Corporate sponsors needed Fram pagel leaves his nine. year position with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) in August. “I really want something that I can create on my own,” said Mitchell, “If people would like to hear me with Sinfonia, that’s great. If they want to hear the VSO, that is great too,” Sinfonia will perform a concert twice a month. One performance will be a formal Saturday evening event at Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver. The same concert will be perfornied on a Sunday in a less formal after- noon performance at West * Vancouver United Church. * The gala opener concerts on Sept. 23 and Sept. 24 will include Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, works by Michael Conway Baker and Jean Coulthard. Coulthard is a famous Canadian composer who lived NEWS photo Paul McCrath Sunday, June 11, 2000 - North Shore News - 5 Deer thieves strike Vashti Singh Contributing Writer A tribute to Exaily Gardner’s late husband was stolen from her front lawn on June 3. The brown cement deer was chosen by the couple's children as a) memorial to their father because he loved animals. He died in 1963 ar age 49, Two of Gardner's children who helped select the deer have since passed away. Jesse died itt a car accident in 1985 and Lorclic, cancer in 1992, Gardner said the culprits may as well have stolen a tombstone out of the ceme- tery from some loved one’s grave “It can be replaced but will nor be the same,” she said. Describing the enormous sentimental value of the deer, she continued, “my grand- children and my great-grand- children have rode on it. “You wouldn't know it to look at him, but it’s a ship- aoonvin, died of NEWS photo Mike Wakefiaid EMILY Gardner stands in front of the rubble left behind by thieves who took her cement deer. Dr. Farshid S. 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