Halton Hills Newspapers

New Tanner (Acton, ON), 21 May 1998, p. 10

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10 THE NEW TANNER has visited and performed in the Halton Hills area. bers of the Chorus dressed in the traditional outfit worn by girls in a Dutch fishing village. Left: Lindsay Holmes, Heather Ellis, Acton, Emilie Umpleby, Dustyn Zuber and Jennifer Ellis and Jennifer Grierson of Acton. Pri oe oak dae PS palty: \ E, a : WILD WINDMILL RIDE: To help raise money for the upkeep of this traditional Dutch windmill, each year the village of Etten, 10 kilometres from the German border, stages a festival. For $25 guilders - about $20 Canadian - the very brave can be strapped onto a stretcher-type board attached to the ends of the windmill's vanes and go for a ride. Prom te nme ae ee COMMAND PERFORMANCE: Chorus members gave an impromptu perform- ance of the Dutch and Canadian national anthems for tourists on the steps of the Royal Palace at Apeldoorn. CHURCH CONCERT: Members of the Georgetown Children's Chorus performed with the United Church Male Choir in Ermelo during the trip. The Dutch choir Children's Chorus in Holland The Georgetown Chil- dren's Chorus, including 14 Acton members and some of their parents, returned home last Tuesday following a very successful "Ambassadors of Peace" tour to the Nether- lands. The chorus gave con- certs in Holland, Belgium and France and took part in memorial ceremonies to hon- our Canada's war veterans at Vimy Ridge and at the Houlten Canadian War cemetary in Holland. Chorus member Jennifer Grierson, 10, and her mother Susan chronicled the trip in this series of photographs. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1) DUTCH SHOES: Acton's Jennifer Grierson, 10, member of the Georgetown Children's Choru couldn't resist slipping into these traditional wood clogs outside of a store in Giethoorn, known as t! "Dutch Venice", during the Chorus's recent trip Holland to pay tribute to Canadians soldiers wl helped liberate Holland during World War II. Only few children and farm workers continue to wear tl traditional wooden shoes. ; LIBERATION DAY: Dutch school children (foreground) listened as Halton Hill school children, members of the Chorus, performed during a Liberation Day Servic in the Canadian War Cemetery in Houlten, Holland. "78 Necsteprers ee ee wf 2 ate. cosa iaetl WREATHS LAID: Chorus members Jennifer Stevenson, Sarah Rome and Acton': Kim Freeland laid wreaths at Vimy Ridge at the Canadian National Vimy Memo- rial that commemorates the 3,598 Canadian soldiers who gave their lives in the battle of Vimy Ridge. Freeland laid a wreath on behalf of the Acton branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

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