HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 2015-06-24, Page 15Powerhouse Dance celebrates five years
Laura Broadley
Clinton News Record
Balloon animals, slide, cot-
ton candy, barbeque and an
obstacle course helped Pow-
erhouse Dance Clinton studio
celebrate its 5th anniversary
last Saturday.
The studio offers a full -year
program for ages two and a
half and up. Instruction is
offered in jazz, tap, ballet,
acrobatics, hip hop and lyri-
cal/contemporary.
At age five students are eli-
gible to audition for the com-
petitive team. The team
attends four competitions
across Southern Ontario and
Michigan.
Every two years the senior
team has the opportunity to
travel to the Showstopper
competition in Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina.
This week 50 dancers are
making their way to Walt
Disney World to perform at
the park. The studio sent an
audition tape to Disney
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Powerhouse Dance in Clinton celebrated its five-year anniversary
last Saturday with a barbeque, balloon animals, cotton candy,
slide and obstacle course. Pictured here are dancers and staff
of Powerhouse Dance, back row, Brianna Hoffman (L), Emma
Stilwell, Jayme Verhoef, Sydney Middleton, Paisley Gerrits, Ava
McClure, Madison Holman and Kali Moor. Front row, Leah Scott
(L), Riley Shore, Sarah Yeoman (Owner), Madison Burns, Lauren
Sutherland (Faculty).
performing arts program
and they were selected to
perform.
Powerhouse Dance is
located at 80 Mary Street in
Clinton. For more informa-
tion go to www.powerhouse-
dance.com.
Tea with Toby at the School on Wheels Museum
Laura Broadley
Clinton News Record
Most of the students of the
School on Wheels dropped
in for a week or so when it
stopped in their area but not
Toby, she lived it.
"It didn't seem remarka-
ble. It's all we knew," Toby
explained.
On June 13 Toby Sloman
Rainey sat down with an
audience and answered
questions about her life on
the school car.
Toby was one of the five
children of Clinton natives,
Fred and Cela Sloman, who
lived on the School on
Wheels railcar.
The Sloman family spent
10 months of the year travel-
ling to different remote areas
in Northern Ontario.
The railcar was left on a
short side track for approxi-
mately five days before leav-
ing for another stop. The stu-
dents were given enough
homework to last until the car
returned to their community.
The Slomans were some of
the only visitors that some of
these students would see and
that kept the whole family
busy. Even without television
or radio the family were
always entertained.
"I don't remember being
bored in my entire life," Toby
remembered.
Toby's father Fred was
inspired to become a teacher
when he was recovering war
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Toby (Sloman) Rainey and Ray Letheren, here at the Tea with
Toby event, are on the board of directors hoping to take charge of
the promotion and sustainability of the School on Wheels Railcar
Museum.
injuries during WWI. Fred
was enlisted to read to a fel-
low soldier from Northern
Ontario who couldn't read.
"He was a great teacher,"
Toby said of her father.
The School on Wheels
started in 1926 until 1940
when a larger railcar was
brought in to accommodate
the family. From that point
the Slomans continued the
School on Wheels until their
retirement in 1965.
The second railcar was
recovered in 1982 and
brought to its current site in
Sloman Park.
Toby wouldn't have
changed her life on the rail-
car. When her parents
wanted her to go to school in
Clinton for grade 13 she
resisted.
"I didn't want to leave the
bush," Toby said.
Toby has initiated a six -
member board of directors,
now headed by Ray Leth-
eren to help promote and
sustain the museum.
Another Tea with Toby
will take place on August 22
from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
The School on Wheels
Railcar Museum is located at
76 Victoria Terrace in Clin-
ton. Each year it is open
from Victoria Day weekend
to the end of September,
Thursday to Sunday and hol-
iday Mondays from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Entrance is by
donation.
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