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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2004. PAGE 3.
The Stratford Festival will
augment its new play development
programme with a new award named
after the late playwright, novelist
and actor Timothy Findley. The first
Timothy Findley Award for New
Canadian Plays will be used to
commission two writers, Djanet
Sears and Peter Hinton, to create and
develop new plays for the festival.
With the income from the Timothy
Findley Award, Sears will work on
an original play and Hinton will
work with William Whitehead,
Findley's life partner, on completing
Findley's stage adaptation of his own
novel Famous Last Words. Each
work will be nurtured through the
Festival's new play development
process, with the ultimate goal being
a production on one of the Stratford
stages.
The Timothy Findley Award, to be
allocated annually, will be financed
by a $1-million fund contained
within the Festival's Endowment
Foundation. Of this sum, $300,000 is
a generous gift from the J.W.
McConnell Family Foundation. The
Daryl Ball attended the July 5
meeting of North Huron council to
ask for seed money on behalf of the
150th anniversary celebration for
Auburn.
Council approved a financial
contribution of $5,000 to be paid
back following the celebration.
***
Council authorized the write-off
of an Ontario Home Renewal Plan
from the early 1980s in the amount
of $1,518.64.
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A total of $3,000 will be included
Festival has added to this $300,000
in provincial and $300,000 in federal
funds previously donated to the
Endowment through the
governments' matching-gift
programmes. The remaining
$100,000 was drawn from the
Festival's 2003 operating surplus.
in the 2005 budget for tree
replacement.
***
Council had no objections to the
Big Brothers, Big Sisters of North
Huron holding a tag day in the
township, Aug. 28.
***
Clerk-administrator John Stewart
advised that he had been selected to
sit on the sub-committee of the
Huron County Clerks and Treasurers
Association to address the new
regulations for chief building
officials (CB0s)commencing • July
2005.
One meeting has been held and a
number of options were discussed.
Another meeting is to be held to
finalize the report which will be
presented to a joint meeting of the
Association and the CBOs.
Central-Huron has received
$136,805 for hosting Slots at Clinton
Raceway. The payment was for the
host municipality's fourth-quarter
share of slots revenue (January to
March 2004). To date, Central-Huron
has received over $1.8 million in non-
tax gaming revenue. Payments are
made on a qUatCr!y basis according to
the government fiscal year, which runs
April to March.
In total, Ontarid Lottery and
Gaming Corporation (OLGC) issued
more than $17.2 million in fourth-
quarter non-tax gaming revenue
payments to 21 host communities of
slots at racetracks and charity casinos.
Since these programs were launched,
OLGC has distributed more than $260
million to host municipalities of
gaming facilities.
Slots at Clinton Raceway opened on
Aug. 24, 2000. Since then, it has
attracted more than 700,000 visitors.
averaging approximately 550 patrons
daily.
Each slots-at-racetrack host
municipality receives five per cent of
the facility's gross slot machine
revenue for the first 450 machines and
two per cent for any machines above
that number. Funds are used at the
discretion of the municipality:-
Tracks and their horse people also
share the revenue generated by the
slots program, with 20 per cent of
gross slot machine revenue split
evenly between the two groups. Since
the launch of the program in 1998,
more than $1.1 billion has been shared
equally between racetrack owners and
their horse people.
Revenue from OLGC (which
operates and manages Slots) supports
$100 million annually for the
province's charities. This money is
distributed to charities through the
Happy anniversary to Fred and
Deb Hakkers on July 24 ,
Sorry to hear that Charlie Dakin is
a patient in Clinton hospital. We
wish him a speedy recovery.
The Cowan family held its
reunion Saturday, July 10 at the farm
of Chris and Barb Cowan, which has
been the Cowan homestead since
1880. Forty-four descendants of
George and Edith Cowan attended
travelling from California, British
Columbia and Quebec as well as
many relatives from Toronto,
Chatham, Stratford and surrounding
Blyth area. Bill Cowan of Goderich
is the only surviving member of the
original family.
Everyone had a good time
Ontario Trillium Foundation.
A portion of the annual gross slot
revenue from slot facilities at
racetracks and charity casinos goes to
remembering their visits to the farm
during their childhood. All enjoyed a
wonderful potluck supper.
Come out and support our local
vendors at the second farmers'
market. It will run on Saturday, July
17 from 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the
corner of Dinsley and Queen streets
beside the old town office. The first
farmers' market was a good success
with many different items for sale.
Greeting at Blyth United Church
on Sunday, July 11 were Diana
Campbell and Lois van Vliet. Guest
organist was Lynda McGregor.
Lorna Fraser welcomed everyone
with the call to worship., The choir
anthem was Lord, Be Glorified.
The scripture reading was from
Psalm 106: 6-18. The responsive
psalm was the first Psalm. The
scripture reading was II Corinthians
11: 12-15.
Lorna's message to the adults was
The Second Temptation of Jesus.
Special dates to remember for
Blyth United Church are Oct. 10.
Rev. Charles Scott, Thanksgiving
speaker; Oct. 17, guest speaker Rev.
Stephen Huntley and Oct. 24 guest
speaker Rev. Kenneth Bauman.
the Ministry of Health and Long-Term
Care for problem gambling research,
treatment, prevention and public
awareness.
C-H receives payment for Slots