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Maggie's newest undertaking is the art of sequencing midis. "Since I cannot find a lot of the music I wanted to put on the pages, I have now resorted to sequencing the midis myself." She admits, however, that "there are still alot of wrinkles to iron out!" But, keep watching as Maggie's site shows the world that "even in our remote region, we strive to cultivate our talents and yes...to SHOW OFF!" Capital Area Youth Symphony Association: A couple of times during my site scanning I have run into the homesteads of a Vienna community leader. This site is the first I've found that was built by a community leader from another community (Heartland Trail and Heartland Meadows), and its quality design and content do not bely that fact. All this site's creation, design, graphics and maintenance are the work of Diane (5acreschool) of Diane's Designs. With a 15-year-old participating in the association, Diane is a parent volunteer of CAYSA, and her job is, naturally, to take care of the Web presence of the orchestras. Content information is supplied by others in the symphonic association, which is located in Olympia, Washington. "Our student members come from a four-county area in the South Puget Sound region," Diane offered. The website gives the members of the group an easily accessible and permanent repository for background information, some of which may be found elsewhere in newsletters and program notes. The site also serves to show others interested in music what is available in the Puget Sound area, and provides a means for input from students, staff, and families, as well as visitors to the site, according to Diane. Diane expects the site to continue growing, and she has desires to adding a message board, a list of quality links, and a music page with midis of as many of the works the groups perform as she can find. All she has to do, she said, is find the time! Besides this and her Heartland site, she also maintains sites in PicketFence and Soho, teaches PaintShop Pro 101 for Heartland University, not to mention volunteering on a daily basis in the middle school music program where her 12-year-old daughter participates in three band classes. In addition to everything she does now, it appears that Diane could someday make a decent living explaining time management principles. Mont Bleu (revisited): This is the first site I have revisited, and the way Maurice Biron likes to keep it updated, it won't be the last time to this one. His most recent update is a dedication to the music of a capella groups accompanied by painting of long-ago fashions. Regular readers of this column may remember Mont Bleu's Bach/Escher montage from a while back. You'll be glad to know that it is still in operation and still as fascinating as the first time I sat back and let the Escher fly past as Bach filled the room. Connie Sunday: Our community leaders generally have great pages, and you can check out the links to their pages at Vienna Leaders. Connie's site is a treasure of interesting, and deep, essays and articles on various subjects. A violinist by nature, this resident of the great American West has collected some fascinating information about the instrument, as well as about a lot of other things. A fun part of her site is her knowledge quiz. See how many answers you know and gauge your progress. And good luck! 
Any visitors to our neighborhood who know of a site in GeoCities Vienna that is well-done, with content and layout that is superior to the usual homepage, are invited to drop Robert (cl_kaulana) a line
and let him know about it. Absolutely no phone calls, no down payment, no obligations, and no salesman will call on you. Whoever is featured gets to wear the neat award pictured here, as well as have a link and brief description on cl_k's
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This edition features a couple of choral sites whose basic information about their groups is greatly augmented by their ability to enliven the surroundings with effective navigation graphics. I also mention a couple of community leader pages, something I don't normally do since we hold out our leaders on the main Vienna 
