ELMWOOD – Cass County residents gathered in Elmwood on Monday morning to remember those who gave their time, talents and treasures to help their country.
Jan Harbold
I worked for Midwest Services, so we did the ushering (or usherette-ing!) and security and crowd control and such, not just for baseball games, but for concerts and Packer games, and the occasional odd jobs like responding to post-All Star Game program requests as well. When I first started working at County Stadium, there couldn’t have been more than 10 of us girls working security, and over 300 guys. The girls told me that the older guys would be really nice to me, but that the younger guys wouldn’t give me the time of day. It was true that the older guys took me under their wing, showed me pictures of their grandkids, taught me all the little, “Do you know what that is for?” around County Stadium, and taught me so much more about baseball than I ever knew before.
Contributing Writer Despite not being able to perform in person this year or have full in-person rehearsals, the Saranac Lake High School is still putting on its annual spring musical March 19 and 20. Of course, this year will be much different the show has no visuals, just prerecorded dialogue and musical numbers. Director Bonnie Brewer called it a “audio theatrical experience.” This year’s show, which was picked before the pandemic even struck last March, is “Oklahoma!” and features about 40 high school students. Brewer and Drew Benware, the show’s musical director, met with groups of students over Zoom to practice dialogue and rehearse the show. Benware was able to meet with the students one-on-one in his classroom at the high school to rehearse and record the musical numbers.
Contributing Writer Saranac Lake High School last staged âOklahoma!â in 2006, seen here. From left are Matthew Wagner as Ali Hackim, Caroline Couture as Ado Annie and Josh Preston as Will Parker. The school is again putting on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, but this time in a prerecorded online audio version, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Enterprise photo â Brittany Proulx) From left, Raegan Fritts as Little Red Riding Hood, Jayce Clement as the Baker and Stephanie Fortune as the Bakerâs Wife rehearse last March for âInto the Woods,â a musical the Red and Black Players of Tupper Lake Middle-High School never got to perform since it was canceled due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.