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page 12 Maw-«- Anne Glover conducting the Rideau District High School Band at their Spring Concert. RIDEAU SPRING CONCERT On May hth. a relatively small crowd throughly enjoyed an "Arts" presentation by some of the students of Rideau District High School. The musical portion of the program featured the Rideau Band, smartly attired in their new uni- forms, conducted by Miss Anne Glover and performing several excellent selections. Other musical offerings were by Isobel Schmidt on the piano, Julia Shef- field on the flute, Rob Pedherney on the guitar, the South Crosby grade 8 girls' vocal ensemble and two vocal solos by Miss Glover. The Theatre Arts group, under the direction of Mr. Nun, presen- ted an excellent segment from the play "Anastasia", with superb performances by Shelly Thompson and Karen Hogan. The evening concluded with a gymnastics display by the memb bers of the Rideau girls' team. These girls showed the results of their hard work and the fine instruction of Mrs. Kennedy. It was a wonderful evening of entertainment and it is unfor- tunate that more people in the Rideau family do not take advan- tage of these periodic displays of the talent and efforts of our youthful citizens. RIDEAU LAKES CIVITAN CLUB STEAK DINNER 81 DANCE at RIDEAU DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL SATURDAY JUNE 10. DINNER 6-8 p.m. DANCE Ndusic by 8p.m. - l a.m. the Pacesetters REFRESHMENTS $10.00 per Couple NORTH LEEDS LANTERN 1-,» RIDEAU and PEACE It was on the advice of Keith Spicer that the Federal Government developed its Open House Canada program, to stimulate and encour- age a sense of mutualizm among the youthful citizens of Canada's mosaic. When the opportunity mater- ialized to conduct a visit between forty Rideau students and their staff advisors and a similar num- ber of students from the Peace River town of Dawson Creek in British Columbia, it was too good to be unavailed. A time was chosen from the many constraints of seasons and weather, different school calendars and the time frame of the Open House program itself, and late May proved un- iquely agreeable. ,Then forty students had to be chosen from among the grade ten graduates of one of our Canada Studies cour- ses to match the forty students from Frank Ross Junior Secondary School. Under the severe con- straint of a policy that the par- ticipants must communicate at least twelve weeks before recip- rocally travelling to each others' communities, our forty Rideau students were chosen from 60 worthy candidates by a lottery. Then came weeks of planning, dis- cussing and developing programs l for the exchange; students wrote letters and read of trappers and prospectors in the early years of Dawson Creek and farmers and woods- men of the Leeds frontier. Now, on May 20th., 40 Rideau students and 4 staff advisors fly from Ottawa to Ft. St. John and then travel by bus to Dawson Creek, city of the Peace and terminus of the Alaska Highway. Wheat and cattle ranches will be visited, analysed and photographed. The technology of modern hydro and natural gas resources will be seen. Remnants of fur trading years will be examined and a modern gateway to Canada's north will be exper- ienced. Then, after a week in northern B.C., the combined groups of Dawâ€" son and Rideau students fly to Vancouver for a day in Canada's third largest and possibly most scenic city. They will view the horizon from Grouse Mountain and see the marvels of Stanley Park The flight back to Ottawa will bring a common experience to one hundred and fifty Rideau, Dawson Creek, Ottawa and Victoria students who will arrive in the federal city about midnight, May 29th. Then it's Rideau's turn to display the hospitality of its locale and Eastern Canada. Foley Mountain may not rival the Rockies now as it did a billion years ago but its fauna and flora are as awesome as its timelessness. The Dawson students will step from the present into two and three hundred years of the past in Upper Canada Village and Kingston. They will have the opportunity to see the near, the old, the young and the far at Forfar Dairy, Jones Falls the Old City of Montreal and the Olympic Stadium. Eighty students will thus share in the unity in diversity that is Canada and hopefully, by everyday attitudes of many, rather than grand deeds of the few, will assure its unity. VVesfport273-216] th13595396