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Greeting drawn by
June Clayton
6th grade, Bordeaux
Heating &
Greeting drawn by
Betty Cermak
6th grade, Bordeaux
Sears catalog Sales
Evergreen Square -- Shelton
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Greeting drawn by
Holli Coleman
5th grade, Bordeaux
620 ask flood aid
Three days of on-site assistance efforts to help flood victims in six
Western Washington counties have resulted in 620 requests for aid,
according to the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration. This
accounts for 41.3 percent of the estimated number of families affected.
Tax packages in mail
The Internal Revenue Service will mail out over one million 1975
tax packages to Washington residents next week as part of a nationwide
mailing of over 81 million packages, IRS District Director Michael Sassi
said this week. Of the total packages to be sent out nationwide, 43
million will be of the 1040 type and 38 million the short form 1040A
variety.
Forest industry income reported
Pacific Northwest forest industries brought more than $5 billion
into Oregon and Washington for the second consecutive year'in 1974,
according to W. D. Hagenstein, Executive Vice President, Industrial
Forestry Association. Lumber barely surpassed pulp and paper as the
region's most valua01e commodity in 1974. Total lumber values were
$1.7 billion, while pulp and paper reached $1.65 billion. Plywood was
third with just under $1 billion.
Unemployment increases
Insured unemployment under regular entitlement (all programs) in
Washington State rose 1,711 to 90,525 for the week ending December
6. Including the 15,966 persons seeking extended benefits and 21,120
individuals filing for federal supplemental benefits, the total claiming
came to 127,611.
A Christmas Message
Christmas is the birth of Jesus
By FATHER MICHAEL FEENEY
Pastor, St. Edward Church
Christmas is the Feast of Joy.
Christmas is the celebration of the
birth of Jesus Christ, who is Son
of God and Redeemer of man.
Redemption, salvation, God's
love, and His company, and the
company of one another for all
eternity is the whole meaning of
life.
God created men to be His
friends and companions in this
life and for eternity. He has a
plan, a program by which He
invites us and draws us to Him
and that plan is Jesus Christ His
Son, who is our Lord and our
Savior. Further, He has only one
plan, and that is Jesus Christ, and
there is no other, and Christians
believe that all men who are saved
will be saved through the passion
and death of Jesus Christ, through
the sacrificial offering by which
He gave Himself for us.
Jesus invites us to imitate
Him, to follow Him, to accept His
invitation to unity with him, and
all those who choose Him as
leader.
We find Jesus constantly in
one another, members of the
body of Christ, members of His
church, citizens of the kingdom
of heaven.
We find Jesus also in the
inspired and the inspiring words
of the Holy Scriptures - the
letters to us of which He is the
author. God inspired those who
wrote these books in such a way
that it is He who is truly the
author. They wrote the message
that He would have us receive,
and He inspires us when we read
and hear to understand His
message - the message of
salvation, the Gospel, the Good
News.
We meet Jesus most especially
in the Holy Communion, the
body and blood of Christ, the
bread of everlasting life, the
sacrament which unites us as
Christians. If there is anything
above others that describes us as
Christians, it is that we are the
people who feed upon the body
and blood of Christ. Holy
Communion is that bread of
Christian unity.
And so we celebrate
Christmas; we celebrate the birth
of Jesus Christ who is Lord and
Savior. In celebrating Christmas,
we celebrate also the coming of
Jesus in glory, when He will
return on the last day to gather
His people together and lead us to
the heavenly Father and life
everlasting.
Are we ready to meet Him?
Are we ready to meet Him as the
Babe in Bethlehem? Every year
we celebrate this great event once
more - make it present. Each
year this feast of Christmas comes
to be more and more important
to us as we grow in our love and
friendship for Christ and for one
another. May we continue to
grow in that love and be ready to
greet Him when He comes for
that last time to welcome us and
accompany us to the Father.
Then we shall truly celebrate
Christmas for all eternity.
Guilt
Guilt and sin are only a fear of
the past. Charles P. Curtis
Greeting drawn by
Valerle Smith
grade, Bordeaux
McNEIL
Body & Fender Works
It
Greeting drawn by
Terri Smith
6th grade, Evergreen
Shaub-Ellison Company_
Ed Townsend, Manager
Dale Hinchcliff
John Holbrook
Clarence Worthy
John LaMarsh
Ted Haddock
Rocky Holbrook
Greeting drawn by
Wendy Hoff
6th grade, Bordeaux
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LUMBERMEN'S.
VACATION
Front & Pine 426-261
CH
Greeting drawn by
Denise Wilcox
6th grade, Bordeaux
SHELTON
Neil Evander
Mike Kemp
John Moore
LaRue Graham
Darlene Briggs
Betty McClanahan
Pat Crow
Erma Patrick
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