European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday december 17. 1988 the Star band stripes Page 9 the National Christmas tree blazes with Light new the capital grateful Reagan fires up nation s Christmas tree Washington a saying i hands for a free America presi Dent Reagan on thursday night threw a switch lighting up the National Christmas tree to the cheers of hundreds gathered near the White House. With his wife Nancy standing at his Side. Reagan delivered Bri Curc Marks from a while House Balcony. Christmas casts its glow upon us Asil does every year Reagan said it reminds us thai we need not feel lonely because we Are loved loved with the greatest love there has Ever been or will Ever americans live with bounties that those who lived at the time of the Christ child s birth could never have imagined. The bounties arc material yes but chiefly they arc pastor gives advice for chasing away those Holiday blues new York a the Lime has come for those strangely ironic symptoms that seem inappropriate to the sea son but the Rev Lee Fullerton offers some reassurance those Holiday blues arc really quite common. As noted in pastoral and psychiatric counselling the melancholy oddly affects people most in the presumably Hap Piral periods especially the weeks from thanksgiving to Christmas. It s when you re supposed to feel Good and be Happy said Fullerton an Atlanta pastor who has worked Exten sively in the menial health Field. But alot of people Don t feel that there s a simple system Tor helping Ward Oft a Lent despondency he said talking about it with relatives friends or fellow Church members or getting them to open up about it. You can t just pull people out of it he said. Bui in can help to encourage them to talk about in to let them know that most people have such feelings once in a while. An inexpensive Christmas present to others he suggested in a Telephone inter View might be pay a Little More Atten Tion to Fullerton 39, pastor of Atlanta s Stew Ard Avenue United methodist Church and formerly a pastoral Counselor at the Georgia mental health Institute has written same Ore Christmas advice on the subject Tor fellow clergy. It was distributed by the Urban mis Sion Arm of the denomination s North Georgia conference. Fullerton cited two main factors that bring on the slump in mood the Holiday reality often does t match the popularized image and the Pace of activities All around appear abnormally accelerated and burdensome. Everything seems seeded up the merchandising going into a frenzy peo ple getting behind in their shopping and having to fight crowds and traffic to do anything he said. In sans their Energy and their enjoyment Loo. More basically for Many the problem is shattered expectations he said they be grown up thinking Christmas should be a big family gather ing with gifts and everybody around and food on the table. But that s often not the Way things arc in Many cases the contrast is acute for single people for one Parent families for the homeless and other poor that Don t have enough Money to gel the one Gin a child has wanted All for these and others in similar circumstances the typically portrayed images of Christmas simply Don t live up 10 Ine reality and it s As if something had died Fullerton said. It shows on them. They feel guilty. They blame themselves. They re a lot harder on themselves in judgment than cod would Ever be. By such harsh judgments emotionally and physically we re ruining our in the pamphlet for clergy Fullerton said the Church has the unique Opportunity to do two special things to pro claim the Holiday season As a Lime for thanksgiving expectation and Cele bration and to minister to those who do not feel thankful expectant or cell lie said seasonal depression also can bring related illnesses such As ulcers and headaches and also result in family Dis Putes and violence. When people feel helpless and hopeless the tendency to lash out is greater. Law enforcement and victims assistance officers receive More requests for services than at any other Lime of year. Although Christmas blues Are quite common he said Many people suppress them because. They feel guilty or ashamed but a sensitive pastor should be Able to spot and offer Comfort to those seeming listless disinterested or restless. 2 biting dogs loosed on kids playground Philadelphia a two boys turned Loose a pair of dogs on a playground full of children who ran and screamed As the animals chased them. The dogs bit five of the youngsters police said i was playing catch at recess when i heard them Yelling the dogs Are coming the dogs arc coming i climbed up the Wall and i kicked him a dog in the face when he started ser me said Edgar of varas a sixth grader. Police searched for the boys who released the dogs thursday during recess for about 100 children at the St. Edwards parochial school said officer George Christman. Some victims identified the dogs As pit bulls but police and a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania society for the prevention of cruelty to animals were unable to identify tic Breed. We weren t doing nothing to them. All i know is that they just let go of the pit bulls said Jerry Lopez 10. A. Of he and four others were treated at St. Christopher s Hospital for children for wounds on their feet and legs. One of the injured a 12-year-old who fell while running from a dog suffered 33 bites and cuts on his. Leg Sand feet. ". ,. The attack ended when two men scared away the some kids do not believe in you girl laments do you believe in Santa Claus nine year old Theresa Kuzemchak has no doubts. There Are. Many kids in my class hat do not believe in you she tells Santa but i am one of your strongest believers her younger Brothers Nicholas and Daniel and sister Jaime Are Alt believers too. Nicholas writes Sania i wish you could come live with Daniel warns him about inc weather in Germany. "1 Hope you make it to my House because it might be real and Jaime gives him a special warning. 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