CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM PREMIER LORNE CALVERT

The most festive season of our most festive year is upon us. Our Centennial Year, like the holiday season itself, has been a time of celebration and homecoming – a time of renewal.

Just as the first Christmas heralded a new beginning, every Christmas season offers us a new opportunity for thoughtful reflection on the year past, and new resolve for the year ahead.

This year, as we gather with family and friends to enjoy the season, we will look back on an amazing twelve months in Saskatchewan – and forward to an even more promising second century.

We will reflect as well on the great good fortune of living in a land blessed by peace and prosperity. We will keep those who can't be home for the holidays, like our men and women in uniform, close to our hearts.

As we reflect on the true and eternal spirit of the season, we will strive to make the holidays a time of celebration for all, especially those less fortunate than ourselves.

For Saskatchewan people of all faiths, cultures and backgrounds, the holidays are an oasis of warmth in a long winter - a time of hope and promise, of joyful expectation for young and old alike, a time for the giving and receiving of gifts, especially the greatest gifts of love and friendship.

Saskatchewan people demonstrate the Christmas spirit of giving and goodwill year round. May we continue to celebrate the place and the people we love in the year to come just as we have in the year of our Centennial.

In the words of Charles Dickens, "May we keep Christmas every day of the year." And may we continue to celebrate Saskatchewan, its proud past and promising future, every season of every year to come.

Together with our family, my wife Betty and I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for a Happy New Year.

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