LIFESTYLER
July 2 2013
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A new town attraction
by Rose Rees-Owen
After many years in the making, Dargaville’s Anzac Theatre is set to open in July. “It’s finished,” says project manager, Grant Waldron, “and I feel a sense of satisfaction to see it completed.”
Visit promises theatrical variety
Otamatea Repertory Theatre brings a clutch of one act plays to Dargaville for the second year running …
P4
A home going begging?
Is there a Dargaville family out there that would appreciate the chance to own their own home?
P5
Divas in Dargaville
Four women described as the ‘Aotearoa diva super group’ are touring the North Island and Australia to bring Matariki to the people …
P6
The carpet is laid, the 62 seats installed, the ‘state of the art’ projector equipment is up and running, and the screen, around eight metres wide by three metres high, is ready to show a variety of movies. The entrance is completed in Greco-Romanesque style matching the outside of the historical War Memorial Hall on Hokianga Road and the interior is painted warm colours including red, gold and charcoal. Sections of bricks and the hardwood floor from the original 90 year old building are exposed and members of the public coming to view it are awe struck. “It’s fantastic,” says a curious passerby. Manager, Vernon Woods, says he’s blown away with the end result. p Excited trust members and supporters ready to watch a test screening “There has been a core Back row from left: Joe Simpkin, Grant Waldron, Cherry Waldron and Dennis Honare group of people who haven’t Front row from left: Patricia Millich, Kaye Welch, and Vernon Woods lost sight of the goal of creating something special.” “That began our fundraising and four years later, here we The Dargaville Community Cinema Charitable Trust are, we have ended up in the same building we started in,” members and supporters reminisce about the first public says supporter and volunteer, Cherry Waldron. meeting in 2009 which took place in the town hall foyer where Former project manager, Dennis Honare, says the project the entrance to the cinema is now located. has cost around $450,000 and with the support from “Jacoba Puharich, who has been the driving force, and volunteers and tradesmen charging discount prices the former mayor and chair of the trust, Graeme Ramsey, went cinema can open debt free. to the bank the day after and transferred $50 into a cinema The first screening is planned for July 12 and the trust will bank account,” says trustee, Kaye Welch. release more details shortly. ¢
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