Serving Lake Erie’s North Shore Friday April 1, 2016
INSIDE Port Stanley Report The Port Stanley Village Association (PSVA) is again working on organizing a cleanup day for the Little Beach and STORY PAGE 2 Berm areas.
Pilot For TV Series “Taken” Being Filmed in Port Stanley
A New Statue Coming to Dutton/Dunwich As of this writing, community members are unsure of where the statue will be located, but planners have 2 conditions. STORY PAGE 3
Port Burwell Report On March 23, the old timers ended the 2015/2016 season in a close game, with the Red team prevailing over Blue team by 4-3. STORY PAGE 3
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Taylor Made It’s a question newspaper readers are sometimes asked. It’s the kind of little survey lots of papers offer these days in lieu of real reporting. STORY PAGE 4
Periscope Playhouse buys itself a new home Being an integral part of our community for more than 50 years, Scouting was the one thing our community did well. STORY PAGE 4
More Than Half of Us Are Ill-prepared For Severe Storms According to Environment Canada, Ontario experiences on average about 20 short-lived but severe thunderstorms per year as well as severe winter storms. STORY PAGE 5
VON Meals On Wheels A friendly smile from a volunteer, security check, and a hot meal are just some of the benefits of VON’s Meals On Wheels program. STORY PAGE 7
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Over the past week and a half the Toronto Company “Particular Skills Productions CN” Inc. has been filming a variety of scenes around Port Stanley for their TV Production called "Taken”. This new series is a take off from the Movie film of the same name starring Liam Neeson. We were told this particular episode was not actually part of the series but a Pilot for the series. A television Pilot is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network.
Above: Photograph taken on Tuesday March 29th showing a stunt double for the TV series star Clive James Standen. Left: Port Stanley resident Harry Bishop, one of the TV extras, with Clive James Standen taken during filming. namic and unpredictable characters that operate in the morally complex and action packed gap between freedom and security.
In the TV series a younger Bryan Mills has no wife and kids, opposed to "Taken” the TV Series, is the original the movies in which the wife and story of Bryan Mills, the central charac- daughter are kidnapped. ter from the movie franchise of the The “Taken” series stars the actor same name. The TV series will focus on Clive James Standen who appeared in how, when and where Bryan Mills the TV series Vikings playing the part of picked up his "particular skills" that Rollo the brother of the Viking leader make him so formidable an adversary Ragnar Lothbrok. Standen has apto those who plan harm on America peared in many other productions and her allies. This is a show about dy- since he was a young boy. Amongst his
many talents he was a Muay Thai boxer and a Fencing gold medalist. The Pilot for “Taken” was filmed in Port Stanley included filming at a home at 184 William Street, a choir scene at Christ Anglican Church at 283 Colborne Street and a scene of a car stunt along William Street at the corner of George. The production took place from Monday March 21 through the following week to March 31st. There were an estimated 15 trucks and trailers involved in the production taking up most of the parking in front of the Dominion Of Canada and using several of Continued On Page 5
Signs Of The Times Andrew Hibbert If you drive The Dexter Line between Port Stanley and Port Bruce you may have noticed blue and white signs which read “STEWARDS OF THE LAKE SHORE” with a logo and the letters LENSLA.ca across the bottom. In the attached photo is David Harding who lives on Harding Smith Line just off Dexter Line holding one of the signs. David Harding is the “Sergeant Of Arms” of the newly formed “Lake Erie North Shore Landowners Association” (LENSLA). They are self appointed stewards of the lakeshore, protecting the environment and land erosion. Harding is overwhelmed at how fast
the LENSLA membership has grown. Monthly meetings since last Christmas have been held at the Dexter Community Hall on Dexter Line. The next meeting is Tuesday April 5th, 2016 at 7:00 pm.
Everyone is welcome! Harding is inviting all concerned citizens to participate in a “Guess” how much land he has lost in the past year. Just put your name, address and phone on a piece of paper with your guess and drop it in Harding’s mailbox at 46975 Harding Smith Line, RR#1 Sparta. The lucky person’s name will be announced at the April 1st meeting at 4:00 pm.