Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 38

4-B Sunday, March 10, 1985, Santa Maria, Times World Hunger Awareness Week give benefit to aid African famine organizations! The number of tours has grown from one in 1967 to 18 in 1985. portion of his or her own expenses, with the balance supplied by local churches and 12 PRICE CUSTOM Our special collection of new and exciting fabrics includes antique satins, delicate sheers and colorful prints. Save 35 on matching top treatments Prices include lining, labor and installation Our decorating consultant will visit you in your home and help you select new draperies, carpeting and many other home fashions. Call today for your free appointment. Custom service is a vailable in most larger stores.

Continental he Continental I Singers and I 1 Orchestra will present a benefit concert for the hungry in Africa at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 15 in the Hancock College Pavilion. Two Santa Marians are in this group, which is presently in Africa, filming a documentary of World Vision relief work and the problems in Africa, to be shown at the concert. A part of the Continental Singers are James Flamm of Santa Maria and Bruce Wesley of Sisquoc, whose involvement in the group is being financed by the local area. All monies and pledges received will go to aid the relief effort of World Vision, one of the most widely-known and respected humanitarian organizations In the world.

In conjunction with the concert, Mayor George Hobbs has declared March 8-15 as "World Hunger Awareness Week" in Santa Maria. All area churches, individuals, businesses and service organizations are invited to participate in a city-wide program of hunger awareness and involvement, culminating in the Continental Singers concert, explained Brian K. Mulder, area coordinator for the concert. Mulder, a past member of the singing Voup, is minister of music for the First Christian Church. "Our goal is to raise more DRAPERIES i mill MiV 12 price Del Mar custom vertical blinds update your windows in many patterns, colors.

Uf jnk 1 I A 1 ll 4 Jill I vl--t Xnml I pomp mmtmmmmmm ))ii)m mwmm i HMM ll Singers to than $20,000 locally through this project," Mulder explained. Persons wishing to take up a collection or make a donation through their organization can present the money at the concert itself, or earlier, by contacting Mulderat 922-8479. All gifts are tax deductible, and "you can be assured that your money is being used wisely in World Vision's African relief effort," Mulder explained. The Santa Maria concert by the 40 young Christian musicians from all parts of the U.S. will kick-off a cross-country, 50 city tour by the Contential Singers, in an attempt to raise $1 million in relief aid in the "African Crisis Tour." "It saddens me when I see young Americans putting all their energies into seeking pleasure and accumulating material wealth," said Cam Floria, president of Continental Ministries, co-sponsoring the concert here.

"That's why I'm so encouraged by this special group of Christian young people who have decided to become part of a solution to the world's troubles, rather than part of the problem." Dr. Ted W. Engstrom, president of World Vision, the relief organiztion which Is also sposnoring the concert, said that he has rarely witnessed the kind of intense commitment on the part of the young people that has taken place with "Africa Crisis Tour '85." "In more than two decades Obispo Chamber of Commerce, the Dance Shop or by phoning the theater at 543-3737. Elizabeth Swados wrote, composed and directed a grant from Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. The subject was one that she saw everyday on the streets of New York.

Homeless, lonely young people caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood beautiful, talented kids simply struggling to survive. "Runaways" was developed and ortgjnally performed with-an ensemble made up of both runaway street kids and professional actors. "Runaways" is one of the few major dramatic musicals with a serious theme ever with World Vision, I have never seen so much enthusiasm among young poeple for providing assistance to needy people in far-off places as I have with the Continentals." Floria said that the joint venture between Continental Ministries and World Vision is unprecedented within the Christian non-profit community. The theme of the tour is "Now or Never Together We Can Make a Difference," a phrase that reflects the cooperative stance of the two organizatons and promotes the idea of individuals joining together to assist people in need around the world, and specifically in Africa. The music created by Cam Floria for this tour include songs, reflectiong this unifying commitment, such as "People Need the Lord," "Kingdom of Love," "You're The Only Jesus," "There is No Other Name," "Fighter" and "We Will Stand." World Vision is one of the largest Christian humanitarian organizations in the world and has actively met human needs in Africa for the past 23 years.

Its work includes emergency relief and community development projects in 27 African nations, including Ethiopia. Continental Singers memberships comes from auditions of thousands of high school and college-age perfomers across the nation. Each participant raises the money to cover a significant produced on a Broadway stage. Unlike most musicals, "Runaways" demands that its audience gets involved on a strongly emotional level with 16 pre- to post-adolescent young people. No simplistic resolution is offered.

There is no happy ending. Face, the comic relief character in the play says, "People will not wait in line two hours unless they can go out humming something upbeat." New York audiences, and audiences everywhere the show has been performed, proved him wrong. When the show opened in the Plymouth Theater on Broadway In May of 1978, Newsweek called it immensely affecting show.To call it far and away the best musical of the year is to insult it." Musical drama 'Runaways' designed for'Voung adults I 12 price Kirsch custom micro mini blinds have ultra thin 12" slats, 42 colors. Save $6 sq yd. Overture custom nylon saxony carpeting installed over Omalon' foundation, $24, sale 17.99 sq yd Savings quoted are off regular prices Montgomery Wand he musical drama "Runaways" will be I 1 performed by Central Coast Children's Theater March 15 through March 31 at the Hilltop Theater in San Luis Obispo.

Performances are Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. The show explores the thoughts and feelings of the runaway and is recommended for audiences of junior high age through adult. The opening night of the show will be a benefit for Child Advocates of California and Hotline of San Luis Obispo County. Tickekts for this performance and all others are $5 for adults and $3 for students and seniors.

Tickets are available at the San Luis Advertised prices good through Saturday, March 23, 1985 We welcome Montgomery Ward, Visa and MasterCard. Santa Maria area residents call 922-661 1.