Snowmen aplenty around Sabina
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If you like snowmen, you’ll want to see what Debbie Wolfe has to offer during Christmas Around Sabina Town. A Sabina resident, she will set up in the Mercer-Hartley Building.
The annual craft show will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to5 p.m. Saturday.
In addition to snowmen, Wolfe will have […]

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Snow Flurries and Christmas Legends Make This Disney Christmas Unforgettable
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Laughter and good cheer fills the air this Orlando holiday season as people from around the world come together and celebrate a spirited Disney Christmas! Experience hot chocolate and carolers at Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party in the Magic Kingdom, or delight in the fascinating displays of international traditions at Holidays Around the World in […]

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Free mail delivery for Canadian troops overseas
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I am pleased to report that Canada Post will be, until the start of 2009, providing free delivery of letters and parcels from family and friends to Canadian troops deployed overseas.
This free delivery offer extends to family and friends of the deployed troops serving overseas in war zones, including Canadian Forces personal serving in Afghanistan, […]

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Germany’s Christmas toy towns
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Two weeks after some idle internet research reveals that not only are those little wooden Christmas tree decorations still made in Germany, but in the Erzgebirge mountains there’s a village called Seiffen devoted to making them, I’m on a flight to Dresden.
I love Christmas, and the regions of Saxony and Thuringia in Germany, are, it […]

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Money’s tight, but kids believe
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Mathivathany pauses at the question – “How is it possible to raise a family on $1,400 a month?”
“We may not have much,” she replies. “But we have each other. It feels like they have everything.”
Mathivathany and her husband fled Sri Lanka as refugees in 1994.
Their children – an 11-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy – […]

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New Christmas Island stamps issued
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SANTA Claus can be seen lazing on the beach in Australia Post’s latest issue of stamps from Christmas Island.
In a Christmas tradition which began in 1993, Australia Post produces stamps featuring Christmas Island every second year.
This year’s 45 cent stamp shows Santa arriving at Christmas Island in a tiny yacht piled high with presents, while […]

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The Science of Santa Claus
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If you’re skeptical of Santa’s abilities to deliver presents to millions of homes and children in just one night, North Carolina State University’s Dr. Larry Silverberg, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, can explain the plausible science and engineering principles that could allow the Jolly Old Elf to pull off the magical feat year after […]

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Somehow, gift boxes always get delivered
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It was a five-alarm Santa Claus Fund emergency.
Just a few days before thousands of gift boxes were to be delivered to Toronto families, Rose Cudney’s phone rang in the middle of the night.
It was the warehouse manager.
“You’ve got to come down here,” Cudney recalls the man insisting. “He wouldn’t even tell me what was wrong. […]

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Get in spirit with vacation in Santa Claus
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Families looking for a Christmas-themed vacation might want to make plans to take the youngsters to Santa Claus, Ind.
The city, about a six-hour drive southeast of Chicago, has a bonanza of yuletide themes and attractions within a seven-mile radius of the downtown area.
The town has a Santa Claus Museum where visitors can enjoy memorabilia and […]

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Polar Express tickets on sale
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All aboard The Polar Express!
Anyone wanting tickets to Canton’s first-ever Polar Express train ride can order them beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday — no sooner.
The Polar Express will leave from the Canton Lincoln Highway Station at 1315 Tuscarawas St. W at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 12, 13 and 14. Tickets […]

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Neiman unveils 2007 Christmas Book
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Neiman Marcus unveiled its 81st annual Christmas Book Tuesday, boasting everything from a $20 set of four peppermint tins to a $2.3 million getaway to the Ameya Preserve in Montana.
The Dallas-based luxury retailer’s catalog, first published in 1926, is seen by many as a harbinger of the Christmas shopping season. The “ultimate wish book” […]

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USPS: Mail Christmas gifts on time
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Eight reindeer and a sleigh may be able to circle the globe in one night, but for the rest of our gifts, it takes a little longer.
United States Postal Service spokesman Duke Gonzales released a schedule yesterday listing deadlines by which presents must be mailed out from Guam for worldwide delivery in time for Christmas […]

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‘Shoebox’ Christmas gifts get sent around the world
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Montanans can send simple Christmas presents to children all over the world by filling a shoebox full of gifts and dropping it off with Operation Christmas Child volunteers.
“My shop has been a drop-off point for seven or eight years,” said Ron Staley, owner of Perfection Machine & Repair in Great Falls.
He said he collected about […]

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Oh deer! Santa hit by animal movement controls
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A Christmas festival will go ahead in early December – with or without reindeer.
Organisers of Durham City’s Storybook Christmas Festival are hoping Santa will arrrive drawn by two live reindeer.
But Government restrictions on animal movements mean Triumph and Mic-Mac will have to stay at their home at The Reindeer Centre in Ashford, Kent, unless officials […]

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Christmas Decorations Contain Lead
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The federal government estimates more than 300,000 children in the U.S. have lead levels considered too high. Toys imported from China have been the blame and are scaring most parents from buying toys this Christmas. But as we learned today, toys aren’t the only thing to worry about this Christmas season. Ashli Kimenker reports.
Christmas decorations […]

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Bogus Tweenies in lights row
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HUNDREDS of children were disappointed when Kids’ TV favourites The Tweenies didn’t turn up for the Trafford Centre’s Christmas lights switch-on.
Furious parents had to console their youngsters after the BBC’s Cbeebies characters – the main draw for many families with young children – missed Thursday’s big event.
Advance publicity stated that ‘Milo and Fizz from […]

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Hall harking back to Christmas past
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A MAGICAL Christmas awaits visitors to National Trust property Rufford Old Hall.
The historic property, in the village of Rufford near Ormskirk, has organised a series of special events that will take people on a journey to Christmases past.
On Saturday, December 1, Tapestry of Music will present ‘Music for a Medieval Christmas’ with music from the […]

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Downtown leaders hope to have bells ringing this Christmas
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The first time Dick Filley drove into Roseburg in 1972, one of the first things he noticed was the sound of bells ringing tra-la-la through the downtown.
He was a bit proud when he found out the music was emanating from the offices of his new employer, Equitable Savings & Loan.
“At that time, Roseburg was known […]

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Crafty gifts to suit all tastes
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GET crafty this Christmas and treat friends and family to gifts they won’t get from anyone else!
If you’re looking for unusual presents that you won’t find on the high street, head to Ormskirk’s Chapel Gallery, which is holding a Christmas shopping event on Friday, November 30.
This annual event provides an opportunity to pick up unique […]

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It’s time to think small this Christmas
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With high streets and shopping centres increasingly dominated by multi-million pound retail brands, it is a wonder independent shopkeepers get a look in at Christmas at all.
But small traders in the city claim they offer a range of products and hands-on customer care which even the biggest corporations cannot match.
Dorothy Thompson, public relations officer for […]

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Inmates build Christmas displays
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Minimum-security inmates at the state Human Services Center in Yankton are in the Christmas spirit.
They’ve been building holiday displays for a local park that’ll feature a Parade of Lights on November 16th.
Using discarded wooden pallets, the prisoners are making decorations that include Santa Clauses, snowflakes, snowmen, Christmas stockings and Christmas trees.
They also plan to help […]

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Hanover’s World: A different experience at Christmas
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With the holiday season now winding down we often have a little time to reflect on how we celebrated the season. We may ask ourselves, as the bills begin to arrive, whether we spent too much money on items that have already been pushed aside. We may question whether we really needed to indulge quite […]

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Lawmakers seek to defend “merry Christmas”
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Georgia’s Legislature has reentered the “Merry Christmas” versus “Happy Holidays” debate.
State Rep. Clay Cox (R-Lilburn) has revived legislation that would prohibit all state and county government agencies and school boards from barring people from saying “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Hanukkah,” or any other holiday expression.
Cox has said he has heard from teachers, public employees and students […]

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Lights, camera, Christmas
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In my neighborhood the harbinger of Christmas is the candelabra that appears in Bob and Doris Viviano’s kitchen window right after Halloween.
By Thanksgiving their house in the Forsythia Gate section of Levittown is decked with some 20,000 lights. The place glows like a happy liner on a dark sea.
I drive past the Viviano house frequently, […]

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It’s safe to say ‘Merry Christmas’
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he “Merry Christmas” versus “Happy Holidays” debate is back at the Georgia Legislature.
A Republican lawmaker is reviving a bill that would prohibit state and county government agencies and school boards from banning “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Hanukkah” or any other such holiday expressions.
The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Clay Cox (R-Lilburn), says he has heard from teachers, […]

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