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IthRERALD Insulation tips page 21 New shoe store page 12 Home Newspaper of Halton Hills lilt HERALD March SECOND SECTION in a Days More to running pub than meets eye By FROST Herald Writer According to Bob Macdonald manager of the newly opened Sir George Restaurant there more to open rig a pub than meets the average patron a like IB hours work a day for example just meet a self imposed deadline Bob got involved with Sir George last fall when he was approached by a of businessmen about the possibl of opening a pubstyle establishment in front of the new Georgetown Motor Inn What interested me Bob says was the pub concept The pub style should be design to be easy going a meeting place with comfortable surroundings where people can talk without loud music drowning out conversation An amateur hockey player Bob operated a small licensed establishment at the George town called Boomer a nickname of his that comes not from the velocity of his slap shot but as he claims from the fact that he often crashed into the boards because 1 never learned to stop His experience at Boomers has proved invaluable although he says you live ind learn in this business Bob had also been involved In real estate for a number of years and even though he made a good living at it he felt It was too easy to become complacent The new Job as tavern manager he feels will provide him with a challenge that was lacking in real estate One thing I really enjoyed about real estate Bob says was the fact that I was constantly meeting new people hurt to be well known when you intend to go Into the pub business People know you and come in to visit you Hopefully they Separate Tables an audiencepleaser like what they and come back essentially is my job Because of his restaurant experience Bob has a pretty good idea of what Sir George needs as far as liquor beer and draft goes nnd he knows that he must maintain a reasonable price on what the pub serves in the of drinks as wel as One of his biggest problems was the acquisition of a liquor license from the which must approve everything in the pub plans checking every facet of the operation Its rules and reguh Inspections were made by fire inspector the hydro inspector the health inspector and the plumbing inspector All of the inspectors were Bob soys and ready with suggestions that helped When applving for the liquor licence Bob had to apply two months in when the pub was finally reidy to open the licence hadn t armed It was hectic around here to the leas Here ready to open and the licence t obtained until a m that morning It was a last minute rush last Friday to get ill our stock for 12 and still be organized enough to open the bar Bob says he has been very lucky in that other similar establishments in town have been helpful in answering any questions he had and in wish liim luck with his new venture Bob feels that every one in the restaurant pub Continued on page 14 Herald staff writer Georgetown Little Theatre wound up the four night run of Its third play of the season Separate Tables with a flourish last weekend at Coeur Hall Separate Tables which Is the play entered by in the Community Theatre Drama Festival is a combination of drama and comedy centering around the lives of the rest dents at England Beaure gard Hotel In Bourcmouth Hampshire The hotel Is described by director Nicholas in the program as the haven for a collection of little people forgotten by society cither by accident or design who live their humdrum lives without bothering anyone in parti lar The play is actually con around two separate Incidents in the hotel In the first act a sophisticated model arrives from London Mrs played by Sheila Hughes has supposedly come for a restcure But the truth is that she has come to find her ex husband John Malcolm a journalist rapidly becoming an alcoholic who is played by Ashley Windsor In the second act It Is discovered that one of the hotel permanent guests Ma Pollock is a fraud and has guilty to a charge of disgusting conduct in a movie theatre where he nudged a number of women in the ribs as he sit next to them Major Pollock played by Ron Hill decides he must leave the hotel the dismay of Miss Bell a middle aged spinster who is totally do inn ted by her mother and who has been charmed by the major Miss Bell was portrayed by Joyce Holland Tl first act also introduces the audience to the other per guests in the hotel who set the stage for the meeting of Mr Malcolm and Mrs Shinklond In the second act they come more Into own as the incident involves only the regulars The hotel is managed by Miss Cooper played by Val who presides over rung of the hotel with an air of unruffled calm but she does have a weak spot She in love with Mr Malcolm who she knows stilt loves his wife The other guests include Mrs Itailtun Bell a ing woman played by Vera Lady Ma an easily led woman played by Pal Mr Fowler a retired school teach forever waiting for visits from his boys which never on page pljycdby Ron Hill and Sybil Hell played by Joyce Holland meet In ltcweinrrt Hold where Oil are permanent guests In the ittle lire Tables which wound up Inst weekend The play drew houses cry night of its run Tributes to two of town nonagenarians David loves his 91 year old babysitter 1 1 Id Special With the number of ing mothers increasing the demand for babysitters nnny grandmothers are bung pressed into keeps her s five son for the half day when he in ten and she says she enjoys David is a good little fellow and I don t mind keeping she says first glance it would the typical situitlon til il is pointed out that Mrs just Not is she lively eiouLli to keip track of I quite what to be Mrs rnnimore came to Toronlo from Bristol int9iotobcmarri and lived thereuntil when she Acton her diughter son inlaw Art Gordon who the imdiw Tire store She his mother married living in Port Pern ind a son in Mrs says she began working in huh Is factory after her dud She was ilreidy over M hut stayed then until she had to relire Tin Golden Age Club is her Hills Mailer Handing in for a vacationing Mayor Pete Pomeroy presented long resident I- both a certificate declaring the towns respectful acknowledgment of her and a card bearing pennies one for each year of her life friends and neighbor out for the celebration last Tuesday hi the apartments Photo George vashukl Citizen of the Year helps throw party for grandma Evelyn 90 years young v with her rivev earold great grandson Nan lodMlnguish her from grandmother who also some while mother fountain Mm i iu ruled the parly I kin here Mrs now 1 wt it- Mrs i let lion i me to from it 1 fallow in ir of he i ii 1 Mi si it tic Minn unilv and in aM Mrs tided to mule SI and is it i in Hills dun illn ft it duties with i il mori on back credited wn s reecntlv of wised for pictures r rcsidints of I JcsMt Williamson both of tth ii will II ir joth later this ir si tret of a long lid Mrs Walker replied is to go along and all in or people and is you have i The lrd Irxks 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