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Magnum Signs personnel removed the sign above the St. Clair Restaurant Friday. The building that housed the restaurant was sold to a local developer. The eatery, owned by the Kaloyanis family, had operated out of the building since 1942, and sold its final meal at that location Jan. 18.
Teen wins Ontario award By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
Isaac Pinsonneault’s reactions saved a man’s life this summer. And now he’s poised to receive provincial recognition for his efforts. In August, while on a family vacation near God-
erich, Pinsonneault risked his own life in heavy waves to rescue a man floundering off the shore at Point Farms Provincial Park. In March, the 17-year-old Pain Court teen will be one of 12 people honoured as Ontario Junior Citizens of the Year. Pinsonneault vividly re-
members that day in August when he was on a camping trip with cousins. “We were playing beach volleyball. These two women approached us and asked if anybody could swim,” he said. “I looked out and saw someone in the water. Without hesitation, I decided to go
in and see if I could help.” Pinsonneault said someone else, armed with a pair of boogie boards, was swimming out in the heavy waves ahead of him. When he caught up to that man, he took one of the boards and kept going.
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“It’s attention to detail. We care and want people to have a good time. And it’s the small details – we greet you personally, and call your room to make sure everything is OK.”
“Every single person who helped me was happy, friendly and eager to please,” she said in her online review. From an art sculpture piece that appears to be fish made of vise-grips by Clark of Detroit, to signed original art from Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones, to a 3-D race car that leaps off the wall, the décor of the lobby alone is a visual treat. Many other reviewers commented on the customer service as a highlight of their stay, something East says is a top priority at the hotel. “We have a commitment to service. All of us have been in the service industry for years and we like to bring the best of what we’ve learned,” East explained. “We have individual service for each guest and we’re small and intimate. We know each guest on a first-name basis.” From conferences and banquets to birthdays and weddings, or just a
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weekend away, East said the staff’s goal is to make each guest feel important and special. “It’s attention to detail. We care and want people to have a good time,” he noted. “And it’s the small details – we greet you personally, and call your room to make sure everything is OK.” With 33 individually designed suites, East said they also try to match a guest’s preferences to a room that would suit their needs. “We know the details of each room and open up the website while we are talking to them to help them see the rooms and the styles and colours they gravitate to,” East
said. “You know what you are going into when you get here. If you like two different rooms, we suggest staying in one the first night and the other the next night and you can experience both.” The on-site restaurant, The Chilled Cork, offers daily breakfast, lunch, dinner and room service, plus guests have access to Good Life fitness centre in the mall and rounds of golf at the Blenheim Golf Course. Each room has free wi-fi, free long distance in North America and free popcorn to go with your favourite game or movie in your room. The service continues with banquet manager Sarah Whitelaw who helps plan parties, conferences and weddings with every possible detail taken care of to make sure the end result is a satisfied customer. The Derby banquet hall currently holds 140 people, with expansion plans underway to increase the size to accommodate over 200 guests by March of this
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honour is a nice reward for all the investment and all they have done for downtown Chatham.” Affordability is the last piece of the puzzle that makes Retro Suites so attractive to guests who reviewed the hotel. Large, luxurious and unique rooms that start at $139 to $209, 20 dinner items under $20, and daily lunch specials at $5.95, according to East, make a stay at Retro Suites unique, comfortable and affordable.
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perience gave him a different per“About 75 feet out, I got to him. The spective on life. waves were pretty big. We both restAnd now he’s receiving proved on the boogie board, then kicked ince-wide recognition, which startour way back to shore,” he said. ed as a local groundswell of supThe man, in his 20s, told Pinson- port. neault he went into the water to cool “I think a few teachers nominated off, but didn’t anticipate the strong me; a few friends wrote letters; and undertow that just kept pulling him my parents. I’d like to thank everyfarther and farther from shore. one who nominated me,” he said. Parents Collette and Claude Pin- “I’m extremely honoured and very sonneault couldn’t be more proud. thankful for this award.” But that didn’t stop Collette from The date and exact location of the worrying like a typical mother. ceremony is still to be determined, “He called us the next day and told likely in Toronto, and sometime this us what happened,” she said of her spring. son’s life-saving effort. “I cried all Pinsonneault, who next year hopes that day. I was just happy he was to take psychology at the University safe.” of Guelph, is hopeful he’ll be able to But she was quick to praise him for attend. being calm in a difficult situation. “An issue might come up. I’m leav“He kept his cool the whole way, ing for a trip in March. I’m going to asking the man questions the whole Croatia on a religious pilgrimage,” way to shore,” she said. he said. She said Pinsonneault’s grandThe Ontario Junior Citizen of the mother used to be the aquatic direc- Year Awards are promoted through tor at The Wheels Inn and always the more than 300 member newsstressed water safety. papers of the Ontario Community The Grade 12 student at Ecole sec- Newspapers Association, including ondaire de Pain Court said the ex- The Chatham Voice. Run Date: Jan 28, Feb 4, 2015 Chatham Voice (4.5" x 7.714") Full Colour EOR#6921 Continued from page 1
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Pain Court’s Isaac Pinssoneault, 17, is one of only a dozen people to be honoured as Ontario Junior Citizens of the Year at an awards ceremony in the coming months. Pinsonneault rescued a man from the rough waters of Lake Huron last August.
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lin, and Bothwell; cutting dog tag enforcement; cutting the number of summer students; reducing the hours of the Blenheim Emergency Response Unit; and eliminating roadside weed spraying. Gerry Wolting, general manager of corporate services, said revisiting these items was a better option than pulling money out of other budget areas, such as infrastructure, which would only delay and compound funding issues. “As tough as those decisions are now, if you can make those decisions, at least that money has been allocated permanently. Otherwise, you are just putting the problem off to next year’s council or next term’s council,” Wolting said. Council, led by West Kent Coun. Bryon Fluker and Wallaceburg Coun. Jeff Wesley did not want to even consider digesting the 2013 service review items. “To go out to the public meetings with this 2013 list, with some of the items on here, I just don’t want to do that,” Fluker said. “I will not, for the sake of possibly polarizing the communities, mention what is on that
list,” Wesley said. “There is a very good reason why all of those items were rejected in 2013 – because it would have a devastating effect on those communities.” Wesley and Fluker combined to craft a motion to pull the “three-page list” as Fluker called it, but allowed councillors to bring up items individually over the budget process if they so wished. The motion passed without opposition. Wolting said administration in no way recommended the cuts they put forward in the 0% option. “We’re recommending to get to 2.4%. We’re presenting options to get from 2.4% to 0%,” he said. “Please don’t take this as fear mongering or scare tactics. We’re paid to present options and outline the ramifications of those options.” Wolting said he’d prefer other means of achieving 0%. “Hopefully we’ve missed something and councillors have ideas too,” he added. Chatham Coun. Derek Robertson, the budget chair, agreed with Tuesday’s motion to scrap the 2013 service review recommendations, but challenged councillors to offer tangible cost-cutting alternatives. “We don’t need to look at this ugly list. We don’t need to threaten the community,” he said. “We need to own the budget. We need to be the ones accountable to taxpayers. The process is sound. It’s up to us to deliver the results.” Robertson said his experience with previous municipal budgets is that only a few councillors have offered viable suggestions, and it’s time for all of council to step up and “bring the solutions.” The proposed 2.4% budget did drop by 0.2% before council even broke out the carving knifes. The majority of the savings comes as a result of administration anticipating the rate of inflation at 2.4% when in reality it came in at 2%, Wolting said. That resulted in $210,000 in reduced costs, a savings of 0.16%. Add in $50,000 in increased assessment for new wind turbines, and you get the 0.2% drop in the proposed budget increase.
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Boardwalk back on?
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A worker prepared to attach cabling to a load of steel rebar at the Boardwalk on Thames construction site Friday. The developer has hinted work will resume in March.
The giant crane, which has dominated the Chatham skyline for months, swung into action Friday morning as a load of steel rebar was delivered to the Boardwalk on Thames site. An Everlast official who refused to be named, said the load is the first of many to be used when construction of the project resumes, reputedly in March. It’s the first work on the site in weeks, contrary to reports earlier this week. “The only thing we’ve been doing here is trying to secure the site,” he said. “If you want to tell the people of Chatham something, tell them about the $40,000 of material we’ve had stolen from our worksites.” The individual, who was directing workers on site, said he’s been with Everlast for 30 years. “It’s a good company,” he said.
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Explore all options Chatham-Kent municipal administration deserves a standing ovation for how it approached council’s last-second request for options to deliver a 0% tax increase. And council’s response is worthy of residents tossing their jerseys on the ice in disgust. On Jan. 19, less than 24 hours before the tabling of the budget, council told administration it wanted a 0%-increase option. Administration delivered by dredging up municipal service review cuts the previous council had shied away from in 2013 and 2014. The message: “You want to talk tough numbers? We’ll give you tough realities.” Administration said it didn’t recommend these options, but brought the possibility of closing libraries, volunteer fire stations, the Sydenham Pool, and three pages of other proposed cuts back to the forefront. Brilliant move. Gerry Wolting, general manager of corporate services, said these were difficult options, but stressed they were permanent fixes, rather than short-term Band-Aids. “If you want to reduce taxes or reduce cost, we really recommend that tough decisions be made where this will not come back to bite us,” Wolting told council. “A slash to infrastructure looks good this year, but Thomas (Kelly, general manager of infrastructure and engineering) will be here four years from now saying, ‘We need to close these four bridges,’ all from a decision made here now.” So council asked for options. Administration delivered. And in short order, council overwhelmingly voted to toss out the 2013 service review options. Why ask if you don’t want to hear the answers, councillors? You said constituents told you in no uncertain terms during the campaign that they wanted you to cut the tax increases. By refusing to revisit service review recommendations, you’re assuming these same people have no idea that 0% tax increases would result in loss of services. You are also wasting staff’s time in tasking them with the service review, as well as asking them to come up with cost-savings options at the snap of your fingers. Yes, the previous council implemented some of the service review recommendations over the years, but essentially it just scratched the surface.
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Wake up, C-K taxpayers Sir: As a Chatham-Kent taxpayer, I am irate over Mayor Randy Hope’s continuous trips to China using our hard-earned tax dollars, with multiple promises of attracting new business and jobs to the municipality, which never have, and I believe never will come, during his terms. Prove me wrong Mr. Mayor. Mr. Hope has done absolutely nothing to bring new business to Chatham-Kent, as he takes his numerous luxurious trips to China and returns
with the usual remark: “It takes time.” I would like to know how much, we, the taxpayers, have spent over his terms to send the mayor and his companions to China on these multiple trips. I bet they do not fly coach or stay or eat in the mediocre places we would all be forced to on our wages. Could the press in our city or Chatham-Kent council members please provide the taxpayers
with the figures so we may be made aware of how much these trips have actually cost us and how much these trips have actually benefited us? On my second point, and please correct me if I am wrong, didn’t Mr. Victor Boutin, owner of Everlast Group, of the now-halted downtown condo project claim he would not go ahead with the project unless Randy Hope was mayor? Now that the project is
going defunct, Mr. Hope decides to spend our tax dollars to once again to China without a word to the taxpayers of Chatham-Kent on his perspective of Mr. Boutin’s actions. Mr. Hope has used and brainwashed all of his voters using his typical political broken promises. I never have and never would vote for Mr. Hope. Wake up, Chatham-Kent.
Sir: While riding on the No. 1 bus recently as we drove past the old building at the corner of Grand Avenue and St. Clair Street, I remarked, “What an eyesore.” Not really having paid attention to the building’s name, I said some-
one will be hurt by falling debris who is walking by it. Then a letter appeared in The Chatham Voice in the Jan. 8 edition written by James Brown, addressed this same building I noticed was the old
Aberdeen. I wonder now who are the owners? I’m sure the state it is in, they won’t sell it and will only get what the land is worth. Another thing that comes to mind is are
they paying taxes on it, as it seems according to the media, we should open our arms to all kinds to help our tax base.
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United Way reaches its $1.9M goal
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Late push sends it over By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
After the 2013 United Way of Chatham-Kent campaign fell short of lofty goals, the 2014 version hit its mark. With a campaign target of $1.9 million this time around, the goal was in doubt right up until 24 hours before Friday’s announcement. Just two weeks prior, the campaign was $200,000 short. In the days leading up, it was shy $43,000, then $27,000 with hours to go. But by the end of the day Thursday, they’d hit their mark. Co-chairs Dean and Margery Muharrem announced the total at $1,914,175 Friday. Dean described hearing they’d made goal was “like Utopia” to him. The 2013 campaign raised $1.85 million, $350,000 short of its $2.2-million target. The 2014 version wasn’t an easy campaign. Margery said it was a thrill ride, complete with highs and lows. “Several times throughout this campaign, Dean and I said it was like a rollercoaster,” she said. “There were times when we had our arms up and were cheering, and there were times we were gripping our seats in fear of what was around the next corner.”
Dean credited a strong campaign committee, which was put together at an early date, for helping to get this years’ effort rolling and for meeting the final mark. “We hit $1 million really early, and then before Christmas we were worried we were going to miss and miss big,” he said. Dean said talking with the United Way’s Dave Drouillard kept everyone grounded. “David wasn’t ready to give up. He said there was money out there.” So in January, the campaign went into overdrive, as Dean and Margery gave 30 presentations all over the municipality. “The last two weeks, we were scratching and scratching to get there,” Dean said of the $1.9-million goal. “It was really important to hit that target. We know what the United Way represents.” Dean credited Chatham Coun. Darrin Canniff, a former United Way chair, with providing he and Margery valuable insight. As for the 2015 campaign, Margery believes $2 million isn’t out of the question, and offered some advice for whoever takes over. “Never give up. The people out there are ready to give,” she said.
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United Way of Chatham-Kent executive director Karen Kirkwood-Whyte, centre, is flanked by 2014 co-chairs Margery and Dean Muharrem, as they celebrate topping the 2014 campaign’s $1.9-million goal Friday.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 • Mother Goose at the Chatham Branch of the CKPL - Children ages 0-24mths and parents/caregivers are invited to join us for an hour program of rhymes, rhythm instruments and lullabies. Registration is not required. Please bring a blanket each week. Phone 519-354-2940 ext. 246 for more info. • Shuffleboard, pool and euchre at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham starting at 7:00pm. Everyone Welcome. Wednesday, February 4, 2015 • The Kent Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society and the CKPL invite you to tour our family history collections for FAMILY DAY OPEN HOUSE from 10:00am-4:00pm located on the 2nd floor of the CKPL. • Chatham OEYC presents: Learning and Language Activities from A-Z. Learning can happen anywhere! Free book, activities and more to take home and put into practice. 1:30-2:30. Register at 519-358-1451 x.0. • Fun darts at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham, starting at 7:30pm. Thursday, February 5, 2015 • Ridgetown OEYC presents: Let’s Get Moving! Join a physiotherapist from CTC for some fun activities that will get you up and moving. 10:00am-11:00am. Register at 519358-1451 x.0 • Preschool Family Storytime at the Chatham branch of the CKPL at 10:00am. Children ages 3-4 and parents/caregivers are invited to join us each week for stories, rhymes, rhythm instruments and movements. Registration is not required. Please call 519-354-2940 ext. 246 for more info. CHAP Volunteer DRIVERS Needed for Chatham-Kent. CHAP helps Seniors live independently at home! Drive seniors to appointments, groceries, banking, etc. in Chatham-Kent. Contact Marjorie for further info CHAP 519-354-6221 ext. 241. Chatham-Kent Metal Detecting Club Meetings - Last Thursday of the Month, 7:00pm at Evangel Community Church, 76 Sandy St., enter at the back door. Guests Welcome. VON Volunteer Visiting opportunities available call Jan 519-352-4462 ext. 5227 Toastmasters is a place where you develop and grow - both personally and professionally. Meetings are a learn-by-doing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills in a no-pressure atmosphere. Guests are always welcome. Join the Chatham-Kent Toastmasters at GreenField Ethanol, 275 Bloomfield Road on Mondays from 6:30 – 8:00pm. Royal Canadian Air Cadets 294 (Kinsmen) Squadron is looking for new members. If you are between 12 and 18 years of age and have an interest in aviation, camping or just meeting new friends we invite you to visit us any Monday at 6:30 pm at the Chatham Armoury 280 Bloomfield Rd in Chatham. You can also contact us at 519-352-7090. Submit your coming events to bruce@chathamvoice.com or michelle@chathamvoice.com
Chatham-Kent businesses are for the most part clear from fallout of Target Canada’s bankruptcy filing last week. The only Chatham firms listed among the 1,800 creditors named are Union Gas ($51,046) and Ontario 2361785 a numbered company that operates out of the Thames Lea Mall to which $16,148 is owed. Unico, a Ruthven (Essex County) based Mediterranean food supplier is owed $26,665. The U.S. retail giant owes Canada Revenue more than $12 million and owes the cities of Barrie ($193,433), Cornwall ($59,000) and Winnipeg ($14,153). Among the largest amounts outstanding are Sobeys $3,078,631. Alvarez & Marsal Canada has been named monitor in the proceedings that will see the closure of 133
stores and layoffs of 17,600 workers less than two years after Target entered the Canadian market. You can find a full list if on the company’s website, alvarezandmarsal.com/search/node/target canada creditors. The site shows that Target Canada owes CPP Investment Board Real Estate almost $8.4 million, $4.2 million to Warner Bros. $3.6 million to Hasbro Canada, $3.1 million to Sobeys, Starbucks Coffee Canada $1.9 million and Kimberly-Clark $1.2 million. Target has set up a $70 million fund to provide severances for its workers. Fortune magazine has reported outgoing Former Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel, under whose watch the company moved into Canada, was paid $62 million US in cash, stock options and retirement funds when he resigned last year.
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Dark dining a unique experience Find your food without using your sight Dining is an experience where all your senses come into play – the smell, sight, flavours and textures. But just for fun at home, try blindfolding yourself and sit down to eat a full-course meal that includes prime rib, Yorkshire pudding, veggies and roasted potatoes. Then try to eat what you hope is a potato without it falling in your lap. Dining in the Dark, a unique new fundraiser for the Children’s Treatment Centre Foundation of Chatham-Kent, gave patrons a chance to experience dinner while blindfolded, and judging by the laughter and groans as people tried to hit their mouths, it was a blinding success. The event was also a financial success, surpassing its $5,000 goal by more than $2,000. More than 100 people packed Aristo’s Ban-
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Mary Beth Corcoran quet Hall in Chatham Thursday night to dine in the dark, bid on silent auction items and find out what it’s like to be deprived of just one sense. Children the treatment centre serves with sensory challenges deal with one or more every day, and thanks to fundraising done by the Foundation, get the therapy they need. Once we were at our table after checking out the silent auction items, we were asked to put our blindfolds on and begin with a salad course. Hearing became more acute as people tried to stab their plate and hit
Natalie Robert of Chatham, right, and Colleen King of Pain Court enjoyed their sensory deprivation while at the Children’s Treatment Centre Foundation of Chatham-Kent Dining in the Dark fundraiser Thursday evening at Aristo’s Banquet Room in Chatham. Almost $7,000 was raised to purchase therapy equipment and service enhancements for children with sensory challenges.
lettuce. Some folks were more successful with the shovel technique, but it did make for a nice mess. So far, my lap and cleavage were clear. Trying to find my wine glass without knocking it over was also fun, and I managed to grope and hold the hands of the people next to me. Thankfully, they were my co-workers and people I don’t mind holding hands with. Not weird at all. The wait staff did an excellent job of warning us when our main course was coming and thus
avoided flying elbows. The dinner was excellent, but I admit that not knowing what you were trying to cut with your knife and then stab with your folk made you a little leery when putting it in your mouth. I actually didn’t recognize the texture of the potato which registered before the taste of it. The only dicey moment was when I shoveled a piece of fat (which all excellent cuts of prime rib come with) into my mouth,. Not my finest moment when I spat it onto my plate, so it was a
good thing everyone was blindfolded. Flavours and sounds (it sounded like we were yelling at each other) were much more intense, and MC Greg Hetherington’s voice sounded even deeper, which I thought was impossible. A Spirit Tasting table for patrons was a new twist as well. People paid $5 to do a blind taste test of three different flavoured liquors and if they guessed the flavours right, were entered in a draw. Those efforts raised $175 and tarot card reader Cynthia Bol-
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Of Mice and Men By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com
Whether it’s a case of life imitating art or the other way around, Norm McLeod cracks a wry smile when he discusses how he came to direct Theatre Kent’s Production, Of Mice and Men, playing next week at Kiwanis Theatre. “People make plans … God laughs,” McLeod said during a rehearsal last week. McLeod, named outstanding director at the Western Ontario Drama League Festival last year for Theatre Kent’s production of Doubt: A Parable (which also won as best production in the Festival) had planned to take this year off. When the director slated to do Of Mice and Men had to bow out due to a family emergency, Mc-
Leod was asked to step in. He’s dedicating the production to the former director whom he describes as a “dear friend.” “There’s a real parallel going on here because (writer John) Steinbeck changed the title of the work after reading Robert Burns’ poem To a Mouse,” McLeod said. “It’s in that poem that Burns wrote “’The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley (The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry)’ “My best plans have gone awry, just as those of the characters in the play.” The drama features a segment in the lives of two drifters, George Milton (veteran local actor Chris Aldred), an intelligent but uneducated man, and Lennie Small (Graeme Millington in his first Theatre Kent role), a man of large stature and great
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The cast Of Mice and Men take a break during rehearsal recently. Theatre Kent’s production will be performed Feb. 5-7 at Kiwanis Theatre. The play is based on the novella by Nobel-prize winning writer John Steinbeck.
strength but limited mental abilities. The two share a dream of settling down on a farm someday, but life has other plans for the two. Also in the cast are Bill Tye, Tom Coatsworth, Lee Highgate, Chris Davidson, Tori Franks, Neil Wood (winner of last year’s outstanding performance by an actor in Doubt), Andre Paradis, Jo-
seph Benoit, Eric Bristow, Steve Reinhardus and Bill Presant. The play also includes a dog, Robin, which McLeod “auditioned” on a downtown sidewalk on his way to work. “I noticed a woman walking a dog which I thought would be perfect for the play,” McLeod said. “I walked up to the owner with the introduction, ‘I
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35 “Ice Loves -” 36 Eat 37 Bribe 38 Yoko of music 40 In the offing 42 Core of a PC 44 Autograph 46 In the thick of 50 Smack, so to speak 52 Basic drive 54 Gave out 55 Up 56 Verse 57 Actress Naomi DOWN 1 Marsh bird 2 Castle protector 3 Chasm 4 Fish eggs 5 - soul (person with angst) 6 Shrek, e.g. 7 Consecrate 8 - Diego 9 Things 10 Con game 11 Actress Ward 12 Telly option 18 Pruritic
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hope you don’t think I’m strange but ...’ and that’s how he ended up in the play.” Robin is the pet of Susan Nixon of CK Animal Rescue, who said after being taken aback momentarily, agreed to see if the dog would like being involved. “Robin’s such a well-adjusted dog, despite all he’s been through,” she said. “He’s adjusted well and
everyone likes him.” Robin was one of several dogs rescued from Joplin, Missouri several years ago and is a permanent feature at CK Animal Rescue. Of Mice and Men is the third play in Theatre Kent’s season and it will be the troupe’s entry in the Western Ontario Drama League Festival. Casting is already under way for May’s Steel Magnolias.
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