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Wednesday November 11 2015 9 Lest We Forget Lest We Forget the toWn oF Fort smith remembers and recognizes aLL veterans and active service members oF the canadian armed Forces. the toWn oF Fort smith remembers and recognizes aLL veterans and active service members oF the canadian armed Forces. The Town of Hay River RemembRance Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation. It is about coming together to honour those who gave their all. Northern Life museum preparing for a very Fort Smith Christmas with classic memorabilia By DALI CARMICHAEL The shelves of Halloween candy and deco- rative gourds that mark the autumn season are packed up making way for an onslaught of Christmas memorabilia. The Northern Life Museum and Cultural Centre NLMCC is hopping aboard the train of festivities and asking Fort Smith residents to contribute to its cause. Museum staff are busy putting together a different kind of Christmas event. The last few years the museum has done a Festival of Trees with quite a bit of suc- cess said curator Rachel Dell. We wanted to do something different this year and we thought it would be fun to do an exhibition. Its going to be called A Very Fort Smith Christmas and we are trying to collect pho- tographs and memories and stories and fa- vourite Christmas recipes. The museum is asking citizens to dig into their old stockpiles of seasonal decorations toys photographs and even cookbooks to put together an idea of what a local Christmas would have looked like in the past. Wed love to go back as far as we can if we can get images from the 50s or earlier from families that have been here that long that would be amazing Dell said. Im in- terested in taking images from last year and recent years as well. The museum has some elves contributing to the effort. Students from PWK High School have agreed to help collect items and stories for the archive. Weve been really fortunate in that Jody McMahons class is going to be participating with us and helping us put on this exhibition so Im looking forward to that partnership to begin Dell said. Theyre supposed to be going out and interviewing someone and bringing in at least one image. Museum volunteer and avid local historian Ray Currie has also been helping the cause. Weve been trolling through the back looking for a few extra artifacts that we can bring out Dell said. Weve got some an- tique Christmas ornaments and toys that might have been gifts at Christmas some years back. Expect to nd many tales of local lore in- cluding the history of the towns Santa Claus oat the story behind the ever-glowing ev- ergreen - otherwise known as the Schaefer tree - the longest-running Santa in Smith and the heartwarming memory of John Minutes brilliantly-decorated house complete with hundreds of gurines and certainly almost as many lights. The NLMCC has set a soft deadline of Nov. 20 in order to have the different elements ready to go for Dec. 6 the ofcial launch of the holiday season in Fort Smith and the debut of the exhibit. ARTS CULTURE CHRISTMAS PhotoscourtesyofNLMCC Kelsea Donovan and mom Christie Soucy enjoy Christmas in 1996. Ray Currie unwraps a giant gift in 1985.