PAGE·8, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8,1988 Marigold contest underway Now is the time to start planting the garden for Whitby's seventh annual marigold contest, sponsored by the Whitby Chamber of Commerce. Entry forms are available at Weall and Cullen Nurseries, Valle's Fruit Market, DeVille Produce, Whitby Dominion Hardware, Canadian Tire, Rose Basket, K-Mart plaza and the Chamber office in the Centennial building. The marigold contest, which promotes the Town's official flower, is open to businesses and residences in Whitby only. Judging will take place on August 15 and 16 in four categories: residential, commercial, industrial and institutional. Deadline for submission of entries is July 31. Entry forms may be placed in the orange boxes at the locations where the forms are available, or mailed to the Whitby Chamber of Commerce, Box 268, Whitby, L1N 5S1. One winner will be chosen in each category, based on four judging standards: design and layout, general health and condition, quality of maintenance and plant display. Prizes for the winners in each category will be keeper trophies and a free dinner for two at the awards night, Sept. 20 at the Garden Gate Restaurant, Cullen Gardens. The names of the winners will also be engraved on a plaque displayed at the tourist information centre. For further information, call the Whitby Chamber of Commerce at 668-4506. Free Press has Actor-playwright'Christopher Covert speaks at meeting I -- el _ A-cal. By Debbie Luchuk An actor is a fool, clown, poet and doctor, according to Chri- stopher Covert, speaker at last Monday's Durham Teacher- Librarian Federation's dinner. Covert, drama instructor at Sheridan College, playwright, director and actor, spoke to the group about acting and its challenges. He referred to his position at Sheridan College as "the training of fools." "Actors need constant training and receive few tangible rewards, but discover themselves through playing parts using their own emotions and experiences." Of poetry, Covert said, "It is a tangible form of emotion to be shared with other human beings." Poetry, he said, is a more effective, deep method of expression than prose. The loss of poetry means less enriched existences, and therefore the actor has less range to draw frbm~in acting, he said. Covert said he tries "to teach students to relish their language, for language feeds them. The CHRISTOPHER COVERT inability to express oneself in poetry means inability to express emotion." He said that anger is the only strong emotion many people can feel as they have no poetry to Murray dancers win silver Members of the Arthur Murray Dance School earned accolades at a recent competition held in Toronto. The school's rock 'n roll group won a silver medal at the Spotlight Medalist Ball. The members, age 8 to 16, include Sarah Flowers, Tanya Ramsay, Jenny Anderson, Amanda Thomas, Danielle Park, Michelle Guillemette, Chris Tracey and Chérri-Lynn Bicci. ZenonaFulham also passed his associate teachers 'exam while Denis Kuntz passed his associate bronze. Oshawa family wins house George Bittner and family of Tickets, which were sold for $100 Oshawa willsoon be moving into the each, were drawn on Sunday May new home they won during the 29. recent fundraising campaign for The grand prize was a luxurious cystic fibrosis, organized by the home built by Tribute Corporation Kinsmen Club for the Durham through its subsidiary, Eastcastle Region zone. Homes. The home is located in Ap- The six-month campaign con- plecroft Village in Ajax, is 1,618-sq. cluded with the draw in Oshawa. ft. all brick. and three-bedrooms. CAROL KAPUSCINSKY of Ajax sets up 'Friends' and 'Life is But a Dream,' two of her works on display at the Whitby Publie Library. express themselves. Often one might hear a person say I don't know what to say," Covert said. "If we don't know what to say, we don't know what to feel." Covert also teaches clowning at Sheridan, and says the art is "very deep and dangerous, for it is an expression of the clown's deepest fears." A clown learns how to do his own mask with his eyes blindfolded, on a cast of his own face. "This is scary business because the clown has to find the black core of fear at the centre of his zulto find the image of his mask." What the audience is actually laughing at "is the source of his greatest pain. Children are more aware of this than adults and that's why children often react to clowns with fear." Apparently, the clown in the person involved in the art is an alter ego composed of the dark sicie of the personality. Most actors, Covert said, are loners, introverts and do not have many friends. "They often still feel inadequate, and are private persons driven to public acts." Anactori ioauuýL accordin to Cvr.Th eo held that drama was:a healing art, and "healing implies the sacrifice of the healer. Acting is the sacrificing of individual personalities to be filled with other emotions. It is therefore holy." Actors are doctors in that they heal the soul by laying bare their own emotions, joys and deepest secrets, he asserted. "Actors descend into the human labyrinth, face our fears, and discover the evolutionary power to hope." ---i ANJTAr'-TjTA T TRUTT.T INVESTE RATES ARE SOARING! I GUARANTEED RATES Guaranteed Investment Certificates $500 + (Term: 2 years) GUARANTEED RATES Guaranteed Terrn Deposits $5,000 + (Term: 270 - 364 days) VARIABLE RATES & LIQUIDITY Total Money Market Account $501000+ * NATIONAL TRUST A National Victoria and Grey T:ustco Company Member: Canada Deposit Insuraace Corporation WHITBY - 352 Brock St. S. 666-1800 or 308 Dundas St. W. 668-9324 AJAX - Harwood Place Mail S. 683-7344 OSHAWA-32 Simcoe Ét. 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