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RR Te RENOVATIONS WINDOWS PAINTING ROOFING SIDING DECKS CALL John Horton 476-5930 P.O. Box 23 Milford, ON KOK 2P0 FREE ESTIMATES NO JOB TOO SMALL EXCELLENT WORKMANSHIP DEPENDABLE - AFFORDABLE Prrrey [dea d da SE ELS ded ad eadaadad sd EES NED FEF rr Pr] PISS IPIPII A Slerimies - LA Ft) jo is sure), eventually headed gingerly out to the middle near Paddy's Hole, a place where the bay's current splits - part of it heading due east around the north side of Waupoos Is- land and the other part heading south to go through the gap between the island and Morrison Point on the mainland. This creates a weak, unsafe area that has claimed a victim or two in its time, especially during the last century when walking across the ice was the only way to reach the farm settlement on Waupoos Island in the wintertime. We didn't want to be saying "I told you so!" and we watched them, with our heart in our mouth. Boxing Day was a grey day, and a portent of snow to come. That would be fine, we thought. We will just get our shovels ready. We skated, and we played. I bundled one- year old Josie up in her pink snowsuit, and packed her into Aunt Olive's wonderful gift of a baby sleigh, amid blan- kets, mittens, scarf, boots, and mattress. I pulled her around slowly, expecting any minute that my skate would catch and I'd trip once again. My fears were unfounded, luckily, and, braving the cold, we enjoyed a wonderful time to- gether. I came in frozen, and she came in a toasty warm lit- tle cherub. And then it snowed. And I shoveled. And it snowed. And I A-DEN 16 herSY-NO-Deterrent UNDO NIGHTCAP (anag. patching) BOBOAT HOP-I PUZZLE SOLUTION RE-SEAL NINEPINS (anag. sin in pen) DOWN UN-A-BAT-ED ETUI (ene Ute rev.) INVADERS (anag. red van is) SEMITRANS(anag. stern ma is) PARENT O-SAGES ACROSS 6 GREEN THUMB (anag. the grub men) 8 IN(STAN)CE (anag. nice) 7 E-F-FACE 9 ST-RAF-E 13 P(UNCHL(anag. lunch)INES 10 ABDICATING (anag. bad 17 DE(BUT-A)NT acting I) 19 D-RAINING 11 EX-AM 21 stIR-ON-EDucation 12 STAPLE (anag. plates) 22 CAST-LE 14 RO(SET)TES (anag. store) 26 HIPS (anag. ship) By doing business with those who advertise in the Mirror, you help to ensure the continued free delivery of Your community newsletter. 7] S ST-RETCHING (anag. rich gent)f . shoveled. It painted our gigantic glass-bottomed boat a : stark, crispy white; so white, so thick that the rinks became maller and smaller until, eventually, there were no more rinks to be seen on the bay that winter. Just snowbanks and able to play hockey any longer, decided one day instead to climb up our TV antenna rungs to get onto the roof of our tore. We heard the clomp, clomp, clomp on the roof and lots of giggling as they an across it to the front of e canteen where they ommenced to do jumps, ack-flips, and somer- saults into the deep snow- rifts below. Their laugh- er rang out, called out, and invited all to join in. t continued into the deep- ening dusk of evening. Those were laughing days, those were laughter-filled nights. - Karen Smith