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6-Orono Weekly Times. Wednesday, November 23, 1983 Bedfull of Foreigners is a riot at Marigold Dinner Theatre Local artist displays at Showcase Darlene Christensen views the creative art works of Diane Brachvogel which were on display and for sale at the Orono .Town Hall Showcase over the past weekend. Diane states sales were •brisk of her wordburning, creations featuring animals and birds. Another successful craft sale at the Orono Town Hall. Around the Region (Catinued Way who may have to extend their campaign time limit to reach the objective. Too Old For Christmas Seals The organizers for the Lung Association states the campaign this year is not working that well. Most of the people who support the Christmas Seal campaign are reaching retirement age or have died < The Lung Association .would like to get more young 'people involved in the •organization. This year 100,000 Christmas Seal packages were mailed in Durham Region in a bid to increase funding by seventeen percent. Murder-Suicide In Whitby The bodies of a Whitby couple* were found in their Whitby home last week in whst police have called a jjffttder-suicide case. . '«Durham Regional Police state the husband killed his wife with over a dozen axe blows and two days later hung himself. The couple in their mid forties were married ten years. Wants Life Saving Diagrams Displayed A Whitby councillor wants diagrams put up in public buildings showing how to save the life of someone who may be choking on a piece of food. Tom Edwards got. his idea after reading of a Durham College nursing student who recently saved the life of a child who was choking on a piece of candy in a Whitby store. Community Fights Board Action According to the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education the Castleton Public School is to cjose next June. Every business in the town has submitted an letter calling for the school to remain opeft. It is feared the closing of the school,will kill growth in the community. Young people will not want to locate in a town with no public school, it has been stated. Rental Units Nil In Oshawa It has been reported that only 30 rental units were available for rent in the City of Oshawa last week and these yvere privately owned. Tlje ci-' ty has ' about 6000 rental ' apartments. Fo» the past two years the vacancy rate has been around 0.7 percent. The main reason for the low vacancy rate is the lack of, new construction. Second Bank Hold-Up The Toronto Dominion Bank* at Five Points Mall in Oshawa was held up last week by a man who escaped on foot after being handed over $1,500.00. The man is believed to be the same man who robbed the Bank of Montreal on King St. East of some $2,000.00. Hope and Hamilton Come to Arena Terms Hope and Hamilton Townships hjjve come to terms over the operation of the Vincent Massey Memorial Centre in'Bewdley. Hope will now have equal representation on the board in the operation of the Bewdley Centre and arena. Hope is responsible for one-third of the cost of the operation when it falls into a deficit and on this basis had called for representation on the board. The board consists only of elected councillors. As of October 31st the arena and centre was in deficit by an amount of $30,000. Suggests Queen Visit Oshawa Oshawa has sent an official invitation to Queen Elizabeth II asking her to visit Oshawa during the Royal tour this coming summer. Oshawa will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in 1984. Herrema calls for no more than 5% Gary Herrema, chairman of the Region 'of Durham has stated that wage increases must be kept to five percent in 1984. This view is not necessarily acceptable to union leaders who state the increase should be based on need rather than the provincial ceiling guidelines. And,Now It Is Good News Regional welfare costs are expected to be below estimate which at the beginning of the year had been set at $15.3 million. If present trends continue to the end of the year the department expects to have a surplus of $1 million of which $200,000 could be applied to next , years budge); and possibly keep the Regional rate below a 5 percent increase. increase. The Region also expects a $1.2 million surplus from, water and se.wefs. * The naughty but nice "Bedfull of Foreigners" now at centre stage at the Marigold Dinner Theatre in Whitby proves to be a two- hour non-stop laugh riot. The Marigold Dinner Theatre, promoted by Larry Solway and Nuala FitzGerald, has completed successfully its first year of providing excellent excellent theatre in Durham Region and with the producr tion of Bedfull of Foreigners takes a lively and spirited leap into the second year era of the theatre. The play has been billed as spicy, saucy,' hilarious but never vulgar. It does run true to its billing as the unpredictable unpredictable happens at a slightly run-down hotel on the border of France and Germany. This is especially the case when an over-zealous innkeeper, hav ing a fancy for the ladies, overbooks' his one remaining room in the hotel to the Parker's, Philby's and the, seductive cabaret dancer, Simone. Stanley Parker (played by J. Daniel Van Wyck) along with his wife Brenda (Marlene Foran) first take up residence with Stanley lamenting', lamenting', when problems began to * arise, that possibly they should have gone tb Muskoka as originally in-, tended. With Brenda leaving to try and find her family heirloom ring which she had lost in a neighbouring village, Stanley is faced with a new venture with Mrs. Philby (Erica Kohl) moving in. The un- predicatable begins to happen and the country boy Stanley To consider Region non-profit housing The Region of Durham planning committee has been presented a proposal to consider non-profit , housing as an arm of the Region. ■ Although the proposal has been presented there is to be no action towards this end at the present time and not until such time as further information is available and a Toronto study is completed. It has been pointed out that there is a need for non-profit housing for 1 both senior citizens and family uses where geared- to-income rents would be charged. The private sector sector is not prepared to build non-profit rental units. It is suggested there is now a need in the Region for 85 to-105 senior citizen rental units of a nonprofit nonprofit nature and up to 283 family rent geared-to- income housing units. The report was received with mixed feeling by council members on the committee even though at the present time all funding funding would come from the federal government with assistance from the pro- Making their own way Students in Whitby, Uxbridge Uxbridge and Pickering have been getting their own way to school of late. School bus service has been disrupted due to a strike by drivers for Travelways School Transit Ltd. The strike has affected 39 buses which provide the full servide for the board-. , Would open the door for Whitby taxis One Whitby councillor calls ifof the deregulation of .taxi licences in the Town but is finding little support for his" proposal. At the present time two Whitby company's share . 25 licences and they state they like it that way. ' The matter came before council when the two companies companies sought approval from council of a ten percent hike in taxi fares in the Town. •vincial government. It was felt however that the Region did have some responsibility and that such rental units could be of an asset to the Region. is confronted with situations in which he appears to have had little training, Claude Philby then arrives to further complicate matters às he is unaware of his wife's presence but has knowledge that Simone (Arlene Mazerolle) the cabaret dancer is about to appear on the scene, Karak, the porter han- dyman, (Raymond Marlowe) puts everything into jeopardy as does the innkeeper, Heinz (Barry Yzereef). The tempo of the play with its laughable comedy picks up shortly after the arrival of the : Parker's and mounts to the very end when Stanley, that conservative Canadian, realizes he is saddled for the rest of his life with Karak, the ' porter, being the father of his wife. The play continues until January 22nd. The Marigold keeps with its tradition of fine dining as it has done from the beginning beginning which along with Bedfull of Foreigners is a must for those who enjoy a good night out on the town. There are times when you can tell by what bubbles to the surface in movie theatres, in newspapers, and on television what people at large are thinking. It has been a long time coming/but I think the media is joining joining the peace movement. The balance of terror, which was believed to be the best deterrent, is weakening; and in military circles, nuclear war, or at least a limited nuclear war, is being discussed as a serious possibility. It is not a possibility that most sane people would consider. And I dare to hope, for,the first time in years, that sanity stands a chance of victory. I get this feeling despite the Korean airliner, tragedy, the missile crisis in Europe, the Grenada invasion and the fact that the fuse is once again burning close to thj^ powder keg in the Middle East. Perhaps I sense victory victory because of those things. They have brought us closer to the abyss and human instinct is to draw back from'the edge, to a position of safety. The people who preafch that the arms race is the only security, that moving closer to the edge represents salvation, may well have had their day. Public opinion is be.ing mobilised on this issue in a*way which has had no parallel since the Vietnam War. I don't think this implies any general softening on Communism. I think it's simply a growing conviction that combatting Communism with military force, when the ultimate force is nuclear, is a kind of Russian roulette with no saving grace. Few people in this country country can comfortably contemplate,.the idea pf totalitarian Marxist regimes in .this hemisphere. But surely -it is apparent to everyone that Marxism can only be exported to countries whette there is widespread poverty, disease and ignorance. The breeding ground for Marxism is the gap that exists between between the Third Woffd's elite and ordinary people. It is the rightwing dictatorships which preserve the gap, and help it grow yvider, who are sending engraved invitations invitations to the radical left which President Reagan so rightly rightly deplores. ' " ' , It is the Sùrhoza'svof the world who invite Communists Communists in. If th'e United States had put pressure on Somoza to liberalize his regime, to share the wealth; .'if on Social justice and a democratic; process, there would have been no Sandinistas.' Nicaragua wouldn't have needed, them. ' : The way to stop Communism is with democracy, not the most hideous weapon that man has,ever invented. A nuclear war could not be selective. It would stop everything. And I think that view i's in the process of prevailing. '•