The Citizen, 1995-05-31, Page 23Happy 50th
Mom & Dad
JUNE 6, 1995
Love, Julie, Bruce, Joyce,
Phil, Bob, Murray, Jim,
Anne and Gerald
and their families,
25 grandchildren and
9 great-grandchildren.
Forthcoming
Marriage
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forthcoming marriage of
their children, Ruth Joanna
and John Jacobus on
Saturday, the tenth of June
1995 in Grand Rapids,
Michigan.
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Bobbi Jo Rutledge daughter
of Brian and Marlene
Rutledge graduated from
Fanshawe College with her
degree in D.S.W. Bobbi Jo
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Wingham & District
Association for Community
Living.
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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1995. PAGE 23.
Stratford gets grant
from fed. government
Family sing-along
Family harmony could be heard as Andrew, Ben and Lila Procter entertained a good crowd
at the Belgrave Community Centre during the variety show. The concert was a fundraiser for
the upcoming 75th anniversary of the Belgrave, Blyth, Brussels School Fair.
E ntertainment
Ag. Museum hosts exhibit
The Ontario Agricultural
Museum will host a show and sale
of more than 20 original paintings
by well-known Waterloo artist
Peter Etril Snyder.
Specializing in country life and
Mennonite culture, Snyder's unique
talent will be featured June 10 to
July 3 in the museum's prestigious
W.A. Stewart Gallery.
This exhibit will include some of
Snyder's finest work, with paintings
ranging in price from $800 to
$16,000. Also on display will be 17
prize winning quilts representing
the best from Ontario rural Fairs.
To promote this exhibit, Snyder
will be on site for the museum's
Canada Day Celebrations on
Saturday, June 3 is Show Towel
Discovery Day at the Joseph
Schneider Haus in Kitchener.
"Discovery Days" are held annually
at the museum to allow the public
to discover more about family
heirlooms they may have and to
assist museum staff with their
research.
This year, Curator Susan Burke
is asking area residents to bring in
embroidered linens - towels,
tablecloths, runners, samplers, etc.
Staff are particularly interested in
special embroidered towels which
Saturday, July 1 from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. Visitors will be able to meet
the artist and enter a draw to win an
autographed and gallery framed
1995 International Plowing Match
poster featuring his work.
Admission will be free on Canada
Day.
"I am delighted to bring my work
out into the community for visitors
from across Ontario to enjoy,"
Snyder said. "The Ontario Agricul-
tural Museum is a venue that
complements many of the originals
that will be on display."
The Ontario Agricultural
Museum traces the evolution of
Ontario's agriculture and rural life
in Ontario through dozens of
displays located in 30 buildings on
were traditionally made by young
Mennonite women in this area a
hundred years ago.
These towels called "show
towels" were decorated with cross-
stitch designs, and usually signed
and dated by their makers. Museum
staff are creating a register of local
show towels and would like the
opportunity to examine and
photograph as many examples as
possible.
Embroidered samplers with
alphabets and other designs are also
welcome.
the property. Nestled beneath the
Niagara Escarpment, the
picturesque 80-acre site captures
the best of rural life. The day in the
country is made memorable by the
museum's costumed interpreters,
hands-on activities, country
gardens, crops and livestock. Also
featured are wagon rides, a
country-style restaurant, gift shop
and lots of free parking.
The Museum is open daily May
28 to Sept. 24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It
is conveniently located just off
Highway 401 between Toronto and
Kitchener. Take Highway 401 to
Guelph Line (exit 312) or Highway
25 (exit 320) north and follow the
signs.
For all participants in this
Discovery Day, admission is free
so bring your embroideries and be
prepared to learn more about textile
heritage.
Things get underway at 10 a.m.
but visitors are encouraged to bring
in their treasures any time during
that day, Saturday, June 3. You can
take in the Museum's fabulous new
exhibit of local contemporary quilts
when you come.
For more information please
contact Susan Burke, manager/
curator at (519) 742-7752.
At a meeting May 17 of the
Stratford Festival's board of
governors, Board President Julia
Foster announced that the Depart-
ment of Canadian Heritage, in
collaboration with other federal
ministries, will provide $3,000,000
towards the cost of proposed
improvements to the Festival
Theatre's front-of-house facilities.
"When the Festival Theatre was
built 38 years ago, who could
envisage the future growth in its
season and audience?" said Foster.
'These new improvements will
bring our facilities up to current
standards and will greatly enhance
both the working conditions and
patron support services within the
theatre. The federal government's
important contribution towards the
Festival's physical plant allows us
to continue to be 90 per cent self-
sufficient and to look forward to
the next great phase in this theatre's
history."
Following Foster's announce-
ment, the board authorized the
Festival's Property Committee to
move forward to implement the
renovation and addition plans
drawn up by the Toronto architec-
tural firm of Kuwabara Payne
McKenna Blumberg Architects.
In November 1994, Perth MPP
Karen Haslam and Irene Mathys-
sen, Minister without Portfolio for
the provincial Ministry of Culture,
Tourism and Recreation,
announced that Ontario would
provide $3,000,000 towards the
project, on condition that the grant
be matched by the federal govern-
ment. Now that both provincial and
federal monies are in place, the
Stratford Festival plans to launch a
major campaign to raise the
balance of the funds required to
complete the project.
"This investment by the federal
government is a good investment
for Canadians," said John Richard-
son, MP for Perth-Wellington-
Waterloo. "The Stratford Festival,
the jewel in the crown of this
country's artistic institutions, not
only creates some of the finest
classical theatre productions in the
world, it also attracts over 450,000
visitors to southwestern Ontario
each year. That creates a sibstantial
amount of spin-off revenue for the
region."
Haus hosts Discovery Days
K-W choir to tour Germany
The Kitchener Waterloo
Philharmonic Choir will perform at
Salzburg Cathedral and at the
prestigious choral music festival in
Schwabisch GmUnd Germany this
summer.
It is the choir's first foreign tour
in its 73-year history. The invita-
tion to perform in Germany came
after festival organizers listened to
a recording of the choir's 1993
performance of Bach's St. John
Passion.
It's a recognition of the quality of
choral work that is being done in
Canada, and in our community,"
said the choir's artistic director,
Howard Dyck. "These people heard
our St. John Passion. They were
flabbergasted that Bach would be
done this way in Canada."
The two-week tour, from Aug. 7
to 22, includes performances of
Canadian and other works at
Schwabisch, Gmund, a festival
which-brings together some of the
best choral artists in the world.
Other performances are
scheduled for German university
town of Marburg, a morning mass
at • Eisenstadt Cathedral, and
Sunday Mass at Salzburg
Cathedral, where Mozart was
church musician.
The 100-voice amateur choir
performs regularly at the Centre in
The Square, Kitchener. Its
repertoire ranges from well-loved
favourites, such as Handel's
Messiah and the Bach Passions, to
premieres of innovative works such
as The Silver Cord by Canadian
composer Leonard Enns.
Repertoire on tour will include the
Magnificat by Canadian Composer
Imant Raminish, Haydn's St.
Nicolas Mass, Handel's Chandos
Anthems, and the Requiem by
Maurice Durufle.
There are a limited number of
spaces available on tour for non-
singers who would like to join the
choir for two weeks of music and
other delights of Europe!
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