The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-05-11, Page 19Free
wheelin'
Over 50 roller skating enthusiasts took part in the annual roll-a-thon
Saturday and raised $1,300 in pledges. Most of the skaters com-
pleted the 10 hour roll-a-thon and recreation director Jane Netzke
said the money will be used for future acoustical treatment at the
arena. Money from previous roll -a -thous was used to purchase a
new sound system for the arena. (photo by Dave Sykes)
Mei're an eb+ i d�cin
but aur
lovable ctrewl and
they''ve ' lefii '41Iiiitsands of
adults and children
educated, #11dand
delighted
The. PePPeertiOt it sit ,
are gradually bwllding a
nationwide reputationfor
themselves
Ottawa residents Lois and
.Herb Walker are the parents
of the Puppcorns, a family of
hand-crafted puppets. The
Walkers visit ,Communities
across the continentusing.
the puppets in muaical skits
to help creatively teach
language arts and literature. ,
Says' 39 year-old Herb, a
Vancouver native, "We are
trying to increase the use of
puppets and make people
aware of the different
possibilities of puppets and
their educational value."
"We're absolutely stret-
ched to the limit. (We've
been) in Florida in January,
the Yukon in March, we go to
New Brunswick in May and
B.C. in July."
shiwto be
.0h: qday
asuwAs
cahrtefoa, stheas.yeaWahnary
people in Canada making
As with ear thaw novel
ideas, the code toppled into
their neva.-found career by an
acme fatethree years ago. After leaving their jobs as
professors at David
Thompson University in
Nelson, B;C., . the Walkers
moved to Ottawa.
Lois, a 41 year-old native'
of • Ohio, began doing
volunteer work at a nursery
school, which eventually
asked her to find someone to
organize a puppet show.
"When. I couldn't, another
girl and I from the school
made our own puppets,
wrote the script and did it
ourselves. It started to climb
from there, and eventually
we started getting so many
calls we couldn't do it for
free any more."
She found it was a lot more
fun than teaching and stuck
with it. The couple has
staged about 1.000 shows so.
far.
Whe , they aren't on the
road, they are at home with
their eons in Ottawa, where
they► perform three shows a
week or work on hooks and
records.
l'hey have performed for
Governor-General . Edward
Schreyer, Prune Minister
Trudeau and his ;sons and
the family 4f Joe Clark when
he was Prime Minister.
Herb calls themselves
educators before , en-
tertainers. "We're like
teachers, but instead of
going to one school we go to
different school (and
communities. )"
The Walkers, the Pupp-
corns and their two trunks of
props will be performing this
Sunday in the last show of
"Four Great Shows for
Children" sponsored by the
Goderich Recreation
Department at Victoria
Public School at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $2 each at the
door.
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