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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2017-06-08, Page 15THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 2017. PAGE 15. Sparling honoured by national propane association Lifetime achievement award Former Sparling's Propane President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steven Sparling was recently honoured by the Canadian Propane Association for his work within the industry. Outgoing association chair Guy Marchand presented Sparling with a Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this month. (Photo submitted) Steven Sparling, long-time president and CEO of Sparling's Propane in Blyth, won the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award for the Canadian Propane Association. Sparling received his award at the association's gala dinner last week. According to the association's outgoing Chair Guy Marchand, who presented Sparling with his award, under Sparling, the company enjoyed record growth leading to it being one of the largest in Canada until its sale to Parkland Fuel Corporation in 2013. Sparling retired from Parkland in 2016. During his time in the industry, Sparling was the founding Chair of the Ontario Propane Association and founding Chair of the Canadian Propane Association Board of Directors where he continued to advocate for industry performance standards and a culture of safety. Sparling grew up in the industry, from working as a teen painting propane tanks at Sparling's Propane to being the CEO of the company decades later. The inaugural Canadian Propane Association Lifetime Achievement Award had been awarded to Grant Sparling, Steven's father and Sparling's Propane founder. `Drawer Boy' discussed Continued from page 12 outside the three rooms that were on stage," he said. "From a filming standpoint, the idea of limiting everything to a small space had a claustrophobic feeling." Johnston next steered the discussion towards the hot -button issue of cultural appropriation, which is a theme in the film and, according to Potter, an issue that members of The Farm Show collective struggled with. "It's an important discussion," he said. "We asked ourselves if we had a right to tell these stories." The last question that Johnston put to Potter, Perez Torres and Armour - Ostroff before audience members could ask questions, was how it felt to work with a subject matter that wasn't just a play, but a cultural mythos. Armour -Ostroff said it was something that she knew had to be lived up to, but working with something historical was made more interesting by having people involved those historic pieces of drama available. The film will now make the festival circuit later this year. Dora nominations list features familiar Festival faces Continued from page 14 Theatre division. The play Akin directed, "Master Harold"... and the Boys, was co- produced by Obsidian and the Shaw Festival. The show is nominated in a number of other General Theatre division categories, including Outstanding Production, Outstanding Scenic Design and two of the show's actors are nominated in the Outstanding Male Performance category. Akin is also nominated for Outstanding Direction in the Musical/Opera division for his direction of Passing Strange for the Musical Stage Company and Obsidian Theatre. In the Outstanding Female Performance category in the Independent Theatre division, Nora McLellan and Nancy Beatty, both Festival alumni, are nominated for their work in The Company Theatre's John. Robert Persichini, another actor who has spent time at the Festival, is nominated for Outstanding Male Performance in the Independent Theatre category for his work in Superior Donuts for the Coal Mine Theatre. Sam Sholdice, who spent multiple seasons with the Festival, is also nominated. Sholdice last worked on Fury two seasons ago and also served as sound designer for Beyond The Farm Show and The Bootblack Orator. He is an alum of the Festival's Young Company program and was in The Outdoor Donnellys. Sholdice is nominated for Outstanding Sound Design and Composition for Italian Mime Suicide/Three Red Days in the Independent Theatre division alongside collaborators Arif Mirabdolbaghi, Bruce Mackinnon and Justin Ruppel. Victoria Wallace, who has been at the Festival for a number of seasons, is nominated in the Outstanding Costume Design category in the General Theatre division. It was Wallace's work in A Doll's House for Soulpepper Theatre Company that turned the judges' heads. Camelia Koo, who spent some time at the Blyth Festival, is nominated in the Musical/Opera division for her work in the Outstanding Scenic Design category for Rocking Horse Winner, while Joanna Yu is nominated in the same division for James and the Giant Peach in the Outstanding Costume Design category. Steve Lucas, another professional who has spent many seasons at the Festival, is nominated in the Musical/Opera category for lighting design on Passing Strange. For more information on the awards, visit tapa.ca. AD CENTIU EXTEND YOUR REACH -ADVERTISE PROVINCIALLY OR ACROSS THE COUNTRY! For more information visit www. ocna.org/network-advertising-program VACATIONITRAVEL 1 ADVENTURE CANADA 15% EARLY BIRD SAVINGS Book by June 30th, 2017 Save on award winning small ship voyages in 2018: Scotland Iceland Greenland Northwest Passage Newfoundland & Labrador www.adventurecanada.com info@adventurecanada.com TOLL-FREE: 1-800-363-7566 14 Front St S. 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