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UPDATE
Sinfonia sound
reduced
as deficit grows
The tightening financial grip of
hard -time economics will mean a smaller
Sinfonia, the professional base group of the
London Symphony.
With a deficit of more than $300,000
facing them the members of the board of
directors of the London Symphony
Association decided to cut back the
Sinfonia from 30 to 25. It's been one of
many changes in the Symphony in the last
year. Also missing when the orchestra
performs next season will be the familiar
Clifford Evens who has led the orchestra
during its important formative years of the
Sinfonia concept. He recently held
auditions to fill vacancies in the Sinfonia
and complained that the Sinfonia should be
being enlarged. not reduced. He had
hoped to increase the first violin section
rather than reduce it from six to four.
When it comes time to direct the
Sinfonia however. it will be Victor Feldbrill
who will be the acting music director.
NO FM FOR STRATFORD
Stratford's hope for an FM radio station
died last month when the Canadian
Radio -television and Telecommunications
Commission (CRTC) decided to assign the
available channel to London instead.
The one available channel 92.7 mega-
hertz had been reserved for Stratford but
has become a battleground before the
CRTC earlier over whether it should stay in
Stratford or be reassigned to London. Both
parties battling for the channel were
London based but the group headed by
Rick Welwood of the Fanshawe College
Broadcasting School had planned to locate
the station in Stratford with antenna at
Sebringville. Their rival was Middlesex
Broadcasters Ltd. owners of CJBK radio in
London they plan to use the FM channel to
broadcast country and western music. The
new station should be on air early in 1980.
The Welwood group had planned to
have a staff of about 19 people which would
have been an important addition to
Stratford's economy.
CONTROVERSIAL SHIP -BOARD
RESTAURANT OPENS
The controversy about a ship -board
restaurant in Kincardine harbour hasn't
stopped it from opening.
An old Newfoundland coastal boat
Avalon Voyageur 11 had been brought to
Kincardine harbour by Hank and Thelma
Buitendyk with the hope of making it into a
floating seafood restaurant. But earlier this
year the plans hit a snag when Kincardine
town council objected to the use of the boat
as a restaurant. The trouble started when
the couple planned to move the boat from
its mooring on the south side of the
harbour which was designated open space
in the official plan to the north side,
designated commercial use. But 21
homeowners in the area of the north side
signed' a petition protesting the move
complaining of the potential for noise
pollution from a diesel generator required
for generating power for the restaurant,
from potential heavy traffic, the smell of
garbage and the appearance of the boat.
Although the owners promised to fix up
the boat and assured the council that the
boat would not detract from the harbour's
appearance the council sided with the
homeowners and decided they did not want
a ship -board restaurant. Supporters of the
restaurant argued that it would add to the
town, not detract from it.
The irony of the situation was that the
couple really would rather have had the
boat moored on the south side of the
harbour anyway because it offered better
facilities such as a sewerage connection.
The real fact was that all the fuss was over
nothing since the federal government, not
the town council controls the harbour.
At any rate. first diners got to sample the
fare of the Avalon Voyageur II restaurant
on June 29. The restaurant is open seven
days a week with luncheon from 11:30 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m. and dinner from 5 to 10 p.m.
GREENHOUSE PROJECT COULD BE
UNDERWAY BY NEXT YEAR
Construction for a pilot project to use
waste heat from the Bruce Nuclear Power
Development to grow fruit and vegetables
could begin this month.
The go ahead for the project came with
approval of a five acre reverence to allow
for the building of the initial greenhouse
which could lead the way, if all goes well,
to many acres under glass (or plastic) in the
Kincardine area producing year-round
crops.
Sam McGregor the man who from the
beginning has pushed the idea of the green
houses and one of the officials of Bruce
Agripark told the Kincardine News "It is
our intention to begin construction in the
month of July. We'll be operating by this
fall and hope for a full crop by the spring
harvest."
The project will include a good deal of
experimenting to see what works and what
doesn't. They will experiment with both
glass and plastic skins and different
growing techniques including peat bags
and hydroponics. Although the first
greenhouses will be conventionally heated,
they will be set up to try to duplicate the
kind of conditions the greenhouses heated
by the BNPD will have.
A CHRISTMAS
COUNTRY FAIR
DISPLAY & SALE
OF LOCAL ARTS,
CRAFTS & COUNTRY BAKING.
Wednesday, October 17 and
Saturday, October 20, 1979.
Saltford Valley Hall
north of Goderich
SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE:
Pottery by Diane Veary, Forest,
Michael Collins, Kitchener and
three Huron County potters;
Wood novelties by Walter
de Wolfe, Ripley; "A Christmas
Boutique of gifts & decorations"
by Maxine Pollock, Goderich.
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WEDDING BELLS
... AND FLOWERS
• So, your wedding date has
been set, and now you are
making the arrangements.
Your flower order is
important. It
can help to
make the
day, and
also provide
many
pleasant
We would
count it
a privilege
to serve you
on this glad
occasion.
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memories.
Listowel Florist Ltd.
Ed Van Geest
LISTOWEL, ONT.
170 Wallace N.
Listowel
Phone 291-2040
When you "say it with
flowers" from Listowel Florist,
"you've said it all."
United No. 461
FTD No. 752675
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