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Since then, their time has been taken up completely by the project. The first task was to select a company. It was decided that Mary Jane, 8 third year English student at St. Michael’s College would be production coordinator.‘ while Dave Smith, 390 Tyneview Lane, a student of Theatre Arts at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, would be stage manager. Adrian Truss, a resident of Hillsview Drive was given the job of looking after public relations, (i.e_ bookings) Vickery Cook. 17, a grade 12 student at Richmond Hill High School was selected to be treasurer, and Patty Duffi, 17, also a student at RHHS, as property and costume mistress. The job of road manager was given to Bill Honeyman, who plans to enter York Univer- sity in the fall, and Steve Clark, a student at Carleton University was put in charge of set design. As it turned out, each group member is either a former or present member of the Richmond Hill High School Drama Club. Their salaries vary, according to the individual‘s age and experience, from $70 to $90 per week. By DIANA COOK “Fantasy Tours, A Travel- ling Theatre Company" con- sists of seven young people who, with the help of an OFY federal grant, are spend- ing this summer performing plays for children at various camps and homes throughout Ontario. The originators of the group, Mary Jane Lowens, 19, David Smith. 20, and Adrian Truss. 19. were more than pleasantly surprised when they received news of the grant's acceptance. The application for the $7,500 grant was sent in three months ago. Included in it were letters of recommenda- tion from Richmond Hill High School's Drama Coach Roy Clifton, the Curtain Club and the Town of Richmond Hill. During a period of only three weeks, from June 25 to July 16, the group was faced with the task of putting to- YRP's Routine Patrols Yield Numerous Drinking Charges A high speed police chase Saturday along Bathurst Street resulted in the 6:35 pm arrest of Alexios Alexo- poulos, 34. of 134 Pemberton Road, Richvale for impaired driving and failing at bre- athalyzer test, according to YRP. A stopped vehicle was checked at 10:10 pm Friday on Yonge Street at Oak Ridges and Leonard Golding, 19, of 402 Markham Road was arrested for impaired at Richmond Hill provincial care and control and for failing a breathalyzer test. Both these men face trial court. Several arrests were made last week for other liquor offenses. DRUNK IN PUBLIC Albert Huntrods, 26, of 16 Normark Street. Apartment 30, Thornhill and William Flinn, 31. of North Road, Lake Wilcox were arrested at 8:35 pm Friday at 33 Yonge Street South for being drunk in a public place. Daniel Moore of 328 Browndale Crescent. aged 20, had his vehicle checked on Yonge Street in Oak Ridges at 10:10 pm Friday and was charged with ille- gal possession of ale. Douglas Hughes, 38, of 38 All those charged face Saturday at the Richmond trial at various future dates Hill Inn, Yonge Street at Richmond Hill Provincial Arnold Crecent at 12:25 am Court. The members of Fantasy Tours, a travelling theatre company working under a federal OFY grant, are shown above in a scene from “Granny Gray’s Down The Well”, performed "Fantas y T ours " Pro vides Summer Entertainment Since their “opening debut" on July 16 Fantasy Tours has been steadily booked almost every day, at places like Bolâ€" ton Camp. a retarded chil- dren's centre in Niagara Falls, the YWCA Camp at the Mill Pond, a number of the recre- ation department’s day camps held in local schools, and an- other camp in Mississauga. gether an entire 60-minute show, aimed for an audience of four to twelve year olds. EARLY PREPARATION Quite a bit of the technical work had already been start- ed before the three week period. Basically preparations included designing, construct- ing and decorating the sets, building the 20’ by 10’ port- able wooden stage, selecting the p r o g r a m, rehearsing speech and movement on- stage. buying and then paint- ing the means of transporta- tion (a truck), deciding on and (in most cases) making costumes and props, and lin- ing up future bookings. Dur- ing this time, which is de- scribed by group members as frantic in retrospect, rehear- sals were held in the Curtain Club’s new theatre, kindly lent by that club. I accompanied the group for their July 31 booking at Lakewood Camp for crippled children which overlooks Lake Erie in Welland. Other than a flat tire. there were no major catastrophes on the drive up, and upon arriving dinner was served to us with the counsellors in the dining room. It was then decided to start setting up the stage for the 7:30 performance. It us- ually takes the :Fantasy Tour members 1/2 to 3/1 of an hour, working together as a “pre- cision machine" to put up the stage, taking into consid- eration the occasional “cog”. It was soon noticed that there was an increasing num- ber of people arriving, carry- ing musical instrument cases‘ The camp program director approached us shortly saying that a band was also sche- duled to play that night. As it turned out. it was arranged that the band would play he- DRIVE-IN CHECKED As a result of a police in: vestigation at Harvey's Driveâ€"In. 9471 Yonge Street; Richvale. Robert Purves, 19, of 526 Carrville Road at 2:15 am was charged with being‘ drunk in a public place and possession of 19 pints of beer. A short while later at the same place Stanley Hough, 19, of 255 Bluegrass Boulevard was also charged with possession of the beer. South, was charged with being drunk in a public place. Charged with illegal pos- session of liquor and being drunk in a public place, Yonge Street and Benson Avenue, at 11 pm Wednes- day was Regiald Arch. 50, of 53 Benson Avenue. BEHIND BUILDING Two lQ-year-olds were charged will illegally having beer behind 25 Yonge Street South August 20 in the early morning. They were Steven Gillibrand, 298 Browndale Crescent and Donald Mc- Nualty, 306 South Taylor Mills Drive. Richard Ward, 21, of 174 Kingslynn Drive, King City was charged with illegal possession of liquor after a routine police check of his vehicle at 1 am Friday on Keele Street. fore the performance and in between acts, which worked out well. ENTHUSIASTIC RESPONSE Some of the cast at first felt hesitant to present plays, aimed for young children, to the senior campers, but their fears were unfounded. The production was met with en- thusiasm, for a number of reasons, the main one being that it was fun and that the actors themselves looked like they were having fun. It involves a young boy, Pippin (Steve Clark) who with his dog (Mary Jane Lowens) sets out to find the King’s (Adrian Truss‘) daugh- ter (Vickery Cook). She has been stolen by a wicked troll (Dave Smith), who “eats peo- ple clothes and all". Scene II takes place in front of the troll’s cave, cleverly depicted by a faded grey sheet with a hole cut for the entrance. Dave Smith plays an excel- lent troll. who at one point turns to the audience remark- ing that “I feel like a snack". Pippin threatens the troll in order to coax him into reveal- ing the whereabouts of the Princess, and only succeeds when his dog begins to sing. The plays. too, are short and clever. The first, entitled Pippin And The Princess, was written by Adrian Truss. Car crashes on the Rich- mond Hill boundary and at Newmarket took two lives and injured several others last week, according to YRP. 2 Killed, Several Hurt In 2 Crashes Charges are pending in the 10:06 pm Friday single car Newmarket crash that killed passenger Larry Win- ter, 16, of 61 Fleury Street, Aurora. ' Driver Michael Vangog, 19, of 26 Richardson Drive. Aurora was northbound on Main Street when‘ his vehicle hit the bridge at Roger’s Reservoir. Winter was thrown out and hit his head at the base of the dam. 3 OTHERS HURT , Driver Vangog wasn’t hurt but three other passen- gers were: Stephen Renaud of 31 Bailey Crescent, Auro- ra; John Bignell of 9 Brow- ning Crescent. Aurora and Jerry Miller of 112 Glass Drive. Aurora. In a twoâ€"car crash earlier the same day at 4:05 pm on Bloomington Road about a mile east of Woodbine Ave- nue (Don Mills Road) driver Ray Baker, 30, of 30 Harri- son Avenue, Aurora was fa- tally injured. He was pro- nounced dead just a little less than an hour later at York County Hospital, 'New- market. The other driver, Herschel McConnell. 68, of Heatcote, was also taken to hospital in Newmarket with serious in- juries. A police spokesman said there wouldn’t be any charges laid in this instance. Autopsy Ordered In Thornhill Youth's Thunderstorm Death Richard Brown, 20, of Huckleberry Lane, Thornhill was killed by lightning early Saturdaw while camping in a tent with a companion at Mosport Park grounds, ac- cording to Provincial Police. Brown was dead on arrival at Bowmanville Hospital. His companion was awaken- ed by a shock at about 5:40 am during a thunderstorm. Brown couldn’t be awakened. Cause of death is to be de- termined by autopsy. at the Mill Pond YWCA camp. They are (left to right), Steven Clark (seated), Adrian Truss, Vickery Cook, Patti Duffy, Bill Honeyman, David Smith and Mary Jane Lowens. Upon being rescued, however, the Princess quickly departs to her tennis lessons. Pippin then questions the audience as to the fate of the troll, whose helpers, Patty Duffy and Adrian Truss, have deserted him. In. this particu- lar production it turned out to be “Tickle his feet." The second play, “Granny Gray‘s Down The Well" was written by Eleanor Farjeon. The same sets as used in the first play are again present, but in between them are yelâ€" low arches and windows. In the middle of the stage is a well. The plot involves a passer by who comes across a young girl, Grizzle Gray, weeping at the fact that her “Gramma’s fallen down the well”. There is a long process of summon- ing everyone in the village so as to find the key that will free a man in the stocks to search for Granny in the well. This whole sequence is done very well so to speak, with changes of costume and char- Part of the road allowance on Sussex Street and Shelley Road will be sold to the adjoining property owner for an industrial development, Richmond Hill Council de- cided August 13 on recom- mendation of its works and property committee (Chair- man Lou Wainwright). The adjoining property is owned by Crestview Apartments Limited, a Griffin - Grant company, which has acquired all the land in the area and proposes to erect an indus- trial building to be leased to tenants. The property is to the north of Thorn-haven School and over the past decade several proposals for development have been con- sidered but have not been approved because they would have created landlocked par- cels of land. Sussex St., Shelley Rd. Land For Residential Development Regional Councillor Lois Hancey asked how this land could be serviced when coun- cil had allocated all potential surplus of capacity in the sewage disposal system to Tankosâ€"Yarmon. Mr. Topor- owski said that only 100,000 gals. capacity had been prom- ised Tankos-Yarmon and that that firm has yet to make application for services. “We are dealing with applications on a priority basis. There is no guarantee the application from Tankos-Yarmon will come in." - King, 2 Aurora Youth Arrested In Drug Raid A large quantity of ha- shish ‘and marijuana was seized. a King Township and two Aurora youth were ar- rested, following a raid last week by York Regional Po- lice. Armed with a search warrant YRP at 8:20 pm Thursday descended on Ca- bin 8 at the Spruce Villa, Yonge Street Aurora and within five minutes arrested two teenagers: Helen Coom- bes, 17, of 31 Machel Ave- nue, Aurora and John Cos- grove, 16, of L0 3. Conces- sion '2, RR 3, King Town- ship. Laer YRP issued a war; rant for the arrest of Ian Coombes. 20, of 31 Machele Avenue, and he was arres- ed at home at 10:30 am Sa- turday. All three face trial at a future date at Newmarket Provincial Court. “Mrs. Hancey also point- acter taking place in a mat- ter of seconds. At long last Granny ap- pears onstage, not having fallen down the well at all. The reason for all the con- fusion is that a young boy, Peter Puff, threw Grizzle's "grammar" book down the well to repay her for “pick- ing the currents out of my current bun." They all join hands and skip around the well, into which, of course, Granny falls, thus fulfilling her nem- esis. The members of Fantasy Tours all have worked very hard to make their company a success. In doing so they have provided their audien- ces with some very enjoyable entertainment, and proved themselves worthy of the re- sponsibilities entrusted them. They also have had a lot of fun. The play is very lively, with lots of action and laugh- ter. ed out that sale of the road allowances would bring in- dustry that much closer to residences in the area. Mr. Toporowski a g r e e d and noted that the road allow- ance would have to be re- zoned. “The company will guarantee Sussex will not be opened and there will be no further industrial development in that area. It is purchasing two small parcels of land at the top of Sussex, so there will be no landlocked property.” The agreement provides that municipal water and sanitary services be extended from Newkirk Road along Shelley Street at the com- pany’s expense. It will also extend the road to serve the factory building, provide out- door lighting, fencing and landscaping. Occupancy will not be per- mitted until services and grading have been completed to the satisfaction of the works commissioner and un- til an occupancy permit is obtained from the building inspector. A $1,000 deposit will be forfeited if this clause is not observed. The agreement also re- quires bonds in the amount of $5,000 to ensure that all the required works are completed and provision of indoor or covered garbage handling. 2 Possession Over Warrants Issued In Impaired Arrest Warrants for posession of more than $200 in stolen property were issued on young Thornhill and Rich- mond Hill men after a series of alleged criminal events Tuesday night of last week. John Finlay of 9 Morgan Avenue, Thornhill was arres- ted for impaired driving three hours after Bern Bur- ger of 212 Hounslow Ave- nue Willowdale. reported a $450 theft from his automo- bile left parked at the Rich- mond Hill Inn parking lot. 65 Yonge Street South. Police saw the arrested Finlay put something under his car sea”: and allege it was victim Burger’s wallet and camera. The possession over warâ€" rants issued later were for Finlay and for James Watts of 444 Markham Road. Apartment 212, Richmond Hill. according to YRP. (Photo by Susan Samila) Thieves, Vandals Hit Homes In Thornhill Homes. offices and con- struction sites in Thomhill were hit by thieves and van- dals last week. At Gateway Mercury Sales Limited, 7120 Yonge Street, Monday night $30 worth of parts were removed from the engine of a new pick-up truck, according i0 York Region Police. The same night at the home of John Van-Laar, 209 Arnold Avenue at 2:30 am somebody smashed a lamp post glass and two flower pots. The night before there was ab0ut $100 damage at the home of Anthony Kram- reither, 217 Arnold Avenue when litter was thrown into the swimming pool. A large stone thrown into the pool cracked the cement bottom. $1,860 THEFT At the home of Warwick Housden, 55 Fairway Heights Drive it was discovered on Monday that $1,860 worth of items were missing. In- cluded were silver candles- ticks, two ladies' coats, a man’s coat and a TV chanel changer. At Marine Mail Order Supply, 67 Doncaster Avenue Wednesday night someone broke in through an air conditioner and made off with $281 worth of property. Included were a radio, por- table TV and $24 in cash. The thief dropped $8 out- side as he left and this was recovered. Elaine Rennie of 7 Thom- son Court, Markham Tues- day afternoon parked her pick-up truck at 111 Glen- cameron Road. When she returned ten 8-track tapes worth $80 were gone. CONSTRUCTION THEFT Assault Alleged Broken Glass Robert Holmes, 45, of 14 Yongeview Avenue. Rich- mond Hill‘ was arrested at his home Wednesday eve- ning of last week in conâ€" nection with an alleged bro- ken glass assault on George Klavhalns, also of 14 Yonge- View. Holmes at Richmond Hill Court at a future date is to face charges of assault cau- sing bodily harm, threate- ning .and common assault. 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