Kathy Koors of Condon said, "I think I was in first grade and I got a puppy. I've been turned on to dogs ever since." Koors couldn't help adding another wonderful memory, "I went skiing with a friend way up by the Cold Lake trailhead under a full moon during Christmas. The moon was brilliant, a lovely ski."
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Diann Ericson of Condon said she and her husband Mike Childs had a very memorable Christmas when they were teaching up in the Northwest Arctic. They had not been residents long enough to gain the necessary permissions to cut a tree on the Alaskan native lands, but four-year-old Mariah was old enough to know they ought to have one in their house. When they realized the school Christmas tree had no more use once the holiday vacation had arrived, they arranged with the principal to take it home. On Christmas Eve the tree looked lovely, the presents were under it, and the weary parents went to bed. Ericson said, "We woke up Christmas day and there was our tree without a needle on it. The needles had all fallen off during the night and were lying all over the packages." She ended her story by saying they had a wonderful day anyway.
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Aimee Reynolds was browsing material in Deer Country Quilts when asked about her most memorable Christmas. She said they were all memorable because, "Our family has a tablecloth we put on the table every Christmas and everybody writes on it, or draws on it, or sometimes when the kids are little we trace their hands. And each year I embroider whatever is on there. And now it's got 17 years of memories."
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Theresa Burdick of Ovando said, "Goats were my most memorable Christmas gift. In 2009, I wanted to get into homesteading and so I found miniature goats and my husband got them for me for Christmas."
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Sharon Rich of Seeley Lake said her most memorable Christmases were when the family lived in the Double Arrow Lodge. She said, "My father drove the horse and sleigh and my mother was the typical Mrs. Santa. She really was. She would do all the stuff in the kitchen that you would expect a Mrs. Santa to do."
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Ben Burdick said the Christmases in Ovando are always memorable. He said, "Christmas in this town is very festive because everybody gets together and everybody decorates and has a good time with it."
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Dixie Meyer was born and raised in Salmon Prairie and went to school there in the late 1940s early '50s. She said, "The school Christmas programs when we were kids were just the biggest thing of the year. Everybody would come. The women's club would sew dish towels and shirts and stuff and sell them and buy candy for the school kids. We had candy and nuts for the first time at Christmas, and they had Santa Claus. We thought that was great!"
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