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BLYTH - The ability to a is 4,9a - $f ri tis essential, ,As Janet explain .
born talent.
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n t have a.. script, that's your cbaea
What an audience sees on stage is a refine- .•and your it1ot•"
Event of this ability. The development .of scelws be*omea a
Talents must be polished, plots developed character analysis and an emotional study
and characters molded before an actor and in an effort to create the most realistic effort
a production are ready for the stage. This possible.
detailed, often tedious development is called scenes are acted out, performers learn
rehearsal. more about their characters and include
To the unknowing observer, play rehear- , their own interpretations. Ad Jibbing can
sal may appear to be unorganized, become that extra touch in a play, sugges-
repetitious and monotonous. In fact, it's all tions by the director and fellow actors help
part of a detailed plan to create a blend of shape thefinal production.
talents and imagination into a hit produc- Rehearsal can be tedious and detailed, but
tion. it's also an inspired, creative process. As ac -
Rehearsal for the Blyth Festival's latest tors become more familiar with their
production, Blue City involved more than characters and' their lines, the flow of the
four weeks of hard work for director Janet play evolves.
Amos, 11 actors and crew members. "It's not stop -start," Janet tells the com-
It began several weeks ago with the initial pany, "we've got to get the flow."
script reading and- concluded early this On stage that "flow" seems natural, but
week with a final dress rehearsal.
During that time, countless changes were the success of the final production depends
on rehearsal.
made and only a small part of the original Rehearsal can be flexible but it's also
script remains unchanged. The director, the business and it's work - hard work. It re -
playwright and the actors reworked scenes, gores close concentration and a team ef-
time and time again, cutting lines here, ad- fort.
ding sections there, until the final script fill-
It may look like fun and games and that's just the mood that these actors are trying to
create. While it's not visible on stage, development of a plays like Blue City, is a long,
tedious process. The time spent in rehearsals, however, makes for hit productions at the
Blyth Festival. (Shelley;,McPhee photo),
Bell will spend $4 -million
on area improvements
CLINTON — Bell Canada paid more than
$17,200 in taxes to of telecommunicationsClinton
operat o8 result3 as a -
s here.
HURON-BRUCE
(FEDEAL)
LIBERAL AS OVATION
NOMINATION MEETING
A meeting of the Huron Bruce Federal
Liberal Association will be held at the
Central Huron Secondary School,,
Clinton at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 26th,
1984, to nominate and elect a Liberal
candidate to contest the riding of Huron
Bruce in the September 4th general
election.,
To be eligible .to vote you must hold a
current paid-up membership purchased
at least 72 hours prior to the meeting.
Please urge Liberals in your area to
attend and support the candidata• of
their choice. At the moment two people
are actively seeking the nomination.
Alex 'Graham,
Secretary
In addition Bell will spend more than
$4,720,000 in 1984 to maintain and upgrade
telephone service in the exchange.
Some of the projects will be; - DMS 100
(Digital Muliplex System) switching
equipment. - satellite DMS installations to
serve Blyth, Brussels and Auburn.
In 1983 Bell paid $17,250 in taxes to Clinton
comprised as follows: real estate $826;
business $230 and gross receipts tax, $16,
193.
In 1984, gross receipts tax will total
$17,800.
The gross receiptstax is a levy of 5 per
cent of all telecommunications revenue
derived from Bell Canada operations in
Ontario the previous year and apportioned
to each exchange based on the number of
Bell owned telephones in use.
In 1983 .each, telephone, leased from dell
generated $22.35 - in revenue fot the
municipality. - --
In the Stratford area Bell employs 115
people with ,a total payroll of over $3.1
million. '
In 1983 Bell's capital expenditures were
over $1.13 billion. In 1984 this is expected to
be more than $1.3 billion.
Bell had 2,272 customers in its Clinton
exchange at the end of 1983. ,
Memberships for the Federal
Association may be obtained by calling:
Gordon Strong, Exeter 235-1466
Paul Steck le, Zurich 565-2147
Grant Chisholm, Lucknow 529.7524
Clarence Denomme Hinton 482-9004
Jack Horan, Walton 345-2829
John Currie, Wingham 357-3605
Muriel Murphy, Goderich 524-7913
Barry Reid, Wingham 357.3652
Donald Thompson. Lucknow 528-3516
Mac Inglis, Clifford 367.2043
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ed an over extended binder. Janet sets the pace and keeps it moving,
Despite the numerous changes made to "Come on let's go we've got very little time
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keep patient 'keej f go moving. You
can see how sf. kly tempers go when it's
this close to open ng."
Janet must keep themomentum and
spirits high. If she loses it, chances are the
whole cast will.
Some actors look tired. Some pace, some
bite their nails, some puff on cigarettes.
Blue City involves a cast of 11 actors and
this in itself can be a trying experience.
Janet explained, "It's harder on the cast.
Their energy�comes and goes."
Working with such A large cast means a
lot of waiting while other scenes are being
rehearsed. The actors use this time to study
scripts, read over the morning newspaper
or run errands.
Waiting can become frustrating, script
changes can become confusing, tempers
flare momentarily, but when it comes to
picking up, the scene, actors show their
talents, and still appear fresh and inspired.
"They're (Blue City cast) an exceptional
group of people, probably the best I've ever
worked with," Janet enthused.
Eicact timing and cuing is essential to the
play. Scenes are reworked, over and over
Over 200 study erosion
The Huron Soil and Water Conservation
District (HSWCD), in co-operation with the
Huron Soil and Crop Improvement
Association, held a successful Conservation
Day on July 4 on the farm of Bert and Tina
Visscher, R.R. 1 Hay.
Approximately 200 people took advantage
of the warm weather to see the work being
carried out in Huron County to prevent soil
erosion and improve water quality on area
farms.
Bus tours left throughout the day for a
tour of area trials and stops of interest. Tour
leader, Marianne Van den Heuvel, Tillage
Technician with Upper Thames River
Conservation Authority and Ted Jones, of
Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority,
began the tour by explaining points of
interest on the Visscher farms.
The Visschers were presented with the
Norman Alexander Conservation Award
last year for their measures to control wind
and water erosion on their farms, some of
which have very sandy soil.
Cover crops are an important
management tool which they use to help
hold soil particles and keep wind from
detaching and moving them.
Oats are usually sown after the harvest of
cauliflower and broccoli is completed. The
cover crop is killed by winter temperatures
and shallow incorporation of the residue in
spring .is all that is required to prepare a
seedbed.
Windbreaks have also been used by
Visscher Farms to slow wind speeds as they
sweep - across the sandy.' soil. Fields are
Bordered by a double row of cedar and
' spruce trees, with double rows of white pine,
which run the length of the farm. Although
'trees may be small when windbreaks are
established, their effectiveness improves
each year.
• Points of interest on the bus tour also
presentation by Pat Lynch, Soils and Crops
Specialist for Huron and Perth counties, in
which he discussed the influence of crop
rotation on soil and crop growth.
Using two corn plants pulled from the
same field that morning, Lynch
demonstrated how crop growth on abused or
eroded soils can never mateh that of crops
on soils with a good rotation, and protected
from wind and water erosion.
Lynch challenged those in attendance to
save the cost off inputs to crop production
next spring by not planting these areas.
Charlie Baldwin, head of the soils section
at Ridgetown College, offered suggestions
on tillage and residue management. Using
slides to demonstrate his points, Dr.
Baldwin pointed out how soils, which are not
protected by residue, can be lost by . wind
erosion or ravaged by rainfall and water
erosion:
Various measures can be used to maintain
surface residue An the field. Removing
coverboards and leaving furrows on edge,
rather than flipping them completely upside
down, will make the plow perform much
better from a residue management
standpoint, he suggested.
Weed control for conservation tillage was
+'discussed by Rudy LBrown, head of the
'horticulture and biology section at
Ridgetown College.
Perennial weeds, he said, are the prime
concern before attempting any form of
conservation tillage.. Perennials must be
' adequately. controlled before no -till, which
does not allow for theplowdown of atrazine
to 'eontrbl quackgrass. '
Many weed seedlings may be germinated
and growing at ,planting time, Brown said,
which may necessitate the use of a burn off
herbicide before, or shortly after planting,
to remove those established weeds. Weeds
can . be controlled within a conservation
include minimum till corn at Visschers and tillage system, he said, once we become
no -till soybeans planted with the HSWCD's.2 familiar with the management package
no -till drill and no -till planter. ' required.
No -till ;corn and ridge planted corn were An update on the trials of the Huron Soil
also on the tour with stops to discuss and Water Conservation District was given
reforestation and the effect of Hays swamp by Conservation Agronomist, Robert Traut.
on the ecosystem He examined the modifications to the
The morning program began with a district's planting equipment and the
it iih mood is evoked; proms
a e'tigi)tp cle and lines are sa ,1
at the tight time.
"The cast must have this structure. They
work and 6ui . on this with the breath of the
audience," Janet said.
It's 2 p.m. Rehearsal has just run four
hours.
"Okay guys that's all the time we have,"
Janet announces as the scene ends.
The: actors want lunch and union rules call
for a one hour break.
Rehearsal will resume after a lunch and
afternoon session will continue until after 5
p.m.
Some actors don't get a full day's rehear-
sal because they may be peforming in
another play that evening. Under, those cir-
cumstances they have a five hour rehearsal
day and a three hour evening performance.
Rehearsal is all part of the creative pro-
cess that develops a play. It's also hard
work, but the final stage production must be
natural, believable and compelling.
The audience is never consciously aware
of the long hours, the waiting, the studying
and the frustration of rehearsal. However
the success of hit play is largely due to those
weeks of preparation. That's what show
business is all about.
prevention in Huron
progress of Anis year's crops.
Twoplow coulters are now run in front of
each row being planted. One coulter runs as
deep as possible in front of the fertilizer disc
openers. This' fractures the soil and opens a
channel for the proper placement of the
starter. '
Trash whippers were also added to the
planter. These discs move residue away
from the row to establish a clean strip to
plant seed in. This area has warmed faster
this spring and indications are that less slug
damage may also be experienced when
residue is removed from the row.
An oscillating stop was added to the gauge
wheels of the John Deere planter to allow
the gauge wheels to float more freely during
planting and give more uniform seeding
depths.
Guards were installed ort the press wheels
. thisyear also. These guards cover the open
area above the press wheels which can
catch corn stalks and residue, holding the
press wheels and not allowing them to turn
freely.
All of these ' modifications have led to
increased germination, emergence and
better early growth of no -till corn and
soybeans.
Al Davidson, an engineer and . Tilbury
area farmer, and John Schliehauf of the_.
Ministry of Agriculture and Food, presented
their views on ridge planting.
Davidson began with the tractor and the
requirements necessary for; him to convert
to ridge tillage on his farm. "The jury is still,
very much out on ridges", explained
Davidson, "we're still committed to making
ridge tillage work." .
The final presentation of the day consisted
of a panel discussion led by the chairman of
. the HSWCD, Bruce Shillinglaw of
Londesboro.
Participants in the discussion included
• Ray Hogan, R.R. 7 Lucknow, who has a wide
range of soil types on his farms, ranging
from sand to clay. Hogan became interested
in conservation tillage from an economic
standpoint and has now seen the benefits of
reduced wind and water erosion on his
farms.
Hogan's entire tillage•program on much of
• • his acreage has been reduced to a discing in
the spring to incorporate herbicide and
leave residue on the surface. His planter has
been modified with plow coulters and trash
chippers to handle the residue situation.
Jack McGregor', R.R. 5 Clinton, discussed
the ridge tillage system ,in place on his
farms. McGregor has corn and soybeans
planted on ridges which were formed in the
field. last year. He has modified his planter
to plant on ridges and a converted row crop
cultivator •and potato bedder are used to
form the ridges and incorporate, 28 percent
nitrogen.
Walter Mcllwain, R.R. 2 Goderich, is a
dairy farmer who has sandy. loam soils on,
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his farms. His planter has been Modified to
handle residue , with the addition of trash
whippers.
Mcllwain cautioned that trash whippers
should not be set too deep as they will leave
a deep furrow to plant into. This furrow
stays excessively wet and cold in the early
spring, retarding crop growth. Trash
whippers should be set to remove trash from
the soil surface with as little soil as possible,
he said.
Bob Caldwell, Hensall, discussed the ridge
tillage system in place on his acreage.
Proper ridge formation, he said,hegins with
straight rows in the year in which the ridges
are being formed.
Staying on top of the ridge when planting
is critical, he said, to keep the rows straight
for proper rebuilding of the ridge during the
growing season:
Many pieces of conservation tillage and
planting equipment were on display during
Conservation Day. Those in attendance
viewed . the • John Deere Conservation
planter, Best no -till drill, Kinze' ridge
planter, Hiniker ridge cleaner, Glencoe and
Kongskilde soil saver, G.T...no-till drill, Tye
'no -till drill, Buffalo cultivator and
Hickenbottom standpipe inlets. Dealers
supplied inforn atioii; and 'ai'nswered'
questions whiich'arose duringthe,discussion.
• Area Conservation Authorities had
displays in place for Conservation bay.
These included the ►usable -Bayfield •
Conservation Authority, Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority and Upper Thames
Conservation Authority. The. Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food, -Bob Van,
Den Broek, of the University of Guelph and.
Norm . Alexander of the Foodland and
.Stewardshp Centre, Londesboro, also had
displays in place for Conservation Day.
Wind and water erosion events this year
have dramatically underscored the
importance of conservation measures to
protect soil and water quality on area
farms-
Participants at Conservation Day had the
opportunity to hear new ideas, make new
contacts, and' see the progress being made
with,conservation to improve the long-term
productivity of economical crop production
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Tony Vandendool of R.R. 4 Minton (left) and Bili
Howson of Howson & Howson Ltd, Blyth are shown
with Tony's award winning hamat the Ontario Pork
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