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Mayne United Church closed several
years ago, but now the rural Perth
County church has a new home on
the grounds of the Ontario Agri-
culture Museum, Milton.
[Museum Photo]
Church has new home
Mayne United Church. a white frame
church which was once located on the 5th
concession of Wallace Township. Perth
County. has found a new home. The
church, closed in December, 1969. has
been donated to the Ontario Agricultural
Museum, Milton and erected on the site
as the country church.
The church was originally part of the
Episcopal Methodist circuit in the
Listowel area, until the early 1880 s when
the church came under the Fordwich
charge. The settlers who attended the
Mayne Church were predominately
German, but there were also Ulster Irish,
English and Scots, all of whom were
allotted property by James Bolton,
famous land agent in Perth.
Over the past 100 years. the name of
the church changed three times from
Methodist Epsicopal Church to the
Mayne Methodist Church and finally to
Mayne United. After the church closed, it
became the property of Gerald Winger of
Atwood, and he donated the building to
the agricultural museum in 1978.
The church is typical of the multitude
of small, rural community churches that
existed in Ontario during the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries.
Blyth Festival 1981
Mysterious disappearances, love and
intrigue and the rebellion of young
against their elders - this is stuff of the
1981 Blyth Summer Festival.
The season opens July 3 with the play
Quiet In The Land by Anne Chislett,
better known to longtime Festival patrons
as Anne Roy. wife of the festival's former
artistic director. Anne's play is about the
love and rebellion of the young against
their Amish elders in the tense period of
World War 1.
The festival's second offering is Love
or Money. by one of Canada's best known
playwrights, Carol Bolt. This play deals
with the mysterious disappearance of
theatre owner Ambrose Small. who once
listed London's Grand Theatre among his
holdings. One day in 1919, a cheque for
$100,000 was deposited in a Toronto bank
in Small's name and by late afternoon the
same day, the theatrical entrepreneur
had disappeared forever.
On July 28, a second play by Anne
Chislett. titled The Tomorrow Box. opens
at the festival. The play, a comedy, is
about the conflict between the sexes on a
Huron County farm -
The fourth production is a musical
comedy that looks at the life of Mitchell's
hockey ace, the celebrated Howie
Morenz, by Blyth playwright Keith
Roulston. Fire on Ice, with music by John
Roby, tells the story of the young hockey
player who became a legend as a star of
the Montreal Canadiens, and is rumoured
to have died from a broken heart when his
career was over.
Finally, the Festival is going to bring
back the popular He Won't Come In From
The Barn, by Ted Johns, who will star in
the performance along with some live
barnyard friends on stage. It's a hilarious
look at the problems modern farmers face
through the eyes of Aylmer Clarke. who,
in frustration, moves into his barn and
refuses to come out.
Tickets for the Blyth Summer Festival
go on sale May 22, single seats are $6 for
adults, 55 for senior citizens and $3 for
children.
Science Fair in May
Microbe, mice and men - some of the
subjects that may be examined in
displays when 200 of Canada's top young
scientists gather at the University of
Waterloo this month. The occasion? It's
the annual Canada- Wide Science Fair.
now in its 20th. year. which will be held at
the University of Waterloo from May 10
to May 16.
The scientists who will be displaying
new discoveries or announcing the results
of lengthy experiments will be Grade 7 to
13 students from across the province.
The Canada -Wide Science Fair won't
be all work and no play for participants.
In addition to attending science seminars
at the university. students will visit the
Ontario Science Centre in Toronto and
tour several Waterloo County heritage
sites.
The public can visit the fair to see some
of the scientific developments of the
future on Thursday evening, May 14.
from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday
afternoon, May 16, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
DINING LOUNGE
KENO
Friday Night:
FRESH PERCH "FISH FRY"
Specializing in. . .
• Fresh Lake Fish • Lobster
• King Crab Legs
STEAKS New York - Strip Loin
and T Bone
SUNDAY BRUNCH
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
also available our. .
SALAD BAR
OPEN
7 DAYS A WEEK
all year
Noon - Until • • •
Located:
on Hwy. 21
(2Imi. north
of Grand Bend)
236-4850
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