'Whitby Fr.. Press, Wednesdv. October 14.1902, Page e7 *PAGESEVEN' Thansgivng is for familles Until Karen fell down the steps, ker-bonk, on her <head, it had been an uneventful day. No one'had seen bier fall. One-year-olds are like that: one minute they're with you, tugging at a pantleg, the next they're two steps down,,lying on the patio, bawling.- With .a, one-year-old, one simply cannot tell by volume how, serlous the'ini*yis_.__.______-____ 'Watcb if she gets sleepy. Don't let her sleep too long. If she bas a concussion, tbat would b. bad." Tbe speaker,, having medical knowledge, could tell you 'She hasn't had her nap yet.".. That from her mother. Mothers do tbat: keep track of naps. Karen is my niece, her- mother my sister-mn-law. Tbanksgiving Day is for families. _________________________________ $o. .Don't let a head injury. sleep. But medical__________ _______________________ theory has neyer deait witb, a cranky one-year-old who bas skipped a nap. Ail of us, two aunts, three uncles, a family friend, four nieces, two, niegbbourhood blidren for extraAI volume,, are a delegation toi prepare a house, for closing sale. It's the end of several days' work: remove ail bits and pieces, years of living, dust down the basement wails, sweep, vacuumn, moe floors, scour countertops, pile- black bags of garbage in the garage, sort through accumulations unfit for a garage sale: 1969 cassette * playeýr, a tomr vinyl playpen, a metal sta d, an ironing board. Ail this in wrapping up the estate of my wife's parents. Finally, we pile the black bags by the condominium curb, ironing board and playpen foremost, free for the taking. Karen, reeling from lack of nap, spies the playpen. Playpens are-for naps. She pulls at it. She signais to her parents: heip me, help me. "She has her afternoon nap in a pen like that." Mothers know everything. Karen tugs on the-playpen, switching -attention ~ <. .~ from mother toi father, claps ber hands te help them understand. The grandparents had, at this bouse, hosted years of family dinners: Christpias New Yearls, Easter,BROLNM OLLAEA,14 birthdays. Playpens are for naps. Brooklin Mémorial Arena was constructed in 1948-49 fr-om parts of old buildings fromn Tbanksgiving. Defense Industries Ltd. at Ajax, as a inemorial of Wlutby Townsiis soldiers in the Mrst Soon, we close the bouse door for the Iast Urne, and Second World Wars. It was demolished in the summer of 1972. sealing in our memories.whtArIl oo Later, at the Swan household, wve gather te put final touches on this Thanksgiving.Maies, liberated, plunk down before the TV te watch the Blew Jays fail t6 capture wbatever it is they're 1tying te capture. AG The motbers, liberated, leave plying cbhldren te 10rom the G dinnr, eDoald PlaSôu ilfri th Wedaes, WOctber13, 1982 edition ci the. sbop fordnerMcoad and ouh China, conmb%-à i ned , wkindo f Thonksil gcme AIgtriG rnstln ilb uitfo ikrn ' saab 96 1I can be. WH[TBYCBRONICLE Later, dinner- is served: buffet-style Cbinese, e fier. are mur cases of Typiioid Fever reported in Brooklin. styrofoam burgers for the kcids. e fier. is a popoeal te buld an electric railway fom Toronto te, Whitby along the. Kingston Relatives then pile inte the van for the ninety-minuteRod driv hoe. he eighours cilden g hoe. rin* Mrs. Hare, wife cf the. principal cf the. Ontario Ladies' College, is honourary president cf dr ho mes t e be, iglitois lo en geth omib ôes orinthe.Whitbhr branch cf the. Women'sChristian Temperane Union. gteo fainngto os teh,.wthp fes.% vl. Fatiier J.L.Handisl.aving the. Cathoic churciies of Whitby and Oshawa and wiil b. Thaksivng are for families.sucedbyv.atrJPJffo. .ç74'?;'. ' buij 'A IIL'tk 4. ,*'b i M