Lisburn Deputy Mayor Ronnie Crawford presented the certificates at the Lisburn City campus of the Northern Ireland Piping and Drumming School's recent presentation. US2008-Pipers Laurelhill

THE Lisburn City campus of the Northern Ireland Piping and Drumming School recently held its presentation of certificates at Laurelhill Community College.

Over 90 certificates were presented to 48 pupils covering both practical piping and drumming as well as the theory of music.

Deputy Mayor of Lisburn, Councillor Ronnie Crawford, accompanied by his wife, were the guests of honour and presented the certificates.

Councillor Crawford noted the on-going close relation-

ship between piping and the City of Lisburn and said that the City was delighted that the headquarters and one of the centres of the School was based in Lisburn. He highly commended the work of the school and its contribution to the continuing high standard of piping in the province. Congratulations were due, he said, to all those receiving certificates which should be highly valued given the excellent teaching and standards maintained by the school. The Chairman of the N.I.Branch of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band

Association, Mr. George Ussher together with the President. Fred Walker were in attendance and both noted the continuing excellent work of the School.

To mark the 2 8 th Anniversary of the school a presentation was made to Mr. Colin Brown, one of the founding members and tutor from the School.

The evening ended with a musical programme by students of the School involving solo piping by Derek Boyce, Jamie Walker and Johnathon Lamberton and displays of Scottish dancing by Michelle Johnston.

Ulster Star
/2008