HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-10-11, Page 3THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1989. PAGE 3.
Blyth.Blyth Festival attendance tops 47,000
People
Eleven tables were in play when
the regular Monday night euchre
party was held at Blyth Memorial
Hall Oct. 2.
Ella Richmond and Don Buchan
an had the high scores. June
Jacklin and Lloyd Appleby had the
low scores. Irene Whiteman and
Ruth Fischer had the most lone
hands. Vi Howes won the special
prize. There’s euchre at Memorial
Hall every Monday night at 8 p.m.
Meanwhile the other regular
Blyth card night is preparing to get
back into action. The Blyth Lost
Heir parties will begin Oct. 18 at
Memorial Hall and carry on every
Wednesday night at 8 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnson, Kari
and Kurt of London spent Thanks
giving weekend with Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin Snell and other members of
the family.
Congratulations go out to Harvey
Sillib whose 85th birthday is today,
October 11. Its celebration took
place earlier on October 5, and
what a surprise it was! His only son
George was leaving the next morn
ing on a hunting trip and had
arranged this earlier date and the
surprise.
To honour this special event,
George and Harvey’s only daugh
ter Marjorie, 16 other relatives and
three or four close friends held a
dinner party at the banquet hall of
the Classic Restaurant which was a
successfully managed surprise par
ty for the guest of honour.
Harvey, wearing his usual plaid
western shirt and tie displaying a
cowboy on horseback, was utterly
shocked and amazed when, at the
banquet hall door he faced 20 or
more people dressed in their
party-best and lustily singing
“Happy Birthday’’.
“That George’’, Harvey later
remarked, “tricked me into believ
ing that it was an ordinary supper,
that he, Eileen and I were going to.
We often eat out together. I
questioned him as we passed by
the Classic restaurant’s dining
room windows, but it was too late
for George to explain as he
hurriedly escorted me on to the big
eating place.”
The Classic’s delicious roast beef
dinner with all the trimmings, the
attractive cake with eight candles
on one side and five on the other,
and throughout the evening the
flashing of four or five cameras
which would help to make this
birthday party memorable, was a
delight for Harvey and his guests,
in the most sedate speech he has
ever made, he says, Harvey thank
ed his relatives and friends for
cards, money and gifts received.
Two of these now add interest to
his kitchen. On one wall hangs a
large picture of a white mare giving
tender loving care to her colt, and
close by is a decorative, intriguing
gigantic helium balloon in the form
of a floating human displaying the
message, Happy Birthday. On the
dining room table lie two expres
sions of congratulation - one from
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney,
the other from Murray Cardiff,
M.P.
Harvey says he can’t help but
contrast his 85th birthday’s charac
teristics to his 80th’s, the setting
for which was moose country -
Astair near Sudbury; a trailer and
two camps; partridge and moose
heart roasting in the oven; the
hooting of ‘Happy Birthday’ by 10
or 12 of the hunters, and George
and he, at the end of the hunters
bountiful meal, relaxing on a bunk
watching the gang washing dishes
and putting on an act and cussing
at having to wash all those dishes
when, at all other times, paper
ones had been used; and the
culprits - he and George all the
while laughting their heads off.
Attendance at the Blyth Festival
set new records in terms of
numbers and percentage of seats
filled in 1989 with a near-capacity
season.
Overall, 97 per cent of all seats
were sold from all 102 performan
ces, Festival officials reported last
week bringing total attendance to
47,554. In contrast in the Festival’s
first season in 1975, about 3,000
people saw performances.
The hottest ticket of the season
was “The Right One” by Brian
Wade which sold out before it
opened but all the shows weren’t
far behind. “The Right One”
played to 98.3 per cent of capacity
(the figures to not include unpaid
tickets such as those for reviewers,
etc.).
Next in line was “The Dream
land” the huge musical by Ray
mond Storey and John Roby which
played to 97.8 per cent of capacity,
Historical Society
edging out Dan Needles’ “Perils of
Persephone” which played to 97.4
per cent and “Sticks and Stones”
(by James Reaney) which played to
97.2 per cent. “The Mail Order
Bride” the 1988 hit by Robert
Clinton that was brought back at
the end of the season before going
on a province-wide tour, played to
94.5 per cent.
to hear about
New Zealand
Life in New Zealand will be the
topic of the annual banquet meet
ing of the Huron County Historical
Society in Brucefield Thursday
night.
Jeff Cleveland, a teacher on
exchange from New Zealand will
speak on his homeland. Tickets for
the meeting at Brucefield United
Church are available through The
Citizen offices in Blyth and Brus
sels.
FLOWERING
CRAB-APPLE
TREES
In conjunction with the Village Tree Planting Program, Flowering
Crab-Apple Trees will be planted next April. Anyone wishing to
purchase a tree or trees, please contact the Village Clerk’s Office at
523-4545 by 12 noon October 20th, 1989.
Helen R. Grubb,
Clerk.
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