SEQUIM — What began as an exciting European excursion for a high school choir has turned into a headache of sorts for the Sequim School District and parents of the choir members.

The parents stand to lose at least a portion of the deposits they paid toward the trip.

Sequim High School’s elite Ambassador Choir planned the eight-day trip in June to perform at ceremonies in Normandy, France, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Allied troops in Normandy during World War II.

Choir members and a parent-led booster club have held fund-raisers to meet the cost, estimated at about $40,000, to send 20 or more students.

But Sequim Schools Superintendent Garn Christensen told the School Board on Jan. 20 that the booster club president had withdrawn support for the trip.

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The rest of the story is in Wednesday’s Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.