The Village Squire, 1981-09, Page 26You can't win
Reviewers with a theatrical background
said the sporting set would probably like
Keith Roulston's Fire on Ice at Blyth
Summer Festival '81. But reviewers with a
sporting background said the play
wouldn't cut it with hockey buffs and
would appeal to those with a theatrical
background.
You can't win.
The play was about Mitchell -born
Howie Morenz, one of the greatest hockey
players Canada has ever produced.
Ticket sales were slow at first, but
picked up later in the run and could be
called "moderate" says Blyth publicity
director Brenda Doner. She says the
hockey play suffered by comparis on to
Quiet in The Land and The Tomorrow
Box, which set attendance records at Blyth
this summer. Doner speculates the
Morenz play may have been hurt at-
tendance -wise because women buy most
theatre tickets, and women won't pay to
see a play about sports. The publicity
director says hockey lovers see the game
all winter and might not be willing to
watch a play about it in the summer.
Katimavik moves in
Young volunteers will have their work
cut out for them when they arrive in Huron
County this month. And they'll do it for a
dollar a day, plus expenses.
It's a volunteer -action program called
Katimavik, sponsored by the federal
government, for youths ages seventeen to
twenty-one years. Thirty-three
volunteers, divided into three groups of
eleven, start work in Goderich and
Seaforth, Sept. 21.
In Goderich two of the groups will spend
nine months working at restoring the
Huron Historic Jail, the Huron County
Pioneer Museum, the marine museum,
repairs to the stairs to 'Tiger' Dunlop's
tomb, building new stairs in the St.
Christopher's Beach area, and updating
records at the town hall and Maitland
Cemetery. The Seaforth group will build a
carriage house to original specifications at
the Van Egmond House and do other
restoration work, fix banks along the
stream at a local park, and work as
teachers' aides at the public school.
There are 37 Katimavik projects in
Canada and seven in Ontario. th ough this
will be the first time the program has
come to this part of the province.
Katimavik volunteers want to develop
working skills and experience alternate
lifestyles.
In addition to their wage of a dollar a
day, volunteers receive $1,000 if they stay
until the end of their projects.
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VILLAGE SQUIRE/SEPTEMBER 1961 PG. 25