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To celebrate 10
years at Blyth
Four Canadian premieres
and a revival of a Blyth -
developed hit will comprise
the 10th anniversary season of
the Blyth Festival, Artistic
Director Janet Amos an-
nounced this week. Ms. Amos
made the announcement at
the first of the Blyth
Festival's 10th Year celebra-
tions, a Leap Year Auction
held at Blyth Memorial Hall.
The season opener June 22
will be Garrison's Garage, a
new comedy by Ted Johns.
Johns, well known at Blyth
for The School Show , He
Won't Come In From The
Barn, St. Sam and The Nukes
and The Death of The Don-
nellys, takes on Revenue
Canada in his new show. At
first Garrison's ramshackle
garage seems an easy target,
but the novice tax collector
assigned to the job finds
himself hopelessly entangled
in the emotions and the
manoeuverings of a small
town.
Brian Tremblay's A Spider
In The House will premiere on
June 26. Tremblay tells the
story of a writer at a country
retreat who is mysteriously
influenced by the former in-
habitants of an old house. A
Spider In The House magical-
ly blends the world of a
modern woman with the
woridof a passionate woman
of 1915.
Put five unlikely con-
testants for a cake -baking
contest together and you get
Cake -Walk, by Colleen Cur -
1 \
help
your
Heart
Fund
ran, opening July 17th. In-
trigue, assumed identities
and – heaven forbid - - a male
contestant make this the most
unusual and entertaining
cake -baking contest the faded
Bayview Inn has ever had.
Layne Coleman's Blue City
premieres on July 24. Set in
Blue City (population 2,200) it
centres around the country's
best women's fastball team.
As Lori Walker, star pitcher,
warms up for the tournament,
an old flame drives in unan-
nounced from Alberta. The
catch? He is the father of her
thirteen year old boy.
A hit from the 1982 season
rounds out the season. Coun-
try Hearts, by Ted Johns with
music by John Roby, opens on
August 21. Country Hearts,
which sold out every
available seat in 1982, takes
place one chilly weekend in a
small town bar where the
band the regular crowd and
some storm -stayed travellers
are marooned by a
snowstorm.
County hearts plays until
September 15' in Blyth, at
which time it embarks on a
Southwestern Ontario tour in-
cluding a one week run at the
Humanities theatre in
Waterloo.
Details on the 10th year
celebrations will be released
soon. Plans include a reunion.
weekend, special opening
ceremonies, a music program
in a local lounge, a history
booket and a commissioned
quilt.
Voucher packages for the
1984 season are on sale now
for $25 adults, $12 children
under 14, a saving of up to 22
percent on single tickets.
Vouchers and season
brochures are available by
calling (519) 523-9300 or by
writing the Blyth Festival,
Box 10, Blyth, Ontario. NOM
114A
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Computer .course
at Clinton campus
Although March 12 was the
filial winter term starting
date in Huron County for
BITS AND BYTES, Con-
estoga College will again of-
fer the popular six-week
course on microcomputers
beginning the week of April
23.
Offered in Huron county for
the first time this winter, this
series of 12 three-hour
classroom sessions is based
on TV Ontario's Academy on
Computers in Education. To
date, five separate sections of
thercourse have been offered
at the Radio Shack Computer
Centre in Goderich. This will
also be the location for the
spring course sessions.
Although BITS AND
BYTES focuses on educa-
tional use of computers, it is
suitable for anyone who
wants to learn more about the
nature, function, operation
and applications of
microcomputers.
Working in small groups,
participants acquire one hour
of hands -on -skills with- a
TRS -80 computer during each
session. Each session also
features a 30 -minute
videotape from the TV On-
tario Academy, plus a one-
hour lecture/question-and-
answer/discussion period:
Course fee is only $55,
which includes all course
materials, a participant's
manual and sample software.
However, registration is
limited to 12 participants per
section.
Also to be offered by Con-
estoga this spring in Goderich
is a 10 -hour course (five week-
ly sessions) entitled
PAREN.TS, KIDS AND COM-
PUTERS. This Saturday -
morning course allows parent
and child to discover together
To celebrate
65 years
The 65th anniver-
sary of Hurondale W.I. will he
held March 28 at the Masonic
Hall in Exeter beginning at
12:30. Other Institutes are in-
vited.
the fascinating world of
microcomputers. Free for
this course ( one parent, one
child) is $60. Classes begin the
week of April 23.
For registration informa-
tion or more details on either
BITS AND BYTES or
PARENTS, KIDS AND COM-
PUTERS, contact Continuing
Education at the Clinton cam-
pus of Conestoga College,
482-3458. Office hours are 9
a.m. - 4 p.m. from Monday
through Friday, plus 6:30 - 9
p.m. from Monday through
Wednesday.
It's strange the things we
remember from our
childhood. Vast areas of mine
area complete blur , and yet,
other things stand out like
they happened yesterday. I
suppose we remember the
events that most deeply mov-
ed us, one way or another.
By the time you read this,
I will be fulfilling one of my
childhood dreams...visiting
Japan. Strangely enough, the
plans for this trip started
many, many years ago when
I was a little girl going to Mis-
sion Band at our church. The
leader, Mrs. Chant, a sparkl-
ing, bright-eyed redhead,
made those meetings so
spellbinding that her young
charges hung on her words.
One day, she talked about a
land called Japan and show-
ed us pictures of children with
round, slant eyed faces and
The fantasy comes true
thick black hair, dressed in
brightly colored kimonas. She
extolled the beauty of the
land, the magic of Mount Fu-
ji and • the enchantment of
acres of pink cherry
blossoms. Completely enrap-
twenty-odd years ago, when
one of our daughters made
friends with a little Japanese
girl attending her school. This
beautiful, shy teenager came
to Canada with her family,
her father being attached to
it seems
to me...
tured, my eyes grew round
and misty as I made a small -
girl vow to someday visit that
beautiful country and see it
for myself.
As the years passed, the
dream faded a little, but
never died. It was heightened,
UCW meets
at Woodham
Sy MISS. JEAN COPELANQ
Woodham
At the March meeting of
Woodham U.C.W., 21,
members and four visitors
answered the roll call.
Business opened with a
reading "How to catch a
Leprechaun" by the presi-
dent, Mrs. Dave Williams.
Minutes, correspondence and
treasurer's report followed.
Barbecue business was
brought up, and the chicken
barbecue will be held
Wednesday, June 6.
Donations were sent to
Camp Bimini, Medical elec-
tives and Seeds for Zaire.
Bale will be collected until
April 22 for Goodwill In-
dtistries. The next chapter of
the Study Book was taken by
Mrs. Glenn Copeland, "Jesus
the Poor and Us".
The Worship Service was
led by Miss Jean Copeland,
followed by a hymn and scrip-
ture reading by Mrs. Marian
Jaques. A beautiful piano in-
strumental ofseveral hymns
was played by Mrs. Ted In-
sley, and a poem by Mrs. Dol -
ly Milos.
The Worship Service closed
with a reading by Mrs. Don
Brine, and closing prayer by
Miss Jean Copeland. During
a delicious lunch,ta silent auc-
tion was held for Floral Fund.
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high schooling. So, for about
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and was almost like another
daughter.
Marvelously artistic, she
could arrange a dish of celery
sticks into a work of art. She
was also exquisitely graceful,
and one time, after she had
helped decorate our yard with
lanterns and streamers for a
church Japanese Tea, she
performed one of her native
dances, dressed in a flowing,
grey and red kimona.
Whin the day came for her
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there were the usual bright,
hopeful promises of meeting
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through Japan. In a few years
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traditional white western
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colorful Buddhist costume.
Apparently, it is not unusual,
in Japan, for a couple to have
more than one ceremony.
Before long, there arrived
snapshots of a cute, chubby
baby boy, grinning out of
merry eyes under a shock of
thick black hair. Four years
later, another picture came of
yet another baby boy. The
eldest is now in highschool
and the youngest is about 10
years. The last photo tells us
they are handsome young
fellows, and that their mother
is still beautiful but with gray
streaking her dark hair. It's
been wise to exchange pic-
tures over the years. Neither
of us will get quite the shock
we might have when we see
each other, face to face, after
all these years.
Anyway, by this time, the
reunion will have taken place,
and I will have met Kyoko's
husband and two boys, and
toured through the country of
my dreams.
Whether the actuality will
be as glorious as the dream is
yet to be told, but in any
event, it seems to me, I'm
very lucky to be fulfilling a
childhood fantasy.
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