AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 16, 1999

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

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Music’s magic will live on
despite all the heartache

Dear Sir:

In the midst of the consternation about the funding cuts
to the music program, there was a celebration at the
R.E.M. Lee Theatre,

Robin Hollett gathered her Grade 6 and 7 bands and jazz
bands together to play the music they had learned during
the year,

Tom Walker, the manager of the theatre whose position
was cut and who will be gone in three weeks gave them his
usual quiet, professional support.

As a parent, I found it humbling to realize the thousands
of hours that had gone into the evening's performance:
children practising alone, children practising together,
progressing from uncertainty to delight as they discovered
that with courage and hard work they could be first
musicians and then that magical thing called a band.

There were black children there and white, Tsimshian
children and Punjabi children. Our children.

Cause outweighs the mug

Dear Sir:

Claudette Sandecki recently used her space to critcize the
physical attributes of a coffee mug that she received in ex-
change for donating $4 toward breast cancer research.

Ms, Sandecki commented at length on the mug’s
diameter, capacity, weight, and handle size all of which,
she feels, are well beyond what is required of a good mug.

The mug thal so overwhelmed Ms. Sandecki bears more
than a passing resemblance to a product that symbolizes
hope for the one in nine Canadian women who suffer from
breast cancer.

The product to which I am referring is part of Avon’s
Flame Crusade Against Breast Cancer, and the Avon sales
dealers who offer it to their customers have put their hearts

All of them with their eyes focussed intently on their
music, disciplined, excited. Band after band, number after
number. We applauded each one.

When it was finished, we stood and applauded them
again for a long time. It seemed like all we could do to ex-
press our appreciation for what they had done and our
heartache at what the board had done to them,

Then, as they so often do, our children taught us. With
the last band stilt on stage, the other musicians lined the
stairs. And they played together.

And they sang. ‘‘All things shall perish from under the
sky. Music alone shall live. Music alone shall live. Music
alone shall live. Never to die.” They sang it together. They
sang it in rounds and Robin Hollett was not the only one
who wept and was thankful-for the great hearts of our chil-
dren,

Robert Hart, Terrace, B.C,
(received via email)

into this worthy cause for nearly six years.

In that time they have raised more than $4 million dollars
for breast cancer research through the sale of items such as
pens, keychains, pins, and mugs.

I am sure that you share my respect for these remarkable
women as well as my hope that through their efforts, a
cure for breast cancer may eventually be found.

It would be most unfortunate if Ms. Sandecki’s dis-
appointment with her mug created any confusion with ours
and dissuaded the members of your community from
making their own donations.

Bennett R. Gallina,
President, Avon Canada,
Pointe-Claire, Quebec

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_ Unity
needed

Dear Sir:

This letter is in response
to C. Robinson’s letter titled
“School Board lied,’ June
2, 1999,

I appreciate your feelings
re; Joss of music and band
programs in the school dis-
trict, but closing Parkside
School is not an option.

How many more cuts do
you want to endure? If you
had your children at Park-
side School you coulda’t
wrile what you did. Mrs.
Eide and her staff are doing
a fabulous job of educating
our children.

I also feel very angry at
the school board for cutting
an essential and valuable
program — music and band.
Our older son is in grade
eight band at Skeena and
doing extremely well,

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headstart in grades six and
seven.

Our younger son in grade
one at Parkside School will
miss this opportunity if the
programs are not reinstated.
However, two wrongs don’t
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gram. or another,

The public needs to unite
to fight against program

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Terrace, B.C,

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Terrace, B.C,