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EICIIT The Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner. Oregon. Thursday. December 2". HI7!I
Doctor's
daughter
married
Dr. and Mrs. James W.
Norrno aro pleased to an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter. Tracie. to Michael
Bunch Nov. 3 at 2 p.m.
The ceremony was held at
the ranch home of Michael's
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin C.
Bunch and was attended by
family and friends of the bride
and groom. The Bunchs live
on Bunker Hill Road near
Heppner.
Mrs. Robert Stickney was
matron of honor. Robert
Stickney was best man and
their son. Richard, was ring
bearer.
The groom's sister. Mrs.
Loren Woodsidc of Lind.
Wash, served the cake at the
reception and dinner following
the ceremony.
The bride and groom are
now at home in Heppner
where they are both em
ployed. Topic club
celebrates
Christmas
A Christmas observance
was hold at the lone Topic
Club on Wednesday. Dec. 19.
at the home of Katherine
i
Lindslrom with Jacie Bergs
strom assisting.
Following a potluck lunch
eon of Christmas favorites,
the program was presented.
Mrs. Bergstrom told of the
Santa Clans tradition and the
origin of the Christmas Seal in
1907. Mrs. Lindstrom ex
plained that Dec. 25 was
selected for the observance of
Christmas in 380 A.D. and
carols were a product of the
15th century.
A gift exchange was held.
The Reverend Cathy Barker
was a special guest.
No senior
When the last lights and ornaments have been packed
away, the dry needles swept up, and the now-outdated
Christmas tree hauled outside, the evergreen can still serve a
happy purpose.
You might prop it up in the corner of your yard, perhaps
tied to a clothesline post or a fence, where it can provide
cover and a feeding station for birds. Hang suet balls, pine
cones daubed with peanut butter, whole sunflower heads, and
other treats on it to attract and feed your feathered friends.
Maybe the lone Garden Club will be holding its annual
Twelth Night Burning of the Greens festivity, and you can
manage to contribute your tree to that big bonfire.
JNIa vbe you will find that you have a little extra armchair
time between now and Jan. 2, and I am most willing to help
by suggesting some super reading. Each year I blow the dust
off my copies of Christmas classics that everyone should
read at least once and which I can read over and over. First
come Charles Dickens's superb "Christmas Carol," then
Henry Van Dyke's "The Other Wise Man" and also "The
First Christmas Tree." A little more recent are Nora Loft's
"How Far to Bethlehem?" and Minton C. Johnston's, "How
the Littlest Cherub Was Late for Christmas."
This month I discovered a new favorite when I was
searching for my reading for the Bookworms' Christmas
meeting where each member brings a carefully selected,
seasonal bit of prose or poetry to share. My delightful
discovery, a very short bit of prose, written by an unknown
author and published in a Guideposts Magazine many years
back, is so neat I want you to enjoy it too.
THE CHRISTMAS THIEF
It was Christmas morning and the sexton was pale and
wide-eyed. To the pastor he gasped: "Sir, I just opened the
church the Christ Child is gone from the manger-crib."
"That's ridiculous," exclaimed the priest. Yet it was
true, he found. The beloved little statuette of the infant was
gone from the shrine! The thoughts of the kindly clergyman
were in a turmoil.
Even before he had verified the disappearance for
himself, his thoughts were concerned with the thief. What
fiend what infidel would perpetrate such an outrage? Was
it someone who wished to defile the symbol of the very birth
of Christianity? Did someone want revenge on the church,
the pastor, the congregation or upon God?
"Shall we call the police. Father?" the curate asked.
The old priest shook his head. He glanced about the
church he loved and which only four and a half hours ago had
been filled with the happiest crowds of the year, the attenders
at the Christmas Eve Midnight Mass.
Soon now the church would be filled with happy
Christmas morning crowds. What would their stunned
reaction be when they found the Christ child missing?
Distraught, the pastor put on his coat and hat and wandered
outside. To passers-by he murmured a "Merry Christmas"
he did not really feel.
As he reached the corner, a small boy, running as he
pulled a new red express wagon, almost knocked him down.
"Georgie Potter!" The priest started to rebuke the lad, but
the shining light on the ruddy little seven-year-old face
stopped him. He smiled: "Well, is that a new wagon I see?"
"Yes Sir! "
Suddenly the clergy stiffened.
"Georgie! What is that in your wagon?"
It was the Christ child! The pastor stared transfixed. The
beloved statuette of the infant Jesus, with its baby arms
outstretched in wide benedition, lay with a blanket tucked
about it.
The shining light was gone from the lad's face and he
cowered.
"G-'orgie. did you take that from the church?"
"But I promised ! " the boy blurted. "I prayed and prayed
for a red wagon. And I promised the Christ Child if He'd get
me a red wagon for Christmas. I'd give him a ride in it twice
'round the block."
As the curtains close on another some say the
1979th Christmas season, let us hope that we all better
understand Christmas as old Scrooge finally understood it. '
and as Dickens's masterful and timeless tribute describes it
"a kind, forgiving, charitable time, the only time in the long
calendar of the year when men and women seem by one
consent to open their shut-up hearts freely."
dinner
planned
There will be no senior
dinners served Jan. 1. but Jan.
2 diners will be served the
following menu at lone and
Heppner: fish fillets or burger
patties, scalloped potatoes,
tossed green salad, harvard
beets, cornbread and jelly and
jello poke cake and topping.
That afternoon there will be
a blood pressure clinic in
Heppner at the Neighborhood
Center with ' County Health
Nurse Pat Wright checking
blood pressures at no charge.
The Social Security repre
sentative will be at the
Neighborhood Center from 10
a.m. until noon Friday. Jan.
11.
'The Orion's9
Dec. 23th-29th
And
New Years Eve
the 31st
with Party favors
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Hospital Auxilary celebrates Christmas
with nursing home patients
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Mr. iiiul Mrs. Hunch
The Pioneer Memorial Hos
pii.il Auxiliarv put on a
Chritmas cclehration for the
nnrMiii' home patients at the
hospital in Heppner.
The Soroplimist Club do
n.iierl Christmas stockings for
the 2:t patients and the AAl TW
prov ided fruit for the stock
ings The l,exington Grange do
nated three gills for each of
the paiit iiirt.
Mrs. Lucky Felt made a
Christmas .cake and Mrs.
Kenneth Smouse played the
violin drade school children
sang Christmas carols and
Santa was on hand to give out
gilts. The auxiliary decorated
the hospital and the Forest
Service donated some Christ
mas trees.
"It was real nice the way
they decorated the hospital."
I.uckv Felt, hospital admini
strator, said.
Hence Siminoe coordinated
the program.
The hospital nursing home
received $100 from a previous
resident in the home. The
auxiliary is buying presents
for the patients with the
money. Felt said the generous
donater wants to remain
anonvmous.
The Fabric Shop
in Hermiston
is offering
25 OFF entire stock !
Dec. 27th through the 29th
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JiAPPY
NEW YEAR
Announcing the ar
rival of the '80s!
May this coming de
cade hold lots of
good things in store
for you and yours
Our thanks to all!
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