Vol. 2 No. 2
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August 1, 2011
Curtain Call Delayed in Renovated Norwood Theatre
Foam Day Heads Up an “Awesome Summer” for Recreation Dept.
BY STAFF WRITER August 2011 was a month many local theater lovers were looking forward to. That was the initial completion date for the opening of the renovated Norwood Theater.
BY TIM DAVIS
“It’s great for the kids, they love it, and it’s fun for us,” said Norwood Fireman Mark McCarthy.
This past July, the Norwood Recreation Department and the Norwood Fire Department combined a day of fun, with their annual Foam Day on the upper field behind the Coakley Middle School. “It’s an awesome day,” said Norwood Recreation Department Program Director, Linda Berger. “This summer has been a fantastic, we’ve had great enrollment to the point where we had to hire more staff to accommodate the need this summer.”
Parents gathered, as many of fifty, from around the community to take pictures and watch their kids enjoy the day. “I haven’t been before and I came with a neighbor,” said parent Susan Neuman, “ it’s such a wonderful thing what the fire department is doing and the kids love it, it’s just awesome.” Hundreds of kids enjoyed Foam Day as they jumped and frolicked
in the foam sprayed by one of Norwood’s finest.
FOAM DAY More photos on page 7
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When Dover resident Susan Lewis purchased the prior Fiddlehead Theatre through Storyboard, LLC in January 2010, architectural drawings were drawn immediately, but a lengthy wait for handicap permits and the necessary complete demolition of the basement for additional bathrooms put the development behind schedule. "The fact that we ended up having to excavate the cellar, but there was no other place to put them [bathrooms], that's taken up the most time in the building so far," Lewis said. In 12 months, when the renovation is complete, it will have received a complete makeover from behind the structural curtains to the general ascetstics throughout. According to Lewis, the entire shell was gutted and the charming theater was updated with new plumb-
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Unforeseen circumstances with delayed building permits and build outs have pushed the project out until August 2012.
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