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. ni i N 20 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, March 28, 1989 # Award winnin in the area April 9 to ralse money for the Uxbridge Swim Club. Many youngsters from the Scugog area belong to the club, and organizers are hoping the show will be a sell-out. See story for detalls. he Congratulations GERRY & JUNE SCHILDT -- on your -- ; RETIREMENT March 31st, 1989 Love -- Janice and Dave and the staff at Southview Investments DORT PERRY auto glass & tetm WITH THIS COUPON g children's entertainer Sandra Beech will be Juno award-winner comes to area for performance One of Canada's most popu- lar children's entertainers, San- dra Beech, will be performing April 9 to raise money for the Uxbridge Swim Club. Fourteen members of the club, which pluced fourth in the Triple A Ontario Champion- ships, live in Scugog Township, ang. organizers of the Beech con- cert are hoping many Scugog families will enjoy the concert and support the swim club at the same time. The concert, for kids of all ages, is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Uxbridge Secondary School. Tickets are $6 and are available in Port Perry at Ted E. Bear's Toy Shop. Sandra Beech bursts upon her audience with all the energy and promise of spring", is but one example of the many glow- ing newspaper reviews San- dra's stage performances have received. In concert, Beech is infec- tious, boundless energy--a cap- tivating stage presence that fires the children's imagina- tions and holds each and every one of thementhralled. Performing since the age of four, Beech will regale the lis- EMMERSON ALL LINES OF GENERAL INSURANCE A Division of National Victoria 5 Year Annual Interest 10%% SEMI-ANNUALLY \ 7 ¢ NATIONAL and Grey Trustco Rates Subject to Change without Notice. TRUST 11° 139 WATER ST... 6 HIGH STREET PORT PERRY a 985-8507 - MOBILE SERVICE - GUARANTEED WORKMANSHIP tener with stories of her early careerin Ireland where she first learned to sing and dance, and "how some of her first stage ap- arances were with her two rothers, who later went on to become the "Irish Rovers." She will reveal how the urge to perform never left her, even through the years lovingly Spe raising her own three lit- tle girls. That love for children comes across the stage and spreads with true sincerity throughout her whole audience whether they are are nine or 92! In the last few years, Beech has become one of Canada's top children's entertainers. Gain- ing recognition and Jopularily first in Ontario with her record- ing of "Block Parents' Song," Beech went on to record four wonderful albums for children filled with great songs of child- hood life and action. Today she is spreading her good news Dinner theatre restaurant debut Looking for a good night out? Try Dinner Theatre. Specifically, try the Magic Car Dinner Theatre in Oshawa. It just opened with its first full produc- tion, 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers," by Neil Simon. Directed by D'Arcy Smith and featuring a strong, experienced cast, the play centres on the funny, often hilarious and sometimes poignant romantic escapades of the owner of a seafood restaurant, a man at "that age" in life. The evening starts around 6:30 p.m. with a buffet which includes full salad bar, soup, several hot entrees with vegetables and dessert. The show starts at 8:15 p.m. with first call for seating at 8:00 p.m. Seating is reserved in. advance, so there is no rush for seats, but patrons are advised that due to the intimacy of the theatre, latecomers are not seated until the first intermission s0 as not to disturb the actors and those who have already taken their seats. Refreshments are available at intermission and after the show. Also after the show, there is a "meet the cast" social half-hour where one of the cast makes a draw for a complimentary gift for a lucky patron. Live theatre is proving to be an increasingly popular form of entertainment. Between 1971 and 1981, theatre audiences in Ontario more than doubled and are still which is yet another indication of Shoestring Performers, Borelian across Canada, throughout the U.S.A. and around the world. Her first album "Chickery Chick" was nominated for the prestigious Juno award and her second "Inch By Inch" won the Juno for Best Children's Album of the Year. In 1987 her Golden Book video reached #4. A b ope: cial Sandra Beech Colouring Book has been released by the people at Golden Books. As one little boy's mother stated, Beech's live show is "simply radiating." "Sandra charges the air!" praised one grandmother. She transports everyone back to those wonderful times when we believed that there just might be a shark in our bath- tub, or a gorilla would sit on our knee, and leprechauns certain- lydid exist. In the eyes of her little follow- ers, Beech is superstar of the children's entertainment world. growing. Theatre attendance is now more than music, dance and opera combined with 55 percent of the population attending at least one theatre performance per year. Women comprise 60 percent of the total theatre audience. Dinner Theatre is a relatively recent development on the arts scene. Most operations have started in the last five years, the growing demand for supply of live theatre. Durham Region has been ad- mirably served over many years by such theatre groups as, Oshawa Little Theatre, Whitby Courthouse Theatre, Durham Community Theatre of Port Perry and Bowmanville Drama Workshop. There has been dinner theatre offered at Herongate Barn Dinner Theatre near Whitevale in North Pickering for many years and two previous at- tempts in Whitby (Stardust and Marigold Dinner/Playhouse), but the Magic Car Dinner Theatre represents the first of this kind of Theatre in Oshawa. Performances for "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" are on Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday even- ings running until May 6th. The following production, "My Fat Friend," a British comedy, will run from May 11th to June 17th this Spring. nursing home: Community Nursing Home Port Perry, Ontario + by April 28, 1989. on submissions. posed renewal. NOTICE OF PROPOSED NURSING HOME LICENCE RENEWAL AND REQUEST FOR SUBMISSIONS | PROJECT 066-89 Pursuant to the Nursing Homes Act, notice is hereby given of the intent of the Director, Nursing Homes Branch, to renew the licence of the following Submissions concerning the proposed licence renewal may be sent to The Director, Nursing Homes Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health, 15 Overlea Bivd., 5th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M4H 1A9, (416) 963-1038 Please mark the name of the nursing home and the project number The Director will consider all submissions prior to approving the pro- Ministry of Health ® Ontario Elinor Caplan, Minister