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Sheila Richards, of Brussels, president of the board of directors, announced the Blyth
Festival Fall and Spring line-up for 1985-86 to excited patrons. General Manager Brenda
Doner, of Blyth, outlined the revised procedure for subscribing. (James Friel photo)
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ing part-time and overtime, reduce or
freeze salaries, install automated devices
and replace concessions with vending
machines.
Hours of arena operation can be in-
vestigated and the facility closed during low
usage times, staff can be diverted to other
jobs.
Other management practices can be ap-,
plied. Contracting services, including clean-
up in the rental contract of a facility, cutting
down on administrative costs and encourag-
ing special interest groups to participate in
maintaining facilities, such as providing
baseball players with the tools for upkeep of
their diamond.
Savings can be made by looking at the
routine followed by the department and
scheduling and budgeting to advantage.
Finally, technical economies can be in-
vestigated. Automation for regulating heat,
lights or adding chlorine to pools can be in-
corporated requiring lower staffing costs.
Better machinery results in fewer
breakdowns • and therefore paying for fewer
service calls and parts.
The final speaker was Dave Clark, Direc-
tor of Community Services for the town of
Simcoe. He stressed the need for creative
thinking to increase revenues.
"Take a look at switching gears, not
restraint or cutbacks but creative think-
ing," he said..
He advised members of the audience to
approach new ideas with a combination of
. the "Five C's" Competence is the creation
of a professional image during dealings,
through building success upon success.- •
Consistency comes from the development
of a personal plan of community im-
provements and 'sharing the information
with council on a regular basis.
Confidence of authority can be gained by
discussing proposals before they start and
having input from all concerned at the
beginning.
Musical group sets toes to tapping
By James Friel
BLYTH - Two pleasant events took place
at the Blyth Memorial Hall March 29. The
Blyth Festival announced its 1985-'86 winter
package featuring some exeellent programs
and the French-Canadian group Eritage
entertained an audience of about 300 with a
collection of pieces reflecting the various in-
fluences to which music in Quebec has been
exposed.
Eritage is a group which has delved into
the musical past of Quebec and presents the
diversity in a manner which sets audiences'
toes to tapping.
Eritage consists of Marc Benoit, Benoit
Bourque Raynald Oullet, Raymond Philippe
and Ari Snyder and funds from the Touring
Office of the Canada Council helped with the
presentation.
They presented a mournful Acadian song
of the ghost ships sometimes seen in what
was formerly Acadia and the men lost in the
sea tragedies which rocked the tiny fishing
villages of the New Brunswick coast.
Quebec's later Scottish influence was
revealed in the traditional song Peggy
Gor-
don, whose beautiful delivery produced an
absolute silence throughout the hall.
The history of a cakewalk the group per-
formed demonstrated the range of music
adopted by Quebec. The composer was an
American resident of Brooklyn, was of Ger-
man parents and wrote songs which were
very popular in la belle province.
They closed their first set with a story of a
trapper. The first part dealt with his five
month battle to survive the toll the elements
extracted, the rising excitment of his ap-
proach to home fields and the joyful reunion
with his wife and children (some of whom
weren't there when he left, so the story
goes) .
Also included in their presentation were
songs of their own compostion which seem-
ed to be a natural development, a logical
progression of the .cornucopia of influences
French Canadian music has had the good
fortune to'xperience.
The good news is the program announced
that evening proves to provide an equally
excellent series for the fall and spring
season of 1985-'86.
Sheila Richards, of Brussels and presi-
dent of the board of directors announced the
line-up and General Manager Brenda
Doner, Blyth, described how subscribers
could beat the rush for the best seats.
The series opens with "a feast for jaz-
zaholics!" Jazz stars will bring those "jaz-
zoholics" "the classics of traditional and
Dixieland jazz. . .come for nostalgia, or
come for the musicianship - it will all be
there."
The date for the concert is tentatively
Cost accounting is the meticulous ex-
planation of all costs and revenues and the
last "C" is corporate accountability in
which an accurate and consistant account of
costs is recorded.
Some methods of raising revenue are
thorough investigation of available grants
and fees, including, admission, rental, user
and licence fees. The supply of special ser-
vices should be charged for and sales
revenue controlled. A fees and charges
policy should be developed by the
municipality.
Fees and charges should be instituted "to
offset costs, help meet increasing demand
without burdening the tax base, to supple-
ment, not replace, government responsibili-
ty and to provide and expand basic services
on an equitable basis."
With the construction of facilities having
reached its peak, service clubs can be en-
couraged to contribute funds to offsetting
some of the subsidies now provided by the
municipality for groups like Senior citizens
and the handicapped.
The rest of the workshop was taken up by
group discussions. Most participants felt
they had benefited froth the workshop, •and
particularily by the opportunity to gather
literature focusing on individual concerns,
but one, village clerk later suggested that
some of the informatibn given was geared
more to larger municipalities.
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BAYHIELD'S ORIGINAL FASHION STORE
IS OPENING ITS DOORS
FOR SPRING '85
ON FRIDAY, APRIL 5
scheduled for October 13, at 2 p.m. As Yet,
all the dates for presentations are tentative.
The next Festival offering, for November
17, at 2 p.m., will be the play Don Messer's
Jubilee, the Neptune Theatre of Halifax pro-
duction based on the long-running television
show.
"Blyth patrons will be among the first to
see this hit musical as it starts out on a na-
tional tour." The show has been "recreated
by John Gray, co-author of that other hit
show Billy Bishop Goes to War."
Based on the popularity of last season's
presentations of Sylvia Tyson and Shirley
Eikhart, west coast singer -songwriter Holly
Arntzen has been tentatively engaged for
March 30, 1986. The singer "is making a
name for herself east of the Rockies for her
charismatic performances and powerhouse
voice. She belts out the classics of jazz and
blues and spices them with her own com-
positions and with the folk songs of Canada's
best songwriters, including Stan Rogers,
Joan Mclsaac, Connie Kaldor and others."
She was nominated "Best Folk Act" for
the 1982 CARAS west coast music awards.
An orchestra drawn from the Kitchener -
Waterloo Symphony under the direction of
Raffi Armenian is featured for the last adult
show of the season. "The repertoire will in-
clude popular pieces by Mozart, Haydn and
Bach, in the baroque style of music made in-
credibley popular recently by the movie
Amadeus. A perfect introduction to the
classics for music lovers." •
This is scheduled for May 14, 1986 at 8 p.m.
Children's concerts start on October 19, at
2 p.m:with Kim and Jerry Brodey who "can
bring out the silliness in anyone, adult and
child alike."
On December 7 at 2 p.m., a Christmas for
Carol, a Victoria Playhouse Petrolia pro-
duction, will be on the Blyth stage. It "mixes
music, live actors and puppets to tell the
story of a young girl who runs away from
home on Christmas Eve only to become lost
in the woods." The animals of the woods
show Carol what Christmas means to them,
"through a sprinkling of magic."
Peter and the Wolf is given to audiences
by the same group who brought Just So
Stories last season, the Mermaid Theatre.
They "have taken the classic folk tale and
transplanted the hero from Russia to con-
temporary Nova Scotia."
Single tickets for adult events are $10.
Packages are available to enable patrons to
get four events for $20, or two for $15.
Each of the three children's events can be
attended for $4 a single ticket or $8 for all
three events.
Flood relief
in Columbia
Over 400 families have so far received
clothing, bedding, kitchen utensils, shoes,
food and shelter from the Colombian Red
Cross. In a report sent by the Red Cross to
the League in the aftermath of flooding that
struck twelve provinces recently affecting
seventy towns and an estimated 41,000 peo-
ple, the Colombian Red Cross notes that it
has covered the needs from its own
resources at a cost in excess of $US 325,000.
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