HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-12-19, Page 23THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1989. PAGE 23.
The world view
from Mabel's Grill
Pencil brigade
Participants in thesixthannual Winter Writers’ Retreat sponsored by Blyth Centre forthe Arts held a
public reading on Saturday at the Dinsley Street Garage. Front row, from left: Crystal Salverda,
Lorna Wilson, Cheryl Swarts, Laurie Fyffe, Colleen Curran. Back row: Katherine Kaszas, Jerry
Franken, Katia de Pena, Bob King, Peggy Coffey, Paul Haddad.
Cost of operating facility
questioned at Festival’s meeting
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federal and provincial arts agencies
plus unexpectedly high costs for
things like housing the staff mem
bers last summer put the Festival
in a deficit position.
“I’d hate our incredible artistic
achievement to be overshadowed
by the deficit,” Katherine Kaszas,
Artistic Director said in her address
to the annual meeting. While the
deficit is a problem, she stressed
too much attention shouldn’t be
given to the financial problem.
Expenses for the year topped $1
million for the first time at
$1,110,040 for both summer and
winter programming. Revenues for
the summer and winter programs,
including grants and fundraising
were $991,103. Government grants
were down about $22,000 for the
year but fundraising was up more
than $27,000 from 1988. The
figures do not include fundraising
or grants for the $1.8 million
expansion program which has seen
a new rehearsal facilities and shops
built on Dinsley Street and is
currently seeing an addition built to
Memorial Hall.
Total expense for capital projects
(equipment and buildings) totalled
$781,364. In answering a question
from the floor General Manager
Joel Harris said about $540,000 of
that was for the Dinsley Street
building which will likely cost more
than $600,000 before it is complet
ed.
Honorary board member Cenetta
Bainton asked how much the new
building would cost to operate but
Mr. Harris said the real costs are
still undetermined. Projected costs
for the building before construction
started were that it would cost
$8,000 - $9,000 a year to operate.
Ms. Kaszas said the Festival must
find ways of generating revenue
through rentals and workshops at
the facility to help pay the addi-
tional costs.
Ms. Kaszas said that working in
the new Dinsley St. facility this
summer had been wonderful even
if it wasn’t finished. She said she
was looking forward to completion
of the new addition to Memorial
Hall because “the things we could
be doing are just monumental”.
She said the Festival is becoming
truly a major regional arts centre,
not just a summer festival.
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a cattle beast to pay the bill.”
And what, Julia asked, were you
doing in Kitchener?
Hank looked kind of embarrass
ed and admitted he was down there
shopping. “You’ve got to save
money where you can,” he said
defensively.
Maybe, Tim said. Hank might
have even saved enough to pay for
the gas he used driving down to the
city.
WEDNESDAY: Well, said Billie
Bean as he shivered his way into
Mabel’s this morning and ordered
two cups of coffee so he could wrap
one frozen hand around each, so
much for the green house theory
that the world’s heating up. “1
think they should be starting the
ice house theory instead, the way
the temperature’s been the last few
days.”
It won’t be long, Ward Black
predicted, before some scientist is
going to be coming out with the
theory of a new ice age, the way
they were talking about 10 years
ago before the green house effect
became so popular.
Maybe, Hank said, they could
put all the scientists in one room
and let them fight it out among
themselves as to what is the right
theory, then whichever group came
out alive, we could listen to them
instead of having to listen to both
sides.
THURSDAY: Next to biting the
hand that feeds you what could be
worse than firing the guy who
pushes your wheel chair, Tim
wondered this morning when he
heard that Harold Ballard had fired
the guy who’s spent the last year
pushing him around. Well said
Julia, since Harold’s already got
Yolande pushing him around he
was overstaffed.
If they ever make a remake of A
Christmas Carol, Harold can play
Scrooge, Billie figured. And Yol
ande, said Julia, can play the
ghosts of all three Christmases
because she wouldn’t want any
body else to talk to Harold.
FRIDAY: The politicians in Ot
tawa sure are suffering to help
bring down the deficit, Hank said.
They’re going to have privatized
lunch rooms and they’re getting rid
of two jets used for the cabinet
ministers. “Maybe if they got rid of
the rest, the politicians might
decide they want the trains after
all.”
Can you imagine, said Julia,
what a different world it might be if
the politicians had to drive them
selves around like the rest of us? If
politicians really had to drive in
Toronto do you think they’d put up
with traffic the way it is?
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