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, __.. o l y, P 16 I AGE F ‘I if --_- ’â€""I I "III, - l -- m, __ 7 7 - -_- --_- 7,7 THE INDEPENDENT I --- ____,________,i'rjltr,z, 21997 FRIENDS 8: NEIGHBOURS Popular W 1 th I t h (er rearing Lesle Campbell simply moved the classroom right into her own lwmg room b - _ t/?g2e,y called. "My lessons cost 75 . II I _ C, ii i. a .'-I-"I:"- ' " ,, " ", I . centsandmymotherwas so , l ' - PU? i ‘ A,' , g I??? _ -" I" - ‘s JU/y, y YEARS. of teach, determined that I should C'" ' I _ L = ' If ' , li' g w , 55' , ' I“: ks el ns kids m the school play the piano because she ‘, T I wr in I’ . CT ' i I ft78 ' it I " _ , -_ ' K' 'its, 1eep,:ty,jey,1,t.Ith,ty couldn't." I . CT I gy? t II 'lk) = iT'i' .I I t I 'iMN' I iiu,i)sl',',,,fyy(te,1yeir1rrjkjFi She remembers her , . L':'u' l "i N , a t . I " ' " I M, I","Fl tsy some peace and teacher y'widiy. "Her name I I , l , _ he r'. ~ . I . l “ tl,'? ". I I > ' " g I I I 11lt.), m her retirement was Lulu Knight and she A. 'Iti\ I I I a, - ‘ II pe I . = y ‘ c, ' - " l l, y 12 kept her fingernails painted [ g i" . I ..d _ $3351 I ' ill, I /. “‘ITI" d ‘ut then you obviously bright red. I couldn't tear _ I la ' i = r , '.. '1 " _ I , I ( j 5 . I II» ., r"se,,' T k out know L.esle Campbell. my eyes off those finger- l. I & -. F. - , .I tr ' t(, jaw Ei ‘ I "III , I After leaving Percy Cen- nails moving up and down 'E PSI - ‘ f. rr ’ "'. f L A 5’ ' xx: ’ ' " be1,iia,,l,?,1.y,ejty?re,e thekeyboaN." i I 17;" I I i: FRY V Er I: I "n R - > . s, ast time m 2000, she decid- Lulu Knight was a gen- l , I ' ' A l 9 _ _ 'i, 'k, P, t ' q 2 el to teach the kids of the tie, kindly person who treat- 5 ' r ft 1,ii),itt 1’ II l -, A I . II » i Village something new - ed her nervous students , . , . 1.’ ELI“ IVES ', \ III“ _ I I Fa" IV , I music. ' with warm encouragement, . - ' . . "s" If». Cy ié‘wg I I‘I’. Eii 'h . G' t e I II Her gracwus home on It's becomethctrademark of -. LCS,: k 1'it l , “In! IX I, . I 'il, 1 I . . cn L, old Hastings Road in Wark- her student Lesle McCleary, , . _ f ’- a V , I L. el _ 'e l I; I)? sa=. <6- 5 " 'Lat ' I Worth echoes day and night now Lesle Campbell, 55 ‘ - " c,,, II II 'A" k: ail I '7'9‘I I , iI" to the sounds of her grand years later. rt " _ ’59” “I V "ir",, I "II“é' I I _ I . . tl , . . r," . - "'3 w -> Cro. . as »- . piano being played by a pa- I don t teach Conserva- n , - " ,? Kali, s?) i - ‘.,’~‘. :. _ . ,-i"“~" -' C" " .. I I ‘ rade of students. tory standard,I'rn not inter- It , , I i I . I": Ci. 'e.-iC%'i' i.“ , III II' . I I It- I u P. . , Delightful or discordant, ested inexams because alot (l . C r" E ii rr Ire' ' -£9’Ir> ANN, tres' I _' _r'i, q I’II ' ’ it S all music to Ms. Camp- of kids just get turned Off if ' f ' M ‘I I; s’ I tr", - g ’I I ' II I hell's ears, they have to practise the _ t f I IailrrE'IsIéfs ' III er Fr . I L l, -t ' ‘ ' ‘ l " .. "r' I tid , ' r S' 'i,-' i i . \“di _ I “no i _ -' , It.“ A! 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She says "it's so much fun watching them learn how to make music”. . , F' r f ( ', . They range in age from children of Warkworth have the Brighton Barn or play there all the time and it be, " rr d _ - '" N r . five to 35 and when Ms. taken on a new significance church organ on Sundays came apart of me." . NE _ ' , 7 _/,' " _ Campbell stages her gradu- this past year after Ms. would surely beg to differ She also discovered that P, © e 'Et-EI', I 'C, . anon concert each summer Campbell lost her husband with this overly modest as- polishing her piano skills LI , I . - I ,1 _ a ' 1n the village s Presbyterian Stuart, a noted bee-keeper sessment. paid off another important CI ML.. 1 _ . Church. the pews are crowd. and ban vivant, to cancer. In fact it's a physical im- dividend: "The family was a, 5 ' AN . ‘ I 5 'r. ed with proud families look- Music’has soothed the soul. possibility for Ms. Campbell always telling me you don't . rr , H MuiGa , L a d mg on . . Its Just so much fun not to play the piano night have to do the dishes.just go Ti ' , " J I I .-, . ' It IS the culmination of a watching them learn how to and day. It's in her genes, and pay the piano. They still P, F ' ' rig» F, , l " , year's work in Ms. Camp- make music," she said. you see. say that to me today" i ' ‘ 4 a. , l hell's front room on the 'And it's good to be able She was taught to chord Ms. Campbell spent her N f . . , 7 _ 2 - , 5 m grand piano her uncle Jim to so do something when by her aunt Mary Hermis- life teaching in Schools as , i _ , , r, A left her in his will. It's ditFr yoa're old. Sports'are limit. ton and her cousin is noted far afield as Oshawa and t _ . l, , 4 cult to say who is more edrormebutmusic IS some- opera singerNancyHermis- Port Hope, Garden Hill and 'l X ' , t - proud of the students' new- thing you can do all your ton. Growing up she would Newcastle until she worked l p, l ___ r", _ l , " found keyboard skills - the life," said Ms. Campbell, sit in with her uncle George her way home to Wark- L" - L , I tr parents or Ms, Campbell? who at 61 may be over-stat- Potter, who led a popular worth. Now the kids come to (Reg. _ -- . , 1ril The graduation concert ing the "old" bit. Fifties dance band long ber her and she couldn't be hap- t - - ’ 3 I , Mil is the payback for all those She like to tell visitors fore he and his wife Alice pier. I . to hel tutor students “kg morning and afternoon les- that she's not "a real piano started the sugar bu_Sh . "Every once in a while, a 5 his” i,t',1,etl,fe"grli'gg'il'littl'll' sons, trudging up to the player herself." maple syrup farm outside kid comes along that has a I rims , house on the hill for a half- Anyone who has heard Warkworth. real talent,” shesaid. "One ( "It takes me right back to same piece for a whole hour of tutoring, encour- her accompany the Donegal "My ear for playing , a girl who isetudyinywith_me when I started studying year," she explained. "But1 agement and some Fiddlers, jam in a bar with gift iroy,1 the Potter family," right now IS amazmg, shes piano at the age of five here can teach kids and I get fresh-baked cookies. the Stone Angel band, ac- she said. "As a child, I was got the ear, It's very excit- in Warkworth, " she re- music out of them." The music lessons for the company the Fifties Show at surrounded by music, It was me." WW I ----------"'"'---------, _/‘ 'N " 's l V ow V l