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Music and Choir Report 2011
2011 was a good year in the choir, as we continued to explore new music, revisit old favourites, and encourage
our young singers to share their talents.
Highlights include music at the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer’s Lenten Quiet Day led by Rev Aubrey
Hemminger, an Easter anthem that our teens are asking to sing again, and a simple and beautiful Advent
service. Not to mention our performance of Ghost Riders in the Sky to honour Preston’s love of Johnny
Cash at his farewell party.
We have a big project coming up in 2012. Mary Lysecki, Barbara Bater and I have begun meeting to organize
an update of the parish songbook. It contains a lot of songs that are now duplicated in the blue hymnal, and
we’d like to add some of the newer music that is currently appearing on inserts in the leaflet. Members of the
choir will continue to help me narrow down which ones we need to keep, and there will be times when we
seek congregational input too.
Finally, I must mention that in 2011 we lost our good friend and long-time choir member Jessie Smith. We
miss her smiles and hugs, and her sweets tin filled with candied ginger and “Fisherman’s Friend”. She had
many songs that were among her favourites, and we think of her whenever we sing them.
In Christ,
Nancy Aasland
Music Director
Christmas Hampers Report 2011
Once again I am very pleased with the very generous response from our parish. We had another very
successful drive to make up Christmas Hampers for the Christmas Cheer Board. We were able to make up
nine very generous hampers this year as well as having items for the St. Matthews Maryland collection.
This year we decided to go out and buy gifts for all the children. This used up the funds we received for the
hampers a lot quicker... However, we were then sure we had an appropriate gift for each child. Also, on
the plus side this meant that the all the toys that were brought in were freed up in order to go to the St.
Mathews Maryland ministry.
I also want to give a big THANK YOU to all those who helped to assemble the Christmas Hampers! Any and
all help is much appreciated.
Yours truly,
Alan Livingstone
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