The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-05-22, Page 14TRAFFIC HEAVY — It was bumper-to-bumper traffic in the Grand Bend area for most of the Victoria Day
weekend. Numerous minor traffic accidents were, reported but t,e weekend was a peaceful one according
to police. Traffic problems and parking were discussed at the Tuesday night meeting of Grand Bend council
and solutions are being sought. T-A photo
Tax mill rate jump
likely for village
Education, the Grand Bend
Chamber of Commerce and the
Grand Bend Lions Club were
pre,sent at the May meeting of the
Grand Bend recreation com-
mittee held at the council
chambers Wednesday night.
The extension of a gymnasium
at the Grand Bend Public School
was discussed. Final details of
the draw for the boat, trailer and
motor being sponsored by the
recreation committee were
made, The boat will be parked
throughout the community with
ticket sellers available.
Details of the recreation
committee's role in the Canada
Trust 100 yacht race were
discussed.
Falls are the number one killer in
the home today. St. John
Ambulance cautions you to be
wary of falls by checking the
stairway to make sure there are
no' objects that might cause a
serious accident.
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.Huron -Country Playhouse 1975.
summer season plans outlined
comedy called "Luv" by Murray
Schisgal, A somewhat con-
troversial hit of the late 60's,
Luv's New York humour and
satire has mellowed with age, but
it's still one of the funniest plays
ever written and opens on August
6th.
The musical company also
offers four productions and opens
the first of these at the Playhouse
James Murphy, artistic
director for the Huron Country
Playhouse, has announced its
plans for the new 1975 summer
season. Besides its regular
season at Grand Bend, the
Playhouse will present its entire
eight-week playbill at Kin-
cardine, Meaford, Hanover,
Fergus,Elora and Owen Sound.
Another innovation for the
Playhouse is the creation of a
second company to specialize in
musical comedy. The two
companies, will then alternate
their productions between the
Grand Bend headquarters and
the road locations.
In Kincardine the Playhouse is
sponsored by the Kincardine
Theatre Guild, Roy Ellenton,
president; in Meaford the Town
Hall Players, Madelaine Bennet,
president; in Fergus the
Wellington County Theatre
Festival, Brian Rahn, president;
and in Owen Sound by the Owen
Sound Summer Theatre Project,
Bob Laughlin, president. In
Hanover the Company appears
under an advisory committee of
which Mr. Ned Crockford is
chairman.
The Grand Bend Women's
Institute held their May meeting,
Thursday evening, in the United
Church basement.
Fifteen members and one
visitor answered the roll call by
"Naming a plant with a
medicinal value,"
Mrs. Nola Taylor, president,
presided for the business. It was
decided to enter the WI articles
for Exeter fair.
The June meeting will be held
in the form of a dinner party at
the Pineridge Chalet near
Hensall. Those wishing to go are
asked to phone Mrs. Nola Taylor
or Mrs. Raymond Kading.
This was a "Horticulture"
meeting in charge of Mrs. Colin
Love. The motto was, "No one's
heart will ever harden planting
seeds in friendship's garden."
Mrs. Love commented on the
motto by reading the life story of
Mrs. William Dawson, of
oParkhill, who among her many
iachie,vements was the first
,woman editor of a weekly paper
din Canada. Mrs. Love read
several tips on growing flowers.
A contest was held on naming
fruits and vegetables. Winners
were Mrs. Ed Turnbull, Mrs. N.
Taylor, and Mrs. H. Morenz.
Lunch hostesses were Mrs. Bill
Love, Mrs. Jack Ridley and Mrs.
Olive Miller.
Following lunch was an ex-
change of flower plants and slips.
Two quilts quilted
Twenty ladies from the United
church, met Tuesday, at the
home of Mrs. Herman Hodgson,
and quilted two quilts,
Annua I meeting attended
Mrs. Leroy Bariteau, Mrs.
Lawrence Curts, Mrs. Rosie t Grigg, Mrs. Maurine ,Walper,
Mrs. Susie Devine, Mrs. Olive
Miller, Mrs. Ed Gill, Mrs.
Raymond Kading, Mrs. Nola
Taylor and Mrs. Hugh Morenz
attended the Women's Institute
The creation of the touring
company is a means of providing
live entertainment for the entire
Lake Huron Region, It also
allows the Company a relief from
its one-show-a-week pace it's had
to maintain for 3 years. More
ambitious productions will now
be possible, particularly as the
Playhouse Company moves from
a tent into its new permanent,
theatre facility.
The Ontario Arts Council,
expressing strong confidence in
the Huron Country Playhouse
organization, has granted $15,000
to assist in the presentation of its
summer season.
The Playhouse acting company
opens the season on June 25th with
a comedy by the world's most
popular living playwright Neil
Simon. It made Robert Redford a
star on stage and screen and
it's called "Barefoot in the
Park".
Another famous American
playwright represented on the
season is Tennessee Williams.
His first play "The Glass
Menegerie", a light and sen • -
timental drama, opens July 9 and
will give Playhouse audiences a
District Annual meeting Thur-
sday, at Dashwood Community
Centre. The latter four ladies
were voting delegates.
Mrs. Olive Miller, ac-
companied by Mrs. Irene Ken-
nedy on the piano, sang two solos,
as the afternoon contribution of
music for the District Annual
program.
Persona ls
Mr. & Mrs. Alec Hamilton
enjoyed a three day bus trip last
week to the "Tulip Festival in
Holland, Michigan.
Mr, & Mrs. George Latta, and
Mrs. John Lovie, spent Sunday in
Sarnia with Mr. & Mrs.
Raymond Latta, Todd and Dale
and celebrated Todd's birthday.
Mr. & Mrs. Mel Ramsden and
family of North Bay, spent the
weekend with her parents, Mr. &
Mrs. Ed Gill.
Mrs. Ardella Desjardine White
of Charleston, South Carolina,
has been visiting friends and
relatives in this area.
Gail Willard of Exeter spent
the weekend with her grand-
mother, Mrs. Raymond Kading.
Saturday visitors with Mr. &
Mrs. George Latta, were Mr. &
Mrs. Ed Bricker and daughter of
Port Elgin and Mr. & Mrs. Alex
Latta of London.
The Church of God
congregation, held a "Share a
Dish", supper at the church
Friday evening to close a family
week program. After the supper
a film "The family that prayed",
was shown, and a musical
program was held.
Mrs. Helen West, Mrs. Ed Gill,
and Mrs. Hugh Morenz were
exhibitors at the craft show on
Sunday at Ravenswood.
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Allister en-
tertaiiied friends for an evening
of fun and games.After lunch was
served, a gift was presented to
the guests of honor, Rev. & Mrs,
H. Dobson.
Mr. & Mrs. Morris Emerson of
Simcoe, spent the weekend with
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Allister.
slight departure from comedy.
The third offering by the acting
company opens July 23rd and is a
world masterpiece of comedy. It
is Oscar VVilde's "The Impor-
tance of Being Earnest"
produced in its original 1895 style
with colourful British settings
and costumes.
Rounding out the season from
the acting company is a wry
on July 2. "Oh Coward", a
Canadian hit that took Boston and
New York by storm when it
moved there. It's a fast paced
revue filled, with everything that
was Noel Coward.
For their second musical, the
company gets out its tap shoes
and sailor suits for "Dames at
Sea" opening July 16. Based on
the campy nostalgia of the
Hollywood musicals of the 30's, it
was a long running off-Broadway
hit. •
Opening on July 30 is one work
that Playhouse patrons have
often requested, Having the
longest title, it is beloved around
the world - 'Jacques Brel is Alive
and Well and Living in Paris'.
Rounding out the final
production is the biggest
production ever staged by the
Playhouse company. It's the big
splashy musical that ran for
years on Broadway, Based on
Thornton Wilder's "The Mer-
chant of Yonkers", it's musical
title is now a household word.
With a full company of actors,
singers, dancers, chorus and
orchestra, the Playhouse final
offering of the Season is "Hello
Dolly" opening August 13.
All eight productions open at
the Playhouse on Wednesday's
beginning June. 25. After four
performances at the Playhouse,
each production moves to Kin-
cardine's Town Hall on Sundays; •
Meaford's Town Hall on Wed-
nesdays; Hanover's Town Hall on
Thursdays; Fergus' Grand
Theatre on Fridays and at Owen
Sound's 0.S.C.V.I. on Saturdays.
Subscription tickets will be
available in all locations.
Missing Piece
gets OFY grant
Bob Barkman, co-ordinator
with The Missing Piece, revealed
this week that the group has
received approval for a grant
under the federal 'Opportunities
,For Youth program.
The Missing Piece, which
operates a coffee house on the
Main street of Grand Bend along
with various recreational and art
and crafts programs, had
received OFY funding in the past.
Details of the approval were
not available and Mr. Barkman
said the amount of the grant was
still to be determined.
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COMING .DOWN — This large sailing yacht was deposited safely in
the Ausable River Friday by a crane operated by Bay City Crane Ren-
tals. In all, about 35 yachts were placed in the river near the Grand
Bend Yacht Club. T-A photo.
Gym extension topic
at recreation meet
Horticulture topic
at GB Institute
Liaison members froth the
Lambton County Board of
Although the 1975 Grand Bend
municipal budget has not been
finally set, indications are that
taxpayers will be looking at an
increase in the mill rate.
In a brief discussion on the
budget at Tuesday night's
meeting of the village council,
reeve Bob Sharen told council
they were looking at a 10 mill
increase in the education and
county levies alone. In 1974,
Grand Bend paid out $111,568.00
to the Lambton County Board of
Education but this year the cost
of schooling will jump to
$123,109.00. Similarly, the rate to
be paid to Lambton County has
jumped from $48,116.21 last year
to $55,758.59 this year.
Despite the increases, and
natural increases in many
categories of the expenditures of
the village, Reeve Sharen
cautiously expressed optimism
about the 1975 mill rate. He
mentioned that the village had
been creating a surplus, par-
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June 13 - 14
Family fun on the beach!
ticularly in the water account,
and a drop in the water levy from
$34,497.42 last year to $27,602.16
this year would regain about four
mills.
Reeve Sharen urged council to
prepare for a committee meeting
in the near future at which time
budgets will be definitely set and,
all capital expenditures will be
separated from normal
operation. The reeve pointed out
that if expenditures were kept
within six percent of last, year,
council could take full advantage
of a grant structure which ranged
from a minimum of three percent
to a maximum of nine percent.
The village, he said, would be
penalized with the low rate unless
expenditures' were kept within
the six percent guideline which
entitles the community to the
nine percent grant.
Last year, Reeve Sharen
stated, the village received a
stablilization grant of $9,869 and
per capita grants of $6,288, This
year it is hoped the village will
receive a $17,000 /stabilization
grant and a per capaita grant of
$11,009,
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