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_7:00 P.M. â€" Family Service C 11:00 P.M. â€" The Nine Lessons | and Carols with Special Music KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH a touch of snow to create that wintry feeling. King Street, carefully decorated and all alight, never looked so good. The company was even better â€" there were a few familiar faces in the crowd, like Mayor Marjorie Carroll and her husband Glenn who joined in the proceedâ€" ings with their usual gusto. The carollers But Friday, after I finally forced myseif out the door (it‘s amazing how appealing doing the laundry can become when we don‘t want to do something) and joined a gang of about 40 others at city hall, it was hard not to get caught up in the thing. It was just a completely new way for me to get into the spirit of Christmas. The weather was perfect, almost. Cold, crisp and clear, the only thing lacking was Frankly, it was great. Oh, I have to admit that when the Uptown Waterloo Business Improvement Area proposed carolling through the city core, 1 was more than a little skeptical â€" initially the notion of standing out on a city street on a cold Friday evening, singing seemed less than appealing. Besides, believe me there‘s no false modesty here when I say I‘m no song bird. Instead of carolling from door to door, on Friday we went from store to store in the uptown area, starting at city hall in the Marsland Centre, travelling east on Duâ€" pont to King, down King to William and back to Waterloo Square where a muchâ€" needed cup of hot chocolate was waiting. Chronicle Staft The city of Waterioo has a new Christâ€" mastime tradition â€" or rather, a venerable old English custom â€" wassailing has been pulled down off the shelf, dusted and given a new twist. And on every street corner . . CHRISTMAS EVE! \ . By Candlelight Which was their loss. Carolling is the perfect way to celebrate the Christmas season and the BIA should be heartily congratulated for trying to put a little more oldâ€"fashioned spirit back into Christâ€" mas. How did people react to this motley crew ambling down the street singing? Frankly, the response lacked the enthusiasm that I had anticipated â€" there were quizzical looks, ridiculing laughs, shoppers crossed the street apparently fearing association with us and even King Street shopkeepers, who organized the event, were too busy to come to their doors and join in. **We need to do more things like this around here," added Glenn Carroll. "We used to do this as kids, but the city has become too big and we‘re too afraid of looking stupid." ""That was really super, really great fun," commented a rosyâ€"cheeked mayor. **Next year more people will hear about it and it will be even better." An hour after we started, it was over â€" and for many those 60 minutes just flew by. Later, as we huddled around the hot chocolate machine, congratulating ourâ€" selves on our efforts, it was clear that, as the old saying goes, a good time was had by all. And the carolling, well the carolling was spirited even though the intensity of our efforts tended to die away after the first verse or chorus and we were probably singing in 40 different keys. But who cares, as one caroller commented, ‘"we get an E. for effort." ranged from youngsters, the most junior being a toddler lolling in his, or was it her, stroller to elderly grandparents. Some 40 people young and old as is obvious in this picture sang Christmas Carols down King Street Friday night to capture the spirit of an Old Fashioned Christmas. WATERLOO CHRONICLE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1982 â€" PAGE 17 Rick Campbell photo @00