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Dairy farmers urged to change
DAIRY farmers were told in no uncertain terms that a "huge PR job" and a change in negative attitudes was the key to success for the future of the industry. Quota trader Ian Potter talked tough to the hundreds of dairy farmers who had packed into the
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School still in dark over cash row
Governors at a Kendal school caught up in a funding tussle claim they are still waiting for key legal information, which could resolve the dispute. Kirkbie Kendal School accused Cumbria County Council's education bosses of unreasonable behaviour after
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Public loos go under the hammer
TWO public toilets are soon to go under the hammer. Disused loos at Stramongate Bridge in Kendal (pictured above) and at Goadsbarrow, near Ulverston, are being offered for sale with a guide price between £8,000 and £12,000 at a property auction on February
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Frozen in the sands of time
Action is hotting up for a Furness filmmaker poised to start shooting an £800,000 psychological thriller on her lifeblood sands. Forthcoming Frozen is the first full feature film from Juliet McKoen's Barrow-in-Furness based company Shoreline. It is already
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Jargon-free IT solutions
BUSINESSES can tap into a wide range of help and advice on how to make the best use of computer technology at exhibitions next week. It is hoped that the events will help firms to avoid buying IT equipment that they do not need. "The emphasis will be
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Parks operator has Midas touch
FEW firms born out of adversity can claim to have become such a stunning success as South Lakeland Caravans. For when founder John Morphet broke his back in an accident while working on the family farm near Milnthorpe, the future must have looked bleak
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Killarney - Kendal twinning investigated
KENDAL could be about to have another twin' town and that's not just the blarney' talking. Town councillors in Killarney, in the south west of Ireland, have fallen for the Kendal area in a big way, writes Helen Long. In fact, a party of Killarney councillors
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Hotel takeover
MANCHESTER firm Urban Splash has finally completed its takeover of the Midland Hotel at Morecambe. The paperwork was finalised last Friday, but work on the Grade Two listed building is not expected to begin for some time. Urban Splash hopes to bring the
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Cheaper parking
THE Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority is to reduce the all-day charge at its car park in Dent from £3 to £2 following a pilot scheme to encourage long-stay visitors. The scheme, which began in April 2002, saw the all-day charge set at £3 and £1
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Workers raze roof on Gazette building
A SIX-WEEK programme of work has started on a high street shop in Kendal as part of a major redevelopment, which will transform the town centre. Eric Wright Ltd has taken possession of Lakeland on Stricklandgate this week, and workers have been stripping
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Bus grant to help communters
COMMUTERS relying on a key bus service running between Kendal and Barrow should get a better deal this year thanks to £805,000 of government money. Cumbria County Council has won the grant from the Department of Transport to invest in the X35 Furness
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Performance tables in firing line
WINDERMERE St Anne's has hit out at this year's performance league tables for statistically downgrading its GCSE results. Some 91.3 per cent of pupils gained five or more A* to C grades in 2002 but in the tables, published in The Westmorland Gazette,
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Top Ofsted marks for primary
A SCHOOL has been singled out for its outstanding performance in a national report examining quality and standards in education. Crosscrake Primary School at Stainton earned a place in the Chief Inspector of Schools' Annual Report as a "particularly successful
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Sly Racoon, Sony, Playstation 2
Think Solid Snake takes himself just a little too seriously? Then this game is for you. Matching the stealth tactics of the Metal Gear Solid games with cute, cartoon charm, Sly Racoon is a loveable rogue who throughout the game sneaks around and thieves
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Cheers -style bar planned
A CAF, delicatessan and wine merchant in Kendal's historic Kirkland hopes to meet customer demand with a brasserie-style bar. The partners behind Eclectic have submitted plans to change the use of the downstairs shop into a licensed bar for sales of alcohol
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24 hr garage sparks opposition
A plan to open a Greenodd petrol station 24 hours a day has ignited strong opposition in the community. Some 58 letters of objection have landed on the desks of South Lakeland District Council's planning department in response to plans for the Hurley
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Dismayed by lack of skateboarding funds
SIR, I am frankly dismayed to read in the Gazette that there is to be no funding for renewal of the skateboarding equipment at Queen's Park, Windermere. I feel that not only has the weather caused the deterioration but also its constant use by the youth
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Action for youth
Sir, For Mrs Hardy to say that there is nowhere for young people to meet in Windermere is totally wrong (Letters, January 31, Bus stop'). The reasons that so many young congregate in dirty bus shelters' are not simply for one cause. There are many premises
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Everest climber's sons back K campaign
THE sons of a celebrated mountaineer who wore a pair of K Shoes hob-nailed boots during a famous assault on Everest have lent their backing to the Keep K for Kendal campaign, writes Michaela Robinson-Tate. James and David Somervell, the two surviving
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Enough is enough
Sir, When will we ever learn and when will someone be brave enough to stand up to the auditors and accountants and say enough is enough. In a small rural community the school is a central focus for the community. Those of us who have children will know
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Colourful look for local cricket
LIFE in the Northern Premier Cricket League is about to get a lot more colourful. Coloured clothing is to be introduced for the 12 teams playing in the league's major cup competition including Netherfield and Kendal thanks to Daniel Thwaites brewers.
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Judo: Midland metals
KENDAL Judo Club's younger fighters matched opponents from all over the country in the Midland Area Under-20s Age-Banded Judo Championships at Aldersley Leisure Centre. In the youngest age band, Sam Lester was narrowly denied the gold and took the silver
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Fell Racing: Barbondale test suits Brittleton
A STRONG, freezing wind made conditions even more punishing for athletes competing in the fifth race of the Kendal Winter League series over a steep out and back course at Barbondale. Howgill's Peter Brittleton turned at the summit in first place and
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Men's Hockey: Olliver helps lift Glaxo
GLAXO Men needed points this week against bottom of table Nelson and Rossendale to maintain their own fight against relegation from Division One of the North West League and won 3-2. Glaxo pegged back the opposition and opened the scoring when Steve Olliver
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Close strike sinks Celtic
LEADING scorer Jamie Close's 15th goal of the season was enough to separate the two sides at Farsley's Throstle Nest ground. It was a truly disciplined performance of solid defending and commitment across the park which saw Peter Smith's men extend their
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Football: Cup history made - bring on showdown
A SEMI-FINAL tie at high-flying UniBond Premier side Accrington Stanley awaits Kendal Town after they eventually saw off a resolute Clitheroe at Parkside on Tuesday evening. On a bitterly cold evening falling temperature crisped up the pitch, but with
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Stop the War branch formed
A GROUNDSWELL of opinion in Kendal opposing war in Iraq has led to plans for further demonstrations and the creation of the town's own branch of the Stop The War Coalition. A meeting due to take place in Kendal last night (Thursday) was expected to see
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Recycling time bomb
A typical household in South Lakeland looks set to pay an extra £14 this year to the district council to keep the authority on a firm financial footing and pay for kerbside recycling. At the first budget meeting of South Lakeland District Council's cabinet
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A look at 12% proposed tax rise
Cumbria county councillors this week backed plans to hike the Council Tax by 12 per cent in the coming financial year - despite the results of a £5,000 consultation in which residents overwhelmingly opted for the lowest of three Council Tax options of
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Music to charm 'savage' youth
TROUBLESOME teenagers hanging about outside a village shop are going to have to face the music or move on under a novel police initiative being piloted in South Lakeland. Youngsters causing bother outside Burneside's Spar shop are to be serenaded with
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Cash for traffic calming
A BUSY Eden farmers market has been given a £1,000 cash boost by Cumbria County Council to help calm traffic on market days. CCC's Eden Local Committee approved the grant to help fund a Traffic Regulation Order, which will regulate nearby traffic flow
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Environment's importance on agenda
THE increasing importance of agri-environment schemes in agriculture will be the subject of the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group's bi-annual meeting on February 15. Future of Farm Agri-environment Grant Support meeting will include expert speakers
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Mole catching course
COURSES in mole catching are to be offered by the Westmorland Agricultural Society after an apparent proliferation of the pests in the area. Chief executive Rodger Read says the society has decided to run the courses because of the numbers of farmers
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Over the Gate - Lift close-down rule
LAST time I promised to tell you why I only gave a qualified approval to the reduction of the 20-day rule down to six days. Of course, one has to say it is a move in the right direction because having no movement of animals for six days must be easier
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Lakes and Eden farms lead the way
A SOUTH Lakeland and an Eden farm have been selected to become models of best practice as part of a Government-funded pilot scheme to encourage more farmers to work in new ways. Myerscough College at Preston has been awarded a contract from the Department
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Disabled drivers left fuming
SELFISH drivers are taking up disabled people's spaces at a hospital car park, making life difficult for those who need to use them, according to a campaigner. Michael Hartley, who is blind, said he has twice been driven to Westmorland General Hospital
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Last call for pub
A FORMER pub which provided many a pint for thirsty villagers is to become a family home after planners backed a conversion bid. Members of South Lakeland District Council's planning committee reluctantly agreed that The Swan pub at Little Urswick was
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Health hazard fears
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save public conveniences at a popular beauty spot from closure have been heartened by a response to their concerns from a leading health official, reports Mike Addison. South Lakeland District Council's proposal to shut the well-used
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Frozen in the sands of time
Action is hotting up for a Furness filmmaker poised to start shooting an £800,000 psychological thriller on her lifeblood sands. Forthcoming Frozen is the first full feature film from Juliet McKoen's Barrow-in-Furness based company Shoreline. It is already
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From our Files
25 Years Ago February 4, 1978 ULVERSTON Town Council is pressing for traffic lights at two junctions in the town. The council heard that Mr R.M. Longden-Thurgood had written to the North West Road Construction Unit urging that traffic lights, controlled
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Bogus letter cirrculating
BUSINESSES face being duped out of a large cash sum by a cleverly worded circular that continues to do the rounds, despite warnings from Cumbria Trading Standards. The Cumbria County Council department re-issued its "take care" advice this week after
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Bogus letter cirrculating
BUSINESSES face being duped out of a large cash sum by a cleverly worded circular that continues to do the rounds, despite warnings from Cumbria Trading Standards. The Cumbria County Council department re-issued its "take care" advice this week after
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Hazy light dims CCTV pictures
Criminals have a good chance of escaping justice because a town's "hazy yellow" lighting is not helping police to identify offenders picked out on closed circuit television cameras. Kendal Police's Crime Prevention Officer Terry Belshaw told members of
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Golf range expands services
EVEN more golfers will be able to practice their swing as a Kendal golf club received the council's blessing for its expansion plans. South Lakeland District Council's planning committee has given conditional approval for a new 12-bay driving range and
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Parking hot spot crackdown plea
RESIDENTS have called for a parking clampdown to stop "inconsiderate" motorists cluttering up the streets of their market town. Milnthorpe residents claim parking is becoming increasingly difficult due to shoppers and workers who pull up on residential
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More 'twins' the merrier
KENDAL Rinteln Association has welcomed the possibility that the town might take another twin'. "Rinteln is twinned with a town in Poland, although Kendal is its more equal twin'," explained chairman of the Rinteln Association Janette Dixon, who added
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Killarney - Kendal: the comparisons begin
Killarney - Population: 12,011. Landscape: Famous for its natural beauty, especially Killarney National Park by the shores of Lough Leane, and in the shadow of Ireland's highest mountains, the McGillycuddy Reeks. The park also boasts the only wild herd
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Rail group blasts cuts
THE Lakes Line Rail User Group is to protest at Virgin Trains' proposal to axe the 7.34am train from Oxenholme to Bournemouth. Group secretary Malcolm Conway said the train reached Manchester at 9.15am and, if it was scrapped, commuters would have no
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Workers raze roof on Gazette building
A SIX-WEEK programme of work has started on a high street shop in Kendal as part of a major redevelopment, which will transform the town centre. Eric Wright Ltd has taken possession of Lakeland on Stricklandgate this week, and workers have been stripping
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Prayers for NASA
A VICAR who has close links with NASA fired off a message of condolence to the space agency as soon as he learned of Saturday's shuttle disaster that claimed the lives of seven astronauts, reports Mike Addison. The Rev Ken Clapham, of St Cuthbert's Parish
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Performance tables in firing line
WINDERMERE St Anne's has hit out at this year's performance league tables for statistically downgrading its GCSE results. Some 91.3 per cent of pupils gained five or more A* to C grades in 2002 but in the tables, published in The Westmorland Gazette,
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Super head rescues school's pride
A RAPID turn-around in the fortunes of a village primary school that was considered to be failing its pupils 18 months ago has won praise for a pilot scheme which involves a head teacher running two schools. Last June, the 42-pupil Ravenstonedale Endowed
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Thrusting authorities into 21st century
SIR, My compliments to Cumbria County Council for allowing me to offer my views on the burning issue of council tax expenditure to fund highway maintenance through the medium of your columns with a cut-out slip for freepost return. We must be proud to
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Tide of anger over flood map
HOME owners in Staveley fear the price of their properties could be affected by a flood map based on out-of-date information. It comes after some South Lakeland communities were included on flood plain and flood risk maps by the Environment Agency. But
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Easy to shoot the messenger
SIR, There has been some criticism of the county council's consultation exercise following the Government's reduction in the highways' maintenance allocation for Cumbria of some 21 per cent. It is, of course, easy to shoot the messenger' while the essential
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Clarks offer to help those with 'realistic' plans
SHOE giant Clarks has said it would be prepared to help redundant workers who have "realistic" plans to develop manufacturing for niche markets. A meeting of Cumbria's High Level Task Force heard of the offer as it met to discuss the planned closure of
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School robbed of fair opportunity
Sir, Members of Lowick Parish Council were present at the School Organisation Committee meeting and witnessed the phone call from Rex Toft ordering Bob Edgar to change his mind and vote to close the school. I spoke to Bob Edgar before the phonecall and
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Night doctors to quit
A GROUP of GPs has warned that it may be forced to pull out of a successful pilot to keep Kendal's emergency unit open 24 hours a day, reports Michaela Robinson-Tate. The doctors claim hospital bosses have failed to deliver the improved accommodation
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Gallery secures triptych
A CONTROVERSIAL series of paintings depicting women having an abortion has become the most important and ambitious contemporary art purchased by Kendal's Abbot Hall art gallery. The paintings known as a triptych as it comprises three separate panels -
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Fiasco of a decision
SIR, Each group involved in the decision to close/not to close Lowick CE School was hampered by having an interest of one kind or another: the LEA councillors had their political imperative to gratify (but why did the active proponent of closure, the
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In the firing line
So, the public consultation by Cumbria County Council into the level of tax rises to impose this year was as cynical and inept as feared by many correspondents who wrote to this newspaper on the subject. It was always deeply flawed as an exercise in democracy
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Gallery secures triptych
A CONTROVERSIAL series of paintings depicting women having an abortion has become the most important and ambitious contemporary art purchased by Kendal's Abbot Hall art gallery. The paintings known as a triptych as it comprises three separate panels -
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Bogus letter circulating
BUSINESSES face being duped out of a large cash sum by a cleverly worded circular that continues to do the rounds, despite warnings from Cumbria Trading Standards. The Cumbria County Council department re-issued its "take care" advice this week after
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Women's Hockey: Baron winner in cliffhanger
DESPITE awful weather, Kendal Ladies took on Barrow in the Netherwood League and won 2-1. Both sides attacked hard in a fast-paced opening spell and Barrow missed a few scoring chances before they broke down a stubborn Kendal defence and took a one-goal
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Victoria on go in Monopoli
MULTI-terrain cyclist Victoria Wilkinson (pictured right) has just returned from Italy competing alongside the world's best at the World Cyclo-Cross Championships. Victoria, who works in Ambleside, finished 20th out of the 40-strong elite women's field
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Smith's Verdict
JUBILANT Peter Smith says his side's 10-game unbeaten run shows that they fear no one, including Accrington Stanley, runaway leaders of the UniBond Premier Division, who they now meet in the semi-final of the Marsden Lancashire Junior Cup on Wednesday
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Gregg halts Garth
BRIGHT sunshine greeted Windermere when they arrived at Gosforth in the Cumbria League on Saturday and though it was bitterly cold the pitch was in good condition. The first quarter was dominated by the Windermere pack with Peter Tann winning good lineout
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Mighty Magnus
STAVELEY lad Magnus Lund, who plays for Premiership side Sale Sharks, was in the England Sevens side which won the International Rugby Board's Australian event in the Grand Prix series. England Sevens manager Joe Lydon said Magnus had played well for
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Rugby - Positive vibes need to count for Newbury
THE QUALITY of Kendal's resistance was something to take heart from at Henley, who went back to the top of the National League 2 table with a 31-3 win on Saturday. Fylde's defeat of Wharfedale in a basement battle usefully kept the Dales side to within
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Ambleside clean up
AMBLESIDE managed to keep a clean sheet against Silloth despite missing some regular team members. Final tally Ambleside 27 -Silloth 0. The first 20 minutes were fairly even until sustained pressure from the Ambleside pack sent prop Paul Airey over for
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Police finalise budget
POLICE number crunchers were putting the final touches to their draft budget this week. The final figures were being kept under wraps until the authority's budget meeting on February 14 but, as previously reported, it does not look like good news for
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What's inside Council Tax rise
THIS week, residents across South Lakeland, Furness and Eden learned they were set to be hit by steep Council Tax rises, taking annual average band D bills beyond the reach of many monthly pay packets. Spiralling service costs and shrinking government
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Council tax set to rise by 12%
A DOUBLE-FIGURE council tax increase is facing South Lakeland, Furness and Eden residents, writes Councty Council Reporter Beth Broomby. This week Cumbria county councillors backed plans to raise council tax by 12 per cent in the coming financial year
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Mozart improves student focus
BAROQUE sounds have become music to pupils' ears at a secondary school which is using Mozart to help classroom concentration, reports Lisa Frascarelli. Head of Religious Studies, lifeskills and citizenship at Kirkbie Kendal School Helen Bradbury is championing
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Behind the boards...
Scaffolding up, interiors coming down. Lakeland is getting a remake behind the 'screens'. Site manager reports the project is on schedule. February 7, 2003 14:00