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SUNSHINE

Rock band gets ready to bring house downELEVEN budding rock stars at Sunshine Harvester Primary School are hard at work for their next school performance.

Music teacher Andrew Lilley said the school’s rock band formed three years

ago, and the band, which specialises in modern rock music, has performed at graduations, school assem-blies and even participated in a battle of the bands with other schools in the past.

“Two of the students have

been part of it for two or three years and the rest of them are new,” Mr Lilley said.

“The rock band has fourgirls and seven boys be-tween the ages of 10 to 12 years.”

The students play electricguitar, base, drums, elec-tronic piano and also sing.

“They perform regularlyat school assemblies and they have played at The Granary in Sunshine,” he said.

ARDEER

Bird on steep learning curveBUDGIE SITS IN ON LESSONSBIRD is the word at an Ar-deer school where studentsand staff have taken two lostfeathered creatures undertheir wing.

Mother of God Schoolprincipal Gerard Broadfootsaid a green budgie flew intothe schoolyard on August 4.

A yellow canary also flewinto the schoolyard a fewweeks ago.

The budgie is living at theschool in a cage donated byPETstock in Sunshine and isbeing cared for by students.

Mr Broadfoot said the

budgie has been namedPetie and has fitted into theschool routine quite well.

“It’s one of the noisiestmembers of the Grade-5/6class,” he said. “I guess thatmeans it’s a boy.”

Mr Broadfoot said he sus-pects Petie is someone’s lostpet because the bird is “veryhappy in the cage”.

Mr Broadfoot said anyonewho believes the budgie orcanary could be theirsshould phone the school on9363 1734 or visit the school’soffice in Blanche St.

An, Rachel and Isabella with the budgie. Picture: SARAH MATRAY

Andrew, Zothen, Zedbe and Mary. Picture: DAVID SMITH

A NEW trade-training cen-tre named in honour of oneof Sunshine’s foundingfathers was officially openedlast Wednesday.

The Harvester TechnicalCollege, a precinct of Sun-shine College, has beennamed as a tribute to inven-tor and industrialist HughVictor “HV” McKay.

Descendant Scott McKayattended the centre’s officialopening last week to rep-resent his famous ancestor,who established the Sun-

shine Harvester Works dur-ing the early 1900s.

Mr McKay was also respo-nsible for creating Albion’sH.V McKay Memorial Gar-dens, formerly the SunshineGardens, for his workers.

The centre will offeropportunities for students tocomplete their educationwhile also studying pre-apprenticeship certificatesin building and construc-tion, engineering, hairdress-ing, electro-technology,bricklaying and plumbing.

SUNSHINE

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