Date: April 3, 2000 Don't forget, Kellert Hall!!

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. --Helen Keller (1880-1968)

PLEASE NOTE: Rehearsal TONIGHT, April 3, 2000 is in Kellert Hall of the Y.M.Y.W.H.A., 5500 Westbury Ave. (corner of Cote St. Catherine Rd.), Montreal, Que. Go in through the main entrance. Our hall is in use by the Church. [If you are reading this in the paper edition, congratulations. You're here!]

Mountain Division Contest transportation. The bus will leave Eglise Ste-Sixte at 6:00 am on Saturday, April 8. That means you have to arrive BEFORE 6:00 am. Please arrive in time to park, help with the risers and be aboard for 6:00 am. Parking will be available at Église St. Sixte on Saturday

Your costume deposit is required TONIGHT!. Please, make sure to give your $100.00 costume deposit to Jerry Silverberg before you leave tonight. The pants will require cuffing, and you will be told what is needed.

Personal note: The Memorial Service for my Mom went very well. I was so pleased that most of you were able to come and share the morning with my family and me. Your support has been a real source of strength to all of us. "I’ll Walk With God," was very well received by the congregation, and I accepted many compliments on your behalf. Thanks again.

Big Brothers and Big Sisters Bowlathon 2000 will be held on Saturday, April 15, 2000. Our Presentation Coach, Stacy Hugman-Frenette is organizing the event and would like as many teams as possible to participate. She is suggesting that we go to Le Manoir afterwards for dinner.

If you are interested and would like further details, ask Stacy when she visits us, or ask Richard who will pass along your request for information.

Do you have email and you are keeping it a secret? We have several email lists that are used for spreading Chapter/Chorus information quickly to all those members who are email empowered. To join one of the lists, please see Murray Phillips or Steve Wheaton. If you change your email address, please let us know also.

Bring in the money for your tickets and advertising for our Annual Show/Concert. Our show for 2000, "Beginning to See the Light," will be on Saturday, May 20 in Salle Claude Champagne at Université de Montréal and will feature PLATINUM, the 1999 Silver Medallist Quartet and the 1998 Harmony, Inc. International Champion quartet, Blue Champagne. This will be Blue Champagne's final performance. More than half the tickets are gone!

If you have paid by post-dated cheque and have money to cover most or all of it, you can give in the money and give a new cheque for the balance.

Advertising is an important part of the program, so ask your dentist, barber, mechanic, suppliers… We need to sell $8,000 worth of ads. Let's do it! Besides, if we don't, the costume deposit will have to be that much larger.

The Afterglow is confirmed for Le Buffet Dynastie de Chine and it will cost $14.00, not $12.00 as previously announced. This will be a fun part of the show, where we can unwind, and listen to the show quartets.

Music all learned? We are to be off the paper on I Only Have Eyes for You, Basin Street Blues, and Harmony by March 27. That's tonight! We should have all the songs for the show in our personal memory banks. They are as follows.

World's 20 Shortest Books

20. How to Land A Plane at Martha's Vineyard - JFK Jr

19. How to Please Women - John Bobbitt

18. My Plan to Find the Real Killers - O.J. Simpson

17. The Engineer's Guide to Fashion

16. To the Men I've Loved - Ellen DeGeneres

15. Human Rights Advances in China

14. Things I Would Not Do for Money - Dennis Rodman

13. The Wild Years - Al Gore

12. Amelia Earhart's Guide to the Pacific Ocean

11. America's Most Popular Lawyers

10. Career Opportunities for Liberal Arts Majors

9. Different ways to spell Bob

8. Dr. Kevorkian's Collection of Motivational Speeches

7. Everything Men Know about Women

6. Everything Women Know about Men

5. French Hospitality

4. George Forman's Big Book of Baby Names

3. Mike Tyson's Guide to Dating Etiquette

2. The Amish Phone Directory

1. The Book of Virtues - Bill Clinton

Practice is something we do at home, every day, between rehearsals!

Rehearsal is where we reinforce what we have been practising every day!