HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1986-06-25, Page 22Page 22--CLINTON Ni WS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1986
Coming Events
BINGO: Vanastra Qec Centre. Tuesdays, 8 p.m.
First reg. card $1., fifteen reg. $20. games, three
share -the -wealth. Jackpot $220.00 must go.
Lucy Bail $140.00 (if not won). Lucky Ball in-
creases $20 per week. Admission restricted to 16
years and over.—Ttfor
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BAYFIELD LION'S CLUB Jumbo Bingo, Bayfield
Arei.a, ::'tory Fri,Joy night. Doors open 6:30 p.m.
Early Bird Games s•arting 7:45. —15.41 ar
MONSTER BINGO: Sponsored by Clinton Service
Clubs. Clinton Community Cenu e; Mondays,
June 9 to Sept. 1. 15 regular games. 3 share -the -
wealth. grand prize $1000. Doors open 6:30 p.m.
Admission 16 years and over. Proceeds to com-
m„nity work. 24-35ar
SUMMER SWIM Clusses start June 30th at
Vanastra Recreation Centre. Call 482-3544 for
more information or to register.25,26ar
WOMEN TODAY of Huron County will hold its an-
nual meeting on June 25 at 8 p.m. at the Clinton
Town Hall. Susan Tamblyn, Medical Officer of
Health for Perth County will speak on AIDS (Ac-
quired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)-25,26ar
VANASTRA SUMMER Playground July 7 to August
22, 1986. Registration Wednesday, June 18,
4:30-8:30 p.in. For additional information call
Vanastra Recreation Centre 482-3544.-- 25,26ar
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STANLEY TOWNSHIP Swim Program July 14-25.
Bus pick up Varna ond,Brucefield. Registration at
Stanley Complex June 28, 10 a.m. • 1 p.m. or con-
tact 262.2623, 482-9153.--25,26
THE HURON COUNTY branch of the Architectuwal
Conservancy of Ontario invites you to join them
on June 24 at 6:30 at Maitland Falls Reserve for a
pot luck picnic. Please bring an item of food and
dishes. A representative of Maitland Valley Con-
servation Authority will speak. ---25
GIGANTIC',garage sale at Triple -K parking lot,
Saturday, June 28, 10 a.m. - ? Sponsored by Blyth
Legion Ladies Auxiliary.-25,26ar
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL. Bible stories, music,
crafts. skits, games. Come for a week of fun July
7-11 9-11:30 a.m. ages 4.12 at Blyth Public
School.26,27
A MEETING OF THE HURON -BRUCE (FEDERAL)
LIBERAL ASSOCIATION will be held at the South
Huron District High School in Exeter on Thursday,
June 26/86 at 8:30 p.m. Delegates and Alter -
notes will be elected at the meeting to represent
the riding at the Liberal Party of Canada Biennial
Convention to be held in Ottawa Nov, 27-30/86.
Guest speaker will be the Hon; Ralph Ferguson,
former Minister of Agriculture. Final or-
rangements will be mode at the meeting for the
visit of the Rt. Hon. John Turner to Goderich at
noon hour Tuesday, July 8th. - Heather Reddick,,
Secretary.— 26ar
PANCAKE BREAKFAST & BAKE SALE Saturday, Ju-
ly 5, 8 a.m. • 1 p.m. Brucefield Fire Hall. Adults
$3.50, children 6-12 yrs. $2, under 6 Free. Spon-
sored by Brucefield I.O.O:F.-26
BAYFIELD PIONEER PARK ASSOCIATION Annual
Rummage Sale, Friday, July 11, 8 p.m. Bayfield
Arena. Articles gratefully received Friday morn-
ing at arena. For pick up call 565-2751, 565-2629,
565.2103.-26.28
BLYTH FESTIVAL - Another Season's Promise:
June 26,27, July 1,2,3 (matinee), 5. prift: June
25,26 (matinee), 28,30, July 3,4. All evening pet-
formances are at 8:30 p.m.; matinees at 2:00
p.m.-26ar
MYSTERY BUS TRIP: Going July 15. Cal' Blanche
482-9536 for reservations. Sponsored by Hor-
ticultural Society. -26
Past student council president for Huron Centennial school Janet Coleman (left) and this
year's president Shelley Brandon got together on June 19 for a ribbon cutting ceremony.
The ceremony was in celebration of the completion of the new patio and landscaping at
the school. (David Emslie photo)
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RECEPTION
for
Bernard O'Neill
and
Jeannette Johnston
on
Friday, June 27, 1986
in Lucknow
ELM
HAVEN
Coming this week
to the Elm Haven
"Ladies' Night"
Thursday, June 26/86
Exotic Male
Dancer!
FUN DAY
Goderich
Township
Ball Park
June 28
12 Nunn PeNt
Games Fon ;Food
For Kids of All Ages
Everyone Welcome Como ilii
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Festival opens 12th season
The family of
Mary Ellen & Bill Gower
invite you to join
them in celebrating
their parents'
25th Wedding Anniversary
an Open House
will be held at their
home
Sunday afternoon
JUNE 29th, 1986
Best Wishes Only Please
By Susan Hundertinark
The poignant story behind the increasing
numbers of "For Sale" signs on area
farms is told with anger and compassion in
the powerful drama "Another Season's
Promise," which opened the Blyth
Festival's 12th season Friday night.
Co -written by Anne Chislett and Keith
Roulston, "Another Season's Promise" is
sure to touch the hearts of both farmers
and non -farmers alike with its moving ac-
count of the human costs of farm
bankruptcies. It also promises to provide
the Festival with another home-grown
smash hit.
The Purves farm, once the "bonniest 100
acres in Huron County," is struggling to
survive. Ken Purves, played magnificent-
ly by David Fox, is a proud and stubborn
farmer who's determined to keep the farm
in the family at any cost, at least as long as
his 89 -year; old mother is alive.
Because he's sure a feed lot will solve his
problems, if only the bank will give him
one more loan, Ken will have no part with
the Farm Survivalists' penny auctions or
farm gate defence. He says he'd choose
starvation over the Survivalists' union
tactics.
But, as corn prices fall and the bank puts
more and more pressure on Purves to pay
back his loans, his situation grows more
desperate. And, the financial pressures
threaten the emotional, psychological and
physical health of the whole family.
His loyal wife Helen (Araby Lockhart),
once the head nurse of a hospital operating
room, goes back to work as a nurse's aid to
help keep thefarm afloat. When she
notices Ken fingering his insurance policy,
she begins popping Valium to combat her
fear of his committing suicide like other
desperate farmers have done. Lockhart's
portrayal of Helen is believable and
moving.
Margaret Barton does a great job play-
ing the feisty but lovable Granny Purves
who's sure the farm's financial problems
began when her daughter-in-law Helen got
rid of the chickens and the resulting "egg
money."
Granny's warm memories of her 70
years on the farm and her inability to
understand „the modern financial dif-
The summer
blood donor
is a Bere bird.
Taone.
friends for life +
Congratulations...
Edna & Ralph
Open House for Edna & Ralph Baker at
the home of their son Brian, 71 Victoria
St., Clinton.
Sat., June 28, 2-5 p.m.
on the occasion of their
60th Wedding Anniversary
ficulties illustrate the family's deep roots
in agriculture and their ensuing confusion
and distress when that lifestyle and history
is threatened.
Because their son Robert (Ric Reid)
went Into the perfume business in Van-
couver instead of farming, the financial
struggle becomes even more passionate
when their grandson Sandy (Jason Lee)
shows an interest in the farm and following
family tradition.
Ironically, Robert considers joining his
father only when the farm no longer
belongs to his family.
Because of Ken's fierce pride, no one ex-
cept the immediate family knows about
the farm's bankruptcy until it's been sold
to a foreign investor. By then, his brother-
in-law's boasting about the skill and nerve
required to win big on the futures market
is particularly hurtful.
The ignorance of city people is also il-
lustrated by Ken's affluent sister com-
plaining about food prices in one breath
and making Ken responsible for the farm's
financial stability in the next.
It's easy to sympathize with Ken's ac-
countant Jane Noonan (Lynn Woodman )
whose farmer husband drowned himself to
provide for his family out of the insurance.
STAG
for
DON HENDERSON
Saturday, July 5
For Information Phone
527-0435 or 527-1769
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SPOTLIBHT!
The Arts Committee for the Town of C nton enthusiastically
invites all interested area amateur theatre buffs to a most Im°
portant meeting designed to discuss' the fbriatitiOn of an
Amateur Community Theatre Group
if the idea of a locally sponsored area theatre;group excites
you, please plan on attending a meeting in file:164i Hall
Audlit'arium •
WEDNESDAY, JULY 9T)':310482439iP.M8,
For further Inf“eeenteion, pjeete "11*"11*the
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ItECREAYION Dina
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'Mille she profits from farm bankruptcies
by working for a foreign investor, her ad-
vice to farmers to stop Win* so pig-headed
and get out of the business 1s based on her
own suffering and bitter experience.
The play makes well -aimed barbs at
banks who encourage farmers to borrow
big money, the police who use strong-arm
tactics to seize the farm accounts and
businessmen whose advice is so plentiful
and contradictory it could be spread on the
fields instead of fertilizer.
It also takes aim at the foreign investor
whose only concern is making big profits
from sucking all the,.goodness out of the
land while destroying the lifestyle of the
small farmer.
The setting could have been one of any
number of century farm houses in Huron
County with its roomy farm kitchen and
large windows complete with several pots
of geraniums.
The mood music with its pulsing piano®
chords also helped to build the tension and
dra:•na of the play.
"Another Season's Promise" hits close
to home with a Huron County audience of
farmers and small business people. It's a
story our family, friends or neighbors
could be living.
for
John McMahon
and
Sharon Dale
Saturday, June 28
For information call
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Detectives Ray Hughes and Dannytostanio
are going to retire in 30 days.
THE BAD NEWS
Every crook in Chicago wants
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