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Money is now available to the 22,000 students at community colleges across New Hampshire who might need help financially after being hit with an unexpected life expense.

On today’s episode, we travel virtually across the Cascades to the small town of Athena, population 1,211, nestled between Pendleton and the Washington state border in Eastern Oregon. Our destination is the Gem Theater, built in 1901 as an early brewpub, or saloon as they were called then, which morphed into a movie theater in 1909, closed down at the start of the Great

Rob McIntyre has spent the past 19 years bringing a historic theater back to its former glory. He hopes this building could be a mecca for the arts in Northeast Oregon.

The Gem Theatre in Athena, Oregon, stood empty for 55 years. For the past two decades, a group of residents have raised nearly $2 million and volunteered a countless number of hours to bring the theater back to its former glory.

The recipe for making the upcoming opera, “Bon Appetit!,” about a Julia Child cooking show, is a bit like baking a new cake. You need quality ingredients, instructions, someone to