This is Niki Hope's report in The Record about the School Board meeting of October 27.
EXCERPT:
Fionna Bayley, a former high school drama teacher and theatre manager, who was involved in the efforts to refurbish the auditorium in the 1980s admitted the theatre building has its problems but noted that it was unique theatre.
It fills a gap in the Lower Mainland between theatres in the 600-seat and those in the 2,000-seat range. She said longtime trustees Michael Ewen and Brent Atkinson, know how much money and effort went into the theatre.
"To tear the theatre down, to do away with it, would negate all the work over the years,' she said. "If the city says it will build another (theatre) space, I would say don't believe them. We have a good theatre. Please keep it. Let it be New Westminster's theatre to carry on into the future."
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