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.
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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.
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