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Digging deeper into the music
The Symphony of the Kootenays gearing up for second season after dramatic return from hiatus BARRY COULTER
After a year’s hiatus, the Symphony of the Kootenays made a dramatic return for the 2013/14 season, with a new music and artistic director, and a new excitement from the Symphony’s audience in the Kootenays. These days, the Symphony is gearing up for another season, which begins in October at the Key City Theatre in Cranbrook. “It’s going to be a great season,” said Jeff Faragher, the Music and Artistic Director based out of Nelson. “We had such a great response from the audience last year and people are ready to recommit to coming out to see the symphony. “We know what we’re in for a little more. I feel really confident with what we going to be able to achieve this
year. Now that we have that first season under our belt I’m looking forward to really dialling it in and to try to dig deeper into the music. And hopefully convey even more energy and excitement to audience.” The 2014/15 concerts will feature some exciting soloists and a mix of familiar works and the new. “My goal is always to stretch the audience, but in a friendly way,” Faragher said. “Often you can show up to a show and it’s all very contemporary new artists you’ve never heard of, and that’s just too much. So we’re featuring some of the well known composers, but in some of their less well known works. “So it’s something along the same lines as last year, but in a different way, and we’ll see how it’s received.”
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Cranbrook Community Theatre is gearing up for its next production at the Studio Stage Door. Life in the small town of Nately, Nova Scotia, is changed forever when a miraculous image appears on the side of a Tim Hortons restaurant. See more, Page 5. Above: Director Terry Miller is pictured in rehearsals with the cast of “Halo:” Left to right) David Webb, Hannah van der Roest, Alexa Laing-Moore, Jerrod Bondy, Peter Schalk, Zoe Dupley, Bob McCue.
Interior Health CEO tours hospital
Dr. Robert Halpenny talks ICU construction, physician recruitment and retention TRE VOR CR AWLEY
On time and on budget. That’s the message from Interior Health Authority CEO Dr. Robert Halpenny regarding the East Kootenay Regional Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit expansion.
The $20 million dollar project won’t open until 2016, but Halpenny is encouraged by the progress. “It’s nice to see the new site being built here,” said Halpenny. “It helps to actually see it. It helps to walk around
the facilities and understand what the physical restraints are and constraints. “…We’re on time, on budget. Again, that was one of the things many years ago, it was on our capital budget and we came and did our tour
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and you could see something on paper, but when you see it in real life, it sprang to life. We’re really happy with where it’s going and I think the addition of the electrical update is just as important as well.”
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Halpenny was in town on Wednesday for an annual tour of IH facilities, a chance to meet with local doctors, IH staff and community leaders to identify and tackle issues.
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