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rr -- a ---- ye 8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, January 19, 1988 i Chatterbox by Cathy Olliffe (From page 4) the mess or it gets out of control. It grows, like fungus on old bread, within hours a few dirty cups are transformed into stacks of ing, souring filth. You cannot Jet cleaning get away from you. s I have learned. Quickly. : Actually, I've learned more than I thought in this one week. Mostly, I've accepted the fact that I'm terribly happy being mar- ried without children. We're so happy, it's sickening. I never + realized this before. Not to say that the kids aren't fun -- they are. We've had a lot of laughs in the past week. But the memory that will stick with me is falling in bed at 10:30 p.m., as exhausted as if I had just run a marathon. Let me say, I've never appreciated the art of mothering, or my own mother, so much in my whole life. When Mother's Day comes up, I'll be sure to tell her. a See ------ -------- © meg Viewpoint (From page 5) more fuel is added when the police step in and lay criminal charges. I agree with the opinion of some that when the police start charging people for what happens on a playing field or sheet of ice, sport in general is in trouble. Sports leagues, and especially hockey, must be self- governing and regulating. If the NHL sent some messages out that it is truly serious about clamping down on violence, the police would not have to become involved. But let's face it. The two-handed attack by the Minnesota player went far beyond the bounds of 'acceptable violence" in a rough and rugged sport. It was an attack that could have end- ed a career and put the other guy in hospital for a long time. It is hard to argue against the police NOT laying charges, especially in light of the ten-game 'slap on the wrist' suspen- - sion meted out by the NHL. | | I I | I fear that until hockey leagues at all levels, from the NHL down to the Minor ranks, decide to get serious about ridding the sport of violence and sheer thuggery, police charges will con- tinue in the future. Sadly enough, the sport is being ruined by the actions of a few at all age levels. It won't be long, I suspect, before some politician, sniffing for votes, decides to get government involv- ed in the way hockey is run. It's coming, mark my words. Yesterday's Memories (From Page 5) table and matching end tables. Brownies Linda Kyte and Nancy Staniland of Blackstock Brownie Pack No. 2 were present with their Tawny Owls, Mrs. Gwen Ballingall and Mrs. Dorothy Marlow, to present a new crib to the childrens ward at the Community Memorial Hospital, Port Perry, on the occasion of its 5th Anniversary Party. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 18, 1968 The second place win in the Canadian Senior Figure Skating Championship has secured Anna Forder and Richard Stephens of the Port Perry Figure Skating Club, a berth on the Canadian Olym- pic Skating team in Grenoble, France, from February 6 to 18. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fraser (nee Kathy Hill) have returned home after spending a three-week vacation in Inverness, Scotland. Joe Dowson, deputy-reeve of Scugog Twp. and a member of the Hospital Board was presented with a cheque for $1,000 from Legion President Ed Mulholland. This cheque is the 1967 installment on a pledge of $5,000 towards construction of the new hospital in Port Perry. Ross Murison, Reeve of Pickering Village is the 1968 Warden of Ontario County. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, January 18, 1978 Elizabeth Fulford of Port Perry has been hired as district co- ordinator for the Scugog Community Care organization. Port Perry Community Memorial Hospital is expected to be back to normal this week after the outbreak of flu in Scugog forced the hospital to restrict visiting privileges. Three Port Perry High School wrestlers did well at a tournament in Whitby, including Rob Allen (4th), Louis VanSchagen (3rd) and Ivan (the animal) Knight (2nd). Acclaimed show comes to Town Hall Mrs. Bach a real dynamo by Diane Lackie What do you do about a woman who prattles -over her favourite plant -- the family tree, claims as her oldest ancestor Herr Way Way Bach, and runs a 1747 TV talk show in "beautiful down-town- Leipzig' because she "needs every pfennig she can pfind?" Why, you gather together a few more of those pfenn- ings (in Canadian currency; of course) and rush out to buy a ticket to Town Hall 1873's January 30th of- fering of The Mrs. Bach Show, star- ring the redoubtable Canadian soprano Mary Lou Fallis. In this, her third and most inven- tive, one-woman show, Ms. Fallis has excelled herself as the meddl- ing, bustling, vociferous Anna Magdalena Bach, second wife of the famous composer Johann Sebastien Bach. In the highly original role of Anna, the versatile performer suc- ceeds in making herself more famous and multi-dimensional than her eclipsed husband. Abetted by one of her twenty children, "Gottfried" (Ms. Fallis' talented pianist), Anna bustles about her kitchen dispensing musical advice like a 'combination of Anna Russell and Erma 'Bombeck," a most contemporary creation," to quote the Globe and Mail. The audience is treated to an unique blend of wit and humour, as well as some fine vocal artistry, in- cluding seamless transitions from a gorgeous Bononcini minuet, and anutterly inane performance of a Bach cantata aria (with kazoo ob- bligato), to a comic rendition of Bach's famous Coffee Cantata as Fallis also perks about and produces -- what else -- a serving of The Real Thing. Mary Lous Fallis is one of Canada's best known and highest regarded sopranos. Toronto born, she made her operatic debut at the age of 15 in a CBC - TV production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. A Masters graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, Ms. Fallis has seen her career encom- pass performances of major oratorios and choral works with Canada's leading orchestras, as well as opera. The Mrs. Bach Show is Ms. Fallis' third acclaimed one-woman show based on musical personalities. The first was Primadonna, a critically vaunted spoof on the life of an Opera Star; the second was Emma, Queen of Song, based on the life of the great Canadian singer, Emma Albani; the third, The Mrs. Bach Show, conceiv- ed and written by Fallis and Duncan MacIntosh, premiered during Ed- monton's TriBach Festival in 1985 and has proven to be an even wor- thier successor -- Leipzig's answer to Johnny Carson, even. i Ms. Fallis promises her Audience "fun, fashions and fugues' in an overstatement of alliteration as she saunters onstage replete in fashionable mob cap and plunging decolletage. They loved her in Ed- monton, Niagara-on-the Lake, Bay of Quinte, Ottawa, and elsewhere. Perhaps Port Perry concert lovers can pfind a pfew pfennings in '88 and snap up any tickets remaining for Confidential, Private COUNSELLING Maureen Salkeld For assistance with Individual, Marriage, Family or Stress related problems. call ... 985-8228 For information & appointments the January 30th one-night only New Year's chill chaser. Irwin Smith Music can arrange admission to that 'studio' in "beautiful downtown Leipzig" (Town) Hall 1873), circa 1747. That audience may even be treated to'a very healthful session of Anna-robics. Come join the pfun. SALE STARTS JANUARY pq, N STRE ET, PORT p 8234 FERRY FRIDAYS TiL|. 5:00 s Spnday 9:30 - 5.30 (416) 985. YS 1:00 . 5:00 / Ho -----. gn FC PG SAR A RT rei NRA dled PE