HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-03-08, Page 25GLT
readies
final
production
BY JOANNE
BUCHANAN
Tea House of the
August Moon will be
Goderich Little Theatre's
third and final production
of the season on April 25,
26, 27 and 28,
What sets this
production apart from
the first two is that it will
he directed by aJ
professional director.
The hiring of professional
director, David Fanstone
of Kingston, was made
possible through a $1,200
grant received by GLT
from Theatre Ontario.
Fanstone will spend a
total of four weeks in
Goderich auditioning,
directing and teaching.
The play features a cast
of 30 people and auditions
will take place on March
10 at 2 p.m. in MacKay
Hall. Everyone is
welcome to try out for a
part. It is a good op-
portunity to work under a
professional.
Rehearsals for the play
begin on March 25. An
assistant director will be
chosen to help Fanstone
and learn from him at the
same time.
GLT members first
became acquainted with
Fanstone at :a directors
workshop held in
Goderich last year. A
make-up and lighting
wrorkshop were also held
with assistance from
Theatre Ontario grants.
Jennifer Black,
workshop' co-ordinator
this year, feels that the
Theatre Ontario grants
arereally great. They
give those in small
community theatres a
chance to work and learn
with professionals, she
explains. .
Tea House of the
August Moon is the story
of the American army
occupation of Okinawa
following World War I3.
The Americans try to
teach the Japanese about
democracy but the
Japanese end up teaching
the Americans a thing or
two about life. The story
will be studied by some
students next year at•
G.D.C.I. so many of them
are planning to attend the
GLT production.
The ,project of
presenting a
professionally directed
play to Goderich
audiences has been in the
works for about a year
now and is finally corning
to be. It will be quite an
undertaking with such a
mammoth cast and crew
and a lot of help and
support will be needed by
the community.
Our
mistake
In a story on the ladies'
hopital auxiliary in last
week's paper, it was said
that Gary Renaud was in
charge of all learning
materials at the hospital.
That statement is wrong.
Mr. Renaud is' the chief
training officer with St.
John ;Ambulance in
Goderich.
Canadian Coast Guard personnel attending the
third annual Commanding Officers' and Chief
Engineers' conference at the Coast Guard Regional
Headquarters in Toronto this week had the op-
portunity to examine telecommunications equip-
ment used aboard Coast Guard ships on the Great
Lakes. Above, left to right, Cal Drake, Coast Guard
Regional Search and Rescue manager demon-
strates a compact transmitter -receiver to Captain
Carl Roberts of CGS Rapid, John Lamoureaux,
chief engineer of CGS Spindrift, and Alfred Hay,
chief engineer of CGS Spray. All three vessels are
engaged in Search and Rescue operations on the
Great Lakes from bases at Goderich, Cobourg, Port
Dover and Prescott. (Photo courtesy of Transport
Canada)
Gravel running...
deadly fun
BY JEFF SEDDON
Constable Bill Wilson
made no attempt Friday
to tell GDCI students not
to drink but he didn't pull
any punches when he told
them not to drink and
drive.
Wilson, the community
services officer at the
Goderich Ontario
Provincial Police detach-
ment, spent all day
Friday at GDCI outlining
some of the perils .of
mixing alcolhol and
drivingin a program he
aptly called Gravel
Running.
Wilson made no at-
tempt to soften the facts
surrounding drinking ancj
driving. .The day long
seminar, organized by
himself ,and constable
Bob Dixon of the
Goderich police depar-
tment, was centered
around a gory film
produced by the Ohio
State Police which shows
what happens to the not
so lucky drunken. drivers
that have a social gravel
run halted by tragedy.
The program consisted of
a slide presentation
detailing statistics of
alcohol related highway
fatalities and traffic
injuries. Those statistics
dealt with the dangers of
impaired ' driving and
were backed up with on
the spot footage of high-
way tragedies shown in
the state police film.
Wilson did not pretend
to be able to convince
students they should stop
drinking, smoking
marijuana or taking
drugs. He told the
students if they chose to
drink, smoke up or take
drugs "that's your
business and if you want
to ruin your life it's up to
you". But he pointed out
to the students that if they
mixed those activities
with driving it was no
longer their business. He
said when drinking and
driving are mixed hun-
dreds of innocent people
are in danger and there is
nothing those innocent
people can do about that.
"You're not just en-
dangering yourself when
you drink or smoke up
when you're driving
you're endangering
everyone else that's
driving," he warned.
Wilson told the students
the police are not very
sympathetic to impaired
drivers adding that the
highway traffic act and
the Criminal Code of
Canada are equally
har"sh. He said both law
codes are designed to
discourage drinking and
driving and if the risk of
impaired driving is not
enough to stop people
from drunken driving the
penalties under the law
are.
He .told the students not
to be fooled by impaired
driving laws. He said the
law is not. limited to the
use of :alcoholic
beverages. He said.
marijuana and drugs are
given the same treatment
under the law as alcohol
and the penalties and
dangers are the same.
"You don't have to be
drunk to be charged with
impaired driving," he
said. "The Criminal Code
specifies alcohol and
drugs and penalties for
both are exactly the
same,'; Wilson explained.
Wilson pointed out
many of -the myths
surrounding alcohol and
an individual's ability to
consume it. He said
factors such as body
weight and presence of
food in the stomach will
have a bearing on an
individual's ability to
consume alcohol but
despite that person's
outward behaviour the
alcohol will have an af-
fect on them. He said a
person who brags of
being able to outdrink his
buddies may be able to
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function longer than
others when drinking but
being able to function and
being able to drive are
two different things.
He explained that while
a person may not appear
drunk their reaction time
will be slowed by alcohol.
He said when that person
is driving and faces a
situation requiring split
second .reaction that
reaction time is delayed
because of alcohol and
quite often results in an
accident.
He told the students
that the only" thing that
will sober a drunk is time.
,He said food andwcoffee
will do nothing to sober
the person. He said many
people mistakingly
believe coffee will bring a
drunk around but quipped
that after several cups of
coffee the "only thing
you'll have is a wide
awake drunk".
Wilson said he took the
gravel running program
to the high school because
all statistics gathered on
impaired driving clearly
show that the age group
that runs the highest°risk
of highway death or in-
jury is the 16 to. 17 year
olds.
Statistics which
compare a person's risk
of being involved in a
fatal accident when sober
to the risk of a fatal when
impaired show that a 16
year old drunk driver
stands a better chance of
being killed while driving
than he does of getting
home alive -4, A person
between the ages of 30
and 34 has his odds of
being killed in an 'ac-
cident increased 17 times
when he's impaired. The
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