BB - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 31, 1995

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PIZZA HUT manager John
Critchley didn’t even realize
his effarts to make the
restaurant more accessible
were timed for National Ac-
cess Awareness Week,
May 29 - June 4. He made
the washrooms wheelchair
accessible, added a con-
crete ramp, and created a
handicapped parking spat.
Critchley is joined on the
new ramp by five Acces-
4 sible Tarrace volunteer re-
search assistants — Karen
Busby, Phyllis Cornfield,
Brian Gregg, Felix Goyette
and Jim Reed. You can
#2 meet them at a booth in the
: Skeena Mall this weekend,

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TERRACE Little Theatre is’
returning to MAINSTAGE ‘95
in Kamloops this July to com-
pete in the Annual Theatre BC
Drama Festival.

It’s play —.Escape from
Happiness — came away from
the regional Skeena Zone Fes-
tival with numerous awards,
including Best Production,

Now the time has come to
restage the show after a day-
long reworking with Van-
couver professional director
Andrew Mcllroy,

Terrace
bands
Wow

judges

EIGHT INCHES of snow didn’t
seem to hamper some of Ter-
race’s finest rausicians at Music-
Fest in Calgary, May 17-21.

Terrace bands all garnered
medals at the national competi-
tion — and none were lower than
a silver,

“We kicked,” says Colleen
Bruce, band instructor at Skeena
Junior Secondary. Skeena’s con-
cert band won gold, and the jazz
band won silver.

‘The kids did a really great job.
They played better than they’ve
ever played.”

Medals during MusicFest are
awarded based on a list of criteria
the judges have. Within a specific
competition level, three bands
can win a gold medal, or none
may. Adjudicators from across
Canada and the United States act
as judges.

The Terrace Community Band
achieved its goal of gold, and im-
pressed a number of adjudicators,

“One of the adjudicators said
he was amazed, impressed and
rather jealous. He said he hadn’t
come across anything like us in
the States,’’ says communily
band member Caro] Lomas.

She also thanked the com-
munily for its outstanding sup-

. port, saying it was appreciated,

and that it paid off.

“We were one of the best
represented communities at this
competition,’ she says.

“This town is getting a reputa-
tion as a place where music is
happening,’ says Geoff Parr,
band instructor at Caledonia
Senior Secondary,

The Caledonia concert ‘and jazz
bands both won silver.

Mike Wen, band leader at
Thombill Junior Secondary, de-
scribed Musicfest as an excellent
experience for his students. The
school’s concert band obtained a
silver medal in this, their first trip
to Musicfest.

The Northwest Singers also
won a silver medal, bringing the
medal total to seven for the seven
groups of musicians Terrace sent
to the national competition.

“This town should be very,
very proud of the musical com-
munity,”’ says City Counselor
Ruth Hallock.

In honour of the bands’
achicvements at Musicfest, city

council declared May as Music

Month. :

“It is better than the
Professional preduc-
tion,” sald Meliroy in
his public adjudication
of Escape from Happi-

ness.

The cast and director have
been in rehearsal for several
weeks now, and are eager to
put all the pieces back into
what promises to be an eve-

ning of black humour, dys-
function, family troubles and
potentially happy endings.

Two actors have been re-
placed, says director Marianne
Brorup-Weston, because two
of the original actors were un-
able to make the commitment
to travel as far as
MAINSTAGE ‘95,

“The new actors have in-
tegrated beautifully, given the
already tight ensemble,”’ she
says. ‘It will impact the show
in a minor way, but both ac-
tors have found the essence of

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**It is better than the profes-
sional production,” said Mell-
roy in his public adjudication
of Escape from Happiness,
The Arts Club Theatre produc-
tion of the same play closed in
Vancouver three weeks ear-
lier.

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