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Tony Foote, Parish Administrator
Peter Orme, Director of Music
Heather Lester, Verger
Volunteers
Sue Anderson
Ray Arsenault
Caroline Grimmer
Paul Mayner Maureen
Risley Bob
Swain
Alison Walsh
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Tony Foote
Born in
England, Tony was
raised in a Methodist household, but he began
attending Anglican Church Services regularly as a
young adult.
After several years in the employment of a
UK clearing
bank, Tony felt the Lord's calling to serve at a
Christian Holiday & Conference Centre in
Devon. There he joined a
busy office team in need of someone with accounting
experience.
Upon the completion of an extremely
interesting and rewarding twelve months, Tony was
invited to join another branch of the Lee Abbey
Fellowship based in
West London.
Serving the needs of (mainly) foreign
students, the Lee Abbey International Students Club
provides comfortable, affordable accommodation in a
friendly atmosphere.
As a member of the office team, Tony gained
more accounting skills as well as hotel
administration and receptionist experience.
He also wrote several computer programs as a
variety of manual operations were automated.
Tony's involvement in computing continued as he
worked for several I/T companies both in the
UK and
Canada before
joining St. Paul's, Nanaimo in February 2010 as
parish administrator.
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Peter Orme
Born and raised in England, Peter Orme embarked
on a love affair in his teens with liturgical music
that led him eventually to Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge as organ scholar and thence to London’s
Royal Academy of Music. Moving to Canada in 1969, he
was successively Director of Music at Ridley College
and First United Church in St. Catharines, Ontario.
After nearly thirty years as an Anglican priest, the
last thirteen of which he spent at St. Anne’s,
Toronto, he took an early retirement in 2005 in
order to return to his first love, church music, and
has been Director of Music at St. Paul’s, Nanaimo
since November of that year. Over the years he has
played numerous concerts as soloist and accompanist
in England, Canada, the United States, and Bermuda.
In the past three years he has appeared on several
occasions as harpsichordist and organist with
various instrumental and choral groups in the
Nanaimo area. Peter is an M.A. of Cambridge
University, holds an M.Div. from Trinity College,
Toronto, is a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of
Music, and a Fellow of the Royal College of
Organists.
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Heather Lester
I
was born in
St. John’s,
Newfoundland.
I was a member of
St. Thomas’s
Church, the most easterly Anglican Church in
Canada.
I was Sunday school teacher for many years
and served as liaison with our Senior Complex.
I was involved with our
Children’s Hospital and served on many boards.
In 1995 I moved to
Nanaimo,
from Sea to
Shining
Sea.
I became a member of
St. Paul’s
and shortly after became Verger.
I have loved every minute of
my time at
St. Paul’s
both as a parishioner and an employee.
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