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L 2 PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1977 -- § NDWT troupe provides workshop for students by Diane Lackle Prior to their evening per- formance of Baldoon at Town-Hall 1873, several members of the NDWT act- ing troupe provided ener- getic workshops for two large, enthusiastic groups of students from Port Perry, Cartwright, Uxbridge and Oshawa. While one group of forty Oshawa students was being put through its paces at Town Hall on Thursday afternoon, a second group of eight-five «. students from Uxbridge, LETTER TO THE EDITOR Cartwright and Port Perry High Schools and Joseph Gould Senior Public School was 'acting up' at Port Perry High in the Theatre Arts room. . After introducing them- selves to students and teachers Rosen, Dennis, Trotter, Williams, and Lackie, all. of ' whom are - involved in Theatre Arts programs at their respect- ive schools, the. professional actors outlined briefly the story and purpose of the play Baldoon, and supplied Seal campaign a success Dear Sir: Final returns are now in and it is with a real feeling of achievement that we are able to report a most suc- cessful Christmas Seal Campaign. Contributions reached $70,628.00 against a cam- paign objective of $70,000.00. - This compares. .with $52,117. for the previous year's cam- paign, and represents an all-time record. Apart from the generosity of our many contributors, we are indebted to the industry of those individuals within -the Durham Region who contributed so freely of their time and: effort in order to make the campaign the success it was. In addition, we wish to offer our gratitude to the media in general and to your newspaper in particular, for your co-operation during the campaign. Without the splendid help of the Durham Region media, we know that it would have been imposs- ible to reach our objective. Please accept our sincere thanks. Yours very truly, I. K. MacDonald and E. R. Lovekin, Co-Chairmen, Christmas Seal Campaign. some background informa- tion about its well-known playwrights, James Reaney and Marty Gervais. The actors then took. the: stu- dents through a series. of muscle-punishing warm-up exercises designed to relax their bodies and prepare them for more complicated improvisational work to follow. These improvisations were enacted next. Accord- ing to standard procedure in their workshops, the actors instructed -the students: to concoct local folkloric tales, then to transpose them into performable sequences. These the students dug into with relish. Joseph Gould offered a scenario depicting a made shoe salesman who buried an unnameable object in the dead of night, Uxbridge High depicted the discovery and settlement of Oxbridge, Cartwright High came up with a slightly bent version of a day in the life of Harry S., and Port Perry High volunteered three novel improvisations con- cerning such varied local activities as Western Week- end, complete with breaking glass, power-boating on scenic Scugog and a tarty commercial designed to melt anyone's raisins. Local news editor John Gast was even conscripted for this one. How Sweet it was! Students reported having thoroughly enjoyed the workshops' and the chance. to work with the agreeable young NDWT professionals. It gave them the opportunity to meet and interact with other students having similar interests. Town Hall 1873 and the High School also welcomed the (continued on page 7) Actors ready stage for Baldoon at Town Hall 1873 Bill Smiley Winter blues Ah, the little ironies of life. Had a letter from son Hugh the other day, complaining gently about the heat in Paraquay. Said it was between 90 and 100 in the shade every day and only decently livable at night. Last night is was 30 below around this burg. And that's real temperature: Fahrenheit. Today it was about 20 below all day, and is heading for another 30-plus below as I write. As of today, we've had 142 inches of snow. Migawd, that's just short of 12 feet, and winter just begun. Who says we aren't a hardy race? Or are we just stupid? At the moment, I'm 'a little short of wrestling two cars to life, shovelling enough driveway to get them off the street, and hitting the side of the garage another belt when I slipped sideways. My garage is one of those ancient wooden structures in which those realistic car owners of the '20's and 30's used to jack up their Fords and Essexes and McLaughlin- Buicks and leave them sensibly suspended for the winter. A modern car, even an old battle-wagon like my 1967 Dodge, has about an inch and a half clearance on each side, if you want to put it in the garage. And I do. In the summer, the birds poop all over the breath and temper. I've just come in from windshield if I leave her out. In the winter, 60 YEARS AGO Wed. February 14, 1917 Mr. J. N. Brown, member of the 1.0.0.F was honoured and pre- sented with a jewel for services in matters per- taining to the welfare of Warriner Lodge. Dr. Clinton, represent- ative .of the Provincial Board of Health, gave a motion picture in the Town Hall to the pupils of the schools in Port Perry and surrounding districts on the dangers of Tuber- culosis. . Over 60 teenage boys attended the Boy's Con- | ference Banquet held in the Methodist Church. The speaker of the even- ing was Mr. J. P. Hager- man, secretary for boys work at the YMCA. in Toronto. , 35 YEARS AGO Thurs. February 19, 1942 An all out drive to buy Victory Bonds was laun: ched in Port Perry and district. The quota for Remember - When. eg Port Perry, Reach and - Scugog is $20,000. Clerk G. F.. Manning was in Toronto securing talent for the Victory Loan Ice Carnival to be held in the near future in Port Perry. A.C.2 John Leahy left for New York R.C.AF. Station. Howard Franklin, R.R.4, Port Perry, just received a Record of Per- formance certificate from the Federal Depart- ment of Agriculture that credits his fine Holstein herd with a production of 826 lbs. fat from 21914 Ibs. of milk. 20 YEARS AGO Thurs. February 14, 1957 Mrs. C. Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dorrell were presented with Gruen wrist watches for . long and faithful service © for their work in the Sunday School. Mr. Hugh Baird was guest of honour at a pre- sentation held in' Green- bank United Church. Hugh won the Canadian "Championships in Mon- Plowman's Champion- ship at the International competition held in Brooklin last October. Mr. Art Brock has recently been elected a director of the Oshawa Skeet Club and also received the position of Vice-President of the Province of Ontario Skeet Association. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs. February 16, 1967 Fire, believéd to have been caused by an over- heated chimney, com- pletely destroyed Burn's Presbyterian Church 'in Ashburn last Sunday morning. The church built in 1858 was of historic value and has been used continuously for 109 years. Competing in the North American Figure Skating treal, Anna Forder and Richard Stephens placed an impressive fourth, "Merrill Van. Camp, Reeve of Cartwright Township and the 1967 Warden of Northumber- land-Durham . Counties was presented with a gavel at the start of the February meeting in. Blackstock. Winter poops all over the whole thing with ice and snow if I leave her out. So I put her in. But that clearance is pretty skinny. The two-by-four that supports the joist or what- ever that supports the roof of my garage'is no longer a two-by-four. My wife and daughter have no idea whether the car is four feet wide or six. Accordingly, that two-by-four is now about the thickness of six toothpicks, and any day the whole struc- ture will cave in. I have, for the moment, two cars. They are located in one garage, and directly behind it, one driveway just as long as a garage. This morning, the car in the garage, the 10-year-old, started like a rocket heading for Mars. The new one, the five-year-old, groaned twice, grunted once, and died. There I am, with one perky car humming merrily in the garage, and one great lump of cold, dead metal sitting right behind it. It's enough to make a saint swear. And I ain't no saint, But then I think of how lucky I am, compared to our ancestors. I have an oil furnace that is practically supporting the entire province of Alberta, but at least I don't have to cut wood all summer to stay warm all winter. I have a wife who wants to drive the car that is working, the one in the garage, when the one behind it won't start, but at least I don't have to hang her "washing out in this weather and have it turn into instant white boards, as I used to have to do for my mother back around ought-34. I'm a school teacher, in my spare time. But I don't have to trudge two miles to the school, with snow to my navel, light the fire in the old boxstove, and sit there shudder- ing with cold until the students arrive. I just get to school as best I can, and the students don't arrive at all. Half of them - come by bus and the buses can't get through the storm. Half of the remaining half look out the window, say to hell with it, tell their mothers they have the 'flu, and - roll over and go back to sleep. Oh, she was rugged, in those old days, in a winter like this, with home-made insul- ation and red-hot stovepipes. No wonder many of the old-timers never got out of their long johns from October to May. That's why we moderns feel the cold so much. We don't have a half-inch of insulation, made up of sweat and 'skin and dirt, under the underwear: ' What really baffles me is why the very first settlers of Canada stayed here, after experiencing one winter. Things must have been pretty rotten, back in France and England and Ireland, to make them tough it out in this 'few arpents of snow", as Voltaire dismissed it so casually. _--And what completely stymies me is that the first white settlers found anybody alive in this country, when they first arrived. I simply cannot understand how the Indians "survived a winter like this. You think your arthritis is bad, Aunt Mabel. How would you like to live on corn and sex, in a tepee or a longhouse, for five months, with a little smoky fire burning on the floor, and 12 feet of snow outside. And no television! Do you realize your great-grandfather, when grub got low, probably had to walk eight or 10 miles to the nearest store, and home with a sack of flour on' his shoulder and a package of tea in his pocket0 On the worst of days, I can battle my way four blocks to the supermarket and come home laden with grapes and oranges and fresh meat, and if I've had a big day on the stock market, even a pound of coffee. Oh, wg have it soft, soft, compared with them. Yomorrow morning, I may be as surly as my grandfather was, if the car won't s ut tonight, I'm going to eat a gourmet tlinner (stew, I looked in the pot), and sit ia my warm house watching, in living colour, a movie about the South Seas. What a rotten spoljed lot we are! The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. 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