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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2004. PAGE 19.
Entertainment Leisure
Country Gentleman returns to Blyth
By Elyse DeBruyn
• Citizen staff
With his timeless appeal of
country music that gets even the
most stoney-faced stoics soon
clapping and singing, "Canada's
Country Gentleman" is returning to
Blyth for another performance.
Tommy Hunter will be performing
at Memorial Hall in Blyth on Feb. 1
with two shows at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
"I am really looking forward to
returning to Blyth. It is a nice,
beautiful place and I enjoy
performing there."
Hunter said he "takes his hat off"
to people at Memorial Hall for being
"very successful."
Hunter's performance will include
a group of familiar songs that most
people will know and remember.
"It's like a trip down memory
lane."
When he made his return to
television last year in March for the
Talk About the Good Times special,
Hunter blew audiences away with
one of CBC television's highest-
rated network shows of the season.
To make the special more
comfortable, Hunter brought back
his retired cameraman, original set
designer, director and make-up
artist.
"The crew put a lot of effort and
work into the show and had
tremendous respect for the audience.
It wasn't just another job for them.
That's why I wanted them to come
back and work with me."
He said it was great to go back for
the special, but there "won't be a
regular series."
"It was good to get the chance to
say thank you and goodbye to the
audience."
He will be starting his tour on Jan.
14 beginning in Nanaimo, B.C. and
continuing home.
Hunter's story began one year
after the Second World War ended,
when as a nine-year-old boy he
tormented his father for a guitar like
those of his country music heroes.
The hard-pressed father made a
compromise: • a dollar a week for
lessons and a rented guitar.
For a year, the stage-frightened
youngster developed his skills in
front of church-audiences and even
patients at the War Veteran's
Hospital. Then came his first job, a
spot in one of the customary variety
shows that would fill time between
features at local movie theatres. It
would mark the onset of a non-stop
love affair with country music and
country music audiences.
Occasionally, like most musicians,
Hunter received some tough, but
meaningful reviews.
After auditioning for a theatre
production of a Carolina-oriented
play that called for the part of a
hillbilly singer, Hunter was stung as
the production staff began to laugh.
"I started to sing the hillbilliest
thing I could come up with and
they'd never heard anything like
that. Well, they started laughing and
I walked out of there just fuming."
A disk jockey friend convinced
him to return after realizing the
producers really wanted him for the
play. An apology cemented the deal
and Tommy's zeal had soon won
him some of his early converts.
The play eventually led to his
debut radio show appearances. One
night a disc jockey came backstage
and invited the 15-year-old Hunter
to be on his program and do a live
and totally spontaneous 30-minute
show.
In 1956, his career took a major
spurt forward when he cracked into
network television as a regular on
Country Hoedown. /After several
years with the TV show, he was
invited to host his own radio show.
At 28 years old, Hunter accepted
his own network television show,
The Tonuny Hunter Show a black-
and-white, 30-minute program,
which made its debut in 1965.
For 27 years The Tommy Hunter
Show was a major force in Canadian
television before going off-air in
June 1992. The production would
make history as the longest-running
weekly show of its kind around the
world.
For tickets contact 1-800-465-
7829.
Get a wild education at Hullett centre
On Saturday, Jan. 31 the Friends
of Hullett and the Canadian Wildlife
Federation will be hosting a Project
WILD workshop at the Huilett
Provincial Wildlife Area near
Clinton.
Project WILD is part of a family
of programs developed by the
Canadian Wildlife Federation to
promote conservation education. It
provides strategies for teachers at
both the elementary and secondary
levels to incorporate concepts
related to people and the
environment into all areas of
teaching and training.
The workshop is also of interest to
Scouters, Guiders and other youth
group leaders interested in adding a
fun environmental component to
their programs.
Sandra Johnstone, who is co-
ordinating the workshop for the
Friends of Hullett said, "This
program is of interest to teachers
because it is recognized by the
Ministry of Education and linked to
the Common Framework of the
Science Learning Outcomes."
The six-hour program provides
hands-on indoor and outdoor
learning activities and will be led by
Bert Murphy from Fort Erie.
Murphy is a lecturer in Brock
University's Faculty of Education.
He was formerly the environmental
education consultant for the Niagara
South Board of Education and has
led Project WILD workshops for 20
years.
Participants in the workshop will
receive a manual with more than 100
diverse and instructionally-sound
educational activities related to
people, wildlife and the
environment. There is also a host of
educational resource materials and a
curriculum cross reference.
Kimberly Wienk, -Hullett's
ecological technician, who has taken
part in previous workshops, said,
"The program was both fun and
informative. I found the concepts
and ideas easily adaptable to
different ages and groups."
The cost of the workshop is $35
and all participants will receive a
certificate of completion at the end
of the program. Program details can
be found at www.wildeducation.org
To register for the workshop or
receive further information Contact
Johnstone at the Friends of Hullett
office at 519-482-7011 or by e-mail
at fohoffice@tcc.on.ca
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Reception
for
Clyde McClure
and
Cathy Lazette
Saturday,
January 17,
2004
Seaforth Legion
9 pm - 1 am
Dine with the innkeepers
The Innkeepers' Dinner an
historical feast and major
fundraising event will take place
at the Stratford-Perth Museum
at 270 Water St. on Saturday,
Feb. 7.
The host will be William Sargint,
formerly of Tipperary, the proprietor
of the Shakespeare Inn the first
permanent building in Stratford,
which stood where Pazzo's is today
and burned down in 1849.
Mr. and Mrs. Sargint will welcome
some other innkeepers of old, the
Sebastian Fryfogels, the Hicks from
Society and Film Circuit, an
initiative of the Toronto International
Film Festival Group, will be
screening Falling Angels on Sunday,
Feb. 1 at Hanover's Paramount
Cinema at 2 p.m. Directed by Scott
Smith, Falling Angels is an
adaptation of the first novel from
internationally-praised Canadian
author, Barbara Gowdy.
The Fields are not quite like other
families..Dad Jim is a washed-up car
salesman, a petty tyrant and
Hicks house in Mitchell, as well as
Andrew Seebach who will tell the
story of how he and his family came
to this part of the world.
Along with the innkeepers, and a
group of Celtic musicians, John
Galt, Tiger Dunlop, Samuel
Strickland and Colonel van Egmond,
and other notables will enliven the
evening with toasts, a good excuse to
raise a glass.
Chef, Ruth Klahsen, and her
volunteers have planned a wonderful
meal. Eleanor Kane and first-year
students from the Stratford Chef
divides her waking hours between
couch and bathtub, dreaming hazily
of the day when she can get herself
together to take her show on the road
again.
Jim and Mary Field are still in
love, in their damaged desperate
way. They share a terrible sec-
ret.
Trapped in this chaotic, crazy
household, in which trips to
Disneyland are cancelled to spend
time in a homemade bomb shelter,
School will be there to help prepare
and serve the meal.
If guestS choose, they can dress in
period dress. Linda Carter, the
museum director is holding an all-
day workshop on Jan. 17 to help
people with costumes. You can reach
her at the museum to find out more
about this.
Tickets for The Innkeepers'
Dinner are available at the Museum
(271-5311) or from members of the
Museum Board. Tickets cost $85
each, with a tax receipt issued for
$60.
survive as well as they can.
Falling Angels was included in the
top 10 list at the 2003 Toronto
International Film Festival. It deals
with love, longing, delusion and
eccentricity. A commentary and
discussion will follow the showing,
led by film student, Mike Lippert.
Tickets available at the door.
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Society screens 'Falling Angels'
Hanover's Bruce Grey Film the three Field daughters struggle to dangerous fantasist. His wife, Mary,