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Thursday, November 27, 2014
Volume 66, No. 48
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SD8 board rescinds Homelinks motion BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor
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(Foreground, from left) Ian MacKay and Marybeth Stenhouse play Prince Charming and Cinderella, with (background, from left) Jason Smith and Brian Lawrence as ugly stepsisters Violet and Petunia, in the Footlighters production of Cinderella.
Play putting new spin on Cinderella BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
The familiar story of Cinderella will take on some new twists when the play runs at Prince Charles Theatre from Dec. 4-6.
Writer and director Frank Goodsir said that the production — “a locally written comedy with music” — allows the Footlighters Theatre Society cast and crew to “change dialogue to fit a scene or an actor playing in that scene. And we get to choose our own music!”
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A teacher for 40 years, now retired, Goodsir has been producing school and community theatre for as long as most in the audience will remember. He said the changes he’s witnessed over the years are positive. See CINDERELLA, page 5
Homelinks students may have earned a temporary reprieve on Nov. 18 after the School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) board rescinded an April 22 resolution that secondary students be supported through the Prince Charles Secondary School’s learning centre in the Pathways building by June 2015. Retiring South Rural trustee Annette Hambler-Pruden made the motion to rescind the resolution because, seven months later, no consultation with Homelinks parents (a stipulation of the April resolution) has taken place. “The timelines are just too tight and it doesn’t include the broader community,” she said at the meeting, seen in Creston via videoconference from Nelson. Hambler-Pruden said the program currently has 7.75 full-time equivalent students in grades 11 and 12. “Once the uncertainty of the program is cleared up, there will be a lot of people interested in it,” she said. The process begins with a facilities review, currently taking place across the district (for which a town hall meeting was held Monday at Prince Charles Theatre). See HOMELINKS, page 5
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