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Thirteen Hands keeps
audience in stitches
• by Laura Wincins
Memories. Aren't they
• •great? Sitting and rem-
niscing about the old.days
• with friends, remembering•
your fir,st crushes, the
unreasonable rules and
curfews your parents gave
you and all of those fun
timeS. Grandparents shar-
ing the same old story:
"You know, I had to walk
two whole mires to school
in four feet .of snow, up
hill both ways...4 • out stage and the Scenery
Thirte'en Hatyix is a IS never •changed. Each
story doing just that. Scene is created in, your
Remembering old memo- imagination.
•
•ries, The story begins with I enjoyed this
Cora, the sole survivor of play very much. One coot -
the "Martha Circle." ...She teal line after another kept
tells the story of how the the whole audience in
women got together to stitehea,
forM this group and why it If you like comedy with
was named the Martha •a little bit of singing and
Circle. •. dancing thrown in you
The whole story takes will surely enjoy Thirteen
pl,am on one, cleverly laid Hands.
Committee recommends
utilities amalgamate
By Lee Ann Waterman
A. committee represent-
ing public utilities across
Perth and Huron Counties
is recommending amalga-
mation of the area utilities
into two — one in Perth and
one in Huron.
The restructuring com-
mittee has been meeting to
discuss the future of hydro-
electricity in the two coup -
ties -in preparation for
deregulation o(the
indis-
try in 2000. .
At. a recent meeting
Neill Winger a,nd an Carr,
Consultants from ,Acres
• international, presented, the
• committee with a report of
their recornmendatiOns for
.the area utilities.
• The committee approved
the busidess. plan develop7
ment study that would see
the creation of four corpo-
rations in the two counties
— a' wire company in each
county, which would be
responsible for wires,'
poles, etc. and a service
company, in each county
Which •would provide
hydroelectricity to, the area.
• -Under the proposed Bill
• ...
•
35 the utility becomes "a
• commercial enterprise With
•It board of directors and
share holders," explained
Carr. •
said that :his against what hCcalled "turf
s proposal would protection," -saying that the
significant sav- committee members had to
ings. start thinking about what
• was best far the whole
In rth County,
area, not their little piece
Pecost fit.
savings would be $18 p °
er If we're going tosave ano• ther eompor $348,000 per gatriatei then our money
year; proposed staff retitle. into one pOt ,in d
• tion of seven employees 6-•
we're going to be one
*°1114 save another company and thats the way
•$280,000 and the cgoinz to he," said
tion of the Milverton work winner, •
station would save an addi- • The report was amended
tional $15,400 fOr a grand. tib say that each munibipal7
total of..$643,800 in sav- ity in Huron would appoint
inns per year. one member te.the trans',
In Huron, cost savings of tion board.
• $2.0 per customer and the in Perth, three menabers. •
eliminationof five t• the transition team will
• employees and Seven Work come from Stratford and
Stations would mean one from' each of the other
$531,300 in savings per municipalities. .
..„,year, Said Winger. ' An the utilities repre-7
• The consultants did' not
en
recommend firing employ- sinflaedvoatheeetingnved
rt ofampprpyigotthe'
ees but offering retirement report. The next Stepwill
or'osignation incentives so be for the ttlembers' of the
into ,
. museum
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, From page 1.4
He Vvas driving a 1997-
98 Ford pick-up truck 'with
a .single cab, medium
green in color. There are
no decorations or tinted
windows on the truck Vie
vehicle is believed have
. Ontario licence plates.'
Anyone with infOrma-
,
tion is asked to contact
your nearest,police serviCe
r •
• or the Ontario Provincial
P9lice at I-888-310-1122
Or Crirnestoppers at 1-800-
222-$477, •
that people would leave restructuring somMittee.to
Voluntarily, • • bring the report to their
. For Perth County, the • jeCaI utilities coMmission
consultants recommended •for approval. •
one central administration Area municipalities have
eritre: in Stratford and the final say regarding the
three additional work. een-
, future structure regarding
tras. in St. Marys, Listewel' the' futete, af. ideal utilities.
and Mitchell. For IF:turon,' For ,the prOposal to become
they recommended a main reality, the municipalities
• office in Goderich and will' have to approve it and
workcentres in Exet
er, make a joint application to
• Seaforth and Wingham. ••
the Ontario Energy Board,
Representatives, of the •
Clinton PUC asked why for the appropriate licens-
es' xplained Winger.
•• Clinton was not chosen 'as
0 • the site for•either•the main
O•PP 1. ok
office or a work Centre. HOW TO EEA
• Winger responded that a
• number of criteria:were,
• considered when choosing
the sites including concen-
,
tration of customers, size
of existing building and
number of staff at each
site., • • •
Representatives from
Huron- County objected to
the .proposed make-up of
• the transition board (a
'board whose mernbers will
be appointed by municipal
. councils to oversee to tran-
sition from public utilitie•s
to orporation). -The report
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• carol ShleldaThirteonlionds•le. brought to life at the Blyth FEstival by a
• fabulouscastOf: women who proclaim. "It's not a sin to want to win."
Thirteen Hands features the talents of, from the left:Michelle Fisk, Jane
Spideli,, Sharon Bakker and GOldie Semple, and is directed for the Blyth
stage by Diana .Beishaw. (Off Broadway Photography)
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