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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-12-16, Page 8e -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, DECEMBER 16, 1 toe Blyth announces 25th anniversary playbill Blyth Festival's distinguished 25 year history of presenting new Canadian plays will be celebrated during the 1999 season by introducing five first-time productions of plays created by our country's most popular writers. Blyth's Silver Season will open _with That Summer by pre- eminent playwright David French, author of Canadian classics Leaving Home. Sail Water Moon and the ever popular Jitters. Opening on June 25th. That Summer is a romantic evocation of young love destined to restore audiences to their youth whatever their present age. Unadulterated comedy joins the line up when Big Box by Dave Carley opens on July 2nd. Big Box is an outrageously funny detective story set in -the near future when the shops on Main Street Ontario have gone the way of the dodo. Where can Canadians buy socks when a serial bomber begins to eliminate the retail giant on the highway? Then Ted Johns, the Blyth Festival's most popular star ever. will light up the stage with a new one-man extravaganza encompassing a myriad of unforgettable characters. Ted fearlessly rushes in where angels fear to tread with an up-to- the-minute comic look at the conundrums of education in Tory Ontario. The School Crises will have its first audiences roaring in the aisle on July 14th. • The fourth play in the repertory season will he Every Dream, a tale for our times told with humour and compassion by James W. Nichol. Harry, fifty and "right -sized" out of his position finds a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity - if only his wife would agree to risk their house. And for laughs and chills, beginning July 30, the Studio Space will be at home When The Reaper Calls, a comedy thriller by Peter Colley, author of Blyth's most popular hit of all time, I'll Be Back Before Midnight. For extra sparkle on the Silver Season, the festival returns to its rural mots with a special spectacular, Death of the Hired Man, a new collective concocted by Farm Show creator Paul Thompson. The Blyth theatre will be transformed to house a full barn threshing gang with all its old-time whirling frenzy of sinew -wrenching folly. Death of the Hired Man opens September 2. Funding extended for healthy babies in Huron Provincial funding in the amount of $.100,000 was extended to the Huron. County Health Unit to continue delivering the Healthy Babies, Healthy Children program in 1999. "We received base funding of $33.000 along with .$67,000 of "enhanced" funding." said Marlene Price, manager of the program at the Huron County Health Unit. "The enhanced funding will go toward increasing the home visiting program by Public Health .Nurses and. Parent Resource . Visitors and delivering prenatal screer, throughout Huron County. Research indicates that the first few years of childhood .are critical in establishing the foundation for a child's health and lifelong social, .emotional and intellectual de-velopment. The Healthy •Babies, Healthy Children Program is designed to ensure that all Ontario families with children (prenatally through age six) have access to the supports and services they need while raising their children. The program was introduced in Huron County in January. Although this program is administered by the Health Unit, a network Host families are needed Student Travel Schools is looking for volunteer families to host 10 to 15 students from Europe. Australia. New Zealand and South Africa. The students. ages 15 to 18. will be sharing their lives with Canadian far_ ilies while attending local 'high schools for five or 10 months begin- ning January. 1999. "Hosting a student is a great experience for the entire fami- ly. and it's a great way for a community to learn more .about a country's •culture." said Julia Lubczynski, who heads up the local branch of STS in Ontario. • Beingta host family means opening up your home and way of life to a teenager from another country just waiting for the chance to live and team with a Canadian family. Host families provide meals, accommodation. supervision and care during a student's visit to Canada. The students participating ,in the program have interme- diate levels of English. and chose Canada for its friendly people and beautiful natural areas. All of the students are fully insured and are responsi- ble for their own spending money . and clothing allowance. ' The students will be arriv- ing in Canada. in late January and returning home 'after com- pleting a semester or year in a Canadian high school. - "Each student is very differ- ent, and we spend a lot of time trying to match students with families who arc interested in the same things." said Lubczynski. STS is a non-profit organi- zation that started 40 years ago in Sweden. The organiza- tion's goals are to build under- standing between peoples of different countries and cul- tures. Today. STS has offices in 12 European countries. Australia, New Zealand. the United States, South Africa and Canada.Thc Canadian national office is located in Waterloo, Ontario. Anyone interested in becoming a host family or studying abroad, can contact Lubczynski at 1-800- 265-5316. of parents and service providers, . including physicians, hospital staff. childcare workers and other service representatives have come together to plan the best way to support young families in Huron County. Since Jan. 1 families in Huron County and across the province have been screened by hospital nurses or their midwife to establish their strengths and identify where they might . like some support. With the mother's permission this, information is shared with the Health Unit. F public health nurse then contacts the family and helps them identify and connect with community services that are available. Being a parent isn't easy, and some families face more challenges than others. If a family is involved with several services. a service co-ordinator .• may be identified to help families co-ordinate the services available to them. A new service within the program is the Parent Resource Visitor. They are people from the community who have received training and are able to lend support to families. Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30 of this year, 543 babies were born to Huron County • residents. Through Healthy Babies. 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