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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2014
May takes port fight to Ottawa Green leader submits 1,000-name petition BY
SANDOR GYARMATI
sgyarmati@delta-optimist.com
PHOTO BY
GORD GOBLE
Elizabeth Dane, a Grade 12 student at South Delta Secondary, is taking part in the 2014 High School Honors Performance Series in New York this week.
Singer is Carnegie bound SDSS student Elizabeth Dane selected to perform at venerable New York music hall BY
DAVE WILLIS
dwillis@delta-optimist.com
South Delta Secondary Grade 12 student Elizabeth Dane will perform at Carnegie Hall in New York on Sunday. She’s taking part in the 2014 High School Honors Performance Series as part of the Honors Choir. Participation in one of the series’ three ensembles (choir, band or orchestra) is “limited to the highest rated high school performers from across North America and select schools
internationally,” according to a performance, including songs in press release. English, Russian and Hebrew. Dane, 17, leaves for New York “One of them is a Russian today. tongue twister. It’s so “I’m excited but hard. It’s super fast. All SCAN WITH there’s part of me the music is so hard.” that’s very apprehenDane auditioned sive,” she said. this fall for the Honors TO REVEAL VIDEO There will be lots Performance Series and of rehearsals with the was accepted after a group before performing, Dane review by a selection board. said, noting she’ll also get to go “Being selected to the Honors see a Broadway show and visit Performance Series is something The Today Show. each finalist should be extremely She’s working on memorizproud of accomplishing,” said ing six pieces of music for the program director Morgan Smith.
“We process thousands of nominations annually, selecting only the most talented performers applying on an international level. “Working with these conductors and performing at Carnegie Hall is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that these student musicians never forget.” Dane is part of SDSS’ South Delta Sounds and won an individual award for her solo singing performance at the Heritage Music Festival in New York last April.
Opponents of port expansion at Roberts Bank are pleased the issue is getting some national play. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May tabled a petition in the House of Commons last week calling on Parliament to stop further port expansion in the Fraser River estuary in Delta. She said the petition comes from more than 1,000 B.C. residents opposed to constructing a massive second container terminal at the mouth of the Fraser. She also cited Against Port Expansion’s concern that Terminal 2 will destroy key habitats and migration corridors for more than two billion juvenile salmon and several million birds of the Pacific Flyway. The Most Important Bird Area in Canada supports waterfowl and shorebird migration routes from 20 countries and three continents, she said. May told the Optimist port expansion may be under the radar due to a plethora of other controversial issues, including oil pipelines, however, public awareness needs to be raised about T2. “A container port expansion may have some potential benefit for Canada, but is this the right place for it?” asked May, the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands. “It does have the potential to be very damaging.” See PETITION page 3