HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1997-12-17, Page 23THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17,1997. PAGE 23.
Run, Run Rudolph
Local band to play
for Ark teen dance
Students in the Intermediate
Grades 7-9 are going to get a
chance to party this Christmas sea
son.
The Ark in Brussels is hosting a
teen dance on Thursday evening
from 7-9 p.m. featuring the music
of Perish a local band.
Admission to the dance is $5.
Ark Manager Mary Lou Crosby
said a closed door policy will be in
effect, meaning that once teens
enter the building they will not be
allowed outside until the dance is
over.
Perish consists of four F.E.
Madill students. Gavin Colwell, the
lead singer lives just south of
Wingham. Shaun Scott of the
Teeswater-area is bass player,
while guitarist Joshua Gropp and
drummer Rob McKercher are Brus
sels and area residents.z
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Rudolph, aka, Scott McDonald, Brussels CIBC manager, and his friendly reindeer brought
Santa Claus (Reeve Ralph Watson) into the story "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" at
Brussels Business Group’s Home for the Holidays pageant and fashion show at the Legion
on Thursday. People on main street and their families took part in a skit as well as modelling
some fashions, seriously and not so seriously from the 5Rs Thrift Shop.
Festival in high spirits as goals met
The 1997 season was "an artistic
triumph" reported the Blyth Centre
for the Arts board of directors to
the membership at its annual
general meeting Dec. 11.
Last February, after endorsing
the season as proposed by Artistic
Director Janet Amos, the Blyth
Festival received news of a more
severe cut than expected from the
Ontario Arts Council and, being
too late to change its plans, the
board of directors took the unusual
step of approving a budget
projecting a $29,912 deficit.
Attendance for the 1997 season
was 28,535 (65 per cent). A
successful tour of Barndance Live!
to Shelburne in September sold 75
per cent and established a
wonderful rifew relationship. The
actual operating deficit on the 1997
was $29,112, which is $800 less
than was budgeted.
Those attending the annual
general meeting heard that from
this year's remount of Quiet in the
Land - which was one of Amos'
first commissions - to her Young
company's Pieces of Alligator Pie,
the standards of directing, acting
and production set the bam at an
all-time high in 1997. Special
kudos went to Paul Thompson for
Booze Days in a Dry Country as
well as Barndance Live! and to
Dave Scott, the newly-elected
mayor of Seaforth, for his
Poem
Continued from page 22
But you've got to be careful
with that world today.
His sack was quite empty,
limp to the ground;
Nothing fully acceptable
was to be found.
Something special was needed,
a gift that he might
Give to all without angering
the left or the right.
A gift that would satisfy,
with no indecision,
Each group of people, every religion;
Every ethnicity, every hue,
Everyone, everywhere ... even you.
So here is that gift,
it's price beyond worth...
"May you and your loved
ones enjoy peace on earth."
remarkable writing debut with
There's Nothing in the Paper.
Deborah Kimmett's Overboard!
revealed the terrific potential for
the Garage theatre space for
audiences who love something
different in a more intimate setting.
"Janet's last season was a worthy
culmination of the four mind-
bending years she's spent restoring
Blyth as a vibrant and viable
theatre," said new Artistic Director
Anne Chislett in her report to the
annual general meeting. "She has
left us immensely proud of the
work we do here, and her example
will inspire all of us to move
confidently forward to new artistic
adventure."
General Manager Karen Stewart
summed up the past year by saying,
"We have done a remarkable
amount of activity on an extremely
tight budget, due to extremely
careful planning, a superb
production manager and technical
staff, and a continually hard
working board and staff. This
positive outcome was only possible
with excellent support from the
whole team!"
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