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Launching an appeal for help

[By NANCY WEATHERLEY | | a 7

THERE’S LIGHT at
the end of the

onom ane 2
Presentation House - if
they can raise enough
money by the end of
this year to satisfy the
Royal Bank which
stands ominously in the
background, snuffer in
hand.

A week ago three staff
members were working on a
publicity campaign for a Da™
Vinci exhibit scheduled for
this summer. Late Thursday
the bank stopped payment
on their Hydro cheque as a
gesture of “extreme con-
cern” over the financial
position of Presentation
House says Director Bob

That effectively put a stop
to the exhibit which features
the newly discovered
Salvator Mundi. It also
eaused one part time and
three full time employees to
betayed off.

There was fear that the
doors would close on the arts
centre altogether. However,
a meeting with the bank
Tuesday, during which a groups. Hopes of a costs without increased

ALL THE WORLD'S a
“drastically revised” budget professional theatre com- funding, has accumulated

stage. And the drama

was presented. resulted in an
agreement that will allow the
house to continue running
this year.

The budget has been cut
to the bare bones, of course,
and projects as well as staff
have been chopped.

What's left is a skeletal
centre which will proceed as
well as t{ can as a rental
facility for community arts

pany operating out of the
complex have been upstaged
by the financial problems for
the time being.

The slashed budget should
keep the house in the black
after grants from North Van
City, the District, and the
province are received in the
summer

But a $46,000 defecit, a
result of increased operating

over the last two years.
This must also be tackled.
But the news isn't all bad.
Chris Tyrell and Jean Bell,
both victims of the budget
slash, are helping out at the
moment on a voluntary basis
and many other volunteers
have come in to help with a
widescale phoning program.
The object is to get as
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continues as a smaller
cast tries to perform as
well as they can on a
low baodget. Acting
General Manager of
Presentation House,
Bob Carey looks
hopefully ahead to a
positive future, while
behind him. workers
strike the set of the
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