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Mount Baker opens door for Fassbender Education Minister visits the Cranbrook high school that is waiting for provincial funding to be replaced
S A LLY MAC D O N A L D Townsman Staff
BRIAN CLARKSON PHOTO
“Calendar Girls” cast members (from left) Michelle LeMay, Nola Doiron and Joanne Wilkinson are pictured during rehearsals.
Mark your calendars Off-Centre Players’ comedy“Calendar Girls” running in both Kimberley and Cranbrook as fundraiser for EKFH JESSIC A C AMPBELL
A hit play based on a hit film is going to be lighting up stages in Kimberley and Cranbrook early next month. The Off-Centre Players are putting on “Calendar Girls,” originally a comedy featuring Helen Mirren, as a fundraiser for the East Kootenay Foundation for Health. Making the production extra special is the fact that the play is making a rare two-community run — five shows at Centre 64 in
Kimberley and five at the Studio Stage Door in Cranbrook. Not only that, but as befits the original productions, a calendar featuring the actors is being produced. “When this play became identified, Kimberley’s Off Centre Players decided they wanted to do it,” said director Terry Miller. “Liz Adler contacted me and asked if I’d be willing to direct. And the more I looked into it, the more I could recognize the strength of the play as a cancer
awareness-raiser — another opportunity to stand up for the battle — so I agreed.” “Calendar Girls”, based on a true story, follows a group of women — part of a church group. One of the women’s husbands, John Clark, has recently passed away from cancer. In honour of him, the women set out to raise money to buy a new sofa in the relatives room at the hospital where John passed away.
See CALENDAR , Page 4
B.C.’s Minister of Education was given the royal treatment at Mount Baker Secondary School in Cranbrook on Tuesday, April 23. Peter Fassbender, MLA for Surrey-Fleetwood, visited the area this week by invitation of Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett. “I’m delighted to be here with Bill in his riding and to see this school. I’ve heard a lot about it and I know they are working very hard to do some upgrades and
“We have to look at the entire province and the priorities that we have. This community has made their case to our staff in terms of our capital budgets for the future.” Peter Fassbender they would like to see this school eventually replaced. I know it’s the number one priority,” Fassbender said after
the tour. Mount Baker Secondary School, which is 60 years old, has been slated for replacement for the past five years. In that time, four Ministers of Education have toured the high school to see how dire the need is for a replacement. Fassbender was led through the school from classroom to classroom, visiting a busy drama room, a drafting class, passing by the small lunch room, and talking to students in the auto shop.
See MBSS, Page 4
The trashionistas at the Tamarack
MBSS annual Trashion Fashion show — the couture event of the season — runs Friday, April 25 JESSIC A C AMPBELL
One of the boldest artistic statements coming out of Mount Baker Secondary School — and the fashion event of the season — is running in its fourth edition Friday, April 25. The annual “Trashion Fashion” show takes place at the Tamarack Centre in Cranbrook starting at 7:30 p.m. Mount Baker art students have been busy over the past weeks creat-
ing haut couture out of throwaway or recyclable items. Friday night bodes to be a colourful and interesting visual experience. The Trashion Fashion Show is the brainchild of art teacher Cheryl Wilkinson. “I wanted to create this Trashion show for about a decade before I actually did it,” she said.
See TRASHION, Page 3