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~ Happy New Year everyone!

The Christmas tree is gone, but some of the other decorations are
still in evidence. The house always looks so bare .when- the
‘*Christmassy’’. things are back in boxes, stored away for.-another
year, so. we are inclined to let the big cones, the cards, and some of the
small lights linger on for another few days:

--Our Christmas tree this year was quite different from what we had ~
planned. Last December we bought a live tree. and after the holiday .
planted it in a large wooden box carefully constructed by ‘‘himself”’
_out of one-by-six cedar siding. This tree was to serve us for many years
to come, including this Christmas season.

- What dreamers we turned out.to be. When it came time to move

; that fine wooden box we found ourselves unable to so much as budge -

it by one ‘ince. If | hadn’t known better I’d have. sworn that it. was
cemented to the deck.

‘After considerable thought: ‘‘himself’* decided that if we removed
about half the soil surrounding the tree,. we might stand.a chance of
getting it into the house. He took the side out of the box and found
that roots completely filled it. If we were to remove a lot of soil then
we.would. also be cutting off hundreds of feeder roots, and would
almost.certainly kill the poor tree:

~ Since he was on his way into town he decided to treat the family to
a new Christmas tree, a living tree, of course, but came back empty
handed, saying bitterly, “*Have you any idea how much those. things
cost!? I think we should decorate the jade tree, and let it go at that.’’

Maybe, if we had been alone I’d have agreed, but we had children -
coming for the holiday, and a:jade Christmas tree just-wouldn’ tdo.

The following day a gardening friend-appeared on the scene, and‘.
was telling him our problem. He said, “You know something, I have a.
large fir tree out in the garden, and it is getting so tall that Hydro. are:
going to make me cut off the top so that it doesn’t get into. oe wires.
How would you like the top of our tree???) =

Eric, thank you; it madea handsome Christmas: tree, and smelled
_the way a Christmas tree e should, sof fir needles and sweet fresh aor

. Snow : snarled traffic.

~The h sliday. ‘Snow!all: er
rs.and trucks: spinning: produc-’

rash of. fender be ders and
more serious collision

the car is ‘estimated at $4,500.

Johnston: ‘was. charged
mpaired. driving, Miles said.”
‘damage in excess... On Dec. in the 710

(of $400 between Dec. 20 and Jan. é ; a
ng $800 damage to the chair.’

‘was not in’ ‘the chair’ ‘al the time.

“anda flashlight were stolen from —
~a car parked in the’ Landmark
os building lot. Police investiealion

: poe were. taken tO. 5 Sianieh:
Peninsula Hospital. Damage to

West Saanich ‘Rd.aca backed.
into.a motorized wheelchair caus-

chair’s” owner, Arnie De Bruin,

" few-times ina farmer’s field:

~- Central. Saanich. police chief
- Bob Miles. said Johnston was

car. driven by Blake es ae
age 20, 1287. Verdier Ave., ‘spun. -
_ off Wallace Dr. and rolled over a.

back seat,:

A child, not buckled up: in the f
‘lost: four front teeth. |
Dec... 28, when the car he was’. :|
riding in was involved ina two-— .
“Car: accident:at Island View. Rd: "e

THE REVIEW

The last of the house guests left this morning, but the house will
need a real cleaning before I’ll be able to settle down with the three
new. seed catalogues and Start to make lists of things’to put in this
‘year’s garden. *

Another thing that will have to be attended to before I’ll be able to
relax is planting those poor geranium cuttings that have been rooted
for months now but still sit out there in flats of sand waiting for me to
get going. I know they are beautifully rooted since a few of them are
flowering and I hate myself for neglecting them for so long.

Several things have delayed me; one being a lack of clean potting
soil, the second being the need to wash and sterilize 100 four-inch
pots, and the third thing is something called ‘‘inertia’’.

The dictionary defines. this as ‘‘a tendancy not to move or act”’

. and that describes me perfectly at the moment!

"Our back-door neighbour says.we are going to have an early spring
because Easter is early this year. She may well be right, because, in
spite of this miserable weather, the fuchsias stored out in the garage
(where there is no heat at all) are making new growth . . . much too
early to suit me! Some of the silly things. still haven’t lost all of last
summer's leaves.

There still aren’t any snowdrops flowering in this garden, but the
Christmas rose is in bud, even though the whole plant. is burdened
down with snow. Another sign of spring is the abundance of robins,
‘the poor things madly searching out the last of the holly and pyracan-
tha berries.

Today I heard one of them singing 5 the song they ar ble whenthey.
are nesting, but I. feel reasonably sure he has his wires: crossed

somehow! .
Please have a look at your squashes. 1 found a lot of ours had

begun to get soft-and form a dull greyish coating on the skin however,

I cut them up and saved most of the meat, which is now in the freezer.

You might also have a.look at the onions, and pick out any that are.

beginning to sprout for use immediately.

Your carrots, if stored in sand, should be fine even if they begin to
form fine hair roots, and any parsnips out in the garden should be
sweeter than ever after all this frost. Potatoes, if kept cool, shouldn’ t
begin to sprout quite yet.

Stolen car
recovered

| WATCH FOR IT
SOON IN
SIDNEY.

A car was stolen Jan. 5 from

in front. of a 2100 block Weiler

-Ave. residence but was recovered
by Sidney RCMP, with help from: :
the owner, shortly after. os
A Sidney manhas been charg-.
ed with theft over $200 and —
possession of stolen property. =
On Jan. 4, sunglasses, eoggles ae

is continuing:.

Wednesday, January 9, 1985

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- Police campaign success |

“Both Sidney RCMP and Cen-

tral Saanich. police departments
~ consider their month-long am.
paign to keep drinking and driv-

ing to minimum over ‘the past
month a success,

“There were ‘no. ‘fatalities

resulting from vehicle collisions
between Dec. 8.1984 and Jan. 3,
“1985 when the provincial counter

attack program was in effect,

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which ‘Fesuilied “ine 18 people
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tions. During the month, RCMP»

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