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MAY 29, 2019
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A.L. Horton School Celebrates National Vyshyvanka Day
Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent The Ukrainian Culture has real ravishing and exquisite clothing connected to it. Especially appealing is the embroidery shirts and blouses. To celebrate National Vyshyvanka (Ukrainian
embroidery) Day on May 16, many of A.L. Horton School’s Ukrainian Bilingual’s staff and students worn their embroidery shirts and blouses. This day is honored on every third Thursday in May because the word combination “Vyshyvanka Day” means the holiday dedicated to Ukrainian
ethnic embroidered cloth and entered to Ukrainian culture as the name of a national holiday of Ukrainian consciousness, patriotism, and the spirit of unity of the people symbolized by Ukrainian vyshyvanka.
Jamming for the Love of Music
FRIDAY @ 5PM. DEADLINE FOR ALL ADS (Left-to-right) Rob Hughes, Joe Nowak, Randy Kereliuk, Charlie Gargus, Terry Williams, and Floyd Mihalcheon. (Missing from photo is Don Harfield.) (Rosanne Fortier/photo)
Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent Jamming is a great way to get together with others who share a person’s interest in playing music while it is an opportunity to perfect a person’s skills in a relaxed environment. The Senior Citizen Sunshine Club of Vegreville offers a chance for people of all ages to play or listen to music at the event, ‘Jam with us’ which is held every fourth Friday of the month. The May 24’s event presented seasoned and inspiring musicians: Rob Hughes, Randy Kereliuk, Joe Nowak, Charlie Gargus, Terry Williams, Floyd Mihalcheon, and Don Harfield. These musicians played a large range of music which included vocal and instrumental pieces of folk/pop, fiddle, country, gospel, and just plain fun tunes. At one point, Gargus announced the
third Saturday in May is dedicated as National Canadian Fiddling Day where Nowak and Gargus then led the musicians to perform Maple Sugar by Ward Allen. Also at this jam, the musicians helped each other to discover the right notes and rhythm as they tried to play new pieces and songs. Throughout the jamming, Steve Kereliuk commented that the music was very nice.
