HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1997-01-22, Page 19THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22,1997 PAGE 19.
WI district directors meet in Brussels
By Margaret McMahon
PRO Huron East District
Eighteen Huron East WI mem
bers met al the Brussels Public
Library for the January district
director’s meeting.
President Ruth Bauer welcomed
everyone. Board Director Win-
nifred Mann gave a brief report of
the fall board meeting held in
Kitchener. She said there were
changes to the fee sheets this year.
The knitted squares for Zambia can
be made larger and the parcels sent
can be up to two kilograms.
Work on the Erl and Lee Home
has been completed for the 100th
celebration. Also, 400 visitors are
expected from England and Wales
in September.
The OFA has generously donated
$10,000 to the centennial fund.
The WI focus, "Safe and Healthy
Communitites" is now zeroing in
on cleaner air.
A discussion was held on the
April 27 ACWW church service to
be held at Molesworth Presbyterian
Church beginning at 2:30 p.m. A
committee was formed to finalize
the service. Each branch is to let
Alida Murray know the number of
singers willing to take part in the
newly-formed choir.
The format for the 95lh district
annual has been changed for this
year. Fordwich branch will host the
district annual at the United
Church. Registration will be at
12:30 p.m. with the business por
tion from 1-5 p.m. A banquet will
be held at 6 p.m. with entertain
ment to follow.
NHL Oldtimers come to Statford
The National Hockey League
(NHL) Oldtimers are coming to
Stratford.
The Feb. 1 matchup between the
NHL Oldtimers and Cullitons Old-
timers will allow veteran fans and
young enthusiasts of hockey to
watch some of the greatest in
action.
Joining the NHL squad at
William Allman Memorial Arena
will be Andy Bathgate, Dick Red
mond, Bill Derlago, Dan Maloney
and Eddie Shack as a referee, along
with many other familiar names
from hockey of bygone days.
The Saturday event will begin
with a Mosquito (ages five and six)
Secretary Marion Fcldskov read
a letter from Guelph area noting
each branch is to have a banner for
the 100th celebrations in Hamilton
htis June.
A restructuring meeting is being
held March 24, 9:30 a.m. at Fergus.
Two representatives from each dis
trict are to attend.
The offices of PRO, second vice-
president and assistant secretary
need to be filled for 1998.
exhibition game at 7:30 p.m. The
stars will take to the ice at 8 p.m.
for fun and family entertainment.
Former Toronto Argonaut player
and member of the Stanley Cup
winning team in 1945, Elwin Moe
Morris, will drop the first puck.
Tickets are $10 advance or $12 at
the door, for general seating.
A Meet the Players reception will
be held at 10 p.m. for an additional
$2 fee.
The event is presented by Strat
ford Area Association for Commu
nity Living, which supports adults
and youth with a developmental
disability within central Perth
County.
E ntertainment
I
Children’s trio
at K-W’s Centre
Sharon, Lois & Bram, Elephant
Party lakes all the traditions and
trimmings of a children's parly and
brings them to The Centre In The
Square's stage on Saturday, Feb. 1
at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Elephant Party is an exciting
new production featuring the best,
most familiar, and most sing-along
songs spanning Sharon, Lois &
Bram's 19 years together. Audience
participation abounds at every
Sharon, Lois and Bram concert but
this one will have kids and
grownups dancing in their seats.
"Elephant Party is a celebration
for everyone who likes to sing,"
Janet Amos appears
on CBC production
says the trio. "We gathered these
songs from everywhere and every
one, and now, wherever we go, we
hear kids and grown-ups singing
them, dancing and laughing, alone
and together."
Elephant Party features the first
live performance of Helping Hands
(a song for UNICEF) written for
the trio by Canadian singer/song-
writers Amy Sky and Marc Jordan.
As always Sharon, Lois and Bram
will be joined by Elephant and the
ever-popular Mammoth Band.
Tickets are $12.50 and $16.50
and are available at The Centre In
The Square box office.
HCBE briefs
Departing sup’t. gets gratuity
With financial re-organization
coming to the Huron County Board
of Education, trustees agreed, at the
Jan. 13 meeting, to set aside a date
for a public meeting to gather input
from the parent community and
general taxpayer community about
budgetary matters. Municipal rep
resentatives will be invited to
attend.
***
As of Dec. 20, board spending
was on target. The elementary
MVCA works on community projects
Continued from page 1
were maintained despite fewer
staff.
Some of the activities included:
□ The completion of the
cancelled Clean Up Rural Beaches,
which saw the MVCA take part in
752 projects, including 288 septic
systems, 126 livestock access
restriction projects, 79 milkhouse
waste projects and the construction
of 259 manure storage facilities.
□ Reforestation work included
the planting of 71,000 seedlings
and 5,400 larger trees and shrubs.
□ Work on a flood contingency
planning study in which potential
damage from floods in 17 centres
was examined.
□ The ecosystem health project
is on-going and looks al the
changes in hydrological flows and
Reviews, Stage Door attraction
Continued from page 3
search engines. The introductory
page lists all 20 theatre towns in the
region, with a short description of
each. Background information and
a detailed playbill are provided for
theatres without web sites.
To make it easy to find your
favourite plays in the region, a
composite playbill for all
productions is included. Another
panel expenditure level was at
100.1 per cent, the secondary panel
at 96.1 per cent and the expendi
tures for the administration centre,
92 per cent of the budgeted
amount.♦♦♦
The tender from Jim Gregus
Construction was accepted for ren
ovations to the science labs at F.E.
Madill Secondary School. The
price of the tender was $402,320.
♦♦♦
As the result of a phone poll to
board trustees, departing Superin
in water quality. Thompson said
the authority was pleasantly
surprised to find 35 per cent of 75
site£ were healthy.
□ A plan for shoreline erosion
and flood emergencies was devel
oped. As well, plans are under way
to co-ordinate coastal conservation
work from Sarnia to the Bruce
Peninsula through a new Lake Huron
Centre for Coastal Preservation.
□ There were a number of
community greenway projects
worked on or completed including
ones in Lucknow and Blylh.
□ Demand remains strong for
programs at the Wawanosh Nature
Centre. The fall colour tour drew
record numbers and the first
wedding reception was held there.
□ The Falls Reserve Conserva
tion Area near Benmiller had a
challenging year with camping as
page lists all theatre names and
contacts, a valuable resource for
playwrights and actors wishing to
submit scripts or audition. The
main attractions on Stage Door,
however, are the reviews. There are
currently over 40 full reviews of
recent productions (including some
major Toronto shows), and browser
comments are encouraged and
added to each review.
tendent of Schools Gino Giannan-
drea received a gratuity of $40,000
to $45,00 from trustees.
Giannandrea, who is assuming
the position of Director of Educa
tion for the Lanark County Board
of Education, was awarded the gra
tuity though he did not meet board
qualifications of 12 years of ser
vice.
Though Giannandrea is working
in his 12th year, Acting Director of
Education for the HCBE Chuck
Rowland said, the gratuity was
based on accumulated sick days.
the spring and summer were
inordinately wet. Special events are
growing in popularity.
□ The authority is working on
creating community partnerships
for some of its conservation areas.
One now in effect is for the
Nafftel's Creek area with the
Goderich Lions Club.
19 YEARS SERVICE
Bruce McCall, a director from
Brussels, was presented with a
certificate for 19 years of service as
a board member.
McCall said much has changed in
the 19 years he's been involved,
including the creation of the
authority's head office in Wroxeter,
and the work at the Wawanosh
Nature Centre.
"I hope the conservation move
ment isn't destroyed by our
government," he said.
Blyth Festival Theatre Artist
Director Janet Amos will step onto
the national stage Thursday, Jan.
23, when she appears on Adrian
Clarkson Presents.
Amos will be directing a work
shop and doing a reading of The
Heart as it Lived by Mansel Robin
son on the CBC-TV production,
which airs at 7 p.m.
The piece is sponsored by the
Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre
for The Spring Festival of New
Plays in Regina, Saskatchewan.
The family of
John & Ann Nesbit
wishes your presence to
help celebrate
their parents’
25th Wedding
Anniversary
on January 25/97
at 8:30 p.m.
at Blyth Memorial Hall
Best Wishes Only
jr REMEMBER
THIS LADY?
Born near Blyth
January 26,1897
Myrtle (Young) Gould
Myrtle graduated from London
Victoria Hospital as an RN in 1921.
In 1936, she married Charles
Murray. After his death, she did
private nursing until the early 1940s,
when she joined the staff at Clinton
Public Hospital. Following her
marriage In 1950 to John Gould, she
moved to Council, Idaho, where her
husband was one of many
successful cattle ranchers in the
Council Valley. John died In 1993,
and Myrtle continues to live in her
own house, with some help. She is
still able to get around, and she will
be 100 years old on Jan. 26. She
would love to hear from anyone who
remembers her, especially any of
her "babies” from Clinton Public
Hospital. Her address is:
M. Gould
P.O. Box 4
Council Idaho, U.S.A.
83612-0004