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Nearly 700 drummers gathered at Stirling Senior School last week to mark the end of one school year and the coming of a new one, together in a new school. Students from Kindergarten through Grade 8 spent months preparing for the gathering. Photo: Richard Turtle
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Hundreds of students drum By Richard Turtle
EMC News - Stirling It was an unprecedented event to mark the coming together of the three Stirling schools prior to their move into a single Stirling Public School building in the fall. Students from Kindergarten through Grade 8 have spent months preparing for the gathering that saw nearly 700 drummers meet behind the soon-to-be-demolished Stirling Senior School with their own handmade instruments to create a
single rhythmic voice. Welcomed by school officials, including Hastings Prince Edward District School Board Chair Mandy SaveryWhiteway, the students were joined by drumming expert and educator Leo Brooks, who was more than a little instrumental to the program’s success. Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board Communications Officer Kerry Donnell says the school celebration has been months in the making and was certain to make a
lot of noise. “For the past several months students have been working with Leo Brooks, a percussionist from Canada’s national capital region, [and] he has worked with each student at Stirling Primary School, Stirling Junior Public School and Stirling Senior Public School to build drums.” Drum bases were made from custom-cut pieces of sonotube that students painted with the school colours of red, yellow and black, but the construction
differed from grade to grade. Smaller drums for students in Kindergarten to Grade 2 were made with transparent skins while students in Grades 3 to 5 made medium-sized djembe drums, which are covered with a traditional goatskin. Students in Grades 6 to 8 made larger Aboriginal-style drums also made with traditional goatskin. The younger students, with the help of teachers and members of the Stirling-Rawdon Police See “Drums” on page 3
Cooney questioned at hearing By Richard Turtle
EMC News - Belleville The hearing into the conduct of Stirling-Rawdon Police Services Board (PSB) Chair Greg Oliver continued this week with lengthy testimony from Mayor Rodney Cooney creating growing doubts among regular spectators the process will soon be over. So far the panel has heard from several regular attendees of PSB meetings,
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including both officials as well as members of the Belleville Police Service. Early this week Cooney was asked several times by OCPC lawyer Brian Whitehead exactly what he meant by different comments, relating to previous board members and their activities, made in a prepared statement delivered at the August, 2011 PSB meeting and subsequently published See “Mayor” on page 3