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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1982, PAGE 5 Solwa ypromiïses substanti*al theatre Larry Solway and Nuala FitzGerald are seen bere lookîng over some papers witb Mayor Bob ÀAttersley at a press conference last week at wbicb tbey announced tbe establisbment of the Marigold Dinner Playhouse. The playhouse will be located in the. old Stardust Dinner Theatre and is scheduled to raise the opening curtain on September 8. -Free Press Staff Photo For Community Care.... Vohrnteers drove 107,049 mles Wbitby Community Care volunteers logged 107,049 miles in 1981 ac- cording to co-ordinator Marie Brooks. 1Tbis was just one of many statistîcs that was presented to the or- ganization's recent an- nual meeting. Volunteers also un- dertook 15,581 assign- ments last year. This was over 10* per cent more tban 1981's 14,084. Tbis worked out to 17,500 hours of service ewhich was substantially bigher tban the previous year's 15,216. Volun- teers also donated 4,110 jhours working in Com- munity Care's office.. The 121 volunteers provided servîçe to 553 senior citizens working a total of 437 forty-bour weeks in 12,505 direct service hours and 4,110 volunteer office hours. The vast majority of assignents were transportation calîs. These numbered 7,821 last year, 70 per cent, of wbich were medical.. The next largeet assigrnent group (3,550) were "Wheels to Meals." Volunteers also made 1,386 telephone checks and friendly visits as well as 1, 133 long dis- tance trips. They also performed 374 errands and took on 948 bome belp assign- ments as well as 359 home repair and yard work assignents. Brooks bas said that Commumity Care is in desperate need of volun- teers to share in the ever load. increasing work Anyone interested in becomning a volunteer can visit Community Care's office at 185 Brock Street North or cail 668-6223. Arnbulance cails During the week that ended at midnight last Thursday, the Whitby Ambulance Service responded to 98 calîs for service. According to co-owner Bill Cocker, the service responded to 30 routine cails and to 29 standby calîs for other ambu- lance services in Oshawa and Ajax. The service also res- ponded to 29 urgent and 10 emergency calîs in- cluding seven motor vehicle accidents. L.arry Solway promis- es to bring, "substantial theatre" to Wbitby and the rest of Durham Re- gion when the Marigold Dinner Playhouse opens for the first time on Sep- tember 8. Last week, Solway and bis partner Nuala FitzGerald announced in Mayor Bob Atter- sley's office' that they had purcbased the now bankrupt Stardust Din- ner Theatre. Both Solway and Fitz- Gerald are well known Canadian 'performers with credits on both the small and large screen as well as on the stage. For the last three years they have been partners in NIL Produc- tions Limited putting together such perform- ances as "Same Time Next Year" wbich ran at Toronto's Teller's Cage Theatre for 26 weeks. However, forboth of themthe opening of the Marigold Dinner Play- bouse (named, by, the way, for the Town of Witby's officiail lower) will be a serious enter- prise operating wîthout government subsidy. Solway said that bis will'be a 'no nonsense "commercial theatre"l and points out tbat east of Toronto "there is no substantial live tbea- tre." "«We bope wbat we do will be cultural in tbat it will be quality," he ad- ded, "We don't just want tbe snotty crowd.. we want'themn too ... we want to get those people who watch television.". "We want people who Iaugh and cry," Fitz- Gerald interjected. Their first production will be Bernard Slade's "IRomantic Comnedy" whicb although uncast- ed, will 'feature, the talents of Solway and FitzGerald. The play concerns the ups and downs of a writer wbo meets, a (what else,' female) sehoolteacher on the eve of bis wedding. This schoolteacher bas a play and wants bis belp. This begins a long rela- tionsbip between the two that goes up and down with bis marriage. "We love the play," FitzGerald said. Solway said that ad- mission to, the playhouse (including dinner) will be about- $20 fromn Sun- day to, Thursday and $22 on Fridays and Satur- days. They anticipate mun- ning a 50-week season featuring a new play eyery ten weeks. No decisions have been made as to wbat to pre- sent after "'Romantie Comedy"l but "Same Time, Next Year"l is definitely on the slate. The two also plan to enlarge the theatre a lit- tie to give more than the current 164-seat Capa- City. Solway promises that the Marigold Dinner' Playhouse will bave shows "as good as eny- tbing you will see in this country." "Going to be top-notch quality."Y In fact, both said that they will be devoting their fuil-time efforts to the theatre with only minor and requested forays into the world of television. "Making a theatre work is a full time job," Solway said. " It must be hands-on manage- ment." "We want to be a thea- tre and that's wbat we are," be concluded., Starting next Wednesday you can save a lot on the things you need from a drugstore. SAFEODAiRD DiSCUTRO ISCOMINOTOTHE OSHAW-WITYAEA %saimb Roadbeauty aids, cosmetics, household prod- Hwmuch can you save? ucts, confectionaries, tobacco goods and Watch for aur flyer next week in this lots more-ail at Safeguard's 10w prices. newspaper. You'll see lots of money- saving specials. 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