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Prince Rueprt students showcase talents to benefit Japan

Last week students from Charles Hays Secondary School and Prince Rupert Secondary School joined together to put on a talent show showcasing the ability students from both schools possess, while at the same time raising over $1,200 for Red Cross to assist the victims of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that affected Japan.
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Kimberly Truong was among those students lending their talents to the fundraiser.

Last week students from Charles Hays Secondary School and Prince Rupert Secondary School joined together to put on a talent show showcasing the ability students from both schools possess, while at the same time raising over $1,200 for Red Cross to assist the victims of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that affected Japan.

“All the performers did great. They were all very nice and cooperative and definitely wanted to contribute in fundraising for the disaster in Japan,” commented CHSS student council president, Melissa Chu.

The fundraising event included over a dozen acts, with a majority of the talents being musical.

The first performer of the evening was Charles Hay’s student Ali Murray, who showed off her vocal range while singing a cover. Soon after, CHSS graduating student Kimberly Truong took the stage and played one of her original songs while accompanying herself on guitar. As well, throughout the night PRSS students got in on the solo singing action, with Tristen Wybou covering “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele, and Summer Johansen bravely singing in acapella.

Both duo musical groups were from PRSS including Peter Stephens and Zach Tait who emanated blues band “The Black Keys” and Taylor Slack and Joel Mcsorely who covered “If I Die Young”.

Mcsorely took the stage again later in the show, this time performing with Prince Rupert Secondary’s Nathan Lamb-Yorski and Braeden McDonald in their band “Soup Kitchen”.

But Mcsorely wasn’t the only member of “Soup Kitchen” to be featured in more than one act, both Lamb-Yorski and McDonald were part of “The Scarves” along with PRSS’s Shawn Price.

Christopher Sylvester, Tyler Gaider, and their fellow band mates gave the crowd nostalgia with their rendition of the theme song from popular 90’s show “Pokemon”.

Other musical talents showcased included Dorian Russ, who shredded on his guitar, and students Chloe Crosby-Patte, Bronte Pike, Brooke Haines, Roey Helloforse, and Linnea Kinnedy who lip synced a Backstreet Boys song and had the audience howling with laughter.

The remaining acts in the talent show were all dance related, with the first dance act being done by Prince Rupert Secondary’s Charmaine Gibson, who did a hilarious dance about a person who wants to kill his neighbour’s dog. Additionally, the Spectrum Dancers performed “Strut” a dance that recently earned Best Jazz Group Dance 13 and Up at the BC Annual Dance Competition.

CHSS students Amy Leigh and Amanda also danced at the event to Katy Perry`s Firework.

“I think all the performers did really good, and it was nice seeing everyone come out to watch,” commented Alice Harris, who is the Secretary of the Charles Hays student council.