Using your words – Gladstone Music and Arts Festival season begins
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- Published on Sunday, March 13, 2016
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Nervousness, excitement and anticipation were some of the feelings buzzing around the Gladstone United Church and Elementary school during the first two days of March. Six of the Pine Creek Division schools participated in the Speech Arts program of the Gladstone Music and Arts Festival, totaling 176 students from K-12. The program consisted of three sessions filled with poetry, prose readings, speech choirs, public speaking and reader’s theater.
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Gladstone welcomes Newfoundland duo
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- Published on Saturday, March 12, 2016
Submitted photo. Fortunate Ones are coming to Gladstone on March 17.
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Fortunate Ones is a Juno nominated, Canadian Folk Music Award winning folk-pop duo made up of singer/pianist/accordion player Catherine Allan and singer/guitarist Andrew James O’Brien– endearing audiences with wide-eyed energy, pragmatic optimism, and an earnest mission for connection.
Royalty in Westman
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By Courtney Newton
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Loosely based on The Princess and the Pea fairy tale, Strathclair Drama Club’s upcoming production of Once Upon a Mattress is sure to tickle your funny bone and entertain both the young and young at heart! This year’s cast of 36 is one of the smaller ones in recent memory, but they are making up for their size in talent and enthusiasm. Andrea Playter of Minnedosa has taken on the role of Queen Aggravian, an overbearing and controlling woman in search of a suitable bride for her son, Prince Dauntless. Her husband King Sextimus, played by Cardale’s Terry Radcliffe, is a man of few words, but if you watch closely you will understand what he is trying to get across. Their simple-minded son Prince Dauntless, played by Josh Butler of Minnedosa, desperately wants to get married; the queen has decreed no one in the kingdom may marry until her son does.
New funding for Gladstone arena and curling club
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- Published on Friday, March 11, 2016
Submitted photo. From left: Producers and curling club board members Jeff Mowat and Tom Otto; director of Operations for Richardson Pioneer Dundonald Devon Smith; Crop Inputs manager, Richardson Pioneer Dundonald, Ryan Hyde; Area Marketing Representative, Richardson Pioneer Dundonald, Brad Ginter; Norma Moore Gladstone & District Arena board members Todd Clayton and Koreen Braun; and grain merchant, Richardson Pioneer Dundonald, Pamela Price.
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On Feb. 25, the director of Operations of Richardson Pioneer Dundonald, Devon Smith, presented a cheque for $15,000 to the Gladstone Curling Club and the Norma Moore Gladstone & District Arena
Women of distinction honoured
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Photo by John Drinkwater. YWCA Women of Distinction Awards Gala winners: Standing left: Heather Day of Brandon, Robin Chant of Brandon, Pat Orsak of Binscarth, Deborah Tacan of Brandon, Marcia Hamm-Wiebe of Brandon. Sitting left: Naomi Forman of Brandon, Ayla Hamilton of Russell, Bea Jolly of Brandon, Shawna Philpott of Brandon.
By John Drinkwater
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More than 400 people attended the 29th YWCA Women of Distinction Awards Gala held March 3, at the U.C.T. Pavilion, Keystone Centre. Emma Gray, a Grade 12 student from Erickson Collegiate was a nominee in the Young Women 16-21 category.
