•
BUY
•
ACCOMMODATION
•
SELL
•
INFORMATION
•
JOBS
•
No 732
FIRST ON THE STREET
WWW.LWB.CO.NZ
23rd - 30th December
LAKES WEEKLY BULLETIN
CH M RI ER ST RY M AS
ENQUIRIES@LWB.CO.NZ
What would you say if you had to explain Christmas to someone who knew nothing about it? You might begin with the shepherds in the fields by night or Santa at the North Pole or even the appeal of starting our summer holiday with a festival that comes just when the sun is at its highest, and with all the promise of hot, dry days. Relaxing and rejoicing, feasting and singing, humility and awe — these would all be parts of your answer depending on your beliefs. The personal explanations would probably come easiest: the rituals of Christmas, the smell of a BBQ, the noise of the children out of school till late January and of a world of daylight. You would probably have something to say about the importance of family and the force of a holiday whose strongest emotions center upon children, and upon our memories of being children. And yet to really explain Christmas you would also have to try to answer the question that perennially pressing question: how do you tie together the traditional values of Christmas with the frenzied commercial reality of shopping, over indulging and retail? There is no glossing over the problem — what matters is not just the discombobulation between the majesty of tradition and the craziness of the shopping. It is that all those presents did not really catch the feeling we are looking for, did not say what we hoped to say which is why I think that so many of us feel it’s important to also remember those who are less well off.
The whole LWB-team was WOWED earlier in the year when Bruna created a dress out of LWB’s and absolutely rocked it! The LWB was also seen being read all over the world and the best have been combined on page 16-17. Check it out.
That visitor might well wonder, why don’t we always hope for peace on earth? And if you genuinely love one another — truly hold one another in your hearts — wouldn’t simply saying it be far more eloquent than any other gift that you could give? These questions point to something we already know, that for all the tension and pressure of the Christmas rush, for all the sputtering of the commercial machine that rolls out at the end of every year, this is truly a holiday of modest spirit, a day of friends, family and sharing. We want to express our thanks and to say ‘I love you’ and have it said in return. I hope we’d also say it’s a time to give thanks and at this most wonderful time of the year, all the team at the Lakes Weekly would like to say thanks for your support over the year whether as advertisers, contributors, readers or suppliers and wish everyone in Queenstown and further afield a very, very happy Christmas. Lakes Weekly Bulletin team
New Years Eve with DJ Sophia QUEENSTOWN’S BIGGEST NEW YEAR’S EVE LATIN PARTY
Tiling - Exterior Plastering Service Specialist 021 128 8954 | arttile.co.nz
ConsumerSMART ADVERTISING · The media buying group SAVING up to 65% on YOUR advertising costs · info@consumersmart.co.nz