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The Village
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Harold And Kumar
Go To White Castle
Nightly at 7 & 9:15
Sal/SwJfues Matinee at 2 pm
Bourne Supremacy
Nightly at 7 & 9:15
Sat/Sun/Tues Matinee et 2 pm
A Cinderella Story
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Friday, August 6/04
Mitchell Arena
8:30 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
$6.00 Each
For tickets call
Steve 348-0597
or Sandi 345-2942
Age of Majority
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Reception for
CRAIG GILBERT
PAULA MACKAY
Sat., August 7/04
8:30 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Brodhagen Hall
$8.00 tickets
D.J.
Lunch provided
For info 347-4377
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BLYTH COMMUNITY CENTRE
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Huron Country Playhouse's production of
the Cemetery Club 'to die for,' says reviewer
By Jason Middleton
Expositor Staff
While the Cemetery Club
is not a group I'd like to join,
1 did enjoy my visit on
Saturday night. •
If fact, 1 would even go as
far to say that this story
about three Jewish widows
in Queens, New York, is to
die for.
The Cemetery Club is a
group of three women who
play canasta every Friday
night and once a month they
visit the graves of their late
husbands.
The three women are the
flirtatious Lucille,
meticulous Doris and mild -
tempered Ida.
Although disagreements
are normal for the group,
things change when Ida falls
for Sam, the local butcher,
after a chance meeting in the
cemetery.
The two start to form a
relationship that proves no
matter how old you are,
starting over is always hard.
The rest of the play
focuses on the their
struggling relationship and
the Cemetery Club trying to
keep Ida as a member.
Playing the role of Doris is
Rosemary Radcliffe who
does a wonderful job playing
an untrusting widow, while
Jocelyne Zucco makes the
audience laugh and cry
playing the spirited Lucille.
Linda Goranson is realistic
in her lamenting for both her
late husband and Sam,
played by Ian Downie,
whose performance is
Jocelyne Zucco as Lucille, Ian Downie as Sam, Rosemary Radcliffe as Doris and Linda Goranson
as Ida star in the Cemetery Club.
reminiscent of Jimmy
Stewart in any movie he was
in.
All the actors have a
wonderful chemistry
together which makes the
show believable and a
pleasure to watch.
There are parts of the play
which make you laugh, cry
and mourn for the three
women.
The play features
wonderful lighting which
captures the mood of any
scene with the simple fading
of stage lights from the
different grave sites.
The soundtrack for the
play is a unique one
featuring songs by Nora
Jones, Five For Fighting and
Sarah McLachlan and they
work well with the
production.
A simple set design
featuring Ida's apartment
bordered by the three graves
of the widows is creative
because the stage never lets
you forget the reason behind
the women's friendship.
If only all periods of
mourning were as painless as
this.
The Cemetery Club is
showing at Grand Bend's
Huron Country Playhouse
until Aug. 7.
Midwestern Adult Services hosts
annual general meeting in Clinton
By Cheryl Heath
News -Record Editor
Midwestern Adult
Services welcomed a special
guest speaker to its annual
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general meeting a few weeks
ago at its Clinton office.
David Zago, Health
Information Manager for the
Grey -Bruce -Huron -Perth
District Health Council, says
a combination of a largely
rural arca, an aging
population and complexity
and change are important
considerations for
administrators of adult day
programs to consider.
"We want people to
remain independent in their
home communities," says
Zago, citing statistics show
there arc 588 long-term care
facilities. 21.000 physicians
and 139.000 nurses in
Ontario.
Hc notes that last year the
District Health Council was
asked to review services,
including adult day
programs, to discern the hest
way to deliver services.
Zago says the primary
characteristics of a well-run
program include- strong
volunteer involvement,
social and recreational
activities and transportation.
He notes those
components are already in
place at Midwestern Adult
Day Services.
He says that in the future,
health care may evolve to
combine hospital and day -
program services.
"Let's expand our view of
day-care services," he says.
Zago says there is a view
that adult day programs
keep people out of hospitals
longer. but that better
assessment is needed to
ensure the importance of
day-care programs arc
recorded for the
government's review.
He adds user fees have
been discussed. hut no firm
decisions have been made.
"Either implement them
and make it fair or not," he
says.
At the end of his
presentation, several
Midwestern Adult Day
Services members pointed
out that the program is
working.
"Midwestern is a small but
important component of
health care," says board
member Yvonne Reynolds,
of Exeter.
"This program needs to
stay and stay for a long
time," adds Cathy Ritsema,
executive director of the
Alzheimer Society of Huron
County.
Statistics released during
thc AGM show 41.4 per cent
of the program's users arc in
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TUESDAY, SEPT. 7, 2004 - 7PM
CE11TENNIAL HALL - LONDON
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Phone 519-672-1967 or on line at www.centennialhall.london.ca
Clinton, 9 per cent are in
Grand Bend, 13.7 per cent
hail from Exeter and 36 per
cent are from Wingham.
The program's sources of
revenue include 73.3 per
cent funding from a
Ministry of Health operating
grant, 13.8 per cent from
client fees, 10.4 per cent
from donations, fund-raising
and expenditure recovery
and 2.5 per cent from grants
and other sources of income.
Meanwhile, 63.5 per cent
of funding is used to cover
wages and benefits, 16.5 per
cent covers activity costs,
9.9 per cent is for occupancy
costs, 6 per cent is sued for
administrative and
miscellaneous expenses and
4.1 per cent is used for
telephone service and office
supplies.
According to executive
director Sallie Lawton's
report, 10,247 days of
service were provided to
247 clients for the 2003/04
year.
Lawton notes 161
volunteers contributed
16,956 hours of time in
areas including driving,
kitchen, fund-raising and
program areas.
She also notes the
program faced its share of
challenges this year
including the fact that the
South Huron Hospital
project has yet to be brought
to completion resulting in a
decrease of referrals for a
total of 869 days compared
to the past year.
She says the agency plans
to develop an outreach
program in Goderich, which
is dependent on Ministry of
Health funding.
Temporary quarters arc
being arranged one day a
week with a goal to offer
service by the fall.
The continuing mission of
the program is: "Respecting
the individual as a valued
member of the community
and supporting independent
living for older adults and
adults with special needs, an
active team of volunteers
and staff offers progressive
programs and services in a
welcoming environment."
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