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NINE-YEAR-OLD Victoria Jones of the Bracmar Elementary School choir presents North Vancouver School
Board chairman Marg Jessup with flowers after (he choir sang at a recent board meeting. The school board
honored the choir who sang last month at the Olympic torch ceremony.

Choir sings to NV School Board

DRESSED IN’ BOBBY socks,
pony tails, red bow ties and white
shirts, the girls and boys of the
Braemar Elementary School choir
showed the North Vancouver
‘School Board at Tuesday night's
meeting why they have won wide
acclaim in recent years.

The 70-member choir walked in-
to the board chambers and lined
up along the portable stands with
straight faces, but teft the room
hopping, giggling and smiling after
the board and a small audience
received them enthusiastically.

The local choir performed dur-

ing the Olympic torch ceremony in.

North Vancouver in January, and
in 1986 ICBC asked part of the
choir to produce a record on
seat-belt safety for schools across
British Columbia.

Tuesday night's performance
charmed the board with the choir's
clear sound and enthusiastic con-
centration during the three
numbers it performed.

Bracmar music teacher and choir
conductor Gillian Irwin, who grew
up on the North Shore and has
directed the choir for five years,
wrote their first piece, City of
Dreams, which describes Van-
couver,

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She originally wrate the piece
for a concert last year.

Irwin said many students had
joined the choir, a discipfine they
usually shun, because the group
did a Jot of fun things.

Students from the choir often
continue choral work when they
graduate from the elementary
school and move on to. high
school, she said.

“Hopefully it isn’t an end,’* tr-
win said. “Hopefully, it’s just a
beginning.’

Arlen Hansen, 11, and Angie
Ortmann, 12, said they both joined
the choir because it was a lot of
fun.

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