INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / JANUARY 23, 1990

 

 

 

B.C.’s #1 tenor at Douglas College

Edwin Fan-Kwong, a 2nd-year
voice student in the Douglas Col-
lege Music department, has been
selected as the tenor voice to repre-
sent British Columbia on the Na-
tional Youth Choir of Canada.

This prestigious choir, which
meets for two weeks of rehearsals
and concerts in Calgary in May,
1990, is composed of 4 singers be-
tween the ages of 19-25 selected

professional choral musicians and
conductors in B.C. The Association
of Canadian Choral Conductors are
the sponsors of this national event.

years. To congratulate Edwin, wish
him well, and thank him for his
welcome contribution to the choir,
The Amabilis Singers presented Mr.

This year’s National Youth Kwong with a $200 scholarship on
Choir will be conducted by James the last night of their successful
Fankhauser and the national Christmas season of concerts in the

project’s Director is Diane Loomer, —_ lower mainland.
a choral conductor in the Douglas
College Music department and the

conductor of The Amabilis Singers.

Bravo, Edwin and best of luck!

 

from each province. The singers Edwin has sung with The The Amabilis Singers
submit audition tapes to a jury of Amabilis Singers for the past two
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Spaghetti bridge challenge offered Dieters Unite!
Here’s the challenge to end all challenges. Never mind a better It must be January - everyone is

mousetrap. Can your students, instructors, administrators or staff build a
better Spaghetti Bridge.
It’s well worth the trouble! Okanagan College (the cradle of Spaghetti

 

Bridge technol-
ogy) hereby chal
lenges any and
all educational in
stitutions to com- |
pete in our 7th
annual World
Open Spaghetti
Bridge Contest,
Friday, February
9th in Kelowna.
The winning —
builder will ee
receive $500 cash |.
(courtesy of the

 

  
   

 

Applied Science
Technologists and Technicians of B.C.) and air travel for two to any con-
tinental North American destination served by Canadian Airlines Interna-
tional, the official airline of the Spaghetti Bridge Contest.

All you have to do to win these prizes, and a place on our permanent
trophy, is design and build a bridge from commercial pasta products (cook-
ing not recommended) and glue or epoxy, following the contest rules. If
yours is the last bridge standing in our "winner take all" heavyweight con-
test, the prize and prestige are yours! By the way, the record holding
bridge, built by Lincoln Miller of Kelowna, held a load of 113.9 kilograms
(252 pounds) at last year’s contest. We hear Lincoln’s coming back...

For contest rules, please see Marilyn Attwood, room 4840. For further
information, please contact Garry Gaudet, Okanagan College, 762-5445.

talking diets
No this is not a book title. If

anyone is interested in forming a

noon hour Weight Watchers, the fol-

lowing is the current information
available:

¢ Minimum number of par-
ticipants: 20-25

* No registration fee

* Once a week (day and time to be
established)

* Fee structure (to be paid at the
first meeting): 10 weeks $85.00
or 8 weeks $68.00

* everyone has to agree on one of
the time frames.

* To qualify you must be a mini-
mum of 10 lbs. over your
recommended weight. (I wish!)

Anyone interested — male,
female, staff, faculty, management
— contact either Leslie McArthur -
Business, at local 5461, or Anne Fen-
ton - Accounting, at local 5374.

It would be good if we could
get this going by the first week
of February so please contact
either Leslie or myself as soon
as possible. @

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