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CELEBRATING A UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS IN ST. MARYS (WENDY LAMOND PHOTO)
Families from the Ukrainian community start off the festivities singing “A New Joy has Come” at a Ukrainian Christmas Concert Dec. 22, 2024. See stories and photos on pages 20 and 21
SMCP’s auditions for Over the River and Through the Woods about to begin EMILY STEWART Independent Reporter
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Role call for a spring community theatre production is already underway. The St. Marys Community Players (SMCP) will hold auditions for their spring production of Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DePietro. The heartwarming comedy focuses on Nick, a single Italian-American man with well-meaning but overbearing grandparents who want him to find love. SMCP will have six performing
roles available, including two sets of grandparents, Nick and a young woman named Caitlin who goes on blind dates with him. Auditions will be held at the St. Marys Presbyterian Church (147 Widder St. E) on Jan. 10 from 7-9 p.m., Jan. 11 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1-3 p.m., and on Jan. 12 from 1-3 p.m. Those auditioning are asked to prepare a monologue, a poem and/or a story about one to two minutes in length. Shortly after auditions, rehearsals begin on Jan. 15. "We have had some new people that have
Questions over how to best optimize municipal services in downtown St. Marys and how to solve current space needs at the library are now focused on two key buildings in the downtown core as the town’s downtown service location review resumes after a nearly two-year pause. On Dec. 18, 2024, the town’s downtown service location review advisory committee met for the first time since March 2023 – the first and only meeting of the committee. The original project, which was driven by space needs for various municipal services including the library, police, community outreach and social services, would have seen the development of a master plan by consultants a+LiNK Architecture Inc. with recommendations on the most efficient deployment of services and programs at St. Marys town hall (the lower level and auditorium), the library, the train station and the former Mercury Theatre at 14 Church St. N, the latter of which the town purchased in 2021. “We bought it because it was a strategic move knowing we had the library, town hall and that new building across the street; we’d hoped to create a campus of services,” town CAO Brent Kittmer told the Independent. “In 2021, the province still had these grants called modernization grants, so we applied for a grant and were successful, and it was to
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