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Van Egmond hove:
This Friday night the Seaforth arena will
be reverberating with some good old time
Dixieland music provided by The Empire
Furnace and Stove Company Dixieland
Jazz Band.
The band will be playing at a dance
sponsored by the Van Egmond Foundation
to raise funds to 'continue their restoration
of the historic Constant Van Egmond
home.
The Empire Furnace and Stove Com-
pany Dixieland Band reputed to be one of
the best dance bands in this part of the
country; is made up of buinessmen front
Kincardine and Owen Sound.
, The men play for fun, rather than for
their livelihoOd, and have agreed to play
for the summer dance as a special favour
far the Van Egmond Foundation.
Usually the band gets together in the
summer only for weekend jam sessions and
fun with their families. One weekend each
surnmer, the band collects at member Mike
Palmer's cottage, with other Dixieland
buffs from Toronto and other centres, and
the men .devote themselves entirely to
. making music.
• W hen Mike Palmer was asked how the
group ever arrived at their name, he said'
the band"used td' sit around a stove and
-play.
However, Frank Sills recalled that his
hardware store used to buy stoves from the
firm of 'The Empire Furnace and Stove
Company, located in Owne Sound.
The band has been featured twice on
CKNX and is well known in the Kincardine
and Owen Sound area.
Karen Weins plays "crazy"
Gwendoline at Blyth
Karen Weins
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AUGUIT 3, 1978 ••
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- everyone welcome
S.D.H.S.
-must register one
wk. in advance.
- (a) '15 and under (b)
16 yrs. 19 yrs.
-trophies or winning
teams.
PET SHOW &
FROG DERBY
Fri.:Aug. 11 - 1 p.m.
TEENS DOUBLES TENNIS
TOURNAMENT Sat. Aug. 12 - 10 a.m.
Ronnie Prophet
TEEN PROGRAM &. SPECIAL EVENTS
BALL HOCKEY TOURN.Thyrs. Aug. 10
-total
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ages not more
than
- no registration fee.
CRAFT AFTERNOON Thurs, Aug. 10 1 p.m. jtne':7117v4ilion.
- A dixieland
Jcizz Band
Dancing & Listening:
9 P.M. to 1 A.M.
Seaforth
Arena,
Main Floor,.
Admission'84 per person
Tickets 482-3326
szt.1841
or at
The Huron Expositor
special occasion permit
Join in the ...
SEAFORTH
13 Hour Danceathon
Saturday, August 1 9
,12 Noon - 1 A.M.
First Prize $20000
Sponsor sheets now available
at local stores and the recreation office '
PROCEEDS FOR NEW PA SYSTEM & LIGHTING AT ARENA
COMMERCIAL
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SEAFORTH
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for
Brian "Captain"
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Saturday, Augut 5, 1978
Monkto.n Arena 9-1' Admission $5.00
virtually anything including
talking;, his mikes revel-.
berate.
Tickets, which are
available at 527.0882, at
The Huron Expositor, and
various other.nutlets, are $8
'a:person for the concert and
dance wind $5 per person for
the concert only. The
concert runs from 7 to 9 and
the dance from 9;30 to 1
a.m.
Backing up Ronnie
Prophet will be the
Whiskey 'Ri4r Band.
studied at places such as
----the---Mitne----School at
Niagara-on-the-Lake, and
worked at such western
Canadian Theatres as 25th
Street House in Saskatoon
and l'erseptione 'Theatre,
where she toured in the •
successful production Cruel
Tears. Her work in Toronto
has been mostly with
Theatre Passe Muraille.
The 7th Summer Concert
in the Chamber of
Commerce series was given
by the Clinton Pipe'' Band
Sunday under the direction
of Pipe Major Peter
Malcolm. The band
paraded to, the park and
was officially welcomed by
her Worship Mayor Betty
Cardno.
They proceeded with the
first half of the program of
stirring Scottish music in
traditional parade style to
the delight of a large
audience ko , ,
During' „.,art bxeak the
audienee was entertained
by Highland dances by
Lynn Barry with Piper
Visiting with Mrs. Lavina Kelly were her daughter
Mrs. Norman Cunningham, Ivlidhurast, sou Mr. and
Mrs. Carol Kelly, West Montrose, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Miller, William.Ford, Mrs. Jack Venis and Terri, Mrs.
Anne Kelly, Stratford and Mr. and Mrs, Frank Feltz,
Mitchell.
'Mr. Archie Smith has returned home after spending
, • 'the past month in Newfoundland with her daughter and
son-in-law and children Rodney, Stephan and a new
granddaughter Lisa Woodman. -
Mrs: Farlene Fry•and son Shawn of Tirnins were
guestsof Mr. and Mrs. L'Orleon Sills.
Nancy Andrews, who worked at the Expositor as a
reporter during the summer of 1975, was in Seaforthen
o er with the
Saturday. Nancy, a journalistryraduate of UWO, is
now a general assignment reP Brantford
Expositor.. She started with- that Southarn chain paper
m its women's pages after her graudation from
Western.
Andy, Susan and Gabrielle White spent Sunday
afternoon at Bogie's Beach north of Goderich with
Fran, Bud and Chad White of Birmingham, Michigan
and Donna and Jim White of Bronxville, New York.
Recent guests with Rev. J. Ure and Mrs. Stewart
were Mrs.. Myrtle y Munro, Auburn and Mrs. Ethel
MoDongall, Clinton,
Rev. Ed. and Mrs Aldworth of Stratford.
Mr. and Mrs. John' Kernighan, Mr. and Mrs.
"Chester Sturdy of Goderich.
Rev. Clarence McClenaghan of Paisly.
Prof. Gordon and Mrs. Couling Guelph.
Mrs, Chas. Terry and daughter Debbie, Kitchener.
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff McNeil and Mrs. John Porter,.
Goderich.
Mr. and Mrs, Don Hammond -and sons Keviii -a-nd
Shawn of Fergus.
Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Schildroth Parsley, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Schildroth of North Bruce. Sunday guests at the
home of Rev, Urc and Mrs. Stewart.
STARTS FRIDAY AUG.4-10
FRI. & SAT. TWO SHOWINGS 7 & 9
SUN. & THURS. ONE SHOWING 8:00 P.M.
Not too many actresses
- starting out to play the role
of a "erair woman say
they enjoy it because "1
feel it's close to me" but
Karen Weins does.
Karen tackles one of the
most challenging dramatic
roles ever at the Blyth
,Summer Festival when she
plays the title role in
Gwendoline, a drama about
an .eccentric small town
woman around the turn of
the century. Gwendoline.
Karen says,, isn't really
crazy, though she is a little
imbalanced through a
traumatic childhood ex-
perience.,,What makes her
"crazy" is that she doesn't
conform to how other
people think she should
behave*. "Your are what
you ,ate in other `people's
eyes," Karen says. "If we
could act without worrying
about • social •pressures,
we'd all ;be Gwendoline's."
Gwendoline, by James
Nichol, is set hr the
Mythical Ontario town of
Kingforks in 1907 and deals
with themes of intolerance.
love and jealousy. , , •
Karen , feels .. she has a
special understanding of
the character. The play, she
says. is about people hiding
their true selves from each
other, but because
Gwendoline doesn't hide.
she's judged by the other
people of her town. The
other characters are so
caught up in what other
people think, that they
can't be themselves.
She relates the play to
advice she once got from an
acting instructor who said
that each, person is made up
of two persons: the little
person that others see, and
the big person inside' you
that is full of potential if
you'll just grab Bold of, it
and let it free?
"It's also a play about
what love can do to people"
Karen says, "and the fact
that Gwendoline, being so
free and open, could reach
out and touch other people
and help them."
Microcosm
While spite people might
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Ronnie Prophet, one cir
Canada's few home grown
country music stars, is
coming' to Seaforth for a
concert and dance, next
Saturday night, August 12,
at the arena.
A native of Calumet,
Quebec, who now makes
his home in Nashville
(though he's still a
Canadian citizen), Ronnie
has been 1111 by Chet
Atkins "the e t one man
show I've eve seen:—
Proceeds fran the'
evening go to Seaforth's
Junior D hockey team. the
Centenaires.
"Grand Old Country",
Ronnie's TV show, has
been voted country show of
the year at the RPM Big.
Country Awards two years
in a row. He's a Juno award
winner as best male
country vocalist, -
Ronnie sings and plays
pop 'tunes, country-
western, shoW tunes, 'rock
tunes--even instrumentals
like "Malaguena" and
"The Third Man Theme".
He does impersonations of
Louie Armstrong, Lionel
Barrymore, Johnny Cash,
Eddie Arnold and Elvis
Presley. He imitates a duck
while singing "help Me
Make It Through the
Night", and with his
electrical gadgetry has
made his routine imitating
frog conversations, and
swamp noises synonymous
with his name.
His guitar is equipped
•
McGregor accompanying
hers Next Sherry and
Sandra Finlayson gave a
couple of excellent tap
dances, with the • experi-
enced solid violin accom-
paniment of Nelson. Howe
of Staffa.
The program concluded
with many old timers 100
pipers, Bonnie Dundee and
Amazing Grace--an old
favourite hymn. The next
concert will be August 13
given by The Concert Band
of Stratford 'Legion under
Paul Cross. This is the.,
leading band of the Area.
Support these concerts by
your presence.
Entertainment
Thursday,
Friday, '&
Saturday
Friday Special
Cold Plate
Dinner
',with every gadget known to
the musician. His electrical
gadgets repeat any sound
he makes as soon as 1/1000
of a second afterwa,rd, or as
long as several minutes,
permitting Ronnie to duet
with himself. His guitars do
, • THE VAN EGMOND FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE
EMPIRE STOVE
FURNACE CO:
see the play as an indict-
ment of small town —life, -
Karen, a small-towner her-
self, says it's a. play about
people and could have
taken place anywhere, not
just in a small town, Small
towns are good places to set
plays because they are a
microcosm of the wider
world, bringing all de-
ments of society into
sharper focus.
For Karen, being back in
a small town this summer
at Blyth has been a happy
experience. When she
moved in from Toronto
where sle has been living
the past few years, the 23
year old actress said she
could feel like a giant
burden had been taken off
her shoulders. Just having
the clean air, the space, the
sky' was an uplifting ex-
perience. Growing' up on a.
farm, she says, nature is a
huge part of her life.
Theatre Bug
Acting seems a strange
occupation for a girl. from a
Mennonite background in
Saskatchewan farming
community, but it was aef a
Mennonite boarding. school
in Rosthern. Sask. that she
caught the theatre bug
from a teacher. Later she
Pipers play concert
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