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Tenth anniversary of Music Monday celebrated in Sooke Britt Santowski Sooke News Mirror
Did you hear the angels singing? All of Sooke’s elementary schools recently got together to celebrate Music Monday. École Poirier had a school-wide assembly where they watched the live webcast from Ontario with Commander Chris Hadfield on May 5. The webcast ended with a synchronized nationwide performance of I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing?) with former Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield, led by Maestro Bramwell Tovey of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Poirier hosted John Muir’s choir and the two choirs performed together at the assembly. In addition, Poirier students sang their school song, Join In at Poirier. In the afternoon, all of the Sooke zone elementary choirs (Poirier, Sooke, Sasseenos and John Muir) met on the lawns in front of the Evergreen Centre near the kiosk. They performed a few songs together en masse, and then each group headed out to do a circuit of singing throughout Sooke.
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Students at the Sooke Sing-out responded to the rain and the sun in different ways.
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Music Monday marks a special day in May when many Canadians celebrate music in their lives and schools. Many schools in the Sooke School District have participated in this event in past years by singing in their schools or coming together with other schools via Skype or in person. A part of Music Monday’s purpose is to remind the policy-making adults in the world of the valuable contribution music programs give to our students. In a video posted on the MusicCanada.com website, Commander Hadfield articulated his thoughts. “I bought my first record at about nine or 10 years old, and listening to music introduced me to cultures and people who were different than I was. And learning to play the guitar taught me to improvise and to be creative, and to be able to be play with a group. And practicing on that guitar, that taught me selfdiscipline. And these were all fundamental skills that I have used throughout my career. And that’s why I can confidently say that music helped me be a better astronaut.”
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Last January Marina Miral was notified that she was a candidate for a space mission to Mars. Over 200,000 candidates were screened for the mission from which they would never return. Mars One is a private enterprise set up to establish a permanent colony on the red planet. Those who go will never return to their earthly home but spend the rest of their lives on the planet. The project needs an estimated $6 billion in funds. On May 6, it was announced that Miral was among the 54 Canadians who made the next round. There are 705 astronaut candidates from a list of 1,058 potential colonists. The remaining candidates advance to an interview round. There are 287 women and 418 men selected from the latest cut. Mars One plans to launch its first crew of four Mars colonists in 2024, with additional crews joining them in two-year increments. Miral is 31 years old and will be over 40 before she ever lands on Mars. If all goes according to plan, Miral will spend the next 10 years training for life in the space colony. Training begins in 2015. Miral’s mother Angela Dorsey said she is still very intent on going.
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