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Times-Advocate, 1980-08-27, Page 18Yoy Are Invited To Attend GRAND BEND UNITED CHURCH OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICES SUNDAY 11 a.m. Special Music Speaker: Bob Heywood De Jong's DeJongs and staff would like to thank all their friends and customers for a successful 1980 summer season, and we hope to see you this fall Come in for our end-of-summer sale. GRAND BEND master charkie CLOTHING 47 MAIN ST., GRAND BEND 238-2358 Grand Bend Art Studio is sponsoring a bus trip to The Stratford Festival to see "Much to Do About Nothing" Wed., Sept. 3 $17.00 per ticket Lunch Included Bus leaving Bank of Montreal Parking Lot 9:30 a.m. For Information Call Mary Fickling 238-2528. COFITFU READ SERVICES INC. Record Keeping & Reports First call - No Obligation Grand Bend 238-2388 PRESCRIPTION SERVICE HARWOOD DRUGS Ltd. 238-8540 Beside Post Office 22. 81 CRESCENT . GRAND BEND, ONT. MIMIN The Huron County Hous- ing Authority has vacant Senior Citizen rent geared to income apartments in Wingham, Brussels, Ex- eter. If you are 60 years and over and would like more information or an application please call: 524-2537 or Zenith 21520 or in person: Huron County Housing Authority 48 The Square Goderich, Ontario k 1•17A 1M5 Master charge "We want to make it easier for you to own a no-wax floor! Because — let's face it— buying a floor you have to wax is like buying a car you have to crank by hand. Or a shirt you have to hand iron. Nobody wants the drudgery of stripping off old wax and putting on new. With Armstrong Solarian , life is a lot easier. The Mirabond® wear surface keeps its sunny shine far longer than an ordinary vinyl floor. Every time you mop it clean, it really does look just-waxed! "That's why we're offering for a limited time a big selection of Solarian patterns and colors, at this special "Stop Waxing" sale price. Come in now, while you can have your pick . . . they won't be here long, at S 1 this price!" Sale Priced From Only mstrong SOLARIAN 0°5 8g yo: GRAND BEND DECORATING and FLOORING CENTRE HWY. #21 238-B603 A beautiful new way to buy floors. (Aymstrong floor fashion° CHARGEX NM. VISA Pap, 2A. TinnaktAd.Y0celt.Avouit 21 1,980. With Mary Alderson The Play'house .Kindergarten stays At last count Grand Bend Pubtic School still has its. kindergarten class, Last June the board Old the selml that they could, keep the class as long as. enrolment did not drop below six. If there were fewer than six children registered, they would be bussed. to. Bosanquet Central school near Thedford, Principal at Grand Bend public School Betty Fitchett said at press time there were still six children in the class. Kindergarten teacher Patricia Murdock is plan- ning to hold classes next week. Total enrolment at Grand. Bend school this year is 125, down about 20 from last Ye0r, Mrs. Fitchett said. Five classrooms will be in operation, with 32 children in grades 7-8, 34 in grades 5-6, 25 in grades 3-4 and 28 in grades 1-2, as well as the six kindergarten children, A big day is already being planned for Thursday when all the children are going to HUM.COUntrY Playhouse to see Annie Get Your Gun. DECORATING DISCOUNTS!! 20% OFF KIRSCH DRAPERY HARDWARE CARPET REMNANTS 50% OFF AND MORE Summer Clearance Specials You'll Like For Your Home Satin Finish INTERIOR ENAMEL 1 5n. Satin Finish Latex EXETERIOR ENAMEL $ 1 C99 ,,p gal EXTERIOR LATEX House-Paints $1 3 9g9al. EXTERIOR GLOSS House Paint $ I C 99 I al gal. GRAND BEND DECORATING and FLOORING CENTRE HWY. #21 238-8603 25% OFF STOCK WALL PAPER BUY NOW YOU JUST CAN'T BEAT OUR PRICE (AND SERVICE) Moore PAINTS INTERIOR LATEX FLAT 1 99 Gal. Over 100 people gathered at Klondyke Gardens south of Grand Bend Thursday for a discussion on potatoes. Visitors travelled from as far as Sarnia,Blenheim, Strathroy, and Zurich to attend the meeting. As well, many of the potato growers present were from the Thedford-Grand Bend area. After touring Klondyke Gardens the group moved to Allen Willsie's farm near daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sid Homans of Grand Bend, and Anne Waters daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Waters of Parkhill. Nina Linder is also in the chorus. Her father is Cec Linder who starred in the Sunshine Boys earlier this summer. Annie Get Your Gun provides good family en- tertainment. It continues with 8:30 evening per- formances until September 6. Some tickets and rush seats are still available. Matinees will be at 2:30 this afternoon and on August 30 and September 3, 4 and 6. There will be one final performance of Flicks, a musical comedy revue put on by the Young Players on September 1. Season subscriptions for next summer are already available. The playhouse has come up with a list of 11 plays, promising that five will be chosen. A standing ovation greeted the cast of Annie Get Your Gun when they took their bows on opening night, Proving, that people still love a traditional musical, The production is well-cast and includes a lot of good voices. Sets: are excellent and moved en and off with a minimum of fuss and noise. In all, it is a very professional show, The only area where it suffers is in the choreography. Dance steps are simple and kept to a minimum. In the one scene where the dancing is em- phasized, it looks to be very confused. Director Robert Lander tries to combine the Indian dance with Zulu warriors, Egyptian movements, Charleston and, heaven forbid, even disco. To paraphrase a line from their last production, Free At Last, having Indians do disco dancing, is, I think, an insult to our native peoples. Perhaps for their next big musical, the playhouse will be able to find funds to hire a professional choreographer instead of giving that im- portant job to the already very busy director. Robert Landar's direction worked well elsewhere, and he was even able to play the role of Pawnee Bill. Barbara Young's musical direction was nearly faultless, as was the orchestra ensemble. The only other complaint with the show was pointed out to me by Her Honour, Lieutenant Governor Pauline McGibbon. Mrs. McGibbon said she was very disappointed because she couldn't hear the lullabye HOTDOGS AND MORE HOTDOGS — Beth Jennison and Pat Smith, employee's at the lambton Heritage Museum, get ready for a fun-filled .afternoon of making hotdogs. the sun shop 83 MAIN STREET — GRAND BEND — 238.2511 I'lf you're dreaming of a1 Armstrong Solarian® no-wax loot.. Nast look at this sale pricer WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T GET A MAN WITH A GUN? — Karen Wood and Robert Hall are starring in the final perfor- mance at Huron Country Playhouse this summer, Annie Get Your Gun. The big musical production continues until September 6. Photo by Hocking Talk on potatoes Thedford for a pork bar- beque. Several experts on potatoes spoke to the gathering. Max Macgharles of the farm products quality branch and Sam Squire of the Ontario Potato Board talked about packing and harvesting potatoes. Plans for the Seed, Fresh and Processing Potato Marketing Boards were discussed. This week Allen Willsie has gone to Ottawa to work on a five province pact for marketing potatoes. Potato growers in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario are trying to organize. SOCCER ACTION — Above - Frank Backx of the Colonials kicks the ball. Below - the Grand Bend B's try for a comeback against the Colonials. Staff photo strestossh Pinery .OPP Highway Traffic act • charges topped the list for. Provincial police at Pinery Park this week. There were 16 charges laid under the • highway traffic act. Only 11 charges were laid under the liquor licegge. act, down considerably from other reports this summer, Six people were charged under the provincial parks act. Five thefts were in- vestigated, and two trespass complaints were handled,. Two cases of wilful damage were also investigated, was loud for favourites such as "You can't get a Man with a gun" and "Doin' What, comes naturally".. RObert Hall is perfect for the part of the handsome but conceited Frank Butler. Hall and Wood were excellent singing the number "Anything you can do." More evidence of good casting was seen in Tom O'Neill as Charlie Daven- port. O'Neill has just the right knack of talking out of the corner of his mouth as the busy wheeler-dealer. And. Nancy Kerr is good as Dolly Tate - a far cry from her role as the Mother Superior in Sound of Music last summer. Barbara Saxberg Land and Rod Menzies as Winnie and Tommy, the star- crossed, lovers provide laughs with her giggles and his sighs, Don. McManus is a powerful Buffalo Bill, and Jack Van Evera's stoney face is perfect as Chief Sitting Bull. The children in the cast are crowd-pleasers and I think the playhouse should be commended for including local talent. Nine year old Darryl Greenwood is an excellent Little Jake, and plays the part of teaching Annie to read very well. Unfor- tunately Darryl caught a cold and was unable to perform Saturday night. We hope he's feeling better and back on stage this week. Darryl is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Greenwood of Parkhill. He is a cousin of Jeff Greenwood, who played in Sound of Music last year. Barbara Schottroff, 10, is which Annie sang to her the sweetheart of the show, younger brother and sisters as little Nellie. She is the on the train. Annie's voice daughter of Mr. and Mrs. may have been hindered by Erwin Schottroff of Grand the enclosed bunk she was Bend. sitting on. Kathryn Coups, 11, plays But Mrs. McGibbon Jessie, Her parents are Mr. conceded that it was a and Mrs. Jack Coups. The lullabye, and therefore, had Coups live in London but to be sung softly. She added have a summer home that she enjoyed the per- iniGrandBend on Lake Road. formance very much. Debbie Shaddick plays The diminutive Karen Minnie. Debbie is a 19 year Wood is excellent as Annie, old from Goderich, and has with her back woods accent been working at the that even carried over into playhouse all summer. She her singing voice. Applause will be attending Fanshawe college this fall in London. Twins George and Gordon Cleland are part of the chorus. They're 14 and their parents are Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Cleland of London. . Jennifer McCrindle plays the little girl who "bothers" Charlie Davenport in the opening scene. Jennifer was one of the children in Sound of Music last summer. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred McCrindle of Grand Bend. Special mention should go to the quartet. One of the biggest laughs of the evening occurs when they all wake up from their nap simultaneously and burst into song. Immediately they fall asleep again. Members of the Young Players fit well into the cast, and add to the performance. Among the singers and dancers are Tracy Homans, Price SALE Entire remaining stock of summer Swimwear, Sportswear and Accessories are now further reduced to at least half their original selling price. OPEN DAILY 10 A.M. - 9 P.M LABQUR DAY 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. CHARGEX VISA master charge