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Article: Gift lifts Alberta Bair Theater free of debt
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- The Billings Gazette
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- January 6, 1998
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With a spring in their steps and smiles of appreciation on their faces, the board of directors of the Alberta Bair Theater announced Monday they are debt-free.
The good news comes after nearly two years of debt incurred through lavish bookings and a number of physical repairs on the 1931 movie house, restored as a performing arts palace in 1986.
The belated Santa Claus present came from Wendy's of Montana, and the Sam E. McDonald Jr. family, which presented the ABT with $50,000 Monday, eliminating the theater's debt and boosting the hopes of the board for a successful "in-the-black" 1998.
ABT director Ann Miller and many of the other board members, including downtown boosters Bob Waller and ...