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PROFILE

WEDNESDAY, December 21, 1994

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nay Christmas §

Dennis looked cautiously about the room, his eyes landed on the tree Den- nis said, “Mom there’s not enough room for presents!” “Sure there is,” she said. “There isn’t room for the presents I want.” “Dennis, your selfish.”

“I'll be in my room finishing my Christmas list,” said Dennis.

That night around 5:00 he went to the post office to mail his list. Soon it was Christmas Eve and Dennis said, “I'll be mad if I didn’t get the presents I wanted.”

“Your selfish,” said Maria.

“Dennis. Maria. Go to bed.”

The next morning there was 20 presents under the tree. Dennis got 5. “I am mad. I didn’t get all the presents I wanted,” yelled Dennis.

“Go to your room,” yelled Dad.

He ran down the hall and slammed the door. “I'm mad,” he yelled.

Then someone appeard before him and said “I am the Christmas Fairy and I have come to teach you a lesson.” “Why?” Dennis asked. “Because you are selfish. Now come with me.” She snapped her fingers and they were looking in a poor family’s window.

The girl and boy looked sad. They said “Mama, Papa, it doesn’t matter that you couldn't afford presents because love only counts.”

The Fairy said, “You see Dennis only love counts. You have gifts in your pocket. Give them to them.”

Dennis pulled them out of his pocket and kn&cked on the door. The Mama answered. Dennis said, “Please give these to your children,” and she took them. “Thanks!”

“Christmas isn’t about getting gifts it’s about love and giving.”

“I'm sorry. I won't be so selfish.”

“I will take you home. You've learned your lesson,” she snapped her fingers

and Dennis was back in his room.

The Fairy vanished.

Dennis then apoligized to everyone.

Then he went to his room and thought of something his grandfather had said, “Out of sight, out of mind, was no

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Dennis looked cautiously about the room. It was Christ- mas Eve and he had thought he had heard something in: the living room. When Dennis went into the living room, the cookies and milk he had left by the Christmas tree for Santa were gone. Dennis turned around to leave, but he turned around to look at the tree again and a fat fellow wearing a red and white suit with a black belt and black boots was standing in front of the fireplace with a milk mustache. Up until that moment Dennis had thought Santa Claus was just a legend, but either he was hallucinating or that was no longer true. The person introduced himself as Kris Kringle and he and Dennis had a long talk about what he had just seen and what he was about to see. When they were finished their little talk, Kris went up the chimney and Dennis went back to bed until morning. When Dennis opened his presents in the morning he found an invita- tion from Kris Kringle to come down and have a little talk with him next year. From that Christmas forward Dennis would have a talk with Kris | Kringle on Christmas Eve ] while the ate cookies and drank milk. After that one night when Dennis was twelve years old, out of sight, out of mind, was no longer true.

Jaimie Tarasoff

Dennis looked cautiously about the room. It was December 23rd. There was a dimentional por- tal, and his teddy bear came alive and took him through it. He was

taken to Teddy Land. He had to be out by Christmas Eve, and if he didn’t Dennis would turn into a teddy bear. Dennis’s teddy bear’s name was Devinchky. Then they'took him to a big room and tried

to dress him like a girl teddy bear. They tried to get Dennis to wear a pink pockadot dress and put a bow in his hair. Then they took him to the jail. He stayed there for one and a half days. He called the guard for something. Dennis had 12 hours left before he turned into a teddy. A teddy bear brang another kid into the jail, but Dennis broke loose and jumped into the portal. It took 7 hours to get back home. His mom and dad did not know that Dennis was gone. He quickly jumped into the bed. When he awoke Dennis was still in the pokadot dress and still had the bows in his hair. He went to school.

- In Science, Dennis took part in a lesson on time travel. Out of sight,

~ out of mind, was no longer true.

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Congratulations to the following:

Kootenay Christmas for all to remember.

A big thank you to the more than 80 people from Fruitvale, Trail, Paterson, Nelson, Kaslo, Rossland, Salmo, Robson and Castlegar who submitted a story in our Kootenay Christmas story contest. It was difficult to narrow the winners down to only three.

Ast prize: Nicole Barry, $15 gift certificate from Hall’s Office Centre Second prize: Jaime Tarasoff, winner of a free kid’s haircut courtesy of Boulevard Headquarters Third prize: Lyle Tassone, Parker Brother’s game of Clue, courtesy of Plaza IDA A very special thank you to the students of Mr. Dodds and Mr. Rigby at Woodland Park Elementary school and those at Kinnaird Middle school who submitted the stories as a class project. If imagination is any indication of the spirit of Christmas, then this will be a special