HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-07-20, Page 10PAGE 10. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1988.
Three Auburn-area youngsters who have been given the chance to go
on the professional stage at the Blyth Festival make their debut on July
27. Ben Thomson [seated, right], Wesley Huizinga and Earl Thomson
[standing] appear as northern Ontario bush children in “Fires in the
Night”.
McKillop taxpayers in for a shock
Auburn
Compiled by Mrs. Mildred Lawlor. Phone 526-7589
Acting 'awesome' youngsters say
McKillop township tax bills
won’t go out until mid-September
but when they do, taxpayers are in
for a shock.
Township council at its July 5
meeting approved the township
budget for 1988 with expenditures
of $765,144. That is exactly the
same as the amount the township
budgeted to spend last year.
But although councillors held
the line on their own spending
they’ll have to pass along whopp
ing increases in taxes to senior
levels of government, brought on
both by increases in county and
school board spending and the new
county-wide market value assess
ment which hit the township
particularly hard. While it is
impossible, because of the re
assessment, to give the effect of
the changes on a “typical”
taxpayer, the simple mathematics
for the township tell the tale.
The township as a whole will see
an increase of 15.6 per cent in the
amount of money to be paid for
Huron County purposes. The
requisition for Huron County
Board of Education elementary
purposes jumps 36.3 per cent and
the secondary school level jumps
47.5 per cent. It’s even worse for
Huron-Perth Roman Catholic Se
parate School supporters as ele
mentary costs are up 51.4 per cent
and secondary up 49.8.
For local councillors, who bear
the brunt of complaints when taxes
increase, the September tax billing
is not good timing, coming only a
couple of months before the
municipal elections.
In other McKillop business,
council accepted the tender of
George Radford Construction Ltd.
of Blyth for the supply, crushing
and hauling of gravel for township
roads at a total tender price of
$105,750.
Council voted to accept the
procedures adopted by a commit
tee of area municipal representa
tives from Hullett, Seaforth and
McKillop to appoint a representa
tive to the Ausable-Bayfield Con
servation Authority.
Council approved a request from
the Winthrop Community Centres
Recreation Committee that a spe
cial occasion liquor permit be
obtained for the Men’s Slo-pitch
tournament Sept. 2 - 4.
Council approved increasing the
annual charge for supplying water
to David H. McKay and Donald A.
McClure to $10per month effective
Aug. 1.
Because of damages caused by
construction equipment the coun
cil agreed to pay Harold and Naomi
Pryce $500 in damages.
Council approved $101,783.70 in
general accounts and $52,036.55 in
road accounts.
NOTICE
Concession Road 13-14, Lots 11-15 will be closed for
approximately 3 weeks for the relocation of the 14th
concession drain.
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Thechancetobe professional
actors forawhilethissummeris
“awesome,” according to three
young Auburn-area boys who were
chosen for parts in the Blyth
Festival play “Fires in the Night,”
which opens July 27.
Brothers Ben and Earl Thomson
and Wesley Huizinga, all of RR 1,
Auburn, who have become known
to the rest of the company as ‘ ‘The
Auburn Trio, ’ ’ agree that it has
been “pretty neat” to play the part
of youngsters in the play about one
of northern Ontario’s travelling
Schools-on-Wheels, but admit that
it has been quite a bit more work
than they had expected.
Ben says that he tried out for a
part in the first place because he
thought he’d get to be a big star,
while Earl says that he felt it would
be fun because “I like pioneer
stuff.” Wesley claims he tried out
because his “Dad said I had to,”
but all three youngsters feel that
the experience is indeed some
thing special.
They liked the visit last week,
with the rest of the cast and crew, to
the real School on Wheels in
Clinton that inspired the story, and
they enjoyed meeting Cela Slo-
man, who lived on the travelling
school where her husband, Fred,
taught for 39 years, but the part
they agreed was the best of all was
the home-made bread and jam that
Margaret Sloman served during
the visit,
“That was really super,” Ben
said. “I would have liked to have
another piece.”
Earl adds that he liked looking at
all the things in the restored School
on Wheels, now open as a
museum, but says he’d have liked
it better if there had been more
“really old toys” on display.
“They wouldn’t have had any
thing like the Wayne Gretzky (doll)
that’s there now,” he observed.
Ben plays the part of “Billy,”
Fred and Cela Sloman’s own son,
in “Fires in the Night, ’ ’ while both
Earl and Wesley each play several
different characters as the play
unfolds over the story’s 40-year
time span. All have speaking parts,
but they are all confident that
they’ll be well prepared for
opening night, justone week away,
even though they don’t like the
songs they have to learn between
now and then.
“One of the (songs) is a real
tongue-twister,” Earl says, “but
we’llgetitworkedout.” “Andi
hope it’s cool (opening) night,”
adds Wesley. “Some of the stuff
we have to wear is awfully hot.”
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