The Citizen, 1990-12-12, Page 23THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1990. PAGE 23.
Final $45,000payment
delivered to Festival
Santa?
Christmas came early for the Blyth Festival Sunday when Murray Cardiff (right) M. P. for
Huron-Bruce presented the final payment of $45,000 from the federal government’s grant to the
Festival’s building program. Festival treasurer and building chairman Don McCaffrey and past
president Marian Doucette were pleased to accept.
Festival in black after big year
THURSDAY NIGHT IS
WING NIGHT
30c each
5 p.m. - midnight
Sorry no take out
Blyth Festival posted a remark
able turnaround turning a large
deficit in 1989 into a sizeable
surplus in 1990, members of the
Blyth Centre for the Arts were told
at the corporation’s annual meeting
in Blyth Thursday night.
Higher ticket prices more than
offset a small decrease in overall
attendance as the Festival totalled
$1,407,415 in operating revenue
the year ending Oct. 31, up from
$991,103 in 1989. That translated
into a surplus on the Festival’s
Health administrator likely
Huron County will likely hire an
administrator to assist in admini
stration of health costs in the new
year.
County Clerk-Administrator
Nigel Bellchamber explained to
RIDE checks show
no impaired
charges
Wingham OPP were pleased to
report that there were no impaired
charges in the first week of the
stepped-up RIDE program
throughout the area.
A spokesperson for the police
said officers stopped a total of 307
vehicles during spot checks be
tween December 1 and 8. Only
three drivers were issued a warn
ing and six people were charged
with liquor in the vehicle. Three
were asked to take roadside tests,
but the spokesperson said, these
were all passes.
summer season of $81,527 as
compared to a loss of $118,937 on
the 1989 season. Overall, the
Festival climbed out of a $74,621
accumulated deficit at the end of
1989 to a small surplus of $10,417
as of Oct. 31.
Ross Procter, one of tho^g in the
audience noted that the results
amounted to a remarkable $200,000
turnaround in the Festival’s for
tunes in one year.
The Festival pumped $896,996
into the economy in wages for
actors, crew and administration
County Council Thursday that most
counties have a separate admini
strator for the board of health but
in Huron this work has always been
done by the administrator’s office
and by the Medical Officer of
Health.
There is some money in the
Home Care budget and other
health-related budgets to help pay
the costs, he said. The areas would
cover about 80 per cent of the
salary of a person hired on a
contract basis. The other 20 per
cent would come from the county
and the person would spend 80 per
cent of their time on health
business and 20 per cent on general
county business.
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FROM YOUR FAMILY •
staff and royalties to authors.
Figures showed the Festival has
also become one of the village’s
larger taxpayers with a total of
$11,125 in property taxes for its
production facility on Dinsley St.
and its Queen St. administration
building.
Most concern was shown by
questionners about the cost of the
Festival’s expansion program over
the past two years. Figures provid
ed after the meeting showed the
original plans estimated at $1.8
million had increased to $2,028,871
due to additional costs and changes
made during construction. The
Festival still has a considerable
amount of money to be raised and
questionners expressed concern
about the .interest costs on the
amount $350,000 mortgage the
Festival has taken out.
New Artistic Director Peter
Smith outlined some of his plans
saying he can see a future second
stage set up in the “garage” on
Dinsley Street and dreams of
having a core group of actors
resident in Blyth all winter to work
on scripts, then join the summer
company in the sumpier.
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A Christmas gift came early for
the Blyth Festival, with the receipt
of a $45,000 cheque brought by
Murray Cardiff, MP, Huron-Bruce
on behalf of the federal govern
ment.
“This represents the final pay
ment from the $450,000 contribu
tion made by the federal Depart
ment of Communications” said
Cardiff at a special Christmas
concert of the Blyth Festival Sin
gers. “It is through a lot of
dedication and hard work that this
project is finally being realized.
The Blyth Festival is an excellent
example of “Cultural Initiative”
and therefore highly deserving of
the federal assistance through the
Cultural Initiatives Program. Con
gratulations to you all and best
wishes for another successful sea
son.”
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