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Birdtail Arts Festival crowns regional youth talents
The first Birdtail River Fine Arts Festival drew 530 entries from communities including Birtle Selsgirth Shoal Lake Strathclair Newdale Cardale Oak River Riv is McConnell Isabella Crandall Arrow River Miniota Kenton Harding Oakner Hamiota. Wendy Harrison of Hamiota won the Gladys Fraser vocal solo trophy for ages 16 and under. Solsgirth school choir received In spector. Birtle High School Girls Glee Club claimed Funk's trophy and the Birdtail River School Division trophy. Winners spanned vocal solos duets trios and choral reading across Isa bella Hamiota Strathclair Solsgirth Birtle Kenton and Arrow River with adjudicators Mrs. Bain and others from Manitoba Winnipeg and Regina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birdtail River
Birtle
Selsgirth
Shoal Lake
Strathclair
Newdale
Cardale
Oak River
Rivis
McConnell, Decker
Isabella
Crandall
Arrow River
Miniota
Kenton
Harding
Oakner
Hamiota
Gladys Fraser
Wendy Harrison
Solsgirth
Funk
Birtle High School
Birtle High School Girls Glee Club
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Wanda Clark
Lorna Wright
Linda Corr
Kathy Green
Janet Edmundson
Lare
Susan Finkbeiner
Maureen Hazelwood
Heather Butler
Robert Hatton
Decker
Lois Kreager
Dale Workman
Shirley Franks
Jo-Anne White
Kathy Clark
William Baycroft
Maureen McConnell
Evan Fowke
Rivers
Gerry Nolan
Joan Dillon
Larry Shuttleworth
William Dawson
Jack Krahn
All of Rivers
Everett Cook
Sharon White
Abel Gurr
Donald Kitz
Brent Hazelwood
Heather Gregory
Darlene Hunsaker
Sharon Murray
Anne Kreager
Maureen McPhaden
Bernice Gurr
Linda Armitage
Phyllis Mathison
Heather Riddell
Betty Cook
Keven Pahl
Howard Spearin
Delmar Mansell
Allan Deuth
Joanne Norrie
Wendy Mitchell
Lorraine Landry