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12 -- Port Perry Star Christmas Edition -- Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1976 What Christmas Means To The Kids. . Christmas means that gesus was born on christmas day. It means that is why Christmas was on that day and I like Christmas very much. Ricky Huntington Grade 3 Ph] »y C.C.P.S. ty Merry {Christmas sleighful of thanks and good wishes to everyone at Christmas, SIEBARTH AUTO BODY What Christmas Means to Me - On Christmas Eve most of the people in our world get presents. . The people in different contries like Africa are poor, and don't have enough money to celebrate like we do. On Christmas some people come around and collect money or clothes and other things for poor people. That is what I think of when I say my prayers. Debbie DeVries Grade 1 C.C.P.S. What Christmas Me- 'Christmas means alot to me because its the Lords birthday. I think we should always help people at Christmas. I like Christmas because we exchange gifts and the nice things in our stockings. Christmas is a time of year when Santa comes with his reindeer pulling him in his sleigh. I also like Christmas because of the joy of doing every- thing. Diana Fletcher, Grade 4, C.C.P.S. Means to What Christmas Means to Me - On Christmas Mary and Joseph on their donkey they rode into Bethlehem. We get up in the morning and open our presents. We decorate our Christmas tree. We decorate the outside with lights. We decorate inside of "our house. Bradley R. Epsom School Grade 3 What Christmas means to me! Cis for Christmas cards you send and recive. H is for the hurring you have to do on Christmas eve. R is for when you rise from a goodnight sleep on Christ- mas day. Lis for the ice that is on the ground outside. S is for Santa Claus who gives you presents. T is for toys that you can play with. M is for making Christmas cards and presents. A is for Christmas afternoon when you can with toys. S is for singing Christmas carols. All these are what Christ- mas means to me! Cathy Paisley, Grade 4, C.C.P.S. 68 Water Street SPORTSLAND with joy and laughter. Please accept Jim Burnett, Prop. What Christmas Means to Me - Christmas means when Jesus was born and when I get presents' Christmas also means that my birthday comes. Sometimes when Christmas comes I think of baby Jesus. Also when Christmas comes I think about Santa. I also have a nice Christmas pie. Love, Nancy Rudkin, Epsom School Grade 3 What Christmas Means to Me - Christmas means that it is Jesus birthday and it also I have to put wood in the basement so we can get a daller to buy my mom and Dad some Christmas pres- ents, and we get some Christmas presents to. Jeffrey Cockerton Grade 3 C.C.P.S. What Christmas Means to Me - Christmas means getting toys and other things. And Christmas is God's birthday. When he comes down the chimney he would see cookies on the table by the fire and before he come's down the chimney I would What Christmas Means to Me - Christmas means to me that Jesus was born. Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem. Mary and Joseph were the parents of Jesus. I like when we go Christ- mas shopping because I can buy presents for my family. These are the peqgple in my family. My Dad and Mom, Joy, Melody, Me and Bryan and my little brother Harvey. I just don't like Christmas For you and your dear ones, we wish a holiday filled with the because of the presents. I like it because Jesus was born on that day. Cathy Johnston Grade 4 C.C.P.S. "vivid red, but there are white; pink and mar beautiful gifts trimmed up your sewing box. Thelr fra- grance will last long after the holidays are gone. Tender loving care Jor thriving poinsettas * Do you know the origin of the lovely plant we have come to identify with Christmas? These colorful plants were first introduced to America in 1825, by Joel Poinsett, then serving as our Ambassador to Mexico, who brought some 16 plants back to his South Carolina greenhouse. He gave them to friends and botanists with greenhouses who nur- tured them carefully. Poinsettias moved out of doors in the early 1900's when a Swiss horticulturist, Albert Ecke, started to raise them in California for local holiday selling, Now we have come to enjoy poinsettias, not only at the Christmas holiday, but all the year round as well, The most poplar is the led flowers as handsome and radiant. . Poinsettlas need specific care if they are to flourish, but that care is not really complicated, They are happlest kept at room temperature, near a window, in full daylight, but out of drafts. Water when the top soil feels dry to your touch, keeping the soil moist but not wet. If you decide to move your poinsettia outdoors for the summer, it will need cutting back to help it retain its shape. To encourage a shorter, fuller plant cut it back between the middle of July and the beginning of August, and repot in a pot one or two sizes larger than the original, and bring indoors again about Labor Day. Poinsettias are photo-period sensitive plants that flower in response to the length of the day; Ten hours of day- light and fourteen hours of darkness will start flowers on their way, but the least glimmer of light during the dark hours will abort any flowering. From about October 1 to mid-December, the plant should be in complete darkness from sunset to sunup. It can be put into a closet, in a room that remains dark through those hours, or under a table that Is skirted to the floor. If you have a large enough carton available up-end it over the poinsettia to keep light out. Unless the plant is kept in the dark it will not flower. The colorful bracts that develop from this period will be ample reward for your tender loving care, and will add much excitement to your holiday decor. SCENTED GIFT Pomander balls make CHRISTMAS WRAP Aluminum foil makes any gift Spsnis) loosing and is a 0 hang up my sock. with velvet ribbons, lace especially marvelous for Bernie Martin and pretty brald. Tle them Japon those odd shaped Grade 3 prettily from bits and pleces things that never seem to C.CP.S you have tucked away in fit into any box. Wrap and tie with brightly colored yarn . , . several different colors at the same time! a 0hild is Bon E «uit at the Blessed. Birth of the Prince ~ of Peace! We send wishes, for Holiday. Blessings # to all our friends. -_-- With cheery thanks. 4 Rick Laroque Electrical Contractor RR2 Port Perry - 985.261 RELIABLE Plumbing & Heating Limited R.R. 2, Port Perry, Ont. -- 985-3734 oi % hy 4 REE IR) a Cie aime AA '» a i 3 ! | LN LJ t s vis 1] J | EL pid .