Date: Fri 01-Dec-1995

Publication: Bee

Author: CURT

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The Small Town In Newtown

If you need a reminder of just how fast Newtown is growing, just take a drive

through some of the vast subdivisions that are now sprouting in almost every

corner of town. There are whole new neighborhoods that didn't exist five years

ago, and new tracts of empty land are being mapped now for still more

neighborhoods that will be thriving by the turn of the century. From a purely

statistical point of view, Newtown is no longer a small town. Fortunately,

statistics don't provide the only perspective on life in Newtown.

The small town in Newtown still lives, and if you want to see it, be sure to

attend the annual tree lighting sponsored by the Chamer of Commerce in the Ram

Pasture Friday evening at 6:30. There under the lights of the tree in the glow

of a spectacular necklace of luminaria that loops around the open pasture off

to Main Street and other approahces, old friends and neighbors will greet each

other, and new friends will be made. People will sing together, laugh

together, and dispel the impersonal ambivalence can weaken the spirit of a

community. It is the perfect precursor to a whole weekend of activities

cluminating in the Family Life Center's Holiday Festival on Sunday.

If the pressing crowds in the malls and the short tempers on the highways are

getting to you this holiday season, we urge you to spend a little time this

weekend remembering what hometown life is all about. Start by bringing your

family to the Ram Pasture to sing some carols and to reignite the small town

spirit of Newtown.