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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen-Blyth Festival 2000, 2000-06-21, Page 47BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2000. PAGE 23. Job offer ended Christine Kemp’s plans for Japan By Mark Nonkes Freelance writer On the day Christine Kemp found out about the position of Director of Communications she was accepted to teach English in Japan. Kemp and her husband, who recently moved to Clinton, travelled to Japan for five weeks in 1998 and considered returning to the country to teach. But Kemp said she was willing to give up going to Japan because working at the Festival as Director of Communications was the perfect match of her interests. “This position came up very quickly.” Kemp grew up in Clinton and graduated from the University of Guelph in 1997. To finish two courses for her degree Kemp went to Victoria, B.C. where relatives live. Although she finished the courses that summer Kemp stayed in BC for two years.Christine Kemp In the fall of 1998 Kemp and her husband visited family in Clinton and decided to stay. “Our rel­ atives are sick of shipping stuff across the country." For close to two months, Kemp has been working as Director of Commun­ ications. Kemp has always enjoyed theatre, but as a spectator. She remembers seeing shows at the Festival as a child and being part of a week long youth workshop. Crossing the line into the administration side of theatre has been exciting for Kemp. She’s in charge of publicizing shows and coming events at the theatre. “The bigger part of my job is developing relationships with the' audience, company and media.” Kemp said there is a lot of work involved in preparing for the season. “Since I’ve started working here the whole Japan thing is so far away from my mind,” Kemp said while wearing a shirt with a Japanese print on it. Sydney comes ‘home ’ to Goderich Special events and promotions Although Anderson had never heard of Huron County before, when she decided to move to Goderich to be closer to her boyfriend in 1998 she found out that she had family roots Anderson’s grandfather grew Goderich before he to Manitoba in the 1880s. “I think it is really funny that I’ve come back.” Anderson married shortly after the move to Goderich. co-ordinator Sydney Anderson describes the southern Manitoba town she grew up in like Blyth. “In my class we had 20 kids and everybody.” Anderson agricultural population of 700 people in Treheme, Manitoba. In 1997 Anderson graduated from Brandon University near the Saskatchewan border in Manitoba. At university she met her husband-to-be who was from Goderich. we knew grew up in an town with a Sydney Anderson there, great-, up in moved Anderson worked at four jobs and took part-time courses at Kings College in London before her employment with the Festival. “I love it. It’s really fast paced and you do something different every day. You don’t have time to get bored,” Anderson said about her job. Anderson said marketing the festival will be challenging. “The Blyth Festival is the best hidden secret in Huron County.” And Anderson hopes to change that. — MN Thanks to The Blyth Festival for providing great entertainment for the past 25 years. Mac| ampbell • WEDDINGS, hotography • PORTRAITS, • FAMILIES, •ANNIVERSARIES 34 Newgate St., Goderich, ON N7A lPl •AERIAL Nova during two she Leslie Empringham Box office skills help Leslie get around Over the last five years Box Office Manager Leslie Empring­ ham has gone to school in Scotia and the last summers worked in the box office of the Atlantic Theatre Festival in Nova Scotia. This fall Empringham moved back to Ingersoll where she grew up and became the Box Office Manager at the Blyth Festival. “It’s a great atmosphere, we all have 'the same goals, we want a successful season.” Empringham went to school for nutrition at Acadia University. “I didn’t know anybody...so I had to make my own friends and I had to solve my own problems.” Empringham originally went to university for physics but switched to nutrition after her first year. However, Empringham said the nutrition degree is not very useful. “There’s not a lot I can do with it.” In November, Empringham got the position of Box Office Manager and lived in Blyth with Jean Nethery and went home on weekends. Now she lives in Clinton and goes home the weekends she doesn’t work. Patrons may notice a new computer system when booking tickets. Empringham was the first person to be taught to use the system and also trained others on it. Empringham hopes to remain at the festival for quite a while and also hopes to return to Nova Scotia and take some more university courses in the future. Create the Garden of your Dreams! FT*"A.,. Nature-floral, leafy, colourful and musical. It can appear wild or be brought tq^our homes, tamed and picturesque. Maitland Manor Nursery, owned by Don Henry, provides visitors with a chance to see the blending of trees, flowers, butterflies and birds that gardeners try to achieve. Twenty-five acres of nursery house perennials, shrubs, trees and all other landscaping needs. There are also many roadside display gardens including ornamental grasses, lilies, ferns, irises, shade & hosta displays. The nursery is open seven days a week, and you are invited to come in and just enjoy the surroundings. Enveloped by a profusion of colour, you can relax, inhaling the heady perfume, while a frog serenades from a pond's lilypad. Birds add their voices to chorus from branches in the greenery, while butterflies and bees dance from petal to petal. For those who find greater harmony in more natural surroundings, Don has established trails along the Maitland River for tourists. There is about one mile of pathway that winds its way through trees and the river flats, groupings of native trees, shrubs and perennials. Visit Maitland Manor Nursery A Unique Garden Experience In The Country! 25 acres of perennials, shrubs, flowering shrubs, vines, Old English roses, David Austin roses, ornamental grasses, etc., etc. Shade Gardens, Rock Gardens, Ponds, Alpine Gardens For ticket information call the Blyth Festival Box Office 523-9300 or 1-877-862-5984 MAITLAND MANOR NURSERY & LANDSCAPING just east of Bluevale on Hwy. #86 (519) 335-3240 www.maitlandmanor.com