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Wingham Advance-Times, 1981-07-08, Page 144» TOO HOT TO HANDLE—Clement, Lucan and Sylvia Wai of Wingham found the walk home from the park pretty hot and exhausting on Monday. The children were spotted under a tree in the shade in front of the Armouries, resting up for the walk home. Going out of business SALE Shores Gifts & Jewellery The Square, Goderich China ... Crystal . Watches .. . Jeweliery .. . THOUSANDS OF GIFT ITEMS . ALL REDUCED FOR THIS GREAT CLOSE OUT SALE (owners retiring after 29 years) . . OPEN DAILY: Mon. to Sat. & Fri. evenings VISA MASTERCHARGE COME AND SEE IT One of the largest and finest gift and jewellery stores in the area and EVERYTHING 15 ON SALE! 'Quiet In the ata` . . S tendiddr Blyth Surnmer • O. 11: By Henry Hess If opening night is a promise of things to come, play -lovers are in for a delightful season at the Blyth Summer Festival. A full house sat in com- parative comfort (the air ' conditioning is . a blessing, but the promised rent -a - cushion concession is sorely needed) as the festival opened is season Friday night with a new play, "Quiet In the Land". The. audience clearly took to the play, rewarding it with generous applause following especially moving scenes and a prolonged ovation at the close. However either Blyth audiences are becoming more critical or else the hard seats had taken their toll, for there was no suggestibn of the standing ovation which had become a Blyth trademark in earlier seasons. The play itself is a splendid example of the manner in which the Blyth Summer Fe§tival has progressed during its, young life. Commissioned specifically for the festival, "Quiet In the Land" is a very well written and directed drama. Staging was excellent, with the elaborate and realistic sets by John Ferguson (formerly of the National Arts Centre, Ottawa) mounted on a turn- table which, while somewhat obtrusive, permitted fast and quiet set changesj The play focuses 'j n an Amish community in south- western Ontario at the time of . World War I, and writer Anne Chislett has done a very, commendable job. She treats these little-known end often -misunderstood people 'with gentleness and respect, directing attention to their beliefs as well as their cultural oddities and rejecting the 'temptation to treat them as a circus side- show. While she does not delve Homemakers buy office in Wingham The Town and Country Homemakers have bought their office premises at 92 Victoria Street in Wingham. Jean Young, executive di- rector, reported to the board of directors at its June meeting that $13,000 of the $38,000 purchase price had been raised. This enabled the agency to 'make the necessary down payment to purchase the building which houses its office. ' Earlier this year the Homemakers issued an appeal for donations toward the purchase of the building when they learned the owner had received an oyer to purchase and they 'faced a move to a new location. Previously they had been renting the offices. In other business, at the board meeting, held June 24. at ARC Industries, Dash- wood, the board considered plans to raise . funds needed to subsidizeneedy clients and meet the increased costs of providing homemakers and other home help in Huron. County. A number of ideas were discussed, but nothingwas finalized. Prior to • the meeting, board members were given a guided.. tour of the. training and rehabilitation centre and bakery at ARC Industries . and patronized the food service department by having lunch. ' •••••••••••••• LET THE Winghom Advance -Times HELP YOU PNONE 357-2320 ••e•••••••ei•• ASSOCIATE In business for yourself (but not by yourself) ° as l Mc-Kerlie-Millen Auto Parts Store Owner. If you ate looking for a way to turn a small capital ($25,000 - $50,000) into a big, profitable business of your own, I'd like to meet you. My name is Bob Millson. I'm the Programme Director for the McKerlie-Millen Associate stores. We are planning to make several additional store locations available. Please call me (collect) 519-438-2181 Or write for an interview. McKerlie-Millen P.O, Box 5051 London, Ontario NBA 4L6 deeply into the religious beliefs that led the Amish to cling tenaciously to a 17th - century w,ay of life and the high German tongue, she does °explore. — sometimes humorously — the tensions this can .Create within the group as , well as the prejudice from without. She looks also at their. commitment to pacifism, misinterpreted by outsiders as cowardice or profiteeting. but eloquently •defended during one moving scene. Ms_ Chislett, better known as Anne Roy, one of the founders of the Blyth Summer Festival and wife of James Roy, its first artistic director, provides a veritable smorgasbord of characters with whom Director Guy Sprung ( "Paper Wheat") weaves a many -colored fabric., There are no stars in the conventional sense — no one carries the play single- handed — but several per- formances were particularly gratifying: Beth Amos ( mother of actress and artistic director Janet Amos) in her role as the grandmother, Hannah Bauman, capturing the spirit of the simple but deeply -held faith of the Amish; David Fox, well-known at Blyth, as Christy Bauman, the stern and doctrinaire bishop with a weakness for wine, eloquent in his beliefs and determined to hold 'his people together despite the loss of a son to "the world"; Keith Thorfiar as the son for whom tradition and authority are too confining. He must discover for himself — and finds too late what price he has paid; Kate Trotter, also familiar to Blyth audiences, as Katie Brubacher, the spirited and lovely Amish girl who loves Jake, but loves her people better. "Quiet In the Land" is not without small defects in matters of. dress and doc- Onf. beeffarm�rs to get $30.rnitIion Agriculture and . Food Minister Lorne C. Henderson has announced the details' of a new Ontario emergency Family picnic set for Sunday BELGRAVE — Mark Sun- day, July 12 on your special events calendar,, because that is the date for the second annual family picnic at the Belgrave Arena and . ball park. The Midget girls play off at 3 p.m. followed by an Old Timers game at 4 p.m. (Chil- dren bring your own "trained" frogs for the frog jumping contest.) A delicious pork barbecue will be served at 5 p.m. to 7. p.m. with all the trimmings. trine, but. theSe woWd::p$t . obvious to anyone not very familiar with the /gash and do not (tetrad frOnt the play. However: the tiny, vest- pocket books flourished whenever the Bible iis•ealled for are ridiculous. 41,0YQ0e who has ever ,seen a family Bible in high Gertfan knows it is a tome more akin in size to the unabridged Oxford dictionary than to • a dinle store • novel. And , the tiny. books are totally out „pf character for a people 'to whom the Bible IS so-niueh a part of life they can`debate. by citing chapter and verse: Surely the props depart ment can do better than that! program to give $30 million to'beef feeders. He said the emergency payment. will be $40 per animal for .slaughter cattle, "as a koyernment contribu- tion to cover some.ofthe loss incurred oneach animal". The payments will be based on the 1980 sales• of finished cattle and tc qualify, a farmer :must havesold at least 10 animals in 1980. Details of the program will appear on application forms which will. be available at agricultural represetatives' offices in mid-July..-:... Mr. Henderson also an nounced that the Ontario Farm Income Stabilization Commission and the Ontario Cattlemen's Association are discussingthe possibility of a beef -cattle stabilization program beginning in 1981. Jenny's arm didn't costS6,oaipoo (but itcost enough) Your Key Tag donation will help us buy her the new, $6,000 my0- electric arm she needs, and that health plans cannot provide. Amputees working for amputees. ©The Wer An9pa. Key Tag Sera►ece 140 Merton Street, Toronto, Ont. M481A5 Dietl toll free: Toronto: 486-0600 Ares codes 519, 513, 706: 1-800-288-8821 All other codes: 1-800-2684917 KATE TROTTER & JANET AMOS, as Katie and Lydle Bruhacher in ,"Quiet Uri the Land", a splendid drama which opened the Blyfh Summer Festival .last week- end, The play by,Anne Chislett is set among tho•Amish of Southwestern Ontario and takes a compassionate look t this small group which attempts to cling to a 17th -century culture. (Photo by Hocking) wn Council Shorts Town council has decided to proceed with filling the drainage ditch at the end of Highland Drive in Maitland Estates, , instead of con- tinuing to debate - whose responsibility it is. Monday night council authorized its works depart- ment to fill and level the ditch, which residents of the subdivision had complained represents a hazard to small children. Councillor Dick LeVan said the ownership of the piece of property containing the ditch is unclear, although it appears to be registered in the town's name, but added that it has to be fixed and the only question is who pays for it. The question who will build the children's playground in Maitland Estates is still up in the air. Mr. LeVan said it has been established the so- called Tot Lot belongs to the town, but it is not clear who is supposed to develop it. ` Council also -passed a resolution giving the developer until the end of October to complete the paving of Highland Drive, or the town will do it and bill for it. It noted this would allow the job to be, tied in with the paving of Francis Street later this summer. Mayor Bill Harris urged all councillors to set aside the weekend of July 81 -Aug. 2 to attend Wingham Day in the sister city of Standish, Michigan. Standish is planning a big bash in honor of this town, he said, with attractions in- cluding horse shows and races, a fair, dinner and dancing. The local Legion branch is chartering a bus for the trip and billeting can be arranged through John Strong, the mayor reported, adding he has been amazed at the number of Standish folks who attend events here and thinks it is a -shame not many from. Wingham pay a visit in return. He said he plans, to make sure, the event is well ad- vertised so that as many local residents as possible will make the trip that weekend. 0-0-0 The, town has agreed to match dollars with the Wingham Business Associa- tion to buy new flags for the main street. The flags ' which were bought and mounted on the street light poles during the centennial year are getting ratherfadedand tattered, Councillor Pat Bailey reported, and the business association has offered to plit the cost of new flags. She estimated the town share would be about $200. The flags cost' $15 to $18 each and need replacing every two years, she told council. 0-0-0 Five members have been appointed to a local archi- tectural conservation ad- visory committee (LACAC) for the town of Wingham. They are Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Eaton, Brian McKague, Sandra Lee, Pat Bailey and Tom Miller. These five were the only ones to respond so far to a council request for volun- teers to sit on the committee, however additional ap- plications are invited and MRS. JOE WALKER council would like to have more than five on the group. The duties off the com- mittee will include carrying out an inventory of historical buildings in town and making recommendations to council on the designation of historical buildings. Special grants are available for the preservation of buildings so designated. To date only the old Wingham post office building has been designated as historically valuable. Council passed that bylaw Monday night. Bluevale Personal Notes 1 Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Henning were Mr: • and Mrs. Graham Wray of Brantford, Jean and Grant Wilton of Wingham. • On June 26 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Perry and family visited the Wallacetown Dutton area where fir. and Mrs. Perry attended the wedding. of a -friend Friday evening., On Sunday . the family attended the Sunday School promotion service at the Wallacetown • United Church when a . tree . the Sunday School had planted in • memory of Lorrie Perry was dedicated by ' Rev. Ernest Fellows. During Mr. Perry's absence, Paul Elgie was in charge of services at White- church and Bluevale. On Sunday, July 5, the Robert Perry famltily had a surprise visit from Mr. Perry's aunt; Mrs. Robert Fowler of Ridgetown, ' and his. cousin, Mrs. Ken Hall, London. use the WANT ADS WINGHAM 357-2320 for Ontario Junior Citizens of the Year The purpose This program will be inaugurated in Ontario to provide recognition for outstanding achieyeRents or acts of courage and initiative, by boys and girls between the ages of six and eighteen years. It will include individual awards presented fo'r meritorious conduct, and Special group awards for recognition of the efforts of young people throughout the communities of the province. The reason Extraordinary deeds of Ontario boys and girls are often performed within the community. We need you, the local nominators and newspaper editors, to bring these outstanding young people to our attention, so that we will be able to give them the honour and public recognition, which they so richly deserve. Who is eligible Young individuals who have performed acts of heroism, perhaps endangering their own lives, overcoming disabling physical or psychological handicaps to match or exceed their peers, or being involved in some worthwhile community service endeavour. For further information contact your focal newspaper or Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association, Tel: 1-800-268-5054 for a brochure. afnorneilerannommuninier A COMMUNITY PROJECT OF CP AIR AND THIS NEWSPAPER. 0: ¢ ► xnobai Atitanctegittuti P.O. Box 390 Wingham; Ontario NOG 2W0 CP IILN Air CP era c are resiuered (iedcmuki or Canadian Pacific Linriud.