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HOLIDAY CLINIC HOURS

CLOSED: Saturday, Dec. 23rd to

Tuesday, Dec. 26th

OPEN: Wednesday, Dec. 27th ~ 9am-5pm Thursday, Dec. 28th ~ 9am-5pm

Friday, Dec. 29th ~ 9am-5pm Saturday, Dec. 30th ~ 11am-5pm

Clinic re-opens Tuesday, Jan. 2nd/07

To our To our To our clients and clients and clients and friends, we friends, we friends, we extend our extend our extend our best wishes best wishes best wishes for a for a for a prosperous prosperous prosperous new year!new year!new year!

Dr. Ahmed Elmezughi Dr. Jacques Trollip

THE TROUBLE TREE I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and his ancient one ton truck refused to start.

While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands.

When opening the door he underwent an amazing transfor-mation. His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss. Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.

"Oh, that's my trouble tree," he replied. "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, those troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home and ask God to take care of them. Then in the morning I pick them up again." "Funny thing is," he smiled," when I come out in the morning to pick 'em up, there aren't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before."

“If you always do what you always do you’ll always get what you always got.”

~Lait Ribeiro~

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(Includes up to 5 rooms and hallways)

CARPET TILE & GROUT CLEANING

In Your Home Airdrie & District

Kathie Arndt R.N.

Phone: (403) 948-4114

DVA Billing

Airdrie Clinic info.airdrie@simplyforlife.com

302, 191 Edwards Way (Station Crossing)

Tel: 403.948.4424

www.simplyforlife.com

Tower Lane Mall 948-3055

Come meet our Travel Consultants Sheryl • Candi • Karli

Give me a sense of

humor, Lord, Give me the

grace to see a joke,

To get some humor out of

life, And pass it on to other folk!

THE MONTH AFTER CHRISTMAS

Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd tasted At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.

When I got on the scales there arose such a number! When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber).

I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared; The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rare,

The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."

As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt And prepared once again to do battle with dirt ~

I said to myself, as I only can "You can't spend a winter disguised as a man!"

So, away with the last of the sour cream dip, Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip

Every last bit of food that I like must be banished 'Til all the additional ounces have vanished.

I won't have a cookie ~ not even a lick. I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.

I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie, I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore ~ But isn't that what January is for? Unable to giggle, no longer a riot.

Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!

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A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't

trust him to wash it.

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My brother drinks a toast on holidays: "Here's to our holidays, all 365 of them!"

BIG TROUBLE A couple had 2 little boys, ages 8 and 10, who were always getting into trouble, and their parents knew that if any mischief occurred in their town, their sons were probably involved. The boys' mother heard that the clergyman in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would speak to her boys. The clergyman agreed, but asked to see them one at a time. The mother sent the 8-year-old first, in the morning, with the older boy to see him in the afternoon. The clergyman, a huge man with a booming voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him sternly, "Where is God?" The boy's mouth dropped open, but he made no response, he just sat there with his jaw on the floor, staring wide-eyed at the clergyman. So the clergyman repeated the question in an even sterner tone. "Where is God?" Again, the boy made no attempt to answer. So the clergyman raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face and bellowed, "WHERE IS GOD!?" The boy screamed and bolted from the room, ran directly home, and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him. The 8-year-old's brother found him in the closet and asked, "What happened?" The younger brother, gasping for air, replied, "We are in BIG trouble this time, dude. God is missing and they think WE did it!"

TONGUE TWISTER OF THE WEEK!

Truly rural.

What happened when 500 hares got loose in the center of town? The police had to comb the

area.

Two atoms are walking down the street and they run in to each

other. One says to the other: Are you all right? - No, I lost an

electron! - Are you sure? - Yeah, I'm positive!

Call for more information and schedule.

(403) 948-3404

Manicure & Pedicure Gift Certificates

Manicure, Pedicure & Facial

Gift Certificates

Specials good until Dec. 30/06

Now Available at The Store Upstairs!

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Dec.27 closing at 6:00pm Dec.28 closing at 6:00pm Dec.29 closing at 6:00pm Dec.30 closing at 6:00pm Dec.31 and Jan. 1 closed

Thank you for your patronage in 2006, we look forward to serving

you in the New Year!

213 Main St. N., Just North of the Royal Bank

As two caterpillars

were crawling along, a butterfly flew overhead.

One turned to the other and said, "You'll never get me up in one of those things!"