HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-03-27, Page 18Page 6—Crossroads---Mar. 27, 1985
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HEY KIDS! LEARN TO DRAW
WITH DANNY COUGHLAN
1. Here's Danny's complete drawing.
2. Finish what Danny started.
3. Now try it yourself!
New plays announced
for Blyth '85 season
The Blyth Festival's 1985
season will combine comedy,
drama, music and adventure
in four new plays (three off
them premieres), plus last
year's blockbuster hit
"Garrison's Garage".
Katherine Kaszas, the
theatre's new artistic
director, made the an-
nouncement recently about
Blyth's eleventh season.
.The season will open June
21 with "Polderland" by
Bryan Wade. It is a story of
suspense and adventure, set
in Holland during World,War
IT. ".Polderland" is the story
of three Canadian soldiers,
caught behind enemy lines,
who take refuge in a Dutch
farmhouse. They are
unlikely ,heroes: a tough -as -
nails sergeant, a wise-
cracking corporal and a new
recruit fresh from the farm-
lands of southern Ontario.
"Moose County" is
another zany comedy by
Colleen Curran, who wrote
last year's big success
"Cake Walk". Teresa Pond,
working woman, farm wife
and mother, lands in trouble
when she protests the
marketing of a dangerous
agricultural chemical by a
local company. Her
daughter disowns her, 'the
local busybody wants her
fired, her husband wants her
muzzled and her best friend,
who turns up unexpectedly
after several years,
manages to make things
worse.
"Moose County" opens
June 25.
Both "Polderland" and
"Moose County" were
commissioned by the Blyth
Festival and were work -
shopped there at the
beginning. of February.
"Beaux Gestes and.
Beautiful Deeds", written by
Stringband's Marie -Lynn
Hammond, is the third play
of the season and will open
July 16. This is a musical
about two grandmothers,
Elsie, a rebel from a wealthy
English family, and Corinne,
a working-class French-
Canadian mother of 10.
Their passions and
prejudices emerge when
they are reluctantly brought
together by the marriage of
their children. This story is
told through the eyes of their
granddaughter, the inheritor
of "an English head and a
French heart".
"Beaux Gestes and
Beautiful Deeds" is a warm,
gentle play which has
received cri$ical acclaim in
Toronto and Winnipeg.
A small Ukranian farming
community in Manitoba
during the Depression is the
scene for the fourth play,
opening July 23. "Primrose
School District 109", is the
story of Rose Brenowski and
the impact'she makes on the
community when she arrives
as the new teacher.
After capturing the hearts
and minds of her unritly
students; she then must win
over the all-male school
board, who resent a young
woman telling them what to
do. The chairman is a
bachelor who has designs of
his own on the new school-
marm. This heart-warming
story about hopes and
dreams in a new land is by
Ted Galay, the the author of
"After Baba's Funeral" and
"Sweet and Sour Pickles".
All these productions will
play in repertory until Aug.
24.
Opening Aug. 27 and
playing through to Sept. 14
when it goes on tour, is
"Garrison"s Garage" by Ted
Johns. It played to packed
houses at each performance
last summer and the line-ups
for rush seats started
several hours before tickets
could be released.
When Blair Daniels' car
breaks down near a ram-
shackle garage, the Revenue
Canada tax man seems to.
have uncovered an easy
target for an audit. Romance
and religion arrive to
complicate the scene and
Daniels discovers the garage
and its denizens are not as
simple as they seem.
TAX TIP
OF THE WEEK
A PUBLIC SERVICE OF H&R BLOCK
Q. Last year my son was
killed in a freak accident..
How do I claim the funeral
costs on my tax return?
A. Unfortunately, funeral
expenses .,for a . deQen lana
are not an alrowat1e deduc-
tion for income tax pur-
poses. come out of the third that is
Canadians won't really
know whether they've got
the government they voted
for until late April or early
May, when Finance Minister
Michael Wilson brings down
his first full budget. If the
voters did get the change
they were after in Septem=
ber, the budget will be a
tough one and everyone will
suffer. If the Tories are in
fact what Ed Broadbent says
they are — Liberals in blue
suits — we'll get a budget
which doesn't hurt anyone
very much, and we'll be on
_our way again to bigger and
bigger deficits.
Don Johnston, the Liberal
Finance critic, was on his
feet recently, giving the
Tories some well -aimed
shots for preaching restraint,,
while estimates topped one
hundred billion dollars for
the first time. And he asked
if higher taxes were in the
offing.
Mr. Wilson chose to an-
swer the rhetoric, not the
question, and no wonder. The
Finance Minister has been
hanging his hat on the hope
that the new climate in this
country will trigger signifi-
cant economic growth, and
help bail Ottawa out. But
with interest rates sliding
ever upwards, that hope is
becoming mer more remote,
and the government' is faced
with impossible choices.
In the first place, govern-
ment spending will have to
be cut. There -is no alterna-
tive to that, if the Tories are
• going to honor their cam-
paign promises, and more
important, their own convic-
tions about the well-being of
the country." But as the
President of the Treasury
Board, Robert de Cotret, in-
dicated when he presented
the estimates, at least two-
thirds of government spend-
- ft* is legallyeotnmitted, and
any savings will have to
not.
Given campaign promises
for everything from restored
train service to meaningful
increases for the Armed
Forces, the legally uncom-
mitted third of the budget
that the Tories have left has
shrunk 'alarmingly. They
have painted themselves into
a very tight corner and the
only way to get out may be to
bust a hole in the wall —
raise taxes — and hope it
doesn't bring the ceiling
down. The problem with
raising taxes, of course,
quite apart from the political
one, is that economic growth
is already so tentative that a
good dose of new tax might
well snuff it out.
For what it is worth, I
think most Canadians will
understand if the budget is a
tough one. We know instinc-
tively that we can't go on, the
way we have been — and if
for once the government led
us — instead of playing a
perpetual catch-up game
through the public opinion
polls — the Tories would
have four years to convince
us that they were right.
No Canadian government
in years has had this kind of
opportunity to turn a country
around. We can only hope the
Tories don't flinch when the
moment of truth is upon
them.
TAX TIP
OF THE WEEK
A PUBLIC SERVICE OF H&R BLOCk
Q. T am a housewife and 'I
earn extra money by baby-
sitting children while their
mothers are working. Do I
have to file a tax return to re-
port the baby-sitting fees?
A. If you have tax payable
for the year, you are re-
quired to file a return. Even
if you are not taxable, your
net income in excess..oL$490
would•..be used, to4decvtease
your exeniption on 'your
husband's tax return.,,
Relations between the
United States and Oman go
back to an 1833 treaty.
Oman was the first Arab
nation to send an ambassa-
dor to the United States.
SPRING SAVINGS
CARS
T3452A 4 dr . 4 cyl., auto, white
198.0.C.ITATI.ON. $1,900..
L5199A 4 dr , 87,000 km, auto, sliver $7,250.
1980 LINCO,.N+
J5248A 4 dr . 4 cyl., auto, blue ' $1,600®
1980 CITATION
J4436A 2 dr., 4 cyl., 4 spd., green
1979 DATSUN 310 $1,850.
K51410 4 dr., V-8 auto, air, red $2,850.
1979 FORD LTD
P85A 4 spd., 4 WD, blue $1'200.
1978 SUBARU WAGON
L4145A 4 dr., V-8 auto, cream
1.978 CHRYLSER LEBARON $2,100.
F5213B 4 dr., V-8 auto, gold
1978 GRAND MARQUIS $850.
Q5018A 2 dr., 4 cyl., auto, gold $1,650.
1978 CIVIC
6. J5396A 2 dr., 4 cyl., 4 spd., orange ' $1'6'50.
1978 VW RABBIT
Z5304B 4 dr , 8 cyl. auto, brown $400.
1974 LTD
Q4283B 2 dr., 8 cyl. auto, red
1974 MAVERICK $500.
TRUCKS
L5329A 8 cyl., 4 spd., red/white
1981 FORD F150
L5195A 4X4 Explorer,
8 cyl. auto, brown
1981 FORD F150
L5209A Explorer, 6 cyl. auto„ black
1981 FORD F150
L5369A 6 cyl., 3 spd., brown
1980 GMC 1/2 TON
L5328A Sierra Classic,
8 cyl. auto, brown
1980 GMC
L5202B 6 cyl., 4 spd., tan
1980 FORD E100 VAN
L5331A 4 spd., 6 cyl., brown
1979 FORD F150
L5135A Club Wagon,
6 cyl. auto, green
1979 FORD
L5220A C10 Pickup,
8 cyl. auto, green .
1979 GMC
(L5273A C10 Van,
8 cyl. auto, silver
1978 GMC
L51208 Supercab, 8 cyl. auto, blue
1976 FORD F150
H45988 C60,8 cyl., 5 spd., red
1974 GMC
H4011 A 8 cyl. , 4 spd.
1973 GMC BUS
$4,950.
$7,550.
$5,850.
$3,950.
$4,500.
$2,450.
$3,850.
$2,250.
$2,500.
$3,100.
$1,450.
$1,400.
$1,900.
SAVE MONEY! All cars sold without safety
certificates, sold as is.
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