Ida Edwards knows that life is good. Life is good for all of us, success comes by moderating one’s choices. Choice is the greatest gift we have. Choice leads to change and change leads to life. Ida chooses the creative process as the basis of her work as a singer, speaker, actress and music teacher. She is the proprietor of Rural Notes Music Services, a private music studio in Athabasca, Alberta and partner in the Athabasca Arts building Turnabout Avenue Place. Ida works in many disciplines from singing, theory, piano, recorder to community development. She has a music degree in singing and performed in Opera NUOVA programs, ELOPE, local theatre groups and as a soloist. Her students have succeeded in musical theatre productions, music festivals and Royal Conservatory of Music exams. Her past achievements include being part of the Communities in Bloom Committees that put Athabasca on the map in 2001 provincially, in 2005 nationally and again in 2008, 2009, and 2012. She has chaired many arts organizations including the Magnificent River Rats Festival Society, Athabasca and District Music Festival Association, the Athabasca Dance Society and served on several others. In 2013, she was recognized by the Athabasca Lions Club and received the Melvin Jones Fellowship award for her work in the Humanities for playwriting for the local community fringe, working with Arts organizations, and energizing the Communities in Bloom efforts. She received an Alberta Theatre Arts Scholarship for community theatre in 2014. Ida is currently a member of Toastmasters International though her local club Athabasca Landing Toastmasters.