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Happy holidays

There’s really no other way to say it: it’s been a hard year for everyone in and around the Athabasca region.

There’s really no other way to say it: it’s been a hard year for everyone in and around the Athabasca region.

Whether you’ve personally been impacted by the mass layoffs at the oil sector, or at Millar Western, or you know someone who has, almost everyone is cinching their belt a little bit tighter this year.

It’s this type of year, really, that the holiday season was made for.

Religious or not, this is the time of year that people come together and show how much they really care for each other — whether it’s though timely donations or through just being there for someone.

It’s the breath, the pause, before you plunge headfirst into chaos. It’s the moment of grace before life starts knocking on the door again.

Almost everyone has at least two days off this time of year.

So, maybe we should all use it for what it was intended — or, at least, what it’s become (the pagan and Christian origins of the holiday notwithstanding). This year, how about we all use this time to come together with friends, family and neighbours?

There are, of course, people in this community that will be alone this time of year — how about we all try to make sure that no one spends it alone?

It’s not really that difficult to change someone’s Christmas as even just inviting someone to your holiday dinner is enough.

We should also use those days off to take that much-needed breath … who knows when we’re going to get the chance to take one again?

Please, make this holiday season count.

The upcoming year looks to be more of the same — more election promises broken; more jobs being lost; more belts being tightened and life so quickly becomes less of living in the moment and more of just trying to make it through another day.

So, don’t make the holidays yet another week to make it through.

From us and ours to you and yours, we hope you have a wonderful holiday season. And we look forward to sharing with you the news and events all throughout the next year.

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