Sorry I missed my blog last week. I appreciate all of your help and support during the last few weeks with the showcase, football games, Saturday practice, and Fatima parade. Whew, it makes me tired just remembering all of the things we have done the past few weeks.
The showcase was a big success! I was very impressed with the size of the crowd, it was substantially bigger than last year, and each school's boosters were rewarded with roughly $700 for their general funds. A special thanks to Vivian Hamilton for the ticket printing, her husband Mike did a great job with the air grams! I would also like to recognize Wendy Albright for all of her great work with ticket check out and record keeping, way to go! It was a pleasure to watch our kids along with all of the other schools represent Tulare's music scene with pride!
Please make sure that you have turned in your student's uniform to Betty Brite's by today so that it can get cleaned. The boosters are paying for the cleaning, all you need to do is drop it off and pick it up.
We have a busy week this week and weekend.
As you may or may not know this week's game is Homecoming, so along with our usual pregame activities we have all of the other groups in the pre-game parade as well, so call time will be 5:30. If you can help by driving trucks to and from the stadium please email me or call me to make sure you are properly documented with the district. Our homecoming nominees, Isaac Castillo and Ashley Gonzalez, made into the top ten so they will be representing our organization in a golf cart in the parade and on the homecoming court. We will decorate the golf cart with an Elvis theme (Las Vegas is the homecoming theme). If you would like to help with that I would appreciate the assistance.
Saturday morning you need to have your child at TWHS at 6:00 a.m. for the Visalia Band Review. I have posted the schedule for the day on the website along with the new parade route. If you plan on coming to watch please review the parade route as it is different this year than years past. Our parade step off is 9:05 and our field time is 12:45.
I desperately need drivers for this event!!!!!!!!!!!
After Visalia awards we will pack and depart for Clovis High School for the Golden State Tournament of Bands. Our Field time there is 8:12. We will be feeding the kids twice Saturday, once at Visalia and once in Clovis. If you would like to send them with money they will have brief access to the snack bar in Visalia.
That's the rundown for this weekend, again I am tired just thinking about it! We really need all of your help to make this all run smoothly.
Just a word of thought, please remember that we are here for the kids to help make this a positive experience for them. I know with the long hours you and your kids put in that tension can build between people, myself included, please keep a positive atmosphere around the band. If you have thoughts or concerns please feel free to come and talk to me, I always have time for you and your students.
THANK YOU ALL AGAIN FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK AND SUPPORT!!!! This band is truly blessed to have a wonderful support group in all of you.
Sincerely,
Dave Morris
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