Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), February 29, 1984, p. 5

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Wednesday S McKenzieSmith talent terrific at annua show The Second Annual Tunes and Talents Cbncert was held last Tuesday and by all accounts the event was a tremendous success Most of the entertainment was provided by talented students who tickled the ivory pluck a few strings and generally blended together to give the audience a musical treat The Mc Ken school choir was outstanding In the program The band was hand the lens Montmorency played Fur Town councillors Rick Bonnette and Dave Willing though it was kind of funny why their colleague Ross couldn t attend Friday s drop in Seems Ross was out of town picking a visitor up from the train Had Ihcre been a stop in town Ross have had miss he meeting Just shows we need VIA to stop in town And speaking of VIA if you work out or town and would use the trains if they stopped In Acton but you t get one of the questionnaires put out by the Chamber of Commerce don despair You can always make your voice opinions heard by wiling a letter to one of your local councillors Bui I too early An Acton resident spotted a robin on Highway last Wednesday at proximately 55 m That Is February 22 he earliest I have heard of hem returning from their trip south Free Press sports writer Mark Holmes saw a Blue Jay that the bird on Fri day but not being avid bird watchers neither of us knew whether that was When the folks down in Speyslde throw a party It seems they all get in the act Besides having several people the departing owners of the General Store John and M Hie all the goodies were donated by friends of the family Don DeVries contributed all the flowers Including the floral arrange on the table corsages etc and his wife Margaret did all the arrange ments Diane Jennings decorated the cake Top n guest performers were also on hand for the evening Scott Woods an Ontario Fiddle Champion had the crowd toetapping and hand clapping with compositions and old favorites such Whiskey Before Breakfast The Royal City Ambassadors and the Speed River Junction Quartet highlighted the program with some of the beat barber shop music the town has heard since the last time they were here Again both the Ambassadors and the Speed River Quartet had the croud handclapping and foot stomping to renditions of many old The McKenzieSmlth choir opened the talent show with Commercials Com The Guitar Man and I d rather Be Sailing three modern songs that started things off on an upbeat note Pam followed with a beautiful rendition of Fur on the piano and then Cathy and Robinson performed a duet on the piano called The Old Banjo Paddy Johnston was next in the spotlight performing Country Waltz on the violin and by all standards he did a fine job Lee Gallant then performed a solo on the p ano of the Beatles hit Yesterday Pam then returned to the stage with Kandi Hannah Monique Bartlett and Denis e Corcoran sang Rainbow Connection a tune made famous by the Muppet Movie Scott Woods was next on the agenda and then the Royal City Ambassadors and the Speed River had their turn to enthrall the audience Paula and Trine performed a tough but surprisingly good rendition of and by using gymnastics and dance the two performers gave the crowd a thrilling display of modem dance Next was the McKcnzieSmith school band who received a great deal of applause for performanceof Chariots of Fire and the theme from the movie Superman Valerie Keklc followed with another piano solo Theme more famously know as the theme music from the TV soap opera The Young and the Restless Then gave the audience a taste of classical piano with a per form a nee of Aliegreto in C followed by the two soloists getting together and playing Mclodie Stewart closed he McKenzle Smith talent part of the program with another solo effort singing the Beatles song Let it Be Scott Woods came back to thrill the audience with another display of champion ship fiddling and then closing the show the Royal City Ambassadors and the Speed River Junction Quartet sent the audience home humming more great barbershop music All in all both the performers and the audience numbered at over had a terrlf time BHOCHURE Will BE MARCH ACTON GEORGETOWN IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A BOOK Computer Data Sennces Statements General Ledger Accounts Receivable and Payable Payroll Bookkeepng T4and WCB Preparation Mortgage Schedules 8775656 MAIN ST GEORGETOWN ASSOCIATE TAX OFFICE HOIKS TamrWay SiI Satan ik wrtpjteatw BOUQUET YARNS MAIN STREET

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