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Orangeville local performing at Toronto festival By LINDSEY PAPP
Allison Price is a performer at the 6th Annual Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival this month in Toronto who got her roots performing at Theatre Orangeville from a young age. “I loved growing up in Orangeville,” said Ms. Price. “It was a huge part of why I became a performer.” It was when she was 10, Ms. Price said, that she knew performing was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. She commented that at the time it seemed so simple to her. In reality it is a lot different but that is part of what inspired her to pursue performing and move to Toronto. “I did a lot of stuff with Theatre Orangeville when I was a kid,” she said. “I taught and took classes and grew up doing theatre and performing.” Ms. Price graduated
from the Ryerson University Theatre program in 2008. She spent the summer immediately afterward doing theatre in Toronto. When fall came she knew it was time to find something new. “A friend of mine had taken a class at Second City and suggested that I do the same, and I thought it would look great on my resume,” she said. “I fell in love with it and it just sort of kept going from there.” Second City is a comedy theatre and school or improvisation. They specialize in sketch comedy and improvisation. “After I took the one class, I auditioned for their conservatory program and got in, and then shortly after doing the conservatory in January 2009 I did the general auditions at Second City in April or May last year,” she said. “I didn’t think I would get it in a million years, because I had a broken foot at the
time.” Ms. Price found herself employed by Second City shortly after her audition and it was here that she met her partner, Pat Smith. “He approached me and
we didn’t really know each other that well, actually,” she said. Mr. Smith asked her if she would be interested in doing sketch comedy with him.
Ms. Price commented that her initial response was ‘Sure, I do!’ but that was immediately followed by the thought, “Oh, hopefully this will work out.” “It’s been like a dream,
it’s been a ridiculously fun time,” she said. “He is one of my best friends in the world now and we create really well together.” Together Ms. Price and Mr. Smith make up the
Allison Price and Pat Smith of the comedy team Haircut.
comedy sketch troupe Haircut. They began their partnership about a year and a half ago. Since they began performing they have won the audience choice award for their performance at the Toronto Sketch Festival last year. They have also performed at Just for Laughs in Toronto and the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. “We basically do a fastpaced, high-adrenaline, musical sketch comedy,” she said. “The stuff that we do is all scripted, we do have a huge improvisational component that goes into our scripting, how we write comedy, and occasionally that does filter in to how we perform as well. There is always the spirit that anything could happen in the moment.” She commented that the show in Toronto this month will involve a physical and high-energy performance with some polit-
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ical and offside humor. “Pat and I had a lot of really great opportunities pretty early on, the thing we are most apprehensive about it just continuing that momentum,” she said. “When you make a splash early on in your career there is a lot of expectation that comes along with that.” According to Ms. Price, the hardest thing for the Haircut troupe is to continue to push themselves and to continue creating better and more ambitious work. “A great love of theatre in the [Orangeville] community is what keeps Theatre Orangeville alive and so the more that people can do to support Theatre Orangeville and support Theatre in general is amazing,” she said. Living in Orangeville “made me a better person, and a more confident performer for having my background growing up there and doing theatre there.”
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Muskies squeezed out in home opener By BRIAN LOCKHART Sports Editor
A late effort brought the Shelburne Muskies within striking distance during their home opener against the Elora Rocks at Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex on Saturday, but they couldn’t make up the one goal deficit by the time the final buzzer sounded. The final score was 5-4 for Elora. Elora came to the game as an undefeated squad so the Muskies knew they would have a challenge, but it was a first period lead by the Rocks that sent the tone for game and the Shelburne men trailed for the full three frames. “We came out a little bit jittery,” said Muskies head coach Scott Sutton. “We took a couple of bad penalties and got down 20, and you just can’t do that against a team like that. But over all I was really happy with the way the guys worked tonight. That was a good quality
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FALL RUN: Competitors race through the trails at Monora Park during the Mono Nordic Trail Run on October 17. This was the 11th annual event that has runners following a 5-km or 10-km route through the leaf covered paths.
Redwings deliver 6-3 win over Vaughan Wild The Shelburne “Russian” Redwings notched win number seven on Friday after leaving the ice with a 6-3 win over the Vaughan Wild at the Centre Dufferin Recreation Centre in Shelburne. After playing to a 1-1 tie the first period the Redwings let loose in the second period scoring three to start the third peri-
od with a three goal advantage. Vladislav Almov scored the Redwings first period goal. Denis Zverev put the Redwings in the lead at just 19 seconds into the second period. That was followed up by a short handed effort by Alexander Nikulnikov, and a fourth Redwings goal by Pavel Bistyaykin
when he fired a rocket from the point that found its way to the back of the net. Nikulnikov scored his second of the game early in the third period. The Wild managed a single in the last frame on a powerplay when Josh LeFrance did a wrap around from behind and •Please turn to page B5
effort and I’m sure it was an entertaining game being a spectator.” Early in the second period Elora was leading 4-2. A Shelburne goal
man advantage. Despite peppering Elora goalie Blake Sinclair with shots, the Muskies just couldn’t place one between the pipes.
squad was unable to tie it up. “I thought we played very well in second and third period,” Sutton said. “It got a little bit chippy. There was a fight towards
brought the Muskies back into the game but that was the only goal scored for the period. A late frame call dropped two Elora players into the penalty box so the Shelburne squad started the third period with a two
The Rocks scored on a powerplay with 16:10 left on the clock to go ahead by two goals in the third period. The Muskies scored a late one with 1:28 left in the game but with the final minute ticking down, the
the last three minutes, it kind of got us off our game for about five or ten minutes when we were trying to mount a comeback. Goaltending in both ends was very good.” The senior league has a lot of top talent that trans-
Junior A Flyers win both weekend games It’s too early to tell if a coaching change on the Orangeville Flyers bench is going to produce a turn around for the team, but so far so good. The Flyers won back to back games over the weekend - one on the road and one on home ice at the Alder Street arena. After a tough start to the season the team brought Jerome Dupont on to take over head coaching duties and suddenly the squad is producing wins. The squad went to Oakville on Friday and left with a 4-3 win over the Blades after scoring all four goals in the first two periods with three of them
being on powerplays. Scott Fasano, Kent McPherson, Cody Britton, and Micheal Sardella each got a goal for the Flyers. Oakville arrived at the arena with 9 wins after 18 games. On Saturday the Flyers hosted the Huntsville Otters in a low scoring game that saw the Otters outshoot Orangeville 3629. But the Flyers still left the ice with the win. After a scoreless first period, Alex Botten lit up the Orangeville side of the scoreboard with 11:33 on clock in the second period. A second Flyers goal by •Please turn to page B5
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ORANGEVILLE FLYERS FORWARD Micheal Sardella takes a shot from behind in the crease from Huntsville`s Chris Wiggin during Saturday’s Junior A game at Alder Street arena.
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lates into a very fast game with a high number of shots on net, so both goalies get a workout in every game. “They’re a high explosive team,” said Sutton, “I thought we trapped them up pretty good in their own end, especially in the third period. The teams that commit to the back end are going to be the teams that are successful, and that’s what gave us a little bit more success in the last two periods.” The league is staring to level out since the season started with Elora and Saugeen Shores both undefeated in the north division. Travistock leads the south division with a 8-0 record so far followed by Monkton who have 6-1-1 record. The Muskies will play two games on the road before returning to home ice to face the Walkerton Capitals on Friday, November 12. The puck drop is scheduled for 8:30 p.m.
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