A soulful vibe along with an amazing voice is what Lori Nuic is gifted with, she got the crowd grooving as she performed at Launch Pad at the Cameron House for the first time.

This young starlet started out by playing a big part in a high school musical, Leader of the Pack, bringing her to the stage today and playing songs that any crowd would love.

Just to have an audience to listen to you is cool, Lori said.

The energy in the audience was amazing as this Kitchener girl sang, looking like she has been doing it for years.

Together with her eclectic voice, she mainly plays the guitar but also dips into the keyboard. Before Loris performance at Launch Pad, she asked the audience for some spoons or a cowbell which she also likes play, adding a little spice to her tunes. Too bad no one had any of those instruments to spare.

Dancing was what Lori started out with taking it into University, but she said, I knew that music was what I always wanted to do.

As a young age Nuic learned how to play the guitar and her voice was discovered after singing songs from the movie Beaches with her friend.

It doesnt seem like hard work when you love what you are doing, Lori said.

She is not the only one in her family to have such passion for music. Loris brother is in a band and plays the drums and bass. I look up to my brother because he is a musical genius, Nuic said.

Lori is working on her first album. To her it has been a lot of fun to create, yet stressful. You will be able to see it out in early 2005.

I will definitely be looking forward to seeing Lori at the Cameron House in the future, she has so much talent and a great personality to go with it.

Farris Green

I am a journalist in the making, recently moving to Toronto from Peterborough to attend the University of Guelph-Humber for Journalism. With only one year left of high school I decided what I wanted to pursue as a career and this was it! CTV is where it all started; my stepfather introduced me to many people in the business, as he is their military analyst. In addition my mother, Darlene, is a co-host for the talk show "Daytime," on Rogers Television.

It is my second year of University and already I feel I have accomplished a lot. Behind the scenes, I have learned tremendously when volunteering for CHEX Television in Peterborough and Rogers Television in the Simcoe-Grey Region. CTV also took me under their wing for the special 60th Anniversary of D-day in France, and the Shania Twain live at Dundas Square both working as the assistant guest coordinator. It was a privilege to work with amazing people like Beverly Thompson and Seamus O'Regan. On the writing side of journalism I have done some freelance work for Peterborough This Week, a newspaper that is distributed free to all Peterborough citizens each week.

In the future I would like to venture into entertainment or sports on television due to the amount of passion I have for the two. I am not an athlete or anything, I just love watching sports, and music is something I could not live without.