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The Blyth Standard, 1978-07-05, Page 1Auburn Tractor Pull Attracts 3,000 Over 3000 persons attended the first tractor pull for the Village of Auburn 125th birthday party in 1979, Saturday on the Athletic Field, Early in the morning the committees in charge were out getting ready for the event which vas a santioned pull by the Western Ontario Tractor Pullers Association, The starting time was loudly announced by blasts from Warner Andrews' steam engine at 12 noon. The announcer was Hartley McHarg of Clifford and he was assisted by Miss Sandra Popp of R.R.1 Auburn. The registration was in charge of Mrs, Murray Popp, R.R.1 Auburn and Carol Dutot, R,R.3 Clinton. The weigh station at Bill Robertson's farm was in charge of Mr, and Mrs. Bill R(bertson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Popp are members of the WOPTA and Mrs. Popp is the treasurer and Mr. Popp is the sled operator. Local residents and members of the 125th birthday committee assisted in many ways during last Saturday and before in preparing the grounds, Ithe members of the Lion's Club for lunch bar and the Auburn Junior Farmer for the Mood and drink booth on the grounds. There were 52 entries and the results were: ASENIOR MOVES IN= -Wednesday was moving day for the new residents of the Blyth Senior Citizens apartment building and Pearl McNall of R. R. #1, Hensall was one of the first residents to move in. Here she puts some of her things away. (Standard Photo) e VALEDICTORIAN—Kent Van Vliet had an average of 96.4 and won the proficiency award. Kent is the son of Con and Lois Van Vliet, Blyth. The awards were presented Tuesday night at the graduation dinner. In Morris anda WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1978 BLYTH, ONTARIO, PRICE: 20 Cents Volume 88 -- No. 27 At Belgrave Co-op d OPP foil break-in Winghatu OPP foiled a break and enter attempt at the Belgrave Co-op late Monday afternoon and have one suspect in custody. Bernard McQuaid, 19 of Power off Sunday night's power failure in the Seaforth-Blyth area was caused by a cat on the wires of the Seaforth transformer station. The power outage, around midnight Sunday, lasted slightly more than live minutes. A spokesman from Ontario Hydro said the blackout was attributed to a "cat in the bus (transformer station) at the Seaforth transformer station." When the cat landed on the low tension feeder, it shorted the line, resulting in the blackout. One of the employees had to knock the cat off the lines with the switch stick before power could be restored. Clerk gets raise By Debbie Ranney Following a lengthy discussion, Morris Township Council made some concessions in the income of Township clerk Jane Badley who had offered her resignation a month ago. In the end, a motion was made and carried that Mrs. Badlcy be paid $75 a month rent, retroactive to the first of January for using her home as an office and that she would be paid $916.30 for hours and mileage for the Association of Municipal clerks and Tresaures of Ontario course that she took in London to make up for extra hours she had worked in the spring on the liquor vote: In addition Mrs, Badley will be paid $517.50 for typewriter chairs and desk, so that the township %vin now have ownership of the office equipment. She will also be paid for other mileage and for her telephone bills on behalf of the township. The clerk started to keep a time sheet on June 19 and her wages are to be adjusted on November 1 to $5 per hour as per her time sheet from June 19. Council heard from Ken Henry and Dianne English of the Bluevale Recreation Association who were in need of money for purchasing things for the ball diamond. Mr. Henry told council that the association had put playground equipment right on the boundary of Morris and Turnberry. He said they had put in a slide, a climber, tow new teeter-totters, four swings, new bleachers and a new backstop for the ball diamond. The association plans to resurface the diamond and fence both sides of it. They also want to extend the diamond to make it look a little bit bigger. He said right now the group has a balance of $1,914.90, He told council members that Blue - vale would really like to get lights for the ball park. "I think when we can show.:a really good ball diamond, we can get lights," he said, He also said the township of Turnberry had given a donation of $1,000. Morris held a recreation meeting after the adjournment of the regular council meeting and decided to give the Bluevale group a grant of $300. In other business, council de- cided that Murray Reid should spray approximately 50 miles of toad on sideroads 2.3 and 4 at $6 a mile and that the township supply the spray. Morris also received a letter frons Brussels council regarding their share of the deficit on the senior citizens apartment in Brussels. Their share would be 25 per cent according to the number of people in the building from Morris. The clerk was instructed to write Brussels that Morris had agreed to pay 15 per cent of the operating deficit until a new agreement was drawn up. The plowing match was also discussed raid councillor Ross Procter suggested that a few members of council attend a meeting of the Plowman's As- sociation and ask if council could do anything for them. Council decided to give a donation of $10 to the Huron Historical Society. Seaforth, has been charged with break and enter with intent at the United Co-operatiyes Storage shed on Highway 4 in Belgrave. He was remanded in custody to July 6 for a bail hearing in Winghanl. ,lim Nclenluns, branch manager of the Co-op, said the break and enter was discovered when Wingham OPP on their way back from the Fleck Manufacturing strike in Huron Park noticed a strange car in the parking lot. Since the Co-op was closed Monday for the Canada Day Holiday, the police decided to pull in about 4:30 p.m. A gate at the front of the building which !cads to the back yard was also open acid the car was parked at the back of the building. McQuaid and an accomplice escaped through the long grass but with the OPP tracking dog from the Mount Forest detach- ment and a number of officers, he was captured about five miles away from the Belgrave Co- operative at 11:30 p.m. About four OPP cruisers plus the Winghanl police department cruiser were used in the search. Constable Harold McKittrick of the Winghanl OPP who is the investigating officer says the OPP would be pleased to have the assistance of anyone spotting any suspicious person in the Belgrave area on Mondsiv. AS THE CROWD WATCHEDOver3,000 people attended the tractor pull at Auburn Saturday. The proceeds are for the 125 celebrations to take place next year. There were 52 entries attending from all over the province. (Seeger Photo) 2 — THE BLYTH STANDARD, JULY 5, 1978 Bridal shower honours CGross Miss Carol Gross was guest of honour Wednesday evening at a bridal shower held in the Sunday school room of the church, The room was attractively decorated 1vith white and pink wedding bells and also the special chairs on the, platform, Mrs. Doreen McCullough ;was mistress of ceremonies and opened the program with a piano solo by Glenyce McClinchey. Mrs, Ross Dacr gave a reading "The Groom". A contest --what the bride takes on her honeymoon --was conducted by Glenyce McClinchey and the winner was Mrs, Barry Millian. A duct composed by Mrs. Ross Dacr telling about the romance between Larry and Carol was sung by Glenyce McClinchey and Julie Dacr. Mrs. Daer was the accompanist. Corsages were pinned on Ca.rol Gross by her aunt, Mrs. Elva Brown, Mrs. Gordon Gross on tch groom's mother, Mrs, Ross Lovett and the bride's mother Mrs. Harold Gross by Mrs, Doreen McCullough and these NVere, escorted to the platform. Mrs. Keith Good read the address of congratulations and good wishes and gifts were presented by Anita Gross, Elaine Gross, Sharon Gross, Julie Dacr and Glenyce McClinchey. Janice Daer placed the gifts on the table for display after they were opened. The bridebook, used for registration, was in charge of Mrs. Leonard Deveau and the winner of the door prize was Mrs. Kenneth McDougall. The lucky chair prize went to Mrs. Robert Turner. The anniversary nearest July 8 was won by Mrs. Barry Millian. The lucky cup prize went to Mrs. Frank Raithby. Carol thanked her friends and relatives for the many gifts and invited them all to her home to view the gifts on July 10 and 11, Lunch was served by neighbours and friends, Auburn Personals Daily Vacation Bible School will be held in Knox United Church next week July 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for 3 to 12 year olds. MissesM. Jean Houston, Jean C. Jamieson and P. Tracey, all of Toronto spent the weekend with Mrs. Frances Clark, Mrs. Celia Taylor of Goderich visited on Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnston and Miss Laura Phillips. Miss Shelley Haggitt of Zurich is visiting with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Haggitt. We arc sorry to report that Fred Lawrence is again in Victoria hospital and Fred Wagner is still a patient there. We wish them both a south, recovery. Sale starts Women's Summer SANDALS Men's Short Sleeved SHIRTS Men's Work CLOTH ESand WNW Thur., July 6 at 20O discount 20% discount BOOTSat 1 0 o discount Work R. W. MadilUs Shoes, Men's & Boys' Wear Blyth Ontario Clinton Dry Cleaners pick up at Madill's on Thurs and Frit BUSINESS DIREC ORY ELLIOTTrii REAL ESTATE AGENCY Gordon Elliot, Broker ' R. John Elliott, Salesman PHONES: Blyth Office 523.4481 Res. 523-4522 or 523-4323 • WANTED Listings on Farms, • Homes and Business = �� .� "" y On , • HOURS: 1 OLD MILL IN BLYTH Factory •Outlet y 0 WOOL AND LEATHER 11` PRODUCTS YOUR CHOICE FROM :7 I ONE OF THE LARGEST INVENTORIES ON THIS Blyth CONTINENT 9.6 Telephone 523.9666 - 6 WARD UPTIGROVE CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS LISTOWELI ONT. 291-3040 Geo. Burkholder AUTO BODY COLLISION REPAIRS & REFINISHING TOWING SERVICE 24 HOURS A DAY Phone 523-9474 Rainton Limited, WINTER Monday • Thursday Fri. 9.9 Sat. 9 - 6 Sun. REID & PETERSON C h a r t e redDISCS Accountant 218 JOSEPHINE ST. 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CENTRE Fertilizer, Custom Blending, Hour Home Heat Service, and Watering Equipment, 357.2711 BP GENERAL REPAIRS OF ALL TYPES TOWING SERVICE 24 HOURS A DAY GRIFFITH'S B P Blyth 523.4501 523.9635 H. T. DALE SEPTIC TANK PUMPING SERVICE CLINTON PHONE 482-3320 or 527-0284 314)4 , 1314)44c4.77 c co '� `` HURON 78 -c) WHETSTONEGORE'S FRED LAWRENCE FURNITURE Electrical T.V.& Appliances, AUBURN Contractor Inglis Appliances & Electrohome TV's SALES & SERVICE, ' HOME FARM AND Seita Mattresses COMMERCIAL WIRING Kroehler & Sklar Furniture PHONE AUBURN 526-7505 Phone hone 526.7222 OIL BURNER SERVICE ALLAN BOSMAN Home Heating Furnace Servicing and Cleaning Box 255 Londesboro, Ont. NOM 2110 523.4286 HOME H ARDWARE 523-9273 Hardware, Gifts, T.V. & Stereos & Hot -Point appliances. --"`-- ELLIOTT INSURANCE !Boost your Income! AGENCY BLYTH Ont. ,., BUY THIS i -4481: Res.OIL Phones: Office 523523.4323 INSURANCE 1N ALL BRANCHES SPACE Fire Windstorm Court and Other Bonds TO DAY Automobile Burglary Plate Glass Liability • All Kinds Life Guarantee Call 523-9646 Inland Transportation Accident & Sickness All Risks Furs, Jewelry LYLE YOUNGBLUT BURNER SALES &SERVICE 'Your oil Heating Contractor' BLYTH ONTARIO PHONE 523.9585 � Now' ''kc ► s, � N,a HURO y 1111k7110 . THE BLYTH STANDARD, JULY 5, 1978 — 3 GRADE EIGHT GRADS—Graduation from Hullett Central School in Londesboro last Tuesday were front row from left: Helena Tresma, Bev Overholt, Wendy Powell, Carol Seers, Karen Farquhar, Carrie Crawford, Teresa Konarski, Nancy Penfound, Debby Cunningham. In the middle row from left are: Michael Andrews, Christine Van Spengen, Lana From me to you by Rhea Hamilton Already summer has set in on my mind and only trivia comes to the top when 1 sit down in front of the typewriter. There are so many things going on in the world at large that surely there must be something I can write about with some authority and perception. But the truth of the matter is that in summer m_ y mind is so wrapped up in events going on Tight here at home that the time necessary to keep ideas flowing seems to have flown the coop. The students are all out of school now and the majority of workers arc getting through the lazy summer days with thoughts of week long vacations or the next long weekend for relaxing in the back yard with an ice cold drink. The store keepers have slowed down and the sales, though steady, arc not something to rave about. Even the auctions have slowed in number and it is not a chore to dioose which one to go to because they are all so promising with treasures. The thoughts uppermost in my mind are around the home, The lack of rain around the farms Summer makes watching the droop syndrome in the garden a sad sight to witness. The work we do hauling buckets of water out to the garden and the new fruit trees may be satisfying when the leaves perk up but the ache afterwards from using muscles too long ignored is the greater sensation. Amidst the trivia floating around now are the recent stories about bears and the accidents involved with them. Just this week a young woman was mauled by her boyfriend's wrestling bear. Although reported to be gentle, the creature was a wild animal and all wild animals arc known, among professionals, as being unpre- dictable. With this thought in mind the travellers who know of bears in their camping arca should keep this in mind. Too often children see young animals on their trips and a hand goes out to pct without ever thinking about the consequences. Another item that has come to light is the caution from Consumer and Corporate Affairs of Canada that campers should be aware of hazards if they have an Lockwood, Steve Popp, David Scott, Bruce Hunking, Niel Cartwright, Michael Harris, David Plant, Harry Vanderlei, Bobby Penfound, and Wade Clark. In the back row are Cameron Moon, John Lawson, Sally Pollard, Barbara Gross, Joe Veleke, Helen Kolkman, Jane Bell, Kathy Radford, Sharon Dale, Robert Snell and Lance Livingston. trivia open flame in or near a tent. It's possible for a non -flame retarded cotton tent to burn to the ground in as little as 45 seconds. In fact, any cotton tent that hasn't been treated with flame retardent will ignite easily and burn rapidly when exposed to an open flame, Similarly, nylon tents can be ignited but will burn much less rapidly. They recommend that no fires be lit near the tent or lamps inside the tent. To bring along a portable fire extini. uisher and a knife inside the tent to cut yourself out would be wise precautions. Friday is the first night for the Blyth Summer Festival theatre and the tickets arc already sold out to the dinner and hopefully to the first performance of the season. Blyth should be proud to have a theatre troupe in its' midst. Not many communities of this size have something so nice to offer the county and arca. We hope you enjoy the theatre special issue in this week's Standard. Copies will be available for visitors all summer at the Festival. See you at the show Friday. Regular COOLITLEJffH THESE VRLUE$ Schneiders' Soft GROUND BEEFL49Ib. MARGARINE 10lb.or more $1.39 Ib. 201b.or more $1.29 Ib. Schneiders' Frozen Roasting CHICKENS 11"ver. ,q51Beef ^. BLADE STEAKS1 .29b. Beef SIDES 1.331e. Beef HINDS � 1.681b. 6 flavors FRONTS 1.091b. LARD Schneiders' .551b .491b. SHORTNING .551e. Clover Cream 2 Litre ICE. CREAM cut, wrapped, quick frozen 99ea . Reg. price X1.59 BLYTH MEAT MARKET Phone 523-4551 Open 6 days a week 8 • 6 Friday 'till 9 Custom Killing BEEF AND PORK FOR HOME FREEZERS Cutting & Wrapping We reserve the right to limit quantities to average family requirements. air conditioned, 74 FORD LTD $2,500certified. geRkijk Phone 357-1441 Wingham. 108 Scott Street, Wingham. FM - Two Way RADIO SALES & INSTALLATION FOR FARM OR BUSINESS Bowes Electronics Hamilton St. BLYTH 523-4412 Agricultural qa Backhoe e�f. 4 with Front-end Loader Lisenced to install septic tanks TOM CRONIN 523-4223 4t4 ¢o 11 ips Towers r ,- CRAWFORD MOTORS. WINGHAM ,ONTARIO $*1EPRICED,, SII OF BETTER USED CARS 2-1977 CHRYSLER NEW YORKERS 4D -HT 11976 PLYMOUTH FURY 4D 2-1976 PLYMOUTH GRAND FURY 1975 CHEVROLET BISCAYNE 1975 PLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER 1975 DODGE MONACO 1975 CHRYSLER Lily equipped 1975 DODGE '/2 TON TRUCK Low Mileage 1975 BU ICK ESTATE WAGON 1975 DODGE '/2 TON TRUCK 1974 PONTIAC LAURENTIAN 1974 DODGE MONACO 1974 O LDSMO B I LE 2 Door Hardtop 1974 MAVERICK 4 D 1974 PONTIAC ASTRE 1974 CHEV AL CAMINO 1974 CHEV 4 DOOR 1974 DODGE 3/4 TON PICK-UP 1974. PLYMOUTH SATELITE 4 ll Low Mileage 1973 PLYMOUTH FURY 1973 DODGE POLARA CUST0114D 1970 CUTLASS 1969 GMC 3/a TON PICK-UP ?57-;1862 4 — THE BLYTH STANDARD, JULY 5, 1978 the standard Subscription rates Canada $9,00 Outside Canada, $16.00 (in advance) Single copies: 20 cents Established 1891 Serving BLYTH and the surrounding community. Published each Wednesday afternoon at Blyth, Ontario by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LIMITED Andrew Y. McLean, Publisher Rhea Hamilton Editor and Advertising Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and ABC Box 10, Blyth, Ontario, NOM 1H0 Telephone 519-523-9646 Authorized as second class mail by Canada Post Office, Registration Number 1319 Our highways Canadians are killed in automobile accidents at the rate of more than ten a day and it has been estimated that between five and ten per cent of the beds in our general hospitals are occupied by traffic -accident victims. Our highways are awfully bloody. Faulty design and mechanical ,failure have contributed significantly to the blood -sacrifice exacted from us for the privilege of having automobiles. Manufacturers, prodded by public opinion and governmental action and probably by their own consciences, are showing increasing responsibility in the design and making of automobiles. Most garagemen seem to be men of basic honesty and competence, but there is ample evidence that some of them do careless work on our cars and trucks. But if every manufacturer and garageman agreed not to put a vehicle on the road until it had received Ralph Nader's personal stamp of approval, we would still have serious road safety problems. When we have said all that there is to be said about the makers and maintainers of automobiles, we still have to come to terms with responsibilities of drivers, your responsibilities and mine. A few years ago the Roman Catholic Church in France declared certain driving faults to be "sins", which must be confessed. A spokesman for the French bishops pointed out that these are all "sins of pride", and among them he listed dangerous speeding, illegal passing, and drunken driving. W 'e are all proud of our driving ability: one gets the impression that about 95 per cent of all drivers consider themselves above average in driving ability. Many of us, perhaps most of us, undergo subtle personality changes when we get behind the wheel of a powerful automobile --and a false and dangerous pride is an important element in these changes. Road safety is not merely an engineering and legal concern: it is also a significant issue in personal morality, a matter of personal integrity. A British organization, "Christian Action", used to publish advertisements in which this declaration was made: "Carelessness on the roads is sometimes a crime --it is always a sin.'' (The United Church) July 1 fireworks on Lake Huron Behind the scenes WILL HE MAKE IT?—The winner of the 7,000 class open is Art Helm of Lucknow who drove The Noisey Lady at the Auburn Tractor Pull, Saturday. Over 3,000 people watched. and there were 52 entries in the pull. Proceeds are for Auburn's 125th celebrations next year. (Seeger Photo) By Keith Roulston Smells of Summer it's hard to remember in the heat of July, why so many Canadians abandon this country every winter to seek warmer climates. As 1 drive down our dusty concession on the way to town these days, I find it unbelievable that only a few short months ago there were days when the car couldn't even make it along the road. Where the roadside grass and weeds now grow were once towering snowbanks. If you told a stranger from another land all this, he'd think you were out of your nut. While many miss the heat of Canadian summer and try to recapture it on the beaches of Florida or Mexico what I'd really like to remember next January as I push nay car out of a snowbank for the thirty-fifth time are some of the other things of summer, things, I'm afraid that aren't so easily recaptured. For instance, they cut the hayfield beside our house this past week and released one of the most subtle and pleasant sensations in the world: the scent of new mown hay drifting in male warm air. Keep your Chanel No. 5 or all your other expensive, commercial smelly things, nothing can match that smell. And Miami Beach or the Bahamas aren't going to be able to bring that smell next winter either. in fact about the closest you're likely to come is to visit a neighbourhood barn at feeding time when that sante hay is loosed for the cattle and some of the old perfume returns. There's another precious smell of summer I'd love to be able to bottle too, that's the spring air laden with the sweet smell of lilac blossoms, or for that matter, cherry blossoms. The perfums fills the air for a few brief days then is gone'for another year, leaving only the memory. It's this fleeting quality of course that makes it precious. The weather of summer lasts for months but the really special things conte and go in hours. There are tastes of summer that will be, missed more next winter than the hot weather too. How in January can one adequately remember the exquisite pleasure of biting into a strawberry fresh from a strawberry patch. You can freeze them of course and they'll seem a delight when the snow is deep around the house, but they're not a patch on the real thing. You can buy imported strawberries in a supermarket but they've long lost their freshness in the trip north and can't possibly compare. Or how about a tomato, picked from your own garden, brought into the hosue, washed and sliced. All storebought tomatoes are a pale imitation of the taste experience one gets from those super fresh tomatoes. It's the sante with corn taken directly from the plant to the pot or with fresh peas, picked at their peak of flavour and prepared immediately before they can lose any of their sweetness. I'm drooling already and I've just finished breakfast. The 'one common denominator about all those things is that money just can't buy any of them. The irony is that in our affluent modern society, a smaller proportion of the populations is enjoying these pleasures today than 50 years ago. It's hard to smell the subtle hint of lilac on the air when the air is filled 1Nith gasoline exhaust in Agincourt or White Oaks. Hay fields are a little hard to find in the Huddle of Kitchener or Hamilton. People are eating "fresh" fruits'and vegetables all year long, but they never get to taste what the fruit or vegetable really is like before it's picked green, shipped hundreds or thousands of miles and left to sit for two or 'three days before it goes in the display case. Canadians have so many material things today that tljeir grandparents could never have dreamed, of, but they're also missing so many precious', things that their grandparents took for granted. I guess it depends which you think is more important, two cars or the taste of really fresh vegetables, but 1 really wonder if the average Canadian is better off than his grandfather. The tragedy is that fewer and fewer people will have the chance to enjoy these natural pleasures in the future if we continue to drive people off the farm and discourage small towns in favour of cities. People soon will think a real tomato tastes strange because they've grown up used to the poor imitations they buy in their city stores, much the same as many of us don't know what real orange juice tastes like anymore because we're so used to the processed imitation. Ah well, let then suffer. We people in the country and in small, towns where everybody has a small garden still know the real joys of summer. Conte January our summer thoughts will not so much be of baking on the beach but of eating in the kitchen, of smelling the air in the back yard. We'll know that summer is more than a tan all over and we'll know that even if we make that trip south, we won't be recapturing a really Canadian summer. Some things about summer just can't be bought. THE BLYTH STANDARD,JULY 5, 1978 - 5 Churches have joint services Knox United Church Auburn and Donnybrook United Church held their first joint service for the summer months on Sunday July 2nd at 10:: a.m,. Rev, Earl St. Jean, minister and Rev, Maldwyn Roberts a former minister of the Auburn Charge conducted the service of worship, Two beautiful solos were rendered by Miss Margaret Roberts -Happiness is the Lord and Heaven came down and glory shone around, accompanied by the church organist Mrs. Norman Wight - man. The offering was received by Mr. Greg Park and Mr, Norman Wightman. Rev, Roberts based his sermon on St. Luke, 16:19-31 verses. The parable of the rich man and Lazarus, in which Mr. Roberts pointed out that the sin of the rich man was mainly his indifferentecce to the sufferings of others, his ingrained selfishness and depreciation of the scriptures. Atif3LRN NEtiVS Bureau editor: MRS. ELEANOR BRADNOCK Rev. and Mrs. Roberts and family Margaret, William and Anna were holiday guests at the manse with Rev. and Mrs. Earl St. Jean and David. They have recently celebrated 25 years of marriage and in November, Mr. Roberts will observe 25 years ordination in the ministry. On March 19th of this year they came on furlough from the Argentine and are planning to return in Mid -September to their work in Patagonia. Before this they are comtemplating a trip to their homeland of Wales to visit relatives. During their stay in Canada they have been doing deputation work for the Division of World Outreach of the United Church of Canada, mostly in the London Conference. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts will be attending the incoming missionary Conference being held at Cedar Glen where they will meet with other missionaries from all over the world. Following the morning service a fellowship hour and lunch was enjoyed in the Church Sunday school, room, It was interesting to hear that William Roberts is working at the Young Street Mission in Toronto helping derelicts in Skid Row. Margaret Roberts plans to enter her 4th year of studies in the Prairie Bible Institute at three Hills, Alberts, Anna Roberts is preparing for the 4th grade in Spanish Primary school in Argentine. Rev. and Mrs, Roberts and Anna plan to return to their missionary work by niid- September, The good wishes and prayers of the Auburn Charge go %%Rh them as they work for the Christian Outreach in 'a very unsettled and dangerous part of the world. The 52nd annual memorial service was held last Sunday with Rev. Dan Sargent, rector of the St. Mark's Anglican Church in charge; He accompanied for the singing of the hymns on his guitar and also' a choir composed of members from Toronto, Goderich -Blyth and Auburn members, Mr. James Towe read the New Testament lesson. Frank Raithby chairman of the Trustee Board welcomed all and stated that it was most gratifying to see the large attendance and the beautiful floral tributes placed on the graves throughout the ceme- tery. He thanked Mrs. Robert Slater, secretary treasurer for her work and in being in charge of registration for the service. He thanked Robert Turner for his past work as superintendent and stated that he hoped the same co-operation would be given to the new superintendent, George Collins. Mr. Sargent gave an inspiring message likening life 10 the life of a caterillar explaining the theology of death as told by St. Paul. He told about the Purpose of Life to climb t0 the top and the heritage passed on to everyone -- Jesus Christ gives purpose to life and death. The service was planned by the Trustee Board, Frank Rait hby, chairman, Norman McDowell, Robert Arthur. Mrs. Robert Slater is secretary- taasurer and George Collins is superintendent. Personals Recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Longman were Mr, and Mrs. Fred Yungblut of Woodstock, Ontario. Mr, and Mrs. Clayton Robertson of Meaford and Mr. and Mrs. William Rieck of Kitchener were guests of Mrs. Elva Straughan and Mr, and Mrs, 'Thomas Jardin and attended the memorial service at Ball's cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Leather - land and family of Acton visited last Saturday ‘s'ith relatives in the annum y Mr. and Mrs. Ed Haines of Pick your own STRAWBERRIES Open 8 a.m.Daily Sundays Included NO POTS OR PANS! BRING YOUR OWN QUART BOXES 2.4 or 6 QT. BASKETS quart boxes can be purchased County Road 12 to Kippen First concession after curve, turn left, third farm on right. WATCH FOR SIGNS. 15 ACRES IRRIGATED JACK BELL RR2 Kippen 262-5878 Niagara Falls are holdaying with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Donald Haines. Mr, and Mrs, Luther Morley of Alsia Craig visited last Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hamilton, Miss Wanda Plaetzer of London and Mr, and Mrs. Terry Foran of Woodstock spent the week -end with her parents Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence Plaetzer and brother Mr. Larry Plaetzer. Mr. and Mrs, Larry Chamney of Kitchener spent the holiday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Chamney and other relatives. UCW The Anglican Church Women of St. Mark's Anglican Church net last Thursday at the hone of Mrs, Andrew Kirkconnell with the president Mrs, Donald Cartwright in charge. She welcomed all and opened the meeting with the hymn, Blest be the tie that binds. Mrs. Thomas Haggitt read the scripture lesson from Collosians 3:12 to 17 verses. This was followed by meditation and prayer by Mrs. Kirkconnell, The Living Message was read alternately and the hymn, Dear Lord and Father of Mankind was read in unison. Mrs. Cartwright took charge of the business and thanked every- one for taking part in the program. The minutes were approved as read by the secretary Mrs, John Daer. Mrs. Thomas Haggitt, the treasurer gave the financial statement. The roll call itwas answered by quoting a Bible verse with a flower mentioned in it and the travelling apron passed around. The offering was received and dedicated and the correspondence read, Business was discussed and the meeting closed with the singing of Grace. Lunch was served by Mrs. Kirkconnell assisted by Mrs. Lillian Leatherland. (Continued on Page 12) SNELL'S FOOD MARKET Maxwell House all -Purpose *GROUND COFFEE 1 Ib. 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SCHNEIDERS MEATS "Store Sliced" Old Fashioned Skle BACON per lb. 1.69 "Store Sliced" Fully Cooked TURKEY ROLL per lb. 2.49 Farmers Market SAUSAGE 1 ib. pkg. 1.49 BEEF BURGERS 2.49 2 lb. box III McCain's Green Apple or APPLE PIE each Golden Maple 2 Ib. bag KERNEL CORN inn 1.09 .59 Valley Farms FRENCH FRIES 2 lb. bag .39 Open 6 days a week OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT till 9 Phone 523-9332 We Deliver We reserve the right to limit quantity of sales. 10(Ui°1.1t '\fIN;1 Londesboro Church has birthday it was a big birthday party at Londesborough United Church Maulsc on Wednesday when well over two hundred people from throughout Huron -Perth Presby - The Manse has been the honk of the Methodist and then the United Church ministers since its erection. Persons attending the Opcn winding staircase is characteristic fo the 1 870's, as are the once five large bedrooms on the second floor. While installing a modern bathroom a three hundred gallon OPEN HOUSE—Rev. Stanley McDonald, minister of the United Church in Londesboro held an open house on Wednesday at the manse which was built 100 years ago. Helping to serve tea to the guests were: on the left_Olive Knisley whose husband is chairman of the Presbytery and Doris Zurbrigg of Listowel, president of the Huron -Perth Presbyterial. (Standard Photo) tory and the soca community attended the Open -House 1 00th Anniversary celebrations. 'l'hc half acre piece of property on which the Manse is situated was purchased on February 12, 1878 and the contract for the building of the then "Methodist Church Parsonage was let for the sum of two thousand dollars, on March 28, 1878. The Manse was built 111 the summer oI' 1878. House wcrc given a tour of the 1(X) year oldhousc. The building is constructed of solid brick and it \vas noted that when the house was wired for hydro it was found that all partitions in the home are also constructed ol sol Id brick and therefore all the switches for light had to be installed on One \Vali in the hallway which was the only wail not of brick. The Forge open hall way and entrance with the \valet. tank was found suspended down from the attic, constructed of heavy steel, with a case of two inch thick planks around it. This was once fed by the windmill on the lot, prior to the ixlwcr being installed, and gave running water to the residence of the home, 'i'hc only major change made in the house were two open verandahs taken off the house, one on the I'lont of the house and the other Shobbrook family has 50 members oI' Shobbrook family met at Lions Park Scat'orth on Sunday July 2 at 1 p.nl. for their 43rd annual reunion. Presidnet Muriel Millson conducted the meeting. Blessing was sung and a minute silence Herd for past nlcnlbcrs. A smorgasbord dinner was enjoyed. Minutes of last year's picnic was read by secretary treasurer Beth Knox. It was moved to havc picnic next year Sunday July 1 at Clinton. Bayfield Conservation Park at 12:30 noon. Nominating Committee Rose and Harold Crich presented the following )I'ticcrs: Past President, Muriel end Ross Millson; President Cliff and Kay Saundercock; Vice President, Bill and Verna (.ribbings; Secretary Treasurer Beth Knox; Sports Committee Vicki and Dan Colquhoun, Valerie and Rob Miller; Table Committee, Gordon and Darlene Shobbrook, Harold and Rose Crich; Nominating Committee Pere and Vera Gibbings. Sports were conducted by Bill and Verna Gibbings. Races 5 years and under: Greg Crawford, Chastity Colquhoun; Boys 6 to 8: Jim Crawford, John Millson; Girls 9 to 11: Shielley Crawford; Boys 9 to 11: Brad Shobbrook; Girls 11 to 13: Doric Elierby, Kathy Goodall; Ladies 14 and over: Cindy Swan, Joan Crawford; Men: Gordon Shobbrook, Bill Crawford; Ladies kick slipper: Cathy Gibbings; Men: Bill Crawford; Wheel- barrow race: Gordon and Brad Shobbrook; Youngest Present: Kelly Peck; Oldest: Laura Sau clercock; Coming Farthest: Rae and Ruth Rosebush, Bobcageon; guessing Welight of Watermelon: Clarence and Bill Crawford tied; Lucky Spot: Kay Saundercock; Lucky Draw: Ross Radford. People attended from Port Colborne, Kitchener, London, Woodstock, Bobcageon, Alsia Craig;, Clinton, Blyth and Londesboro. Sympathy is extended to Mr. and Mrs. Ken Hulley and family on the death o1' Warren on Wednesday ,lune 28, age I3, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mexander returned home on 'Illursday from 21/2 week holiday in Kingston, 'Toronto and visited with her sister Mr. and Mrs. Ted Adams Ottawa. Cpl. Richard Shaddick of Burnaby, B.C., spent the weekend with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Allen Shaddick',on Sunday all attended Walkonl family picnic in Windsor. Saturday evening visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Shobbrook were Mr. and Mrs. Rae Rosebush Bobcaygcon, and Mr. and Mrs. Pere Gibbings, Clinton. Weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Durnin were her sister Mrs. Edna Holmes, Dresden and daughter Doris Scratch, Detroit, 011 Sunday all attended the parade of 85 antique cars in Hanover. Mr. and Mrs. Dave McLeod, Mitchell visited her sister Mrs. Olive Penfound and attended Ball's Cemetery decoration service on Sunday. Vacation Bible school is being held this week on Friday. All are welcome to view work on display at 10:30 a.m. U.C.W. Bercan Unit members will meet at the church at 1:15 p,111. on Tuesday July 11 for sleeting to be held at home of Lois Andrews "Narnok Hill", Bclgravc. W.I. Agriculture sleeting willbe held on Wednesday night July 12 at 8 p.nl, when speaker will be Robyn Thecdom of Publicity committee for ploughing match. Rev. McDonald was speaker at church service at Pine Lake on Sunday morning,was dinner guest Mr, and Mrs. Tom Allen there. reunion 33 graduates, their parents, teachers and guests, a total of 117 enjoyed a cold meat dinner on Tuesday ,June 27 in Londesboro hall. The hall was decorated by Gracie 8 pupils. Principal Mr. MacLennan brought greetings. Grace and toast to Queen by Robert Snell. Introduction of head table by Sally Pollard. Gradutes and guests were introduced. A toast to Graduates by Mr. Joe Flunking replied by Jane Bell. introduction of teachers by Michael Andrews. Toast to teachers by Neil Cartwright, replied by Mr. Talbot. Toast to parents by Beverly Ovcrholt,rcplicd by Mrs. Reg. Lawson apprcciaton to the ladies Kathy Radford replied Mrs Jim Jamcison toast to school board. Bruce Hunking replied. Mr. Henderson, toast to the school Helen Kolknlan - reply Mr. MacLennan, They then went to the school for programme and awards. Programme opening with Band ensemble of Grade 8 members. President of W,l. Mrs. Tom Duizer presented awards to Hoare Economics, Sally Pollard; Industrial Arts, Rick Sacchinato; Penmanship award to Jane Bell by Mr, MacLellan; Outstan_ding Athletes, Lana Lockwood and Lance Livingstone by Mr. Millson ads Mrs. Cooke; Outstanding Graduates, Karen Farquhar and Bruce Hunking by Mrs. Hallam. Ukelele number - Michael Row the Boat Ashore and song Four Strong Winds by Grade 8. Lance Livingstone introduced guest speaker Mr. Don Miller, first principal of Hullett Central Public School. Appreciation to guest speaker by Lana Lockwood. Introduction of valedictorian by Christine Van .Spengen. Valedictory address by John Lawson, Evening closed with "0 Canada" by Mr. Blackwell. off the living room and dining mom area, French doors at one time led from. these rooms to the 011e►1 Verandah. The Opcn House Tea was held both afternoon and evening. Those welcoming the guests were Ml's. Margaret Whyc, Mrs. George Smith and Miss Gladys Leiper. At the register were Mrs. Bert Shobbrook and Miss Ida Leiper. Pouring tea in the after - mon were Mrs. Harold Kniscly of Goderich wife of the chairman of Huron -Perth Presbytery, Mrs. Doris Zurbrigg of Listowel, Presi- dent of the Huron -Perth Pres- byterial United Church Women, Mrs, Laura Forbes, Londesborough delegate to Huron -Perth Presbytery and Miss Edythe Beacom, alternate delegate, In the evening were the leaders of the United Church Women's Groups, Mrs. Reg Lawson Of the General, Mrs. Robert Thompson of the Ainlwcll, Mrs. Edwin Wood of he I3crean and Mrs. Jim Scott of the Burns. Serving the guests were Mrs. Wilmer Gloushcr. Mrs. Harry Lear, Mrs. Nick Whyte, Mrs. Jack Snell, Mrs. Ken Scott, Mrs. Watson Rcid, Mrs. Ray Kennedy, Mrs. Garnet Wright and Mrs. EInia Jewitt. Showing guests through the second floor of the house were Mrs. Lloyd Pipe, Mrs. Laura Lyon, Mrs. John Radford and Mrs. Ella Jewitt. Showing the , guests through the first floor were Mrs. Jim Jamieson and Mrs, Joe Sfladdick, Working in the kitchen were Mrs. Nelson McClure, Mrs. John Pollard, Mrs,Leslic Rcid, Mrs, Elwood Mitchell. LONDESBORO NEWS Bureau editor: MRS, BERT SH0BBROOK 523-4250 The final celebration of 100th Anniversary of the Mense will be on Sunday, July 9 with a Thanksgiving Opcn-Air service on the Lawn of the Manse followed by a pot -luck dinner and a time of Remembrance. All former 1111111sters and their families who have lived in the Manse arc invited back for this service and Mrs. Stanley Brenton, wife of a former minister will be the Guest speaker, with special music by The Snell family. 73 VOLVO 144S the $1 ,950 Ccrtif;ed �� AM V V Phone 357-1441, Wingham. 108 Scott Street, Wingham. 1978 GREMLIN 6 cylindrk automatic 1978 GRANADA 2door 1978 CONCORD 4door 1978 FORD F 100 6 cylinder 1977 PONTIAC Parisienne with air conditioning 1976 CORONET STATION WAGON with air conditioning 1976 CORONET 4 door, station wagon 1975 DODGE ROYAL MONACO 1975 CORONET 4 DOOR STATION Crestwood model 1974 HORNET AMC HATCHBACK 1974 METEOR STATION WAGON 1974 DODGE COLT STATION WAGON 4 door 1974 PONTIAC VENTURA 1974 GMC VAN 1973 CHEV 4 door 2 door Hamm's Car Sales Ltd. Blyth, Ont. Phone 523-9581 Worshippers at Blyth United Church on Sunday morning were greeted by Millar Richmond, and ushered by Con Van Vliet, Earl Blyth United Church news Fyfe and Charlie Smith, Mrs, McNall was at the organ filling in for Mrs, Kai who was in hospital, and accompanied Mrs. Wittich THE BLYTH STANDARD, JULY 5, 1978 -- 7 for her solo "Then Jesus Came", "Righteousness Makes a Nation Great" was the title fo the sermon, with text taken from Proverbs 14:34 (TEV), Sunday school pupils left the sanctuary with Mrs. Donald Craig at the close of the service to record attendance and distribute papers. Josling Bros. are currently installing a new roof with insulation on the church. SALE STARTS WEDNESDAY JUNE 28TH UNTIL SATURDAY JULY 8TH, 1978 3.5 HP Dependable Lawnmower 4 cycle Briggs 8 Stratton engine (148 cc). Safe, handle -mounted throttle. Full 20" cut. Stamped steel deck. Efficency discharge. Fully baffled ... non - clogging. Plastic mag wheels with height adjusters. 7" 1.50" wheels. 545-297 • Cu. Ft. Freezer With Decorator Textop 88.Hotds approx. 511 Ibs. • Practical and ""' attractive NOT EXACTLY AS ILLUSTRATED Outside, a brand new look ... Brown leather -look Tex - top and Beige body. But inside it's as practical as ever. Has one storage bas- ket, one movable divider, interior light for easy view- ing. Standard features also include a power on signal Tight, temperature warning light and 'child -proof' lock and keys. Approximate measurements:. 44'/2" long x 36" high x 29" deep (w/hinges 501.133 2112 Cu. Ft. Wheelbarrow 1433 1Ie" tubular steel frame with "X" -type leg assembly. 10" x 1.75' puncture -proof semi -pneumatic tire. 591-021 Garden Hoses Soaker Hose: triple tube hose diffuses mist -like fine spray. Poly vinyl chloride. 40'. 591-421 .... Ea. 65.88 50' Rubber/VInyI Hose: Remains pliable in cold weather. '/2 . 591-425. Ea. $6.44 25' Rubber Hose: (1 braid). Remains pliable in cold. Brass -plated couplings. 'h". 591-469 Ea. $8.63 50' Vinyl Hose: Economi- cal. Brass -plated couplings. 1116", 591-282 Ea. $3,53 Hose Nozzles a -Polymer grip nozzle for hot or cold liquids. Brass stem & 591-417. Each $3.55 b - Plastic hose nozzle. 591-255 Each 881 c • Solid Brass nozzle. 591-131 Each $2.55 Oscillating - 1099 Sprinkler ••. Covers up to 2800 sq. ft. Unique safety arm disen- gages if accidentally drop- ped. Brass jet nozzles. 4-pos. dial. 591-454 Automatic Dehumidifier Collects 17 Imperial pints (9.7) litres of water daily. Humidistat automatically starts and stops operation to maintain desired humid- ity level. Overflow control 33 and pilotfight. 11 qt poly- styrene container with threaded fitting for drain hose. Approx. 13'/2" W x 16"Dx21"H. ...541.007 Oscillating 3 Speed Fan • Quiet • . Adjustable • 12" Diameter Desk type fan for use in any room. Fully adjustable from straight blow to 90° oscillation. Has adjustable neck tilt; 12" diem. blue blades. Removable safety grill protects the smallest fingers. Puek+ bw*ten controls ler fast, easy selecting. 541-230 Ashton Tools 4 -Tine Cultivator: Curved design. Lacquered 54" hard wood handle. 591-644. Each U.11e 6" Pise: Sheffield carbon steel head. Lacquered 54" heNteoed,hantlia. 91t•443. Each its. LiC:2 CI UNITED CO -C* RATW1ES ONTARIO Garden Toole t• Hardwood handles;extra heavy steel blades. Cultivator:.. 591-520 > p4anter:591.521 Trawl' 591-522 Wieder: ..... 59,123 S23 Oil Change23 Kit 3 ul Includes -11 qt. polyethy- lene pan, oil fitter wrench, heavy-duty. pouring spot), vriIh sharp cutter. . $72.289 FINANCING AVAILABLE THROUGH. Belgrave, Ontario WINGHAM 357.2711 - THE BLYTH STANDARD, JULY 5, 1978 Former Walton man speaks at graduation WALTON NEWS , Bureau editor: MRS. ALLAN McCALL 887-6677 DRIVE SAFELY farm safety association MYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL SEASON OPENING July 8:30 p.m. "HURON TIGER" by Peter Colley Turkey Dinner 6:30 p.m. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT Box Office 523-9300 CALL FOR RESERVATIONS Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Humphries attended the graduation of their daughter Kim Humphries on Friday June 30, 1978 at Fanshawe College Victoria Campus. On Thursday the Tea and Pinning was held at the Nurses Residence at Victoria Hospital. Robinson C. Hamilton B.A. Vice President of Fanshawe College, and formerly of Walton, gave the address to the Graduates. Man charged with mischief David George Rosckat, 18 of R. R. 111, Walton has been charged with three counts of mischief following an incident Sunday morning in which four wind- shields were smashed on vehicles awned by Lorne Brown, Bridge Motors and James ,lutri. He is to appear July 12 in provincial court in Wingham. the gift of life Be a RED CROSS Blood Donor Mr. and Mrs, Rae Houston R. R. 112, Brussels, also attended their daughter, Janice Houston's graduation. These girls were among the 123 graduates from Victoria Hospital, Personals Mr. and Mrs. Allan Searle arrived home late Saturday night from a 3 week tour of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Watson spent the past month visiting with their son David and his wife in Lloydminster, Alberta, touring Jasper, Banff, Lake Louise and Edmonton, then through the States to Vancouver whcrc they spent a week or so with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nelson and boys, Mr. Harvey McClure visited ‘+,ith his son Rae in Edmonton, travelled by camper to Vancou ver Wiiere they visited at Mr, and Mrs. Ray Nelson's and other places of interest. Mrs. Ray FIuether took her mother, Mrs. Watson Webster of Clinton to London on Sunday Where they visited Mr. Webster Westfield Fellowship Hour REV' KENNETH KNIGHT LEAMINGTON STRAWBERRIES TO CARLOW Pick Your Strawberries' o BENMILLER ACRES BERRY PICKING IS FINISHED LISTEN TO BENMILLER STORE 11/2 MILES NORTH OF BENMILLER THEN 1/2 MILE EAST At this time we wish to thank all our customers. MARKET BASKET" ON CKNX RADIO DAILY 11:05 A.M. who' is a patient in University Hospital having being transferred from Clinton Hospital Saturday night following injuries on Wednesday in a fall from a load of hay on his son's farm, John Leeming of Kenora visited his grandmother while home on the weekend, Mr, and Mrs. Robert Humphries and family spent the Dominion Day holiday weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Humphries, • Javlin AMC 74 "MUSCLE CAR" $2,500 cCertiNfied � �A V V Phone 357.1441, ngham. 108 Scott Street, Wingham. CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Rcv. T. Il(u►Ltiteen 1st Hour of Worship - 10 a.m. Scriptures - II Cor 13:5-10 Sermon: "Strength in Weakness" 2nd Hour of Worship - 8 p.m. Scriptures Ps 32 Sermon: "Of Faith and Forgiveness" 1 DRIVE-IN THEATRE LTD. WNI E' BEECH ST. i CLINTON Box Office Opens at 8:00 p.m. • First Show at Dusk NOW PLAYING -TIL SAT. JULY8 ADULT ENTERTAINM ;� . ADULT ENTERTAINMENT SUN., MON., TUE, — JULY 9, 10, 11 ADULT r;':':;., ,•t! ENTERTAINMENT T COUVOYalille ALL 1E V FINALBBAPIER wiimiir.mii J ADULT ENTERTAINMENT TUESDAY NIGHTS ONLY — SPECIAL $6,00 PER CARLOAD ,....) Starts Wednesday, July 12... WALT DISNEY DOUBLE FEATURE "Candleshoe" AND "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" ALL CHILDREN UNDER 17- 50' ANOTHER AWARD—Jayne Snell, Blyth, walked away with an arm Toad of trophies at the Blyth Public School graduation exercises Tuesday evening. Jayne won awards in public speaking, soccer, volleyball, baseball, cross country and field day events. • DANA MERLE BEAN son of Mr, and Mrs. Maurice Bean, of R. R,1, Auburn, graduated from the University of Guelph, ,lune 2, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture. Dana is a graduate of Goderich District Collegiate Institute, Nursing home rate up The Social Services Committee reported to Huron County Council on June 30 that it had been advised by the Ministry of Community and Social Services that effective May 1, 1978, the co -payment portion of the Nursing Home rate has increased to $8.50 per day from $8.30 per day and that the daily Inter- mediate Care Rate has been increased to $21.30 from $19.60 retroactive to April 1, 1978. The Homemaker rates ap- proved by County Council in December 1977 have now been approved by the Ministry ef- fective January 1, 1978. They are $4.20 per hour in town and $4.60 per hour out of town; $33 per day in town and $36.80 per day out of town; $36 daily live-in service in town and $36 daily live-in service out of town. The VictorianOrder of Nurses rate approved by County Council in December 1977 has now been approved by• the Ministry ef- fective January 1, 1978 at $12.25 per visit. The report to County Council stated that the social services department caseload for May remaint..J the sante as for April at 100 cases. The number of beneficiaries, however, has de- creased from 334 to 270. The total expenditure to May 31, 1978 was $166,283 which is $5,437 less than the pro -rated budget for five months, Social Services Administrator John MacKinnon has been re- elected to the Ontario Municipal WINGHAM 357.1630 Social Services Association Board of Directors and has been ap- pointed to the Zone Committee turd the Program Committee. It was stated in the report that the committee had reviewed a draft agreement between the Town and Country 'Homemakers and the County of Huron for the purchase of Homemaker service from this organization. The Social Services Committee gave tentative approval to the agree- ment and authorized the Social Services Administrator to forward the draft copy to the Town and County Homemakers for their consideration. LAST NIGH THURS., JULY 6th STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 7 ONE WEEK Hi tory will Ilcflk' l/L)ll Sll h�'Iil ? Il1ll'Illi!', (Ting, dicer* and StO111/1111�' l/LIi f i'f eet, NOW PLAYING!. SHOWING FOR 7 DAYS! Wednesday to Tuesday July 5 to I1th One Showing Doily at 8:00 p.m. Only! n TRUE LOVE STORY... He changed the bound ud n u%ic with "Peggy tine;' "Oh I3, : ""It's do I aw;' "That'll Be The Day:. "Rave ( )n;' "Maybe Baby" and many more.. , IIIII loomIIt stun WIDVISDA)1 1Wh.14dthhOnJ1 \rv,. �/.,i'i JULY 12TH nr,rl shorn Drive' PLUS "SILVER BEARS" COMING JULY 28 JOHN TRAVOLTA OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN GREASE" WEDNESD ' Y CARLOAD 86. I I DRIV'!N TIIATRC THE BLYTH STANDARD, JULY 5, 1978 — 9. Sunday, July 9th 8:00 p.m. BE SURE TO HEAR Rev. Kenneth Knight former pastor of Calvary Baptist Church KIRK KNIGHT will provide special music Evil Prevails when Good Men Do Nothing. Huron Men's Chapel AUBURN An dhkCO fill!:% I'rodnt non A 1huvtrr.Il Iteleaw Ii bitLolor" STARTS JULY 7-13 FRI. & SAT. • 7:00 & 9:00 P.M. SUN. • THURS, 8 P.M. They were searching for a star called Earth, but first they had to win a great war. TWO 'YEARS IN THE MAKING... AT A COST OF $14000,000., 30 THE SQUARE PHONE 524.7811 AIRCONDITIONED 10 - THE BLYTH STANDARD, JULY 5, 1978 Like a Surprise? Check these b.u.ys.In Classifieds 1 Coming Events THE family of Betty and Len Archambault wish to invite their relatives, friends, and neighbours to celebrate with them their 30th mdding anniversary on Friday, July 14, 1978, at the Blyth Arena';, Dancing, from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. No gifts please. 1-27-2 The Huron County Health Unit invites you to attend the Child Health Clinic HEALTH UNIT OFFICE MEDICAL BUILDING BRUSSELS on TUESDAY, JULY 11 1978, from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. for: 1, Health Surveillance 2. Anaemia Screening 3. Immunization 4. Fluoride 1-40-1 1 Coming Events WOMEN'S Institute picnic Thursday, July 6, at 6:30 in the Lion's Park, Visitors welcome. 1.27-1 CLINTON• LEGION BiNGO every Thursday, 8:00 p.m. First regular card $1, restricted to 16 years or over, 15 regular games of $15., $5 leas on split. Many other specials. Jackpot $200. must go each week. 1-10-tf THE family of Jim and Donna • Scott wish to invite their relatives, friends and neighbours to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary Friday, July 14 9 p.m. at Safford, Music by Star Trex. No gifts please, 1-26-2 5 Bus Opportunity BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Attend a business opportunity meeting with a young interna tional company which is expanding in this area, We offer very high incomes with unlimited opportunity on a part or full time basis. Call Anita Schellenberger at 348-8561 for an appointment. 5-24-tf 7 Situations Wanted EMPLOYMENT wanted part time or full time on a farm. Am experienced in feeder pigs, some experience in sows, would be willing to learn to operate in dairy. if possible, close to the 8th line of Morris. Call 887-6991. 7-7-tf SECONDANNUAL IREITIGE 82, ANTIQUE SHOW FIRST INTERNATIONAL GAS ENGINE MEET ILDERTON FAIR GROUNDS JULY 7, 8, 9, 1978 Word count Charges are based on the number of words. Sets of numerals as for serial numbers, street numbers, phone numbers or prices count as one word per set. Words joined by hyphens count as separate words. FIRST INSERTION — 20 words $2.00, .07c per word thereafter SUBSEQUENT INSERTIONS No copy changes, 5c per word, minimum $1.00 SEMI -DISPLAY' FIRST INSERTION -- $1.68 per column inch. SUBSEQUENT INSERTIONS — $1.40 per column inch. (Minimum size in this category 2 inches. Accepted in multiples of half inch) BOX NUMBERS to this office— 50c per insertion. BIRTHS - 20 words $2.00, 7c per word thereafter, MARRIAGES, E►,i'GAGEMENTS, DEATH NOTICES 20 words $2.00 each additional word 7c. IN MEMORIAMS — $2.00 plus 10c per line of verse COMING EVENTS -. 20 words $2.001, each additional word 7c. Three insertions for the price of2 CARD OF THANKS — 30 words $2.00; each additional word 3c per word. 25c DISCOUNT FOR CASH PAYMENT AT TIME OF INSERTION. Deadline of classified ads is 4:00 P.M. Monday No cancellation of multiple insertion advertisements after Noon, Mondays. Phone 523-9646 V*IDItelltrilVC4*'., 6:0,1"a+ 4'Y.' '. '.l.' ',gt.•.td00.•:S: 411.4414114:1.44544414' !1!1!' 8 Farm Stock For Sale FOR SALE Bull Calves. Phone 526-7544. 8-27-1 10 Used Cars For Sale. 1973 Chrysler Newport. In good condition. New brakes and exhaust system, Four door family car. Power brakes and steering. Zicbarted. Asking $1500. Phone 523-4278. 10-27x2 11 Articles For Sale ELECTROHOME air conditioners. Bowes Electronic Shop, Hamilton Street, Blyth, Ontario, 523-4412, 11-23.8 SWIMMING POOLS—Leading swim ming pool manufacturer must dispose of brand. new 1978 models. Fully warranted, complete with pump, motor, titter, fencing, walkaround and deck, Suggested retail price $2,350. Available at pre -season special of $1,322. Call now for early installation. Long tern financing available. Call Toll Free anytime 1-800-268-1944 11-22-tf 4 burner deluxe Viking electric stove for sale. 523-4401. 11.27x1 SMALL barrels about 20 gallons. Good for garbage cans. $3 apiece. Blyth Steel Barrels. Phone 523-4461. 11-27-2 CURRENT Magazines available at the Blyth Standard. A good selection of magazines arrives weekly. These include Woman's Day, Chatelaine, National Enquirer, TV Guides, Comics, Crosswords and many more. 11-23xtf SWIMMING POOLS TO RENT -- Will lease and install for home- owners, family size aluminum swimming pools with patio. Choice of styles, , meeting all fencing regulations on a one, two, or three year rental basis with option to own. Try before you buy!' Call Toll Free anytime 1-800-268-1944. 11-94 6 Teachers Wanted Requires Occasional Teachers to do supply work in the elementary and secondary schools during 1978-79. Written applications, including qualifications, social insurance number, and telephone number must be mailed before July 28 to R. B. ALLAN SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION HURON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION 103 Albert Street, Clinton Ont. NOM ILO Applicants should indicate the grades and/or subjects they are prepared to teach and the schools in which they would serve, From this information lists of available teachers will be prepared for each school. Principals will then contact applicants When their services are required. Persons presently serving as Occasional Teachers in our schools need not re -apply. Nantes will automati- cally be included for the coming year unless notification to the contrary is received from either the teacher or a principal. D.J. Cochrane Director R.J. Elliott Chairman 6-27-2 12 Wanted To Buy WANTED TO BUY - A windmill; 2 deep freezers (apartment sized and one large). 523-9412. 12-26-2 WANTED—Used furniture, appliances and antiques. Call Jack's Place, Lucknow. 528-2625. 12-7-tf 14 Property For Sale RETIRING? Country setting, large treed lot, patio, paved streets, garden area. Special 14' x 60' mobile. Complete price $10,300. All units priced right. Call Chatham Mobile Homes (519) 352-7635 or (519) 692-4453. 14-27x4 TWO bedroom brick bungalow, 20 years old, priced to sell NOW. Jim Reid Morris Street, Blyth. tho)ne 523-9246. 14-27x1 14 Property For Sale WORKMAN REAL ESTATE LTD. MLS REALTOR Harold Workman 482-3455 Henry Mero 527-0430 Larry Plumstecl 527-0052 DINSLEY ST., BLYTH Brick Duplex on a large lot with garage, $25,000.00. DRUMMOND ST., BLYTH 3 bedroom home recently decorated & carpeted, attached garage, $24,900.00, 20 ACRES OF BUSH Creek, pond, some hardwood, near Clinton. APARTMENT BUILDING 6 unit building in Clinton, good condition. COUNTRY HOME NEAR KINGSBRIDGE 1'/2 acres, nicely treed, with a 4 bedroom hi'ick home. 124 ACRES OF PARADISE East of Bayfield, 60 of bush, 44 rolling, 20 level, on the Bayfield River. Many hones in Clinton, Seaforth & area to show you. Also other farms and investment properties available, 14-26-1 REAL ESTATE LTD. 482-9371 Clinton RESIDENCE: 523-9338 New Listing - Fully winterized, 2 bedroom cottage, sunset beach, with carport, double lot, road open year round. ****:r** Price to Sell - 1 acre lot in Blyth with 11/2 storey newly sided frame home. ******* Newly built 4-plex frame and brick apartment building, in Blyth. On 3/a acre lot, nice 11/4 storey brick home, 4 bdrms, double garage, in Blyth. ******* Near Blyth, 2 acre severed, town water, no buildings. ******* Main St. Blyth, 2 floor 3 unit brick apartment building, could be converted for commercial use. ******* 11/2 acre near Blyth, 11/2 storey brick home, 8 rms. 4 bdrms., carpeted living and dining room. ******* 5 acres near Blyth, 2 storey brick home, barn suitable for hogs or cattle. ******* Nearly new 1 floor frame home, 6 mis. 3 bdrms, all carpeted. ******* H let fr ******* FOOD FOR THOUGHT Ashin is a device used for finding furniture in the dark. 14-27-1 10 acre brick orey arn. Classified on next page • EVLBLYTH STANDARD, JULY 6, 1978 — 11 CLASSIF1- 20 Auction Sales 14 Property For Sale 14 Property For Sale 21 Tenders Wanted — Appraisals — Property Management — investments REPRESENTATIVE V.C. [Vic] FOX — Residential — Farms — Business Resort Properties SEAFORTH 527.1511 8 MAiN ST. SOUTH HOME NO. 523.9525 IN BLYTH 1'/ storey brick house on 1/2 acre, 5 bedrooms, modern kitchen, separate dining room, comfortable living room, breakfast nook and summer kitchen. Small barn, mature trees and nicely landscaped. Good financing $39,500.00 LONDESBORO 11/2 storey - 3 bedrooms, oil F.A. Furnace, partial basement, on 1/4 Acres ................................ $21,000.00 14-55.1 9NTEE f CO 61•.4'TI f) IALTOR 1U.S Listinf$s, Pierre Rammeloo Bus. 482-3821 Res. 523-9478 David Christie • 482-3821 Nearly new 3 bedroom home 011 a nice lot in town. Reasonable down payment with double garage. ***** Nice secluded stonehouse on 41/2 acres, with 5 bedrooms and is ready to move right in. Includes pig & chicken barn ****** Priced right, needs some repairs on quite Clinton Street, with nice lot. **•,*** 80 acres , 30 workable. ***** 95 acres, 65 workable, ***** 150 acres , 100 workable white bean land. ****** 19 Notices Hank's Small Engine Service Henry Reinink 1 Mile North of Londesboro 523-9202 Snowmobile, Snowblower, etc., Repair 1 CONCRETE WORK Expert chimney and roofing repairs; specializing in stabling. Don Ives, Phone Brussels, .887-9024. '19-10-tf PHIL'S REFRIGERATOR and Appliance Service. 24 hour emergency service. Used good appliance sales, Phone 887-9062. 19-12-tf Secluded with fireplace, this two bedroom year round hone on the Lakeshore. ****** Lovely large lot, with many lovely trees. This three bedroom house has plenty of space including an extra large kitchen. 14-27-1 15 Property • For Rent TWO bedroom apartment in Blyth, fridge and stove supplied. Available July 15. Contact Ralph Campbell 523-9614. 15-27-2 19 Notices SEPTIC TANKS CLEANED New modern equipment, ovei 20 years experience. Phone Louis Blake, 887-6800, R. R. 112, Brussels. 19.10-tf WHiTE washing and disinfecting barns and all types of buildings. Phone 529-7650. 19-25-4 GLAVIN BROS. BARN PAINTING Sand Blasting High Pressure Water Cleaning Airless Spray Equipment and'Aerial Boom Trucks Free Estimates Call P, 0, Box 272 Blyth Dave 523-4343 19-17-tf HOME INSULATION SERVICE Homes and all types of buildings. Specializing in BLOWN CELLULOSE INSULATION Free Estimates—No obligation LOUIS BLAKE R.R.#2,BRUSSELS Ontario 887-6800 Serving the people of Western Ontario for over a quarter of a century. 19-10-tf BERG Sales - Service Installation -Barn Cleaners -Bunk Feeders -Stabling -Silo Unioaders FREE ESTIMATES Donald G. Ives R. R. 2, Blyth Phone Brussels 887-9024 19-10-tf A4ton W6114 Custodian Contract Tender Plainly marked, sealed, tenders will be received by the undersigned up to FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1978 for contracting custodial services at COLBORNE CENTRAL SCHOOL COLBORNE TOWNSHIP All tenders must be submitted on the official tender form which are available at the Huron County Board of Education, 103 Albert Street, Clinton, Ontario, Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. R. McVEAN Plant Superintendent R.J. ELLIOTT C HAIRMAN D.J. COCHRANE Director 21-27-1 22 Legal Notices IN THE ESTATE OF ELLEN LEVINA HEFFRON All persons claiming against the above Estate are required to forward full particulars of their claims to the undersigned, on or before the 31st day of July, 1978, after which date the assets will be distributed. DONNELLY & MURPHY 18 The Square Goderich, Ontario Solicitors for the Estate 22-27-3 24 Cards of Thanks CARTWRIGHT: The family of the late Norman Cecil Cartwright wish to express their sincere thanks to relatives, friends and neighbours for doral tributes, memorable donations and their many acts of kindness. A special thanks to Rev. Stan MacDonald, Londesboro United church women for providing lunch, the Ball Funeral Home, the pall- bearers and the flower bearers. Your kindness will always be remembered. 24-27x1 26 Personal Mr, and Mrs. Casey van Amersfoort of Blyth and Mr. and Mrs. Gerrelt Blok of Auburn are proud to announce the forth- coming marriage of their children I4'illie and John. The wedding will take place on Friday July 14, 1978, in the Blyth Christian Reformed Church. Rev. Ted Hoogsteen officiating, 26-27x1 27 Births MCDOUGALL: Wayne and Debbie are happy to announce the birth of their son Jason Wayne in Wingham Hospital on June 14, 1978. A brother for Danielle. 27-27-1 20 Auction Sales ESTATE AUCTION SALE of Self Propelled combine, trucks, tractors, machinery etc., t be held for the Estate of Nor an Cartwright, at Lot 22, eopcession 8, Hullett Township ;,5 miles north of Clinton on Highway 114, and 1 mile east. SATURDAY, JULY 15th at 1:00 p.m. COMBINE: White 7300 selfpropelled combine with cab, 'gas engine, straw chopper, 13 ft., cutter bar head with pick up reel, Melrose 9 ft. grain pickup, 2 row corn head. 'TRUCKS: 1974 F250 3/4 ton truck, V8 automatic power steering and brakes selling safety checked, 1969 Ford F350, 1 ton truck, V8 with 12ft. livestock rack. Selling safety diecked, 1969 Chev 3 ton truck with 14 ft. rack and hoist new paint, selling safety checked, 36 inch high camper top for pick up with full rear door, TRACTORS: Massey Ferguson 165 diesel with multi power, adjustable rear wheels etc. and MF11100 manure loader with hydraulic bucket, 16.9 x 28 snap on dual wheels, tractor chains, Cockshutt 1555 wheatland diesel tractor with 3 point hitch dual remote etc. MACHINCERY: Cockshutt 543 four row corn and bean planter with fibre glass fertilizer and seed boxes, Cockshutt 548 four furrow semi mount plow adjustable 16-18 cushion trip bottoms spring trip coulters, MF 3 furrow mounted plow, Badger 1000 gallon vacuum liquid manure tank in good condition, Beatty liquid manure tank, Sanderum Danish type 12 ft. cultivator with finger harrows, Starline side spread flail type semi liquid manure spreader. Cockshutt 406 grinder mixer with conveyor feed, used to grind high moisture corn into silo; Cockshutt Superior 1176 eighteen run seed drill; 2 -gravity bins on 6 ton wagons; hydraulic fertilizer auger and hoses; Herrgott 10 ft. trail alltivator; V type snow blower; set of chain harrows; Onan 15 kilowatt PTO generator on 3 PTHitch frame; Eskimo snowmobile with twin cylinder motor; plus some tools and miscellaneous items too numerous to mention. TERMS: CASH DAY OF SALE PERSONAL CHEQUES ACCEPTED WITH PROPER IDENTIFICATION Richard Lobb Auctioneer Clinton, Ontario 482-7898 Estate or Auctioneer not responsible for accidents day of sale. 20-27-2 Because of our intense coverage of the week's many activities some photos & news will appear next week. Hit the Road any road, with this rugged, superb A-1 used Ford truck -- p Super S ecia.I 1976 CLUB CAB FORD PICKUP - Only 21,000 miles - Like new DATSUN Gerald's MADE Datsun' 527.1010 Seaforth i 12 — THE BLYTH STANDARD, JULY 5, 1978 BELGRAVE NEWS . Bureau editor: MRS, LEWIS STONEHOUSE Members of Calvin -Brick United Church and Knox United Church, Belgrave worshipped with Knox Presbyterian Church, Bekgrave at 9:30 Sunday morning pth Rev. Kenneth Innes as the nt nister. The two congregations will join with Knox Presbyterian Church during July while their minister and his family the Rev. John and Mrs, Roberts, Howard and Alison are on vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Pletch and family visited over the holiday weekend with Mr, and Mrs. Donald Walker and family of Schomberg who are holidaying at their cottage at Shadow Lake, Coboconk and also visited with her mother Mrs. Murray Fraser of Oakwood. Miss Pat Buffett of Carsonville, Michigan visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wheeler last week. Bruce Scott of Toronto visited on Tuesday with his sister, Mrs. Harry Rhin. Sports The Blyth Bantam girls recorded two more victories and nxlved into a tic for first place, with a record of five wins and one loss. On June 19, the team travelled to Belgrave and returned home with a 32-23 victory. The hitting was highlighted by seven home tuts, ' with Cathy Hubbard alnnecting for three, Susan Hubbard two, Barb Patterson and Karen Souch one each. Judy MacDonald turned in a strong pitching performance as she had eight strike -outs. Blyth hosted the previously undefeated Wingham team 011 June 28, and won the game by a score of 21-14. Anita Nether), led the Blyth batting attack with two home runs; while Cathy Hubbard, Catherine Battye and Joan Barrie hit one a piece, The strong hitting Wingham squad was silenced by .Ludy MacDonald's strong pitching effort and excellent fielding from all the Blyth players. Next home game for the girls is on July I1, when lhcy battle Wingham for first place. The girls would like to thank Bainton's Old Mill for purchasing ball shirts for the team. Plan joint services Mrs. James Lamont met net• aunt Mrs. Doris Watts of San Diego, California, last Tuesday evening at Mallon airport. Mrs. Doris Watts of San Diego, California and her sister Mrs. Winnie Vincent, of Blyth, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Montgomery and Tabatha of Wingham were dinner guests on Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. James Lamont and family. Mr. and Mrs. Carman McGuire and son Nathan of Thunder Bay viisted last Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Harry: McGuire and with Harry McGuire in the Wingham and District Hospital, Mrs. Winnie Vincent of Blyth, Mrs. Doris Watts of San Diego, California and Mrs. James Lamont accompanied Douglas McCrea of Blyth to spend the weekend with Mr, and Mrs. Ralph McCrea who are holidaying at Riley Lake at Gravenhurst. Mrs. Christie Turnbull of' Seaforth, Mr. Charles Turnbull of Edmonton, Alberta visited last Monday with Mr, and Mrs. Bert Johnston. Mrs. Robert Coultcs, Mrs. Harry McGuire and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stonehomc visited on Saturday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. .101111 Gaunt of Edmonton, Alberta, Mrs. Ward Shiekluna of• Mississauga who are visiting at the 110010 of Mrs. Andrew Gaunt and also Andrew Gaunt who is a patient in Wingham and District Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Fail Gaunt or Godcrich also visited at the same home on Saturday Mr. and Mrs. William Wojczyk of Garson spent the holiday weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coultcs also visited with Mr. and Mrs, William Coolies. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hibberd PRIVATE SALE **************** IN WALTON (on County. Road 25) A NEW HOUSE under construction [1008 sq.' ] 3 Bedroom, Living Room Kitchen and Dining Area 3 Piece Bath, Full Basement Electrically Heated Front Bricked, Balance Aluminum Siding Lot Size 66' x 177' For further information Phone 523-4559 or 887-9200 attended the supper in Fordwich United Church last Tuesday and later visited with Mr. and Mrs. &Igcu Gedcke, Mr. Robert Hibberd attended the United Church Men's Club annual meeting in . Fordwich United Church last Monday. Mrs. Louis Hayes of Eyria, Ohio, Mr, and Mrs. .Joseph Ittunirey, Tony, Carla and Kristen are spending this week with Mr. and Mrs, Jack Van Camp and family. Mr. and Mrs. William Peacock of Blucvalc, Mrs. Gordon McBurney, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Robertson of Wingham attended the Yuill reunion in Detroit, Michigan, • 011 the holiday weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thonlpsnn of Goderich viisted on Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Taylor and Mr, and Mrs. Mark Armstrong. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Armstrong of Thorndale spent the 'eckend with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grasby and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Coultcs, also visited with his mother Mrs. Mary Armstrong or Huron view, Clinton. Chrysler 75 NEWPORT $3,355 like new, Agee" Ph. 357.1441, Wingham 108 Scott Street, Wingham Auburn (Continued from Page 5) Members of St. Mark's Anglican church attended their annual picnic last Sunday at Trinity Anglican Church, Brussels along with other churches in the parish, Belgrave and Blyth and Brussels. The Open air church service was conducted by the rector, Rev, Dan Sagent. The pot luck dinner was enjoyed by all followed by games, races and a ball game for all ages. A barbecue supper brought the day to a close. 523- 4421 VODDEN'S 523- 4421 We deliver Schneider's Margarine 65c 1 lb. soft •••••••••••• FRESH PRODUCE 59c lb. 29c ea. 75c lb. Santa Rosa Plums Queen Size Cukes Green Perlette Grapes P)111111MPTATTR)7,11)11N % Clip this Coupon for r- -- -'- 5 % DISCOUNT. on your grocery or„, der at VODDEN'S July 6,7, or 8f SALE STARTS JULY 6 THURS. 9 A.M. t 30% to Half Price off Fashion Wear. Dresses, Pant Suits, Long Dresses, Gauchos, Pants. Bathers at Halfprice ;h; i;- Misses' TOPS GALORE! A Value At 20% OFF Great fashion mates for Summerl In solid, . print or stripe patterns, INFANTS' WEAR 20% OFF )Cardigan / Sweaters 30% off SPECIALS T.K.. Denim Jeans 8-18, 5-15 HALF PRICE Undershaping BRAS... GIRDLES Special Buy a(i,rlW`�� Carhartt Jeans 20% off All sales cash fr\, Reg. $1.65 • 1.75 ea. Sale Price $1.49 ea. 2 pr. $2.95 Adler KNEE HIGHS and Boys' SOCKS 20% Off. 10% OFF Beehive Wools. Canadian Sayelle Knitting Yarns. Famous maker bras and panty girdles in a big selection of styles ... sizes. Girdles $3.00 Off Bras. $1.50 .Off // All in Ones, $5,00 Off SPECIAL RACK$ 2:$5. Dresses. Pant Suits. Blouses. Skirts etc. and final during this special discount period. Blyth 523-4351 BLY1H S Theatre addition is planned R • 25 CENTS All proceeds from sale to support the theatre. At the beginning of its fourth theatre season, the Blyth Centre for the Arts (BCFA) which sponspors the Blyth Summer Festival has launched an ambitious renovations program. Total cost is estimated at $211,000 and the first crucial clement, air conditioning, will be installed this summer at a cost of $35,000. Safety and much needed back stage space arc two of the prime aims of renovations. Based on a study by Goderich architects Hill and Borgal, the renovations will bring the existing hall up to building code standards and provide backstage production space with a small addition on the theatre's north side. Facilities to allow the handicapped access to Blyth's Memorial Hall have been included in the renovation plans. The hall, built as a memorial to those from Blyth and arca who served in the First World War, is owned by the village of Blyth and the nuuuciapal council has given its blessing to the renovations. The board of the BCFA has agreed to approach the renovations to the hall in several stages. Along with the air conditioning which is being installed as this season's plays are in rehearsal, meeting fire and safety standards has first priority. The addition, which will provide dressing rooms (an unheard of luxury for theatre company members over three seasons and again this year) will be tackled once the first phase is completed. A third phase to the renovations includes jobs which will be tackled over, a longer period of time. Donations to the theatre's renovation program are tax deductible and can be left with the Blyth Summer Festival box office. Below is a detailed description, taken from the architects' study, of the three phases of the Memorial Hall renovation plan. Sketches from the Hill and Borgal plan appear on inside pages of the Sumner Festival issue. The following is a list of the requirements necessary to make the building safe, recommended by the engineer, a) basement, stage and backstage wet -pipe sprinkler systems b) lire exhausts over stage arca equivalent to 1/8th the arca of the stage and equipped to open automatically in case of a fire c) an unfaramed asbestos fire curtain at proscenium to be closed automatically in the event of a fire d) a zoned class 4 building alarm complete with fire sensors at selected areas -including attic arca c) various fire rated doors to be installed at exit areas f) fire separation of basement from main floor (2 HR) g) emergency lighting system in, the fora of self•contained units at various exit locations. immediate requirement for the production of plays are: a) a workroom/storage area at stage level with an arca equal to at least 50 per cent of the stage with an access door to the stage oI' at least 5'0" x 12'0". b) two dressing rooms with a capacity of 10 people each. Dressing rooms to have proper mirrors, 15 linear feet of hanging space for clothes, lockable counters and a washroom coplete with toilet, sink and shower, plus two sinks in the dressing room proper, Dressing rooms shotild be as close to the stage as possible but water closets should be as isolated from the stage as possible to avoid sound transmission. c) a back stage sink for use during the show. d) various control and lighting improvements including an enlarged control room 85-20 amp circuits to various lighting bars and to back stage from the control room panel, extra lighting booth dimmer rapacity, a 2" conduit for a P/A system from the booth to backstage, and a cable tray in the ceiling area to carry wiring independant of flammable structural members. The following is desircable from a facilities standpoint and niay be phased over a period of time: a) a ramp and wahsroon to accomodate patrons in wheelchairs b) improved, washroom facilites for patrons (both in type of facilites, and location) c) sound proofing to downstairs ceiling (note; a part of this may be accomplished under section 1--fireporrfing for basement ceiling) d) re -use of balcony including construction of a second fire excape route (potential of about 75 extra scats) e) 2 technical offices f) extra storage space g) side wall shutters over windows on side walls to insulate hall,` black out all light, and improve accoustics h)' Catwalk in roof; replacement of cellulose insulation with fibreglass to prevent dusting i) an improved house lighting system wired to a common dimmer panel with 300 watts per fixture capacity j) an air conditioning system for dressing rooms and with a low velocity noiseless delivery for the main .hall and stage area k) a fly system over the stage. 'HER DUNLOP from The Huron Tiger costume sketched by Put Flood set costume designer BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ISSUE SUPPLEMENT TO THE BLYTH STANDARD, THE HURON EXPOSITOR AND THE BRUSSELS POST, JULY 5, 1978 2 -THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ISSUE, JULY 5, 1978 Heather is multi -talented f Heather Ritchie, an actress with the Blyth Summer Festival this year, has a list of' thcatrc credits a mile long and it all started at the tender age of Four Wien she was doing amateur re, She started training at the Ottawa Little Theatre \when she was in high school and then went to the National Theatre School which \vas located in Montreal and Stratford at that time, She was in the theatre school from 1964 to 1966 and she didn't work again till 1969 at Studio Lab Theatre in 'Toronto in Dionysus. In the daytime the theatre was doing children's shows and touring, Later she trained with George Lusconlb at Toronto Workshop Productions and then worked +with hint for a season and slid a number of shows that were collective creations. After that she worked for Factor Theatre Lab in a ,show, worked in the Festival of Underground Theatre, then did a show with Theatre Passe Muraille. Heather, then went to Ottawa and toured with a children's company for three or four months. She took some training in masks and clowning which led to ‘work on a show for the. Theatre Hour Company which involved tightrope walking, She also did aulothcr show at 'Theatre Passe Muraillc when she was nine months pregnant, playing the Virgin Mary. 'Then she took time off to have her baby, Right after that she worked for the National Arts Centre once again, working in shows Nvith masks and clowning. That led into touring ‘with the Royal Brothers hers Circus for the summer. After that Heather was in the 'Toronto Workshop production of 'len Lost Yelas which loured the Maritimes, Britain and Holland. The next thing she did was at the Persephone Theatre in Saskatchewan where she was in a play called the Power and the Blood which was about evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and then she got involved in an ill-fated production of Richard the 111. She has also done some small things for television, She did sonic principals for OECA and a number of commercials. Heather's talents seem to lie in almost every arca of the arts as she has also done some singing at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto and some dancing. She has a Iso studied with Jacquc LCcod, the mime, from Paris. She came to Blyth this year after auditioning for artistic director .lames Roy in 'Toronto. Shc also knew somebody who had worked in Blytll last year and enjoyed it. "Blyth is a pretty little town," Heather said. As for her preference of films or TV, 1 -feather says, "I'm trying HEATIiER RITCHIE tojust go ‘v here it is. 1 find some film work easier to get. I much prefer stage work at the moment." She says she has rcccntly been milking with a mad who has been teaching acting on the methods of Stanislaysky and Uta Hagen which simply involves, "using yourself. James Roy has a dream Artistic director James Roy was throne with the dream before the reality of the Blyth Summer Festival and four years later it's a very successful reality. After the first season of the Festival James wasn't exactly sure Where the Festival would be going in 1975 but after the first season he then decided on all Canadian theatre. The first season the plays +were adapted front Harry .I. Boyle's books Mostly in Clover, A Pinch oI' Sin and Honlebrew and Patches and lhcy were backed t'p by Agatha Christie's 'I'hc Mcntlsc Trap which didn't have the sante success the Canadian plays did. McCamus started young Tons McCamus with his boyish face looks more like a school boy off to sock his fortune, in the +world, than he does all actor with the Blyth Summer Festival. Even so, his theatre credit list is impressive. Tom started to get involved in community theatre while still in high school. He later got involved in 'Theatre London's Young Company. After that he decided to go to the University of TOM MCCAMUS Windsor where he was taking a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) dl'anla course. He went there for three years but decided not to go back for the last year. He left school and went to work for 'Theatre London and then came to Blyth. Tony once did some lighting and other production work, but now he just acts. His youthful appearance gives him the ver- satility of playing a 16 year old in liwcndolinc and a 30 year old government inspector in His Own Boss, Tom came to Blyth this year because he had heard about the Blyth Summer Festival ft'oni friends who had been in the theatre previously. He auditioned for artistic director James Roy and got himself a job. Of:: his approach to his characters, Toni says, "Some- times I go and just work with the script for a long time, till something happens. He says this could have some- thing to with the vital characteristic of a character or a physical piece of costume, Tom says that he liked doing "Stage stuff" but that he did a commercial once and enjoyed doling it. He says he would also like to do film and 'I'V work and find out what it's like. After the kill summer Festival season is over, Tom will be working at Theatre London as Nye!! as auditioning in other places. Tool says he'd like to travel around the country for awhile and to continue acting. The next year there were plays ++Witten by Alice Munro Harry Boyle and .lint Schaefer who recently moved out of Blyth to start up his own theatre in Port Stanley. Last year another play of Harry Boyle's, A Summer Burning was adapted for the stage by ,lames' wife Anne. They also did a play written by local play \vright Keith Roulston. 'I'hc Shortest Distance Between Two Points. over, ,lames directed two shows, at McMaster University and one for Theatre -Go -Round in tk'tt'olia. The rest of the time James has been working getting ready for the new season, setting up the plays, commission working with playwrights and applying for grants. Over the course of the winter James reads a lot of plays to decide which ones will be used for the summer, I0 or I2 of which will be seriously considered for pro- duction. JAMES ROY GODERICH Wishes all the Best t0' the MYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL For a successful fourth season Eleanor Besly Publicist kept busy Eleanor Besly publicist for the Blyth Summer Festival, has lots to keep her busy, "I handle all the advertising; arrange interviews; 1'01 a liason between the ticket outlets and the theatre itself, i write all the press releases", she told us. She also speaks to different groups telling thein as much as she can about the theatre and the plays. "i just do whatever has to be done," she says. In 1976, Eleanor Wit the publicist for the Forum at Ontario Place, She said this was a really lxlod experience because she did a lot of public relations work, setting up interviews between the performers and the press. She was also on the Gene Taylor show because of her position as publicist, Eleanor lived in England from 1969 to 1972 then came to Canada and took a general arts and science course at Humber College. After that she got a job at Ontario Place t11011 lalet' went to York University where she is still majoring in psychology. Last year she taught drama to children ages 7 to 14 in a summer school program. She has worked on theatre productions at York University. She came to Blyth after her roommate in Toronto, Donna FIi'abluk, who is also working with the Blyth Sumner Festival, told her about the position, Eleanor spoke to artistic director James Roy and got the job, Of Blyth itself, Eleanor says, "I'm really enjoying it, i never spent so much time in a small town before, I've found all the people really friendly. Eleanor is going back to York for her third year this year and (lopes to become a psychologist. ELEANOR BESLY 36 North St. Goderich 524.8572 THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ISSUE, JULY 5, 1978 —3 Built 1ri1920 Memorial Hall hosted travelling shows The following excerpt is from The Blyth Centennial issue of July 20, 1977. The Blyth Memorial Hall is a building that the people of Blyth have refused to have taken away from them and so the building has stood since 1920. Erected as a memorial to veterans who fought in the First World War, the Hall has served many purposes, When first built. it was used mostly as a concert hall for vaudeville shows and touring plays. Dances and other activities were held in the base- ment, A Firemen's Dance held once a year was the biggest event. One troupe that used to perform there was called the Jimmy Fax troupe. This man used to play many different parts all by himself. He came to the hall shortly after it was built. That concert was always held in connection with the fall fair. Mrs. Albert Coultes who lives at R.R.1, Belgrave remembers the tinges when the troupe used to conte to Blyth and she said the troupe was still coming when her oldest boy was big enough to go to the fair. The Jimmy Fax troupe stopped coaling to Blyth about 25 or 30 years ago. It was something everybody looked forward to, Mrs. Coultes said. Quite a few variety concerts were held in the upstairs of the Memorial Hall and at that time a lot of Irish -Scottish concerts were held. In 1973 the Memorial Hall was in danger of being torn down and all because of the theatre upstairs. In the 1920's the stage which was 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep was the most modern and the largest around and touring shows played to full houses in the auditorium. It had comfortable seats and a sloping floor to provide a good view for the entire audience and the acoustics were also good. But when television came to the fore, in the 1950's live theatre and the Memorial Hall auditorium itself were forgotten about. The building fell into a state of disrepair. The upper floor of the building was mostly f'or'gotten about. as dances and cor11111LI11►ty activities were held in the lower floor. In the 1970's plans were put into action for the revitilization of the bulling. Helen Gowing, a local women's wear shop owner and president of the Blyth Board of Trade initiated a meeting with the local recreation committee which had authority over the. building. It was decided, to paint the hall and put it back into use. Donations were needed to buy the supplies. Volunteers climbed ladders andscrubbed woodwork and -by early September the building was in much better shape. A variety night and fashion show sponsored by the Board of Trade was hell in the building in 1972. Though it was the first event held there in a long time, it was not necessarily a good omen. The local tire chief had inspected the building and declared the fire escapes not up to standards and said that he would have to forbid its use until new tire escapes were put in. The need for more money was the problem here, but not to be outdone the supporters of the building took the problem to the town council who agreed to provide the money for the new fire escapes, Before the new fire escapes had even been installed however, a ►'1111101' spread that the wiring in the building was poor and that it alight cost as much as $2000 to get it fixed, but an Ontario Hydro Inspector checked it out and Lound that only minor repairs were necessary, probably at a cost of $200. That problem was solved then. but another arose to take its place. A local councillor had noticed a sag in the roof and recommended that it be checked out for safety purposes before any more money was spent. An engineer checked it out and said that the root' was below the standards necessary to support snow loads, He also said that the theatre should not be used until repairs had been made to the root', although the lower portion of the hall could still be used, He promised the full report with recommendations the next month, The • engineer made this promise in the early spring. The report still wasn't in by August but finally the councillors got hint to a meeting and he suggested arras that aright cause problems and recommended that they be checked before renovations were made. 'that engineer's report was received in September but now a few councillors were having some doubts about the project, Now the cost was worrying them, One councillor suggested, "tear the thing down" and another thought that perhaps council shouldn't put so 11111011 money into an old building, A 0011p011 was put in the local newspaper asking readers their opinion on whether the Memorial Hall should be torn down or left standing and two groups came to its defence. One group was made up of citizens who had wanted the building renovated because they thought they had a good enter- tainment facility and wanted it put back into use, The second group felt that as a memorial to the war veterans, the building should not be destroyed, When the coupons from the newspapers had been returned they showed that only one person was voting for tearing the hall down and that canoe after a September council sleeting when council was making its decision. A September council meeting was held and the engineer's report carte in recommending complete removal of the present roof and its replacing with a strengthened new roof and truss system, It recommended minor strengthening of the floor to he total stage and auditorium. The roof cost $50,000 and Councillors approved money to fix the building. Only $10,000 came from village coffers with the rest coming front grants front senior governments. During the winter of 1975.76 further renovations were made by the Blyth Centre for the Arts under a Local Initiatives Project grant and with support from local residents, Blyth council and various charitable organization. A silver machine gun which sits outside the hall is representative of when soldiers used to bring home bootys of such war souvenirs. Supporters of the Memorial Hall have regained their building and this year, the Blyth Summer Festival is again putting it to good use. 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Chris who N from England went to school in Yorkshire and worked on his first degree at St. Andrews in Scotland from 1962 to 1966. • He also did a year at Oxford, Then he taught for a couple of years in Sierra Leone, West Africa. in 1969, he came to Canada to do further academic research and received his Ph. D. at McMaster University. All of his degrees are in classics basically Latin and Greek liter - ature, He became interested in theatre after having formed a drama group in Sierra Leona with sonic friends and putting on one prOduction. „That's all I needed to spark up my interest," he said. When he went to McMaster he was doing about six amateur theatre produelon a year. He managed to get his degree but he was more interested in the theatre than his classes. He even directed a couple of plays at McMaster. They were the Resounding tinkle by M.F. Sirgpsou and The Browning Version by '1'cretwe Rat(igan. One of his f1n'nllr.te roles at McMaster \las that ()I' Richard the 111. ('Brie was asked to conic IO We welcome you to come and browse for unique gifts • qui to material original sill( flowers in corages - bridal bouquets • hair combs - custom made' to your specifications. Something new! All your natural food needs can be found on the shelves of the The KITCHEN CUPBOARD ear as production manager CHRIS iICELIC Blyth by artistic director .lames Row who had seen him in a theatre production and asked him to become a member oI' the Blyth company. Some of the theatres he has worked with include The Theatre Hour Company which was a school company. 'i'hey toured all the high schools in Ontario for seven months, the Shaw Festival, Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, the 'Toronto Free Theatre, Carousel Plays in St. Catharines, Magnus 'Theatre Northwest in Thunder Bay, and Cahbagctown Theatre. He also look part in a McMaster Acting class when Douglas Campbell directed a play (here. He has been actively involved in professional theatre for five years. Aside from his interest in the theatre he is also interested in Tong distance running and runs in Ilse Boston Marathon every year. 'i'he Ihcatrc and running are equal loves of his life but as he says. "'Theatre is niy eareer. You don't make a career 001 of running clown the road." (•Ilii' says he's sol a Sfanislawsky method actor. "I Think I'm more of a gut actor rather than a technical actor, I don't subscribe to that, I don't rely on technique so much. I work from the 11151(10 out," he said, ()I' his role as 'Tiger Dunlop's older brother he says, "1 think this is the farthest Profit my character I've played. lie's a very sickly character who is constants overshadowed by his younger brother. 1 fend it interesting and hard work from that point of view," he said. BJARNE CHRISTENSEN R•jau'nc Christensen, production manager I'or the Blyth Summer Festival has had a part in technical directing ever since his high school days at Central Huron in Clinton. But his .job at the Summer Festival takes in a lot more than just technical directing. As the production manager he's respon- sible for co-ordinating all aspects of the productions. That includes sets, lighting, costumes, stage managing, rehearsal schedules, and in general looking after all the theatre facilities. At the Blyth Summer Festival, l3jarnc must also act as the technical director, which means not only co-ordinating the building of sets but supervising Ilie building of them and slaking suggestions as to what kinds of materials should he used. It's also his responsibility to look after the money for technical materials, to sec where it's spent and flow it's spent and he also works very closely with the designers. Since the Theatre is getting an air conditioning system put in this year, lijarne must also make sure rehearsals are scheduled around this and must also look for tlic securing of an electrical contractor and a carpentry contractor, 13rjarnc got some of his training at York University where he went for four years and studied theatre production and design. Before (hal Iic lived in Clinton and got some background in technical w'o'k from doing it for the high school productions there. This is not 13iat'ne's first limit \vorking with the Blyth Summer Festival, fie was technical director two years ago, and Dist year he worked only as a technical adviser fin• the theatre because he wanted some time off. His last job before coming hack Best of Luck to the Blyth Summer Festival from BLYTH PRINTING Blyth, Ont. 523-9211 to Blyth this year was at the 'i'11rragon Theatre in Toronto where he also worked , as a technical director. He did do a bit oI' acting at high school and university but says that his main background is in electronics because Ile studied that in high school and even before high school, Originally after high school he went into engineering but discovered Ile didn't like it very much. Then he diel social \vork for two yea's. He decided after that that he wanted to go hack to school but not in engineering so that's when he weal to York University and studied theatre production and design. 13ajt'ne says he's always been technically oriental and engineering oriented plus he's worked for quite a few year's as a carpenter including sonic • summers during his high school years, As for what he'll be doing when the Summer Festival's season enols he said he's got about foto' different jobs that he's looking at in 'Toronto and around. 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David Kirby worked in circuses THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAI, ISSUE, JULY 5, 1978 —5 DAVID KIRBY David Kirby who is an actor and production assistant \with the Blyth Summer Festival got started in theatre arts in high school, In the summer he Worked with the Ontario Youth Theatre, He went to York after Grade 13 and will be going into his fourth year next year and that's the extent of his theatre training. DEBORAH COOPER Deborah Cooper is a local girl Deborah Cooper, as an administrative assistant for the Blyth Summer Festival types letters, will be \working in the box office when it opens and \will also be helping publicist Eleanor Bcslev with a few jobs. She attended Central 11UI'On Seconday School in Clinton and \vas through this year. She learned about the job at the theatre office through Manpower. Deborah, who took a business course at school is hoping to get a permanent job in London as a secretary, About the theatre she says, "It's kind of interesting, never really thought about it ()croft. l kind of like it." Publicist Eleanor Bosley says that Debbie helps everybody else in the theatre. "When we get really swamped we always turn to Debbie, She's always calm and cool and collected and helps us out," Eleanor says. He had been in a number of shows at York but this is his first professional prO(luction, Ile wanted to do some summer stock this year and auditioned for artistic director James Roy in March. ,lames called hint later and asked him if he would be interested 111 being all apprentice actor for the Ontario Arts Council. David will have parts this year in the Huron Tiger and I -lis Ow n Boss. and alter that will he involved in production work. Being an apprentice actor is considered 0 lenl'11111g experience which the apprentice gets by working with a professional company. After he gets out of York, David would like to get jobs in theatre companies so that Ile can \vork steadily but he says he also has an interest in the circus. He has worked in circuses before and says, "it's a lot of fun. Asked if he'd like to work in television or tilnls, David said, "il' the opportunity came, I'd certainly follow i1. I've hod very minimal experience \\ 1111 it. David says, "I think each role demands a different approach. I .just approach each character in terms of what he docs in the play. "I just try and understand the character and what he is thinking at a specific time and what he has gone through in the past," he says. Audience is magic Barbara Snaith says Barbara Snaith, who has a double position \\'ith the Blyth Summer Festival as actress and production assistant, just I'ec'e111Iv graduated with 0 B.A. in drama from Brock .University in St. Catharines. She did a lot of shows while at Brock including 'Three Sisters, From Morn to Midnight, and One Way Pendulum, Shc has also amateur shows in Hamilton with the Players Guild, including 'I'I1e E fleets of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, Glass Menagerie, and C'onle Back Little Sheba. For the past three years she also worked with the Picadilly Circus doing shows for children at Dundurn Castle in Hamilton. The most recent show she (li(1 was Waltz or the 'Toreadors al McMaster University which James Roy directed. Barbara told .lames she would be interested in working at Blyth and later she got a call telling her she had 0 job. In Blyth she will he playing the part or Helen Galt in The Huron Tiger. At Brock, Barbara took a combination of production and acting which ascan( that as well as acting in these shows there, she also had to help build them, After performances of Huron Tiger have started Barbara will be going into production work. Asked about her acting technique, Barbara says, "every- body has to find their own way of arriving at 0 character, There isn't any one technique that anybody follows, 'There's a certain amount of script analysis," she says. "In the end you just have to follow yotll' owls \wily, sax', ,what do I think about this?' 1 think too mane people think that acting is 0 technique and it's not, It's a kind of art," she added. Barbara has done a little bit of 'I',V, and stage work but she likes the theatre, "You've got an audience there. 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The COst a niCs were almost the right period for one of the plays the Theatre people were working on at the time of the interview and it was just a matter of a few adjustments. Of her job, Kathryn says. "It's sort of like making the two dimensional into the three dimensional. It's taking the idea and translating it into reality," she said. She attended Ryerson Poly- iechnical Institute where she took the fashion arts course but she only stayed there for a year and a half, then she went to York University for three years, where she graduated this year with her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BEA) degree. She did her third year of York in England al the Wimbledon School of Art where Ile was a wardrobe supervisor. At York University she took theatre production wit h costume. design as her major. She has worked at the Guelph Sprint, Festival ;:n(I she once worked for a woman who de- signed clothes for such well- knowns as Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, which Kathryn says weren't really typical theatre costumes. Kathryn, who did sewing .aid Elizabeth Hanna Actor Keith Knight has done mime, TV and radio Keith Knight, an actor with the Blyth Summer Festival got his first equity contract this year. Keith was born in Toronto, but has spent the last five years al Sault St. Marie doing amateur KATHRYN KIERNAN-MOLLOY beading for those costumes, says their clothes had to be "as good inside as outside." Kathryn came to Blyth after James and Anne Roy asked the costume professor at York for a recommendation. Kathryn had an interview with production manager Bjarne Christensen and was given the job. "I was really glad when I found out I got the job. it's a really good opportunity to conic out from university to be a cutter. "You used to have to be an assistant first. Because this was a small theatre, I was given a lucky break,'" Kathryn said. Asked about any ambitions towards the Stratford Festival 'ilicatre, Kathryn, who is from '1011)nto, said that given the chance she would like to go the Stratford Festial as a cutter. Reflecting on possible future ambitions, Kathryn, said, "I'd also like to get in there as an assistant designer. Kathryn is going to England in September and staying there for eight or nine months where she hopes to get a ,job in a theatre in London. Nurses on the side Elizabeth Hanna's stain career is acting but she has another interest on the side. She does geriatric nursing. Elizabeth was born in Ottawa, lived there most of her life and attended Carleton University where she got her B.A. in philosophy. After that she went to National Theatre School in Montreal for three years, She went to Ottawa after she graduated then worked at theatre in London. Later she worked with artistic director James Roy on a show in Petrolia 011 a script called Mirror, Mirror taken front the different works o1' Canadian wo- Hien authors. That play was later brought to Blyth. Then she did a show in Toronto directed by Jack Blunt, a member of the Blyth Summer • Festival cast last year, James Roy asked Elizabeth to conte to Blyth this year since she had worked with hint before, Elizabeth approaches her characters, "differently every time. It depends on the people i'nl working with, the script. I operate from instinct great deal of the time. Of the, play, she was working on utile time of being interviewed 'The Huron tiger, she says she had to discover relationships with other characters that weren't in the script. "The hardest thing is listening, but it's the most important thing. When I have any problems 1 go kick to reading and listening." Elizabeth doesn't have a pre- IorCncC yet between live theatre tuid filet. "I'd love to do I'ilnis. I know that I'd like to explore. There are pros and cons to both," she said. What does she enjoy about live theatre? "'There's nothing that C01111'011ts I110l'C of you r11(lfe often, nxn'e aspects of you that I can think of, it's very very hard work and endlessly fascinating." Besides a geriatrics nurse Elizabeth works for an private agency and gets sent out to patients. Elizabeth is going to be working 011 a .play with another woman after the Blyth season is over. The, play specific character retains the barriers that age sets up and tlic enormous,„ -adjust- ments it necessitates:' Elizabeth said. t` ELIZABETH HANNA KEITH KNIGHT Karen Wiens says shows three years of touring children's theatre. 'I he only theatre training he had was at the Canadian mime School at Niagra-on-the-Lake. Last f'aII, Keith started going out to get professional roles, and got a job in Montreal doing profes- sional children's theatre. In May he auditioned for ,James Roy and was cast. In the last five years he has done about 60 amateur shows, "It was really kind of nice, because the last amateur thing I diel was at Theatre Ontario Festival in Oshawa in May and 1 got the best actor award.'' "You have to relate to the other actors you're playing with," Keith says. "Some parts I approach from the inside out and others I approach from the outside in." He said the character that he is playing in the Huron Tiger-- Thonias Mercer Jones of the Canada Company who is always at odds with Tiger—could very easily become a stock comedy villain if not played the right way, "It's a very small part but a very important one. It propels the action," he said, In the Sault Keith did the play Marty for television as well as sonic radio plays. "I like TV but i think 1 prefer the live stage. On TV you don't act. You more or Tess react." Of live theatre he says, "It's a challenge. It's a thrill if you know it's going well. it's like being in a sports event. it's a natural high. "If you hear thunder in the applause, it's a pleasing thing. It's pleasing to me to know I'm pleasing other people, and also you develop yourself a great deal." He says another reason he enjoys his profession is because, "actors can be anything they want to be," After the Festival season is over Keith is going back to the Sault to direct a play The Inspector going knocking on doors for acting jobs. Acting courses too academic Karen Wiens an actress at the Blyth Summer Festival is originally from Saskatchewan but has been living in Toronto for the past year. Karen has never studied a continuous theatre arts course. Ever since she was in Grade 10 'she took two and three week courses in St. Cathr'iencs 011 the theatre. She started to take an acting course in Montreal but felt that it was too academic. At t he time i wasn't interested in studying academically I just wanted to do the actual work on scripts. "she said. Karen got some training at the Mime School at the Niagra on the Lake. 'i'he 1111 sic training K arca believes helped teach her economy in body movement, "It really helps me to improvise," Karen said. Karen also enjoyed working as a clown at Niagra on the Lake where she worked as an extra. After that she went to Sask- atchewan and worked there for a year, She worked with the 25th Street Theatre and the Persephone Theatre in a play called Cruel 'Tears which they took on tote' to Vancouver and Montreal. Then Karen took off for Paris where slit was planning on studying mime but she didn't have enough money and decided she had had enough training in mime. So, she came back a couple of months Tater and ended up in Toronto, where she has just done a couple of shows. She has also done bit work with the CBC and some bit work with films. Karen got the job with the Blyth Summer Festival when she auditioned for artistic director James Roy and got the job a couple of weeks Tater, "1 was so glad to get out of the city, Karen said. 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"The first thing I try to do is try to slake sense of it. i try to have fun with it, she added. • Karen will be doing a show with Theatre Passe Muraille at Christmastime and she is also hoping to do some auditions in Toronto after the Blyth Summer Festival season is over, welcome Festival Visitors Best Wishes to the Blyth Summer Festival from Elliott Insurance Agency Limited Blyth 523-4481 THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ISSUE', JULY 5, 1978 — 7 The play's the thing with Ted Johns "The play's the thing." Or at least it is with Tcd Johns who when asked about himself will give you a rundown of his play first, Ted who. so successfully captured the audience's imagination last year in "He won't Come In From the Barn" is at it again this time acting out a real-life drama --the teacher's strike in Huron County. As for the play itself it is entitled, The School Show, it is written by Ted Johns and developed from a scenario worked art with Paul Thompson of Theatre Passe Muraillc who is known around Blyth for his work in The Farm Show, and the Horsburgh Scandal. "It's an extremely difficult project dealing with something as complex as education in Huron County. One person has to execute all these hopes and dreams," Ted says. The play is being directed by Clark Rogers who has worked in major theatres across the country including the Stratford Festival Theatre. Ted Johns himself was born outside of Clinton and his father Ron Ferguson makes sure still lives in Clinton. He has taught elementary school, high school, university and also worked as a supply teacher. He has performed in Blyth before in "Naked on the North Shore" and has contributed to several other productions that Paul Thompson has done in Blyth including the Horsburgh Scandal, Shakespeare for Fthi and Profit and probably a lot of audiences would remember him as the central character in "He Won't Come in From the Barn." Ot' his play Ted says,, "I think schools are an essential part of life and i think that what happens Shows run smoothly As stage manager for the Blyth Summer Festival, a lot of re- sponsibility for making sure the shows run smoothly rests on the shoulders of Ron Ferguson. Ron who will have been here four years with this season, has to organize schedules as far as rehearsal times, organize re- hearsals for space, organize the schedules so they tit in with actors fittings and look after things the actors and directors need. He is also responsible for a production book which is the script with all the stage blocking in it. Eventually the production book also has to have in it all the lighting cues, all the actors entrances and exits, and prop movements—who uses what, where, and set changes, RON FERGUSON Tigger wants to raise goats in Greece Tigger Jourard, orie of the stage managers .for the Blyth Summer Festival has an in- teresting ambition for her life, She thinks she'll go to Greece and raise goats. She attended Moira Secondary School in Belleville, the University of Waterloo and the National Theatre School in Montreal. She has worked at the National Theatre School, the Toronto Free Theatre and the Peterborough Festival of Canadian Theatre. Because Tigger was ill at the time of the interviews, more information and a picture of her were not available. A Standard Classified will pay you dividends, Have you tried one? Dial S23.9646. Once the show starts, the stage manager's job is far from being over. in fact, the a stage manager practically runs the show, ac- cording to Ron. He has direct communication with the lighting board operator, calling all the cues and he also has a PA system to the actors dressing room so he can cue them as to their entrance. He also makes notes about technical things that. aren't working or if an actor's timing is off he also makes notes. "You have to take this project that the director has created and you have to maintain it" Ron says. Of a script he says, "You have to be aware enough to allow it to grow in potential. In the rehearsal you have to be involved in the whole process." He explained that the actors had certain motivations and if they lose that he tries to put them back on the right track. Ron got his training at the Theatre Department in Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. After Ryerson, Ron worked at the Ontario Youth Theatre for a summer as a technician, then worked with Theatre London as tut apprentice in administration, before coming to Blyth. The first year he was at Blyth, Ron had to be a jack-of-all-trades He had to be the lighting designer and the costume designer as well as stage manager. in fact he was the entire design and technical department. How Ron actually came to the Blyth Summer Festival is an interesting story in itself. Artisitic director James Roy had ad- vertised the stage managing position in a show business trade paper. A friend of' Ron's applied for the position but was unable to take it so when James Roy phoned he told him about Ron. James Roy did a quickie interview over the phone and told Ron the job was his if he wanted it. That was on a Monday and Ron came up to Blyth the next day. "It was a fluke," Ron says. After his first year at Blyth, Ron worked with the University of Toronto opera department as an assistant stage manager. Then he stage managed Harry's Back in Town in Toronto, then went to 'iheatre New Brunswick raid stage managed two shows, came back to Blyth then went back to theatre New Brunswick again. Ron has no desire to act on the stage at all. In fact he thinks many people have the mis- conception that behind the scenes theatre people are really frustrated actors. "Most people in production are trained for that, because that's what they want to do. When I worked at the opera, that's when i really got into it. i'rn quite happy doing it right now,,, he says. Ron isn't sure yet what he'll be doing when the Blyth theatre season ends, So flu' he has just been freelancing going from place to place. Best of Luck to the BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ON YOUR TRAVELS ... with friends or relatives make it a point to VISIT THE DUTCH STORE iN CLINTON SOUVENIRS & EXCLUSIVE GIFTS Knitting yarns Imported DUTCH CHEESE & DELICATESSEN items at very competitive PRICES And remember...A trip to Clinton is not complete without a visit to THE DUTCH STORE 55 Albert .St, 482-7302 Clinton Ont, NOM 1L0 to them and what happens in them concerns all of us." "I think that the recent teacher's strike in Huron drew attention to the schools, The point is A, . that event aroused really strouv' passions in a lot of people and I guess the simplest way to put it is I hope my play not only gives credit to the different points of view, but allows people to see some element of humor in it." After he was in, He Won't Conic in From the Barn, in Blyth last year he did another play in Toronto, then did Naked on the North Shore in Saskatoon, and then the opportunity came to work in Blyth again. And he is still in the course of working on the play, "I'm fairly confident at this point that it will be of interest to a number of people." "I really enjoyed working on it. If the people learn half as much from the who as I did trying to make it, I think it'll really be worthwhile. it certainly has been an education for mc." He wrote the script after the teacher's strikes in Perth and Huron Counties and elsewhere. "i found it an interestingly complex thing. Eventually 1 felt I had to choose a side, I guess what side, is something they'll have to come and see for themselves," TEiJ JOHNS Everything under the sun.... Apron s Books Cards and Invitations Cannisters Dansk Cookware Fieldcrest Towels Franciscan Dinnerware Flowers Glassware Ice Buckets Knives Kitchen Gadgets Lamps Monogrammed Towels Napkins Own Mitts Piacemats Quilts Quiche Pans Ribbons Soaps Scuffle Dishes Tumblers and Trays Wicker and many more unique gifts for your summer fun ! 8 —THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ISSUE, JULY 5, 1978 Play helps Huron celebrate 150 [by Alice Gibb] It's purely happy coincidence that the Blyth Summer Festival is presenting a play about Dr, William "Tiger" Dunlop on the 150th anniversary of the Huron road. 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Peter Colley, the playwright from London, Ontario, who was commissioned to write The Huron Tiger for the Blyth Summer Festival, said he was immediately captured by the character of Dunlop, who had so many facets to his personality. The man could be rowdy and behave like the roughest backswoodsman, and yet he was also a medical doctor, a well-spoken member of the landed gentry, and a regular contributor to Blackwoods Magazine, one of Scotland's most distinguished literary publica- tions, Mr. Colley, himself descended from a family of English music hall artists, is the author of The The War Show and The Connelys, both Theatre London hits, and last summer presented another of his works, titled The Vaude- villians, at the Gallery Theatre in London. He is also currently working on a play commissioned by the University of Western Ontario to celebrate their Centennial. The playwright, who often doubles as an actor, said he was performing in The Little Prince at the Blyth theatre last summer, when James Roy, the artistic director, took him aside and asked if he would be interested in writing an original play based on some historical event from this area, When Colley agreed, then Roy said, "Well, have you thought about Tiger Dunlop?" When he started his research, Colley found there was more information than he needed about the eccentric doctor who helped found the town of Gocicrich, a Scotsman with both fiery temperament and a razor sharp wit to match. Experimental When he produced the first draft of the play, Colley experi- mented with the fragmented approach he had used in other plays and covered all of Dunlop's life, Then, on re -considering the script, he decided the major crises in Dunlop's life occurred in' the 1837-1841 period when the doctor finally left the Canada Company in a rage, narrowly escaped matrimony and ran for election as a member of the Legislative Assembly. Colley took the liberty of cramming all these events into "an old fashioned three act play" which takes place in a short span of time at Gairbraid, the Dunlop estate outside Goderich. The play's themes center around the 1837 farmers' rebellion, Dunlop's relationship with his housekeeper Lou and the emotional effects on the doctor of the death of his brother, Robert. "The play is basically a comedy with a little bit of drama mixed in," said the playwright. Surprisingly, Colley already knew something of the history of the Canada Company since it is then mentioned in English histories as the example of a successful colonial company. Although the company, and its agent, the strong-willed Thomas Mercer Jones, feature as the main antagonists in The Huron Tiger, Colley said Dunlop can't really be regarded as the hero, since his motives often aren't what they seem, In`, researching Dunlop's' character, the playwright discovered the doctor possessed ; what the Greeks consider a fatal flaw. While Dunlop appeared to do the right things, he often did them for entirely the wrong reasons, For example, when he offered to stand as a candidate for parliament, it wasn't really to right the many wrongs faced by the settlers of the Huron Tract -- Peter Colley rather, Dunlop was attracted by the S00 pounds yearly salary and the chance to party with his cohorts in Toronto, Rehearsing Although the actors started rehearsing the play on Monday, Colley said he will be changing the play as rehearsals progress and more nuances develop in the characters. Although he admits it isn't always popular with the actors, Colley tends to add lines to his script right up to the night before the play is performed. The Huron Tiger opens the Blyth Summer Festival season on July 7. While Colley will attend the play's rehearsals, to rewrite sections of the script and give the actors some additional back- ground material on the characters they're portraying, Janies Roy will be directing the play. Colley said the dilemma he faced in attempting to base a play on Dunlop's life was whether to do a straight historical play, based entirely on the facts, and risk producing a dull play or whether to produce a dramatic work, using some artistic license in changing the facts so the play would work well on stage, Colley chose the latter, and although the costumes and props will be as historically accurate as possible, the action of the play will sandwich a number of years cf Dunlop's life together for more dramatic effect. Colley said Roy has proved a "good marl" to work with, and a few weeks ago the two of then sat down and talked for hours about the different levels they wanted to achieve in The Huron Tiger. Marathon As a result of the marathon discussion, Colley said he re- wrote half the first act and ended up with a "vastly improved script." Tiger Dunlop won't be an easy man to portray on stage --the eccentric character was a lively talker, had a slight problem with drink, inhaled handfuls of snuff, mercilessly teased his housekeepr Lou and then tricked his poor brother into marrying the woman, quoted endlessly from classical literature and managed to (Continued on Page 9) M,NIArUBE GOLFA ..i� TRAIL. New this Year ANo .W� .• RIDES4.00 per hour FUN FOR ALL AT: JELLYSTONE PARK Phone 565-2179 BAYFIELD THE OLD SAME PLACE toys woodlore CI fine crafts Featuring Mr. Woodchuck's wooden toys good for one dollar on the purchase of a mr, woodchuck wooden toy over five dollars. made in box 191 BAYFIELD 565 2496 Addition planned THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ISSI.,F, J4LY15, 1ina$-9 To Memorial Hall Front of hall now. Suggested plan for new addition. Rear view of hall Rear view showing location of new addition. Play helps celebrate (Continued from Page 1) generally worm his way out of facing any serious situations. Sometimes, Colley said, Dunlop was also "a frightened man" --he not only ran away from the responsibility of facing up to marriage, but also from the responsibility of facing up to the way the Canada Company was treating the ordinary settler. Thomas Mercer Jones, tlp play's antagonist, is also not without contrndictons. Colley considers this man "a cross between Cardinal Wolsely and Idi Amin" but with a cunning that allows him to escape any punishment for his misdeeds until the very end. Certainly one of the play's most fascinating characters promises to be Lou, the housekeeper of , Scots, Presbyterian working class background who kept house for the two Dunlop brothers. After holding the position for , some time, Lou, a very upright woman, decides the situation can g) on no longer --either c ne ofTthe. men makes her an honest woman, cr else she leaves Gairbraid. The brothers, helpless when it comes to running a home, know they can't lose Lou, and so Tiger Dunlop tricks his timid brother into marrying the woman, who ' had really hoped to trap the doctor himself, (Continued on Page 12) Best Wishes Blyth fora successful summer festival i MAIN STREET fltin Entire antique0 i (519) 565-2609 !BAYFIELD, ONTARIO Frye little inn BAYFIELD, ONTARIO, CANADA BOX 102 PHONE BAYFIELD 565-2611 Enjoy the rural atmosphere in this old Coaching Inn at Bayfield, a peaceful Ontario village beside Lake Huron. Comfortable sleeping accommodations, delicious meals, including Sunday Brunch. Reservations advisable, I flag Lunch 12:00 - 2:00 Dinner 5:30 - 7.30. , 1.101111111 'Sunday Brunch - 10:30 - 1:30 master charge a THE .. VILLAGE. GUILD, 'Bayfield, Ontario on Lake I?uron Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Dick Proprietors • Silver Antique Jeweliery 40. Starn:.. s for Collectors • hina ,Linen, Mass , A ITHE:•vita% Gut (t n 7» DaY$. 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Certainly one of the play's most fascinating characters promises to be Lou, the housekeeper of , Scots, Presbyterian working class background who kept house for the two Dunlop brothers. After holding the position for , some time, Lou, a very upright woman, decides the situation can g) on no longer --either c ne ofTthe. men makes her an honest woman, cr else she leaves Gairbraid. The brothers, helpless when it comes to running a home, know they can't lose Lou, and so Tiger Dunlop tricks his timid brother into marrying the woman, who ' had really hoped to trap the doctor himself, (Continued on Page 12) Best Wishes Blyth fora successful summer festival i MAIN STREET fltin Entire antique0 i (519) 565-2609 !BAYFIELD, ONTARIO Frye little inn BAYFIELD, ONTARIO, CANADA BOX 102 PHONE BAYFIELD 565-2611 Enjoy the rural atmosphere in this old Coaching Inn at Bayfield, a peaceful Ontario village beside Lake Huron. Comfortable sleeping accommodations, delicious meals, including Sunday Brunch. Reservations advisable, I flag Lunch 12:00 - 2:00 Dinner 5:30 - 7.30. , 1.101111111 'Sunday Brunch - 10:30 - 1:30 master charge a THE .. VILLAGE. GUILD, 'Bayfield, Ontario on Lake I?uron Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Dick Proprietors • Silver Antique Jeweliery 40. Starn:.. s for Collectors • hina ,Linen, Mass , A ITHE:•vita% Gut (t n 7» DaY$. 'S 1C9-$65- 766' 10 -THE BLYTH STUMMER FESTIVAL ISSUE, JULY 5, 1978 Pat Flood,designer is jack-of-all-trades Pat Flood is a jack-of-all-trades and it is necessary for her to be that way in her position as set and costume designer for the Blyth Sumner Festival. Among her duties Pat had to do drawings for all the sets, all the costumes and all the props even things that have to be found and made, She also has to be able to draft things for the people building the sets, and to have a knowledge of different paints. She also has to know how to talk to the carpenter, using terms which are familiar to hint as a carpenter so he will know how she wants things built and her job also involves some engineering at times, PAT FLOOD Pat thinks there are a lot of things that people don't realize about the theatre and the work that goes into putting a pro- duction on. She said there are four sets and people dn't realize that while one seg is on stage three others are being stored behind it. She also thinks that people don't realize the amount of knowledge that theatre people have to have. She cites as an example, Bjarne Christensen, the production manager, whom she says is a wizard in electronics. He also has to be able to talk to the 111011 about putting air conditioning in the theatre, he has to know about sewing so he knows what kind of machines to get and he rias to know what the actors need, "We'r'e not an amateur theatre. We're all professional," Pat said, Pat has her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree which she got in Alberta and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from the University/of Minnesota. The program in Alberta was a strictly theatre Course. While she was there Pat took courses in drawing, drafting;" and painting. "It was a fully professional course," she says. The courses in Minnesota were practical courses where she took things like major scene painting, comparing European lighting instruments with American ' lighting instruments studying the various furniture styles and then building models of a hypothetical set in which all the furniture had. to be right on for that time period, supervising a section of show and working and designing sets. for a play. Pat apprenticed at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, worked as an assistant designer in Toronto at the St. Lawrence Centre, at the Stratford Festival as assistant to the designer and then decided to strike out on her own as a designer. Some of the other places she worked include The National Arts ('entre in Ottawa, Halifax, Winnepeg, Calgary, Minneapolis, the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton and the Tarragon 'Theatre in Toronto which is where she met Bjarne Christensen, production manager of the Blyth Summer Festival. People probably wonder just how Pat functions as a set and costume designer. "When 1 design a show, 1 read a script over many many tinges to sec what kind of characters are in the play. i read it for a feeling and 1 also read it for details. "Pat says. Then she makes a scale model of the set so that the actors, directors and technicians can all see what it looks like. Then she drafts it up gives the plans to the carpenter who builds the set. Then she docs drawings of all the props for the production assistants, and gives them a list of'all the props. She also has to do a drawing of' every costume from the show as well as doing a lot of research 00 what people wore in the different time periods. And this is where the design people really appreciate the cutters, she said because the character's dresses are not copies of anything, and the cutters have to make 1110111 up from nothing and they've got to tit. "They've got to slake cheap material look really good," Pat said. Next year is the first year that Pat will be a resident designer. She usually likes to travel around a lot but she will be working at Theatre Calgary as their resident designer. Pat has no desire to be up on the stage acting. "I much prefer to be behind -the -scenes. It's much more inter'esting." Of the Blyth theatre she says, "In a big city you never know your audience but here you know them. Here they give you critiques. Here I know if i put something on stage, they don't like, I'm going to hear about, it," she said. Join the Canadian minority group. The Fit. PETER SNELL Art .works exhibited The Blyth Centre for the Arts Art Gallery will be in the building immediately south of the Blyth Memorial Hall. Two art exhibi- tions will be held this summer through the CONT'AC'T program of the Art Gallery of Ontario Extension Department. The first exhibit July 1 - July 25 will be wood engravings of G. Brcnder a Brandis. The exhibition includes examples of wood blocks and engraving tools as well as a selection of his tiny wood prints of the Ontario countryside. From .1uly 26 until August 30. the water colours and oils of Doris McCarthy --painted during her trips to the Arctic regions—will be displayed, CONTACT has been realized in direct response to the needs of communities which in the past have not had the space or facilities to house exhibitions circulated by Extension services. This title encompasses a number of small -sized exhibits of works by Canadian artists. CON'T'ACT is made possible by assistance from the National Museums Corporation, Ottawa, with additional funding f'ronl Outreach Ontario (Ministry of Culture and Recreation). The Blyth Art Gallery is funded by lige Ontario Arts Council. Gallery hours are Monday Saturday 10 a.m. • 8:30 p.m. Peter Snell worked theatre in n is and worked with artistic director James Roy in Orillia. He has done odds and ends of television, including com- mercials. Peter is mainly in- terested in the acting side of the theatre, It seems when talking with Peter Snell an actor with the Blyth Summer Festival that he's done every aspect of theatre work, including pulling the curtain. Peter spent some time in Fngland where he got some of his theatre training at Birmingham and West End Theatres where he spent some time working on the various backstages. He has also worked for the Persephone 'Theatre In Saskatoon, Theatre London and Theatre 5, in Kings- ton where he did improvisational shows for both children and adults. He also worked for The Just Society, a Revue, in Toronto "1 like that aspect of per- forming—the spirit of it," he said. Asked for more continents on his acting method, he says. "T think there's a lot of it that is inside but you've got to have the vehicle and technical know-how. 1 don't think there's a hard and fast formula especially for different things. Sugar Bush Inn Welcomes You A complete year round resort for your leisure pleasure. FAMILY CAMPING Pool , ...Beach MOTEL RESTAURANT PROPANE FILLING STATION TRAILER SALES 2 miles South of BAYFIELD on Highway 21 [5191 565-2450 Main Street BAYFIELD, ONTARIO Open seven days a week Phone 565-2588 The doors of the Wardrobe open each morning. Inside you will find multiple choice co-ordinates which combine into a wardrobe for today's sportive look. More of everything to make hot weather dressing a pleasure day or night, whenever, wherever ... Dona Hrabluk runs around for theatre As a production assistant \vitt the Blyth Summer Festival, Dona Hrabluk runs around a lot, Runs around. looking for props that is, She goes mound to people iuld asks them if they have anything the theatre could use for props, She starts usually with Jim LaWrie of Blyth who either knows 01.1)001)1C that have the necessary equipment or else she said he'll go to a dinner or something and pass around a list of props needed. The production people also talk to people on the street and ask them if they have things that are needed for various productions. Once those props have been collected it's up to the production people to slake them ready for the stage which can mean fixing them up, toning them down or toning them up and cleaning and polishing them. Dona did some theatre in high school. After high school she worked in graphics and type- setting for four years, an experience which has helped her with her present job of collecting props. "It's good for public relations and things like that. It's helped nie in that way," Dona says. Dona will be entering her second year at York University this fall where she is taking the DONA HRABLUK Honors Program in Production and Design. Dona says one of her professors at York University told his students that there were jobs in Blyth so she canis up and had an interview with Bj a rne christensen and ,lames Roy and got the job, She isn't sure yet just what her main interest in the theatre is although one thing's for sure. It's not acting in front of an audience that attracts her. "I'd like to try things out. I like building props, constructing, things like that. I enjoy lighting, and costuming. I'd like to try design maybe. I'd like to try as much as I can, before I settle down," she says. Dona has worked for the Young Peoples Theatre, the Guelph Spring Festival and also in productions at York. Theatre Jan administers Jan Dutton just became the administrative director for Blyth Centre for the Arts in April but she's been kept busy ever since she started. When she started they were just finishing Up the winter program and she worked on the Huron Old Tyme Festival and the Craft and Antique Fair. "i've had a lot to do with appling for a lot of grants for oprating costs for the summer," she says. She recently had the experience of watching a whole day of auditioning in Toronto along with artistic director James WLLSON' S HEALTH AND GIFT CENTRE RE Blyth 523-4440 Congratulates Blyth Summer Festival on the opening of its third season July 1 Welcome All Visitors Roy, which she describes as a really educational experience for her. "Basically I've learned a lot about theatre. The theatre runs a lot differently than any other kind of business probably because it's a non-profit organization," she says. "My specific job is to help make major decisions with James, taking care of the money that's spent for the summer." Since living at the station house at the edge of town, Jan has gotten to know a lot of people around town and their views on the Blyth Centre for the Arts. She's going to be running the winter program next year and hopes people offer suggestions as to what they would like to see. Jan's other duties include doing publicity for the Centre, taking care of tickets, answering phones and making sure the 30 people in the theatre company arc well taken care of, Jan who is a graudate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design would someday like to do an "art awareness'' program with the public. Having the experience of working in the theatre, that'll help ine out in the future. That's what really the job is partially about for nie. I'm interested in THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ISSUE, JULY 5, 1978 —11 Terrence Durrant Likes homegrown theatre Terence Durrant has acted in everything from theatre to films but he agreed to come to the Blyth Summer Festival this summer because the idea of "homegrown" theatre appealed to him, He started his acting career 10 years ago after attending drama school in England where he spent three years studying his craft. He worked in England until 1973 when he came to Canada and he has been her ever since. He has worked for the CBC in radio and television, for the OECA in television, has done a couple of films --Alien Encounter and Leopard in the Snow and some commercials, 'ills theatres he has worked in include Grams Bend, Sudbury, 'thunder Bay and now, Blyth. He started a theatre of his own in 'Toronto, a couple of years ago—the 'Toronto Repertoire 'iheatre. starting from scratch. He had to raise the money, hire the actors, produce the shows and direct productions. He was an actor, director and teacher in that order, he says. "I like tojach young actors. find that very satisfying. I don't write but t would probably like to," he says. "It's something think t probably will get into at some point," he added. He carie to the Blyt h Summer Festival when Artistic Director James Roy asked him if he would like to play the part of the hero Tiger Dunlop in The Huron Tiger. "'That appealed to me, Being an English immigrant I had very few opportunities offered me to work in Canadian theatre -- homegrown theatre. It appealed to me to come to Blyth itself and spend three months of the summer there and the appeal of the role itself, plus the fact that I regional theatre and I'm interested in regional art. "I'm interested in what people do with their leisure time. I'm interested in people's pleasure from things like music, theatre and the visual arts." she says. like .lames," he says, He knew nothing about Tiger Dunlop when he came here. He had to start completely from scratch so he got out some academic history books for the period from 1792 to 1841. Then he read Dunlop's biography and has been working this week on sonic of Dunlop's own writing as well. He has also been to sec 'Tiger Dunlop's grave and the museum in Goderich, "Most of my energies so far have been spent on background research," lie says. Terence first stet James Roy in 'Toronto three or four years ago and then met hiss again a few nxlnths ago in Toronto when James was preparing for the new Blyth season and that was when James asked hint it' he would like to play the role of 'Tiger Dunlop. Asked about his preference of film or live theatre, Terence says, "I love working in theatre. My experience in films hand really been hide enough. I haven't had a starring role in movies which I would like to do." He took a moment to talk about the film industry which he says is expanding in Canada. Besides his role in Tiger Dunlop he will also be playing in Gwcndolinc, but his role hadn'i been decided yet when the interview took place. His interests are broad, laking in politics, philosophy, and the other branches of the arts such as music and literature. He's not a hobby type person. He's more interested in intellectual pursuits, He is also interested in non- competitive sports, he likes watching sports as a spectator. He says he admires gifted athletes and then adds, "I suppose 1 admire anybody who can do things really well," He is not a Stanislaysky method actor but he very definately applies method to his work. "i discipline myself to apply method to my work. I'm obsessively fascinated by this process of acting which is why I'm interested in both acting and teaching." He believes that a methodical approach is necessary to acting. it's a process where you start with problem A and work your way through to problem Z. It's work and a lot of dedication," he says. When the Blyth Summer Festival season is over he says he will probably work in another theatre somewhere in Canada. TERENCE DURRANT BEST WISHES TO THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL Complete Stock of Household Furnishings qutsffiliete LTD. CLINTON, ONTARIO Phone 482-9521 18 Albert Street Best Wishes Blyth Summer Theatre For a successful fourth season Congratulations to the BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL from Business men's lunch daily 11:30.2 P.M. Price 1,75.2.25 DINING 11:30 A.M. - 2 P.M. 5:30 P.M. • 8 P.M. [Daily except Sunday] SUNDAY DINING - 4:30 - 7:30 RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED PHONE 482-3421 Full line of the LATEST STYLES in MEN'S CLOTHING For Every Occasion [32 Years in Business) Main Corner Clinton 12 —THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ISSUE, JULY 5, 1978 Adair Redish From a theatre family Adair Re dish, the carpenter at the Blyth Sunlnlcr Festival is originally from Effingham, in Surrey, south of London in England. When his Tattler got ,I job al McMaster University in Hamilton. he and his family packed up their things and 11 years later Adair's father is still teaching at Mac. Five years ago. Adair was a production assistant with Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, and for two summers after that he worked for the Ontario Youth Theatre in their summer youth program. Between those two summers he worked with Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary as a technician, For the last two years he has worked as an assistant technical di"ector with. McMaster. Last year while he was doing a show with the Players Guild in Hamilton, his parents were in a show at the University that James Roy. artistic director of the Blyth Summer Festival was directing. At a party after that play Adair's parents introduced him to James who was looking for a carpenter. "1 had 1111' interview over lunch with Bjarne (the theatre's production manager) and Here 1 am," Adair says, As the carpenter he is respon- sible for building sets, along with stage managing the changes in the Sets from UI1C show 0) another, Alter the Sunlnlcr Festival season is over, Adair has the option of going hack to the University where he could super- vise the various campus theatre groups 1)I' which there are about eight or ten. The University flocs two major shows a year. Adair would like to work in 'theatre Aquarius again in Hamilton, where all his friends are. Adair conies from a. family o1' seven children only one 1)I' whonl is not interested in theatre work. She's an economist in New Guinea. The interest in the theatre comes perhaps from Adair's grandmother who was interestingly enough, a director. Donna Schmitt collects props, builds sets and climbs to lights DONNA SCHMITT Play helps celebrate (Continued from Page 9) Before becoming Mrs. Dunlop, lino had dressed in the rough clothes of a servant, but with her dcvated status, she changes to silks and satins, and nothing else trill do, even when she's milking the cows.. The housekeeper becomes a lady and wastes 00 time in flaunting her position More her fellow townspeople. Other characters in the play include John Galt, -Jr. and his wife, Helen and Robert Dunlop, the Tiger's brother, a former naval hero who spent much of his time at Gairbraid with his books aid collection of rare botanical laants; Galt, son of the first agent of the Canada Company, pictured himself a farmer and'mouthpiecc fir the settlers' grievances, but in truth he was an idealist, a 1)i nlber of the gentry and a poor spokesperson for the ordinary settler who was merely subsisting 1111 his Huron Tract land. Mrs.Galt, a member of the same social circle as her husband, is the most "normal character" said Colley, in this "sea of 1,l'ccntricity." Dolma Schmitt, as production assistant for tlse Myth Su111111(1' Festival has a job Ilial rea11y is necessary to let the slimy go on. Shc has to Dick up the props. At interview lisle, 1)ullna ryas seeking office furniture for the theatre production ()I' His ()Nyo 13oss. Iwcntually Donna would like to get into painting.She *had been painting sets at high school in Kitchener but left high school after Grade 11 811(1 went to Conestoga College to take a short course in creating a career to give her an idea t►I' what she wanted to (1o. C'onestogtl gave names of places where you could gel experience and the 131y1h Summer Festival would lake people without experience who were willing to learn. 1)1)11118 had taken three art courses in high school and when she was interviewed they agreed to take her o11, As well as looking for props 511(2 has been helping to build sets, and doing a few other things as well, Really her job entails helping everybody else. "You can't be afraid of heights because you have to help put up the lights." Donna says. She also has to help the carpenters and the lighting technician. "You just have to be able to deal with people and willing to learn," she says, ADA1lt RIDISH Liz Haden addicted to theatre As a production assistant with the Myth Summer Festival Liz {laden has quite a long list of jobs to keep her busy. Shc will be 11) charge of props for one show—either Gwendoline or The School Show, For 1I►e Huron Tiger she will he helping in props assisting Adair Redish on construction, helping Kathryn Klent an -Molloy with the costumes. Michelle Burr is wardrobe assistant Michelle Burr is one local girl who will be working for the Blyth Summer Festival this summer. She conics from Londcshoro 811(1 as a waI'(II'Obe assistant she has a lot to keep her hands busy. Her duties include the upkeep of the costumes that will be used in the plays, assisting with buying 1118111'ials for the costumes, helping with the hand and machine sewing. doing the laundry and shining shoes when they need it. She is also present at costume fittings to take notes or assist if needed. It was through her home economics teacher at C'enlral Huron High School that Michelle got the job with the theatre. The teacher recommended Michelle for the position 1)I' wardrobe assistant. Before she came to the theatre, Michelle had a steady babysitting job. Her future ambitions include going to hairdressing school in London to become a professional hail'(1l'eSSC1.. She says if she couldn't he a • hairdresser she wouldn't mind being a seamstress. She had her first training in Montreal ata community college and did two year's i►1 their professional theatre technology program, After that she decided to go to York University where she has completed two years of their theatre program and will hopefully be going into her third year next fall. Shc has also worked at the Guelph Spring Festival. "My major interests are lighting, stage management, and carpentry," site says. She held a technical assistant position at the school this year. IRI, IIADEN Despite her interest in the technical side of the theatre, Lir has no desire to appear on the stage and as if' to add emphasis to this point, she says, "never ever." Asked the reason for her non -desire to be an actress, she said that in school she had tried out for a tree in Peter Pan and was taller than the rest of the trees. She also tried out for the part of the mother in that play but was taller than the person playing the father. "So 1 painted'thescts instead, Theatre hooked me. I'm addicted to it," she said of her perser• verance in the theatrical field, B.J. FABRICS wishes to congratulate the Blyth Summer Festival, and hopes the third season will be a great success. Blyth B. J. FABRICS 523-9675 pytedatizga and best of luck to BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL on its fourth season GORE'S HARDWARE Blyth, Ont. 523-9273 MICHELLE BURR BEST WISES BLYTH FESTIVAL For your luggage needs FREER'S ,Blyth, Ont. HARDWARE 513-4746 Welcome Summer Visitors from the VILLAGE RESTAURANT SPECIALIZING CI OUNTRY 1NN COUNTRY STYLEMOOD SE D,�O RS PULL COURSE 01000 Alt AltCo E� $gyp ndltloo d M awl BREAKFAST F�, P00 1 WEEKDAYS Oar SERyt c ` Steve Thorne is a Blyth veteran Steven Thorne will not be a new face 10 Blyth residents who attended the Summer Festival the first year it was in ill)cratiun, He was here when the theatre began in I975. The first summer he was here he directed Mouse• trap and helped to adapt the novel of Harry Boylc'5, The Blood is Strong and he also helped artistic director James Roy co -direct the 13Iood is Strong. That summer he also did sonic acting in i1ow 1 MC( My Hushan(I. Last summer, Steven took time off from the Festival to get involved in writing a play called Huron True I3lues which is about a militia regiment that has to fare some very severe winter condi- tions. "Hopefully I'II get that done some time and produced here," Steven said, Stcvcn first got involved in drama in Barrie where he grew up and then went to York University where he was enrolled in the drama program. That's where Steven met .lames Roy and Bjarne Christensen and a number of the other people who have been with the Blyth Summer Festival in the past. 'Throughout his four years of university, he found work in SOmmer theatres. He has worked at the Griffin Theatre in Barrie, Quebec City, Orillia Playhouse, and the Studio Lab 'Theatre in Toronto. At the Summer Festival this year, Steven plays the part of John Galt , Jr. son of.John Galt in the play, The Huron Tiger, He describes the part as that of a young angry rebel trying to fight the injustices of his lime. This is the first summer 0) which he has been acting now for a couple of years and he says it's hard readjusting to a new rhythm and a new lifestyle from what he's been living in the past with his writing. Asked about his acting technique. Steven says, "1 think 1 tend to do a little, bit by bit. think I need to work more from the inside out than 1 do, but I do find that nay internal life is triggered by external movement." He went on to explain that the resonance of a voice, a particular gesture, a particular way of walking, even sometimes 0 particular property like a pipe brings to life interesting things about the charac(er. H0 hayS 110 wasn't (rained in any school of thous. it. He was trained on a much more eclectic scale. At 24 years of age, he's just a young actor and as he says, "I'm just beginning to discover how I work, just learning the best technique for me as a person. He said he's not very interested in films at the moment but likes the slags. He said that he supposed as with 10051 actors he had a love -hate thing with the thcatrc. "I very much enjoy it at this time. I don't think I could do it steadily all the time. I enjoy bring here for two months," he said. He says he not only needed to come hack to the theatre this summer, but that he wanted to, "If you stay away from it too long. your gears get rusty," He says when you get bored with the role you're playing you have to inject new life, new ideas into your work so you jump those hurdles of boredom. "You have to listen, to live and to share the life and energy on the stage with those around you. Every night there's something you can improve, he said. STEVEN THORNE 1 HURON 78 �rZ September 26 30, 1978 HURON COUNTY THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ISSUE, JULY 5, 1978 —13 JOHN HUGHES John ('.Hughes is the lighting designer and master electrician for the Blyth Summer Festival this year and as such is respon- sible for doing all the lighting for the shows. any temporary electrical work, all the stage lights and all the wiring. For half of the shows, he's going to be I'tullling the lighting board and for the other half he'll help out as a production assistant. He works in conjunction with the director and they decide beforehand what the lights are going to be doing at 0 given point in the play, At the point of being inter- viewed there were approximately 35 lighting cues in the Huron 'i'iger and in His Own Boss there probably will be something like five or six lighting cues, John has 1)0011 working in theatre, amateur al1(1 professional for 20 years now. He did his lirsl amateur show when he was 15 and worked wilh local amateur groups in Calgary. He did his first professional season at the Neptune Theatre in Halifax in 1969. Since then he has been in stage managing, lighting or sometimes technical director in places all over the country. He also (lid two years with 'i'heatre Calgary, spent a couple of years at Montreal, worked at the Saidye Broth mann Centre and also the Centaur 'Theatre. While he did a fair amount of acting when he was an amateur he has never acted professionally, He said his amateur acting experience is very 11011)1'01 in helping hint understand the actors point of view, "We really see the actor as being the core of our work he said of his own position as a lighting designer. "I'm really doing whatever lati�, atu Gond and best of luck to BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL on its fourth season Blyth Village Council & PUC Commission Lighting is painter John Hughes' job can to improve whatever the actor is doing. first of all so they can be seen." he said, This is his first summer in Blyth and he sty he really came because of Bjarne Christensen with whorl he worked at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, "I came because I love the country. I love to be out of the city," he said. He and sonic of the other Festival company have .just bought 10 starter pallets that they are keeping out at the Nesbitt place and they're also going to grow some of their own food. He said Bjarne had asked him if he was interestCd iii working at the I'estival..10hn had heard of the festival and aS he says, "1 was very much interested in working in a summer theatre that was geared to the people in the arca, rather than most summer theatres which are geared to tourists, which I think is a very artificial kind of theatre." There are Several things he might do after the theatre season is over, one of which could be a position as technical director for the Jamaica School of Drama which means that he would be teaching technical direction. He just recently linishcd stage managing a play called Ashes at the Phoenix 'Theatre in 'Toronto. He said basically Ile got his training through amateur theatre, through treading and through working with people who know more than he docs, and learning from them, He never studied theatre academically. He came to the theatre in Toronto because it's the hub of English speaking theatre and even people who work in regional theatres tend to congregate in 'Toronto because Equity has its offices there, he said. "0f course there's a lot more work in Toronto," he added. John is also interested in painting and believes that this helps him with his work as a lighting technician. He works with oils, acrylics and water colours. He hasn't had a showing yet but has sold a few of his paintings. He is hoping to get out and do some drawing while in Huron County because, "Huron County has a very beautiful countryside and most of my work is landscape oriented." "I don't think that painting and lighting are necessarily that far apart. It's a different media. 1 think especially painting water colours is a natural for a person who works with transparent light," he said. IVvIcirnze to BLYTH and the BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL For good dining, come to THE TRIPLE K RESTAURANT Fast 'of Blyth on Photic County Rd. 25 523.9623 The ld `dill BOX 99 BLITN, ONTARIO 1 Mile South of Blyth We wish to add our congratula- tions to the Blyth Summer Festival on .the opening of a bigger and better season this year. Good Luck! Factory Outlet Prices Leather Coats, Sheepskin Rugs Pure Virgin Wool Blankets, Leather Gloves, Sportswear and Accessories. ld �Ilill IL�TI OITAIIO 1 Mile South of Blyth Out in the Country on Top of the hill PHONE 523.4595 Summer Hours: Open Daily 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sundays.1 p.m. -9 p.m., 14 —THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL SSUE JULY 5, 1978 Summer Festival Brings dollars, people to Blyth By Debbie Ranney Last year, 12.403 people at- tended the nine week Blyth Stminler Festival, (which means that at least some of these people spent money in the town - shopping for souvenirs, eating at local restaurants and providing the village with ('Arra revenue, After talking to local shop- keepers. there's little doubt the theatre is of financial benefit to the community. Kay Licssclwuoo of the Triple K Restaurant in Blyth said they do get business from the theatre. "We usually have actors till they get settled in their own residences for the summer and they've been pretty faithful customers since they've been to Blyth," "It does help the community. I think \VC wouId get more (business) if \ye (13lyth) had acconlodations for the tourists. Quite often people out ()I' town COM' for supper and slay for the show," Mrs. HCSSCIwl1O(I said. Valerie Dale of the Village Restaurant said there is quite a bit of difference in the amount 01' business they do in the summer compared to the winter. She said what happens is that people cooling into town for a shote spend little in Blyth before going to the theatre and there's a lot more people that conte into the restaurant for supper. "The theatre people them- selves spend money ill town, 11 helps keep the willow nit y alive." Valerie added. $3,800 spent on food 'theatre aolministratn''s James :aid Ann Roy eslinlalod than last year actors, aclnlinistr.1ol:s and other people involved With the theatre spent about $3,110( for 1(X)(I in the local restaurants. Bob McC'linchcy. 0I' the Grand- view Restaurant, said they do more business in the summertime too. especially in the evenings 1\lien there a1' e theatre per- fornlaces. They stay Open as late as 10:30 or 11 at night depending o11 the traffic. Mr. McClinchcy said they do quite a lot of tourist business there 811(1 evenings are quite a bit better especially \yhen there are plays on. Mr. McClinchev thinks the theatre (lots benefit thc com- munity. om- 0)1111ity. "Everything 1'o11 have in the community always adds to it. It goes Without speaking (hal it should benefit the COlUnlLI11i1V. It definitely helps everybody around !would say. The people are going to spend some money. 'There's no doubt that it helps everybody in business," he said. Lil MacLachlan :ld Jean Stor- rar keep the Kitchen Cupboard open at night till curtain time (luring the theatre season for two reasons. For one thing, it's a fairly new' store and it's a good way for people to find them and also, if people see something they like they slight conic back again at some other time. Last year, the two woolen sold hard fudges and bags of nlunchics (raisins and nuts) be.- fore e-fore the show and they're plan- ning to do the same this year. Mrs. MacLachlan said, of the theatre, ''It's just o11C 111o1'C thing that brings people 10 the village. I honestly think it's to our mutual a(lya n t tt ge , "We think it make thc village more interesting," she said. h1rs. MaCLaehla11 also pointed out that the actors and actresses themselves did a lot of buying in the stores and that they were potential CllstoI11CI's for grocery stores and other place~, "'They bring people in them- selves without the actual plays. I (10 hclievc it slakes a difference," she said, Local crafts ,(antes and Anne It() v pointed out th;'t the actors also diel a lot nl• buying in the Intal c'raf't Shops, Although Allan and Suzanne Thompson 01' 1001115 '11" 1?eathcr don't gel that nliulti theatre tourists in their shop they (l0 have quite a few 0I• the actors come in. The tourist problem is prnhahly due t0 their location around Il11' corner and up the street from 13aintnn'5 01(1 Mill. Ill is year, Ii(\'(ver, carols advertising their husincss have been sem mu in the mail to lhcal11' subscrihcrs and they are also planning to set up a display 0I' their work in the basement 0f the Blyth Memorial hall i1' c'raf't displays are held 1 here this year. When the heal re season starts, Allan and Suzanne plan l0 keeping their shop open till t; O'clock. they think the theatre is a good place t0 aclvcrlizc hccausc they said the Type 01' people (vim go t0 the theatre are the type 0I' people \rho buy crafts. Candid views Michael Ward ()I' 'I'hc Pottery Ilan 501111' 1'('I'y candid Vie1VS (11) the Theatre's financial benefit to the village. "1 (Ion'( 111111(1 11(1nt11(ing 1 gain financial benefit from the theatre being Ihcic.-and in so doing support it as n1(l1'h as I caul," he Said. II1' saiol IIIc 1(.nefil5 of IIll' Ihcal1,1' were 1111'•i'Caching 1)0111 culturally and financially. Even with the influx of actors they're going I0 hay(' 1() cat and spend money here, Inc said. "Anything that increases the flow of money, that's what's beneficial," Mr Ward said. Last year, one night in July. Mr, (yard had a whole crowd of people conte in al 1 1 o'clock after a show was over. 11 isn't that he usually stays open (hal Into. Ile was :pis( silting lllcrc working 011 something and the people saw the lights mi. so they went in to the shop. ('ut'rently, Mr. Ward is open till six e\•cry night ()I' the Week but \viten the theatre season opens. he will stay open till curtain (line. "1'011'1'e got (0 be sufficiently enterprising in anything 10 get people 10 mole," Mr. Ward said. Thelma Wilson of Wilson's Variety store also feels that the theatre brings buSineSS (0 tu(vn. "The actors bring business and the people cooling in bring business," she said. Last year three or foal' busloads tulle into Blyth one afternoon and the people 1111 stopped in at Wilson's and bought some items. Wilson's only stays open nights on Friday because the night p:rfornlanccs don't bring in customers like the (laytime ones do. Norm (;owing said there's no doubt that he sells extra gas at his gels station in the 511)11111('1' (('ll('ll the theatre is on. "If you have these clil'I'cren t people in, there's no doubt that it helps business," Mr. (.;0tying said, Last year, Mr. Gowing had a deal with Griffith's gas station across 111c road where Dowing would slay open nights one week and Griffiths would (10 the same for the next week. This year Mr. (.owing is again planning 111 slay open after supper. Anne and .(antes Roy estimated that last year Iheatrc people just using (heir cars for purposes related directly to the theatre spent 111)0111 $500 for gas and oil and (Igen for their private use they pn'(Ially spent out $SOO for gas and oil and ahunl $1,0(10 in car repairs. Gwilyni Griffiths isn't planning on slaying open at nights this wars but not because 0I' the Theatre. "When the nil companies snarl paying more, 1111111 I'll start sla\ing open," he said. They're nice Although ilarvey Snell of Snell's Grocery says the amount 0I' money the theatre people spend in his store is probably small in dollars and rents ('011)- 1x11'1'11 Io his eVeryday 11111 of husincss. he. thinks it's nice havinlg the theatre people around. "What I'd like to sec is more of a hospitality type ()I' thing for the ones (hal (10 ('011ie l0 the theatre. 11 \V01ll11 Secnl (01111' that ('0(11(1 be extended (0 offer greater service to the people (hal come to the theatre," he said. Ken 11811111) 0(' 111111011'5 Garage in Blyth said 11181 although they don't gel 111a1 much husincss !from the theatre crowd, "I think it's good thing for the (own myself." Besides the money, the actors 1111(1 people cunning to the Iheatrc spend in the village, there is a lot of stoney spent at local businesses because of office supplies needed for the theatre, lumber needed for sols and local advertising. Appreciate business Janis Voddcn of Vodden's Congratulations to the BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL from WALTON VARIETY We carry a complete line of Groceries Crafts -Novelties & Gifts Open Daily 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Sunday Noon till 6:00 p.m. Phone 887-6464 Grocery (11111ks the theatre is "super", I)on Scrimgeour of the I3Iyth Meat Market feels that his business benefits from the theatre. "1 would say as far as the plays go, I gain from the actors, We S►II'C appreciate the business we do get from the actors themselves", Mr. Scrimgeour said, And it's safe to say that a good number of the nearly 300 people \rho attended the theatre six nights (t week Spent (honey 111 131y1h, Of the $3,022 budget for sets hast year. ;thou( $2,000 of that was spent in Blyth, OI' $416 spent for ollice supplies about $.300 Was spent locally. About $7,0(►h was Spent on printing and postage here and $1,(185 was paid in rent for the 1151' of the Blyth Memorial Hall. The actors and other people in the theatre spent about $5,000 themselves 011 rent and hoard in Blyth and will he spending about that much again this summer. 'Isley spent ahout $200 10Ivcrl1sing in The Blyth Standard. About $300 was spent locally on the concessions -- lemonade, paper cups, etc. The Blyth, ('entre for the Arts also pays $25 a month for office facilities above the library, 26 members In the Summer Festival Com- pany this year, there Will be a l Icasl 2() nlcnlhcrs, 'fell of those are actors, six are straight Icchniral backstage people, four air apprentices who clo some technical and some acting work, '(there are also two other directors, a designer and four administration people. Last year, ScI11,719 was given out in salaries and this year, S(6,210 will he given 601 in salaries. The entire budget for this year is about $92,000 so just over 2,3 nl'the budget is made up of salaries. James Roy points nut that 1005t Of the actors Spend their money once they get it so that creates more revenue for the village. The theatre i5 also a source of local employment. One year the Anne and James Roy also pointed out that the people that come to see the plays spend money, Anne has at least five groups hooked already that are going to have lunch provided for then( by Mrs, Webster and the U(1N and Anne said that a lot of glXnlps who were here last year are coming back. During performances at the Blyth Summer Festival last year there was an average attendance •ofhetwcen 175 and 200 people for 'Ills Blood is Strong and the Blyth Memorial History Show, 293 for A Summer Burning and 294 for The Shortest Distance Between 'T'w'it Points. September 26 - 30, 1978 Congralutions to the BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL from SEAFORTH JEWELLERS :ICCOSS from Post Office In Seaford' Jewellery & English Fine Bone China WALTON INN would like to extend warm, wishes to the BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL Come and Dine at WALTON INN located six miles east of Blyth on County Rd. 25 THE FINEST COUNTRY DINING Open Daily 8:00 ant -7:00 pm Sunday 10:30-7:00 pot Closed Monday phone 887-9293 KATE TROTTER Kate Trotter will be a familiar face in the Blyth Sumner Festival to those who caught her perfor- mance in The Blood is Strong and her imaginative characterization in the children's play Turkey last year, Kate did four years at Brock University where she got an Honors B.A. in Theatre Arts and English. Then she did three years at the National Theatre School in Montreal from which she just graduated this May. She has done a workshop at the National Film Board in Montreal in which she was developing script ideas that could potentially be made into children's films. Last summer was Kate's first in Blyth. The summer before that she worked at the Stratford Festival in the box office, While working in Stratford she heard about the theatre in Blyth, came to visit and really liked the company. "it was wonderful to see the interaction between the theatre and the community," Kate says. When artistic director James Roy, came t0 Montreal, Kate auditioned for him and that is how she came to the theatre last year. "Turkey had been really exciting, so I came back," Kate says, When asked about her acting method, Kate says, "The training I had at the Theatre School was classically oriented. It was one Kate Trotter Familiar to Blyth that tried to relax the actor physically and mentally, so you approached the character through that. I guess coming to it through yourself is the thing that you would do because you're your own greatest tool. You're your only tool as an actor." "I think they tried to teach many different approaches and you found a conglomeration. You used a bit of each and came up with a system that worked for \ )U," she adds. Of her own nlethod of acting, Kate says, "1 guess 1 try' to conte toil from myself. 1 think probably an approach is something it takes years to develop. "Your approach changes as you change as an actress and as a person. pt's hard for ale to say just having graduated. I know it will be a learning process, for mc, a growth." Kate had done a production for CBC television entitled 'Tyler which is one of the shows in the program, For The Record, to be aired next fall. "There's a pleasure that you get from perforating on stage that don't think you get from TV," Kate says. "In theatre the character feeds itself'. In 111111 or '1'V you have to learn to keep your energy tip." "1 think actors can change from one media to the other. 1 think it's a myth that says we can't," she adds. „'That's a hard road, meeting the right people, taking the right risks," she says. Besides the theatre, Kate's other love is her two cats. She'll be going to Manitoba after the Blyth season is over to be in a production of Midsunlnler Night's Dream and as for future plans, well Kate says she'd probably conic back to Blyth if asked. Clark has worked with CBC Although he's only 30 years of Clark got his theatre age, Clark Rogers has had experience, the old fashioned experience directing plays in way --learning from others and theatres all across Canada, hard experience. This includes a position as an "1 got my training right in the assistant director at the Stratford theatre working backstage, Festival Theatre, the Neptune watching how other people did it. Theatre, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, resident director of Theatre Calgary and many many more. For the last three or four years he has been working with Theatre Passe Muraille as a director and a drama turge which means he works with the writers on scripts. He has also directed some things for CBC. He recently won an award from the Ontario Arts Council for a script that he is writing. For the last little while he has been concentrating on his work as a director on the development of new plays. CLARK ROGERS It was more sort of an apprentice- ship than anything," Clark said. Asked about his future ambitions for the thcatrc, Clark says "to improve it." After the Blyth summer Festival season is over he plans to go back to work on his film script the locale of which is Perth County. THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL ISSUE, -'JULY 5, 1978 —15 ANNE ROY MARNI WALSH Marni Walsh to study theatre Although she will ,just be going to Grade 13 in the fall, Marni Walsh f'ronl Blyth who is working as an administrative and production assistant at the Blyth Summer Festival this year, already has ambitions toward a career in theatre. Meanwhile, in her present job though, Marni helps in the theatre office, sews costumes, and will probably be helping prod uetion manager Bjarne Christensen with props. She will also work in the box office as well as putting up and taking down sets. Marni, who worked at the theatre as a volunteer last year, plans to go to Grade 13 and then continue her education at York University in theatre. Marni has already gotten a start on her diosen career as she played the part of Goldie in the F.E. Madill Secondary School production of Fiddler on the Roof. She has been in quite a few plays in high school and has also worked with the Winghanl 'Towne Players. Congratulations to the BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL from OLYMPIA Restaurant Brussels For Tasty Meals at Family Prices Open daily from 6 a.m Sunday from 7130 am Associate director Anne Roy has "done it all " This is Anne Roy's fourth year at the Blyth Summer Festival and as she says, "Anne Roy has done it all," Although she currently holds the title of associate director, Anne first worked at the theatre its all administrator, which Means she did everything, including ixtinting sets. Two years ago, she also worked as all administrator and directed the children's show 'turkey, Last year she did an admirable job of adapting Harry 13oyle's novel, A Su0111101' Burning, for the Festival production. She also gets involved in all the events the theatre holds after the Summer Festival season is over. During the winter she helps husband, artistic director James Roy, plan for the Festival's new season and goes with hint when he auditions actors for the new season. Anne did a lot of reading this year for potential plays, and was also working on two of her own platys. Whcti you audition people, she says, you go down with the parts you have in mind. You're looking for somebody who can fill tw9/ roles or at least someone who looks like they have the dedica- tion and ability to fit into the company in Blyth for a season. This year, Anne is spending much tiiol'e time in the theatre office than she has previously. Anne Roy has indeed, done it all. Best Wishes to the BLYTI1SUIVIMER FESTIVAL From SINCE 1894 Factory Outlet THE ORIGINAL OLD MILL 11111 MI IN VIII YOYA y,y� Old Illiq uuaor Om91 WOOL LEATHER PRODUCTS Bain#on 11 LI TELEPHONE 523-9666 (Area Code 519) , IN BLYTH �� q at the railway tracks. A Landmark in Huron County In this authentic old mill you will find the heritage and tradition of the Bainton family. A unique wool and leather business. Factory Outlet LEATHER COATS & JACKETS — For men and ladies at prices you can afford. 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If the director and cast aren't successful, then the audience will be painfully aware and embarrassed or bored or angered by the unfinished product they've seen on stage. They may, like many already have, give up live theatre for the predictable monotony of the television se t in their living room. Gordon McCall, the director of His Own Boss, the second presentation of the Blyth Festival of the Arts, and the cast of the play, have been spending the last week in the gymnasium of Clinton High School, going through the painstaking process of finding the comedy - understanding the lines, discovering what dialogue works and what doesn't, gradually shading in interpretations of' the characte1s, and then finally starting to block out the play • practising movements on stage and getting afecl for how the play will run in front of an audience. The director has worked with established scripts when he directed plays by Bertolt Brecht, children's plays and an Italian 16th century comedy, The 'Three Cuckolds for theatre co111pa11ICS ill Vancouver. He's also worked with new scripts - like The Collected Works of Billy The Kid, by the former London poet, Michael Ondaatje. McCall met with Roulston earlier in the spring fi' the first time, read the script of His Own Boss quickly and then sat down to discuss questions and problems he could about the play. llltiniatcly, the final say about how the play will he staged rests with the director, but on the understanding that he won't do anything against the intent of the writer. McCall says the only problems with the play to date have been to clarify the overall statement Holliston is trying to make and a problem with one of the play's six characters. Although McCall hopes to have completed all the changes in the play's script four days befbre the curtain goes tap oil opening night, as director, his actual cleadli•ne for script changes can be as tight as five minutes l•cfore the curtain goes up. in %%Tiling his play, Roulston has been particularly conscious of the Fact some writers want to play director and offer over -elaborate instructions about the play's characters, movement on stage, ole. To avoid this, the author has given a brief description of the character al the beginning of the script, leaving the director leoS iy in building the action 011 stage. The cast are scattered 81)001 a table, pencils in hand,coke cans and coffee cups in profusil 11, mimeographed scripts in loose leaf binders, reading through tie play's first act slowly, lino by line, testing each other's reaction to the dialogue, discussing whether one line should be softened so the character is less "bitchy'', whether words in another line should be changed to clarify a situation and tentatively experimenting with different expres- sions when delivering their lines. Rehearsals for the play started a week before, when the cast met each other for the first time, listened to an explanation of the Actors Equity rules governing rehearsals (tile director can work his cast seven hours a day, with breaks for lunch and coffee) and meeting the play's author, Blyth writer Keith Roulston. The comedy, is about a young elan from the city,10(1 up with working on the assembly line, who comes to a country town to take over his late uncle's cheese factory. The idea for the play, Roulston's second, came on one of his blackest days when he was running his own small business in Blyth. Although the play is humorous, the theme is slightly more serious - you have to have small businesses as an alternative to big business, if you don't have small businessmen then you won't have small towns, but if' You want small towns then the small businessman has to believe someone cares about him and the government doesn't always prove to be one of the agencies that SCCIi1S to care. Since Roulston had just finished an article on a cheese factory for his magazine The Village Squire, he decided this would be an ideal setting for his play about the tribulations of running a small business. The idea for His Own Boss cattle to hint when he was in the midst of rewriting The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, his first play produced at the Blyth Festival last summer. He stored his cheese factory idea until the end of the shooter, then mentioned it to James Roy, the f'estival's artistic director and alter Roy was convinced the idea had potential, he commissioned Roulston to put his ideas on paper. Now the writer sits at rehearsals, listening as the cast members slowly dissect each line of his script • testing the play's structure, the dialogue and the characters, Now and then he answers questions from the cast about a character's background, now and then he notes changes which will have to be re -written into the final script. It will still be another two days before the actors have finished going through the first act step by step, From the dir'ector's point of' view, working with a new play, one which has never been tested on stage, has both its advantages and disadvantages. First, since the author is both alive and present, lines and even entire scenes can be changed and modified, so the final play is a compromise between author, director and cast. However, with an "old" script, a play by George Bernard Shaw, for example, the director doesn't have to worry about re -writing, and can spend extra time on finding a different interpretation of the play. McCall, who teaches in tlic drama department of Queens University, has worked with both ''old" and "new" scripts. After sitting in 00 the play for a few more clays, Roulston will stay out of the rehearsals until the cast are doing full run throughs of the play. Last year, Roulston found by the time opening night finally arrived, halt' the lines in his play, also a comedy, no longer seemed funny, The actors were scared the lines would die on stage, and the writer found he couldn't sit still long enough to take a scat with the audience. But, surprisingly, the audience did laugh - at the Sallie lines the writer and cast thought were stale. And each night the play was produced, audiences would laugh at different lines, since each audience brings a personality of' its own to a pet'forniance. 13y the end of the play, Roulston was able to sit through a whole performance, but in the early days of a production, he wants to be free to walk out if things get too bad. Although Roulston can qualify as an established playwright by the end of this Summer, few theatres in Canada are doing C'a118(ha11 plays, Many that arc Specialize in plays about one subject - 0,1.111e workingman or plays with a regional location so Roulston's published play may sit for years before it's produced again. In the meantime, McCall and his actors - Peter Snell, Karen Wiens. Heather Ritchie, Kate Trotter, Toni McCamus and David Kirby • sit surrounded by the boxes and other paraphcnalia meant to represent the finished set for His Own Boss, and go over and over the Tines of the play. If they find the play, if the "play says it" as McCall hopes, then the frustrations, the doubts, the Tong hours, the endless cups of instant coffee, will be worthwhile. The first time the audience reacts to a line, the first time the audience leaves the theatre, still talking ab out what they've seen on stage, the process will be complete. GORDON McCALL Live theatre is best. Best Wishes t0 The Blyth Summer Theatre ike Canadian Handicrafts Pottery, stained glass work, quilting materials and much more 66 Hamilton St., Goderich This is the NEW PLACE with the low overhead SAVE LfATHER COATS THE TRN'NER in the hewi of Blyth ADDITIONAL SAVINGS ON LUGGAGE handbags, socks and leather cushions etc.