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About Opportunity news. (Woodburn, Oregon) 1965-1968 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1966)
December 16-23, 1966 Page 2 It isn’t a snow drift, it's Christmas Letters O P P O R T U N IT Y N E W S include these letters from Texas, and that w e are all drawn It is a happy tim e when Christ California, Oregon and Washington. closely together at Christmas time. mas letters begin to arrive daily These Christmas messages help us The good things which these per through the mail. We are rejoicing to know that there is a strong com sons have w ritten in these letters today, w h ile printing this issue o f m unity feeling among the many are the things that all oh us feel at the Opportunity New s, to be able to m igrant fam ilies and their friends, Christmas time. HELENA CANALES WRITES, 'W H AT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO ME' Jesus' sake. Christmas means to me the happiest day o f the y e a r and most o f all a day to love and remember all the w onderful things that happened on this day—the star at 12:00 o'clock on Christmas eve ning, that God created such a day to fo llo w the way. Christmas means to me the day to love and sh ire — it is a peaceful day. A day to for* get w rong things. Christmas is a new day born, fo r e ve ryth in g/is new on that day. Christmas is the day o f days. OUR M A N Y CHRISTMAS LETTERS Vol. 2, Nos. 5 0 , 51 December 16-23, 1966 This newspaper is a publication of the VALLEY MIGRANT LEAGUE P. O. Box 128 W oodburn, Oregon VML phone 981-3171 Newspaper phone 981-9711 WILL P. PAPE, Executive Director DON WILCOX, Editor PRISCILLA CARRASCO, Asst. Editor JUDI JARVILL, Editorial Assistant and Circulation Manager LEONORA GUINAZZO, Translator SAMUEL HERNANDEZ, Translator OPPORTUNITY NEWS: ,1 have m y idea, I don't you w ill like it but here it Christmas is a day o f happiness, and peace. Christmas day is a day o f know i f goes: joy and To me, days for GUADELUPE BUSTOS, Translator When you look at page 1 o f this Christmas issue, we hope you can see all the Christmas colors that we wish were there! There's lots o f red on the Christmas ornaments, we're sure, and a rich green back ground—or maybe blue, or purple. Do you have an artist in your fam ily? Just give your youngsters a box o f crayons and they w ill bring these Christmas ornaments to life. This w ill not only save our printers a lot o f extra w ork, it w ill also give your fam ily artists an hour o f fun. Where did this draw ing come from ? Several parts o f it came from photos which you have seen in past issues o f the Opportunity News. But the heart o f the picture—the Na tiv ity scene—came from a drawing by Carmen L. Petterson, a Latin American artist w h o lives in Central America. The picture origin ally ap peared in a Spanish-English maga zine called CAMINOS, published in Latin America. We thank Mrs. Pet terson fo r the use o f her version o f the Three Wise Men, the Infant Je sus, and the Mother .Mary. On these days o f the Christmas season, our hearts are fille d w ith joys and sadness. We are happy when we get together w ith our fam ilies. We feel sad, and our eyes olivdarse de las FROM M . WEBBER, D O N N A , TEXAS a photograph o f the housing pro area, and the news editor, Don W il ject. cox, a Very M erry Christmas and a Opportunity News: M r. Don W ilcox: It made me feel so good to get a letter from you and it's nice of you and I thank you fo r those ex tra copies o f the Oct. 28 issue. I'll try in m y next letter to send Sr. Don W ilcox, Estoy m uy agradecida de haber recibido su carta y le agradezco las ediciones extras del periódico del 28 de octubre. Trataré de enviarle una foto del CELIA PONCE Thanks fo r inviting me to cooper ate in w ritin g on the theme: What Christmas Means to Me. For me, Christmas is the greatest day o f the year, because it is the date on which Christ was born who came to suffer and sacrifice himself in order to redeem our sins. On this day, it makes us think that w e are all brothers and that social differences serve fo r noth ing. If the rich man has his money, he is not on this account exempt from death. Because like the poor, a human being is like a plant that has one end, and pride and vanity do not serve us fo r anything else. Es un día para Tengo una idea. No se si les gus tará pero aquí la tienen. La Navidad es un día de alegría, felicidad y paz. Para mi, el día de Navidad es el día de todos los días LA N A V ID A D SIGNIFICA PARA M l OUR HEARTS ARE‘ FILLED W ITH JOYS A N D SADNESS, WRITES SRA. Mrs. Judi Jarvill, Miss Helena Canales Route 1, Box 123 Mabton, W ashington para Jesús. Para m i, la Navidad significa el día más alegre del año y sobre todo, un día para amar y recordar todo lo que pasa — la es trella de medianoche en la Noche Buena que Dios creó para ilum inar el camino. La Navidad para mi sig nifica un día para arriar y repartir lo que tenemos—es un día pacífica. HELENA CANALES ESCRIBE LO QUE PLEASE IM A G IN E THE COLOR! more fill w ith tears when w e remember death or the absence o f our loved ones, be they our parents, a son, a brother or a good friend, etc. But distance and the problems o f life at times make our'desires impos sible fo r us. On this date we can examine our consciences. If w e are bad, w e can try to be good in the future; if we have enemies, we can pardon them. Also w e should do a kind deed but if we can rtot do it m aterially be cause w e are poor, w e can do it spiritually. How? By giving good advice or solace to one w ho is suf fering, a visit to a sick person or by helping to raise one w h o has fallen. This is the w ay that Christ pointed out to us. Blessed are those w ho lead a good life fo r they shall be close to God! I take advantage o f this occasion (Continued on page 6) I w o uld like to wish all o f our m igrant friends here in Oregon, al so the principal and staff o f the Howard Eccles School in Canby, Miss Vadette Deisner now in Cali fornia, and Mr. W ill Pape, and all the staff at VML in the W oodburn proyecto de viviendas en mi próxi ma carta. Quiero desear una feliz Navidad y un fe liz año nuevo a todos los amigos migrantes en Oregon, al director y su personal de la escuela de Howard Eccles en Canby, a la equivocaciones. La Navidad es un dìa nuevo—todo nace en ese día. Là Navidad es el día de días. Srta. Helen Canales Rt. 1, Box 123 M abton, Washington Happy New Year from your migrant friends here In Texas. Very tru ly yours, Marcelino W ebber and Family iP.O. Box 433 Donna, Texas 78537 Srta. Vadette Deisner que está ahora en California y al Sr. W ill Pape y a todo el personal de VML del area de W oodburn de parte de todos los amigos migrantes aquí en Texas. Atentamente su servidor, Marcelino W ebber y fam ilia NUESTROS CORAZONES SE LLENAN DE ALEGRAS Y DE TRISTEZAS, ESCRIBE SRA. CELIA PONCE Mrs. Judi Jarvill, ( Gracias por invitarm e a que co opere a escribir sobre el tema: "¿Que significa Christmas para m i?" Para mí, Christmas es el día más grande del año, porque es la fecha en que nació Cristo que vino a suf rir y a sacrificarse por redim ir nues tros pecados. En este día nos hace pensar que todos somos hermanos,’ y que nada sirven las diferencias sociales'. Si el rico tiene su dinero, no por eso está exento de morir. Porque al igual que el pobre, un ser humano es como una planta que tiene un fin , y dé nada nos sirve el orgullo y la vanidad. En estos días de Pascuas nuestros corazones se llenan de alegrías y de tristezas. Tenemos gusto cuando estamos reunidos con nuestras fa milias. Sentimos tristeza, y nuestros ojos se nos llenan de lágrimas re cordando la muerte o la ausencia de nuestros seres queridos, ya sean nuestros padres, un hijo, un her mano, o un buen amigo, etc. . . Pero la distancia y los problemas de la vida a veces nos hacen im posible nuestros déseos. En esta fechg podemos hacer un exámen a nuestra conciencias. Si somos malos, procurar ser buenos en el futuro; si tenemos.enemigos, perdonarlos. También hacer una caridad pero si no podemos hacerla materialmente porque somos pob res, podemos hacerla éspiritual- mente. ¿Cómo? Dando un buen consejo, o un consuelo al -que sufre, una visita al enfermo, ayudando a levantar al caído. Porque este es el camino que nos marcó Cristo. (Bien aventurados los que llevan una vida recta; porque ellos están m uy cerca (Pase a la página ó)
