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CTV News
06-07-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
Echo Lake Plywood Regatta and Waterfest returns for 3rd straight year
The Plywood Regatta and Waterfest took place at Echo Lake on Saturday. (Damian Smith / CTV News) For the third year in a row, the Plywood Regatta and Waterfest took place at Echo Lake on Saturday. 'What's really important about the Plywood Regatta is it's about team spirit. It's about businesses or organizations coming together to support a single cause,' said John Maczko, the director of operations with Amphibious Response Support Unit One (ARSU1). The message behind the event is not only for team building, but safety in water sports in all representations. Money raised from many different companies attending is donated to ARSU1, who monitor four lakes in the Fort Qu'Appelle area. 'Unfortunately, every year we do respond to a number of incidents in our case, in particular, because we are what is known as the boots on the ground team,' Maczko said. 'We try to capture safety situations in their infancy before they become more critical or before they become known.' ARSU1 does not only look to prioritize the physical side of safety, but the drinks that can be a detriment to those out on the water. With alcohol being a big component in water sport accidents, they're trying to promote beer without the toxin. Maczko was also the lead of creating the challenges for the teams and had to come up with a higher quantity with a growing event. In the first year of the regatta, four teams participated. There were nine last year, and this year saw 14. Organizers say that 25 teams would be the maximum, due to capacity requirements.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tony-Winning ‘MJ' Star Myles Frost Signs With Echo Lake Entertainment
Actor Myles Frost, winner of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Actor in a musical for his performance as Michael Jackson in Broadway's MJ The Musical, has signed with Echo Lake Entertainment. Just 22 at the time of his Tony win, Frost was the youngest winner of the Best Leading Actor/Musical award, and also was nominated for a Grammy for his performance. He was nominated for an Olivier Award nomination when the show transferred to London's West End. More from Deadline Tony Award Winners: 'Maybe Happy Ending' Takes Best Musical & Five Others; 'Purpose' Best Play; Scherzinger, Criss, Snook & Escola Get Lead Acting Prizes – Full List New York City Center Encores! Season To Include All-Black 'La Cage Aux Folles' Starring Billy Porter 'Smash' Sets Broadway Closing After Tony Award Shut-Out Frost made his feature film debut in Ava DuVernay's Origin playing the pivotal role of 'Trayvon Martin' opposite Aunjanue Ellis and Niecy Nash. The film premiered at The Venice Film Festival in 2023. Myles continues to be repped by UTA and Darrell Miller at Fox Rothschild. Echo Lake Entertainment produces and finances film, television and theater. In 2022 Echo Lake produced its first play, Prima Facie, starring Jodie Comer. Its West End run won the company its first Olivier Award and its Broadway run earned Comer a Tony Award for Best Actress. Echo Lake's Broadway production, Stereophonic, received a record breaking 13 Tony Nominations and won the Tony Award last year for Best Play. Echo Lake's current Broadway production John Proctor Is the Villain was nominated for 7 Tony Awards. Best of Deadline List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds A Full Timeline Of Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Feud In Court, Online & In The Media
Sydney Morning Herald
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Without realising, I started to live as a character in one of my books
I was living in the Southern Highlands of NSW when I wrote my first novel, Echo Lake, inspired by the misty forests, cosy pubs and antique shops I had grown to love. But circumstances forced me to leave for a few years, and I always longed to return. Recently, I got my wish. The stars unexpectedly realigned and I was able to move back to the Highlands in time for publication of Echo Lake's sequel, Whisky Valley. On the drive down from Sydney, my car piled high with clothes, knick-knacks and books, I felt like my main character, Rose McHugh, who had found a little wooden cottage surrounded by bushland and birdsong, finally realising her dream. While her cottage was in Berrima, I found one in nearby Burrawang. Like Rose's house, mine is surrounded by native and exotic trees, the latter turning orange, red and yellow in the glorious peak of autumn. And, like Rose, I now wake up to the sound of black cockatoos and whipbirds, often muffled by the fog that settles over the low hills and valleys. But am I living in the world of my books or are my books merely an extension of me? One of the great pleasures of reading is travelling to captivating destinations. Whether the Japan of James Clavell's Shogun, the rural American south of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, or the islands of Ann Cleeves' Shetlands mysteries, my favourite books are ones set in places with their own unique magic. When I first came to the Highlands, I felt the kind of unique magic I craved as a reader and decided it would be even more fun to explore as a writer. Which is when I started becoming Rose. Loading When creating her, I approached Rose the same way I approached the setting for the novels. I wanted her to be compelling, inviting – someone readers might like to spend time with. She needed to be warm, but with a dark side, down-to-earth but eccentric, vulnerable without being pathetic. I also endowed Rose with some of my own quirks of character: a passion for bushwalking, an obsession with the films of Alfred Hitchcock and an addiction to cinnamon buns. I thought I was on pretty firm ground. As I wrote, Rose's actions were usually predictable, which is unsurprising considering I invented her, but sometimes she would go off-piste. My fingers would tap away on the keyboard and I'd stare in shock as Rose did something I hadn't planned. At first, I was unsure about letting her deviate from my outline, but I learnt to follow my instinct. Or rather, to follow Rose.
The Age
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Without realising, I started to live as a character in one of my books
I was living in the Southern Highlands of NSW when I wrote my first novel, Echo Lake, inspired by the misty forests, cosy pubs and antique shops I had grown to love. But circumstances forced me to leave for a few years, and I always longed to return. Recently, I got my wish. The stars unexpectedly realigned and I was able to move back to the Highlands in time for publication of Echo Lake's sequel, Whisky Valley. On the drive down from Sydney, my car piled high with clothes, knick-knacks and books, I felt like my main character, Rose McHugh, who had found a little wooden cottage surrounded by bushland and birdsong, finally realising her dream. While her cottage was in Berrima, I found one in nearby Burrawang. Like Rose's house, mine is surrounded by native and exotic trees, the latter turning orange, red and yellow in the glorious peak of autumn. And, like Rose, I now wake up to the sound of black cockatoos and whipbirds, often muffled by the fog that settles over the low hills and valleys. But am I living in the world of my books or are my books merely an extension of me? One of the great pleasures of reading is travelling to captivating destinations. Whether the Japan of James Clavell's Shogun, the rural American south of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, or the islands of Ann Cleeves' Shetlands mysteries, my favourite books are ones set in places with their own unique magic. When I first came to the Highlands, I felt the kind of unique magic I craved as a reader and decided it would be even more fun to explore as a writer. Which is when I started becoming Rose. Loading When creating her, I approached Rose the same way I approached the setting for the novels. I wanted her to be compelling, inviting – someone readers might like to spend time with. She needed to be warm, but with a dark side, down-to-earth but eccentric, vulnerable without being pathetic. I also endowed Rose with some of my own quirks of character: a passion for bushwalking, an obsession with the films of Alfred Hitchcock and an addiction to cinnamon buns. I thought I was on pretty firm ground. As I wrote, Rose's actions were usually predictable, which is unsurprising considering I invented her, but sometimes she would go off-piste. My fingers would tap away on the keyboard and I'd stare in shock as Rose did something I hadn't planned. At first, I was unsure about letting her deviate from my outline, but I learnt to follow my instinct. Or rather, to follow Rose.
