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artistic, folk and yodel music.
During the grand concert “Sounds
of Switzerland” on Saturday, June
30 at 7:30 p.m. an astounding 300
singers will combine their voices to
perform many traditional and con-
temporary Swiss songs. Other high-
lights will include contributions by
smaller groups and typical Swiss
elements such as the alphorn, cow-
bells, and whip cracking. In addi-
tion, a medley of German folk
songs, commissioned especially for
this event to honour the cultural her-
itage of the Kitchener/Waterloo
area, will be presented to the public
for the very first time.
These two exciting events are part
of Saengerfest 2012, a singing and
yodeling festival, held every three
years by the North American Swiss
Singing Alliance (NASSA) and
alternately hosted by one of its indi-
vidual member choirs. This wonder-
ful tradition dates back over 120
years. NASSA was formed in the
late 1800s and the first singing festi-
val took place in 1897 in Cleveland,
Ohio.
Saengerfest 2012 is being organ-
ized by the Swiss Choir Thames
Valley, a group of enthusiastic
singers with Swiss roots living in the
southwestern Ontario counties of
Huron, Perth and Wellington. The
mixed choir of 25 active members is
conducted by Anne Loeffler of New
Hamburg, who will also be conduct-
ing the massed choir at the Grand
Concert on June 30.
“This is a unique opportunity to
experience Swiss folk music, per-
formed by 300 singers in traditional
Swiss dress” said Kathy Eigenheer.
Tickets range from $17.50 to
$27.50 and are now available from
the box office at the Centre in the
Square. www.centre-square.com
For more information visit
www.saengerfest2012.ca or call
519-578-1570
Locals’ Swiss music
coming to Kitchener
Moore begins as intern at ACWFor Hannah Moore, a TrentUniversity student in BusinessAdministration and CanadianStudies entering her second year, anintern position at Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Township(ACW) is another experience in run-ning organizations.The Colborne Ward resident, whois entering her second year at Trent,is a former student of St. Anne’s
Catholic Secondary School and
Clinton and District
Christian School and has been
involved in governance for quite
some time.
“I was always involved in the stu-
dent councils at school,” she said.
“It got me interesting in making
decisions in an organization.”
She said that, while she is study-
ing business administration at
school, she plans on getting her
diploma for municipal administra-
tion and get into the running of a
municipality.
Previously Moore worked at
Culbert’s Bakery in Goderich as
well as helping out on her family’s
cash crop farm, owned by her par-
ents John and Helene.Moore began in her position withthe municipality earlier this monthand since has got a taste of manydifferent aspects of working for themunicipality.“I’ve helped with reception, han-dled customers and made agendasfor meetings,” she said. “I’ve donebasic filing, helped the various departments when people were onvacation and I’ve worked on theclerical jobs that need to be done.”She said she’s also got somehands-on experience processing taxpayments and assisting the account-ing clerk with the financial tasks forthe municipality.“Really I just go wherever I’mneeded,” she said.
Graduation
Levi Cook, son of Paul and
Karen Cook, has successfully
completed his apprenticeship
as a licensed electrician and he
is currently employed at Paul
Cook Electric.
Congratulations Levi
Love, from your family
Graduation
On Tuesday, June 12, Sean
Cook, son of Paul and Karen
Cook, graduated from
Conestoga College in the
Construction Engineering
Technology-Architecture
Program on the Dean’s Honour
List. He has accepted a full-time
position at CSL in Cambridge.
Congratulations Sean
Love, from your family
The spattered table is covered with
a strange variety of objects – electric
fry pans, paint stripper guns, knives,
wires, brushes, soldering irons,
screwdrivers, exhaust fans, blow-
torches, blocks of wax and paint
tubes. This isn’t the scenery from a
1960’s horror film, but the art studio
in Anna Koot’s country home near
St. Mary’s.
Koot works in the medium of
encaustic painting, which requires
artists to mix paint with hot wax and
then apply it to boards to create the
images they wish to convey. The
result of this ancient technique is
striking. The translucency of the
wax makes the colours brilliant, and
the multiple layers give the works a
very tactile surface. It’s very
hard to resist touching the
paintings.
Koot is one of three artists pre-
senting “An Encaustic Viewpoint”,
an exhibition running from June 22
to July 18 at the Blyth Festival Art
Gallery. Her partners are Wendy Orr
and Wendy O’Brien and all are
members of the Stratford art collec-
tive, Gallery 96. In keeping with the
Blyth Theatre Festival’s 2012 coun-
try theme, the show will have a rural
flavour, ranging from Wendy Orr’s
pastoral landscapes to Anna’s geo-
metric trellises to details of antique
barn hardware by Wendy O’Brien.
The artists have all studied a variety
of styles, ranging from illustration,
architectural rendering, fashion
design and commercial art, but it
was the influence of encaustic
teacher, Andrea Bird, that drew them
to work together in this unusual
medium.
And it’s a very successful partner-
ship. Viewers will find this show
approachable and warm, both for the
unique painting technique and the
familiar subject matter.
This is the first of three seasonal
exhibitions presented each year by
the gallery. It is curated by Greg
Sherwood and co-sponsored by Ron
and Bev Walker and Duncan and
Lynda McGregor. The public is
invited to meet the artists at the
opening reception of “An Encaustic
Viewpoint” on Friday, June 22 at 6
p.m. The exhibition continues until
July 18.
All exhibitions are mounted in the
Bainton Gallery of the Blyth
Memorial Hall, next to the Blyth
Festival box office, open Monday to
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
For more information, contact
Robert Tetu at 519-345-2184 or e-
mail gallery@blythfestival.com
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A friendly face
Visitors to Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Township’s
municipal building on the corner of Council Line and
County Road 25 may find themselves greeted with an
unfamiliar, but friendly face as Colborne native Hannah
Moore, the township’s summer student, recently began her
tenure there. (Denny Scott photo)