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Readers share their special ornaments



             Christmas  ornaments  can  have                                    by one wick.  We cut them apart, and  Hero was our Christmas baby.
          deep  meaning  for  people.  Several                                  I got one and her Grandma got the    He will always be our Christmas
          readers shared about their own spe-                                   other one.  We both have them on  angel.
          cial ornaments.                                                       display  year-round.    My  daughter,                  Mary Baryo
                                                                                Kristy, is 45 years old now.                       Wayne Resident
                                                                                                  Leslie Holland      President, Wayne Garden Club
                                                                                                Wayne Resident








                                                I've been collecting ornaments for
                                             46 years and so many of them hold
                                             memories.  But this is the one orna-
                                             ment that means the most.  My mom
                                             used  to  give  me  ornaments  every  I have my granny and gramps’ or-
                                             year for Christmas.  It was a tradi-  nament from their first tree, so that
                                             tion with her.  This is an ornament  makes it about 88 years old. I also
                                             she made for me while in a nursing  have one of mommy and dad’s first   When I a young girl growing up in
             My favorite ornament hung on my  home  suffering  from  Alzheimer's.  tree ornaments that’s only 57 years  the  City  of  Wayne,  my  father  Mike
          family’s Christmas tree all through  It's not fancy or collectible, but it's  old.                      Gouin  was  the  Assistant  Parks  &
          my childhood. When I got married   the  last  Christmas  ornament  I  re-                Jackie Jones   Recreation Director under Ted D'Pu-
          and my mom asked what ornaments    ceived from her. I live in Wayne--back             Wayne Resident    los.  At the time the Director of the
          from her tree I would like, I immedi-  in the house I grew up in, in fact.  My                          Senior Program (Golden Hour Club)
          ately asked for the snowman sticking  parents built the house in 1957 in                   Although   I  was a beautiful lady by the name of
          out of the cupcake. It was always my  the Sue Win sub--just a few houses                have   received  Mickey  Meyer.    Mickey  gave  each
          favorite to hang growing up. I can’t  from where the castle used to be.  I              many    Christ-  member  of  my  family  and  many
          say how many times I would look at  graduated from WMHS in 1972.                        mas ornaments   other families in the city handmade
          that ornament and wish I could eat                Linda McLachlan                       over  the  years,  Christmas  ornaments.    They  were
          it. I was certain it would be the most              Wayne Resident                      the  one  I  cher-  each unique and had our names on
          delicious thing to eat if it was edible.                                                ish most is this  them.    To  this  day,  my  "Mickey
          Now that it hangs on my tree, always                   I don’t have a                   one:  my  grand-  Meyer" Christmas ornament is hung
          at the top near our Angel, it is the                tree up this year                   son Hero’s first  on my parents tree each year.
          one ornament I must hang myself. I                  so   no    orna-                    Christmas orna-                       Lori Gouin
          tell my kids because it’s fragile, but              ments are easily                    ment.                   Community Development
          really it’s because I can still feel that           accessed.    I  do                     I know many            Director, City of Wayne
          Christmas magic I knew as a child                   have  one  thing                    people    have
          when I hang it. Even for just a mo-                 that  my  daugh- “baby’s first Christmas ornaments”    I  have  ornaments  my  grand-
          ment,  it’s  a  moment  I  always  look             ter made for me   and  display  them  with  pride.  The  mother  made  from  crafting  beads.
          forward to.                                         at  holiday  time.  reason this one is so special to me is  About  40+  years  old.  Star,  candy
                            Nicole Conklin                    She  was  proba-  that  Hero  was  born  the  day  after  cane,  shapes.  My  grandma  gave
                Board Member, Main Street  bly in second or third grade, and she  Thanksgiving  and  passed  away  on  them to me for my first tree.
              President, Historical Society  hand dipped two candles attached   New Years Eve at just 33 days old.            Mary McBain Blaxton

























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