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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-05-01, Page 5d.' COLBORNE, CORNER EDUCATION WEEK School days - school days - dear old Golden Rule Days. An evening at the school such as Colborne ' Central School af- forded thee, public on Thursda evening, April 24 brings back many. memories and is a splendid way of letting the parents see what the children are doing and the children see how interested the parents are in their education.' The theme. throughout the classrooms was education in the Metric (S.I,) System, In,the hall corridor" was a clever wall picture made by the children called "Metric Mystery" and the classrooms emphasized this along with the beauties of spring with pictures on the wall ti showing the comparison bet- ween our measurements and the Metric System. One room, had some of the pupils measuring water, others measuring height or weight by the metric scale, or other in- teresting things to note, some of which afforded some humor and friendly chatter. In the main hall an in- teresting program. was presented about every half hour. J.P. Kane, principal of the school acted as chairman and started the evening en- tertainment by welcoming the splendid interested crowd, and later mingling with one and all. during the evening. A junior choir of pupils from grades 2,3,4 and 8 gave a splendid -performance singing-- - • 'I-usectrto-be-,afraid--of°" the dark" and "Feeling good, feeling happy" with some of the pupils accompanying by guitar and ukulele Gymnasticsu with, pupils of Grades 3,4,6,7 and 8 was especially interesting and well done. The Glee Club of pupils from Grades 6,7 and 8 sang two numbers "Farewell to Nova "Scotia" and "Windy" and these selections were accompanied with the pupils playing guitars and ukuleles, which brought loud applause, so much so that everyone would have liked to hear a few more numbers. mrs G. Kaitting Dunlop Women's Institute -was to help in helping others. held in the Colborne Township This proved very interesting , Hall, Carlow, Wednesday af- and the members will give this ternoon April 23. . special thought and attention President Mrs. Earl Sher- , very shortly. Mrs. Robt. Bean wood opened the meeting and thanked the speaker and welcomed all present. presented her with a gift. , Roll call, a housecleaning All enjoyed a social half hour hint, which presented many together with lunch served by interesting and worthwhile • the committee in charge with suggestions, was answered by Mrs. Rod Bogie, convener. 22 members. There were in- vitations from Dungannon . 4-H GIRLS Women's Institute and from ."The Garden Club" is the Blyth W.I. to be guests attheir next projcet' which will be in 65th birthday May 12. Several : full swing shortly. Any girls ladies "plan to attend. If any that have not registered with members would like to go and their leaders for this course and have not given' their names, , wish to take it please contact please contact the president. A Helen Brindley,. 524-6451 at letter from Bell Canada asked once. ° . for a representative to theirolne 4-1-1 Girls,Tiger Dunlop day workshop May 12. The Groups 1 and , 2 met in the secretary was asked to be the Colborne Township Hall r representative. Monday eveningz April 29 for a Members were urged to work night. They worked on attend, the 44-1 Girls their blouses and some of the Achievement Day to be at girls volunteered their blouses Brookside School May 17. for other ,,girls to judge which A letter from the Children's proved very interesting and Aid Society of Huron County beneficial. gave an interim report on the Tiger Dunlop°Group 4, Topsy Bursary Fund for 1974-75. Turvies met at the home of Members were informed of the Mrs. Bert Dougherty on District Annual to be in Blyth Monday evening. ,The girls May 26 and Mrs. Eric Reaburn, discussed their . Achievement Mrs. Earl Sherwood, Mrs. Tait Day skit and worked on their Clark and Mrs. Gordon Kait- blouses and record books. ting were named as the In their sewing they delegates to attend. discussed the setting in of "' The' secretary gave im- sleeves and reinforcing the portant information given at curved seam underneath. They the District Executive meeting also practised walking for in Auburn. The Institute will be modelling: -having---their--Sunshhine--Sister- < .a Bariqu -=int--the - b 'Roll edit L A nevt_sew_mg. technique that I have learned during this club" was answered by all the girls. Township Hall Thursday, June 5 with Mrs. R. Buchanan, Mrs. Doug McNeil and Mrs. Ralph Jewell acting as the program' committee. The penny sale at the May meeting will be in charge of Mrs. Carman Feagan and Mrs. Ernest Bogie, Mrs. Kaitting introduced the speaker. for the meeting, Mrs. P.J. Wheeler, co-ordinator of Volunteer services for Goderich Psychiatric Hospital who spoke on the need for volunteer workers ,and the various ways NDP. preparing Folk dancing' by pupils of ranBendman .wi run - Grades 5,6,7, and 8 to record accompaniment "Troika" a Russian number; "D'Ham- merschrniedsgselln" (The Journeyman Blacksmith) a Bavarian number and "Teton Mountain Stomp" and "The Good Ole Days" both American znumbers, was enjoyed by pupils and public alike', especially in the last dance when the pupils -chose partners from the audience. An interesting evening came to a close and'a special note of thanks goes to the principal and teachers of the school for a job well.done. While all *the teachers pttt a special effort in this evening's • performance we make special mention to Mrs. W. Hoernig and Mr. R. Snell Who conducted the musical numbers and Mrs. Gerald Dustow who is music instructor at the school, and to Mr. Harman who was in charge of Gymnastics and ri, Folk „ SOCIAL NEWS Mrs. Earl Sherwood attended the Offiger's Conference of the Federated Women's Institute of Ontario at Waterloo this past week as delegate from Tiger Dunlop W.I. Congratulations are in order to Mr. and Mrs. Barry Bogie of Saltford on the birth of a baby boy. p.. GODERICH S I NA L -STAR, THU RS,t AY, NWA,Y 1,19751'7 -PAGE GDCI play .rio going to Toronto.. fin I, All you need is an audience., You don't need competition," said the director. LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE The local significance of November Ninth was one of the motivations for the students. They were trying to portray local reaction to the great storm and according to their director, did so "flawlessly". ' The students are not thinking of beating another club or of making G15CI number one in drama, they are thinking only of, doing the play as best they possibly can. The school spirit becomes evident and strong when the play is 'selected by the adjudicator as the best in the' festival. ` The impression of the storm Mr. Robinson wanted to- leave 4 The 60 members of the GDCI !Drama' Club were shocked and disappointed Monday when they learned they were not one of 'the clubs selected to go to Toronto for the Final Showcase of the Ontario Collegiate Drama Festival. , Their production November Ninth, 1913 was placed third in the Regional Showcase held in Hamilton three weeks ago. "We found the decision very pard to understand," said director Warren Robinson. "But we .keepted it, we don't want to 136 poor losers." The student cast was positive it was one of the productions slated for the provincial final. Their performance of the Robinson play in Hamilton received excellent reviews and the general consensus•after the April 10. competition placed GDCI in the top two. TheHamklton' Spectator theatre critic and a visiting adjudicator from a northern region placed November Ninth first but Dennis Sweeting, the adjudicator in Hamilton, placed them third. "No matter how many people feel your play is the best you'll get those that disagree and if the adjudicator is'one of those, well, that's tough," explained. Robinson. The students themselves were among those who thought the Goderich production was the best of the festival. Con- fident they would be selected to To to the St. Lawrence centre in oronto they were "numbed" by the decision of the ad- judicator that denied them the Riddell goes to bat for Exeter company and ODC loon Jack Riddell, Liberal member of Parliament for the riding of Huron, questioned Mr. Claude .Bennett, Minister of Industry .and Tourism on why foreign owned companies were able' to obtain loans through the Ontario Development Cor- poration (ODC) while Canadian owned, companies are turned down: Mr. Riddell explained that the J,.F. Farm Machinery Company in Exeter was denied a loan by the ODC for a capital. buildingprotect. Mr. Bennett. then retorted that foreign investment in the province is not bad and that it made a direct contribution to the well-being of the .province by creating ` jobs. Cofnpanies who apply to the ODC will be given consideration if they follow the regulations set down and match the requirements. There's an ' election ,in the wind. Politicians in the Huron Riding are .getting ready although there's still plenty of speculation about the possible date of a provincial election. Premier William Davis isn't giving out ' many hints, but those who have, a special in- terest in provincial election dates are betting it will be either June or October. This week, Philip Walker, a 40 -year-old . Grand Bend resident, announced he will seek the nomination for, the' New Democratic Party here. A graduate - of the University of Western Ontario, he did sonne post graduate work at McGill University before returning to Grand Bend where he has been working with his father, Fred Dancing. Walker, former proprietor and owner of Oakwood Inn and Golf Club. Mr. Walker is married with -,The April Meeting of Tiger one daughter. Nomination day for the NDP in Huron -Middlesex will be in -mid-May Mr. Walkerpredicts a lively election campaign in Ontario because he feels there is more interest in provincial matters now than there has been for several years: " • In his prepared statement, Mr. Walkerhad this to say: "I feel that 32 years of one- party rule irf Ontario has. .created an increasing desire for change among the people. . The events of the past ten years or so _have, indicated many examples of the need • for a pf cx==t=>s For Mother's Day Remember the flower Basket 0,, .524.2152 r .. change of,government. "Recent surveys have shown that more and more peopole are realizing this need for a change. 'The present ad- ministration appears to, be getting further and further out of ,touch with the .needs and wishes of the majority of the citizens of this province. "Ontario is facing in- creasingly serious economic problems due to rapidly rising energy costs and dwindling supplies, increasing unem- ployment due partly to foreign domination in both the raw materials and manufacturing sectors ofthe economy, and the simultaneous problems of urban crowding', and rural . depopulation. The gradual but more or less continuous decay of agriculture is a particularly . serious problem in Huron County. "I believe that the New Democratic Party has 'both more ideas and better ideas for .more to cope with the problems facing Ontario today. The NDP is prepared to tackle these problems in a com- prehensive and effective manner rather than merely talk about them and study them. - "We need action on a greater scale today than ever before:" Phil Walker, A . SUTTON PARK : INN. Hwy. 21 North Kincardine IN THE STORNOWAY LOUNGE THIS WEEK "THE ORIENTAL • � . JEWELS" SIX BEAUTIFUL GIRLS WITH TALENT TO MATCH. SPECIAL SATURDAY MATINEE 1 1 1 1 11 NEXT WEEK �. i�CHO YA"" - A DYNAMIC NEW" GROUP YOU'RE UR•E' TO ENJOY $1 COVER CHARGE THURS. s?'O SAT. HAVE YOU TRIED OUR NEW "HAPPY HOUR SURPRISE" MON:-ERI. 4-1 P.M. SAT. 3-7 P.M. Mr. l ennett added/ that he would review the application and often applications are rejected on the basis that the information requested Was not supplied. • The following day, April 15, Mr. Bennett told the legislature that J.F. Farm Machinery Company• had an application approved in January 1973 for $90,000:, and a $250,000 :export support loan was ,granted in September of that year,. He stated that the ODC served its role well in assisting the company.. M,r. Riddell then explained - that the, ODC extended assistance to Kongskilde in Exeter, whereby they build two Buildings in Exeter which they leased. J .F. Farm Machinery asked for the same assistance and a Ministry official told the president of the 'company that they would -not extend the' assistance because they didn't want to encourage competition in a field where they had already extended assistance. Mr. Bennett indicated that only a verbal inquiry was made on a very general basis and not a formal application, and when a formal application is sub- mitted to the ODC it will be reviewed as'•any other. . opportunity to play in the big time. Spectator entertainment critic Jim Clements gave. the GDCI club a glowing report. "Mr. Robinson used the individual talents of the cast to the'best effect, Some stood out but none for the wrong reason. He gave them„ an intelligent and dramatic script (which had the added ' benefit of being set in Goderich itself and on the lake) and they gave him, and the audience, a taut, entrancing performance," Adjudicator Dennis Sweeting said of the play, "To me it was an exceptionally good concept and extremely well directed. This company held us spec- tacularly." THEATRE WAS ATTRACTION .. The author of the play and director of the drama club, Warren Robinson, was hopeful the students would have the opportunity' to play' in the St. Lawrence Centre. He said winning a .festival was im- portant to the students,' not necessarily for the trophy but for the chance • to play at a higher level. "This one was for the Chance to go to one of the country's finest theatres,'.' added Robinson. One consolation the GDCI club has is that their play is not . dead. They have been asked by • several local groups to perform during the . summer • in con- , junction with Celebration ''75 and will be going to Wingham later this month to tape the show for television. "Irl drama .fou can practice and practice a 'play and per- form it only twice before you lose in a festival," Mr. Robinson pointed out. "Once you lose the play is dead whereas in athletics a team has . at least eight games before they are eliminated." The comparison of athletics and drama as ' part of high school life isnot easy according to Mr. Robinson. He is con- vinced that a large cast is an important part of the function of the school. The large cast promotes aJsiirt of team spirit ' similar to sports and gives everyone interested in drama a chance to participate. He,adds, however, that . smaller cast " productions are needed . to make a season complete. ",,"It's better to send. 60 students to Hamilton to com- pete than three to Toronto," claimed Robinson. W, The difference between sport and drama in school is in the Competition. The director explained that in a' game• of basketball you can see who won by l,roking at the scoreboard. In drama the hoard is hidden. The students go on stage, and try -to achieve an ideal performance level personally to'get the mood and meaning 'of the play across to the audience. In athl-etics the student com•petd.s against another team, in drama there is .no other team. .- U"YQu„can do it on your• own. MAN AND TRIES MEAN SO MUCH TO EACH OTHER THINK ABOUT IT with the audience, was the • human aspect of it. He Nit that the events of the day recorded in history were mostly numbers and statistics of those lost. "I tried to put the'survivors' feelings and the human -mistakes that added to, the tragedy across to the audience. There is enough niaterial left for three more plays," he said Looking ahead to next year Mr. Robinson plans to take another local topic and, write a play. 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