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Community Voice - February 20, 2020 1 YOUR CUSTOMIZED HEARING CARE 613-692-7375 EXPERIENCE AWAITS! 5528 Ann St., Manotick www.HearingFreedom.com Call today to book your appointment. Your STITTSVILLE CommunityVoice & RICHMOND February 20, 2020 [email protected] 613-45-VOICE www.ottawavoice.ca [email protected] Vol. 3 No. 4 John Curry photo Robert Dueck (front, centre) the West Ottawa Ladies Chorus’ music director since its founding in 2011 who will be retiring from the position this spring, leads an audience singalong at the Chrous’ 2019 Christmas concert, with the Chorus singing along behind him. Long-time musical director leaving popular ladies chorus BY JOHN CURRY his replacement announcing introduced to members at re- in the same capacity with the She was a music teacher in Sosun Suh of Kanata will take hearsal sessions on Wednesday, Canadian Military Wives Choir public and private schools in The only music director the over as director this coming Feb. 5 and Sunday, Feb. 9. in Petawawa for three years and Seoul, South Korea, Toronto West Ottawa Ladies Chorus has September. Members of the Dueck says he is very pleased for two children’s choirs for a and Winnipeg for 14 years. She ever known is stepping down. search committee formed al- with his successor, predicting decade. earned a B.A. in Music and a Robert Dueck of Stittsville, who most a year ago were Debbie that Suh will be a good leader for Also a musician, she was Master of Music Education from has directed the chorus since its Kaye, Denise Benner, Carolyn the chorus. a member of the Gangwon Sungshin University before im- inception in 2011 is relocating to Breton, Maxine Mercer and Bev Suh started conducting mu- Province music orchestra in migrating to Canada. the west coast this spring. Armbruster. sical groups when she was Korea, as well as the Seoul music A search committee has found The new director was just 11 years old. She served orchestra for many years. PLEASE SEE CHORUS, PAGE 2 NO FEES UNLESS WE SETTLE YOUR CASE Car Accidents Slip and Fall Injuries Andrea Girones B.A LL.B M.B.A. Medical Malpractice Injured? 1-866-701-5811 • 613-599-3535 Wrongful Death www.gironeslawyers.com Injuries at Birth Call us, we can help [email protected] Disability Denials 300 Terry Fox Drive, Suite 300 Kanata Snowmobile Accidents Catastrophic Injuries FREE NO OBLIGATION CONSULTATIONS Dog Bites 2 February 20, 2020 - Community Voice News >>CHORUS, FROM PAGE 1 Male Chorus. He then his own training has in- founded West Ottawa cluded voice, piano and She has earned a certifi- Ladies Chorus. For a time, conducting. cate in Early Childhood he directed both groups The ladies chorus origi- Music Education from before concentrating on nated from a group of 12 the Royal Conservatory of the ladies’ chorus. female singers who had Music in Toronto. He has directed several performed at an early Suh recently moved to other community and Goulbourn Male Chorus Ottawa because of her hus- church choirs, always concert. They asked band’s work. stressing the enjoyment Dueck to help form an all- It was just after Dueck of singing while also stay- ladies chorus in the area. moved to Stittsville more ing focused on quality and Additional singers were than a decade ago that he professional standards. A recruited, and the newly involved himself first with self-taught musician with established West Ottawa forming the Goulbourn a passion for choral music, Ladies Chorus grew to KING’S Submitted photo Welcoming new West Ottawa Ladies Chorus music director Sosun Suh (second from right) are members of the Chorus’ director search committee (on the left, from left) Carolyn RRichmondichmond VVillageillage MMarketplacearketplace Breton, Maxine Mercer and Bev Armbruster and (on the far right) Denise Benner, Missing from the photo is committee member Debbie Kaye,. FFresh...resh... FFast...ast... FFriendlyriendly number anywhere from Road in Kanata, have be- creativity, diversity of mu- 35 to 40 voices in any given come a popular event for sical styles and artistic spring or fall term. choral music lovers in the excellence as well as for 6613-838-725513-838-7255 The spring and Christmas area. Under Dueck’s lead- their just plain old musi- concerts, held at St. Paul’s ership, the concerts have cal enjoyment. 55911911 PPertherth SSt.,t., RRichmondichmond Anglican Church on Young become known for their [email protected] News Community Voice - February 20, 2020 3 Richmond bus service unreliable BY PATRICK UGUCCIONI schedules to accommodate all #283 routes be allowed the implementation of the to continue through the Rural transit users are get- LRT due to the greater dis- Tunney’s Pasture/LRT sta- ting short changed. tances between workplace tion and go to the downtown That according to Chantale and stations. Some are now core and on to the Hurdman Tremblay of Richmond who carpooling to Ottawa,” it station. is rallying her fellow passen- continues. A Facebook page dedicat- gers on OC Transpo route “The issues with the LRT ed to route #283 is peppered #283 to stand up against are not being resolved. In with comments from regu- what she sees as second class fact, they are worsening, and lar passengers venting their service to the village. passengers are increasingly frustrations with the service. An on-line petition has been frustrated.” Susan Pinhey recently post- signed by close to 180 people Additionally, says Tremblay, ed: “LRT is NOT working. It is as of press time. Tremblay OC Transpo recently intro- stressful enough to have to has set a goal of 200 before duced supplemental bus work everyday, never mind submitting the petition to service in an attempt to ap- having to worry if you are her councillor, Scott Moffatt. pease passengers “following going to get there on time.” The preamble to the pe- yet another LRT failure.” Richard Terzi added: “I am tition says OC Transpo’s Problem is, she points out, fed up with the poor service.” unstable LRT system is these buses only start at 7:30 Tremblay says there have wreaking havoc on its pas- a.m. been issues with the four sengers. 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