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"A Family Tradition for 131 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 25, 1997 - 11 - Young actors all set to strut stuff at local festival By Chris Hall Port Perry Star While it's a long road to the professional acting industry, local high school students will make an . attempt at being recog- nized as excellent actors when they make a trip to Pickering this week. ~ Two Port Perry High School drama groups will be making the trek to Dunbarton High School in Pickering for the Sears Festival, an annual event allowing area high schools to showcase their studen- t's talent. The festival has been a competitive drama event for over 50 years in Canada, which highlights the student's efforts and gives them an excellent opportunity to strut their stuff. A group of junior per- formers, made up of most- ly grade nine students, will perform "Once Upon A Playground" this Friday (Feb. 28) at the Pickering high school. Directed by Mindi Yake, a grade 12 student with some directorial experi- ence, the play is described as a comedy-drama by PPHS Drama and English teacher, Stephanie Fox- Comery. The play studies dis- crimination, stereotyping. and individual differences through the eyes of chil- dren on the playground. The trip to Dunbarton High School will be the first trip to the Sears Festival for the majority of those involved with that performance. Instructed by John Crocker, a drama teacher, and Ms. Fox-Comery, the students have been work- ing hard producing and rehearsing their programs since September and are looking forward to pre- senting them in a compe- tition and to the public. "The festival will be a good way for them to cele- brate their hard work and good way for people to rec- ognize their talent. We are trying to encourage the local community to come out and watch the performances," said Ms. Fox-Comery, adding that there will be a public adju- dication after the show. Port Perry students have made plenty of trips to the festival over the past years and have occa- sionally went on to the next level of competition like "The Scent of a Honeysuckle" did last school year. The remaining Port Perry performance will begin at 7 p.m. at Dunbarton High School in Pickering, 655 Shepperd Ave., and tickets, $7 each, can be reserved by calling 839-1125. LOST! - 1 Year old German Shepherd. Name "Bandit" Large cash Reward. Lost in the area of EPSOM. PLEASE CALL! 985-9059 Ask for Brett Sign up today for our MARCH BREAK COURSE March 18th - 21st Expect more from Sears a 985-2225 SEARS CANADA INC. Registered trademark of Sears, Licenced for use in Canada. ACTING UP: A group of junior Port Perry High School students will be performing at Dunbarton High School in Pickering at 7 p.m. this coming Fri- day (Feb. 28). "Once Upon A Playground" Is a comedy-drama about how children view things such as stereotyping. Directed by Mindi Yake, the CHRIS HALL / PORT PERRY STAR play features performances from Graeme Powell, Adam Norwick, Deviyn Faulkner, Ashley Johnston, Kathleen Farquharson, Lesley Partington, Christi- na Carter, Steph Knutson, Matt Somerville and Sharon Pickering. 9) ree SEARS SEARS graduates receive: - 4 month credit for earlier road test - maximum insurance discount - 25 hours in class instruction - 10 hours one-to-one in car instruction Advertise Your Business Here and your message can be seen by more. than 40,000 readers each week. a @BAGELS «BITES | 172 Water Street, Port Perry 985-1409 ¢ Open: 7am to 5pm Gg different flavours of bagels different flavoiirs of cream cheese MUFFINS - SOUPS and more... Sturman's General Store + "Your good old-fashioned country store ...in downtown Port Perry!" & JR10N01 8) 01 DAIS UI 0) 24 A 34 31 2428 '¢ - ' * £1 Gourmet Wy, Coffee "2 by the pound FREE Just a sample of | (o{e] 13120 | over 15 flavours & to choose from: BIRTHDAY | piss | * Columbian Supreme Vo LT BEI |e Vanilla Hazelnut Cream . 4a To # Play Your Favourite Lottery Game Lotto 649 * Spper:7°¢ Lottario e Pick 3 » Keno © Sports Select 'we 985-4124 HCI 3 OFF _ Discover Scugog '97 Tourist and Information Book Coming Soon - published by the Port Perry Star