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Barrie Examiner, 14 Jul 1977, p. 11

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wkend notebook Any nonprofit organization or individual may have community event in Notebook Just call 7266537 and ask for Pat Guergis Calls for Mondays Notebook must be received by noon Friday for publication the following Monday Calls for Weekend Notebook published Thursday on the Leisure Page must be received by noon Wednesday did you know Minnie Kemp of the Soroptiniist Club sets up display at the recreation showcase held recently at the Dunlop Arena The club was started 35 years ago and aims to help groups such as the physically disabled Membership is by invitation on ly For information call Miss Kemp at 7282145 Examiner Photo tonight Knights of Columbus Bingo at the Embassy Hall Blake Street Banie at 730 pm early bird and pm regular Chess Club of Barrie gives free lessons to children from 415to 45 pm in the Childrens Annex of the Barrie Public Library Lawn Bowling at Allandale Lawn Bowling Club 16 Essa Rd New members welcome Call 7265885 for further in formation OThere will be meeting for new and prospective members of Barrie Parents Without Partners For more in formation call 3221328 informal summer services are being held in Collier Street United Church Tonights Service at 8pm will be led by Rev Lindsay King The Wye Wildlife Centre at Midland is planning nature walk at 230 pm followed by demonstration at pm on Common shrub pests For further information call 5267809 friday OBarrie Minor Lacrosse play offs will take place in Eastview Arena or Barrie Arena from 7to 10 pm OBingo in the lOF Hall Ferris Lane at pm spon sored by the Rebekah and ddfellows Olnnisfil Lions Club sponsors bingo night at the Alcona Beach lub on 25 sideroad south of eighth line Play bridge at Barries Duplicate Bridge Club 745 pm at St Georges Parish flail Burton Avenue and Gransville All players welcome OAt Shear Mac Morrison and Queens Park opening doubleheadcrs of fifth annual Molsons Fastball Tourna ment at 7pm OThe Huronia Games open today with the first day of threeday ladies invitational softball tournament at Penetanguishene For information on game times and teams competing call 5262261 Midland saturday 0A Peewee lacrosse tournament will be held at am in East view Arena Banie OThe Barrie Yacht Club will hold quarter ton open race on Lake Simeoe at 10 am An open handicap race will also be held at 10 am Spectators best viewpoint may be Kempenfelt Park oldwater Canadiana will hold flea market in the log cabin on Coldwaler anadiana Grounds near Highway 11 outside the town Roller skating at Eastvicw Arena from 730t0 930 pm OSumiidale Corners Hall board is sponsoring communi ty auction from pm until sold out The sale is being held to raise money for renovating the community centre Located the corner of Highway 20 and County Road 10 OAS part of the lluronia Games there will be ladies softball 12team tournament in Penetanguishene 018th Annual Brick and Rolling Pin Contest sponsored by the lmtisfil Chamber of Commerce will be held at lnnisfil Park 0an to any man or woman 16 years of age of over provided they live within 25mile radius of Stroud Call 7288859 for more information Euchres are held in the Holly Community Centre every Saturday night at 815pm 0A Pancake Breakfast at am begins todays activities at the Bradford Salad Festival 81 serving Bed race at 1230 pm giant parade at pm official opening at 230 pm at the Community Centre salad feast at 330 to 730 pm including salads cold meats and shishkabobs at the Community Centre along with entertainment by the Knights Adults $4 children $2 This evening salad cafe will open at pm Fun and dancing to the Memories and the Oktoberfest Express Adults only $3 Ointermediate Division of Molsons tournament starting at 10 am at Queens Recreation Division at Shear and Mac Morrison Park 08 pm Stock Car racing at Sunset and Barrie Speed ways 845 pm Harness racing at Barrie Speedway The lluronia Sunnner Games continue today Events today include novice peewee bant am and juvenile lacrosse toumeys atom mosquito peewee and senior Soccer tourneys the first day of twoday age 14 and under girls softball tournament boys softball tournament and mens tournament The novice lacrosse tournament is being held in ro the peewee in Barrie For information about these two tourA namcnts call 726113012xl 212 The bantam lacrosse tournament is being held at Elmvalc for game times call 5262261 Midland the juvenile tourney at Orillia all 3267397 for information The soccer matches are all being held in Banic Game time information is available by calling 7269300 The girls softball toumament is being held in Barrie call 7289300 for inforinati on The boys softball tournament is being held in Vespra in fonnation about games and teams is available from 7K393tll The mens softball tournament is being held in Banic in formation is available bv calling 7269300 sunday 0A car rally at 1030 am is planned as part of the Bradford Salad Festival This family rally will tour the area around Bradford Starts from the Municipal parking lot John Street Entry fee is $1 per vehicle Olhere will be beef barbecue as part of the Bradford Salad Festival at 1130 am until pm at the Community Centre Entertainment wdl be provided by Frank Lovejoy and the Versatileslwo dollar admission includes beverages KldS events at pin model airplane demonstration at pm SptHtS tournament awards presentations at pm and an ecumenical church service at 730 pm will complete the Bradford Salad Festival OMrs Phyllis Foxcroft president of the Simcoc Presbyterial United Church Women will be guest speaker today at service at 10 um at rown llill United Church OTwcntysix cars of 1920s vintage will be on view at the Simcoc ounty Museum Sunday from to pm The cars are locally owned and their proprietors belong to the Huronia Ant iquc ar Club Finals of Molsons tournament start at noon at Queens Park Baseball Barrie Red Sox at Newmarket Orillia Majors at lvv Oltiders both horse and bicycle have the spotlight in todays Huronia Sumer Games events Road races time trials and criterion events are being held in the bicycle racing competitions being held in Barrie In formation about times and locations of events is available by calling T259300 Equestrian events will beheld at Windy Haugh Farms on Concession One ro Township starting at 10 am The 15 events include crosscountry course Innisfils yearly Summer Fair Opens for ninth time Friday The lnnisfil Optimist Clubs ninth annual Summer Fair starts Friday night with dance at the Stroudlnnisfil Com munity Centre The dance runs from pm to 1am and the music will be provided by Group Radio Tickets are $10 per couple and $750 per person At am Saturday carnival parade will be held running from the Alcona Plaza down the 8th Line to lnnisfil Park The park located on the shores of Lake Simcoe will be the setting for midway games of chance fish ponds dunking tanks and arts and crafts exhibits Also set for Saturday are naildriving logsawing and greased pole climbing contests The carnival continues Sunday beginning with pancake breakfast at 8am arol Krul was the winner in last years rolling pin throwing contest at the lnnisfil Summer Fair with throw of 113 feet eight inches The rolling pin and brick throwing contest is again highlight of this years Fair being held this The highlight of Sundays activities will be the annual Brick and Rolling Pin Contest sponsored by the lnnisfil Chamber of Commerce The contest which starts at 530 pm will see men hurl ing bricks and women throwing rolling pns The results of the competition will be compared to those of similar com petitions held in Stroud Scotland Stroud Australia and Stroud Oklahoma to determine international brick and roll ing pin champions The carnival concludes Sunday evening following the brick and rolling pin competition John Thorne carnival organizer said proceeds from the carnival will be donated in part to Imiisfil Township scouts and girl guides activities and youth sports activities spon sored by the lnnisfil Optimist Club weekend Activities start Friday night with dance and iii clude parade Saturday and pancake breakfast Sunday and the brick and rolling pin contests Sunday Examiner Photo Summer Slide officially open on Wednesday at Blue Mountain Sketches featured at Leocock event Dave Broadfoot will in troduce sketches from new comedy revue as part of the ex panded fourth annual Leacock Festival of Humor in Orillia this month The new revue stars Broad foot Don Ferguson and Roger Abbott two regulars on CBC radios Royal Canadian Air Farce and Carol Robinson leading lady of the Wayne and Shuster shows The performance which plays four nights at the Opera House in Orillia July 28 to 11 also features singersong writer Nancy White brought back to the Festival by popular re quest Scottish comedian Billy Meek of televisions Pig Whistle fame accompanied by Orillia pianist Marjorie Daincs the Ministrels of Mirth Pat Watson Alison Reynolds and David James Bowen who perform comic music theatre Pioneer life of village in Muskoko Pioneer Village lil vites you back to life in nor thern ntario cross roads com munity 18601910 where homesteadcrs first felled the virgin forest trapped for beaver moose and deer established the lumber trade and the air was filled WlUl the whirl of the spinning wheel the warm summer kitchen smells of fresh baked bread and newly preserved jams and the clatter of hooves of the orkhorsc The village is set on 1111 acres of parkland at the mouth of the Muskoka River on Fairy Lake where you can see authentic pioneer homes craft house saw mill blacksmith shop general store church school poetry and stories and comic Rummy Bishop This years Festival has been expanded to include an evening cabaret and dance at the 1101i day Inn in rillia July 22 with La Troupe Grotesque doing ex cerpts from their longrunning Toronto comedy revue Plain Brown Wrapper two per formances of the Pepi Puppet Theatres Hansel and Gretel show for children July 26 at the Opera House and screenings of old comedy films and cartoons in the municipal council chamber prior to the Festival performances Artistc directors for the Festival are Don ullen and Roy Wordsworth The 1976 Leacock Award for llumor will be presented to Ray Guy St Johns columnist along with the $1500 Hudsons Bay Company cash prize at the awards dinner in Orillia July 23 at the Sundial Motor Inn recreated Muskoko barn and stable special Market day Saturday August 131h from 10 am pm will have over 70 stalls selling antiques fresh farm and garden produce colonial apple dolls fine books native amt 10cal crafts phitography and refreshments This beautiful turn of the cen tury village is open daily from 10am pm until Labor Day and then weekend afternoons until thankgiving and you are invited to experience Muskoka past and present at Muskoko Pionccr Village Huntsville Ontario For further information please call at 75 7807570 Claude Bennett minister of industry and tourism will of ticially open Collingwoods newest tourist attraction Wednesday He along with officials from Collingwoods town council and township officials as well as many local and Toronto tourist officials have been invited to barbecue at the site to ccle brate the opening of Summer Slide at Blue Mountain Gord Tanning vicepresident and general manager of Blue Mountain Resorts Ltd says the construction of the slide is right on schedule The slide consists of two 3000 feet long sections of asbestos cement put together from three mctcr pieces We can send off sled every 15 seconds Canning said The ride normally takes from three to four minutes and sometimes people lock several sleds oget her to form train The sleds are controlled by brake so that each rider may control the speed llllthli Ftllt Stl Sliders will pay $230 for single adult ride or three for $6 hildrcn from seven to 12 may ride for 812 or five rides for 55 Children under seven may ride free but must be accompanied by an adult on single sled The slide is being installed at cost of 8500000 and similar slides have already proved very successful in Europe and North America anning says the slide will bring tourists to the area and utilize all the winter facilities which normally sit idle Poet screenwriter to speak at WLW Canadian poet and film writer loan Finnigan will be in Orillia in person luesday to give public reading and discussion of Canadian writing In addition to six volumes of poetry and four other books Finnigan is author of the awardwinning film The Best Damn Fiddler from alabogie to Kaladar One of her most successful poems according to reviewer last week in The Toronto Star has the title November on the Orscr Farm In her newcst book Living Together Finnigan writes of the spirit of Northern Ontario abandoned farms and various urban abuses of life The poets public reading in Orillia will contribute to sum mcr school course in anadian literature presented by Watcrloos Wilfrid Laurier University at Twin Lakes Secondary School The event takes place at 10 am Tuesday in Room 115 Its bit of an early hour even for poetry admits Dr Jerry Hall WLUs summer school coordinator But we hope some people from the general Orillia area will be able tocomc WLll will provide free cof fee and doughnuts Millionairess no justice NlAGARAtNTHlCLAKE Ont IPi Isnt there any justicc for man against woman when she is million airess practitioner of judo and as selfassured competent and beautiful as Carole Shelley Not at all as demonstrated at Tuesday nights opening of George Bernard Shaws The Millionaircss at the Shaw chtr val The play is one of Shaws later works written in 1935 when he was approaching 80 but in the direction given it by Michael Meacham it is as fresh as anything in todays womens liberation movement the examlner Thursday July 141977 11 re Few changes plonnd for Potato ALLISTON Gerry Moon chairman of the Alliston Potato Festival organizing committee says that plans for the 1977 festival are well underway This years festival will be much the same as last year he said with only few location and entertainment changes The fourday event will run from Thursday Aug 11 to Sun day Aug 14 The festival gets underway with the Potato Festival Queen Contest at the Alliston Arena Aug 11 at pm Local mer chants will hold their amiual Potato Festival Sidewalk Sale the same day The lineup for Aug 12 in cludes the Grand Parade featuring more than 100 floats six bands and farm equipment The Carlsburg Brewerys horse and wagon team will also take part in the 1977 festival parade Moon said Monte Carlo Nile dunking tank talent show and dances for young and old are also plan ned for the second day of the festival POTATOII PANCAKES potato pancake breakfast will kick off the heavy schedule of events on the third day of the festival flea market bus tours to potato famis puppet show beard growing competition another talent show firemens competitions display of an tique fann equipment horse show beef barbecue concert and dances are planned The festival will conclude Aug 14 with an antique arms show tractor pull parachute jumping display swimathon pee wee baseball toumey soc cer game band concert talent show and corn roast The 1976 Potato Festival went very well Moon said bring ing in net profit of $26000 That money along with the profits of future festivals he said is being invested in hopes of raising enough money to build an indoor pool in Alliston The committee composed of representatives of all clubs and organizations in Alliston has Festival Gerry Moon Alliston Potato Festival organizer says few changes are planned for 1077 festival been looking at indoor pools and facilities in other towns of about the same size as Alliston he said but nothing definite has been decided MAJth CHANGE Moon said the organizing committee has made major change this year in its efforts to raise money to pay for the festival parade He said the committee plans to produce 68page Potato Festival souvenir booklet The cost he said will be covered through advertismg by local busineSses and the purchase price of $1 copy This year he said we hope to get them to advertise in the booklet instead of making straight donation Moon said the $1 purchase price not only includes the booklet containing pictures and stories on the businesses in Alliston and history of the Potato Festival but the buyer is automatically eligible to win Caribbean holiday for two People AreLiving There opens for weeks run Monday of Georgian Theatre People Are Living There by Athol Fugard is set in Johannesburg boarding house but when the penetratineg human play is performed by The Gryphon Theatre Company at Georgian College Theatre in Barrie from July 18 to 23 the setting could just as easily be Canada Although the play is about frustration and loneliness there is nevertheless warmth and humor that makes the characters real Milly the kindhcarted slovenly landlady is played by Joan Orensein of Halifax Don cynical st udenl layabout engaged in perma nent attempt to find himself and analyze others by Steven WhistanceSmith and Shorty dimwitted postman whose passions in life are boxing and silkworms is played by Douglas Stratton Shortys young and unsure wife is portrayed by Mary Haney who was seen in Barrie last year in Ah Wilderness It is Millys 50th birthday and just jilted by the German lodger with whom she has lived for the past ten years she asks movie trivia Don and Shorty to join her in wild birthday part gesture of defiance to prove to herself that she too is alive Directed by Ted Follows the sets are designed by Jack Timlock costumes by Barbara Suarez and lighting by Dino Ventresca There are matinees Tuesday and Thursday at pm The box office is at Georgian College Theatre Bar rie Highway 400 at the Duckworth Street exit and is open am pm Monday Friday during rehearsal weeks and am 980 pm during week of the show 705 7284613 Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront was featured in last weeks Movie Trivia contest and Leon Carter 107 ollier St wins tWo free passes to the Imperial Theatre or Banie Twin DriveIn for his conect answer This weeks Movie Trivia contest may prove little more difficult The movie was made in 1932 by MGM The stars both dead now were headliners in their day the male known as The Great Profile and the son of well respected American theatrical family the woman known as one of the best coinediennes of her day and later manicd to another of Hollywoods most popular actors To win Name the stars the movie isnt necessary and send your entry to Movie Trivia The Ex amincr Box 1170 Barrie 14M 4T6 Draw is made from all correct answers received by noon Tuesday

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