Village Squire, 1980-07, Page 29ONTARIO LEGISLATURE CONSIDERS
EXEMPTING AVON THEATRE'S TAXES
The Ontario legislature is considering a
bill to leave the Stratford Festival
Foundation exempt from paying tax on the
Avon Theatre.
The bill is past the legislative committee
stage.
The City of Stratford, which stands to
lose 525,000 from the move, requested the
committee endorse the bill.
Stratford Festival asked the town's
council to exempt it from paying taxes on
the property because of financial problems
faced by the group. The Festival Theatre
has been exempt from paying taxes for
more than 20 years.
CAMPING FEES UP
Misery for the campers - camping
fees at provincial parks rose by 50 cents in
June.
The increase in fees was attributed to
rising costs in running provincial parks.
Estimates are that it will cost 528.8 million
to operate Ontario's recreational areas this
summer which include provincial parks.
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That is up about 5750 million from last
year.
It now costs campers 55.50 a night at sites
without comfort stations, 56 at camps with
comfort stations, and 57.50 at parks with
electricity. Day fees for vehicles will
remain at 52.
WOODSTOCK LITTLE THEATRE
ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE.
The Woodstock Little Theatre has an-
nounced its schedule for the 1980-81
season.
Butterflies Are Free, by Leonard Gershe
will open the season October 17 and run to
the October 25. It will be followed by The
Mousetrap, a mystery by Agatha Christie,
from Dec. 5-13.
The first of two plays in the new year is
You're Gonna Be Alright, Jamie Boy, by
David Freeman. It runs Feb. 13-21. The
final play will be A Shot In The Dark, by
Marcel Achard, from April 10-18.
A performance with Stratford's artistic
Director, Robin Phillips and the Stratford
Youth Choir, which was planned for Sept.
8, has been cancelled.
The concert was to have been the fourth
of a series which features the choir and
various guest stars from the festival.
S70,000 NEED
FOR ARTS CENTRE
Potential national and
provincial supporters of the
Blyth Centre for the Arts
building fund are being
approached to raise the
remaining 570,000 needed,
says fund raising chairman
Ross Hamilton.
To date, cost of the
addition and improvements
is 5316,000. A 525,000 total
has already been received
from the Richard Ivey
Foundation, the Samuel and
Sadye Bronfman Foundation,
the Atkinson Charitable
Foundation and others. This
brought the original project-
ed fund raising goal down t o
its present 570,000.
The hall's new addition
will include a craft room for
community use, brand new
washrooms, facilities for the
disabled, an enlarged
kitchen and about 530,000 in
fire proofing and safety
improvements to the original
Blyth Memorial Hall.
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