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May 10, 2021
Evangeline Gilmer, Kyle Anderson, Areini Partis, Autumn Smith, Ella Gerstman
The Charles County Youth Orchestra proudly announces that its graduating Seniors will attend some of the top colleges in the U.S. and the world this fall.
The senior members of the orchestra Evangeline Gilmer, Ella Gerstman, Kyle Anderson, Areini Partis and Autumn Smith will be honored at an outdoor concert on Saturday, May 21, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. The event will be held outdoors on the grounds of the Alice Ferguson Foundation in Accokeek, Maryland and is limited to family members because of Covid regulations.
Evangeline Gilmer, CCYO’s Concertmaster and winner of CCYO’s 2020 Concerto Competition, will be attending Harvard University intends to major in Neuroscience. She will be auditioning to play in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (North America’s oldest symphony orchestra) in Fall 2021.
The Neighborhood Creative Arts Center held its first giving fair earlier this month at Christ Church in La Plata, distributing over 1,000 handmade quality craft kits for children to make as gifts during the holidays.
The center created the event to support creative minds during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and encourage children to create gifts for friends, family, teachers and neighbors for the holidays. Volunteers from the local Rotary Interact Club assembled and distributed the kits to families on Dec. 12.
Georgia Bonney, executive director of the Neighborhood Creative Arts Center, said she hopes to make the event annual in an effort to help out families. Bonney said 50 sets each of 20 different crafts were given out to children, destined to be gifts for mothers, grandmothers, fathers and grandfathers.