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TOE HERALD Wednesday July 1M0Pge21 Individuals make the decisions in Switzerlands communities In Switzerland every day might be voting day somewhere From the smallest village to the large cities the people of voting age who live in these communities will be asked to decide by referendum if they want a new school a wider or a narrower road a library a sports arena or an apartment house Anything you can think of that might affect the community for good or for ill anything that might make the taxes go up or down put to a vote In May we visited relations in a truly wonderful village nestled in the verdant countryside near Zurich There I learned how much the individual householder is able to shape and preserve his or her community If you would like to build a house in Bruetten to give you exam pie even the design of your ed house will become part of a discussion and a vote There is a certain amount of in in this procedure that we here in Canada would not stand for I guess After all your new neighbours might refuse to accept your flat roofed house design or the very size of your planned home or anything else that might strike them as out of place The result of this of course is an extraordinary coherence in the look of the village Seeing Bruetten for the first time located on a gentle rise it s many tileroofed houses around a fine old church is a joyful experience because everything about the picture in front of your eyes is so right You wouldn find anywhere in Switzerland a street as lined with architectural horrors as our Guelph Street Stnp here in Georgetown But it was in Basel that I came across the result of the mast as founding referendum of them all Basel in Switzerland is a medium sized town by North American standards It has one of the greatest art collections in Europe The collection is boused in a large but simple museum building arranged around a During my wanderings from room to room and floor to floor I came to a gallery filled with works by Picasso A lengthy note posted on one wall told me an amazing tale in the city of asked it inhabitants of voting age if tax money should be used to buy two large paintings by Picasso The majority of the voters voted Yes The artist was so moved by the out come of the vote that he gave to the people of Basel a gift of art works This collection of drawings water and paintings selected with great by Picasso to form a unit with the two paintings purchased is per manently exhibited together to the eternal honor of an extraordinary citizenry Could anything like this happen in Canada Could we overcome our peculiar parochialism that manifested itself so recently in the mocking and shameful behavior of one of our politicians Could we rise to a grand proposal as the pie of Basel did I want to believe that we could if given the chance The exhibition sponsored by The Friends of the Hills Libraries of works by the PIZZA BUY ONE GET ONE FREE ON ANY SIZE PIZZA FREE DELIVERY After 4 184 Guelph St Georgetown 8734499 I John Sommer artist Andreas had a memorable start at the Gallery of the Cultural Ccn June 20 Mayor Miller gave the opening speech and Wall Elliot reminisced about the time when he was a neighbour of the in Alton many years ago Prof Chandler Kirwin from the University of Guelph gave a brief introduction into the artist life and work He also brought a remarkable gift with him A group of anonymous donors purchased a piece of sculpture from Andreas and presented it to the archives of the Halton Hills Library Georgetown to become part of the towns future museum collection On June Valene Nichol per formed five musical pieces specially composed by Robert Daigneautt for the Drenters exhibi in the Gallery of the Cultural Centre The people who made the effort to come to one of three per formaiiees had a stimulating time with the layered We should have musical per by Valerie Nichol at the Centre as a regular feature In par during the winter season The Andreas Drenters exhibition will continue to July Stratford Festival announces change The Stratford Festival s Artistic Director David William has an nounced that Shirley Douglas has replaced Susan Wright in the role of Oenone in the Festival s produc of Jean Racine Phaedra which opens Friday Ms Wright suffered a broken leg in a bicycle accident and is unable to perform the role Returning to Stratford for her se cond season Shirley Douglas was seen last year as Big Mama in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Compliant in The Relapse A widely respected actress she has worked with most major theatres across the country Preceding this season she was seen as Hestor Queen of the Cadillae at Alberta Theatre Projects Among her extensive list of stage credits are Mrs in The Threepenny Opera Banff Centre and Canadian Stage Company Madeline in The Real World Tarragon Theatre Martha in OVER 30000 BOOKS IN STOCK COMPUTER CATALOGUED Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf Lizzie Borden in Blood Relations and Mother Miriam Ruth in Agnes of God National Arts Centre Her film credits include David s Dead Ringers and Judith Thompson s Turning To Stone for CBC Ms Douglas is the recipient of the ACTRA Best Actress Award for radio Susan Wright opened in the title role of Forever Yours ManeLou on Saturday June and is ex pected to return to the role of Mistress Quickly in the Merry Wives of Windsor sometime in Ju ly In addition she is presently rehearsing the role of Essie in Ah Wilderness which opens August We Buy Sell New Used Records Tapes CDs and Books GOOEY good TRYOURNEWl DELIVERY SERVICE 30B Guelph St 8731651 QUICKPIK THE QUICK PLACE TO SHOP BAGGED MILK Carton Cigarettes Cigarettes pkg J Weekend Now Movies All Older Movies Nil The Time NINTENDO Machine 3 Games piu Weekend Games Library offers business course The Georgetown Library is offering a four night course called Star ting a Small Business Mr Ian Donnelly of Bndan Management Consultants will be ting this seminar on how to plan finance and organize a small business Informative guest speakers 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