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April 28 A night at the moviesTo give a little background first.......
My town has one movie theater that plays only one movie at a time. This beautiful building was built in 1950 and is in beautiful condition. When my family moved here in 1988 it was running and playing movies every weekend. Well, that changed not too many years after that. The owner came to realize that the building has an old heating and electrical system that is expensive to use. And that it was getting to be a quite a pain maintaining it with all the kids that went to watch the movies. So she shut it down, for years.
People in my town would have to drive 20 miles if they wanted to see a movie in the theater. Which is no big deal since they are used to driving distances to get things they need. But in recent years some have wondered why the theater here doesn't open up again.
A wonderful woman got a brilliant idea. Why not see if we can submit this building into the historical society so that we can get some funding to help fix some problems. Well, she did and it now is on the historical buildings list. She also thought that to save some more money why not get the community involved and ask people to volunteer to work at the theater. So she did and it has been running this way for the last couple of years. There is one movie that plays and only on Friday and Saturday (sometimes Monday). And none of the movies are rated "R". Isn't that awesome?!?
Well, I volunteered to work this last Saturday night and "Monsters vs. Aliens" was playing. I had Joey take the boys since Noah wanted to see it and it was the last showing. Well, I sold candy and popcorn and soda, and it was a blast! So when the final customer was helped and the movie was about to start I was told that for helping I got to watch the movie for free and get whatever size soda and popcorn I wanted!! Awesome!! Just one more reason I love this town!
It also made me feel good because Joey was mad that I volunteered to work and had worked all day at my job. And when I showed up with free soda and popcorm, boy was he happy!! So, who wants to move?
 PS- There is a picture in my photo album on here that shows the theater. It's called "The Hyartt". TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://pastywhitethighs.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8E0A724C15E54612!378.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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