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Volume 134 Issue 37

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Friday, November 25, 2016

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Band Set For National Stage

Council
Accepts
Campground
Tenders
By DARRYL HOLYK

innedosa
Town
Council met for its
regular November meeting
on the evening of Tuesday,
November 15th. Mayor Orr
presided with Councillors
Taylor, Wedgewood, Saler,
Luker and MacDowall in
attendance.
Councillor
Skatch was absent.
Council reviewed the
proposals for management
at the campground, beach
and cottage development
area for the 2017 season.
Council approved the proposal from Rick and Penny
Chorneyko in the amount
of $68,250, GST included.
In regards to the
construction of a new
washroom for the campground, Council accepted
the quotation from Birch
Construction Ltd. in the
amount of $30,915.51 plus
GST. The quotation was the
only one submitted during the Request for Tender
process.
Council
authorized
the quotation from Salers
Backhoe and Trucking
Ltd. of $3,400 and being
the lowest of two received
for the demolition of the
former Public Works Shop
building on Armitage Avenue.

Continued
on Page 8

Photo by Hillary Campbell

The MCI Band is raising money to assist in covering the cost to attend MusicFest Nationals in Niagara Falls in May 2017.
By HILLARY CAMPBELL

innedosa Collegiate
Institutes band has
been invited to Music Fest
Nationals. The invitational
is for students who receive
a certain rating from adjudicators at the Optimist
Festival in Winnipeg every
February. Students who
are invited then proceed
to the national level of the

event. Th e band, which

consists of students from
grades 9 to 12, is taught by
Claire Powell.
The band received the
invitation in 2015, but already had a trip booked for
the time of the nationals,
and so postponed their trip
to this year. The nationals
will be from May 15th to
May 18th, 2017 and will be
in Niagara Falls. Accord-

ing to Powell, they have

not yet decided what they
will play at the music festival. Ive talked about it
a bit with the elevens and
twelves, since they are the
seniors they sometimes
have a better ear, and can
listen critically, and they
have some ideas, said
Powell.
The music selection is
always in the style of clas-

sic concert band which, according to Powell is from

the tradition of marching
band. It is the same instrumentation, except sitting
down. The style started to
appear around the 1900s,
and is continuing today.
There will be 28 students going on the trip in
May. They will be fl ying
very early in the morning in order to maximize

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their time and cut down

on costs. In order to raise
money for the trip, the
band will be holding a
number of fundraisers.
Students sold cupcakes at
the parent-teacher interview night on November
24th, and all day on Friday,
November 25th.
Continued on
Page 16

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