Times-Advocate, 1981-08-26, Page 23Blowingsand plagues cottage
Need some sand for your
kids' sand box? Bruce
Woodley will gladly give you
all the sand your box could
possibly hold.
The lakefront resident in
Grand Bend has been
plagued by a blowing sand
problem for the past several
years, and repeated requests
to the village council for aid
have brought no results as
yet.
Woodley claims that the
trouble began in the sixties
when the council at that
time cleared dunes and
grass mounds from the
beach. The project to plow
down the natural beach
growth was an attempt to
clean up young people's
morals. Village residents
were not happy with the
goings on in the sheltered
dunes.
Unfortunately, the plow-
ing created a whole new set
of problems for the lake
front residents - with no
grass mounds, there was
nothing to hold the sand
down.
Woodley says that for the
first few years, the village
council looked after plowing
the sand down when large
mounds were formed along
the property owners fences.
Then the village gave up
responsibility, when they
learned that the property
belonged to the late Ida
Eccleston. This year, Mrs.
Eccleston's daughter, Ella
Mcllroy turned over the
beach to the village.
Woodley hoped that the
change in the beach
ownership would convince
council to take more interest
in his problem. He attended
Unless there's a fire or a
flood or some other disaster,
The Music Man should be the
best musical ever staged at
Buren Country Playhouse.
I sat in on rehearsals at
the playhouse Friday mor-
ning. and it appeared to be
all set for the opening
tonight (Wednesday). And it
looks like there's going to be
plenty of singing and dan-
cing and a lot of fun.
It should be -the best
musical HCP has ever seen,
with Allan Lund directing it.
Lund is the director of the
Charlottetown Festival
where he made Anne of
Green Gables so popular. His
work with musicals is well
known throughout Canada.
Just Friday morning he
received a phone call from
Charlottetown telling him
Anne of Green Gables was
sold out for the season.
Almost everybody knows
the story of The Music Mon,
so you'll just be able to sit
back and enjoy the songs.
For those who missed the
Broadway opening in 1957, or
didn't catch the movie ver-
sion. or didn't even see the
production in the Victoria
Park bandshell in London in
the summer of '78. it's the
old story of the slightly dis-
honest travelling salesman,
with a new scheme.
Professor Harold Hill
(also known as the music
man. and many other
names) goes . into small
towns and convinces them
they need a big brass band.
He will kindly sell them the
instruments and the un-
iforms. and set up the band.
But he leaves town before
things really get going,
because the truth is. he can't
read a note of music.
This plan works very well
for the music man, until he
hits River City. Iowa, and
Marian the librarian.
The play is set in the early
1900's and full ot old time
marches and barbership
quartets.
Starring as the musicman
is Scott Walker. This is
Walker's first time at HCP,
but he comes to the
Scott Walker
playhouse with credits from
many Canadian theatres.
Walker is a former radio
disc jockey. and you may
recognize his voice from the
Mercury Capri and Lynx
commercials on television.
During the past year he has
been doing a night club act in
Toronto and Mississauga. "1
enjoy night clubs. I get to do
what 1 like to do best,"
Walker says. He calls his
act a "one man show" with
lots of singing ano dancing.
Anne Wootton. who is play-
ing Zaneeta in The Music
Mon (You'll recognize her
by "Ye_ Gods") directs and
choreographs Walker's club
act.
Staring with Walker, as
Marian the librarian is
Charlene Shipp. Ms. Shipp
appeared twice at HCP dur-
ing the summer of 1975, and
in 1976 she was Diana in
Anne of Green Gables here.
Prior to taking this role,
Ms. Shipp was Maria in Th.
Sound of Musk in Toronto
and Thunder Bay. and was in
r
Charlene Shipp
Guys and Dolls on the Rain-
bow Stage in WinniPeg.
Walker and Ms. Shipp are
doing their fifth show
together in two years. Both
are pleased with the
progress made in rehearsals
of The Music Man and on
Friday they were anxious to
put the production on the
stage.
Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii
continued until Saturday
night. Sunday was a busy
day for the stage crew, and
Monday. the rehearsals went
-t*l -stage. Previews were on
Tuesday night and this after-
noon, with the opening
scheduled for tonight
(Wednesday).
Walker says that once the
rehearsals move onto the
stage with costumes and
props. the show will fall
together. "The first time
you're greeted with
costumes and props, you
tend to forget all your lines"
Walker said. laughing.
There is a total of 31 in the
cast for The Musk Man, and
many of those people are
playing two parts. You will
see all the members of the
Young Company: Scott
Hurst. Colin Legge, Allison
Grant, Aggie Cekuta and
Catherine Hennig, including
their director Rod Menzies.
As well, three members of
last year's Young Company
are returning. David Talbot,
Mark Terrine, and Kim
Worobec are into The Music
Man, after the closing of
Way Off Broadway, the
cabaret production they took
from HCP to Toronto last
year.'
Several more HCP
favourites will be The Music
Man. You'll see last year's
star of Annie Get Your Gun,
Robert Hall. as Mayor
Shinn. and Tom Arnott who
was a father in The Fan-
tasticks and a cop in Arsenic
and Old Lace will be Charlie
Cowell. John Heath, the
hilarious Dr. Einstien in
Arsenic will be Marcellus
Washburn.
Also in the cast are Ron
Proulx, John Pepper, David
Johnston, Rick Schiralli,
Helen Beauis, Diane Gor-
don, Anne Wootten, D.J.
Hamilton. Cathy
Domoney, Martha Collins,
Cora Kraushaar and Colleen
Krueger.
Several area children will
be in the cast: Kimberly
Redick of Zurich (daughter
of playhouse manager
Heather Redick) will play
Amaryllis. Bevon Keating of
London will be Winthrop
Paroo, and Katherine Coups,
of London, with a summer
home in Grand Bend, will be
Gracie Shinn. Katherine was
in Annie Get Your Gun last
summer.
Another of the Annie cast,
Darryl Greenwood of
Parkhill will be playing Ed-
die Hix. Lee's "big brother"
stage manager Graham
Cook, introduced him to the
playhouse.
The performance will also
include the Bullet Central
Public School band, from
Londesboro.
The Musk Man will be run-
ning for an extended perfor-
mance September 12, with
matinees on Wednesdays
and Thursdays.
SAND PROBLEM - Bruce Woodley stands on a sand dune
which covers the fence in front of his lake front home. He
wonts the village council to assist in the removal of the
sand. Staff photo
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Mar 's
musings
BY MARY ALDERSON
You can't go anywhere
without somebody saying it.
"Well, there won't be too
many more warm days."
"Yep, sure gets cool nights,
now, summer's nearly
.over." "Won't be doing too
much more swimming this
year."
It gets depressing. I hate
to see summer end. I love
hot, hot weather. My very
favourite thing to do is sit in
the sun with some cocoanut
oil and a good magazine.
But on the other hand, I'm
an optimist. (That's a small
o optimist. not a big 0. No, I
haven't joined that club of
crazy guys in Grand Bend.)
Anyway. there has to be
some good things about the
end of summer.
Sure, mothers will be
screaming. "Of course there
is!" They are ready to pack
the kids off to school. But
back -to -school time doesn't
really effect my life.
Birt there are advantages
to the end of summer. For
example. the traffic on
highway 21 drops by two-
thirds when summer ends.
Labour Day will mean that I
no longer have to sit at the
end of our road for half an
hour waiting for a break in
the bumper to bumper cars
to pull out on the highway.
Similarly. the end of
summer will mean a drop in
boat traffic on "our" river.
Those of us who are perma-
nent residents on the banks
of the Ausble Cut firmly
believe that it is our river.
You can tell the perma-
nent residents. They are the
ones whose boats stay tied
up to the deck all Sunday
afternoon while the visitors
go wild zooming up and down
the river. Then when all
those people have loaded
their boats on their trailers
and headed out at about 4:00
p.m. Sunday. we untie our
boats and have our fun.
After Labour Day, we'll be
able to have our fon in the
middle of Sunday afternoon -
as long as we have good
weather.
Another nice thing about
the end of summer is the
beautiful fall clothes in the
stores. It is so nice to have a
change in wardrobe. Of
course, by next March,
you're ready to pitch them.
And then there's the new
shows on television. Soon,
we'll be able to find out who
was floating in J.R.'s pool.
All last summer we looked
forward to finding out who
shot J.R. They haven't been
able to keep our excitement
quite at the same pitch, but
we are getting curious.
**,*.
Well, it didn't work. I tried
to think of all the good things
I could about the end of
summer, and I'm still
depressed. Would it do any
good tj write to our MP's
and demand that summer be
extended another
* * *
I got a call from His
Honour, Reeve Bob the other
day asking me to remind you
folks that 81 Crescent is a
ONE WAY STREETt1I
The reeve has threatened
that if people don't soon get
used to going one way, the
OPP will be laying charges.
Until now. it has just been
friendly warnings.
The one way sighs have
been up all summer, and it's
time the police cracked
down, because once the kids
are back in school, they will
be instructed on how to use
the bike path and walkways
along the one way street.
Now, you drivers, pay
close attention. You can turn
on to 81 Crescent off of
highway 81 just east of the
main intersection. You can
proceed down 81 Crescent in
an easterly direction, and
you can stop at the post of-
fice, drug store and bank,
and then you must keep on
proceeding easterly towards
the Church of God and Gill
Road. Got that???
1 ate my lunch at the little
parkette recently on the cor-
ner of 81 Crescent, highway
81 and Gill Road, and watch-
ed the traffic. There doesn't
seem to be a problem with
people turning on to 81 Cres-
cent from Gill Road. There
are plenty of signs there tell-
ing the people that it is a one
way street. and do not enter.
(That's what a big red circle
with a line through it
means.)
But there is definitely a
problem with people heading
in the right direction, and
then stopping at the post of-
fice. After they get their
mail. they turn around, and
go back out the way they
came in. Folks, that's a no -
no. and when you get a fine,
you're gonna be sorry.
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a council meeting and asked
about a plan to plant beach
grass. Council said they
would consider it, if
theyreceived help from the
Ministry of Natural
Resources. But many coun-
cil members felt that it
wasn't right to spend tax-
payers' money for the
owner
benefit of only a few
homeowners.
Woodley decided that if he
wanted the sand removed,
he would have to pay for it
himself. He stressed that the
piling sand had become a
Safety 'problem because it
had created mounds up to
`the top of Ms wrought iron
Seatbelt charges laid
Four thefts were reported,
and the value of the stolen
goods was set at $271.50.
Three compassionate
messages were delivered,
and nine reports of found
property were handled.
Ten people were charged
in Grand Bend during the
week of August 16 to 22 for
not wearing seat belts while
in their cars. A total of 34
charges were laid for traffic
offences, and three minor
motor vehicle accidents
were investigated.
Liquor again created most
of the problems for provin-
cial police in Grand Bend. A
total of 33 people were
charged under the liquor
licence act, and four people
were charged for being in-
toxicated in a public place.
Ten minors were charged
for drinking under age, and
10 charges for unlawful con-
sumption were laid. There
were seven charges laid for
conveying liquor in a vehi-
cle.
Three people were charg-
ed with imparredldriving.
The detachment handled a
total of 94 general oc-
currences. Among them
were two cases of wilful
damage, and two missings
persons located. Four distur-
bances were investigated.
One case of fraud was in-
vestigated.
fence. Pointed ornamental
work was protruding from
the sand, which was over the
fence top, and Woodley
feared children playing on
the beach would be hurt.
Woodley said that he hired
a bulldozer to remove sand
from the fence, both on his
'side and on the beach side.
Me said that the bulldozer
worked for two days, and
hardly made a noticeable
change in the piles of sand.
Woodley said that the
bulldozer work was costing
him about $250 per day. He
said that the operator would.
be returning to finish the
job, but it was taking much
longer than had first been
planned.
Two accidents
in Pinery area
Provincial Police at
Pinery investigated a two
car crash at the entrance of
the Pine View Mobile Home
Park on highway 21 Tues-
day. Total damages were es-
timated at $900. Drivers of
the cars were Gloria Pillon
of Bosanquet township, and
Barry D. Merkley of London.
There were no reported hi -
juries. Constable R. M.
Brown investigated the acci-
dent..
On Friday, Constable R.
Grigg investigated a two car
crash at the intersection of
highways 21 and 82. Drivers
of the cars Lynne Kilham, of
Newton, Massachusetts and
Robert Douglas of Windsor,
escaped injury. Passengers
K. Montross and, B. Beard
had minimal injuries.
Damage to the Kilham vehi-
cle was $2500, while the
Douglas vehicle sustained
$1500 damage.
During the week of August
18 to 22, Pinery OPP laid 51
charges under the liquor
licence act. Three impaired
drivers were charged, and
two drivers were charged
for driving while under
suspension.
Five people were charged
under the provincial parks
act, and three thefts were in-
vestigated. There were 11
charges Laid under the
highway traffic act, and 15
miscellaneous occurrences
were investigated.
Times -Advocate, August 26, 1981 Pogo 23
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The nurse may be the person who gives the lost com-
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She knows and recognizes the needs of the patient
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