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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1997-09-10, Page 14Page 14— Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, September 10, 1997 'r'ri:%: i:i}:};Sr: :%}i•:•::%}:%'%: moi:%::::%: � is%'r:i%i:<? %ii:Y :{S•'ri?::: %�:: �:•: i::: • •:.•.•:::::: •:.: .:{{•}:i.:.Y:ti � :iii?:•� :: r: -.{: •. � ...,. harlott 's Web to play at Blyth Fest val Charlotte's Web, a clas- sic children's story about a spider and a pig, will be presented at the Myth Memorial Community Hall Oct. 25 at 1 and 3 p.m. It follows in the tradi- tion of other recent 'Blyth Festival..Children's hits like Peter and. the.Wolf in 1994, Let's Do Munsch in 1995 and New friends, Old Friends 'last year. These productions have played to. more• than 14,000 students, teachers and parents. Written by` E.B. White and adapted for the.theatre by Joseph Robinette, Charlotte's Web is about Wilbur, a pig lovingly raised by a girl. named Fern. When he becomes a barn pig, he is bored and, lonely until he meets har tte. a beautiful grey spider ho also lives in the barn: ih the hell, of:. a rat, goose and sheep, • Charlotte thinks of a won- detfui way to save Wilbur from a pig's unhappy fate and ensure hire a happy life ' on the Zuckerman farm. • Directed 'by Duncan. McGregor, a Blyth ;Festival board member and former Artistic Director of Carousel Players in•St. Catharines,=. this play is performed by actors from the area, including Anne Elliott, Erin Roulston and Capucine, Teaguen and Zoellyn Onn, all of Blyth, Kim Souch of Seaforth, Kaitlyn Knight of • Goderich,. Carol Oriold of Listowel;and Kira Stuckey Of Wingham. The. play also features puppets,• comedy and original music composed and per- formed by Arlene Darnbrough of Goderich. Duncan and Arlene previ- ously 'coilaborated on Peter and the Wolf, Munsch and New 'Friends. Jeanette Harris, Farris, a new Festival board member, will stage manage. Costumes are by Sherri Milburn of Goderich and lighting by Michael Kruse of Toronto. Charlotte's Web will also•play .to school groups, ages Kindergarten to Grade 6, from Oct, 21 to. 25 and Oct. 27, to 31 with two one-hour. perfor- mances per day at 10:15 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Teachers' classroom guides will be provided. School groups may "be booked by calling the Blyth. Festival Box Office at (519) 523-9300. Tickets for the two public perfor- mances on Oct. 25 are also available through, the Box Office. Writers' workshop Writing -- and being in the most modern of .published -- is a pursuit media, he brings history to for all seasons, to 'be life through his fictional examined from the per- character D. B. Murphy. spectives of past, present Murphy is a World War 1 and future in a three-part survivor who becomes a series presented by, The, private detective, the hero Brucedale Press. of Thomas's first two pub - Area writers Richard J, lished novels based in Thomas and; William long -ago Owen Sound. Carter will look at two Bill Carter is a former aspects • of Writing from university professor who the Past on. Saturday, Sept, steers his research down 20 at the Bruce County` the. avenue of military his - Public Library headquar- tory. He has two published • ters in Port Elgin, • books, and ;credits in Both•.are experienced at museum display and•docu- mining archives, drawing mentary. Currently living from old newspaper files, in Port Elgin, he operates. building a collection of a desktop publishing and, letters and interview notes. editing service. ; • As a writer or reader> you The series. continues on may wonder how do they 'October ` 18, when David organize?. Sift? Present? Scott, editor of The Huron • And finally, get their, Expositor and a successful material published? playwright will discuss Richard J. Thomas is Writing for Today, The well-kn'ow.n as a broad= Concluding session on caster based in Owen . Nov. 15 looks at Writing Sound.. Although he works into•Tomorrow. If you have. just:arrived fromanother town or`kno.w of someone,West who •has' moved to Ashfield:, Waranos.h.r Kinloss or Luc.know wo ld `Like to exte n d v ehame' with ou'r ward w nning newsp ,per Provincial: changes could hurt local wallets by Blake Patterson The province, says it will all come out in the wash, but Huron County' pockets ,may 'well ' be empty, before the'laundry is done. At the Sept. • 4, meeting of• Huron_ County Council, county treasurer .Ken Nix outlined 'hisestimateq, • regarding the ,impact of the province's "Who Does . What" panel recommenda- .tions ,, rr�•.+r?rw..x:lii/siysiN++1:.;;;.:2irYr Sn.Htil+irl%cs2�o.erj'.a.:yi.r+cr:,;>lrirr:.GXr'••,.',rke• • .Nix said he 'wanted to. give the council members a.sense of the potential. impact -provincial down - provincial and 'municipal levelsof government. • . For, it,s ' part, the province has saidthe shift- ing, coupled withthe dis- tribution of the province's Community Reinvestment Fund,. will ultimately result' in a "tax .wash' for ratepayers. • The shifting of respon- sibility for ,social housing and ambulance services; for example, will be Offset.,. ,by responsibility' for, things such' as education: Nix, however, is not' con= vinced. `' , He told council there is loadingwill have, on still Much uncertainty sur-, rrit�nicipalities;.: rounding the impactof the The numbers: were first released to the local: press two weeks ago, and , indi- cate the county. will take a $15..4 million hit . as a result of the downloading and municipal taxes . may have to be'hiked an aver- age of 27 percent .to corn pensate for the increased costs. ,r- Several area newspa- pers have re',ported'..their townships have .little faith in the: numbers because more information is still. ,; needed from the province, but regardless of how. - many unknowns remain, 'Nix Said, "Preliminary details indicate the :county. of Huron .will be paying more taxes." • . The increase stems from a shifting° of respon- sibilities between the' Joss .of the farm•tax rebate ' and warned municipali ties. will take: a •substantial tax bit regardless of when or, if a tax ' wash ever becomes, a reality. He said the province is hoping the shift of respon ' sibilities' will result in "efficiency'savings," but efficiencies •will not be; possible until the province also downloads 'adni-nis- trative'control for those shifted. responsibilities. He said' municipalities like Huron County will . have• to pay the bills for - new, responsibilities but they Won'•t - have .the administrative .controls ' ;. needed to cut costs: -"It's :hard to make effi- ciencies in something ypu ' don't have control over," he said. ' •- •