Christmas

Sipping News Not exclusively a summer drink, serve apple cider as a refreshing alternative during the holidays.   BY HUGH KRUZEL Beverage selection seems to be growing by the week. We are always hearing of some new product, an emerging country or a novel twist. Well, cider is old news renewed.   Around since medieval [...]

        Welcome to Jacqueline Martin’s Holiday House. The effervescent retired teacher and librarian loves to entertain. She loves beautiful things. She loves to decorate. During the holidays, she indulges. In late fall, Martin puts away her “everyday” things and brings out her large collection of holiday accents and decorations and plays dress [...]

The Christmas season, work, life in general consumes the moments sometimes with a sense of wonder and sometimes with a sense of really what am I thinking. To say there is a little stress sprinkling my magical moments would be a truism. I struggle with do I change anything? Are my behaviours ingrained because of [...]

Before Christmas: Bring reusable bags when you do your Christmas shopping.  For larger items, don’t use a bag at all.  Just bring the item home in its box. When purchasing gift wrap, get the paper type as it is recyclable.  Plastic and foil gift wrap are not recyclable and must be thrown in the garbage. [...]

Nollaig Shona Duit. That’s Gaelic for Happy Christmas. Here are some of the Irish Christmas traditions, information available from www.ireland-information.com. Ireland, like most countries, has a number of Christmas traditions that are all of its own. Many of these customs have their root in the time when the Gaelic culture and religion of the country [...]

Published originally in Northern Life. A Sudbury choir will get a rare opportunity to perform at New York’s prestigious Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts. Twenty-four singers from the Bel Canto Chorus will join other choirs from around the world to perform Handel’s “Messiah” on Dec. 1.  “How many times do you get to say, [...]

(NC)—If the mall is “beginning to look a lot like Christmas” and you’re hearing “Jingle Bells” on the radio, you know “the most wonderful time of the year” is just around the corner. And though you’re always given advance warning of the festive season, somehow you always end up stretched for time - running from [...]

A Christmas Story, released in 1983, has not only become part of popular culture, it has spawned an empire. There is A Christmas Story museum, a website, a product line, and a musical stage version. In 2007, AOL ranked the film its No. 1 Christmas movie of all time. Much of A Christmas Story was [...]

  Michelle and Ken Vaillancourt dream of their white Christmas. They create a winter wonderland inside and outside of their home in the Loach’s Road area of the city. Michelle, a nurse, likes the clean and fresh look of white which contrasts handsomely with the main living rooms that are painted a pale sage colour. [...]

  Christmas… by the numbers Information from Statistics Canada Shopping in December $36.8 billion - The amount of money Canadian shoppers spent in December 2005, up 6.6% from December 2004. $845 - The average amount each Canadian consumer spent in December 2005. This was almost $250 more than was spent on average during any other [...]