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Times-Advocate, 1999-03-24, Page 35Is I r Wednesday, March 24, 1999 -4' Exeter Times—Advocate • 35 Community Alice Munro on short list forTrilliumAward TORONTO -- Alice Munro of Clinton is on the English-language short list for the 12th Annual Trillium Book Award for her book "The Love of a Good Woman." ' This year's 193 English-language submissions were reviewed by three independent jurors. The Trillium award honours Ontario's outstand- ing English- and French -language writers. Past recipients include, among others, Margaret Atwood, Wayson Choyt, Maurice Henrie and Anne Michaels. Books of any genre are eligible. Winning authors, one French and one English, receive $12,000 and their publishers receive an extra $2,500 to encour- age special promotion of the books. Munro has won international acclaim ' and many awards including three Governor General's awards and a Trillium Book Award. . . The "Love of a Good• Woman" recently won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the Giller Prize. Trillium winners will be announced at a ceremo= ny in Toronto on April 15. Get your camera ready to shoot. the blue moon. for Blyth Festival BLYTH - • Photographers, ready your cameras! On March 31 the night sky will be lit by a Blue Moon7as the second full moon' in a month shines over head. March's Blue Moon is even more unusual because it is the second blue moon in 1999. It will be 16 years before two blue moons within 12 months again. The 'moon and stars on a summer evening are a •sparkling image on the Blyth Festival's 25th anniversary season poster and brochure, so, as the box office gets set to open April 19 (April 6 to members), the theatre is seeking Blue Moon shots for a lobby display. Send your colour or black and white pictures of this moon (or any full, half or crescent moon) to the .Blyth Festival, Box 10, Blyth Ontario, NOM 1H0 by May 5. A voucher pack - four admissions'to anyavail-. able performance on the Festival's Playbill - will be awarded to the three best entries, simply because the folks at the theatre believe the Silver Anniversary season will be just as rare and just as lovely as the second Blue Moon in 1999. Submitted by the Blyth Festival Zurich Mennonite youth group helps inner city children in Michigan By Carmel Sweeney ZURICH CORRESPONDENT ZURICH - Twenty youth members •of . the Mennonite Church (M.Y.F. group) and six adults travelled to Grand Rapids, Michigan from March 13 to 17 to help at the Outreach Mission for inner city children. St. Boniface youth group, Grade seven and eight students, will meet in .the school gym on March 25 from 7 to '8:30 p.m. The Grade five and six children will hold a "backwards" night at the parish hall. The Zurich Agricultural Society will be meeting on March 29 at 8 p.m. at the Hay Township hall. Everyone is welcome. "Dance, Dance, Dance" will be the theme for the Zurich and Area Figure Skating Carnival on March 28 at the arena. It begins at 2 p.m. and tick- ets are available now- or at the door: $4 for adults, children six to 12, $1. Personals Carmel Sweeney trav- elled to Leamington and Windsor from March 12 to 20 where she visited family members, her mother, sisters, aunt, uncles and cousins. Meagan Sweeney spent last week in Grand Bend visiting her sister Beth and Joe Boyle. Melinda Gingerich has returned from Florida where she spent the win- ter months. ' John and Marilyn Geiger spent the March Break m Florida, relaxing and golfing. Happy 80th birthday wishes go to Jean Klopp on March 20. She cele- brated with her children and their families. Happy birthday wishes go to Jo Ann LeBold on March 28 and to her son Scott on March 30; and to Yogi Garnhum on March 21; and to Chantel Gelinas on March 31. • WarAmps' new video uses children's stories to get safety message across OTTAWA - At the age of 10, Amy Bilyea lost part of lier arm in anelectrocution accident while playing near her home. She tells her story in Spot the Danger, a new half-hour video being released across Canada by The War Amps. Spot the Danger was produced by War Amps Chief Executive Officer Cliff Chadderton as part of the Association's Playsafe/Drivesafe Program. In a "pull no punches" style, Champs (members of,The War Amps Child Amputee - or .CHAMP - Program) from across Canada talk about their accidents and the conse- quences. - Bilyea is joined by 13 other Champs who also learned their safety lesson the hard way. They include: Joshua, who,Jost>part of his leg -at; he ageof six when ,he fell off a moving speedboat; Steve, who also lost his arm in an electrocution accident; Trevor, who lost his arm while trying to beat the train; Gerrit, Laura, Merrill and Jon Paul who all lost limbs in farm accidents; and other champs who had accidents with everyday household machinery like lawn mowers and meat grinders. A portion of the video is devoted to Meagan, who lost part of an arm at the age of three when the vehicle in which she was travelling was struck by a careless dri- ver. The memorable segment "Meagan's Song" tells her story and illustrates the importance of The War Amps Drivesafe message. ASTARI the gold robot from the Planet Danger, CALL THE EXPERTS FOR ALL YOUR BUILDING NEEDS CENTRAL STRUCTWN •BRICKS *BLOCK •STONE •POURED FOUNDATIONS •POINTING • PARGING # " ` Here to service your area. 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