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Entertainment & Leisure
Large cast leads to housing needs for Festival
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
The Blyth Festival is on the
lookout for housing, but finds the
competition to be a bit more stiff this
year due to ongoing development in
the village.
General Manager Rachael King, in
her first year in the position, says
that the Festival is facing a larger -
than -usual challenge in
accommodating a larger -than -usual
cast for this Festival season.
Nearly 50 artists will be making
their way to Blyth for this year's
season, King says, which doesn't
include the significant others,
children and pets that all come as
part of the families of Festival cast
members, crew and musicians.
It's very exciting, she said, to be
bringing this many talented artists to
the community for her first season,
but it's also challenging to find
places for all of them.
King says that while the Festival is
hoping for any help it can get in
meeting this challenge, with
community members willing to offer
rooms of their house, she is ideally
looking for independent dwellings to
house people and their families for a
number of months.
Artistic Director Gil Garratt said
that while billeting in the community
is a time-honoured tradition for the
Festival, that set-up is a better fit for
directors, designers or playwrights
who are in Blyth for a few weeks,
maybe a month.
For cast members who could be
spending as much as five months in
Blyth between rehearsals and the
extended season, an independent
dwelling, whether it be a house, a
farmhouse or an apartment, would
really be ideal for those travelling
artists.
With development from the
Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity
and Blyth Cowbell Brewing
Company, housing in the village is a
little tougher to come by, Garratt
said, so he's hoping that landowners
will be willing to come forward to
the Festival to help from outlying
communities like Londesborough,
Belgrave, Auburn, Walton and
Brussels.
While many of the artists
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The Blyth Business Improvement Area and Blyth 140th Anniversary Committee hosted a
pancake breakfast on Feb. 20 as part of North Huron Township's Family Day celebrations. The
two groups managed to feed 211 people before they ran out of supplies, raising $700 for the
North Huron Food Share. From left: BIA and Blyth 140th Committee Members Cat O'Donnell
and Lissa Kolkman and Blyth 140th Committee Member and Blyth United Church minister
Rev. Gary Clark. (Denny Scott photo)
Drug forum coming
Building on the success of
Huron's first-ever Drug Education
Forum the Huron County Youth
Justice Committee Program is
looking forward to hosting another
informative forum to serve the
residents of the northern end of the
county and those beyond.
The date to mark on your calendar
is Monday, March 27 from 7-9 p.m.
and the place to be is the F.E. Madill
Secondary School in Wingham.
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travelling from city centres like
Toronto won't have cars or driver's
licences, some will and King says
she'll be able to match them up with
housing that is just out of the village.
King says that the Festival takes
care of all housing accommodations,
so any landlords willing to lease
their properties to the Festival will
be dealing directly with the Festival,
which will be paying the rent.
For anyone willing to lease
housing to the Festival for the
upcoming season, contact King at
the Festival office at 519-523-9300.
East Wawanosh 150th
Anniversary
Ambassador Competition
Saturday, May 27
2-4 pm
Belgrave Community Centre
Crowning of the Ambassador
during a dessert and coffee
social time
7:00 - 8:30 pm
To enter the Ambassador
Competition please contact
Kim Walker 519-357-3237
kimwalker@ hurontel.on.ca
Contestants can be male or female
Must be 17-23 years of age
Currently live or have lived in
East Wawanosh Township
Deadline to enter is April 3, 2017
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Strong, loving and the rock of the family. March 13th our hero
turned 90.
® Surprising Dad at a dinner to celebrate this special occasion
was a terrific way to show him truly what he means to all of us.
Family came from Australia and Florida as well as closer to
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Saturday, March 11th...
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Happy Birthday with all our Love
Your Children, Grandchildren, and Great -Grandchildren