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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1994-8-3, Page 12Page 12 Times -Advocate, August 3,1994 COMMUNITY_ At top, the Clinton Legion's pipers brought some Scottish tradition to the Friedsburg Days parade. Above Harry Hoffman con- ducts the Dashwood/Seaforth Community Band on its float in the parade. The Black Bonspiel of Wulile MacCrimmon ready to open BLYTH - Every winter. thc noble sport of curling turns otherwise sane Canadian men and women into broom waving fa- natics. Given. the chance, any one of them would actively consider selling their soul to the devil for a chance to win the national champi- onship. 'thc Bricr'. That's the offer made to Wullic MacCrimmon, thc good, Scottish shot -maker, who lives to curl in 1930's Wildrosc, Al-' berm, in W.O. Mitchell's hilarious and much loved fable. The Black Bonspicl of Wullic MacCrimmon. The Blyth Festival's fourth production of the 1994 20th Anniversary Season. The Black Bonspicl of Wul- lie MacCrimmon is directed by Tcd Johns with set and costume design by Pat Hood, lighting design by Lesley Wilkinson and original music composed by John Roby. Gordon Milroy is featured as Wullic Mac- ('rimmon. with Thomas Albrecht, Anne Anglin, An- drew Croft, Dennis Fitzgerald, Jerry Frankcn, Thomas Hauff, Robert Persichini, Cliff Saunders and David Young. Petro -Canada is generously sponsoring The Black Bonspicl of Wullic MacCrimmon which pre- views Wednesday. August 3, opens August 4 and runs in repertory until Saturday, September 3. Due to the exceptional demand for tickets, Blyth's extremely popular production of Ted John's perennial favourite He Won't Come In From the Barn is being held over for an additional seven performances, from September 6 to September 10. 1994. Additional per- formances will be presented at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Septem- ber 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, with matinees at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday and Saturday, September 8 and 10. Individual Blyth Festival tickets arc $6 for youths, $9.50 for previews. $15 for weekday and matinee per- formances, and $19.50 for Saturday evenings. For in- dividual and group ticket orders, Country Suppers, brochures and information call the Box Office at (519) 523-93(X). Summer reading program Charlie Jinks makes his choke In a game of concentration at the Hensall Library Thursday evening. The Huron County Library's summer reading program "Trade Up to the Book Leagues" has been met with success In most local libraries. Thursday, Mindy Bell filled in for regular program leader Traci Tryon. There are 25 students aged 6-10 enrolled at Hen - ',ail for the program, and one has already read 30 books. Prizes are awarded for "rounding the bases" with readership, A wrap-up party Is being planned for ldter this month. o494t Pressure resistance Poor health practices and poor self-esteem often do hand in hand. A re- cent literature review by Dr. Leonard Wankel and colleagues, from the University of Alberta, shows that many women have a tow self-esteem as a result of poor "body esteem". Dissatisfied with their bodies, some wom- en adopt unhealthy behaviours to achieve a Cindy Crawford or Christy Brinkley figure. Smoking, for example, is heavily used by some women to control weight. Yet, from a health point of view, a non-smoker would have to be severely obese to suffer the same health consequences as a normal weight smoker. Dieting is also taken up by women to control weight. Dieting behaviours are now starting at a younger age than ever before, commonly around nine years of age and sometimes as early as five or six! Studies also show that the use of various dieting practices frequently precedes the development of such eating disorders as anorexia and bulimia, which are also on the rise. Physical activity is a healthier alternative to controlling weight than smoking and dieting. Unfortunately, a few people use it to achieve an un- derweight figure in stead of maintaining a normal, healthy weight. A quick glance at car or beer commercials is enough to get a hint of the Targe -scale attacks on women's body esteem. How does a woman feel while watching these ads? The end must be extremely important to justify a message that shouts "You're too fat!" Researchers with a feminist perspective including Kissling and Wolf, say that male -dominated institutions have been defining beauty for wom- en. "Slenderness is an effective tool of oppression precisely because it is hard to achieve," says Dr. Wankel. This is especially true for poor women, who cannot afford the practices promoted by the diet, cosmetic. fashion' and fitness industries. In addition, women's weight and shape are largely determined by genetic factors, not by how hard they work to achieve the cultural ideal, as the advertisers would have us believe. Women (and men) who 'wish to resist the social pressure to conform to the cultural body ideal can try the following suggestions: • Don't use the advertisers' ideal of beauty in judging girls and women. • Don't use the advertisers' muscular ideal in judging boys and men. • Attend to your body's actual needs through healthy eating and physical acti vity. - • Learn to be comfortable with your body, whatever its size or shape. • Associate with people who compliment you on your character and abil- ities, not those who criticize your appearance. • If others make comments that threaten your body esteem, question the nature of your relationship: Is that what you want? • Focus on your personal goals and the feelings of competence you de- rive from achieving them. Beauty can also be found in the twinkle of an eye, the stimulation of a conversation, the tenderness of a gesture - none of which depends on weight and shape. 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