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Lions Club supports WLSS Tour Band

Lions Club member Larry Gray presents Williams Lake Secondary School music teacher Brianne de Verteuil with a cheque for $500.

May. 3, 2012 9:00 a.m.
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Lions Club member Larry Gray presents Williams Lake Secondary School music teacher Brianne de Verteuil with a cheque for $500 that will help with the Tour Band’s trip to Vancouver Island in May. The Tour Band is and extra-curricular group that rehearses at WLSS and is comprised of WLSS and Columneetza students. “We are very thankful for their generosity,” de Verteuil says of the donation.

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