Theatre group saved from the final curtain
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 17, 2008
THE curtain will not fall on a Furness theatre group which feared closure.
Barrow Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society is just two years away from celebrating its centenary, but its players were almost forced to leave the stage forever over a planning dispute.
The society’s chairman Martin Craig feared tonight’s performance of Sweeney Todd at Forum 28 [...]
Television Higher standards for hope
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 18, 2008
When principal Charles Austin was assigned to Pinecrest Public School in Ottawa’s suburban west end, he faced problems that would have crushed a lesser administrator. Pinecrest had one of the lowest standardized test scores in eastern Ontario. Instead of focusing on academics, many students were brawling, skipping, vandalizing and doing drugs.Consider this: the year before [...]
Iron curtain cure for GPs’ surgery row
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 15, 2007
A DISPUTE between two family doctors over the future of their practice escalated yesterday after a high court judge ruled that an “iron curtain” should be built to divide their surgery.
Dr Anne Rodway, continues to share practices with Dr Paul Landy at the Chantry Medical Centre in Sevenoaks, Kent. But they have not spoken to [...]