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7/10/2007
2007 Sigrid Bronner Memorial Scholarships Announced
LCP is proud to announce that Lydia Bickford of Morrisville and Kathleen Buckley of Cambridge are this year’s recipients of the Sigrid Bronner Memorial Scholarship.
Lydia Bickford graduated this year from Peoples Academy, where she was active in their Drama Club. She was in the cast of LCP’s production of Wind in the Willows in 2004. Lydia will be attending Roanoke College in Virginia n the fall. Kathleen Buckley graduated from Lamoille Union High School this spring. Kathleen, frequently seen on the LUHS stage, joined LCP in 2006 with the production of Annie Get Your Gun. She can also be seen this summer in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying in the supporting role of Smitty. Kathleen will be attending the University of Toronto in the fall.

7/4/2006
2006 Sigrid Bronner Memorial Scholarship Announced

LCP is proud to announce that Katie Spalding, of Morrisville, is this year's recipient of the Sigrid Bronner Memorial Scholarship. We renamed our scholarship in honor of Sigrid, who lost her life earlier this year. Sigrid was an active member of the Lamoille County Players' family. She was a part of several shows, and for the past two years, Sigrid had also served on LCP's Board of Directors as our Student Representative. She will always be remembered as a treasured part of the LCP family.
Katie will be attending the University of Vermont in the fall and thanks LCP for the scholarship which, as Katie says, "could not be named for a more incredible, beautiful and talented person who I am proud to say was my friend. I am completely honored to be a recipient of this scholarship in her name. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for helping Sigrid's memory live on forever through this scholarship."

9/22/2005
New Seats at Opera House

Usually, there is some debate as to the "best seats in the house" at the Hyde Park Opera House. Some say the best seats are right up close to the stage. Others say they're in one of the back, raised rows. Well, these days, there is no debate: the best seats in the house are now up in the historic theater's balcony! Seventy-three of the balcony seats have been reupholstered. This is another step in the Lamoille County Players' Opera House Restoration project. Thanks to the work of LCP's House Committee and Fundraising Committee, and the generous contributions of individuals and groups, including the support of the Freeman Foundation and Preservation Trust, the Opera House balcony has been restored and improved. According to John Dunn, House Committee Chairman, the project started in January. The seats were pulled out and refurbished by St. Albans Upholstery. With the seats removed, the balcony floor could be worked on. A new wood floor was laid down. Mike Brown, of Colonial Floors, came in and finished and sanded the new floor. The restored seats have historic significance. "I believe they were salvaged from the original opera house building that burned in Hyde Park's big fire of 1910," said Dunn. Some of the wood on the old seats was refinished and some chairs had padding replaced. All 73 had their leather pads removed and replaced with fabric.Dunn said that refurbishing the remaining seats will have to wait until phase II of the capital campaign. While LCP has been making significant headway on the reservation of the historic building, having spent between $10,000 and $20,000 per year on building renovations over the past six years, its wish list is still long. At the top of that list is a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. The long term goal, once the renovation projects are complete, is to "switch to more of a maintenance mode," says Dunn. He hopes to establish an endowment for ongoing building maintenance