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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-07-09, Page 6Our best Assorted varieties POTATO CHIPS 994 Eater Our IRRIMMR =AWAY DRAW WINaae a weekend at a Cottage In Bayfield' 2nd Prize is a '60' OROCtiRY ORT CslTD1CAT11 One entry with every 825. purchase or more. Draw Date Sat.. Aug. 2 - 5:30 pm fr tutors COlflPOsting ftense �eeye��educe If you're interested in waste management issues, plan to attend one of the three public meetings on Huron County's draft plan for dealing with the solid waste produced in Huron County over the next forty years. The plan is outlined in the preliminary draft Stage 3 report for the Huron County Waste Management Master Plan. The meetings are being held: July 9 Wingham Golf & Curling Club July 10 Holmesville Community Centre July 16 Hensall Community Centre All three meetings start at 8 p.m. Copies of the draft waste management plan are available for review at your local branch of the Huron County Library. For more information or your own copy of the draft plan, please contact the Huron County Planning & Development Department . at (519) 524-2188. -4 Posy poem Ciatiatusi from Page 4. bad. All day long, I try so hard, to hold my head up high, Although I live on Main Street, it's enough to make me cry. Ouch! That hurts. Don't pick on me or swat me with a stick, Don't hit me with that pop can. I'm feeling rather sick, 1 don't eat butts, or wrap- pers, or like bottles in my bed, Do I have to live on Main Street? Oh. my achin' head! if I could talk, I'd tell you lots, all about my plight, How I survive the long hot days, and how the other night Someone pulled me from my bed, no ground to cover me. And how 1 lay on Main Street. Was this the end l'd sec? Broken and wilted and nearly dead, 1 lay 'till day- break came. People passed by and sim- ply said. "Oh. what an awful shame!" A Society nlemher came along - did all she could for me. And I'm glad to live on Main Street! Thanks. society. E. Horst Local support Dear Editor: As the Hensall and District Horticultural Society pre- pared for its first "Garden Tour" it was decided that a few door prices would add interest to the garden party. At each regular meeting it is customary to have 3 or 4 draws, prizes being donated by members. i would like to share with you the response received from the local merchants and trust that people residing in our area will reflect on their attitude before they take off to patronize the many adja- cent malls. Of the 20 calls made to merchants. all responded gra- ciously and generously. One merchant commented on the great work the society was doing. As we only needed a few gifts. many merchants were , not approached this time. I'm sure their time will come to have the opportunity to add their support, and to the peo- ple who donated gifts, thanks so much for being so kind. Sincerely, Janet Sangster, Secretary. Hensall and District Horticultural Society • PHOTO BY TRISH WILXINSON WHAT'S IN THE PAPER? - The cast of. There's Nothing in the Paper took a break from rehearsal at Blyth Festival recently for a photo with playwright David Scott of Seaforth. Front row, seated: Dick Murphy and Vemon Chapman. Second row: Kirsten Van Ritzen, David Scott and Beverley Elliott. Back row: Brian Paul, Sharon Bakker and Jerry Franken. Blyth set to stage play on paper BY DAVID EMSLIE SSP News Staff Between the birth of his two sons, Scaforth's David Scott gave birth of another type - he penned a play that opens in two weeks (July 23) at the Blyth Festival Theatre. Also the editor of The Huron Expositor, -he wrote the comedy between jobs at different newspapers in the fall of 1994. A Seaforth native, Scott said he went away for a number of years. first attend- ing post -secondary school, and then working from 1988- 92 for the CBC on The Journal. He returned to Seaforth to take a job as a reporter with The Expositor. because, as he says: "1 wanted to write." After a year -and -a -half as a reporter, Dave moved on to "the job from hell" at another publication. where he remained for only a few weeks. It was after this expe- rience he began to write There :r Nothing in the Paper. He had never written a play before. "I wanted to write a play about a newspaper," he says, "but l didn't sit down to write it until I quit a job I hated." With his wife Kathleen returning to work, Scott stayed at home with his then Five-month old son Zech, and worked on the play when Zach slept. Before beginning, he approached the Festival's artistic director, Janet Amos, and told her he was interested in writing about a small town newspaper. With some recommended reading from her, and his son sleeping, Scott says "I wrote every day straight for a month." He finished a draft of the play before Christmas of 1994. NEEDED WORK He sent it to Amos. "She wrote back and said she saw potential. but it need- ed some work," the play- wright says. "So she linked me up with Anne Chislett." She is a playwright well known to area theatre fans, who is also replacing Amos as the Festival's artistic director after this season. Chislett has worked on the play with Scott for the last two years. "We met quite a few times and revised the script," he says, adding it was also work - shopped twice. once in Blyth and once in Toronto. "i wasn't sure it would make the cut." Scott says. "In January of this year, I found out they were interested. Janet called up and said she was interested in staging it this summer." The play is now into rehearsals, and as late as last week, he was still doing some re-wntes. "I knew it would involve a lot of rewrites," he says, "but I guess it was a lot more than i expected." He now agrees with Chislett who feels "a script is never finished, just abandoned at dress rehearsal." It was while doing later revisions on the play that Scott became a father again. to baby Thomas. "It's gone from one baby to another baby," he says. "Zach was five months old when I started writing it. We just had a new baby boy, Thomas. I found myself picking him up in one hand, and typing with the other when doing late revisions before rehearsals." ONLY FiCTION He drew on his experiences in the newspaper business when writing the play, but stresses it is a piece of fiction. The feelings in the play, he says, arc taken from real life, and the people he has met in his work, and from stories told by others in the newspa- per business. "It's about a small town edi- tor, who is in a rut and tired of his job," he says. Another paper opens in town as com- petition, and challenges the editor to deal with it. "It's also about this editor, George, struggling with the right thing to do - George's moral dilemma." He says he bawled to show the difference between city papers and community news- papers, where if you write a story, you can expect. instant . StORYTELLER - Rob Neeve began the summer reading program for children at Seaforth library on Thursday. Cars beat cows for gas Driving your car 3.2 kilo- metres kicks out as much methane as a cow produces all day, states a recent press release from Agriculture and Agr-Food Canada. The federal agriculture min- istry feels cows are perhaps too much maligned when their gas emissions arc "blamed" for global warm- ing. "One landfill site in the Vancouver area produces more greenhouse gases than all the cattle in British Columbia," the press release notes. "On a worldwide scale, Canadian cattle arc responsible for just 0.15 per cent of the methane pro- duced." "Poor quality hay diets are responsible for higher levels of methane," according to University of Alberta profes- sor G. W. Mathison, who also found cattle produce more gas in winter than summer. "Methane emissions increased by 25 per cent in the cold." Student hired A local high school student with an interest in computers, Brad Dillon of Harpurhey, has been hired by Seaforth on a program "fully subsidized by the government," Administrator Jim Crocker told town council June 3. 4 feedback, when you sec the person named in the story that same week. "There's not the detachment of a big daily," he says. where chances are good that if you write a story, you might never see the person involved again. With the play in production, Scott says he is just starting to see his writing "on its feet." He hopes theatre fans will recognize some of the situa- tions portrayed in the play. He says there arc seven characters. "But eight if you count the ghost of the late publisher." He jokes about a character named after himself. This "Dave" character, he says, "went through a sex change, then he got divorced, and now he's dead." .FAST APPROACHING • With the opening fast approaching. Scott is both excited and nervous about seeing his work hit the stage. "I'm thrilled that Blyth is going to stage it," he says. "And yes, I am scared. Am i nervous about opening night'? Yes." While people at the Festival have told Scott that this is the closest he'll ever come to giv- ing birth, he thinks "it's more like a wedding," because you plan for a year or more, and then it's all over in an hour or two. There's Nothing in the Paper runs in conjunction with other productions at the Festival from its debut in a fortnight, for a month until Aug. 23. TM HURON IXPOS5Y011,, Jullt f„ 1907-4 SEAFORTH GROCERY Watch For Special Give Away Days Ask For Details Plus Many More In -Store ecials Plus Free very In Tow►t Spon.•F?i. 527-2044 23 MAIN ST. SEAFORTH r- crous BERRi ONO QWNty! 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BRONZE MEDALLION/CROSS TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS BEGINNING JULY 15TH THROUGH JULY 31ST 4:00-7:30 P.M. COST: CROSS 180.00 (includes exam tees) MEDALLION' 95.00 (includes manual/exam fees) Must be 13 years old to take Bronze Medallion. Must be 14 years old & told B.H. to take Bronze Cross. • NATIONAL LIFEGUARD SERVICE/AEC Must be 16 & hold Bronze Cross. COST: 1175.00 (includes exam tees & matenais) FRIDAYS 6-10; SAT. & SUN. 9-6 JULY 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 • CONTACT THE POOL AT vtNG SOC - 527 -0950 & ASK FOR MIKE �tFESA rias '( � TO REGISTER. Ui` County of Huron Waste Management Master Plan