October
14th, 2009
MOVIE PREMIERE "WHEN DUTY CALLS" Fund raiser, matinée performance featuring local singer song writer Sherrie Erickson and Pottery Road.
2 PM Matinee,
October 25th, 2009 Performing Arts Centre, 3800 33rd Street, Vernon BC Tickets
$15. Available at the door or through
ticketsellar.ca
WHEN DUTY CALLS celebrates the brave deeds of Archie Hickling and commemorates
the 11 people who died when the Okanagan Hotel burned down 100 years ago, August
9th, 1909.
The Greater Vernon Museum & Archives and Producer/Director Bruce Mol invite you
to attend the Movie Premiere of WHEN DUTY CALLS, the story of Archie Hickling
and the Okanagan Hotel fire of 1909 told using re-enactments, historical images,
original newspaper accounts and interviews. Fire, Smoke and Escape re-enactments
feature actor Clive Goodrich on location at O’Keefe Ranch with members of
Vernon’s Fire-Rescue Services. Surviving family members reveal little known facts
and some startling new information about Archie Hickling.“Greater Love,”
original music for the production, was written and performed by Rob Dinwoodie.
Narration by City of Vernon Councillor Patrick Nicol and by John Lent, Regional
Dean of Okanagan College.
Museum memberships, DVD's and CD's will be available in the lobby after the
show.
Before
the movie, Sherrie Erickson and Pottery Road will be on stage performing selections from
Sherrie's CD
"Songs from my sofa."
The songs on Sherries debut CD are written from personal life experiences.
Sherrie has a distinctive alto voice that flavors her range from contemporary
adult to contemporary country music. Sherrie's popular YouTube video "HAPPY" was
produced and directed by Bruce Mol.
Below: "Sherrie Erickson and Pottery Road."
Betty Anne Northup, Ellie Young, Sherrie Erickson & Sheila Odney.
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE – PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FREELY
Information linked to
http://www.bmidd.com/ohf
October 12th, 2009
RE: Movie
Premiere of WHEN DUTY CALLS the story of Archie Hickling and the Okanagan
Hotel of 1909
BACKGROUND:
The WHEN DUTY CALLS DVD celebrates the brave deeds of Archie Hickling
and commemorates the 11 people who died when the Okanagan Hotel burned down 100
years ago, August 9th, 1909.
MOVIE PREMIERE:
The Greater
October 25th,
2009 Performing Arts Centre,
2 PM Matinee (only) Tickets $15. Available soon through TicketSeller.ca
This is the story of Archie Hickling’s brave and final moments told using re-enactments, historical images, original newspaper accounts and interviews.
Fire, Smoke and
Escape re-enactments feature actor Clive Goodrich on location at O’Keefe Ranch
with members of
Surviving
family members reveal little known facts and some startling new information
about Archie Hickling.
“Greater Love,” original music for the production, was written and
performed by Rob Dinwoodie.
Narration by City of Vernon Councillor Patrick Nicol and by John Lent, Regional Dean of Okanagan College.
8X11 POSTER HERE
11X17 POSTER HERE
Contact name
for this release is Bruce Mol,
END
DVD VIDEO PRODUCTION NEWS
July 29th, 2009
The Video is
Complete!
The DVD goes on sale at the Greater
Vernon Museum & Archives beginning August 8th 2009. Thanks again to all the
volunteers who helped make this fund raiser possible.
More Info
…Where Mol’s direction really shines is in the re-enactment scenes: showing the start of the blaze itself, and how a sleeping hotel guest might have reacted. No dialogue, no voice-of-doom narration, just one guest, one room, one door on fire. But what goes on around this man: an escalation of tense, well-edited dramatic surround sound; clock ticking, crickets chirping, crackling fire, pounding music, all delivered with an excitement you’d find in the latest Hollywood thriller. More harrowing, of course, since it’s all true…read the rest of the review
Jim Williamson
Daily Courier
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A very well put together account of a
historic moment in Vernon's history. Archival recording at it's best!
Well done Bruce and all who participated in the making of "When Duty
Calls"
Michael Poirier
Writer and Director - Back Stage Theatre
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A Note of
Congratulations from the Vernon Chamber of Commerce |
June 20, 2009
Vernon
Chamber Website
May 24, 2009 Article in the Morning Star
May 21, 2009 See the NEW TRAILER!
Above: Actor Clive Goodrich/Below:
Songwriter Rob Dinwoodie
Images: Top-Byron Beck/Bottom-Roxanne
Wagenstein
April 17, 2009 Help support this
project! Buy the 24 page fundraiser booklet!
Read all the 1909 newspaper accounts of this tragedy
plus see some archival images never published before.
Available for only $10 at the Greater Vernon
Museum & Archives.
Quantities are limited so hurry!
GVMA is at 3009 32nd Ave. Vernon BC V1T 2L8
Ph.(250) 542-3142
ABOVE: "Minute Book" historical record of Vernon Fire Fighting - some surprising findings! HOSE REEL TEAM from 1900's - those things are tough to pull!
BELOW: Fire pull box similar to those distributed along main streets.
At O'Keefe Ranch we reenacted the historic picture and tried pulling a hose reel as fast as possible deploying the hose - NOT easy! Reenactment of what it must have been like to discover your hotel room was on fire. Copy of the actual Inquest title page - some interesting findings.
Photos: Byron Beck
Rob Dinwoodie
ALL ABOUT ROB's NEW SONG
The song title is "Greater Love".... from the scripture that states Greater Love has no one than to lay down his life for his friends" ... and as the chorus of the song states "That's what Archie Hickling did...his courage knows no end!" I think as a song writer the whole story asks the question "Who was Archie Hickling...what was he doing in Vernon...why would he go back in to the fire? I believe that it was for love of his friends and likely the love of his life .... when he cried out "I'll save you or I'll die! is the cry of a lover to the beloved. It is appropriate that we look back at the beginnings of our community and recognize that in difficult times it is the love and passion for our fellow man that is paramount and is the foundation of this great community we call Vernon. As a song writer I always enjoy writing songs that tell the story of our past and the people that brought us to the present. Archie Hickling is one of those forgotten heroes of this community that gave his life for his fellow man and consequently has impacted the neighbourhoods in which we live and work today....it is an honor to be part of this project.
Cowboy
entertainer Rob Dinwoodie and his wife Jocelyne provide seasoned entertainment
with a Cowboy Dinner Show at O'Keefe Ranch.
See
http://www.okeeferanch.ca/
MORE NEWS ABOUT THE VIDEO
Archie Hickling died after saving three lives - we speak to the relatives and children of the survivors and hear the family account of the tragedy - a very interesting development is revealed!
How is it possible that someone could not escape even though she was standing by a window! A fireman explains the mechanics of a fully involved fire.
Alex Smith was a 'person of interest' yet he never appeared at the Inquest. Some claim he killed himself, some say he was never heard of again, but the records show something else!