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Volume 29 No. 27
GRADUATION - Pg. 13‘The Citizen’ salutes itslocal graduates FESTIVAL - Pg. 30‘Beyond The Farm Show’opens the Blyth FestivalDANCING- Pg. 11Blyth’s Les Cook returnsto Dancing with the StarsPublications Mail Agreement No. 40050141 Return Undeliverable Items to North Huron Publishing Company Inc., P.O. Box 152, BRUSSELS, ON N0G 1H0INSIDE THIS WEEK:
Festival’s ‘Yorkville’ to open Friday
With a celebratory scream, students from Hullett Central
Public School crashed the door on their way out for the last
time this school year. Shown enjoying their freedom on
their last day of school last Thursday are, from left, Raymond
Powell-Carr, Mikayla Whitson, Darcie Brohman and Westin
Riley whose days will soon be filled with sports and
recreational activities that are all not related to school whatsoever.
(Denny Scott photo)
Morris-
Turnberry
purchases
school
It’s amazing to think that just 11
short weeks ago, dynamo
director/choreographer, Donna
Feore was getting set to open the
musical classic, Fiddler on the Roof
on the Stratford Festival stage and
this week she is preparing to open
yet another show. Yorkville – the
Musical, a brand new Canadian
musical, with books and lyrics by
Carolyn Hay and music by Tom
Szczesniak, opens July the 5 on the
Blyth Festival main stage.
A glutton for punishment, Feore
has thrown herself into a whirlwind
rehearsal for Yorkville. Meeting only
twice for workshops prior to the
rehearsal period, Feore has tackled
the brand new script with
enthusiasm and gusto. “She’s a
powerhouse!” exclaims Peter Smith,
interim artistic director at the Blyth
Festival. “She is absolutely
amazing… She is right up there
beside the step dancers doing the
choreography with the actors,” all
while keeping every detail of the
production in mind.
The Blyth Festival knew Feore
would be the person for the job. With
productions such as Pirates of
Penzance, Midsummer Night’s
Dream and Fiddler on the Roof
under her belt, Feore would be able
to tackle the challenges of staging a
world premiere. “Like all artists, I
am drawn to the exceptional. A great
story, a great score and great
people,” says Feore.
Balancing a brand new story,
dance style, band and music, all falls
on Feore to figure out. She must
build a new blueprint for this
production. Traditionally, musicals
come with at least five or six
productions on which to base a new
production. Feore does not have
At a press conference last week,
Morris-Turnberry Mayor Paul
Gowing announced that the
municipality has purchased the
former Turnberry Central School
and the 7.7 acres on which it sits.
After months of negotiations, the
municipality purchased the property
from the Avon Maitland District
School Board (AMDSB) for
$210,000. The sale officially closes
today (July 4).
“Our council is very excited to
have worked with the Avon
Maitland Board to successfully
purchase Turnberry Central School,”
Gowing said at the June 25 press
conference, held at the board’s
Education Centre in Seaforth. “One
of our goals at Morris-Turnberry is
to put in place areas in our
municipality that could easily be
developed and spur economic
growth. The availability of serviced
properties that can be developed in
our municipality has been of great
concern. We are very happy to have
been given this opportunity by Avon
Maitland to become the new owners
of this great location.”
Chair of the board Colleen Schenk
said it was “positive” to have
worked with Morris-Turnberry to
achieve a happy ending after the
closure of Turnberry Central Public
School last year.
“It is always difficult to close
schools, but an opportunity to work
with the people of Morris-Turnberry
makes us very pleased. The success
story of the former Brussels Public
School is a great example of this co-
operation,” Schenk said. “As the
students get ready to begin a new era
at Maitland River Elementary, this
agreement gives new life to
Turnberry School and the
surrounding property.”
In an interview with The Citizen
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
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School’s out for summer