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THURSDAY, MARCH 28 2019
Vol. 7 Edition 13
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Next gen star?
It’s dance season in C-K
By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
Sarah Schofield/The Chatham Voice
Chatham’s Elite Dance Station dancers perform a hip-hop routine on Sunday at the Chatham Capitol Theatre during The Audience Dance Rivalry competition. The event featured local and out-of-town dance groups performing in a variety of genres.
Meals on Wheels gets a boost By Sarah Schofield sarah@chathamvoice.com
Three days a week, Meals on Wheels volunteers are hard at work in the kitchen at St. Andrew’s Residence preparing and packing hot meals to be distributed.
Today, the program helps more than 371 clients by delivering balanced and affordable meals. As part of the March for Meals Campaign, volunteers got an extra hand on Monday with Mayor Darrin Canniff stopping by to help deliver some freshly
packed meals on Monday morning while raising awareness and support for the program. “The Meals on Wheels program is extremely important. We talked about the number of people they serve each and every week. It’s part of the
overall network within Chatham-Kent that is a critical piece of it,” said Canniff. Servicing Chatham-Kent, the program was established in 1971, and from 2007 onwards, has been operated from St. Andrew’s Residence in
Chatham. Melissa Bishop, volunteer and community services co-ordinator for St. Andrew’s Residence, said the program currently enlists the help of 70 community volunteers each week.
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Tupperville’s Aidan Duchene, 15, may not like small spaces, but she likes big contests. Duchene recently won the Next Gen Junos contest, earning $1,000 in the process, for her song “I Don’t Like Small Spaces.” The CBC’s Afternoon Drive radio program oversaw the competition. Initially announced on Feb. 11 on Afternoon Drive, musicians aged 18 or younger in Southwestern Ontario were asked to submit original tunes. The winner – Duchene – got to perform her song before a live audience at the London Music Club two days prior to the Juno Awards. All this occurred in a very tight time frame, made even tighter by Duchene. She learned about the contest by listening to the CBC, and then fretted over what to submit, or even if she should take part. Fortunately, her friends intervened.
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