Music hall to host benefit

Music hall to host benefit
For the second straight year, the Rodeo City Music Hall will be hosting a benefit to raise funds to pay royalty fees for the music it uses during live performances.
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Theatre funding applauded
Barrie’s Downtown Community Theatre has received an additional $ 350,000 in federal funding. This money is in addition to the $ 2.5 million Ottawa is already contributing to the Dunlop Street facility, which is to be essentially completed by month’s end.[…]
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Detroit engineering competition with Silicon Valley for tech jobs
As a group of Ford Motor Co. managers in blue jeans sat down to interview a suit-wearing candidate from a California technology company this month, they jokingly offered to cut off his tie to put him at ease. Auto industry executives are trying to make Silicon Valley engineers feel at home in Detroit.
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