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Story last updated at 2:10 p.m. Thursday, April 15, 2004

Music to the ears
When not hazing hospital boards or terrorizing pedestrians and motorists in my powered wheelchair, I try to find a way to lurk in the darkened corners of a rehearsal hall.

Such was the case this past Saturday when I was able to crash the rehearsal of the upcoming performance of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana."

Each year Mark Robinson, the artistic director and conductor of the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra and Chorus and our local school choirs, raises the bar on works to be performed. This year will be no exception.

Do not miss the opportunity to hear and see your friends and neighbors in the culmination of many months of hard work. Many of the members in this performance have traveled the roads of our passing winter from Anchorage, Seward, Kenai and Soldotna. Homer participants packed on the miles as well. The sounds I heard in the rehearsal were glorious. Imagine how it will sound in performance.

Let's not forget the Inlet Winds under the direction of Mrs. Renda Horn. She and the band have resurrected the art of the "city band" so popular throughout the 20th century before the advent of the MTV generation.

Accordingly and true to Horn's work, she has selected a program of challenging but fun music that stretches even the abilities of the most seasoned musicians in the band.

Get yourself out and treat your ears to some great music before all your ears will hear is the whine of the WeedEater.

Howard Hedges

Questions for HEA Members

1) Why do we vote area wide for one each in District I, District II and District III for HEA Board Members? Why don't we vote by district like the school board or the Kenai Peninsula Borough assembly? At least that way we would have a better chance to know the candidates.

2) Why can't we as landowners hire our own dirt contractors or use our own equipment to dig and backfill trenches. (80 percent of utilities in the Lower 48 use that method.)

3) Why does HEA's patronage capital (your net worth) continue to decline? See patronage capitol, back side of message from your president in HEA ballot package.

4) Why are we outsourcing jobs to Georgia in the accounting department of HEA when we have approximately 19,000 HEA members right here on the Kenai Peninsula who need jobs?

These are just a few of the many questions that need to be asked of your current HEA Board of Directors.

Pat Cowan, candidate for District II of the HEA Board of Directors

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