HSS is now starting into its 26th year of operation! We have exciting plans for the year, including an exchange with students from the Suzuki String School of Guelph in Nov of 2009, and Mar of 2010, our annual "Sound of Goderich" concerts in Dec and May, our student recitals in Feb and Mar, and our annual full concerts in Dec and June. Our webmaster, Alex Ivanov, has created our website on a blogging spot, to better serve HSS with ease of entering data, and, since it is free, it saves us webhosting fees each year. Our teacher/Director, Elayne, is off to conferences in Boston, Ottawa, and Minneapolis this year, plus she has been invited to be a clinician at workshops in Hamilton and Guelph, as well as adjudicating for Brantford's Kiwanis Music Festival in April. She is also performing with the newly renamed "Stratford Symphony Orchestra", a link to which occurs on our "Links" page. Our Theory teacher, Jo-Ann, is still commuting to Toronto weekly to teach music and drama to young children with special needs, and continues to teach our youngest students the basic Theory skills that they will need to be able to play in orchestra. It will certainly be another amazing year, with the dedicated students and parents of HSS committed to further developing excellence in their musical, artistic, scholastic, and personal lives. It is a pleasure to work with the families of HSS, and we look forward to the year with great excitement!