Pubdate: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 Source: Medicine Hat News (CN AB) Copyright: 2006 Alberta Newspaper Group, Inc. Contact: http://www.medicinehatnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1833 Author: Charmaine Wood CELEBRATE DRUG-FREE The festive season is now upon us and to many people festivity necessarily involves alcohol, or worse, more alcohol than their usual intake and often with unfortunate effects. Wouldn't feasting, gift-giving and socializing be more satisfying and more memorable drug-free? If you find you can't socialize without chemical stimulus you have a problem. To celebrate the holidays in unholy ways dishonours Christ who came to offer us abundant and eternal life. Charmaine Wood Medicine Hat Women's Christian Temperance Union - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman