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CASTO °REVIEW Vol. 2, No. 3 One Canada Twenty-five cents Chtigtmas package Ina special 14-page edition, this month's Castor Review attempts to capture the Christmas spirit. From Shirley Van Dusen's sketch below to Castor Earl's lament on page 14, and the whole tied together with Mary Rowsell's photographic glimpses of Castor area residents doing their own things in preparation for Santa's visit, the issue hopes to bring the spirit to those who haven't found it and to heighten it for those who have. Meg, Mark, Suzanne and our contributors from the clergy contemplate the special time of year, Beaver Bob offers a touching short story, and Rhita Harrison reveals how to make a Christmas wreath. All this and more; even a recipe for a Christmas feast with a difference, with guarded thanks to our editor, in Castor Friday, December 15, 1978 CUP?o2rds. THE LOVELY CASTOR WENDS THROUGH HAMLETS FAR AND NEAR, AND BRINGS To ALL THIS CHEERY WISH: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR L» acy a £ ITS WAY 4 v Ovsew - 7 ee, oe 286.1978 jae mtg ae Every Christmas, the same people sing the same blues: Christmas is too commercial, there's no Christmas spirit any- more, Christmas is for kids. Unfortunately, these same people are content to wallow in self-deprecation, feeding on the very things about which they complain. They buy $100 worth of Betty Burps and GI Jerks (with maybe even a Homo Herman thrown in), eat the same plastic turkey dinner, throw a string of lights on a synthetic tree and wonder why Christmas has no special mean- ing for them. They -- among them, Castor or whose Scroogy views on Christmas are set down in this issue -- should recall when it did have a special meaning for them, if indeed it ever did. They will realize that it was so because they were not satisfied to go through the bare motions of Christmas, they got involved. If Christmas is to be a personal thing, it must be made so. It will take a little effort but it will make Christmas more than just another date on the calendar, guaranteed. "Waddya mean?"' Well, Sloucho, put down the beer and the butt and get to work. Here are just a few ideas: String some outside lights (not too many, you don't want to turn Sidewalk Talk i By Mark Van Dusen No excuse for Christmas blues people off), hang some boughs with red bows from the porch pillars, make a wreath for the front door, snow-stencil the windows, build a snowman, cut your own tree (where you can do so ecologically). Bake' gingerbread cookies (don't forget the colored Royal frosting), Christmas cakes, plum pudding, a gingerbread house, minced meat pie or tarts, tourtieres, a turkey, mix a wassail, brew mulled wine, bake a yule log cake, glazed yams, make cranberry sauce, egg ndg, sugar plums. Build a manger, make salt- dough ornaments, string cran- berries and popcorn for the tree, wrap the bottom of the tree in Santa for a children's party, go bright paper, make pine-cone home for Christmas, participate decorations, hang a stocking by in Christmas charity campaign. the chimney with care, leave a » Oh yeah! Hang a mistletoe and snack for Santa Claus Christmas wait for your first Christmas Eve, hang boughs on your kiss, you'll deserve it. banister, play Bing Crosby's ok White Christmas, hang holly, light a yule log, roast chestnuts, make a Christmas candle, a centrepiece, a wooden toy. Go to a midnight church service, go carolling, send a Christmas card, visit a neigh- bor, throw a party, have a sleighride, read Dickens' Christ- mas Carol, make a rink, go skating, skiing, snowshoeing, hang sleigh bells, tinsel, send a ARR \ eS letter to Santa for a child, play ees e,