Huron-Perth Boomers Summer 2024
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SPOTLIGHT<br />
by Elizabeth Bundy-Cooper<br />
intermission crowds. She admitted it was worth the<br />
$2 she made each week.<br />
She also recalled when she served lunches at Knox<br />
Church and William Shatner would come in and get<br />
a lunch for $3. Shatner spent three years in the acting<br />
company beginning in 1954 and understudied for<br />
Christopher Plummer. Laura also said Glenn Gould<br />
stayed at her home, but at the time she did not know<br />
how brilliant a musician he was.<br />
Laura took over the bed and breakfast from her<br />
parents in 1988 and has never looked back. She<br />
raised her three children in the home and became<br />
immersed in life in the city. She started giving tours<br />
to theatre patrons in 1985 because she was asked and<br />
couldn’t say no. After doing that for a few years, the<br />
organization “Friends of the Festival” was born and<br />
is still a busy volunteer group today. She was president<br />
for four years. Laura was also was a coach with the<br />
Stratford Skating Club, and she led a divorce care<br />
group at her church. She is currently a member of<br />
the Probus Club and the Festival City Rotary Club,<br />
as well as the Stratford Sister Cities committee.<br />
One can see the iconic pointed roofline of the<br />
Festival Theatre from her dining room window. Oh,<br />
the conversations that were – and are still being – had<br />
at this table over art and music, plots and themes,<br />
among people from all over the globe.<br />
“It is a true privilege to live in my family home, to<br />
open it to guests and to be a part of the Stratford<br />
scene. What I really cherish about the business is<br />
that I learn so much about the world right on my<br />
doorstep.”<br />
Elizabeth Bundy-Cooper is a freelance writer and a fundraiser<br />
for the United Way <strong>Perth</strong> <strong>Huron</strong> in Stratford.<br />
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