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Late Night Shopping – Thursdays, Dec. 10 & 17, until 8 pm Menorah Lighting, Dec 8, 5pm Java Jive Elves Workshop – Sat December 12, 11am – 4pm • Hosted by the Salmon Arm Art Center • Family Day of Christmas Arts & Crafts CPR Holiday Train – Wednesday, December 16th 7:30pm Featuring Jim Cuddy, Devin Cuddy and Kelly Prescott Lakeside Insurance Free Family Matinee at the Salmar Classic – Monday December 21st • Sponsored by Lakeside Insurance Services Ltd, A Division of Johnston Meier Insurance Agencies Group • No admission fee, with a Food bank donation ‘Random Acts of Elf’ – December Our Christmas Elf will be strolling downtown at different times during December, spreading Christmas Cheer

Reeghan Lawrence and Nicole McGregor do a little window shopping in the downtown area.

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Toy trends for kids This year’s trending items are full of fun, creative ways for kids to play and learn. Use this handy list when you head to the toy store and you can’t go wrong.

• Maker movement. This growing movement is all about creating something and is perfect for little inventors and tinkerers. Think construction toys, design kits and musical instruments.

• Interactive learning. Lure kids away from the screen with toys that grab their attention and invite them to join in. Try number and word games, finger puppets, puzzles and brain teasers, or a good old fashioned chemistry set.

• Helping others. Put the focus on the spirit of giving. Ask kids to trade in an old toy for every new one, or simply give a gift to charity in their name. UNICEF’s Survival Gifts program lets you choose your gift—such as vaccines, textbooks and therapeutic foods—and sends a card to the person in whose name you’ve dedicated the life-saving gift.

More information is available at survivalgifts.ca.

• Open-ended playtime. Say goodbye to scheduled activities and let kids be kids by promoting creativity and problem-solving skills. The ideas are endless: craft supplies, toy cars, bubbles, finger paints, bath toys, building blocks, doll accessories, and more. www.newscanada.com

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(Left-right) Steve Cherival, 8, and Richard Cherival, 5, play with a board puzzle from a UNICEF ECD kit, at the Lakay Don Bosco Centre in Port-au-Prince.

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Holiday train arriving December 16 Pull out your winter woollies, grab some nutritious, non-perishable food items (new and never opened please) and get ready for the arrival of the annual CP Rail Holiday Train.

Every year, Holiday Trains travel through dozens of communities, raising food and cash donations for North American food banks.

Scheduled to pull into Salmon Arm by the Lordco parking lot at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 16, the brightly lit train provides great entertainment for the whole family and reminds us that not everyone has the wherewithal to celebrate Christmas.

Again this year, the Holiday Train program is encouraging people attending events to bring hearthealthy donations. Heart-health education and awareness is a tenet of CP’s community investment program, CP Has Heart, which focuses on improving the heart health of men, women and children in communities across North America.

The two brightly lit trains will kick off in the Montreal area on Nov. 27 and 28 on their way to visit approximately 150 communities. The

Canadian train travels west across Canada finishing its journey in Port Coquitlam. The U.S. Train visits communities across the U.S. Northeast and Midwest, and returns back to Canada for shows in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

This year, the entertainment will be provided by Jim Cuddy, a member of the Canadian country rock band Blue Rodeo.

In 2011, Jim released Skyscraper Soul, his third solo album. His voice, always a voluptuous instrument, has never sounded better and Cuddy proves once again that his songwriting ranks with the best Canada has to offer.

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No stranger to the Holiday Train, Kelly Prescott has taken part in numerous U.S. tours and was featured on many of the past Holiday Train CDs, including the gold record release in 2005.

In 2013 she shared the stage with Sheryl Crow and Take Six on the Holiday Train 15th anniversary show in Minnesota.

She is excited to be taking part of the Canadian tour this year with Devin Cuddy, Jim Cuddy and the fabulous Holiday Train Band.

Local Holiday Train organizer Chris Moore says members of the Salmon Arm Masonic Lodge will be serving hotdogs and warm drinks, donated by local businesses.

“There will be burn barrels to keep warm around and carol signing to warm your hearts,” says Moore. “And Santa Claus will be mingling with the crowd before the train arrives so come early for a chance to meet the big guy before he boards the train.”

The Salmon Arm Observer’s Shuswap Christmas campaign begins today. Bring in a bag of nutritious, non-perishable food to the office at 171 Shuswap Street in exchange for a tag from the Christmas tree, whose number corresponds to a gift certificate provided by local businesses. Please note, food that is past its “best before” date will not be accepted. Nor will food that has previously been opened.

Tags are available as well for a minimum $20 cash donation.

The food and cash gathered in the Observer office will go to the Salvation Army Food Bank as the bins at the front fill up.

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Hang stockings with care Mantles adorned with garland and other holiday trinkets make fireplaces come alive for Christmas. That magic is only enhanced by hanging Christmas stockings, which are just waiting to be filled with goodies for good girls and boys. Those without a fireplace often hang stockings from windowsills and stairway banisters.

No written record exists to explain the origin of hanging stockings on fireplace mantles. Despite this, many people link the tradition to a tale about St. Nicholas. As that story goes, St. Nicholas was traveling through a village when he overheard the plight of three women. They were poor, and their father could not afford an ample dowry to marry them off. Rather than have them end up spinsters, St. Nicholas secretly tossed bags of coins through a window (or down the chimney, depending on which version of the story you read or hear), and they were captured in the girls’ stockings hanging to dry by the fire. The family was overjoyed to have received such riches.

Soon news traveled about the mysterious money in stockings, and other children left out stockings for St. Nicholas to capture their own gifts.

The tradition has transformed over the years, and now many children hang stockings by the chimney with the expectation that the stockings will be filled with gifts from Santa. Traditions once suggested that only gifts from Santa were left in stockings, while gifts placed beneath the tree were from family, but that has since changed. Stockings are now meant to hold small gifts while larger items are placed under the tree.

Stockings should be hung away from the flames of the fire as a safety precaution. Some children even like to hang individual stockings on their bedposts instead of on a fireplace mantle.

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Food bank sees higher demand

The numbers just keep climbing.

Salvation Army Community Care co-ordinator David Byers says on average, the number of people being served by the food bank are 1,000 a month more than last year.

“We have had a huge year at the Salvation Army, helping a record 3,300 people in May of this year,” he says, noting he only has statistics completed up to August because he’s too busy making sure clients are getting support. “We had 3,200 people last December and we provided a record 725 hampers.”

T E GIF H Byers says people were going to the food T E GIV bank right up until Christmas Eve. While they have to provide detailed inTHEY LOVE formation in order to get food hampers, anyone can go to the food bank daily and S A M T IS R H help themselves to whatever is out on the C THIS table.

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“We will never turn down a cash donation, as that helps fill in the gaps,” he adds.

“If you went back a couple of years, we were averaging about 2,100 people,” he says of the drastic rise in the number of people needing help. “We go as far as the municipal limits of Enderby and Sicamous and we help Sorrento and Chase.”

With heart disease becoming one of the most rapidly growing health challenges in North America, Food Banks Canada executive director Katherine Schmidt has asked or donations of quality nutritious food items.

Food Banks Canada’s heart-healthy donation recommendations include.

• Grain Products – whole grain bread, brown rice, whole wheat crackers, bagels, hot & cold cereals, granola bars, muffins • Vegetables & Fruit – canned fruit and vegetables, 100% fruit juice, tomato sauce, canned soup, tomato juice, applesauce, fresh (if storage available) • Milk Products – dry milk powder, milk puddings, cheese spreads, fresh milk, yogurt, & cheese • Meat & Alternatives – canned meat & fish, peanut butter, canned baked beans, dried or canned beans and lentils And to add a bit of holiday cheer at this time of year, include cranberry sauce, stuffing mix and treats such as candy or cake mixes.

The Silverbacks are getting in on the action by hosting their annual Teddy Bear Toss on Dec. 5 and a food drive in collaboration with Askew’s Food on Dec. 21.

If you need a Christmas hamper, applications are available at the food bank at the Lighthouse Emergency Shelter 441 3 St SW. The deadline to receive applications is Friday, Dec. 4.

The Salvation is very much in need of volunteers to oversee the kettles at various locations in town. If you can handle a two-hour shift to help others, call David Byers at 250-832-9194.

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Shuswap Theatre presents Rapunzel Vancouver playwright Peter Zednick describes Rapunzel: A Tangled Tale as “a fun retelling that introduces a twist to the hirsute tale in a fast-action pantomime with all the usual panto suspects and more.”

The playwright, a friend of Shuswap Theatre member Ellen Gonella, gave director Julia Body permission to bring his new twist on an old fairy tale to Salmon Arm audiences.

A distinctively different rendition, Rapunzel is locked in her tower by the wicked witch Vileda Scrunge, and, after many adventures Prince Pompadour, assisted by hairdresser Dame Wanda Wave, is able to rescue and marry her.

“It’s very silly,” begins Body.

“The town is called Haute Couture and the king and queen are all about hair.”

Meet Queen Beehive, King Bouffant and Prince Pompadour.

The prince has turned 21 and it’s time for him to get married.

Four possible prospects, a Goth, a cheerleader, a Veronica Lake look-alike and a cell phone girl all have perfect hair.

But Prince Pompadour doesn’t want to have anything to do with them. They are too superficial for his liking.

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witch, call up to a tower where she is keeping Rapunzel imprisoned.

Rapunzel lets her hair down to allow the witch access to the tower.

When the witch departs, Prince Pompadour mimics her voice and when Rapunzel again lowers her hair, he climbs up to meet her.

“Rapunzel’s a mess; she’s the opposite of the hair girls,” says Body.

Other villagers include Peter Piper and his wife Polly, Hob and Gob, two hobgoblins, Wanda Wave a beautician, and TC the town crier.

“It’s a cast that stretches from age 10 to 60-plus,” says Body, noting that like all good pantomimes, there will be lots of opportunities for audience participation There will also be a lot of little one-liners, references to local places, and songs that are takeoffs on popular numbers such as Single Ladies by Beyoncé.

The Witch sings I Put a Spell On You from Hocus Pocus and Dame Wanda sings Popular from the Broadway show Wicked.

When Rapunzel and Pompadour meet they sing Call Me Maybe.

A couple of Christmas songs will be included too.

Body says the cast numbers about 19 but the numbers swell when behind-the-scenes volun-

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teers are included.

“I counted the crew up, and when you add front of house and backstage to the cast, it totals 57,” says Body with enthusiasm.

“We have a lot of new people involved, which is awesome.

We’ve got people in the play we’ve never seen before.”

Body cautions that with such a large cast and crew, tickets may sell out earlier than normal.

The play runs over two weekends: Friday through Sunday, Dec. 4 to 6 and Dec. 11 to 13 – Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 1:30 p.m.

Tickets are $9.98 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under.

Youths between the ages of 12 and 20 may also purchase tickets for $5 through the SHUGO program at the Salmon Arm Arts Centre.

Regular tickets are available online at www. shuswaptheatre. com or at Intwined Fibre Arts on Hudson Avenue.

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Enjoy magic of outdoor theatre There is magic brewing at Caravan Farm Theatre.

Everyone is as busy as Santa’s elves, preparing for this year’s winter show.

Bedstefader (or how grandfather finally came in out of the cold) is a family story inspired by an old Danish folk tale.

Inspiration came from an article artistic director Courtenay Dobbie read in a magazine. She came across a Danish word that sounds like hooga but is spelled hygge.

“It is a Danish practice and or spirituality they practise in wintertime,” says Dobbie. “It doesn’t have a direct English word, but it’s about well-being and happiness in the long dark, cold of winter.”

To practise hygge or have it in their lives, Danish citizens keep their indoor environment very cosy. They may light candles or curl up fireside with a good book.

They have many celebrations with family and friends, dine together, visit and enjoy parties.

“I thought the concept is really beautiful and that a lot of Canadians do that too, just because of where we live,” Dobbie says. “But we don’t have any formal word that describes it or that has the same meaning.”

Since seeing miniature horses at the IPE (Interior Provincial Exhibition) in Armstrong in 2010, Dobbie has been looking to incorporate them into one of Caravan’s production.

“I was excited by them and their energy and when I thought about the Danish winter show, I realized it would be a nice combination,”

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she says, noting four miniature horses will be pulling a sleigh.

Dobbie took her ideas to Sean Dixon, a Toronto playwright who wrote Caravan’s 2012 summer play, Notorious Right Robert and his Robber Bride.

“I phoned him and said ‘I have this concept; I want horses in the show and want it to be about a family. Can you work with these three ideas?’”

He could and the story that emerged is about two little girls, Magdalena and her little sister Ida. Winter is approaching and they are waiting for their mother to come home for Christmas.

“She is a medicine woman off doing good in the world,” explains Dobbie, pointing out, if this wasn’t a fable, her work could be compared to Doctors Without Borders.

“But their father reminds them their mother won’t be able to come home until all the people in the world come in from the cold.”

The sisters, meanwhile, come across a homeless man and decide they need to help him so their mother will come home.

“He’s mean, he likes his life the way it is and doesn’t want to come in,” Dobbie says. “They find out the homeless man is their grandfather and there is a nice magic reveal. And there is another one, but it’s a surprise.”

The overall themes Dobbie wanted to explore at this time of year are charity – giving to people who have less, and providing comfort, warmth and food to people who may not have that in their lives.

That’s what the young sisters do for the homeless man – provide a beautiful meal and a place to lie his head on a cold winter night.

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Caravan Theatre ready for winter Continued from page 8 Mother Falka is Toronto’s Rebecca Auerbach, Grandfather is played by another Toronto actor, Jack Nicholsen, and Father is Vancouver actor Sean Sonier. Big sister Magdalena is played

by Toronto actor Georgina Beaty and Vancouver’s Evelyn Chew plays Ida. Set design is by Marshall McMahen, costume design is by Catherine Hahn, lighting is provided by Stephan Bircher and props design is by Scott Crocker.

Dobbie directs the production and has written the music for the show.

“It’s a fantastic crew of 40 once the teamsters and horses are included with

their eight teams of heavy horses.”

The winter sleigh ride show runs from Dec. 8 to Jan. 3. There are no shows on Thursdays or Christmas Day. Bedstefader (or How Grandfather finally came in out of the cold) is staged outdoors at five locations across the large farm property.

The shows begins promptly at 4, 6 and 8 p.m. most days and lasts about one hour. So dress warmly.

Seating is on hay bales and blankets and cushions are recommended.

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Planning for the holidays Even though it might feel like there is still lots of time to get organized, Christmas festivities are fast approaching. If you start planning your Christmas now, the holidays will be much more enjoyable — you’ll be partying instead of panicking!

With that in mind, it’s time to start making lists, cooking, and cleaning.

1- Use a calendar Write down all the parties you already have scheduled. If you want to go on outings with family or friends, note them down as well, including a trip to the country, skiing, skating, or sliding.

2- Send party invitations and write your Christmas cards Mail or e-mail party invitations as early as possible in December. Print off a nice family photo and use that for your invitations and greeting cards.

3- Decorate the house Hang a few electric wreaths outside. Inside, decorate the Christmas tree, and arrange a few pine branches in a vase. Now you’re all set!

4- Cook smart Plan your menu and draw up a detailed list of all the food you have to purchase.

When you’re cooking, make extras that you can reheat and use to feed the family during busy times.

5- Ensure all the family is looking their best If you can, buy a few new items of clothing for all the family. There’s no good reason to celebrate Christmas in a faded old blouse. This is also the time to freshen up your haircut, get a manicure, and pluck your eyebrows.

6- Buy the gifts Make a list of the Christmas gifts you have to buy and avoid leaving the shopping until Christmas Eve! 7- Clean strategically You don’t have to clean your home from top to bottom, but at least make sure that neglected areas are spick and span. Don’t hesitate to use a home cleaning service if the job seems overwhelming.

Everyone has experienced massive crowds of Christmas shoppers in the bigger shopping centres in large towns. How about avoiding the hordes of people this year by finding your Christmas gifts closer to home; it can save you time and money!

You’re sure to find what you need at the gift stores, florists and shops that sell locally produced items found in all areas of the country.

Save time First of all, most of us don’t have much time to do our Christmas shopping. Reducing travelling distances between your home and the stores can save you a lot of time. By staying in the area where you live, you can avoid traffic jams and the frustrating search for a parking spot.

Help when you need it By patronizing local shops on a regular basis the sales people come to know you and are able to give a more personalized service, perhaps they can even help you find the perfect gift! For example, the sales clerk down at the cosmetic boutique will know the name of the perfume your wife or girlfriend tried recently; or the salesman at the motorcycle store will know the type of helmet your husband has wanted for a long time.

Local products and relaxation One great idea is a gift basket with a selection of locally produced products. In addition to supporting your area merchants, purchasing this type of gift will also encourage local producers. Alternately, you could offer a gift certificate to a health spa or wellness retreat. Not only will this type of gift be beneficial to a loved one, but you’ll also discover great little places often hidden away somewhere close by!

The Christmas spirit Decorating together!

The festive season will soon be here and now is the time to decorate your home for Christmas. Rather than feel like this is a chore to be done alone, why not involve your family and turn it into a fun activity for everyone!

Irresistible Christmas ornaments You can also create some unique Christmas ornaments. Styrofoam balls and glue can be found in art supply stores or in the arts and crafts section of any department store and there are endless ways of decorating them.

You can cover the balls with all sorts of different materials: Papier-mâché, fabric, felt, silk paper, metallic sequins, pearls, coloured cardboard discs, etc. Use several different colours and materials if you want to create a colourful effect for your Christmas tree or simply limit yourself to one or two materials with similar colours for a more conservative style.

To hang the ornaments on the tree, insert hooks from old ornaments into the Styrofoam or use paper clips that have been cut in two.

Spiced citrus fruits Apart from the Christmas tree, other decorations can embellish your home including an illuminated centrepiece trimmed with evergreens, a salt dough garland or paper snowflakes glued to the windows. If you love home perfumes you could create a decorative bowl of spiced citrus fruits. Just stick some whole cloves into a few oranges, clementines, or tangerines.

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