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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-10-15, Page 2Precision Machined Draft Caps For Safe, Easy Temper- ature Control Removable Baffle Individual Fire Brick and Unique Air Flow tor EffiCient Trouble Free Opeiation Page Z—Luelmow Sentinel, Wednesday, October 15) 1980 • ilton and Detroit, added to. the regular reviewers frOm local' towns' and papers in London and Kitchener. The presence Of all these people shoWed that the Festi- val iS.......gaininig,Amorninence among the theatres of Can- ada. • • WINTER SERIES, -BUY NOW Time is running out for music lovers to - have first choice of seats for the series, Single tickets for events of the series hegan selling Oct- ober 1 hut until then, those buying serieS tickets got the chance for, the best available seats, Nearly, 200 series have been sold but there are still plenty of good „seats . avail- able-It's a bargain not likely to come again, $25,' worth-of tickets to see The Brass Company, The fluggett Fam- ily, -Maureen Forrester and The Tapestry Singers for ooly$16. Get your orders in too for the Children's Series featur- • ing folksinger Eric Nagler and the Lampoon Puppethe- atre at only $4 for two events. Tickets for special attractions such as The Family Brown at $7.50 per seat on.October 18 and the RCMP Showband on November 30 ($3. for adults. • The staff at the. Blyth. Centre for the Arts is jOst mopping up after the Most successful: Myth Summer Festival ever,' Attendance is well ahead of last year and --ahead-of-expectations, -Mere- - than 20,000' people visited • the Festival in just eight weeks compared to 21,000 who came to Blyth last year during the 10 :week season which inchicled'the held-over run of, The Death of Don- ellys. Attendance averaged ab- out 375 per show with, I'll Be Back For You Before Mid- night leading the way with an average attendance of 433. In two seasons now, more than 11,000 people have seed Pet- er volley's thriller at. Blyth. Joh& and The Missus and The Life That Jack Built each averaged about 360 while St. Sam of the Nuke Pile came in with an average Of more than 335,. This is better, than the best show averaged last year so the season Van only be regarded as a success. There was a nice surplus 9Perations--thiS, year-hut every penny of it is. needed. Next year , the Centre' is substantially higher - coSts, For one thing it will be going up frotn category F to category E on the Actors Equity Association pay scale which means a substantial increase in the salary bud- get. The Centre should have been in category E all along because of the capacity of the threatre but Equity had given a concession fer the first few years to help get the. Centre going. Next year the concession will not 'be allow- ed. There's also, the matter of the building debt which the Centre-is carrying On the new _ addition to Memorial Hall opened this summer. Inter- est:charges add up, So, when You reCeive a fuodraising letter duriog the winter_please_xememher the Centre needs your support as much as ever for the coming season if it is to remain strong. There are many people whe deserve thanks for this season's success, TWo oroups that come to mind'are the ticket outlets in the various towns in the regions and the ladies' groups who served about 2,300 meals this summer. , ART GALLERY A successful part of the summer season was the new art gallery in the addition to Memorial Hall. Two shows were featured: a show of art by Huron County secondary school studenti in July and the art of Jack MacLaren in August. Dtiring the time that shiny was' displaY, 13 Paintings. - 'were sold. Visoal Arts conimittee chairroan Bev :Walker says that, pro: eeeds from the conlMisSiQlls on these sales Will be used to firtatice a children's art' pro- gram in 'early 19131.. Thorp will alse, he three workshop- seminars as part of the visual arts program - this winter, , Quite a topic of ,conyersa, tion before the shows 'arid during intermissions this years was the quilts hung 9n the wall by the' visual arts committee. The quilts were , the work of various ladies from arOund the region, PUBLICITY The theatre is gaining ever more national publicity. Ad- ded to last spring's article in Chatelainemas a full Page in , ivIacleans this suMmer Ted JOhns and the Festival. There was one morning on CBC Radio when the Festival was featured both e on Fresh Air and nationally , on Sunday Morning.- Art Crighton and Bill McNeil from Fresh Air and Broriwyn •Drainie from Sonday Morn, . ing were all in Blyth as were, critics froM Toronto, s$ Ael Mi n0O gS f iows et al ii nh sa. hr eo. v :09n TOURNEWS . •Artistie Director Janet the road again. Currently She fi_rming -uP a tour next Mareh and April of St. Sairn of the Nukes, The fall of 1981 willlikely see another School ShOw tour to places that have, been clamouring to get 'Ted, JOhns' tour , de farCe -and tentatively scheduled for -the spring 'of 1082, is a tOut of The Life That Jack Built. COMINGS AND GOINGS , large Part of ;this ,Year's2, -company followed the lead of James and Anne RoY , and' headed west this year. • Brenda Dotter, the public,- ity director 'for three. surri- mers, is the new admiois-. trator at Theatre Network in Edmonton. Also in Edmon-. ton is BrUce Specht, tech- nical director, who, is flow at The Citadel,. Peter Geerie, carpenter, is With the Univer- sity of Alberta at Edmonton. Jim Boudreau, electrician, will winter at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. Actor Billie. Dunlop is in Victoria working With James Roy at the Belfry where the first play will be, I'll Be Badk Before Midnight. . • Pe mjury m. No one was injured in a traffic mishap Sunday morning when two cars collided south of village on Huron County Road 1. Cheryl Hackett, Lucknow, was proceeding south along. Huron County Road 1 when she turned left into a driveway and was struck by a car driven by Douglas Aitchison of Ashfield Township. There were two passengers in the Aitchison vehicle, Mr. Aitchison's wife, Nancy, and their son, Daryl, The accident occurred about 10.45 a.m. Sunday...And Goderich OpP investigated. Meet Henderson... *from page 1 members last June when it was disclosed that 9.5 per cent of the county's land was owned by people living outside the country. Register now for hockey Only 18 youngsters were registered for hockey at the registration held Saturday. Since the recreation com- mittee must present a list of all Lucknow players who will play this season to the Ontario Minor Hockey Association by November 1, parents are urged to register their children this Saturday at the Town Hall, from 1 if your Sentinel label reads October 6543210 -your— subscription is due .1.00.000dik14:7tho:CloOsItioAr- FOR TONICWROIN 100% Welded Construction of 1/4 " and 5/16 Prime Plate Steel Making changes to a watercourse? The waters of rivers, streams and creeks belong to everyone. 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