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Manny, Sid, Diego, and Ellie are back in this third film in the computer-animated Ice Age series.

With those creatures in starring roles, fans also get another dose of the vocal talents of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Queen Latifah, who are joined by SHAUN OF THE DEAD’s Simon Pegg.

In ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAUR, Manny and Ellie are expecting their first baby, while Sid the sloth tries an unconventional way of starting a family that gets him into trouble.

With all this talk of babies, Diego might be losing his saber-toothed edge, but a journey to save Sid may just turn the whole group into heroes. In addition to all that adventure, it wouldn’t be an Ice Age film if Scrat weren’t on a desperate hunt for an acorn, but he might get distracted by a shapely female squirrel.

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Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was.

Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching.

Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort’s defenses and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, the well-connected and unsuspecting bon vivant Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information.

Meanwhile, the students are under attack from a very different adversary as teenage hormones rage across the ramparts. Harry finds himself more and more drawn to Ginny, but so is Dean Thomas. And Lavender Brown has decided that Ron is the one for her, only she hadn't counted on Romilda Vane's chocolates! And then there's Hermione, simpering with jealously but determined not to show her feelings. As romance blossoms, one student remains aloof. He is determined to make his mark, albeit a dark one.

Love is in the air, but tragedy lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again

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Note: Synopsis of these movies found in Rotten Tomatoes.

Book includes Patricia

by Laura Walz — Peak Editor
06/12/2008

Royal BC Museum celebrates province's anniversary

A story written by Powell River's Ann Nelson has been included in a new book about BC's 150th anniversary.

Free Spirit: Stories of You, Me and BC is part of the Royal BC Museum's Free Spirit project which celebrates BC's 150 years of being a British colony and a province of Canada.

The book tells the stories of some of the people and places that have shaped BC.

Nelson's story is called "Princess Patricia and the Ghosts." Nelson is the owner and operator of the Patricia Theatre, western Canada's oldest continuously operating movie theatre.

Nelson said she was thrilled that her story was included in the book. "They weren't necessarily trying to be geographically even-handed," she said. "I was thrilled that they would take it and that they would feel that it properly represented Powell River."

Her story is one of the few stories in the book, Nelson pointed out. "Most of it is photographic or reproductions of paintings that were done contemporary to the particular era that they're talking about in the towns, with a couple of lines about the person. Ours is the only real story. Here's this whole page of story and the colourful photographs."

The book spans 150 years of history through photography, stories and a video disc featuring travelogues taken across the province.

The other components of the Free Spirit project are a major exhibition presented at the Royal BC Museum from March 2008 to January 2009; a smaller exhibition travelling via railway throughout parts of the province in the latter half of 2008; a Conservation Tour, focusing on energy conservation, in the fall of 2008; a website, featuring a virtual exhibition; and the People's History Project, inviting the public to contribute family or community histories.

Two Powell River stories were the first from a community to be uploaded to the website. In addition to Nelson's Patricia Theatre story, an account of the sinking of the Teeshoe launched the site. It is told by the only survivor of the tug's sinking, Fred Ilott, who was 12 at the time, and includes video and audio clips from the documentary produced by filmmaker Jan Padgett through the company Bear Productions.

Click to see original Powell River Peak story

©The Powell River Peak 2008
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