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PineRidge Arts Council thanks the Ajax Pickering News Advertiser and sister papers for their support of of the arts. Here are some of the stories they have carried about our members and activities.
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June 2006
Oshawa Art Association's 38th annual juried exhibition
News Ads ArtScene
Art gallery recommended for Uxbridge
May 2006
Roots and Drums
ColourBLIND?
News Ad Art Scene
Parkwood launches new website for Museum Month
Durham West Arts – All for one and one for all
Exhibition at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
Making music the student way
April 2006
Pickering Artists Team Up – Carolyne Pascoe and Willi Wakenhut
News Ad’s Artscene
Cheryl Bannister
StoneCircle’s Star Wishes
Borelians
Oshawa Little Theatre wins seven awards for three productions
Pickering mayor puts his money where his mouth is
DWAC forging ahead towards centre
Benefit to support the arts
Symphony director conducts at festival in Lebanon
Richly deep in arts – get the picture
Ajax, Pickering need flourishing arts centre 
DWAC needs support from Ajax and Pickering
March 2006
Mia Azevedo
Ajax Survey
Nicholas Yu
It's Artelicious at the McLaughlin Gallery
META4
Durham Folklore
Cheryl Bannister
February 2006
Arts group not getting increased funding
Oshawa-Durham Symphony – Music and art mix at symphony concert Feb. 25, Choir goes Mozart
News Ads ArtScene, Feb. 24
DWAC - Concerns were only with parking
DWAC needs to justify funding request
Oshawa-Durham Symphony Orchestra 
Durham Region Concert Association offers deal on early subscription purchases for next season
Angie Littlefield - The Difference One Person Makes
Dorsey James
A celebration of Pickering's heritage
Anna Kuzniak at Ajax Library
Sharon Steinhaus at McLean Community Centre
PRAC artists at Kent Farndale Gallery, Port Perry
Visual Arts Centre in Clarington – Big Exhibit
News Ad’s ArtScene for February – OLT; Durham Shoestring; /whitby Courthouse; Borelians Community Theatre; Town Hall 187; Durham Region Concert Association; Oshawa-Durham Symphony Orchestra; Durham Philharmonic Choir; The Station Gallery; The Robert McLaughlin Gallery; The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
January 2006
Dawn Hammond
Ajax working on Arts, culture plan Council Feb.1, 132 Kingston Road
Durham West Arts Centre – EXPRESSIONS
Writers’ Circle of Durham Region
Harper Forbes
Oshawa Little Theatre
Whitby Courthouse Theatre
Herongate Barn Theatre
Ajax Creative Arts – McLean Community Centre
Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Oshawa Durham Symphony
StoneCircle Theatre – 7 Stories
Durham Shoestring Performers– Wooden Milk, audition notice
Karen Richardson, Kent Farndale 
Barbara Talbot
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington.- Art Classes
Gallery directors meeting – START 2006
December 2005
WCDR – Seminar for writers
PRAC & DWAC – Visual Artist’s Seminar
Whitby Station Gallery – new executive director Donna Raetsen-Kemp
PORT PERRY – Town Hall 1873 Concert Series
DWAC – Arts wants some attention, and money
DWAC – The dream of a performing arts centre
County Town Singers - Singers welcome to audition
Oshawa Little Theatre
The Uxbridge Arts Association
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Station Gallery comes home
November 2005
DWAC - We have to find a solution for the arts
DWAC - Arts centre provides plenty of value for your quarter
DWAC - 'A Profile of Durham Artists'
Durham Region Concert Assoc.
The Durham Philharmonic
Ajax Rug Hookers
PRAC - JAS Andrea Por JAS
DWAC - Ajax Funding
Backwoods Players - Puss in Boots
Oshawa Little Theatre – South Pacific
StoneCircle Theatre 1, 2, 3
Durham Tourism
DWAC – Reading and Remembrance
PMV – Tapestry call for entries
News Advertiser’s ArtScene
October 2005
Shelley Beach - Station Gallery Tour, Call her the commissioner
The Durham Region Concert Association
Cyril Cox
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington 25th Annual JAS
Uxbridge Arts Association
September 2005
News Ad’s - ArtScene
Pickering Museum Village - Stepping in Tyme Steam Talk with Wayne Fischer, A Spirit Walk, A Spirit Walk
Station Gallery Studio Tour
Oshawa Little Theatre *
Pickering Museum Village Foundation
Sharon Steinhaus at Ajax Library
Station Gallery
DWAC - Thomson Exhibition ends
August 2005
Trillium helps PRAC members
Ajax Rug Hookers
Kim Robertson
Pickering Museum Village Foundation
On-line ArtScene by News Advertiser – Oshawa Little Theatre, Durham Region Music, Durham Region Concert,
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Visual Arts Centre
Willow and Cyrus David
Scugog Council for the Arts
July 2005
Ron and Lynda Baird
Mary Delaney, Backwoods Players
ArtScene in News Ad
Latcham Gallery
The McLaughlin legacy &  Col. Sam's legacy a lasting one 
Carnival in the Village
Backwoods Players - Whodunit?
DWAC - Happy 200th Birthday Hans Christian Andersen
Ajax Creative Arts - Celebrating Ajax’ 50th Anniversary
June 2005
Oshawa Art Association -  Gail George, Angela Hennessey, Kim Robertson, Hanneke Koonstra, Joan Attersley, Bob Thackaray, Nancy Howell
News Ad - ArtScene
Oshawa Museum
Harper Forbes
Artfest
Whitby Station Gallery - summer arts camps
May 2005
Arts Week in Ajax and Pickering calendar
Off the Hinges
Artscene by Metroland - May 26 Durham Philharmonic Choir, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and The Visual Arts Centre
DWAC - Week
Durham Chamber Orchestra 
Oshawa Community Museum and Archives
Visual Arts Centre, Clarrington
Herongate and Shari Thorne-Kowaski
Pickering Museum Village and Whitevale Tour
Clarington Visual Arts Centre
Durham Chamber Orchestra
ArtScene in Metroland
April 2005
Sharon Steinhaus
DWAC  – Enviromonsters!
Lake Scugog Spring Studio Tour- photo
Marcia Masino
Durham Folklore Society - photo
Oshawa Little Theatre - Meshuggah-Nuns
Whitby Courthouse Theatre - Marvin’s Room
Class Act Dinner Theatre - The Odd Couple
County Town Singers - Nice Work  
Durham Region Concert Assoc. - Pavlo
Durham Philharmonic Choir - Summertime
The Visual Arts Centre - Pulse
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery - Thomas Bouckley Collection
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery - Ed Pien
The Visual Arts Centre - Home Turff
PRAC AGM
DWAC – Arts hold important place in our community
County Town Singers - photo and another
Oshawa Little Theatre - photo
Bowmanville Museum - Threads of Time
SASS
March 2005
Thomsons of Durham – Durham West Arts Centre
Durham Shoestring – To be or not to be Hamlet photo, photo
S.A.S.S. – Trillium grant
S.A.S.S -  photo  photo
Durham Philharmonic Choir - photo
Brooklin Woodcarvers – show and competition
S.A.S.S. – Music education is not a luxury 
Durham Shoestring Performers present I Hate Hamlet
Oshawa Little Theatre presents Meshuggah-Nuns!
Whitby Courthouse Theatre presents Marvin's Room
Durham Philharmonic Choir presents Music for Lent
Oshawa-Durham Symphony Orchestra presents the Broadway music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Durham Philharmonic Choir presents a performance of John Rutter's The Mass of the Children with She Sings! and the Young Singers
County Town Singers presents, Nice Work If You Can Get It
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, presents Wild Waters, Sacred Places.
The Visual Arts Centre, presents Les Enfants Terrible
Backwoods Players and Pickering Museum Village volunteers receive Ontario Heritage Award
Hi Sook Barker at McLean Community Centre
Bob Hinves at OPG
Tom Thomson – DWAC
WCDR
Pickering Township Historical Society
March Break Madness with OPG
Veridian Chairman, John Wiersma, receives award
February 2005
Pickering Museum Village Foundation
Dorsey James Toronto.com
StoneCircle Theatre * story
Heritage Issues
Susan Hinnecke at OPG
Pickering 18th Rotary Music Festival - photo

Backwoods Players – The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
DWAC - 'Common Threads: A Show of Diversity”
January 2005
Oshawa Little Theatre
Class Act - The Affections of May
Durham Shoestring Performers
Oshawa Little Theatre - Dial M for Murder
Oshawa-Durham Symphony Orchestra - Viennese Titans
Whitby Courthouse Theatre  *
Pickering Museum Village Foundation - Hotel Project
Durham West Arts Centre - Common Threads
Sylvia Valentine at Pickering Civic Complex
Metroland Durham comes up a winner
Durham Shoestring Performers
Durham Region Concert Association - Suzanne Yi-Jia Hou and Jamie Parker
The Visual Arts Centre, – Crossroads
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery – Horsepower
December 2004
Ajax Creative Arts
Durham Folklore Society
Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington - art courses
November 2004
Writers’ Circle of Durham Region
Phyllis Desjardins - Ajax Senior of the Year
SASS
Shelley Beach
Whitby Station Gallery - on the move
Oshawa Little Theatre - Hello Dolly
Durham ShoeString Performers - Stop Kiss
Oshawa Durham Symphony - Heavenly Voices
Durham Regional Concert Assoc - Xmas Concert
Lydian Wood Ensemble - Xmas Concert
Durham Philharmonic Choir - Sounds of Xmas
Oshawa-Durham Symphony Orchestra - All That Jazz
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery - As It Stands from the Thomas Bouckley Collection and Contemporary Canadian Photography.
The Visual Arts Centre - 100 Small Paintings
DWAC - Art to Go
Robert McLaughlin Gallery - art classes for kids
Whitby Station Gallery
Oshawa Durham Symphony Orchestra
Lydian Wind Ensemble
PRAC Juried Art Show
Pickering Museum Village Foundation
Oshawa Little Theatre
Whitby Station Gallery - Xmas House Tour
StoneCircle Theatre - Rita Taylor
Herongate - Bottoms Up
Leslie Parkes
SASS
Fran Stecyk -  Whitby Courthouse Theatre
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington Art in the attic Small paintings
lichen at DWAC
John Sabean at DWAC
October 2004
Durham Folklore Society
Durham West Arts Centre - Heather Whaley
Durham Shoestring Performers ‘Proof’
Backwoods Players at Parkwood
Oshawa Historical Society
Robert McLaughlin Gallery - Andrea Beck
Rouge Valley Festival of Trees
Shuttlebugs
Edward Falkenberg
DWAC - AGM
PRAC JAS
Writing fairy to enchant the Durham West Arts Centre
Stone Circle
Pickering Museum Village Foundation - Fall Family Festival
Oshawa Art Association's 23rd annual Fall Art Festival
Cyril Cox at OPG
Ajax Creative Arts
Durham West Arts Centre - Brenda & Franklin
Carol Kapuscinsky - Station Gallery
Durham Region Concert Assoc.
September 2004
Juno author speaks at Writers' Circle
Whitby Station Gallery Tour
Oshawa Durham Symphony
Fran Stecyk
Station Gallery
Franklin Opening and Community Read-a-Thon 
Backwoods Players - A Spirit Walk
Oshawa Little Theatre - Barefoot in the Park
Durham Shoestring Performers
Durham West Arts Centre - Franklin Opening with Brenda Clarke
Whitby Courthouse Theatre
Oshawa Durham Symphony Orchestra
Writers’ Circle of Durham Region - Camp X Authors
Country Town Singers
Visual Arts Centre
Jocelyn Ball
Durham West Arts Centre
August 2004
Whitby Courthouse Theatre
Durham ShoeString Players
Backwoods Players  see details under Special Projects
VAC has portraits in focus
Edward Falkenberg
Gary Faulkner
Backwoods Players - Pigs May Fly
DWAC - Franklin Exhibition
Enid Roberts
JAZZ
July 2004
Cyril Cox
DWAC - Size 8
Ajax Creative Arts at OPG, A stylish display
Whodunit? “Don’t Say Macbeth”
Pickering Museum Village - antique & classic car show
June 2004
Whodunit? at Pickering Museum Village
Artists on the threshold
Hanneke Koonstra
Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Pickering Museum Village Foundation AGM
Pickering Museum Village
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
Renaissance Faire
Ajax photo contest
SASS
Pickering Perenials
Pickering Museum Village
Artfest *
May 2004
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
Edward Falkenberg & DWAC
Pickering Museum Village & Backwoods Players
Herongate - Senator Wore Pantyhose
Young Singers
Festival of Trees RVHSF - call for art
David Chamberlain
DWAC - photo contest  * 
PineRidge Arts Council
DWAC
Eastside Harmony Chorus
Bob Thackeray see McLean CC
Oshawa Little Theatre and Shari Thorne-Kowalski *
DWAC 
Durham Chamber Orchestra 
April 2004
Durham Entertainment News
Oshawa Little Theatre Apr. 16, Apr. 21
Backwoods Players - Audition PRAC page
DWAC Open House PRAC page