything for Christmas this year. If someone sees something small and thinks of me, lovely. Meanwhile, I’ve got my eyes peeled for anything that might have special meaning to someone I know. Maybe I’ll find something, maybe not. Maybe someone will see something and think of me, maybe not. It honestly doesn’t matter. You really want to give me a meaningful gift this year? Be a dear and offer to clean up after the cat.
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Seven little girls wait for Santa in a true Cloverdale Christmas tale We recently received the following story from a local reader. In the spirit of the season, we’re delighted to share it with you.
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sat silently, waiting expectantly, both my hands braced on my cheeks. My head bobbing, and eyes closing, then opening. I wasn’t going to miss this moment. My sisters and I had waited all year, and we were determined to see the person that made little children happy with gifts of joy. “He does exist,” I thought. “There was no way little Shanny Baker had her facts straight. He didn’t come to her house cause she was naughty not nice.” Here we were, all seven of us cuddled together, waiting, watching. “Do you think he will bring Rudolf?” I asked one sister. “Oh yes,” she squealed, then I shushed her: “Keep it down. We don’t want Santa to know we are
here. How do you think he fits down the small chimney?” I said. “He’s pretty fat, you know. I think he practices those exercises on sucking in his tummy, so he can slide down without getting stuck.” “Did you make the cookies and put out the milk?” I asked another sister. She said, “I got pretty hungry and thirsty while I was waiting, so I improvised. I put out bread and water.” “Oh my God!” I exclaimed. “Santa will think he is visiting a prison.” “Sorry,” she sighed. I patted her head and told her it was the thought that counted. Besides, Santa didn’t come just for the cookies and milk. He came because he knew we were good all year – and we helped people. Yes, even disbeliever Shanny Baker. “Santa and his elves got our names and will bring a nice gift to give us, cause, well, cause they think that we are
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much I love rainbow ice cream.” “Oh no!” I said as I clasped my head. “Hopefully, he has a crystal ball out there and can see how good you’ve been.” “I sure hope so,” she sighed, or I am so S.O.L.” “What?” I gasped. “You know! Sorry, Out of Luck. No presents, nada, none, zilch, zip, zero.” “Don’t worry,” I said, See WE WAITED / Page 6
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him!” “No,” my sister exclaimed. “It can’t be him. It can’t be midnight yet. I didn’t hear the clock strike twelve.” “Maybe his watch is fast?” one sister whispered. “Santa doesn’t wear a watch, you ninny,” another sister scolded. “How do you know?” “Well, everyone knows that. It is a well known fact. Did you ever see any books where Santa was wearing a watch?” “Not that I can remember,” she confessed. “Well, there you go, facts is facts.” “Be quiet now, girls, we don’t want to scare him away.” Here we sat, seven little girls dressed in flannel, waiting,
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tive path after leaving government care at 19. He’d only been on his own for a few weeks when he wound up on the streets, involved in drugs and turning to crime to support his habit. If you’d asked him then about his future, he would have told you he’d be dead by 25, according to a youth worker he met from SOS BC. In a brief, initial conversation, Alan was reminded that he’d once dreamed of going to university, getting a good job, owning a car and having a normal life. But he had no idea how to turn things around. A chaotic childhood and adolescence where he bounced from one foster placement to the next – he figured it had been more than 50 –had left him without the most basic skills as an adult. Today, he’s in a post secondary program, looking ahead to a
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“we will each give you one of ours.” “What?” I heard in unison. “Give and you shall receive, do unto others.” “Yeah,” one sister exclaimed, “before they do unto you.” “Now, now,” I said, and gave her that I am-so-disappointedin-you look. “How will we know him?” one sister said, almost asleep now. I looked at her then said, “You know, he’s the guy in the red suit, the red suit with all the gifts. The one sneaking quietly around the tree.” “How do you know he is not a burglar?” one sister chimed in. “Not many burglars dressed in red, putting presents around the tree. Usually they are gathering them up.” “Oh yeah,” she said, then leaned her head on the other sister’s shoulder and closed her eyes. I knew I should have done this solo. I should have never let them in on Operation Santa Claus. “Shush,” I said. “I think I hear something.” All us girls sat up wide eyed, looking intently at the fireplace. We saw only the Christmas lights twinkling in the dark. “Oh my God, I think it is
gave to him. Do you think it is too late?” We waited what seemed an eternity. Each of us yawning, and rubbing our eyes, trying hard, trying real hard not to fall asleep. Not to miss that special moment. No, no, we can’t miss Santa Claus. When I awoke, I was in my own bed, my sisters in theirs. I called out to them, and we all bounded downstairs like a heard of elephants. My father was downstairs waiting for us to appear. The gifts neatly wrapped, one gift each. That is all we could afford. But that was plenty. We had one another and that is what really counts. “Merry Christmas!” he shouted and we threw our arms around him, and in our excitement chimed, “Merry Christmas to you,” to Daddy. “Did you see him, Daddy? Did you see him?” “Who?” my father asked. “Santa! Did you see Santa?” “Yes,” my father said. We asked why he didn’t have a gift, and his reply was, “You, my dears, are the greatest gift I could ever ask for.” Thank you, Santa for all the wonderful people that were a part in my life, for that I am truly blessed. To all a Merry Christmas, and to all a good night.
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MY STOCKING
Amelia “I would like to pull an alpine Beanie Boo out of my stocking. I would like to pull Star Lily out of my stocking. I would like to pull Dark Chocolate out of my stocking. But certainly wouldn’t want to pull home work that is spelling and math out of my stocking!!!!” - Amelia
Gabe “I would like to pull an ipad mni so I can text out of my stocking. I would like to pull a new trick bike with 6 gears out of my stocking. I would like to pull a million dollars out of my stocking! But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull a Little People toy and underpants out of my stocking!” - Gabe
Samuel “I would like to pull a NHL 16 for PS3 out of my stocking. I would like to pull an iphone 5 and the game Mincraft 2 out of my stocking. I would like to pull out a new CCm hokcey stick out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull a smelly underwear that somebody wore out of my stocking!” - Samuel
Arjun “I would like to pull a pokemon named Zorak out of my stocking. I would like to pull a PS5 for Sonic Boom out of my stocking. I would like to pull a MineCraft for PS4 out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull a stinky diaper out of my stocking!” - Arjun
Zoe “I would like to pull a Zoomer kitty out of my stocking. I would like to pull the big, big, big Beanie Boo named Sparkles out of my stocking. I would like to pull a Barbie doll out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull smelly socks and underwear out of my stocking!” - Zoe
Sophia “I would like to pull a Fur Real Friend that is named Biscuit out of my stocking. I would like to pull a zoomer kitty that listens to me out of my stocking. I would like to pull a book about pirates out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull smelly socks and underwear out of my stocking.” - Sophia
Amelia C. “I would like to pull a black Zoomer kitty out of my stocking. I would like to pull Bunchums out of my stocking. I would like to pull a Beanie Boo named Biscuit out of my stocking. BUT I certainly woulnd’t like to pull an apple or pieces of hair out of my stocking!” - Amelia C.
Avery “I would like to pull a Beanie Boo named Ice Cube out of my stocking. I would like to pull a movie called the Sound of Music out of my stocking. I would like to pull a big Oh Henry bar for my brother out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull a bowl of porridge out of my stocking!” - Avery
Rowan “I would like to pul an American doll named Brooklyn out of my stocking. I would like to pull a Fur real friend out of my stocking. I would pull Lego that makes a house out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull a book that is about pirates out of my stocking!” - Rowan
Jeslene “I would like to pull a brand new hockey stick out of my stocking. I would like to pull a Beanie Boo key chain out of my stocking. I would like to pull and blanket that has J K out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull a Rotten egg out of my stocking!” - Jeslene
Cole “I would like to pull a transforming bat cave out of my stocking. I would like to pull a Pokemon XY out of my stocking. I would like to pull out an ipad Xbox out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull a box of pampers out of my stocking!” - Cole
Sarah “I would like to pull a Journey doll named Meredith who looks like me out of my stocking. I would like to pull and Zoomer kitty out of my stocking. I would like to pull a M.C square science doll out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull home work that is spelling and math out of my stocking.” - Sarah
Riley V. “I would like to pull a toy battle axe out of my stocking. I would like to pull a black iphone six plus out of my stocking. I would like to pull a huge white Husky out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull a pencil, homework and earaser out of my stocking! - Riley
Emily “I would like to pull a Just dance 2016 video game out of my stocking. I would like to pull a Star Lily the horse out of my stocking. I would like to pull a Dream Catcher that can take all of your bad dreams away out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pulla Dora the Explorer out of my stocking.” - Emily
Cameryn “I would like to pull lots of Beanie Boos out of my stocking. I would like to pull an American doll named Dati who has a bike and helmet out of my stocking. I would like to pull a Zoomer kitty who has leash and her name is Lily out of my stocking. But I certainly wouldn’t want to pull a rotten egg and smelly socks and underwear out of my stocking!” - Cameryn
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Makayla Wartak
Grade 2 Christmas is a special time of year because I love to donate toys. I have been donating toys for two years. I am going to give a puzzle that I used once I also like puting up the tree. Me and my mom put up the tree on the stand and my dad puts the lights on and we decorate it with all sorts of things.
Kadie
Evan
“Christmas is special because I get to have time with my family. Christmas is not about presents it is about joy. Christmas is made to be a happy time, ot sad. My favourite thing to do on Christmas Eve is buy presents. I love to sit on my couch and watcha TV inside. I put up my decorations like my Christmas tree, my lights and my ornaments on my tree. ” - Hayley
Grade 3 We get to bake cookies with sprinkls with my buba and geido. We go chrstmas shoping. We get to go on the t.v. we track ware santas at. Then we rase up stairs and hop in bed. I wait tell the morning. last year we heard a bell downstairs at midnigt. We like to get up early to orgenize our presents. We open them first. I look in my stoking. Its realy hard when I feel it. We play with our toys four like 2 hours. My mom mom makes hot chocolate with marshmelows. We get warm by the fire We watch the Christmas Marathons on ytv Eventually Ill fall asleep.
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Ryan
“I think Christmas is special because I get to spend time with my family and have special dinner. We also go get a tree with my family. We like to go outside and build snowmen and snow forts and make snow angles. We like to go inside and have hot chocolate by the fire with popcorn.” - Amanda
Amira “I git to decorate mi tree” - Amira “Christmas is special because I get to spend time with my family. Even my sister who is in college, comes back home for the whole entire holiday. My family also goes to my cousin’s place in Kamloops. It’s a tradition and it’s fun hanging out with my cousins. We also have Chinese New Year. That’s when all of my family puts money in a red envelope. Then they give it to another family member. ” - Ryan Continued on page 16
Grade 2 My perfect christmas is always fun. I love christmas because I always get candy canes in my stocking. I also like bakeing cookies and we have a snowman cutter, a reindeer cutter and a candy cane cutter. On December the frist we put up our elf on the shelf. It is a gril. Her name is elfy. She has a white skirt with red snowflaks on them. On December the 24th for dinner we have some mashed potatoes with gravy, corn and garlic braed. It was good. Then we go open our presents. I get lots of toys. Then we have to go to bed. In the morning we open up some more presents. I love christmas.
Leah Hill
Grade 2 Christmas is a special time of the year because I help my nana decorate the tree and Put it up. We put up bubble lights. Bubble lights are lights that have bubbles in it. My auntie is going to be there. When I am going over to Put uP the tree and decorate the tree.
Coen Jungclaus
Grade 2 Christmas is a specil time of year because lots of snow comes. I can have snowball fights. i also like makeing gingerbread houses and men it is fun. I also like Elf on the Shelf I got it last he moved a round alot. I like decorating our house. It is really fun!!! I like snow globes too. I also like baking cookies!
Chantel
Grade 3 Christmas Eve is amazing! You get excited and after Christmas Eve it is Christmas and play with toys, read a new book and shout hurray! Have a amazing Christmas and a great day.
Lliam Maui-Ing
Grade 2 Christmas a special time of year because it is the time that you should be sending time with your famaly tring to meet santa. He is the one that brings the presents that all people should be thanfl for and saing thank you santa. You celebrate christmas on December 25th.
Sadie Yamakawa
Grade 2 Christmus is fun becuse you get to spend time with your family and your family is off work! Also I go to a lot of christmus party! I have played Secret Santa ones. It was so fun! also this year my family is having a party and my uncle and antie come and my cosuns, and my gramma and grampa and my other gramma. The other years my gramma and grampa would cook, but this year our house is. We make salads sometimes meat and other stuff.
Connor Brown
Grade 2 Age 7 Nov 27th 2015! Christmas is a special time of year because some times my Granney and grampa sleep over. In the morning we open up our presents and then we have French toast and bacon, maple bacon. The nite befor we go to my cusins house and have a dinner. The nite after, we have a dinner at my house. Last year for christmas I got a lego set, but dont remember what kind :)
Isabella Schwan
Grade 3 I like Christmas beacas it was the berth of Jesus utherwise we wudent have Christmas. i love it olso because I can dres up my dog Ellie. I like it because I can bake Christmas cookies I love deorating my home with candells and a big Christmas tree and we decorate it with ortamens.
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Kennedy Romo
Grade 3 I love christmas becuse elf on the self allwas comes to our house. He does alot of bad stof. Like once he grabt some flour and he wote im back from chippy. An other day chippy put toilet papper all over the stairs. I love playing in the snow with my family. Like my dad give’s me awsome pushis. My mom makes snowman and we go skating too. We have alot of of other things to do. We love decerating the christmas tree. I have one in my bed room too. I have alot of ornaments.
Hailey Graham
Grade 2 I love christmas because me and my sister love deorating the gingerbread house with lots of candy. I also like elf on the shelf. Its really not good at hiding in spots. This year its going to be great. Hopefully this year he hides in our stockings. My altimate favorite one is deorating the christmas tree. One time at school they where selling stuff. One thing that I got was a ornment for the christmas tree. We get our christmas tree at rona me and my dad my sister and me all got to find a really good one. When we get home we put on the lights and ornments on. Another thing I like is opening presents. I really want a big Elsa doll.
Dean Schwan
Grade 3 On christmas I love when my cousis come over and chase my dog. They in Burnaby with my Ancle’s parents. I have them over on christmas. They are 4, 2 and 2 months. Their names are Louku Enzo and Avae. I wate at my gate for them I open the gate for them. I play with my cousins. My Auntis and uncle love my dog. I play with my fiends in the snow. After I we make snow anjlls After I shaer my candy canes with them.
Rhys
Grad 3 Christmas is special becos I pot the lights on the tree. I help my Mom and Dad dake gingerbread man I drow reindeer and pot it on my bedroom dor. I love to slurpcan candy canes. At dinr I eat turkey, and at nite I get toys
Grade 3 The favourite thing I like a bawt chris decorating fun and I make a ornaments myself. I get presents from santa to. We put a santta on one tree and the other one we put a mrs clause my mom or dad does the santa and the mrs claus.
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Rhea Saran
Grade 3 Christmas Writing Christmas is about presents and stockings. I love presents. I’m getting the nerf doonanater and I hope I get my xbox back PRESANTS and I hope I get mine craft, story mode and I get the lego movie video game and bye bye Im gonna play gta 5!
Lachlan
Grade 3 My christmas writing memories my grandpa always makes pop tarts they are very tastey, the crust is the best. One memorie that I remember is the blizzard of snow in somewhere but I cant remember where.
Grade 2 Chrismas is a speial time of the year. Becase when you decorate your christmas tree with your whole family and you dress up like elfs and santa claus. I love christmas because you get to eat food and sit at the dinner table with your family. When your family visits you eat dinner. You eat turkey, ham, chicken, garlic bread, mashed potatoas and corn gravy and crane berry sauce to. I like opening presents with my family. My parents get cloths my dog gets reindeer ears and my brother gets cloths to. I get a barbei set.
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Mackenzie Ray Brown
Grade 2 November 27th 2015 I love Christmas because when it is christmas. Me and my family are decorating the house. We have this christmas tree but it is not real. It sings a song that goes like this “I wish you merry christmas I wish you merry christmas oh christmas tree oh christmas tree of the best part of your friendship.” me and mom always make gingerbread mans and houses. They are so tasty and delicious. On christmas night I hear the foot steps of santa claus. they are the sound of drums.
Hamad Rana
Grade 2 I like makeing gingerbread houses because you put like the worlds yummyiest candy on a gingerbread house. Then when the days over of shcool you go home. Then you eat it. After you just want to go cray cray in the snow and just hit everyone in the face with snow and then chill on the sofa.
Ayden
Grade 3 On Christmas I am exsited becase I get to see my whole family. I get to have a
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Grade 3 Christmas Christmas is fun. Santa came on Christmas. And my birthday is near of Christmas. All my sisterms have a different Birthday
Kai
Grade 3 My Christmas writing by Kai Christmas is Christmas lights, Christmas is toys, Christ is Santa giving things to little girls and boys. Christmas is Christmas trees, Christmas is joy. Christmas is the day that Jesus was born.
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Grade 3 Last Christmas I got a nerf gun called retall eator. It holds 12 bullets. Dylan got a gun that hold’s 6 bullets. It Is called strong arm. I also got a lego set. It is called police mobile. last year (and every year) I left a cookie and milk for Santa. Also a carrot for his reindeer.
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Grade 3 Christmas I like it because we get candy and toys my friends can have a snow ball fight we get presents. We put decorations on the tree.
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Grade 3 All about the christmas cheer, Is to sing out loud for all to hear. You’ll get coal if your bad, and if you do, you will be sad. “Oh no!” he’s coming in! What should I do! He won’t have a grin. Ok I should say my bye bye’s Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! Grade 3 For Christmas I would like 5 things. But the one I REALLY want is the first one I write. This is my Christmas list for the year. - a Iphone 5s - a laptop - doll graveyar (book) - gold and silver flower headband - Mario brothers for the wii Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I really like Christmas. But Christmas is not just about presents its about Jesus and family + memories. This is one of my favorite memories from when I was five. I am almost nine now so pretty much three years ago. When I was five me my mom and my dad were making a gingerbread train. We put mints and gummy worms, icing, chocolate rocks, fuzzy peaches and of course gingerbread people. My dad really likes candy so when we were finished we had to hide it from him until Christmas. So me and my mom decided that I could put it way up high on the shelf beside my bed. When my mom left I got a stool and put it on my bed and then I reached up and I grabbed my gingerbread train. Then I sat on my bed and started eating it cause my mom was not there. But then my mom came in and caught me. I looked at her and said “what I am hungrey for trains” then my mom started laughing. I think that was my favorite Christmas.
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Leila
Grade 3 A Christmas Poem C,hristmas Joy. H,ave fun. R,udolph the rednosed reindeer. S,ome presents to share. T,aylor always is good for Santa clause. p.s. I have never got coal. M,erry Christmas every one. A,nd a Happy New Year. S,ome presents to give. Grade 3 Christmas Time Christmas cookies, Christmas carrots, Chistmas every day. Chistmas cooking, Chistmas memories, children geting gifts. On Chistmas day, Kids get dolls, kids get pens, kides get toys all day long.
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Breyden
Grade 3 My Christmas Traditions My Christmas Traditions are……. Having a snowball fight, making a gingerbread house, playing hockey on the ice, drinking hot chocolate, eating ginger bread, finding where my elf on the shelf named Fred is, watching a Christmas movie opening my Christmas presents, playing in the snow, making a snowman eating a candy cane.
Maiz
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“I get to see my grama and grapa” Kali
Grade 3 On the night before Christmas you put out cookies, milk, and carrots for the reindeers and then you sleep for the night the next day you wake up and the cookies are gone. The milk and carrots are gone too. There is presents under the tree.
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Grade 3 Christmas Eve is a amazing time of year. You get presents for free and you get whatever you want. I like putting up christmas trees and putting up ornaments.
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“I go to my grandma and grandpa’s house on Christmas Eve. We go and have dinner at their house and look at the Santa Tracker and then we go for a walk and we look at all the beautiful decorations and lights. We see some beautiful houses! We also have a Christmas party and Santa comes to see us and gives us one gift before Christmas. We all open them and we play with them and one percent stays until the others leave and we play and talk. That is what my Christmas traditions are.” - Olivia
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Team Canada taps to bronze A Team Canada tap troupe placed third in the world at a recent international dance championship. Nearly two-dozen dancers from local studios were on the junior and senior teams competing at the event, held in Riesa, Germany earlier this month. The junior formation team performed Swing Set, earning them third place honours in their category at the International Dance Organization (IDO) World Tap Dance Championships. The junior small group placed sixth and the junior duo team of Jordyn Bietel and Kyla Fowler placed 16th at the event. In adult competition, Team Canada’s adult formation team (“The Rockettes�) placed 7th, while the adult small group placed 12th. The IDO is a world federation that includes more than 90 nations, representing 250,000 dancers on
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See in store for details. See contest rules and regulations on our website. Thank you to all that have participated so far. The contest #14 started December 21st, draw date will be March 26th, 2016. First prize value $16,800.00 CND. Second prize value $14,000.00 CND. Third prize value $8,400.00 CND.
To see previous winners, visit: www.debbiemozelle.ca or visit our facebook page www.facebook.com/DebbieMozelleDesignerOptical
VARIABLE FOCUS EYEWEAR Reg. $79.00
SALE $20.00
Great gift idea for a spare pair. Come in to try them out, great for working on the computer.
Debbie Mozelle Designer Eyewear FAMILYOWNED OWNED&AND OPERATED FOR OVER 19 YEARS FAMILY OPERATED FOR OVER 24 YEARS
LANGLEY MALL
123 - 5501 204 Street - Next to Army & Navy in the courtyard
604-532-1158
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604-538-5100
www.debbiemozelle.ca