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6 -- Port Perry Star Christmas Edition -- Wedresday, Dec. 22, 1976 North Pole Dream aCe on £qr th + Port Perry Printing Ltd. Queen Street -- Phone 985-3755 world goodwill... very best wishes and thanks. ER & Old Anglican Church, Greenbank, Ontario Now Greenbank Centennial Hall we wish a very and a Prosperous and Happy New Year LAKE SCUGOG HISTORICAL SOCIETY SCUGOG SHORES HISTORICAL MUSEUM To the People of the Township of Scugog who supported us so well in 1976, MERRY CHRISTMAS Santa Claus comes on Christmas Eve which is on the 24th of December. One year 1 was asleep and I heard something on the roof. I looked out the window and saw Santa and his sled. 1 ran outside and up a ladder and jumped into the sled and hid. After a while I felt us moving. I peeked through a hole in between some boxes and saw Santa. All at once he turned around and saw me. "Hello" he said and turned around and went on. After a very -long time we stopped. I looked out and Santa was getting out so I got out too. I saw a sign saying North Pole and it was very very, very cold. I went with Santa and 1 saw another 'sign saying Santa's Work Shop. Santa went in so I went in also. All the elves were sitting there. "One elf said 'Are you done Santa?" . "Yes said Santa. There were many mail bags around the room and a 'few little toys. There was a very large table in the middle of the room with hammers on it. Then one elf said, "Who are you?" "I am a little girl from Blackstock". They all got up 'and sang around me. I woke up. It was all a dream. Eleanor Kelly Grade 5 C.C.P.S. Letters To Santa Dear Santa, Christmas is a nice time of year when the snow comes and the leaves come off the trees. The ground is all put to bed and the white blanket is-soft and fresh. It is likly that way up at your house but a lot colder. Would you please send me a doll called Baby Alive and some more Barbee Dolls and please give Mark a Star Trek Space Ship with all the fieres. Jill Kendall Epsom School Grade 4 Dear Santa, It will soon be Christmas and I guess that you are pretty busy up north making toys for little boys and girls. We are pretty busy getting our Christmas tree up and decorating it. Yesterday I put the wreath on the door. How are you and Mrs. Claus? How are all the elves and reindeers? Does Rudolph still have his bright nose? Are children singing cargls? Pretty soon bells will be ringing and children will be singing. Love, Valerie Douglas, Epsom School, Grade 1 Dear Santa, How are you up in the cold north? Good I hope. I hope you have all your toys pack- ed. And I hope you have the ones I want. I want a hockey set, some new equip- ment for hockey, some books, puzzles, dinky cars, games and a lot more but I can't think of it right now. Your friend Boyd Vanderheul Grade 3 C.C.P.S. Dear Santa Claus, I have been a good girl. I would like an Easy Bake Oven. May 1 please? I would like a dollhouse. Have a Merry Christmas. 985-3089. : have Lite.Brite Jannine Hvidsten Prince Albert P.S. Dear Santa, I would like my mother to have a fur coat for Christ. mas please. I would like a night timer and a bubble gum popper for me. My littl sister's name is Allyson. Allson would like Baby Beans. My name is Andrea. Andrea Prince Albert P.S. Greetings Let's celebrate this Christmas season with sincere wishes for a simply wonderful hojiday. To all our friends and neighbors go many thanks for your continued patronage and goodwill. Sincerely Country Village Pant'n Top Shop Greeting cards have ° ° : LY colorful, historic sources Each year researchers come up with more and more Wii a information about the origins of Christmas and New Year greetings. Se UTIpAs . Greeting cards are usually made of s paper or card- Woh but cloth, vellum, leather, celluloid, metal, wood, clay, cork, and new materials have been added to theirg designs. Cards and their messages vary in size. In 1929 an ER iban grain of rice was presented as a Christmas greeting to the Prince of les, and in 1024, President Calvin Coolidge received a Christmas card that measured 21 x 33 inches! In ancient Egypt the New Year was celebrated by the exchange of symbolic presents such as scent bottles and scarabs inscribed "an ab nab" ('all good luck"). The Ro- mans exchanged strenae, originally branches of laurel or olive, often coated with gold leaf. Symbols of seasonal good will, such as a Roman lamp and the figure of Victory surrounded by strenae, were combined on objects of baked clay, with the Inscription "Anno Novo faustum felix tibi sit" ("May the New Year be happy and lucky for you"). The acknowledgment of the New Year with the exchanges of good will continued in Europe through the early days of Christianity. In the 15th century, master wood engravers produced inscribed prints which had the same intent as the modern Christmas and New Year cards, Onc of these shows the Christ Child with halo, before a cross holding a scroll on which appears "Ein gust selig ior" ("A good and happy year"). During the 18th and early 19th centuries, copper plate engravers were producing prints and calendars for the New Year and greetings by merchants and tradesmen were common, a resided Recognized as the first Christmas card is one designe in England by J. C. Horsley, in 1843 for his friend Sir Henry Cole. An edition of 1,000 coples was placed on sale at Felix Summerly's Treasure House in London in 1846. They were printed by lithography on stiff cardboard, in dark sepia and hand colored. The design shows a family party in progress, beneath which is the greeting, "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You." Dear Santa, I like you. I want a red I live in Scugog Island. 1 airplane. I liven Sgugog am six. I want a Six Million Island. My hous is red and Dollar Man. 1 will give a black. x surprise to Dad. Rob Taylor David Irvine Prince Albert P.S. Prince Albert P.S. Dear Santa, Dear Santa Claus, Dear Santa, Thank you for the skis. I have been good. I want Thank you for the Leggo. Skis. I would like G.I. Joe I would like Port Perry to and boxing gloves and have a good Christmas. Indian Set. John Fennema Port Perry, Gregory Skerratt, Room |, Prince Albert P.S. Room |, Prince Albert P.S. -- ) Libgy To you, whose faith and goodwill we treasure, we wish the Joy and Peace of Christmas. HOWARD FORDER, LTD, REALTOR & STAFF *