C2 - Sanday, December 25, 1983 - North Shore News

FLURRY OF ACTIVITY

Holiday playground

ALL THE FAIRGROUNDS
may be closed for the cold
and wet winter season, but
inside at the Arts, Sciences &
Technology Centre, the Holi-
day Carousel, December 26
through January 1, will leave
you all a-whirl with a flurry
of activities for everyone!

Glass Blowing makes a
beautiful beginning to the
celebration on Boxing Day,
Monday, December 26, as
Howard Griffiths demon-
strates this transparently ter-
rific art and science from 1-5.
On Tuesday, December 26 &
Wednesday, December 27,
Interactive Video
Demonstrations with David
Cooperstone will make you a
Star as you learn about TV
technology. Bring your new
toys to the Centre on

Wednesday, December 27,
and Scientist-in-Residence
Leigh Palmer will endeavour
to explain how they work.
This is the time to challenge
the expert - so bring your
most puzzling play-thing!
Geta close-up look at magic
and illusion, December 28,
2-5, with Gerald Holgate. At
this demonstration of magic,
visitors can get as close as
they want to discovering the
secrets of this master magi-
cian. On December 29 at
2:30, Randy Raine-Reusch
gives a demenstration of his
international collection of
musical instruments and holi-
day music from around the
world. On the same day,
make a hohday elf with soft
sculpture - Mananne Forsyth
shows you how! Norman
Foote and the Raincoast

Puppets will chase away the
winter blues on December 30
at 2:30 and on Saturday,
December 31! at 2:00, ‘‘Now
you see it - Now you don’t”’
presents Doug Vernon in a
clown’s personal encounter
with the world of illusion as
found at the ASTC.

Each day dunng Carousel
you can meet RBSX at a
special robot demonstration.
Designed for home, class-
room or lght industry, this
robot is the model for the
personal robot of the future.
Come and say hello to a
machine that could make a
model roomate! For enter-
tainment and edification
don’t miss the ASTC Science
Shows. At the Cold Show,
see a chilling demonstration
of quid nitrogen, the Amaz-

CONTINUING EDUCATION

By LOIS LIGHT

Calendars fill up quickly
once the festive season is
over, so why not take a few
moments, nght now, to mark
these dates on those new 1984
calendars you haven't yet put
up because it’s supposed to
be bad luck. There are some
one-night mini-lectures slated
for January, and January 18
is the significant date here:

At Carson Graham, from
7:30 to 9:30 a.m. you can
leam all about your new (or
even your old) food pro-
cessor, with Food Processor
Cookery, and you should
go, all you owners, because
that machine can become the
heartbeat of your kitchen if
you know how to use ut effi-
ciently. Take it from one who
just learned herself! $15 for

Schooling for 1

this one.

Also from 7 10 10 p.m. and
also $15, at Sutherland,
there’ll be an evening of Tak-
ing Better Pictures. With pro-
cessing so expensive, why not
learn how to make the very
most of your camera? For
only $15.

Two freebies are coming
your way again: How To Buy
A Used Piano, Jan. 18, at the
Vancouver Organ Centre,
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. and
How To Fight Depression
And Win, at Carson Graham
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

In keeping with Continu-
ing Education's continual
pursuit for the latest and
best, the brochure has had a
face lift! The newspaper for
mat will give way to a
magazine-style publication,
you'll find it casier to hold,
and easier tO separate from

throw-aways that continually
drop through your mail slots.
Finding the course of your
choice will entail less frenetic
searching and more reasoned
scanning. And as if this
wasn’t enough, it’ll have a
new name: North Shore Con-
tinuing Education (the
former ‘‘North Shore Night
Schools’’ leads one to forget
that there are many day
school adult courses, too).
And as if this wasn’t enough,
there will be a fine new cover.
All Vil tell you here is that
it’s an artistic achievement by
one of our North Shore
students.

Exploring Your
Potential

Career
will be aie day
course, at the North Van.
couver City Library, from
10:00 to noon, Tuesdays, for
six weeks If you're still not
satisfactornly established in
the career of your chonce.

4
‘ing Rubber Pencil Show pro-

vides Optrickery at its best,
Arcs & Sparks is an electrify-
img experience starring the
famous Van de Graaf
Generator, while the Bubble
Show is a soap opera of bub-
ble variations.

During the holiday
Carousel the Arts, Sciences &
Technology Centre, 600
Granville Street, is open to
the public on Monday, Box-
ing Day, December 26, 1-5;
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs-
day & Friday, December 27,
28, 29 & 30, 10-5; Saturday,
December 31, 10-3, and Sun-
day, January 1, 1-5. Daily
admission includes all events
and is $2 for adults, $1 for
seniors, students and
children. For more informa-
tion please call 687-8414.

935 4

why not do what you can for
yourself by enrolling here]

Driving Training will be.

conducted at
Graham, beginning on
January 17. This course
hasn’t been offered for some
lume, but now here’s your
chance to learn how to be a
good driver, for all our
sakes! You'll have five two-
hour sessions of theory in the
classroom, and then eight
hours in a car, with the hours
to be arranged. Fee will be
$185 — now there’s a
Christmas present you might
want to consider getting or
giving! Contact Derek
Cooper, at Town and Coun-
try driving — 987-7411, if
you want any more informa-
tion about this course.

Carson

For further info., call
North Shore Night School at
985-8741

Christmas after the glitter

Ever symbolic of the
Christmas season, a deco
rated tree is the centre of the
family celebration.

From the moment when
the first ornament 1s hung to
the hour when young and old
alike are captivated by its
glistening beauty on
Christmas Fve, the tree
cvokes a mood of genial! hol
iday spirit and tradhuon

Onece the hohdays are over ,
the magic fades and all too
often, once majestic trees arc
fated to he disheveled along
aide the weckly garbage

However, a Christmas tree
actually has many uses once
the hohdays are over, some
of which may include

* Placing the Christmas
tree in the garden of back
yard and using Woas a bird
feeder Orange sheces will at
tract the birds and they can
satin the branches for shehier

° A Christmas
tnodcgradable, its) branches
may be removed and uscd as
muleh osm the

tree ots

garden the

trunk can be used fon fuel on
chopped for mutch

eodat tree fohage can be
stripped from the bean hes
and saipped into small pieces

Tore staaOfurag cercer aecvetsatec Oss

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bedroom

© Large quantiues of used
trees make effective sand and
soil erosion barners, especial
ly at beaches.

e Sunk into fish ponds.
trees make cacclient refuge
and feeding arcas

* Woodworking hobbyists
can make aiomultitude of

items including buttons,
gavels, and candlestocks
from the trunk of a used

Chitstmas tree

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with Gifts

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Many thanks!

We wish you and
yours a Merry
Christmas and a

Happy New Year
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West Van 922 4512

Thanks to all our
customers
who have made 1983
a success for us.

See you in 1984.

CANADA

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KISSING BOUGHS
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ing two white bulls for peace
and prospenty. Their New

Year’s celebration also in-
cluded kissing under
mistletoe boughs to end
disagreements and _ begin
love.

Santa Claus — Also

known as Kriss Kringle, St.
Nicholas and Father
Christmas, this grandfatherly
figure has a strange lineage.

In 200 B.C., the Carthagi-
nians worshipped a fiery be-
ing who gobbled children
presented to him as New
Year’s gifts.

The Roman god Saturn
was believed to be a giant
who returned each year with
bounteous food and good
spinits.

From these two characters
evolved Father Christmas, a
rather imposing figure who
represents the secular side of
Christmas festivities.

St. Nicholas, a 4th century
Turkish bishop, is most
associated with today’s Santa
Claus. Renowned for his kind
deeds, Nicholas became the

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atron saint of Russia in
1003. By the middle ages
sailors, students, children
and criminals also claimed
St. Nick as their patron saint.

But when Santa Claus
(which is an American
mispronunciation of St.
Nicholas) is depicted as a
plump, jolly, white-haired
gent, he is all-American.

In an 1809 satire,
Washington Irving wrote that
St. Nicholas could fly in his
wagon to deliver gifts to the
stockings of children. Cle-
ment Clark Moore expanded
on Irving’s visions in his own
1822 poem A Visit From St.

Nicholas/The Night Before
Christmas.

Political cartoonist
Thomas Nast refined

Moore's description in the
1860s, with a series of black
and white drawings that
showed the happy, old elf
making toys, and spying on
girls and boys.

The bright colors of Santa
Claus were added by the
Coca-Cola company, in a
1920s’ advertisement that
depicted the rosy-cheeked,
red-suited Santa that we
know today.

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