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VOL. 36 NO. 5 May 2018 Your FREE Neighbourhood News from the Beach to the Rouge The R.H.King dance company Paradox performs at a student assembly on April. 19th. The assembly was held to raise student awareness about youth mentor - ship oportunities as well as homelessness and poverty. The students also made cheque presentations to Covenent House and Big Brothers Big Sisters Canada. A King Sized Dream By Nishat Chowdhury Shaw has had her fair share goal for the repertoire class Mensher and Shaw created Starting up an initiative of difficulties and large ob - and Shaw herself, was to them in the woodshop of the you are passionate about stacles to surpass in order to march in a parade. This was school using various tools to comes with growing pains. It successfully start the high accomplished last year in cut, bend and shape the can feel futile to fight for school’s very first marching December, when the march - schools old lyres into some - something you want when band this past school year. A ing band marched in the thing usable. Besides the the people around you do not teacher with a true passion in Beaches Santa Claus Parade, lyres, students were not able feel equally as enthusiastic. It music, Shaw participated in run by Centre 55 Community to march with the percussion is even more frustrating to the Naval Reserve National Centre, and the Christmas instruments, so Shaw tried know that your greatest ob - Band in university for seven Tree Lighting Ceremony at using multiple luggage straps stacle is the lack of funding years part-time, once a week Variety Village. However, to “MacGyver” them to from the school board due to and full time in the summer, this was not done easily as snare drums, but this did not the humble budgets that are playing the flute, piccolo, there were many bumps and work well enough to use distributed to each depart - and saxophone, and travel - difficulties along the road. while marching. ment every school year. ling coast to coast to per - Shaw states, “I have marched There is no one more famil - form. The host of Music with various band classes continued page 6 iar with this frustration than Mondays at R.H. King Acad - over the years, but we didn’t R.H. King Academy’s emy, the avid music teacher have any marching percus - Heather Shaw, known as Ms. invites all elementary sion, so the drummers were Shaw to her students. Shaw schools around the area for a stationary on the stage, while continues to gracefully pur - chance to play music at the the class marched through sue her passion of teaching school. the cafetorium. This school music to her students by This past school year, year is when we decided to working with what she is Shaw has taught the senior invest in marching percus - given. repertoire class consisting of sion, and add string instru - A music teacher at R.H. students from grades 10-12 ments as well, with the goal King for 11 years, Heather how to march. The ultimate of marching in a parade.” The marching band lacked a number of tools and supplies in order to march successfully, one tool being lyres: metal pieces that clip onto instruments to hold up sheet music so the musician can see it. Too expensive to buy new ones for each in - strument, Shaw collaborated with Stephen Mensher and Dimos Raptou, tech and computer science teachers Clockwise from Top; Marching percussion and dollar store elf hats at a tree lighting event from R.H King Academy, to in December. R.H. King music teacher Heather Shaw encourages her students during 8am make their own lyres. Raptou rehearsals. When it’s too cold to march outside well you make do and march in the halls - designed the new lyers and under the watchful gaze of Shaw. Page 2– May 2018 www.bluffsmonitor.com Editorial Your FREE Neighbourhood News from the Beach to the Rouge by Cavel Brown Adults should be able to access what - rights of the library’s patrons, it’s 9 Whitecap Blvd. Bluffs Monitor is guilty of Face - ever information they want and chil - about the responsibility of the library. book journalism - we presented the dren should be able to view Everyone should have a right to view Scarborough, On. M1M 2Y5 side of a story that would get the informative and appropriate content. or search for whatever, but the library WEBSITE: www.bluffsmonitor.com biggest reaction from people on Face - And never the ‘twain shall meet. is responsible for who gets to see book. Last issue we ran a graphic TPL has filters on computers in what unintentionally. 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