Show i 11 Christmas by December 25 2002 Gunnison Valley NevvsSalina Sun iswhat you make of it! Mandi Dyreng for most it is the Christmas most wonderful time of the year a time for service and giving time for family and friends However for some it is a time of sorrow and stress Some don't have the money for gifts and toys Some people don’t have family to be with Christmas brings different feeling to different people In Charles Dickens’ The Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing to say about Christmas but “Bah humbug1” He is a lonely old man who bases his life and Christmas on In the novel he work my will every idiot who material things says “What can be but cross goes about with ‘Merry Christwhen live in such a world of mas’ on his lips should be boiled fools as this? Merry Christmas! upon Merry Christmas! to you What’s Christmas-timbut a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented Out dead against you7 If could with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his head” Scrooge is experiencing the At the effect of Christmas of the book he sees that Christmas can be a time of good cheer it you have a good attitude about it For me Christmas is a time of good cheer and happiness love the tree love Christmas love the gifts love the snow (which only occurs on rare occasions) My favorite things about Christmas are the parties love being with my friends and family eating playing games and giving to one Christmas tude Editor's Note: We asked the College English Class of Gunnison High School to participate in an essay contest These three were deemed the best of the bunch published They weren't told their essays would-bbut they did win afeiv movie passes Jim GREETINGS Pole SEASON’S iqREETINqS Sending out our best wishes for holiday season1 a wonderful tool from all of us Happy Holidays! Betty & Cindy at the Sun News Office Christmas by Kendon Sorenson My most memorable Christmas was the Christmas of 999 It all staded out like any other year cutting a tree buying gifts and of course our favorite Christmas past time - snooping1 My brothers and had been doing a fair amount of snooping during the month of December We had searched high and low in the house for Santa's stash One morning after a snowfall my brother Jaden decided he would Pfi1 HAVE SWEET SEASON! Richfield - 1 CATCH THE A Wishing you filled and your home with love Serving you was a real treat for Merry Christmas! Waking up early on Christmorning has always been a tradition at our house This We were year was no exception a little surprised that there were no “extra” gifts under our tree Instantly we thought “Oh they mas HAVE A CHRISTMAS! 3 SPIRIT! North south east or west Wherever you celebrate We hope It’s the best With bright wishes to everyone everywhere this holiday season and yours a healthy and happy holiday season! S&H Heating & us Submay of Gunnison Salina Medical Clinic Air Conditioning Gunnison wlthBeary Best Wishes to All of You May Your Holiday Be Warm and Filled with the Comfort of Lots of Good Friends & Cozy Michelle & Annett Quail Hollow Designs Gunnison Utah ?ic R COPYl ’When they sow the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy —Matthew 2:10 All our best wishes for the brightest Christmas awl r m2 Carolyn Brock Agency' 47 South Main Gunnison Utah Serving the Community for 17 years dr It read “Santa me that you might look here early in the hunt guess your again' Merry Christmas friend the Easter Bunny’ HEALL! HOI Fimeral Hornet Satina - another note warned pared for the big event But that night wa a different story we were in for a BIG surprise1 Ask us about our prepaid funeral program Gunnison May your holiday season be with sweetness and delight My Most Memorable obvious places and found a few of the normal stocking stuffers Pretty soon we were running out of places to look and we stll hadn t found the "stash of goodies” that had been discovered in the trailer Suddenly a light came into Jaden s eyes Yes the trailer'" He threw on his coveralls grabbed his hat and snow boots and was on a dead run to the trailer' He located the key quickly because he had experience in this area' He opened the door only to find an empty pot Hanging on the mirror was stantly the light went out of his eye It was replaced with a burn ing fire' He was MAD1 He stormed back into the house bawling his eyes out' “This Christmas sucks'’ was his reply as he stomped into his room and slammed the door Pretty soon he had Landon and both near tears too Had our parents returned our gifts because we were nosy or were they really just hidden under our nosy little noses717 Sure enough our gifts had been right under our noses all the time They had probably been there for days We eventually found them in our own dirty bedrooms where no kid would think to look Under the bed in the drawers where we never put our clean clothes and under the heaps of dirty clothes on the floor' Although it was kind of traumatic for a while it ended up check out our travel trailer parked in the back yard He hit the jackpot1 He rushed right in to tell us that Santa would defimust be upstairs under that nitely be stopping at our house tree” so up we ran with exactly the things we had The only thing different in ordered' the front room was a note taped Later that week my dad to the front door We were surnoticed footprints in the snow prised to find it signed by the surrounding tne trailer After a Easter Bunny The note read he came to “Dear Landon little investigating Jaden and the conclusion as to who the Kendon my good friend Santa vader of the trailer was After this asked me to fill in at your house discovery my parents concocted He said he was extra tonight a brilliant plan for a Christmas busy visiting all the good little we would never forget did my best boys and girls Eve came Hope you have a Merry ChristChristmas around and my brothers and mas Love the Easter Bunny were anxiously waiting the visit We were a little confused at from the jolly old elf We got first but soon caught on The home from Grandma’s party Easter Bunny hides our Easter about ten o’clock p m and were eggs so he must have hidden surprised to see our parents our Christmas gifts The hunt head right to bed Normally the was on' We started in all of the being the most memorable Christmas ever would linger around until after we were tucked in our beds and pre- bad end From The North Year the Easter Bunny Helped Santa another is a good time for service and love In my ward we go and visit the widows and take them bread and soup evChristery year in December mas would be nothing without the love and service toward those who are less fortunate than we If it just came one day and we opened presents and then went back to school the next day it would be meaningless That is how Scrooge sees How joyous our seaChristmas son is all depends on our atti- And jlie Cgn4fe4klfMMk |