Primary school kids set to do Jamaica proud in Ontario
THE EDITOR, Sir:
FURTHER TO Barbara Gloudon's letter yesterday, about Jamaican heritage celebrations in Toronto, I would like to tell readers about another such project for good.
For 12 days in April, 25 children from the choir at St Peter Claver Primary School, Waltham Park Road, Kingston, along with their teachers, Hugh Roy Rattigan and Yvonne Wade, and principal Margaret Bolt, will go to Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario, to offer their lively concert of dance, song and drums.
Peterborough is my community of origin, a small city 90 miles north east of Toronto. There, the choir will give a workshop to the Peterborough Children's Chorus, be featured at a United Church service and a Kiwanis luncheon, sing in concerts at five schools, and give a joint public concert. They will stay with host families who have been studying Jamaican culture and will visit a Canadian farm.
Peterborough has only a very few Jamaicans, but a very keen welcome awaits this talented group of young people.
