Information from Riverland Community College

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for Best Musical, the Broadway phenomenon RENT finishes out the Riverland theatre season.

The play performs two weekends starting April 20. Considered a modern day classic, RENT is a ground-breaking musical that resonates across generations and reminds us there’s “No Day But Today.”

With a book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, RENT is recommended for audiences 14 and older due to language and mature content.

Riverland Director Lindsey Duoos Williams directs RENT. Scot A. Schwark is the musical director. Bridget Halvorson is choreographer. The set and lighting designer is James Douglass. The costumes are by Kaye Perry.

 ABC 6 TV announces that they will broadcast Minnesota High School Tournaments on their This TV 6.2 Channel. General Manager David Harbert noted that this is an exciting programming addition to their regular ABC program schedule.
 
The Minnesota Boy High School Basketball Tournament will be broadcast on KAAL TV 6.2 and Charter 386 beginning Thursday, March 22 with Class 3-A Semi-Finals at 12 Noon and 2 PM. The Semi-Finals for Class 4-A will be played at 6 and 8 PM. Semi-Final competition continues Friday, March 23 with Class 1-A with games at 12 Noon and 2 PM and Class 2-A at 6 and 8 PM. KAAL TV will broadcast all four MN Boys Basketball Tournament games on Saturday, March 24th with Class 1-A at 12 Noon, Class 2-A at 2 PM, Class 3-A at 6 PM and Class 4-A at 8 PM.

Steve Bowron, dean for institutional advancement and Laurie Minehart, associate director of the Riverland Community College Foundation, recently met with Shirley Wright to thank her and her sons George and Charlie for the recent $50,000 donation to the Riverland Community College Foundation to establish a scholarship to honor the memory of Shirley’s husband and their father, Stephen C. Wright.

Stephen C. Wright was Valedictorian of the first graduating class of Riverland Community College (then Austin Junior College) in 1942.   Wright served in World War II as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps for 16 months in the Pacific.  He returned from the war, received his degree in mechanical engineering from Iowa State University, and spent more than 40 years working as an engineer for Hormel plants nationwide.  Wright retired from Hormel in 1987.