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Terrace Review — Wednesday, November 28, 1990 AQ

Everyone was a winner when family and members of the Boots'n’Saddle and Shamrock Beef 4-H
Clubs met at the Kin Hut for their annual awards banquet. Pictured above are a few of the
Boots'n'Saddle members: Jacquie Strachan, Jodi Strachan, Sarah Strachan, Allison Maximchuk,
Bill Willemen, Kristy Strachan and Susan Williman (High Point Junior). Missing are: Annyha
Klingner, Vicki Klingner, Amy Henzsel, Angela Henzsel, Leslie Rooker, Adrian Balatti (High Point
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The Way I

See It...

by Stephanie Wiebe

4

This time of year, I begin to
fee] sorry for all the perfect
people in this world. December is
one time I’m glad I’m not perfect
— of course, I’m fairly imperfect
throughout the remainder of the
year, just not as happy about it.
But December perfection reminds
me of my Aunt Kathryn, a lovely
woman who always arranged a
perfect Christmas, and my Aunt
Louise, who didn’t.

Even as a child, I noticed how
Aunt Kathryn worked her fingers
to the bone, carefully planning
and organizing her Christmas.
This was a twelve-month-long
job, peaking around this time of
year. She made detailed lists,
colour co-ordinated all indoor and
outdoor decorations, baked
perfectly decorated cut-out
cookies, and had a freezer full of
pre-made hors d’oeurvres. Her _
house was surgically-sterile clean.
Her Christmas tree was trimmed
in annual "themes" — one year it
was trimmed in red and green
plaid ribbons against white
flocking, with red and green

‘lights; another year it was pale

blue flocking with deep blue
lights and silver-blue omaments
— prettier than the department
store trees. And her December
was fairly peaceful, except when
I came to visit. The poor woman.
Her sister, my Aunt Louise, was
exactly the opposite. Her house

_ always looked as though kind

vandals had trashed it. Louise’s
children, and a herd of their
friends, would bake lopsided,
odd-shaped and overdecorated
Christmas cookies, a little too
brown around the edges. They
decorated the tree, too, which

was also lopsided and a little too
brown around the edges. Nothing
was ever colour co-ordinated with

' anything else at Louise’s house.

Children’s drawings,
construction-paper. chains, and
broken plastic tree omaments
decorated the living room.
Children’s drawings of baby
Jesus captioned, "oh come holly
spit", were taped across the
refrigerator door, along with cut-
out paper snowflakes and
crayoned Santa faces bearing
cotton-ball beards.

While Kathryn had addressed
Christmas card envelopes back in
June with her neat, careful
penmanship, Louise’s cards were
hastily scribbled in December,
amid a crowd of popcorn-
stringing children and a large
exuberant dog. Unexpected

Enhancing

"Enhancing the family circle
through alcohol and drug aware-
ness" is the title of a two-day
workshop being offered by the
Terrace Women’s Resource Centre
Dec. 7 and 8.

Centre representatives say the
sessions will be of benefit to
women who come from alcoholic

‘family backgrounds. "We will be

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visitors dropping in at Kathryn’s
house (if they dared) would be
offered brandy or tea, and
perfectly round cheese puffs and-
salmon popovers on 4 china plate
— at Louise’s house, it was a
tumbler of red wine and potato
chips from a Tupperware bowl.
There were always lots of peopie
at Louise’s house, particularly
around Christmas. There were
always very few at Kathryn’s.

At Aunt Kathryn’s house,
everything seemed to glow with a
delicate perfumed scent at
Christmas. At Aunt Louise’s, the
only scent came from the dog,
and it was not at all delicate.

Coming from my large and
noisy family, I would visit my
Aunt Kathryn’s quiet and perfect
December life, and sit beside her
department-store tree listening to
the soft Christmas carols playing
on the stereo. The presents were
carefully wrapped in heavy foil /
with matching ribbons and tags, *
all of which complemented the :
tree, and her well-behaved,
beauty-parlor-groomed poodle
completed the decor. Aunt .
Kathryn seemed so perfect. I
wondered if I could grow up to
be just like her.

When we visited Aunt Louise, |
never sat and thought at all, I just =
leaped right into the chaos and he
enjoyed it. All the people, the
noise, the laughing and singing
— there was always a piano
playing, kids wrestling on the
floor, and that huge exuberant
dog licking my face. At some
point, everyone would pile into
their cars and we’d be off — the
excited red-cheeked kids with
their candy-cane-sticky mouths,
bursting into the church ahead of
the hushing grown-ups.

As I grew up; Aunt Kathryn’s
Christmas seemed so elegant, so
sophisticated, a Christmas to
admire. Aunt Louise’s
Christmas... well, it just seemed
so normal, So average, SO. |
NOISY. I sometimes wondered if
Aunt Louise envied Aunt
Kathryn’s Christmas.

But now, when I see perfect
Christmas trees, perfect
decorations, well-organized quiet
Decembers in the making, though
I still feel some of that old
admiration, I also feel sad inside.
It's the lopsided, too-brown-on-
the-edges cookies that make me
fee} warm now. And the mess.
And the noise.

-Sometimes I'd like to go back |
— just for one last look.

the circle

offering guest speaker presenta-
tions and resources for alternative
living in a safe and friendly en-
vironment," a description states.

The workshops. will be held both
days at the Terrace Public Library.
Participants are asked to register
by calling Teresa or Bev at either
638-0228 or 638-0994. ee