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PIANO FESTIVAL MAY 7 Stars highlights winners NEWMARKET The Festival of Stars the finale of a week crowded with the competitions of the Newmarket Lions Music Festival once again Friday night spotlighted the best of an outstanding selection of young in strumental and vocal musicians Held in the sanctuary of Trinity United Church the festival featured bands choirs and instrumental and vocal soloists all winners in their classes during the previous weeks com petitions It also featured the presentations of the Music Festivals premiere awards to these young stars The winners were The Gertrude Jackson Memorial Rose Bowl for the school having the highest proficiency to the number of entries Rogers Public School Newmarket The Gertrude Jackson Memorial Trophy for the outstanding Newmarket vocalist Morrison Newmarket The Doug Marten Memorial Trophy for the most outstanding recorder group Regency Acres Public School Aurora The Trophy for the outstanding triple trio Baythorn Public School Thornhill The Allen Berbeck Memorial Shield for the most outstanding school band Huron Heights Secondary School Newmarket The Sweet Adelines Trophy for the most outstanding instrumentalist violinist Vinitha Paul Bradford The Robert Yates Memorial Trophy for the outstanding boy vocalist Robert Stanton Islington The Upper Canada Mall Troply for the outstanding school choir Nobleton Sr Public School Nobleton The Annies Lunch Trophy for the out standing accordian soloist Kevin Snow Aurora The John Holtrop Construction Ltd Trophy for the outstanding organ soloist Jim Winter Bradford The Teddy Fraser Memorial Shield for the school choir displaying the highest proficiency Rogers Public School Newmarket The Family Troply for the out standing girl vocalist from Aurora Mount Islington Others on the Festival of Start program were Heather Meakin of Newmarket a violin soloist Shirley of Newmarket soloist St Josephs and Notre Dame schools of Aurora and Newmarket respectively ensemble group John school a folk singing group James Winter of Bradford organ solo and Kathleen Sheehan of Newmarket a vocal soloist A second Festival of Stars this one for piano contestants will be held May at 8 pm at Grace Church ft I Jane Griffith left and Dana Brash are members of the awardwinning recorder group from Regency Acres Public School in Aurora 1 The trombone section of the Huron Heights Secondary School band top the festivals outstanding school band and win ners of the Alan Memorial Shield come to life during their Friday evening performance Playing the violin In the photo Paul Coat immediately above is Heather Meakin of Newmarket a soloist in Fridays Festival of Stars At right Cathy Morrison also of Newmarket who was named the music festivals outstanding Newmarket vocalist Charlie Williams a member of the Newmarket Lions Club and chairman of the Lion Music Festival presents The Sweet Adelines Trophy for the festivals outstanding Instrumentalist to Vlnithla Paul a violinist from Bradford Kim Peel left and both members of the Regency Acres Public School recorder group performed In Friday nights festival The group was named the festivals outstanding recorder group Shirley Broughton of Newmarket was one of the festivals top ac cordion soloists She is shown above playing during Friday nights per formance HOW MEN KNOW THERE WERE GODS HHSS English class publish science NEWMARKET Its story of how men came to know that there really are gods While journeying to Mars a man chances across a spaceship and finds inside an Old Man whose Job it is to collect the deads souls for for redistribution The Old Man is later able to convince the world that gods do in fact exist That tale or rather its expanded and embellished form was written by John Cun ningham a Grade student at Huron Heights Secondary Stnool The story together with 27 other science fiction tales was released this week by one of the schools English classes as the second of teacher Bob Thompklns publishing efforts Cassandra as the books title is a class project of the 50 students studying science Action literature with Mr The 48page book contains illustrations also done by students In the class Stories were written and submitted at Christmas and those appearing in the book were selected by Mr They deal with future situations In a literary way rather man the strict scientific and technological themes of most science fiction By CHRISTINA MONTGOMERY Reporter Formed out of head is the way John Cunningham who Illustrated the books cover describes the work Prying the stories out of the students most of whom their teacher describes as fairly talented was easy After the two years ago when the first Cassandra was published the books assemblers found production simpler than ex pected Getting the books to the eager public is another story One thousand copies have been published at a cost of some of which was raised through advertising and some of which was donated by the schools student union and the Huron English department Arrangements for bookstore sales have been difficult Dealers have wanted as much as per cent of the price Copies will sell at the school for one dollar but at a higher price In retail outlets if no better arrangements can be made with dealers The students have been counting on support from local merchants in supplying shelf space for the books sales in return for the business they have given the towns stores A poster campaign advertising the book begins this week in the school where books will be available until local outlets are found Aside from the sales which are hoped will cover printing costs Mr expects that the books publication has given or- couragement to those of his students interested in writing Because as John Cunningham explains it its the pride not the money WN