The Citizen, 1989-10-25, Page 15PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1989.
Bernice Passchier new Arts Management Intern at Bly th
General Manager, Joel ^Harris
has announced the new staff ap
pointment of Bernice Passchier as
Arts Management Intern at the
Blyth Festival.
“Over forty people applied for
this job and we were very pleased
with the number of people who
applied, from as far away as
Guelph, London, Kitchener, Strat
ford and Toronto.
Bernice Passchier is no stranger
to Blyth. Bernice has been involved
with the Festival organization since
the age of 17, as a volunteer usher,
growing with the organization and
fulfilling many roles from house
manager to box office assistant to
company manager on tour. This
new position is made possible
through the sponsorship of the
Ontario Ministry of Culture and
Communications Arts Manage
ment Training Programme.
A native of Blyth, Bernice re
turns to the Blyth Festival after
working last year as Publicist and
Marketing Co-ordinator for Light
house Festival, a theatre based in
Port Dover.
“While I was in Port Dover, our
theatre audiences increased by
eight per cent overall and our
subscriptions increased by over 34
per cent with more bus groups
flocking to see our all Canadian
programming” says Bernice.
“Since the decline of the tobacco
industry in the area, tourism has
become one of the biggest growth
industries in the area and Light
house Festival is one of the big
summer attractions for the area.”
Ms. Passchier graduated in 1985
from the University of Waterloo
with an English degree and in 1988
received a Business Administration
Diploma from Sir Wilfrid Laurier
University in Waterloo.
“I’m delighted to be back at the
Festival as a full time employee”
says Passchier. “The exciting chal
lenge for me will be in learning
about every aspect of the Blyth
Festival from administration and
fund raising to publicity and pro
duction which is all a part of this
training programme. My business
and English degrees will be put to
good use here and I’m looking
forward to my year at Blyth. In my
first two weeks here, I’ve been on
tour with our production of ‘The
Mail Order Bride’, attended the
Ontario Contact showcase on be
half of Blyth, promoted Festival of
Entertainment productions and or
ganized the voucher pack mailing
to 5000 Blyth Festival fans.”
“I remember the cramped Blyth
Festival administration quarters
that existed in today’s Box Office
area” says Ms. Passchier. “For
me, it is very exciting to watch the
capital expansion plans underway -
the new workshop and rehearsal
space, bigger production facilities
and now, Phase II of. the plans
beginning any day. The reputation
of the Blyth Festival and its plays
has gone beyond southwestern
Balanced diet key to healthy heart
Consumption of dietary choles
terol has little impact on blood
cholesterol. Only those who are
told by their doctor to avoid certain
foods need do so.
This message was brought to the
Annual Meeting of the Huron
Chapter of the Heart and Stroke
Foundation in Clinton by Beth
Wilck. Ms. Wilck is a nutritionist
with the Huron County Health
Unit.
To avoid as much as possible
cardiac problems it is more import
Ontario. As I travelled throughout
Ontario and Alberta with the
‘Another Season’s Promise’ in
1987, I saw audiences touched by
stories which reflected their lives
and community.
“When I saw my first play at
Blyth Memorial Hall in 1978, I
could never have imagined the
Festival would have achieved so
much in such a short time, espe
cially its new play development
programme. I’m looking forward to
renewing my friendship with the
ant to use a balanced diet, she said.
Canadians consume an average 90
grams of all fats. This is too much.
A reasonable amount is about 73
grams. She warned not to go
overboard and replace all saturated
fats, mainly those of animal origin,
with unsaturated fats. This, she
maintained, would create an imba
lance and do more harm than good.
Not all vegetable fats are unsa
turated either. The biggest culprits
in this section are plam oil and
coconut oil. She said, however, that
many volunteers who helped in the
growth of the Festival. It’s great to
be back home!”
Behind the scenes at the Blyth
Festival, staff are busily planning
next year’s season, organizing the
winter writer’s retreat, booking the
1990 Fall tour of ‘Perils of Perse
phone’ and temporarily moving its
administration office to the Box
Office while renovations to Blyth
Memorial Hall and its offices on
Dinsley and Queen are under
construction.
it is not necessary to cut out all food
prepared with saturated fat. But, if
one eats a meal with such fats,
balance it by cutting down that day
on other food with saturated fat.
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