Bd - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 8, 2003

Rehearsals signal new season
for Terrace Community Band

THE TERRACE Commun-
ity Band is marking the
beginning of ils 21st sea-
son with a new conductor
and a new practice set-
ting.

Thirty musicians turned
up for the band’s first prac-
tice of the season, Sepl.
30, at Caledonia Second-
ary School.

“Historically. we've had
as many as 40 people. but
in the past, we’ve had 20
people,” says band publi-
city director Carol Lomas.

Although that first prac-

tice was al Cal, the band
is shifting to the new
Skeena Junior Secondary
School.

“We're looking forward
to Skeena because it's
new,” said Lomas.

- Skeena is also the home
school of Susan Brouwer
who is the band’s new dir-
ector: She's been de-
scribed as one of the finest

_band conductors in Cana-

da.

Susan has directed
choral, jazz and concert
band ensembles throughout

British Columbia,

A graduate of the Uni-
versity of Victoria's school
of music, she currently dir-
ects the concerl and jazz
band program at Skeena

' Junior Secondary, and has

taken her ensembles to
compete and win gold at
MusicFest, Canada’s na-
tional festivat.

Susan credits her love
of music to the enthusiasm
of her music teachers, and
to her parents, who would
make every concert a fa-
mily event.

When not conducting or
leaching or playing her
bass trombone, Susan
loves to spend time with
her husband Rick and their
young daughter, Renya.

For more information on
the Terrace Communily
Band, please call 635-
4729 or visit its website at
ww w.terraceconimunily-
band.ca.

The band rehearses at
the Skeena Junior Second-

ary’s band room Tuesday . ;

evenings from 7-9 p.m.

A Humdinger of a nickname

A UNITED STATES Mar-
ine whogrew up in Terrace
came up with a fitting
nickname for the vehicle
he drove during his recent
tour of duty in Iraq.

Cpl. Ravi Gill called
his Humvee “Kermode
Klaws” — a name he chose
for everyone in the north-
west.

Gill, who now lives in
Lubbock, Texas, returned
hame in July.

He spent two months

with his unit in Iraq during
the war volunteering lo
stay on a little longer at a
military base in Kuwait.

“The weather here is
hot!” he writes in a June
27 letter to members of the
Royal Canadian Legion
Branch [3 from Camp
Commando in neighbour-
ing Persian Gulf state Ku-
wait.

Summer temperatures
were a furnace-like 120
degrees Fahrenheit during

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to the students at Veritas Catholic School. Each class was responsible for filling
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