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- By HUGH NASH

The warmth, kindness. and
understanding which. TV’s Mr.
Rogers has brought to his young
viewers for decades came to St.
Andrew’s. Anglican Church last
week.

No,.Mr. Rogers didn’t show
up. Mrs. Roberts did, and. her
flair for telling stories built an
instant rapport with her
audiences of four.to six year olds
during two 45-minute sessions.

Florence Roberts, drawing on
her experience with her own four
children and two years of story
telling in Cranbrook where her
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"youngsters, lit a ‘story candle

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bright and happy like we are,”
danced with a life-size scarecrow
doll and read The Scarecrow
Clock to 14 kids Tuesday and
four on Friday.

On Friday, mums and rug rats
sat .in the audience while Roberts

perched on a lion-face stool and.

David, Lisa, Heather and
Clayton sat,:.crouched or lay on
story rugs laid on the not-as-cosy
linoleum floor. . .

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doll, which has a number of
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Roberts has 42 puppets which she.
uses to add zip to her stories. ‘

‘“‘T hope to put on a Christmas
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some mummies’ arms to help.”’

At the next sessions, set for
Oct. 30 at 1 p.m. and Nov. 2 at 10
a:m., one of the puppets, an owl,
will make his Sidney debut and
perform in the story candle’s
light.

“Only Roberts. is allowed to-
light. the candle but ‘after each
session, a member. of her.
audience gets-to blow it out.

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