Village Squire, 1977-07, Page 31PEOPLE
Not many of us would relish being called
an odd fellow but the Odd Fellows are a
proud lodge and one of the proudest
members is an area man, John Broadfoot
of Brucefield who was recently named
Grand Master of the Oddfellow's Lodge of
Ontario. The top post in the lodge in
Ontario means that he'll be attending
functions of the Lodge all across the
province and into Quebec, Manitoba and
New York State, some 160 trips in all in the
next year. A member of the Lodge since
1948, Mr. Broadfoot accepted the new
position at the six-day convention held in
Toronto's Royal York Hotel in June.
Many people dream a whole lifetime
about having something they've written
appear in print but Patricia Rimmer has
achieved that dream early in life. The
young Seaforth Public School student has
had a poem accepted by the magazine Wee
Wisdom published in Missouri. The poem,
entitled Our Neighbourhood, will appear in
the July -August issue of the magazine.
Patricia plans to keep writing and sending
her work to the magazine.
For George Allen of Wingham, June 14
was a memorable night. It was the official
opening of the Wingham Museum with a
special room called the George Allen room
filled with his carvings of birds, hand
carved from pine and painted by Mr. Allen.
It was really M. Allen who got the whole
museum thing going two years ago when
he offered to donate his collection and
$1000. Since then a band of Wingham
people have worked hard to see the dream
of a museum and archives room for the
town come to life. The museum located in
the old Wingham post office building is
open beginning July 12 from 2-5 p.m.
Tuesdays through Fridays.
Weekend magazine featured several
local villages recently in a picture feature
about famous cities of the world that have
name sakes in Canada. Featured locally
were Brussels, Dublin and Zurich. But the
magazine missed a few famous names too,
like Belfast in the Lucknow area, Moscow
to the north and southward in Lambton
county, Cairo. Could there be a sequel`
coming?
Stratford Festival artistic Director Robin
Phillips may have a nearly new five year
contract but that hasn't stopped specula-
tion about his future. The key is the fact
that Phillips has a clause saying he can get
out of the contract at any time with four
months notice. So the rumours continue
that he's going here or there and who his
successor will be. The latest rumour
surfaced in the Toronto Globe and Mail
which predicted that Urjo Kareda, the
Festival's literary manager and a former
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would succeed Philips. The speculation
arose out of an interview with London
(England) Daily Mail critic Jack Thdcer and
Phillips in which, depending who you
believe, Phillips may or may not have
dropped broad hints as to who he will push
as his successor. To Tinker, all the signs
led to Kareda. To Festival publicity
director Doug Allen, the hints might apply
as much to two other Festival employees,
research assistant Dan Ladell or Peter
Moss. assistant to the artistic director for
several productions this year.
Operation
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Lifestyle is having the ca-
pacity to react against the
cigarette habit, stimulants
and tranquilizers, pot and
alcohol. It's avoiding drug
abuse and rejecting illegal
drugs.
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VILLAGE SQUIRE/JULY 1977. PG. 29.