DECEMBER 2007# 62
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DECEMBER 2007# 62
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Dec. 4 Hanukkah, Dec. 7 is Pearl Harbor Day, the start of Winter is Dec 22. Christmas Day is Tuesday, Dec. 25. New Years' Eve is Monday, Dec. 31. | |||||
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GRANVILLE CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAY PARTY DECEMBER 12 TH 2PM TO 4PM MEMORIAL DINER COME AND CELEBRATE CAKE AND COFFEE WILL BE SERVED DECEMBER 16 TH 12:30PM TO 3:30PM REFRESHMENTS DOOR PRIZES BINGO FROM 12:30 TO 2 MUSIC FROM 2 TO 3:30 DO YOUR CHRISTMAS BAKING THE EASY WAYBRING YOUR OWN TIN OR YOU CAN PURCHASE A TIN OF BAKED GOODS. SANTA WILL BE ATTENDING AND PICTURES WILL BE TAKEN. WESTERN STATE BANK HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE DECEMBER 17 TH 9AM TO 1PM REFRESHMENTS AND DOOR PRIZES 1 ST LUTHERAN CHURCH ADVENT TEA DECEMBER 5 TH AT 7:30PM ENTERTAINMENT BY JOSH MOEN A MSU MUSIC STUDENT AND FUTURE SEMINARIAN JOSH WILL ALSO HAVE HIS CD AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE |
CHRISTMAS TOUR OF HOMES SATURDAY DECEMBER 8 TH TICKETS ON SALE ON DECEMBER 8 TH FROM 4PM TO 7:30PM AT THE LUNCH ROOM AT TGU GRANVILLE SCHOOL TICKETS ARE $10 A CHRISTMAS TOUR BUS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO RIDE TO THE HOUSES WITH ENTERTAINMENT. THE BUS WILL BE GUIDED BY SANTA, MRS. CLAUSE AND A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS ELF. YOU MUST PURCHASE YOUR TICKET AND MEET THE BUS AT THE WEST PARKING LOT OF THE SCHOOL BY 6:30. LUNCH AND HOT APPLE CIDER WILL BE SERVED IN THE SCHOOL LUNCH ROOM. A SECRET STOP WILL BE INCLUDED!! SPECIALS FOR TOUR GOERS WILL BE AVAILABE AT ZIMBLEMANS GIFTS AND COZY COTTAGE SUPPER SPECIALS WILL BE AVAILABE AT THE WHITE BUFFALO LOUNGE. A FUN ENTERTAINING NIGHT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! |
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*CHURCH NEWS*HOPE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH SERVICES HELD EVERY SUNDAY AT 9AM CANDLE LIGHT CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE DECEMBER 24 TH AT 6PM PASTOR FRANK PICARDS WOMANS SOCIETY – DEC.6 TH AT 2PM FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH SERVICES HELD EVERY SUNDAY AT 11AM LADIES AID – DEC. 13 TH AT 1PM NORWICH LUTHERAN CHURCH SERVICES HELD EVERY SUNDAY AT 9AM LADIES AID MEETS DEC. 6 TH AT 2PM
OUR DECEMBER "ATTA BOY" AWARDS GO TO FRANCIS PFEIFER AND MERRY GREEN. FRANCIS HAS DONATED DIRT, GRAVEL, HIS EQUIPMENT AND HIS TIME TO MANY GRANVILLE PROJECTS. HE IS A VERY FINE SUPPORTER OF GRANVILLE. THANK YOU FRANCIS FOR ALL YOUR TIME AND EFFORT IN IMPROVING OUR LITTLE TOWN. MERRY IS ANOTHER ONE WHO IS ALWAYS THERE TO HELP WITH ANYTHING TO SUPPORT GRANVILLE. SHE HAS SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS AND SUPPLIES TO PROJECTS LIKE THE SANTA DAY, 4-H AND CHURCH FUCTIONS. EACH OF THESE FINE PEOPLE RECEIVE A FREE HAMBURGER AND FRENCH FRIES FROM DONNA AT THE MEMORIAL DINER. THANK YOU, FRANCIS! THANK YOU, MERRY! THANK YOU, DONNA! *BABIES * BABIES* A BABY BOY WAS BORN TO KYLE AND KENDRA LARSEN ON OCTOBER 18 TH. KASON JOINS HIS SISTER, KAITLYN. KIM HALL AND JEFF NEHRING ARE THE PROUD PARENTS OF A BABY BOY NAMED DAWSON JOHN. HE WAS BORN OCT. 23 RD. LEONARD AND MARLENE LARSEN ARE THE GRANDPARENTS TO BOTH OF THESE TWO FINE BOYS. CONGRATULATIONS
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THANK YOU TO KAREN BACHMEIER FOR DONATING MONEY TO PRINT THE GAZETTE.
THANK YOU TO THE RISING HOMEMAKERS FOR THE MONEY TO PRINT THE GAZETTE. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ANNIVERSARYS WAYNE & DENISE SHIPMAN - DEC. 1 ERIC & CONNIE THOMPSON – DEC.6 HAROLD & CHERYL LOVRO – DEC. 7 LEONARD & MARLENE LARSEN – DEC.13 ED & VIVIAN McCLOSKEY – DEC. 14 CARTER HALL – DEC. 2 DUSTIN FROUNFELTER - DEC. 3 KIM HALL – DEC. 7 DANIELLE SHIPMAN – DEC. 10 EVA DUCHSHERER – DEC. 12 CITY OF GRANVILLE – DEC. 12 ETHAN BOEHM – DEC. 12 GRADY SHIPMAN – DEC. 14 CURT OLSON – DEC.16 JERRY MILLER – DEC. 16 LANE BACHMEIER – DEC. 17 LISA from KARL.DEC. 17 JOHN SMETTE – DEC. 18 JOHN ULLAND – DEC. 19 JESSIE MACDONALD – DEC 19 TODD KROUT – DEC. 20 SEB TRANA – DEC. 21 DOUG SMETTE – DEC 26 CINDY ANDERSON – DEC. 28 ARDELLE HILLERUD – DEC. 28 TIM ANDERSON – DEC. 30 CAMERON ANDERSON – DEC. 30 BITS & PIECES: CITY COUNCIL DEC. 3 RD TH AT 7PM AMERICAN LEGION DEC. 4 TH AT 8PM FOOD PANTRY DEC. 12 TH FIREMANS DEC. 18 TH AT 8PM |
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FROM THE PASTORS WINDOWAS I LOOK OUT MY OFFICE WINDOW THIS MORNING THE GROUND HAS A FRESH COAT OF WHITE. THE EXHAUST FROM FURNACES IS GOING SIDEWAYS FROM THE WIND AND ONE CAN FEEL THE BRISKNESS OF THE AIR. A NEW SEASON IS UPON US WHETHER WE ARE READY OR NOT. THE SEASON OF ADVENT IS UPON US AND IT SEEMS TO HAVE COME UPON US ALMOST AS SUDDENLY AS THE NEW SNOW BUT UNLIKE WINTER THAT CAN CATCH US UNPREPARED ADVENT IS TIME SET ASIDE TO PREPARE. THE SEASON OF ADVENT IS OUR TIME TO DRAW CLOSE TO OUR GOD AND TO PREPARE OUR HEARTS AND MINDS TO WELCOME JESUS ALL OVER AGAIN AND FOR THE FIRST TIME. ADVENT REMINDS US THAT GOD INTENTIONALLY DID FOR US WHAT WE WERE AND ARE INCAPABLE OF DOING OUR SELVES GOD SAW THE HOPELESSNESS OF MAN AND SAW OUR INABILITY TO SAVE OURSELVES SO GOD CAME TO US TO SAVE US, NOT ONLY HAS GOD INTERVENED ON OUR BEHALF BUT GOD DOES IT IN THE MOST PROFOUND WAY POSSIBLE. HE SENDS HIS ONLY SON JESUS TO BE WITH US, TO DWELL AMONG US. ADVENT IS CELABRATING GOD WITH US. WHEN YOU FINISH READING THIS NOTE I ASK YOU TO STOP WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU ARE DOING AND REFLECT FOR A MOMENT ON THE MEANING OF THIS ENDLESS GIFT. IN THE QUIET
OF YOUR REFLECTION PONDER THE MEANING OF GOD WITH US. GOD NEAR US. GOD FOR PEACE AND GRACE BE UPON YOU, |
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAVE A MILITARY CORNER TRAVIS CLARK WAS HOME ON LEAVE FROM OCT 30 TH THRU NOV 15 TH ACCORDING TO HIS MOM, JULIE, HE IS DOING GOOD. HE VISITED WITH HIS BROTHER IN MINNESOTA AND HUNTED WITH HIS GRANDPA BUT DIDN'T GET A DEER. HE WILL BE HOME IN JUNE. HE IS WORKING CHECK POINT SECURITY OVER IN IRAQ BUT COULDN'T SAY MUCH MORE. ^^^^^^^^^ CHRISTOPHER MERCER FROM GRANVILLE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU. HIS ADDRESS IS: CHRIS MERCER AND HIS FAMILY LIVE IN THE OLD ROGERS HOME BY THE POST OFFICE. IF ANYONE IS STILL THINKING OF SENDING GIFTS OVER TO OUR PEOPLE IN IRAQ, IN ORDER FOR THEM TO RECEIVE IT BY CHRISTMAS IT MUST BE SENT BY DECEMBER 5 TH. THEY WOULD LIKE DVD'S, CARDS, HAND HELD GAMES, THE SMALL POWDER PACKETS OF JUICE, ENERGY BARS, BOOKS, MAGAZINES. HAND SANITIZER, WET WIPES, JUST TO NAME A FEW THINGS. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ JUST A THOUGHT. . . WE HAD A VERY NICE THANKSGIVING. ALL THE KIDS WERE THERE. ALL THE GRANDCHILDREN AND ALL THE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. OUR PRECIOUS AUNT PHYLLIS AND THREE TREASURED COUSINS WERE THERE AND IT WAS WONDERFUL. WE HAD DINNER UP AT MY SISTER, TAMS, HOUSE AT BANTRY. SHE HAD ASKED ME TO BRING A FEW THINGS CAUSE THERE WAS TO BE SO MANY PEOPLE. I LOADED UP PLATES, SILVERWARE, GLASSES, AND COFFEE CUPS IN MY CAR. PLUS THE FOOD I WAS TO BRING. I CALLED HER ON THANKSGIVING MORNING AND ASKED HER IF SHE WANTED ME TO BRING MY KITCHEN SINK. SHE SAID NO, BUT AFTER DINNER AND WHILE DISHES WERE BEING DONE, WE KINDA WISH I WOULD OF THROWN THAT IN MY CAR, TOO. PAM IS THE ONLY ONE OF US WHO HAS A DISHWASHER, ACTUALLY THAT’S A LIE. I HAVE TWO, MY LEFT AND MY RIGHT. NONE OF OUR HOUSES ARE HUGE AND WE WERE A MIGHT CROWDED. BUT WE ARE FAMILY ANDContinued next column Page 4 ... |
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... Continued SHARE! . SURE DO HOPE YOU ALL HAD A GREAT THANKSGIVING. CHRISMTAS WILL BE PRETTY QUIET. IT'S A LAW THAT YOU WILL LOVE HONOR AND SPEND CHRISTMAS DAY AT GRANDMA FEROLS BUT SINCE SO MANY ARE SO FAR AWAY IT GETS HARD. I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. MAKE IT A SAFE ONE! GOD BLESS AND REMEMBER THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON FOR EVERYTHING! ENUF SAID, JO |
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OPEN M-F 6AM TO 6PM SAT 8AM TO 6PM OPEN 1 ST AND 3 RD SUNDAYS CATERING AVAILABLE MON – FRIDAYOPEN 8 AM TO ???? ON SATURDAYCOZY COTTAGECHRISTMAS HAS COME TOCOZY COTTAGE ANTIQUES AND GIFTSSTOP BY AND VISIT THISQUANT LITTLE HOUSE!LOOK AT THEANTIQUES-RESTORED FURNITUREHOME DÉCOR*HAND CRAFTED ITEMSBOXED GREETING CARDS,KNITTED DISH CLOTHS*GRANVILLE CENTENNIAL MERCHANDISE* PORCELAIN CHINA BY CHINA PAINTER LAVONNE WAGENMANGREAT GIFTS FOR CHRISTMASNEW STORE HOURS FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBERTUE-FRID 10AM TO 6PMSAT 10AM TO 2PMAPPOINTMENTS ARE STILL AVAILABLECONGRATULATIONS TO JUDY BACON FOR WINNING THE DOOR PRIZE DURING HUNTERS WIDOW WEEKEND AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU FOR MAKING THE WEEKEND A GREAT SUCCESS! MYRON AND LINDA SMETTE
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REMEMBER TO BE GOOD OR SANTA WON'T COME!!! BUFFALO CREEK HORN MOUNTS We are giving away a free sweatshirt to who ever brings us their largest scoring whitetail to mount this season. Thanks again, Jeff and John. Check out our web site at www.granvillend.com then go to the business link. If anyone is interested in stopping by our shop in Granville, please contact John @ 833-1603 or Jeff @ 833-7338 JOHN AND JEFF SMETTE ******************************* CYNDI'S T & T WINTER HOURS FRIDAY*SATURDAY*SUNDAY CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD Copyright © 1996-2005 The-North-Pole.com Christmas In IRAQOn Christmas Eve, Iraqi Christian families gather together and one of the children read about the birth of Jesus while other family members hold lighted candles. Afterward the reading, a bonfire of thorn bushes is let and everyone sings. If the thorns burn to ashes, good luck will be granted for the coming year. When the fire dies, each |
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD continued person jumps over the ashes three times and makes a wish. On Christmas Day another bonfire is lit in the churchyard. The bishop, carrying a figure of the Baby Jesus leads the service. Afterwards he blesses one person with a touch. That person touches th e person next to him or her and the touch is passed around until all present have felt the "touch of peace." Christmas In NORWAY Like the other Scandinavian countries, Norway has its gift-bearing little gnome or elf. Known as Julebukk or "Christmas buck," he appears as a goat-like creature. Julebukk harkens back to Viking times when pagans worshipped Thor and his goat. During pagan celebrations a person dressed in a goatskin, carrying a goat head, would burst in upon the party and during the course of evening would "die" and return to life.During the early Christian era, the goat began to take the form of the devil, and would appear during times of wild merry-making and jubilation. By the end of the Middle Ages, the game was forbidden by the Church and the state. In more recent times the goat has emerged in the tamer form of Julebukk. Christmas In IRAN Iran, formerly Persia, is the land where the Three Wise men are believed to have lived when Jesus was born. Today Christians in Iran begin fasting from animal products on December 1. This is called "Little Fast." "Big Fast" occurs during Lent, the six weeks preceding Easter. After Church service of December 25 they enjoy Christmas dinner which they call "Little Feast." A traditional dish is a chicken stew called harasa. Gifts are generally not exchanged but children get new clothes which they wear proudly on Christmas Day. Christmas In BETHLEHEMThe little town where Jesus is said to have been born is the site of the Church of the Nativity, which is ablaze with flags and decorations every Christmas. On Christmas Eve natives and visitors alike crowd the church's doorways and stand on the roof to watch for the dramatic annual procession. Galloping horsemen and police mounted on Arabian horses lead the parade. They are followed by solitary horseman carrying a cross and sitting astride a coal-black steed. Then come the churchmen and government officials. The procession solemnly enters the doors and places an ancient effigy of the Holy Child in the church. Deep winding stairs lead to a grotto where visitors find a silver star marking the site of the birth of Jesus. Christian homes in Bethlehem are marked by a cross painted over the door and each home displays a homemade manger scene. A star is set up on a pole in the village square. . |
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Christmas In Canadacontinued from
In Canada, from 1875 onwards, Christmas lost its essentially religious character, at least for Anglophones and the upper middle class. Little by little it became a community festival which gave rise to much family merry-making. New customs began to take root. Henceforth, the decorated Christmas tree, the cr che with its santons or plaster figures, gifts and the Christmas "rŽveillon" became part of family tradition. We decorate a pine tree with ornaments representing Christmas, buy or make each other presents that get wrapped in wrapping paper to be put under the tree so they can be opened on Christmas Day. Santa Claus is the person that who brings the presents. You aren't supposed to know what you're going to get, so that is part of the fun of Christmas Day. On Christmas Eve, December 24th, there is usually a turkey dinner and in the middle of the night, Santa Claus is said to come down the chimney and place the presents under the tree. Then he goes back up the chimney (he's magic) and flies to the next house in his sleigh with 9 reindeer pulling it through the air (it flies). On Christmas Day, all the presents are opened. Noël à Québec Francophones, however, incorporated these new practices into their culture much later. After the First World War, increasing commercial advertising drew Francophones into the dizzy festive activities. During the 1930s, the working classes also joined this happy Christmas rush.In QuŽbec, which is the French-speaking part of Canada, we celebrate Christmas by putting up a big Christmas tree, sometime before Christmas. Many people also put a Christmas tree outside with colured lights. Usually we have lots of snow by the time Christmas comes around and it looks very festive. Most people eat turkey for their Christmas dinner, but in the old days people used to eat Tourti re, which is a sort of stew made of a layer of meat, a layer of potatoes, a layer of onions, another layer of meat, potatoes, onions and so on till it is big enough. A layer of pastry goes on top to cover and then you cook it for a long time. Christmas dinner is called "Reveillon" (waking up) and it is eaten when people come back from Midnight Mass, maybe at two o'clock in the morning. In our family we get a Christmas tree just before Christmas and the next day we decorate it. For Christmas Eve we usually eat duck and then rice pudding with almonds. Afterwards we open the presents from our family - and the next morning we open the ones from Santa Claus. Then my sister and I play with our presents and my parents read the newspaper. For Christmas dinner we have nut loaf and Christmas pudding with custard.In QuŽbec the end of Christmas is called La f te du Roi (on the 6th of January). For this you make a cake which has a bean inside it. The person who gets the bean is the king (or queen). |
Christmas In SCANDINAVIAIt is from Scandinavia that most of our yule log traditions derive. The dark cold winters inspired the development of traditions concerned with warmth and light. Yuletide, meaning "the turning of the sun" or the winter solstice, has traditionally been a time of extreme importance in Scandinavia - a time when fortunes for the coming year were determined and when the dead were thought to walk the earth. For a long time, it was considered dangerous to sleep alone on Christmas Eve. The extended family, master and servant, alike would sleep together on a freshly spread bed of straw. The Yule log was originally an entire tree, carefully chosen, and brought into the house with great ceremony. The butt end would be place into the hearth while the rest of the tree stuck out into the room. The tree would be slowly fed into the fire and the entire process was carefully timed to last the entire Yule season. Christmas In SWEDEN A Thousand years ago, King Canute declared that Christmas would last a month, from December 13, the feast of St. Lucia until January 13, or Tjugondag Knut (St. Canute's Day). No one is quite sure why Lucia, a 4th century Sicilian saint, came to be so revered in Sweden. Some say she once visited the country, and others believe missionaries brought stories of her life which entranced the Swedish people. Her story is that in the days of early Christian persecution, Lucia carried food to Christians hiding in dark underground tunnels. To light the way she wore a wreath of candles on her head. Eventually Lucia was arrested and martyred. On her feast day the eldest daughter in each family dresses in a white dress with a red sash, and wears an evergreen wreath with seven lighted candles on her head. She carries coffee and buns to each family member in his or her room. Many schools, offices, and communities sponsor Lucia processions in which carol are sung and everyone thanks the Queen of Light for bringing hope during the darkest time of the year. On Christmas Eve a certain Christmas gnome, known as the tomte, emerges from his home under the floor of the house or the barn. He carries a sack over his shoulder and leaves gifts for all. |
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