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Bicentennial Showcase will be here Tuesday
The Bicentennial Showcase, a $1 million
touring ,.family entertainment
extravaganza, comes to Huron County
Tuesday, July 17 with one performance at
the Goderich Memorial Community Centre.
Sponsored by the Ministry of Citizenship
and Culture and billed as a family
entertainment 'show, the Bicentennial
Showcase is designed to help celebrate
Ontario's 200th birthday.
The 90 minute variety show, which will
start at 8 p.m. in the Goderich Community
Centre, will feature some of Ontario's best
professional and non-professiona singers,
dancers, actors ad musicians. Advance
tickets are on salt The Livery and tourist
information 'booth in Goderich as well as the
recreation departments in Wingham,
Clinton, Seaforth, Exeter and Goderich. The
cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children while
tickets puithased at the door will cost $7 for
• adults and $4 for children.
Ticket ,sales are now taking off
organizers say, and should be 'purchased
advance for the one-night performance. (
Produced by Showmakers Inc. of Tor nto;
the Bicentennial Showcase is a complete
entertainment package' that will play in 26
Ontario towns and cities. The Showcase
began in Aurora July 3 and will wind up in
Thunder Bay August 23. •
The show will feature cabaret singer and
stage and television star, Dinah Christie as
master of ceremonies. Other performers
include; opera star and actor, Jan Rubes;
contemporary dancer, Rene Highway; song
and dance .sensation Denis Simpson;
musical perfomer Liliane Stilwell; Juno
award winning singer, Shirley Eikhard; the
musical group Cano and Franco-Ontarian
singer and musician, Donald Poliquin.
The Showcase, while saluting the
accomplishments and contributions of each
Ontarian, is intended to epitomize the
Bicentennial slogan, 'celebrating together.'
"One of the most important aspects of our
Showcase is the benefit to the communities.
Not only will it give towns and cities across
the province an opportunity to play host to
some of our top performers, but the revenue
generated by the nominal admission fees
will be donated to local cultural
Ree Highway will dance
organizations chosen by each community
sponsor," Minister Susan Fish said.
Only 1,800 tickets will be sold for the
Huron County show. Contact your local
recreation department' for °tickets or.
information or call 524-2125.
Dinah Christie will sing
Biggest festivities in years
Colborne To
Colborne Township will be celebrating
Ontario's Bicentennial in style this month, •
with probably the biggest festivities seen in
the township for years. .
The party will take place on the weekend
of July 21 and 22. Weather permitting, most
of the activities will be held outside at the
Forester's and the ,township ball diamonds.,
in Benmiller.
The grounds will open on Saturday. July
21 at 11 a.m., and the celebration starts with
an official dedication of a bicentennial
memorial plaque at 1:30. Local dignitaries
will attend, and guests at the ceremony will
include MP Murray Cardiff, MPP Murray
Elstori,Town of Goderich Mayor Eileen
Palmer, and Huron County Warden Tom
Cunningham.
The plaque is to be mounted on a large
boulder in front of the Foresters Hall. The
d,
nship to celebrate Bicentennial in style
udder, now -known as Arnie's Pebble, was
donated by'Arnold.Fisher and family, -and -is
already sitting in place 'in front of the hall.
People•are invited to guess the weight of the
rock _when they 'see it. First prize for the
closest guess' is .a dinner .for two 'at the
Beruniller Inn.
Throughout,the afternoon there will be, a
number of activities. For the children, there
Will be pony cart rides, movies, and a
magician's show by Tom Kubinek every
hour chime the afternoon.
The local Sharp's' Creek Band will be
entertaining throughout the day, and there
will. also be a historical. display in the
basement of the Benmiller United Church.
On both Saturday and Sunday, two bus
tours will leave from Benmiller to visit the
township's historic sites. The tour will run
, about two hours. and will include such sites
as Tiger Dunlop's tomb, old' schools, and the
• Saltford salt sites.
-, At 4 p.m. on Saturday, the Kinburn.
Foresters will .be hosting a pork chop
barbeque. The Benmiller Foresters are
operating a refreshment garden throughout
the day.
After the supper, from 5 to,9 p.M., there
will be -A talent show made up of local
entertainment, including residents and
former residents of the township.
Then at 9 p.m., an open air dance will be
held, with music by "Sound Era." .
In case of rain on Saturday, all the
activities that can be held indoors will be
moved to the Colborne Township )load
Department shed on lot 5, concession 8, just
north of County Road 25.
.Snriday morning begins with a pancake
ea ast from 8 .a.m., to noon. At 2 p.m.,
ere an open air church Memorial
• service at Colborne Township cemetery.
Rev. Robert Bali will be conducting the
service, and musical guests will be the
• MacMillan family and the Goderich
Harbouraires. People planning to attend
this service are asked to wear period
.costumes if this is possible. The church
o service will be held at. Colborne Central
SchOol in the event of rain.
• On Sunday afternoon, the bus tours.vvill
conti,nue, and people are invited to go back
to the Benmiller ball diamonds to visit
family and friends.
People are 'well advised to bring their own
lawn chairs on both days of the celebrations
to ensure a place to sit down' during the day.
The township' was helped' in the
preparation of these celebrations by a grant
received from the Secretary of State of
- Canada, given to help mark Ontario's
Bicentennial.
Board seeks consent to fire anti-nuclear protestor
By Stephanie Levesque
CLINTON - The Iluron County Board of
Education will ix' asking education minister
Dr. Bette Stephenson for permission to fire
anti-nuclear protester .Joanne Young.
After a 3' hour in -camera session, the
board announced at 11 p.m., July 9 that it
would be seeking the provincial minister's
consent. Mrs. Young, a rnath teacher at
South Huron District School in Exeter, has
also been suspended without 14 until the
minister's decision is known.
"During the past. the board has exhausted
ev ery avenue including verbal and written
warnings. Mrs. yobng has been counselled
and after continual refusals to report for
work .she was suspended without pay. Mrs..
Young has been elven the opportunit y
presenting her position to the board in both
Written and verbal form." states a prepared
board press release.
rs. Young, who will await the minister's
decision before she decides whether she will
appeal it, said the board gave her a "fair
hearing'' in itr in -camera session.
I tried to explain my position, why it's
important for me to dp this. Also what
function the education system should be in
facing a nuclear , holocaust." said Mrs.
Young.
She said trustees asked her two or three
questions. particularly -directed at her
suggestion that she take a leave of absence '
ev erytime she wants to participate in an
anti-nuclear priit est.
"I was unable to give them any definite
times though," said Mrs. Young.
Board chairman Eugene Frayne said the
board had made a thoughtful deliberation on
the future of Mrs. Young.
"It's not an easy decision." he said. "I
think the Ward has represented the opinion
of the people." the chairman added,
Trbstee for the Exeter area, Clarence
McDonald agreed. noting it wasn't a
difficult decision for him to make as
representative of the South Huron District
High School parents.
Ile said he has heard nothing but criticism
of Mrs. Young's actions.
-People are fed up with her," 'he said.
"She's being paid to:teach kids...she'd be
better off doing what she feels she should be
doing."
Goderich trustee Dorothy Wallace
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requested a recorded Vote which ended up13
to 3 in favor of seeking the minister's
decision. The board tical ..assisted •in
preparing the resolution by its solicitor Dan
Murphy of Goderich who was in attendance
at the meeting.
Ontario Secondary School Teachers'
Federation OSSTF representative from
Toronto. Jim Ross, was with Mrs. Young as ,
a witness.
Two, local OSSTF representatives were
there to strictly "monitor" the' situation.
Neither the local or the provincial OSSTF
groups have Made decisions regarding Mrs.
Young's future. '
In 'the recorded v'ote,' all trustees were
present and only Tony McQuail, Joan
Vanden Broeck and Dorothy Wallace voted
against it.
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