Neither snow, nor rain could stay Oregon Spirit Chorus from their singing last weekend. Each year the members of OSC get together in January for a weekend of intense coaching and fun with our great friend and mentor Dede Nibler.  This year nature took a good shot at derailing our best laid plans (snow, ice and rain resulted in a cancelled flight and a flooded retreat center), but OSC prevailed with the help and support of our community.  The chorus was able to move our retreat location from Aldersgate in Turner, OR to the Macleay Christian Retreat at the very last moment and Dede was kind enough to shift her schedule to make up for the lost time.  All the OSC members had a wonderful time and once again we learned so much from this great experience.  We would like to send our thoughts to Aldersgate and all the residents of Turner who are still drying out from the flooding, our thanks to the team at Macleay that made us welcome on such short notice and our love to Dede who has been such an instrumental part of our chorus since the very beginning.