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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Making Improvements at the Keith-Albee

Hey, there's a great story in today's Herald-Dispatch about some improvements being made to the classic Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center.

As my pal David Malloy writes in this story (with photos by Lori Wolfe), some students took the stage to make some much-needed repairs:
More than two dozen Collins Career Center students were busy outside the classroom on Friday to help make repairs and clean up the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center in downtown Huntington.

Twenty-seven students from the vocational school at Getaway, Ohio, replaced boards on the stage floor and did cleanup work to get the building ready for a production of Cats scheduled Feb. 8 and 9, said Bob Edmunds, a former Marshall University professor helping out at the Keith-Albee.

"They need 15 hours of community service before they can graduate," said Matt Parnell, a carpentry instructor at the vocational school. "We came over before they had the premiere of We Are Marshall. They've been sanding the floor, replacing some boards in the stage and vacuuming."

The students are from the carpentry class and the building maintenance class at Collins, Parnell said.

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