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Game Not Over niagara-news.com NIAGARA KNIGHTS RICHARD DEFEAT ST. CLAIR FITZPATRICK SAINTS 76-73 PAGE 15 GIVES ADVICE TO FUTURE ACTORS NN PAGE 8 NIAGARA NEWS FEBUARY 7, 2014 • VOL. 45 ISSUE 10 GAME NOT OVER YET Sometimes, matches last not two or three periods, but four years HD is a ‘whole new world’ By MICHAEL SORGE Stafffor Writer - makeupWith high-definition tele vision becoming the norm, makeup artists have a whole new canvas on which- to work. Kathy Rupcic, a profes sional, self-employed makeup artist of 20 years, - visited the college last - Friday to hold makeup dem- onstrations while answer ing questions from Broad casting – Radio, Television - and Film (BRTF) program students. She visits the col - Andrey Vorontsov, the junior Ukrainian national champion in wrestling in 2008, is sparring with another member of the Brock University lege annually, but, this time, wrestling team on Feb. 5 in St. Catharines. PHOTO BY RENAT ABSALYAMOV her focus was on the impor By RENAT ABSALYAMOV tance of using makeup for Staff Writer high-definition (HD) video, dream. It is tragedy, pain, medal from the XII Olympic in the Cambridge Sports Everything I worked for a different process than for memory, whatever you like Winter Games in Innsbruck, Hall of Fame. “The tendon since the age of five, it just- standard definition (SD). to call it — anything, but Austria. was torn. There was no shot down the dream.” “Since the advent of high None of these characters a reason to make viewers Thirty-eight long years room for heroics.” - It was one of the low definition, a new learning will find themselves in a drop everything, sit down have passed since 24-year- “I started skating when I est points of his life, sadly curve was thrown into the list of about 2,500 athletes and start staring at the TV old Shaver participated in it, was five,” continues Shaver, recollects Shaver. craft, and the work is al going to the 2014 Winter in an attempt to understand- but still, he remembers how adding, “And, literally, it was- For about four months, he ways challenging, in a good Olympic Games in Sochi, how it feels to be no more- being sixth in figures and my dream from the age of was so out of spirits that he way. There are many days Russia. than just close to conquer third in the short program,- five to compete at the Olym did not want to do anything. I feel more like a makeup Neither Ronald Shaver ing the mysterious sanctu- he went to practice on the pic Games. I worked very He did not want to train, technician than a makeup nor Andrey Vorontsov will ary Olympia, Greece. morning of the long pro hard in the next few years nor did he want to put artist. come onto the rink or the “I really felt at that mo gram and tore the adductor to make it happen. So, when skates on his feet or by any “TV and film makeup is, mat and try to win one of ment my life was over,” says tendon in his groin. I was forced to withdraw — other means relate to the for the most part, entirely 98 medal events, and, as a Shaver, 62, the Canadian- “[He remembers how]- I ended up in a hospital for figure skating sport. For HD-focused these days. result, none of them will get national champion in figure he begged team doctors to the remaining days of the six months he just spent on That means hyper-reality is recognition, money or fame. skating in 1977, recall shoot him up with corti Games — at that moment the injury,Continued depression on page and 14 staring us in the face every For them, the Olympic ing an injury preventing sone, so he could compete, in time, I really felt my life intensive rehabilitation. time we look at a screen. Games is a might-have-been him from the bringing a but they refused,” is written was over. That also means that perfection is a hard thing to visually achieve now By NICK FEARNS - compared to the days of SD. Staff Writer - … [Whether it’s] standard parties present answered - Clarke Bitter, coming off ed the finger at the dispar New Democrat Wayne definition or high definition, questions from the Cham a strong performance the ity in treatment schools in Gates says that he is unsure- you want to present your ber of Commerce and audi previous night, laid out an rural areas get compared to about building new schools best face to the audience.- With the second debate ence in hopes of winning - ambitious plan calling for those in urban areas. - when other schools are be “Now, more than ever, in as many nights, Niagara Kim Craitor’s former seat. the amalgamation of the Liberal candidate Joyce ing closed down. makeup artists play a cru riding byelection candidates Among the most impor public school board and the Morocco, put on the defen All four candidates cial role in the industry. But drewSecond cheers, jeers and some tantdebate issues discussed was Catholiccreates school board. sive, a reminded ‘civil’ the audience supported affair the new South our work is very evident laughs. the future of Parliament - This will allow the school that school board trustees- Niagara hospital, albeit with when it isn’t perfect. It’s Hosted by the Niagara- Oak Public School, Niagara- boards to shift funding from are elected and accountable their own stipulations. made us really step up our on-the-Lake Chamber of on-the-Lake’s only elemen administration to the front- to their constiutents, add For Gates it was making game andContinued continue on to page hone 2 Commerce and held in the tary school, the new South line workers. - ing, “If people are not happy sure theContinued hospital was on pagebuilt 2 our skills.” town’s community centre, Niagara hospital and jobs. Progressive Conservative with them, they should look by local workers. candidates from the four Green Party candidate candidate Bart Maves point at who they elect.” Page 2 NIAGARA NEWS • FEB. 7, 2014 NEWS The importance of the worker’s choice Continued from page 1 stressing the importance voter. Walker says that the Bitter was concerned of “worker choice” as he most important issue in about the transparency of relayed an anecdote about the byelection is the future the bidding process, sug- of Parliament Oak Public gesting that it should be out its members for serving as School and the new South in the open and not leaving a firefighter’s union fining Niagara hospital. taxpayers on the hook for Gates called right-to-work the cost if it is cancelled. volunteerlegislation firefighters. “right to work go.” The proposed site is Morocco touted her for less,” whereas Bitter “For us it’s a long way to- fundraising efforts to bring quipped that right-to-work trose Roads off the QEW in health care to Niagara, hav- legislation would help solve atNiagara Lyon’s Falls.Orest Creek and Samitz, Mon ing raised $9.2 million for unemployment because 72, of Niagara Falls, says he a new emergency room as everyone would need a was impressed by the civil- chair of the Greater Niagara second job to get by. ity the candidates showed Hospital Foundation. Right-to-work legisla- Green Party candidate Clarke Bitters, Liberal Party candidate Joyce Morocco, each other. Maves supports opening tion allows workers to join Progressive Conservative candidate Bart Maves and New Democrat candidate Wayne - the bidding process to all a workplace with a union Gates at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Chamber of Commerce byelection debate Tuesday bate. When you look at the without being required to - night. PHOTO BY NICK FEARNS “It’s nice to see a civil de employing union labour. become a union member. pening in different coun- companies,An audience not question just firms Morocco says that right- impressed by what Maves young student I want to world,tries people a lot of are what’s wrestling hap in asked Maves if he would to-work legislation would had to say. enthusiasm. know I have a job when I their parliaments and what support right-to-work leg- “kill pensions and jeop- “I felt like Bart Maves did didatesAlso their didn’t issues have are,the have you, but thank God we islation even if his constitu- ardise the safety of work- an excellent job portray- frankly, old.”Gibson says the Margaret Walker, 65, of still have that.” ents were not for it. ers.” Kaitlin Gibson, 21, of ing his ideas,” says Gibson. most important election finishNiagara-on-the-Lake, university.” says The byelection is sched- Maves responded by Niagara Falls, was most “I felt like the other can- issue for her is jobs. “As a she is still undecided as a uled for Thursday. College alumnus gives makeup demonstration to students Makeup artist helps students get HD TV-ready Continued from page 1 whole new world. to encourage consumers Rupcic, a 51-year-old who “Kathy was able to really towards exploring more lives in the Hamilton area, is natural, mineral-based film that could be taken a 1985 graduate of Niagara appearance, and she looked lines. These products are seriously at myriad film Kathy Rupcic, experienced makeup artist, applying bring out Ashley’s natural really coming along, and are festivals.“We were Don’t like let a fam-the name product during a makeup demonstration with student Tom Otto, the BRTF pro- To future, potential focused on using organic ofily, the and film there fool was you.
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