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Vancouver Island residents share their best Christmas memories

What theyB次元官网网址檙e talking about in downtown Courtenay
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As Christmas draws near, Comox Valley residents are getting ready for the festivities. The Record strolled down CourtenayB次元官网网址檚 5th Street to hear peopleB次元官网网址檚 best Christmas memories.

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Jayne Fogarty and Peter Smallwood

J: B次元官网网址淲hen I was about 14 or 15, my mom decided after all the years of live Christmas trees, she wanted us to have a fake tree. She didnB次元官网网址檛 want the mess, or any of that. My dad and I were like B次元官网网址淲HAT!B次元官网网址 and we ended up going into our backyard which was a quarter acre in downtown Toronto. There was a blue spruce that he was going to be taking out in the spring anyway. We cut the blue spruce down, so it ended up being a good Christmas because we had this beautiful blue spruce as our Christmas tree.B次元官网网址

P: B次元官网网址淚n 1968 my parents moved from Scarborough to a little town in eastern Ontario and we moved on Christmas day, in the middle of the night. ItB次元官网网址檚 something that really sticks out in my mind, thatB次元官网网址檚 for sure.B次元官网网址

J: B次元官网网址淢y sister lived in that town for a brief time. And he and I dated, and then my sister moved from that town. And our parents didnB次元官网网址檛 want to drive us the two hours, I was in Toronto. (So we broke up). But it was our first kiss, our first hand-holding, all that stuff. And we realized we never let go. B次元官网网址

P: B次元官网网址淲e found each other 46 years later again, and last year was our first Christmas together.B次元官网网址

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Bonny Kane

B次元官网网址(My daughter) was born Dec. 21, 1980. She was a lovely child, and I got home in time for Christmas. We had a great big Christmas dinner. All the family was there, it was just a really nice family.

B次元官网网址淪he and her family live here with my grandchildren. And probably my great-grandchildren shortly. Mind you thereB次元官网网址檚 only four of us. WeB次元官网网址檙e down from a lot to fourB次元官网网址. my husband passed away, my mother just passed away, so weB次元官网网址檙e dwindling. The kids gottaB次元官网网址 start having kids soon [breaks out in laughter].B次元官网网址

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Natasha McLean

B次元官网网址淎s a kid, my dad got me one of those Nokia little pink flip-phones and put it under the tree and called it. So when I was like 13 or 14 I remember the phone did the B次元官网网址榙adadadadaB次元官网网址 [think Jurassic Park when the phone is chiming from the dinosaur dung].B次元官网网址

B次元官网网址淥ne of my worst Christmas memories would be also, very young, I wanted this blue puffy vest from The Gap. And I opened it and IB次元官网网址檓 like, B次元官网网址極h my gosh! Santa got me this!B次元官网网址 and then my younger brother whoB次元官网网址檚 four years younger, was like B次元官网网址楴o, we got that for you at the mall with dad!B次元官网网址 So my younger brother ruined Santa for me.B次元官网网址

B次元官网网址淥ne of my favourite Christmas memories would be this upcoming Christmas (too). It will be my sonB次元官网网址檚 second Christmas. And we got the in-laws here (from Ontario) to celebrate.B次元官网网址





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