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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif"'><img width=447 height=89 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D0F6B4.308EDE80" alt=NEWSLETTERTOPPER.jpg></span><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif"'>WEEK OF FRIDAY, <span style='color:red'>SEPT. 25th</span> <span style='color:black'>thru</span> THURSDAY, <span style='color:red'>OCT. 1st </span><span style='color:black'>ONLY!!</span></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'><br>Check out our website at: </span></b><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><a href="http://www.TheAvon.com">www.TheAvon.com</a></span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:maroon'>NOTE: PLEASE PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE <br>ABOVE EFFECTIVE DATES FOR THIS NEWSLETTER!!<b> </b></span><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheAvonTheatre"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=149 height=45 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D0F6B4.308EDE80" alt=FBlogo1.jpg></span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>CLICK ABOVE TO GO TO OUR FUN FACEBOOK PAGE!!<u><span style='color:black'><br></span></u></span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>+++++++++++++++++++++<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>OUR "QUICK LOOK" SHOWTIME GUIDE!!<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=202 height=333 id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D0F6B4.308EDE80" alt="H&RSEPT25.JPG"></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>+++++++++++++++++++++<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>AVON CROWDS WILL LOVE THIS ONE!!<span class=auto-style19><br></span></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=238 height=354 id="Picture_x0020_11" src="cid:image008.jpg@01D0F6B9.DC84AE90" alt=INTERNposter.jpg></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><u>THE INTERN</u> (PG13) </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>2 hr. 2 min. <br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>A retired successful business owner and widower lands an internship at a fashion website run by a young, career-driven woman.</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'> </span></span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'>70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway. </span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>THE INTERN</span></u></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> (PG13)<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>FRI: (4:00) – 7:00<br>SAT: (1:00) – (4:00) – 7:00<br>SUN: (1:00) – (4:00)<br>MON, TUES & WED: 6:30 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=auto-style19><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>+++++++++++++++++++<br><span style='color:red'>HURRY!! ENDS WEDNESDAY!!</span></span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=217 height=326 id="Picture_x0020_13" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D0F6B4.308EDE80" alt=MAZEposter.jpg></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><u>Maze Runner: THE SCORCH TRIALS</u> (PG13) </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>2 hr. 9 min. </span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>In this next chapter of the epic "Maze Runner" saga, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></b><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD;background:#FEF7CD'>Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials offers an action-packed improvement over its predecessor.</span></i><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Maze Runner: THE SCORCH TRIALS</span></u></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> (PG13)<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>FRI: (5:00) – 8:00<br>SAT: (2:00) – (5:00) – 8:00 <br>SUN: (2:00) – (5:00) <br>MON, TUES & WED: 7:15<br></span></b><span class=auto-style19><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>+++++++++++++++++++</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>HURRY!! ENDS WEDNESDAY!!</span></b><span class=auto-style19><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b></span><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=220 height=326 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D0F6B4.308EDE80" alt=WALKposter.jpg></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><u>A WALK IN THE WOODS</u> (R) </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>1 hr. 38 min. Rated R for language (and that’s all)<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>A PERSONAL NOTE FROM SKIP: I don’t know what kind of burr got under some critic’s saddle, but this is a GREAT and VERY FUNNY movie!! I have seen it FIVE TIMES, and it never gets old. We have had HUNDREDS come see it, and LOVE IT! Don’t worry about what some grumpy critics say (and many of them LIKED it!), and pay no attention to the vapid pea-brains who think a comedy has to have young people doing crazy things…<i>THIS movie has old people doing crazy things</i>, and I am betting you will laugh yourself silly! </span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;background:white'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'><br>In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Academy Award winner Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife (Academy Award winner Emma Thompson), and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>person he can find willing to join him on the trek - his long lost and former friend Katz (Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte), a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law - sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word, "adventure". Now they're about to find out that when you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></b><b><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>A WALK IN THE WOODS</span></u></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> (R)<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>FRI: (5:00) – 8:00<br>SAT: (2:00) – (5:00) – 8:00<br>SUN: (2:00) – (5:00)<br>MON, TUES & WED: 6:30 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=auto-style19><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>+++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=auto-style19><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>THURSDAY, OCT 1<sup>st</sup> @ 8:00PM SNEAK PREMIERE!!<br></span></b></span><span class=auto-style19><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>3D or 2D---Your Choice!!<br><i>(But, no extra charge for our excellent 3D!)<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=229 height=338 id="Picture_x0020_12" src="cid:image012.jpg@01D0F6B9.DC84AE90" alt=MARTIANposterA.jpg></span></b><span class=auto-style19><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>+++++++++++++++++++++</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=69 height=82 id="Picture_x0020_14" src="cid:image009.jpg@01D0F6B4.308EDE80" alt="Skip pic.JPG"></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:14.0pt'><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>RANTS, RAVES & RAMBLINGS FROM THE HEAD HONCHO<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:14.0pt'><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>FAQ’s:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:14.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Q: How can I get my business advertised on your screens?<br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>A: It’s actually very simple, within certain perimeters. If you have a prepared 15 to 30 second DCP formatted prepared spot (30 seconds is our maximum), and are a LOCAL business, you are ready to talk advertising with us!<br>If you DON’T have a prepared spot, we can point you in the right direction there too.<br>Ads on the Avon screen are at a premium because we will only allow 10 spots maximum. We currently have 4, so time is of the essence here!<br>Call our advertising manager Bridget Spitzer at </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>(217) 423-6688</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>, and she will explain how easily you can get on the Avon’s 3 screens!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:14.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Q: Do you ever have employment openings at the Avon Theater? It seems your staff has been there forever!<br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>A: We have been very blessed to have such tiny turnover in our staff. The shortest term staffer has been with us 3 years! Some of them as long as 8 or 9 years!<br>But, yes, we do have an opening from time to time, but those are usually filled by networking with current employees, or friends and relatives. We are always accepting applications, but, at this point, there is a wait list. That shouldn’t deter you from still coming in and filling out an application.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:14.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Q: Can one sign-up late for your film classes??<br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>A: YES!! Just see our GM, Ashley, and she will prorate the tuition based on what classes you have missed. We always welcome newcomers!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>T</span></b><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;font-style:normal'>he Avon Theater has been YOUR locally owned & family-operated 'hometown theater' for almost 100 Years!! </span></em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'><br></span><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This weekend, I'm looking for you and you and...</span></em><em><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>YOU!!</span></em><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><br></span></i><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:black'><img border=0 width=53 height=61 id="Picture_x0020_24" src="cid:image010.jpg@01D0F6B4.308EDE80" alt=SkipTan.bmp></span></i><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:black'>-</span></em><em><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:black'> Skip Huston</span></b></em><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:black'><br></span></i></b><em><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-style:normal'>++++++++++++++++++</span></b></em><br><img border=0 width=263 height=485 id="Picture_x0020_16" src="cid:image011.jpg@01D0F6B4.308EDE80" alt=HRReadersChoice2015.bmp><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>