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The school sh • w
Ladies :.,thjtario
soccer semi finals
On Sunday July 23 Seaforth Ladies
soccer team won a birth in Ontario cup
semi-finals.They travelled to Toronto to
Play a .team from Richmond Hill. In the
first half Richmond Hill took a 2.0, lead,
Seaforth rallied in the 2nd half with Fil l
Marcussen scoring with 12 minutes left in
the game. Minutes later Brenda Finlayson
tied the game with a close shot. pasi
Richmond's goalie.,
Jan Gorrie had w.bat was thought the
winning shot but Seaforthwas called on the
offside by the linesmen. With close action
in front of Richmond. Hill's goal a personal
foul against a Richmond Hill player entitl'd
Seaforth to a penalty shot with four
minutes left.
Jan Dow took the shot, putting it past
Richmond's goalie and Seaforth led 3.2.
The girls held off Richmond's attack in
the last few minutes to win the game.
Their next Cup Game is' on Saturday,
August 5 at Cove Road Field at 10:30.
When they play,Orgaiiic. Health,
Win Again
Sunday, July 30 Seaforth hosted Pores
Qty the home team dominated the gatrie
throughout the first half with Jan Gorrie
soaring with about fiVe minutes left in first
'half.
.... Seeterth controlled the game throughout
the econiniairaisii but were unable to
strenthen their lead. The single goal
'roved to be enough as Seaforth defeated
Forest City 1-0.
,Turf smothers
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With "ceilders .featuring-
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vegetables, • crafts, •
antiques, • plus many
other items. We
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Actor Ted JOhns rushed in where even angels would
fear to tread, with his.one man play on the recent Huron
county, teachers' strike and emerged unscathed.
The audience who witnessed the opening night of
The School Show on Tuesday at the Blyth Summer
Festival not only let Johns leave the theatre.alive, but
they roared with laughter again and again as the
Mitchell native re-treated reactions to the strike on
stage.
Anotheractorinight have floundered in the two and a
half hour presentation which pretty well tackled all the
viewpoints on the strike, but an exhausted Johns took
his bows to the season's most enthusiastic standing ,
ovation at the end of the evening.
• While Johns delievered some heavy indictments of
pretty well everyone from teachers to school, board to
parents during the evening, with some special digs for
the government of Bill Davis, the audience obviously
agreed it Was time to take a look' in the mirror.
Johns' cast of characters ranged from an elderly
schoolteacher named Miss Heartwright„ a veteran of
the one room school to Peg MacDonald, a frustrated
high school teacher's wife; her husband Bill, .a teacher
with a conscience; to the angry parent Roxanne
Dupuis .who calls Premier Davis to let him know her
frustrations firsthand.
No Winners
But while Johns sprinkles his scenario with lots of
hardbiting humor, the sad fact which emerges is that
none of'us were the winners in the recent strike.
In today's system of compulsory education,
•"excellence is something you put on a Bell curve,",,and
--fainiers, parents, board members and students are
trapped in unending dialogue.
Everyone is frustrated, and as Johns says as he
leaves the stage, these frustrations are what makes the
country what it is today.
If the School Show suffers from any flaw, it's the tact
that Johns tries to tackle too much, and risks losing hiS
audience in the final scenes. , _ .
The philosophizing about life in Huron County's
'small towns, and a blow-by-blow description of filial
negotiations in the strike settlement could well be
omitted. from 'the play without' losing any impact.
The characters introduced before the play's only
intermission were more strongly portrayed by the actor
with the. demands of the long show were telling on
Johns by the final half 'hour of the show when he
introduced Farmer Clarke; father of a teacher and
Roxanne Dupuis, the frustrated parent.
The most moving of the six charactersJohns creates
during the evening, and one 'Which the actor has a
special understanding . for, is the elderly Miss .
Hcartwright who openrthe shim,
From her blue print, dress to folded hands and precise
diction, the reacher-is of the "Old school" - a woman
who devoted her life to' teaching in the one room
country school. Her duties included not only instructing
50 pupils through the week, but also teaching Sunday
School on her day. off and organizing the community's
literary society. '
"Education," to Miss Heartwright, "is an art,
and not a business," although in a motnent of
weakness. she confesses she diseovered,"children are
the only race of savages who don't die out."
Book Issue
Although the teacher is counselling a former student
who's now a 'member &the school boated abOut the
teachers' strike, she can't resist throwing in a continent
or two about the boat( issue as well.
"I assure you major novels are not written by fools,"
I she tells former student Donald and avises him that as a
member of the board, it isn't his duty "to cross out the
short words" he finds in the books 'in question.
The School Show's most moving scenario takes Miss
Heartwright back to her classroom and finds her acting
out the dog in the manager story to her first grade
students, firmly advising her older students to ignore
the two birds on the window sill since "They have their
duty to perform,- and you have your's, " and dreading
the unexpected visit of the school inspector.
Simpler Age
The teacher taught in a simpler age when school
strikes were unheard of', but she loses her job anyway
when the board decides to bus her pupils to a
neighbouring school.
The woman who has devoted her life to, instructing
other people's children can only ask, "If' I am not a
teacher, what am I ?"
But Johns isn't as gentle in his treatment of others
as he is with the elderly school teacher.
He mocks the government fact finder sent down from
London to collect the obvious, he gets in_ a dig at little
towns "filled with retired .farmers twiddling their"
thumbs" who criticize the teachers for not working, and
he mocks the teachers' union spokesman who demands ,
a yearly increment just "fer being alive."
Next thing, says FarMer Clarke, father of one of the
more outspoken teacher,s they'll be locking up. the
Huron County churches just to get congregations to
fork our more for the manse.
But while Johns manages to poke •fun at nearly
everyone and everything involved in the teachers'
strike, he also captures the pathos of the situation.
The strike divided the teachers from others in their
community, it left taxpayers even more disenchanted
with government bureacracy and reinforced the' idea
that unions tend to operate with a philosophy ,based
_coley on economics,
A Dialogue of the Deaf
None of us really won, in this strike, which was ye
another -dialogue of the deaf."
The School Show, which used techniques developed
by Paul .Thompson and the Theatre Passe Muraille
Conipany, has. succeeded in taking Huron County's
strike drama. and making it viable theatre. Johns,
-himself a' former high schoc teacher has managed to
make us take another look at ourselves, without
offending us in the process. Only an actor like Johns
would have taken the risk;
Pat Flood, set design,et for the Blyth Summer
Festival, has creaed an.outstanding set to mirror the six
characters created by the actor.
The School Show continues for seven more
,performances - on August 3 (matinee) S, 8, 11, 14, 17
and 22.
People
• Mrs. William G. Wright of Seaforth has'returned to
her home after spending the past month in Winnipeg.
with her daughter Mrs. Thomas Crawford and Mr.
Crawford. She. was accompanied- --home by her.
granddaughter, Jill Crawford who will spend the next
two weeks here.
MR. and Mrs. Leo Rafuse of Moncton, New
Brunswick and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wright and Bill
andJayne of Brampton are visiting Mrs. W. G. Wright,
at her cottage in Bayfield. •
. The Townsend and Sills 'families had ,an enjoyable
reunion atthe home of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Townsend
R.R.4, Arthur after attending the christening of their
son Raymond Charles on Sunday, 'July 30th.
Local riders at Hully Gully • August 6th with the first
round of the Good time
Motocross series. A
special feature of this race
will be the team com-
petitors. 12 teams from
across Ontario incleding
the Maitland Dirt Riders
from Walton and the Gully
Jumpers fro Varna will be
competing for $500.00 cash
and a multitude of prizes
and awards.
-
The Village pounded out '28 hits
including home runs_, by,Doug_Phillips-apd.
'-'11515-MeRillar-as theY rallied in the late
innings to post an easy win,
The late game saw the Queens blow their
opportunity to stay in the running for top
spot as Mainstreet upset the orangemen by
a convincing 13-2 score.
- First Inning ,•
The Qiieens scored both their runs in the,
first inning on.
Ross Govier's home run but
than like the Firemen couldn't get the bats
going as Beb,13euttenthillerliMited them to .
4hits, Mainstreet took advantage of walks
and the long ball' as a home run by Kevin
Henderson led the ,uptowns to a.big 6 run
second inning and control 'of the game.
Ken Roth added a hOme run in the
fourth for the ,Mainstreeters and Bill
Robertson took advantage of a miscue to
score a round trip. Mainstreet pounded out
twelve hits and now look like a team to
content with as the playoffs draw near.
• Missed Game
This week the Travellers again will make,
up -a. missed game Thursday night while
the weekend action will see Texaco supply
umpires for the Teachers and Queens in
the early game Sunday and the Village and
Travellers in the late contest.
The Villagers will umpire Monday's
games as the Mainstreet and •Texao open
the everting and the Turf Club and 'Firemen
round out the night.
Standings
W L
10 2 20
.8 4 16
6 5 '12
6 6 12
5 6 10
4 6 8
4 6 '8
I 9 2
Donate to Lions Park
Donations. to Lions Park
E,M. Williams 10,00
and Pool Campaign Fund Mrs..E. Card n_er2 25.00
• July 29. G. Wright ' 10.00
Previously reported
R. McKercher 25.00
$3,199.00. Total $3,279:00.
Anonymous 10.00
FRISBEES AGAIN- Sharon Grnty gets ready to
throw her disc as Jason Patterson and Tracy
Roth wait their turn during last week's sports
day at the Seaforth Totlot. (Expositor photo)
"sornoon.
Benefit Dance,
for
Neil and
Dianne
McNichol
August 12
Family Paradise
Musk "COUNTRY
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Bring Lunch
The Royal Canadian Legion
Branch 128 Mitchell
Golden Anniversary Ball.
presents
The One and Only
TOMMY DORSEY
ORCHESTRA
Conducted ley
BUDDY MORROW
Appearing at The
Mitchell Arena
'Wellington Street
One Night Only
Friday l .August 25
p,stt. to 10,.m.
Tickets $15.00 per couple
AVAILABLE FROM The hiliteheti Legion
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Specials
Motocross action returns
to Hulty Gully this weekend
The Turf Club smothered the Travellers
by a 17-1 score last Thursday as they
collected 22 hits including 5 home runs to
dominate the game.
• Sunday's first game was a rematch and
the Turf Clith graninuted themselves at
least ,a tie for first place as the Travellers
failed to field a team and the Turf were
awarded the two points. They are now four
pointg up on the second place Queens with
only two games remaining in the schedule.
Cliff Hanger
The second contest was a cliff hanger as
the . Teachers hung on for an 8-7 victory
over the Texaco Duffers. Both teams
counted 2 runs in the first inning as Gus
Feeney's double accounted forthe Fred
rton doubled to score Texaco's runs.
Texaco moved up by a run in the third as
Ben Akker and Rick .Fortune singled.
After a scoreless third the Teachers on
Gus Feeney's solo home run evened the
count at 3 apiece.
• A single by Garry Montgomery counted
arun for the. Teachers and gave theni'a 4-3
lead. A big 3 run sixth inning put' the
bookworms up' 7-3 and in control of the
game as they blanked the Duffers. The
teachers added' a single 'Marker in' 'the
seventh as Colin Young's double gave
them a 5 run bulge. .
The Duffers rallied in 'the seventh
scoring four runs but they left the tieing
run stranded on second base and fell short
giving the Teachers the win and sole
possession' Of third place,
Lopsided •
Monday's games proved to be lopsided
as the Firemen started strong but fell
as the Village came roaring back to whip
the smokeaters by a 16-6 scare, The
Firemen scored S runs in the first inning oh
four straigliidoubles but then failed 'to find
their batting eye as they managed only
three more singles,
Tie Club
Queens
Tmchers
Village
Texaco'
Monist reel
Travellers
Firemen