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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1980-07-03, Page 32sp.onsors :' Bnice SOY, President of Champion Road Machinery • Limited of Godetich has announced that company will sponsei Blytit Summer Festival production of "John end the MisSus" by Gordon Pinsent, • •Sheila Richards, President et the FesPvil, said' that' WS is a doubly important donation. On the Part of the company because _it also represents' the first time a company has— agreed to sponsor a production at the .Festival, o�.4 Machinery lin and the The SPensershiP helps offset ...the high costs• of production in live the,atre. Ovate fartaitIg IS.,.essential in theatre to make up the git.' betWeen the Cost of niounting a production and the mantles raised through box office and goverument grants, "John and the Misses". hy . well,know. actor And' ri,tr Gorda. Finsent, will 'open the 1980 .Festival on JIIIY.,4. The lay tells the• story cif John uno, a miner in—a, Newfo nalarid Village. John's familY and friends' wanthim Move away. from the village to a larger. commUnity /to eseaPe the unTthY life of the mine. But ohn •isn't sure he waints• to go and battles with his Own conSeienee and his self: respect. Tho shOw•cornhines huimiur and drama in a, way that Make audiences gtrivto love old 'John, • "John .and the, Missus,, wilt have is performances, alternating with Ted Johns' ' "St. Sam of,The Nuke Pile" until Auguit 2. Bruce' Sully of Champion Read Machinery Ltd., and Blyth Centre for the Arts president Shellanichards. „. THE BLytrH stjiviMEKFEsvitAt. ISSUE aaCITIO roo.mpc stpg. There has been n great Sigh of relief "People don't realize how Much $7.5 IS OS frOS* allof those who are involved with tke dOntrilM" she said, Blyth Summer Festival, now that the new Any other deflations Wlil.he We/enrag and addition'has been completed. ' ' Cafi ,he left at, the theatres bo*office Structurally completed in, eatly'May•,,,laSt minute touches will continue UnPlclOSe. opening might July 4. ' Housing a craft roomifor tonuminity use, ;brand new washroonm, facilltieS flit the disabled; an, enlarged Idtchen and about . ,$39,000 in fire proofing and .safetY imPreYetneuta tO the original PlYth 'Memorial Hall, the addition, has been ' )growingneeessity for cple ; The a:ddition, which his .provided badly , needed back stagefacilities and...4rfire 'escape which makes it possible to use the I hall's balcony was constructed by Wayne Stehle General •Contractors Ltd. of Cost e addition aad improvements is o date, Private dona ions Om telt. Richard !ivy. Foundationgxthe Samuel and Sadye 13ronfinan Found**, the Atkinson Charitable Foundation. and • a large limber of total donors are.bringing the campaign towards its $9$,000 goal. •Additional funding from government sources, already committed or received includes, $76,000 from the Secretary of State; $50,000 from the capital support branch, Ministry of Culture and Recration; • S53,640 from Wintario and $33,925 from the Community Centre's branch. A premanent scroll will be installed in !,Blyth Memorial Hap with the Names. of donors of $500 or more. . Janet Amos, this year's artistic director 'for the„ fesfivat, said it is important for people to realize how important even the smaller donations are and how much they can do. Blyth's Memorial Hall gained a $316,0110 addition this winter. Come for a Sale in Bayfield at Clothes For Women Main St. Bayfield, Ont. Hours Monday thru Saturday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Sunday 12 noon - 5 p.m. 565-2588