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PAUL CRAIG AND
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on August 26/89
For information call 523-9318
Makin’it work
Doug and the Slugs played to a capacity crowd at Saturday’s dance in the Brussels, Morris and
Grey Community Centre. Known for his rather crude on-stage antics Doug Bennett, left, and his
Slugs drew a crowd of 1,000 people to hear them perform songs like “Making it Work’’, “Day by
Day” and ‘ ‘Tomcat Prowl”. Proceeds from theOptimist sponsored event will go towards ball park
lights.
Entertainment
The 1989 Blyth Festival season
this year has proven to be a box
office bonanza.
“This has truly been a year to
remember,” says Joel Harris,
General Manager of the Festival.
“We have now sold over 40,000
tickets - soon breaking last year’s
attendance record of 41,000 - with
four of our five plays sold out.”
However, 10 rush tickets are
available for each performance of
“The Right One” by Bryan Wade,
“The Dreamland” by Raymond
Storey, “Sticks and Stones” by
James Reaney and “Perils of
Persephone” by Dan Needles.
These are on sale at the box office
at 6 p.m. or 12 noon on the day of
the performance.
Last year the Festival reached a
capacity of 83 per cent overall for
the season and it is hoped that this
year will reach 90 per cent. The
final play, “The Mail Order Bride”
is in rehearsal with a totally new
cast, new set, lighting and musical
arrangements. Special matinees
have been arranged for local high
schools and there are a good
selection of seats available for most
of the performances of The Mail
Order Bride.
BEDOUR-DATEMA
Mervin and Gay Datema are
pleased to announce the
forthcoming marriage of their
son, Donald to Cathy, daught
er of Mrs. Teresa and the late
Armand Bedour of Goderich.
The wedding will take place
on Friday, the 25 of August,
1989at6:00p.m.atSt. Peter’s
Roman Catholic Church, God
erich, Ont. Reception to foll
ow in Goderich Community
Centre, Holmesville, Ont.
Roof stumbling block in Memorial Hall plans
Continued from page 3
said, had the traditional look used
in public buildings over the years
such as the Parliament Buildings
(except in steel, not copper). The
Memorial Hall management board
had earlier planned a cheaper
roofing product. Since the Festi
val’s design proposal was for a new
sloped roof on its own building (the
former bank building) to match the
lines of the Memorial Hall roof,
Mr. Borgal wanted both roofing
materials to match. The Festival
had proposed to pick up the extra
cost of the more expensive roof.
Councillors, led by Councillor
Shirley Fyfe, remained to be con
vinced about the value of the steel
roof. There was concern about
avalanches of snow coming off the
roof and concern about the appear
ance.
Mr. Borgal said new techniques
to prevent snow slides actually
make the steel roof safer than other
roofing options.
Councillor Fyfe remained uncon
vinced and complained Friday
night that she still had incomplete
information about the other options
in roofing.
Council finally decided to have
those councillor’s who were unde
cided look at a similar roof on the
new Huron County Museum to see
if they disapproved of the appear
ance.
In general though, there was
nothing but praise for the plans
themselves. Councillors seemed to
agree with Mr. Howson who said
he was “quite pleased with what
they’ve come up with. We in Blyth
should be proud to have a facility of
that nature in the village.”
In going through the pages and
pages of plans, Mr. McCaffrey and
Mr. Borgal pointed out provisions
have been made so that if at some
time in the future the Festival’s
building needs to be separated
from the Memorial Hall, it can be
walled off with fireproof walls. The
Festival’s building also has its own
power and heating systems, they
said.
The new addition will give Blyth
an art gallery that will be fully
climate controlled, meeting the
standards for touring shows such
as those from the Art Gallery of
Ontario. It should be an attractive
place for people to hold shows Mr.
Borgal said because most galleries
draw about 5000 people a year. “In
this one we can virtually guarantee
an audience of 40,000.”
The art gallery can also be used
as a public meeting room when art
shows aren’t being presented, Mr.
McCaffrey said allowing meetings
to go on if there is already
something downstairs in Memorial
Hall or upstairs. The addition will
also provide wheel chair access to
all levels of the Memorial Hall
except the balcony. ' •
Another area of concern was the
continuity of an oak tree planted to
commemorate the visit to Canada
-of the King and Queen in 1939. The
tree is located on Memorial Hall
lawn directly behind the Legion
Hall. While the tree will have to be
taken down, plans were discussed
to take a cutting from the tree so a
new tree could be planted in the
courtyard that will be formed by
the expansion. The problem, one of
the councillors pointed out, was
that though this had been discuss
ed as early as last spring, nothing
had yet been done.
Send a UNICEF card,
Save a child’s life.
Oh what a
feeling!
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New exhibit
Mark Fletcher whose watercolour paintings are featured in the final show of the season at the Blyth
Festival Art Gallery chats with Festival President Carol Irwin at the opening of the show Saturday
night. The exhibition of the St. Marys-area artist continues until Sept. 16.
Wedding
Carol and Peter Irwin
of Blyth, Ontario
are pleased to announce the forthcoming
marriage of their daughter
Elizabeth Ann
to
Larry James Howatt
son of Delores and James Howatt
of R.R. 1, Londesboro, Ontario
The wedding will be al the
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church,
619 Sherbourne Street, Toronto
on September 2nd, 1989
at 4:30 in the afternoon.
The reception is being held at the
M/V Jaguar II at the Harbourfront Promenade,
York Quay Centre Toronto, Ontario