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After they escaped from New York City, the creatures of 2005's MADAGASCAR are back in this African adventure.

MADAGASCAR: THE CRATE ESCAPE features the return of the first film's vocal talents: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, and Andy Richter.

In the highly-anticipated sequel to 'Madagascar,' Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins and the chimps find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar.

In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work.

With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane--sort of. Once aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all--the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time.

Africa seems like a great place...but is it better than their Central Park home?

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The first HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL movie to be released straight to the silver screen, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 finds the cast of the beloved earlier installments, all students at East High, dealing with the ups and downs of senior year.

While all the characters have their own dilemmas, the central issue, as in past films, is the relationship between sweethearts Troy (Zac Efron), the captain of East High's Wildcats basketball team, and the bookish Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), who face the possibility of imminent separation when Gabriella gets a chance to attend college early.

Designed to welcome the few viewers who might be unfamiliar with HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, SENIOR YEAR certainly offers plenty of valedictory excitement, and will leave fans giddy with delight.

Note: Synopsis of these movies found in Rotten Tomatoes.

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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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