Music will be front and centre at the Weyburn Comprehensive School in the next couple of weeks. The Weyburn Music Auxiliary will feature the Saskatchewan Heritage Band on Friday, March 24, in the Cafetorium starting at 8 p.m.

The 12-piece orchestra will be under the co-direction of Weyburn's Bill Grohn, featuring two hours of easy-listening music, including jazz, waltzes, polkas, ballads and swing. Tickets will be available at the door.

The Weyburn Music Festival began this week, and will continue on Monday, March 27 in the instrumental and vocal classes, with many of the performances at the Comp. The event will be capped off with Stars of the Festival on Monday, April 3, in the Comp Cafetorium, starting at 7 p.m.

The WCS concert band received an A grade for performance at the Regina Optimist Band Festival on Thursday. Comp and other city-area students also enjoyed a concert put on at the Comp by Saskatchewan Express.

Jordan Anderson and Scott Hingtgen placed first in the engineering category at the Southeast Regional Science Fair held in Fillmore on Friday.

A small but appreciative crowd attended both drama presentations on Sunday and Tuesday. The cast is looking forward to taking one of the productions, The Wild Flowering of Chastity, to the Saskatchewan Drama Festival in Estevan on Friday, March 31.

A large crowd of Grade 9 students and their parents attended an orientation evening held at the Comp on Monday. Presentations were made by a number of individuals and groups to familiarize next year's Grade 10 students to WCS.

The basketball season ended over the weekend at Hoopla 2000 in Saskatoon. Although neither WCS team won a game in the 4A category, they both had a good season, with the boys winning the Small Cities category and the girls placing second.

Badminton is now in full swing and track practices have begun.

There will be a career panel on Wednesday, March 29, dealing with opportunities in applied psychology.

The Comp student body will hear from a motivational speaker, Tyler Haghan, on Monday, March 27.