Famous News (Mar-Apr 1981)

People continued from page 25 Eat your heart out J.R. fans. Head Office employee Bea Tinney left February 20 for a three-week stay with sister Bobbi in Dallas, Texas where she planned to look up the infamous oilman while checking out Dallas’ other sites. Topping her list — ‘‘cowboys and their boots!’’ Robert Miller — attempted to capture thief. An incident at the Algoma Theatre in Sault Ste. Marie on January 21 resulted in the apparent theft of $96 from a women’s purse and injuries to Famous theatre attendent Robert Miller, 19. Robert sustained cuts to both hands when he attempted to apprehend a young man who allegedly stole the money and made his escape by running through the theatre lobby and crashing through one of the front glass doors. The incident occurred during the showing of the movie, ‘‘The Big Brawl’’. New parents at Quebec Theatres Rosa and Joseph Pitacciato are pleased to announce the birth of a personal info oz. Joe is manager of the Greenfield Park Cinemas in Montreal. Louise and Guy Bouchard announce the arrival of their son, Guy is the manager of Les Rivieres Cinemas in _ TroisRivieres. 26 March/April, 1981 _— PRS Lyle Sutherland, Quinte Mall Cinemas’ (Belleville) usher, massages Toni Karsikas’ feet after 24 hours of dancing. ms Si Wesd if SS ee Dancin’ Usher Lyle Sutherland, an usher at the Quinte Mall Cinemas in Belleville, Ontario recently made that town’s paper when he spent 24 hours dancing away with partner Toni Karsikas for a high school charity. Lyle, 17, says his interests lie with music and writing and he knows how to play the piano, flute, drums, xylophone and guitar. He plays for both his school’s orchestra band and stage band and is also student council president! News from the East... Our special thanks to Debbi Capstick, of our Halifax District Office, and Lela Gee, of General Sound, for rounding up lots of news from our Maritime family. Cecil Johnston, Branch Manager, General Sound, St. John, whose hobby for some time has been birdwatching had the pleasure of observing, along with others, a BandTailed pigeon, in the Fredericton area. This was the first sighting of this particular bird species in New Brunswick. This bird is a native of the west coast of the U.S. and no one has any idea how it could have arrived in New Brunswick. This gives Cecil a grand total of 288 different bird species observed in N.B. A 310-foot Liberian freighter which went aground during towing operations in a storm recently, almost ended up in the backyard of Francis Casey, service technician for G.S. in St. John. Francis was disappointed to find that one of his neighbours hadn’t purchased a large yacht for use in the Bay of Fundy. George LeBlanc, son of Henry and Genny LeBlanc, (Manager, Paramount Theatre, Moncton) became engaged to Kathy Wilt over the Christmas holidays. George is a former employee of Famous having worked in Moncton during high school and later in Fredricton as relief manager during his university days. George is now employed with ee Royal Bank in Grand Falls, Nfld. Big Bonus for Belliveau Genny LeBlanc told her assistant Anne Belliveau, ‘‘No, you can’t have another raise,’’ when Anne told Genny she was expecting a ‘‘big bonus.’’ What Genny hadn’t understood was that Anne’s expecting a ‘‘baby bonus’’ — in about six months time. Congratulations Anne. Sorry to hear that Vince Doucette, Manager of the Penhorn Theatre in Dartmouth, N.S., entered hospital on February 10 but