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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2011-12-08, Page 27THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011. PAGE 27. Tickets at The Centennial Hall Box Office. Call: 519-672-1967 or online: www.centennialhall.london.ca TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012 – 7:30PM CENTENNIAL HALL - LONDON Makes A Great Christmas Gift Makes A Great Christmas Gift Makes A Great Christmas Gift Tickets at The Centennial Hall Box Office. Call 519-672-1967 www.centennialhall.london.ca MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011 – 7 PM (550 Wellington Street – London) Forget Google... Search Travel Safely! www.e t tr ave l.c o m Your Link to 100’s of the Best Travel Websites! Your Link to 100’s of the Best Travel Websites! Ellison Travel & Tours Ltd. Variety show results in more than $100,000 raisedSix hundred and fifty theatrepatrons congregated at the HuronCountry Playhouse in Grand Bendon Sunday, Nov. 20 for Spotlight onGoderich: A Variety Show.Approximately $34,000 was raised and because it is being allocated to the 2:1 provincially- matched program called the Goderich and Area Disaster Relief Fund, the effort will raise more than $100,000 in total. The funds will be administered by the United Way Perth-Huron. Led by Alex Mustakas, Artistic Director of Drayton Entertainment,the fundraiser represented a unitedeffort by the artistic leaders fromOntario’s premiere performing artsorganizations, including theStratford Shakespeare Festival, Shaw Festival, Bluewater Summer Playhouse, Blyth Festival, The Grand Theatre, Lighthouse Festival Theatre, Port Stanley Festival Theatre, Starbright Christmas, Theatre Aquarius, Victoria Playhouse Petrolia and Theatre Orangeville. Master of Ceremonies Neil Aitchison provided lively humour ashis beloved alter ego, ConstableArchibald F. Inkster of the RoyalCanadian Mounted Police.Twenty artists participated in thevariety show, with musical accompaniment by Robert Foster (Mirvish Productions’ Billy Elliot, Dirty Dancing, Rock of Ages / Drayton / Legends series). A theatre getaway package to New York City, including tickets to Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway, midtown hotel accommodations and airfare on Porter airlines courtesy of Doug and Cathy Ellison of EllisonTravel and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival proved anextremely popular live auction item.Ryan Erb, Executive Director of United Way Perth-Huron, also presented representatives of the Goderich and Area Disaster Relief Committee with a cheque for $100,000 gathered by the organization towards relief efforts. This will equal $300,000 with the 2:1 matching program. “The Disaster Relief Committee has been overwhelmed by the care and concern of donors and the ingenious fundraising initiatives thathave been undertaken – fromcalendar sales to a major outdoorconcert to the Spotlight on Goderichvariety show,” says Tom Jasper,Chair of Fundraising for the Goderich and Area Disaster Relief Committee. To date, over $2.1 million has been raised. The official campaign wrapped up Dec. 1. Donations may still be made directly to the United Way Perth-Huron by phone: 1-877- 818-8867 (toll-free), online at www.perthhuron.united.way.ca or by e-mail at campaign@unitedway perthhuron.ca Tickets at the Blyth Festival Box Office or by calling 1-877-862-5984 Also available online at www.blythfestival.com MON. MARCH 19, 2012 – 7 PM BLYTH MEMORIAL HALL Bluevale woman found guilty Continued from page 26 person or with an organization. FAILURE TO STOP Janice Geissbuhler of RR2, Bluevale was found guilty of Failing to Stop for Police stemming from an incident on May 4, 2011. Police were called just after 10 p.m. with information that Geissbuhler was despondent and threatening to stab herself. After receiving information on Geissbuhler’s location, police followed her vehicle for several kilometres before trying to pull her vehicle over. She refused to stop the vehicle she was driving, however, and eventually had a near-collision with the police cruiser following her, McCarthy said. Along the way, police said Geissbuhler didn’t obey stop signs and frequently drifted into the oncoming lane. Geissbuhler’s vehicle was eventually slowed when a spike belt was deployed but she did make it to her destination, which was her mother’s house in Howick. When she pulled into her mother’s driveway, police ordered Geissbuhler to get out of the car, which she refused to do. Police eventually broke the driver’s side window and pulled her out of the car. The entire length of the chase was 28.9 kilometres, McCarthy said. Johnston said that when Geissbuhler feels “low” she would travel to her mother’s house for comfort, which is what she was doing on May 4. Geissbuhler has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, in addition to other mental ailments that can cause her to drop into a state of psychosis, Johnston said. Johnston said Geissbuhler is now working with people to develop coping mechanisms when she isn’t feeling great so there isn’t a repeat of this incident. Hunter suspended the passing of a sentence but issued an 18-month probation order in addition to a 12- month driving prohibition. Changes coming for Festival Continued from page 23 raise the money quickly.” Bezaire stated that, as far as productions go, there will be some changes to the 2012 season, including some shifting for the Bonanza and Blyth Spirit events at the festival. The four plays on the main stage will be Dear Johnny Dear by Ken Cameron, Having Hope at Home by David Craig, The Lonely Diner: Al Capone in Euphemia Township by Beverley Cooper and The Devil We Know by Cheryl Fogo and Clem Martini. “There will be 64 performances of four productions plus the Phillips Studio Series,” Bezaire said. “That will include The Trudeau Stories by Brooke Johnson and Young Company’s revisiting of The Farm Show.” The Farm Show could be credited as the play that started the Blyth Festival and, for Sholdice, the revisiting is a timely one. “This marks the 40th anniversary of the play, and we wanted to pay homage to it,” she said. Sholdice stated that Young Company would be visiting local farmers and getting a feel for what farming is now compared to how it was in 1972. She also stated that the Festival was in negotiations for a director. Bezaire stated that other major changes would be happening to the brochure and play programs to better accommodate advertising and to help package North Huron as an entire entity instead of three different locations. “We need to market North Huron as an experience destination,” he said. “The days of Blyth, Belgrave or Wingham standing on their own are gone.” Bezaire stated that he wanted to work with North Huron to begin advertising for “the backbone” of North Huron: County Road 4. He said that success in that venture could lead to more advertising options in Central and South Huron. 80th Birthday Open House for Bill Seers Saturday, December 10 Auburn United Church 1:30 - 4:00 pm Let your presence be your gift Happy 40th Old Fart Love your family and friend Taxes deferred for Legion again Central Huron approved the deferral of taxes at the Clinton Legion for a 10-year period at the Nov. 24 Committee of the Whole meeting. Treasurer Terri Taylor said she simply felt Central Huron should follow Huron County’s lead on the initiative in waiving the taxes for 10 years. For the last 10-year bylaw deferring taxes on Legions throughout the county, Huron County had deferred taxes from all three categories on its bylaw: municipal, county and education. However, this time around, Huron County only passed a bylaw that waives taxes for the county and education portions of the general levy. “We do not have a bylaw in place,” Taylor said. “So we should have one as of Jan. 1, 2012 for 10 years.” The property was given a residential assessment of $317,000 for 2011 and for this year the portion of taxes that would be written off by Central Huron would be just over $1,800. “It’ll just show up as a write-off on your taxes,” Taylor said. She said that once the taxes were written off, the Legion wouldn’t even be sent a bill by the municipality. Council approved the recommendation and it will come to council’s Dec. 5 meeting for official council approval. By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen