On Saturday afternoon, April 6, 2024, MPP Rick Byers formally congratulated the members of the Georgian Bay Symphony (GBS) on the work the organization has done since receiving a $59,500 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the provincial government’s Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). The remarks took place at the Symphony’s Spring Awakening Concert where it performed Schumann’s Spring Symphony, as well as Canadian composer Alice Ho’s Jubilation of Spring, and guest conductor Richard Mascall’s viola concerto Ziigwan (Ojibway for “spring”). “Congratulations to the Georgian Bay Symphony on...