Jillian Lynn Kennedy, age nine of Mount Vernon, was the winner of the Optic-Herald Coloring Contest. The theme for this year’s contest was “Santa’s Toyland.” As first place winner in the contest, she received $15 in cash. See the Dec. 25 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald for the details.
Faye Sloan, a long-time Mount Vernon resident, died Sunday. Her funeral is planned for 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 at the Harvey Funeral Home. She will be buried in the Mount Vernon Cemetery, next to her husband, Guy.
She was born April 13, 1918, in Thurber, but she grew up in Franklin County. Her parents, William Crow Wright and Clera Mattingly Wright, lived here for many years, and her six children attended the Mount Vernon schools.
Mrs. Sloan was a devoted Christian, for whom prayer and stuyding the Bible provided great comfort. For many years she was a faithful member of Lake Chapel House of Prayer, until concerns about her health forced her to move to Mesquite in 2000 to be nearer her daughter and granddaughter.
Her concern was always more for other people than for herself. Not only did she raise six children, but at various times she provided a home for nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
She was modest, hardworking, and self-reliant. She had only one real party in her entire life. That was on her 90th birthday, when children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and her only remaining sister traveled from across the United States to celebrate. She said it “was one of the best days of my whole life.”
She is survived by a sister, Edna Marshall of California, one of her nine siblings; four sons, Bonny (Mari Lynn), Gary (LaRue), David (Joanne), and Wendel; two daughters, Reba Latimer and Brenda Roberts; 10 grandchildren, of whom Carol Meeking watched over her care as a daughter; 15 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
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This 2015 program of productions spans a tremendous range of themes and performance styles, from the austere poetry of the Beckett masterpiece Endgame to the thrilling escapism of North by Northwest – and all points in between.
As a tribute to the Anzac centenary, we present Steve Vizard and Paul Grabowsky’s The Last Man Standing, a work promising to be unlike any other in this year of commemorations, as it takes our famous larrikin irreverence as a starting point for an examination of the true Anzac spirit. A new play from Kylie Trounson, The Waiting Room draws on her own childhood to tell the story of her father, IVF pioneer Emeritus Professor Alan Trounson, while a boutique gem of a musical, What Rhymes with Cars and Girls by Tim Rogers and Aidan Fennessy draws on an iconic album by Rogers to tell a very Australian love story. These world premieres take their place alongside the best and most interesting plays from overseas – some startlingly new, and others exciting revivals.
As well as our mainstage season, in 2015 we consolidate all our initiatives of the past two seasons which have been so successful in reaching out to new audiences in Melbourne and beyond.
Our NEON Festival of Independent Theatre is back for its third year, as is the popular Cybec Electric play reading series. Our vital education productions and programs are enhanced by even more initiatives under the banner Sharing the Light which will see greatly increased access for students, children and families across Victoria.
We again tour internationally, taking Complexity of Belonging to Europe, and we present another wonderful family production The Boy at the Edge of Everything. As well, we partner with a number of cultural collaborators including Sydney Theatre Company (Death and the Maiden), Melbourne Recital Centre and SummerSalt Festival, State Theatre Company of South Australia (Betrayal), Kay + McLean Productions and Warner Bros. Theater Ventures (North by Northwest), Multicultural Arts Victoria and MPavilion.
I am also delighted that Season 2015 sees two alumni of our inaugural Women Directors’ Program, Naomi Edwards and Clare Watson, making their mainstage MTC debuts with two new works.
In these myriad ways, MTC is putting the transformative power of live theatre and storytelling within reach of the six million citizens of Victoria, as well as a national and international audience.
On behalf of the Board, Executive Director Virginia Lovett and the entire MTC team, I invite you to be enthralled, delighted, provoked and challenged with us in 2015.