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COMPETITION NEWS

Our first competition is coming up on Saturday October 25 at Garces. Exact times and schedules for each competition will be published approx. one week before each event. I have to wait until I receive the information from the competition before I can release exact details.

Here is some general information that I hope will answer some of the questions newcomers and 7th graders (and their parents) might have. This information applies to all of our Fall competitions and parades.

For each event, all students meet at SMS, wearing the uniform.

CG meets at least one hour earlier (in the room next door to the band room) to do hair. HAIR HELP volunteers are urgently needed to braid the hair on 29 heads!

Transportation via school bus is provided for all events. All students are required to ride the bus to the event, but may be signed out at the event to ride home with parents. Students wishing to ride home with someone other than their parent/guardian must bring a note signed by parent/guardian stating to whom the child may be released.

We never stay and watch the whole event. It would take too long to stay and watch the HS competitions that occur after the JH/MS competition. HOWEVER, we do try to stay and watch NHS at one event per year if the schedule allows. In 2007, we were scheduled to stay and watch at Garces but rain forced us to leave early. The time interval between our competition and awards and the NHS performance was too great to allow us to stay at any other event.

We always stay until JH/MS Awards are over. I would really like all students to stay for the awards. It really is a special and exciting time. Award ceremonies usually start within an hour after the last JH/MS band has performed. The ceremony rarely lasts longer than 20-30 minutes.

Plan on picking students up at the gym parking lot. (This is the preferred drop off point as well.) Front gates will not be open. All students waiting for rides need to wait in the same place (THE GYM) so that we can provide supervision until rides arrive.

We try really hard to arrive back at the announced time and have a very good ontime record! Please try to have rides waiting for students at the gym at the announced "be back" time. Every year, we have students who have been told to "call us when you get back", and then are unable to reach anyone when they do try to call.

BAND BOOSTER NEWS

* The band booster club has incorporated as a non-profit/tax exempt corporation. Our new official name is Standard Music Boosters (Inc). Our officers and board members will be those selected last May. Mrs White will continue to serve as our president. Sharlene Kelley is VP, Junette McMurray is sec-treasurer.

* The Boosters Board will hold regular monthly meetings, to which all interested parents are invited. Meetings are normally the first Tuesday of every month in the band room. Next Board Meeting will be Tuesday 10/7, 7pm

* First fund raiser is now over, our decorative candle sale. Budgeted goal was $1000. Unofficial results show at least $5600 profit!!! thank you so much to all those parents and friends who supported this sale!!!!!!

UPDATE ON BAND BUDGET CUTS

A BIG THANK YOU goes out to all who made their voices heard over the last several months! It looks like someone was listening. As you may recall, there were two budget cut proposals that would have had a negative impact on band. One was to "suspend band trips". The latest word is that we WILL receive funding for transportation in the same amount as last year. However, keep in mind that costs have sky-rocketed so we may have to supplement our budget with band fund-raiser money. This is something we have always been willing and able to do.

The 2nd proposal was to eliminate zero-period PE. Our principal Mr Gisbertz recognized what a blow this would be to the Warrior Band and came up with a plan to reduce the cost to the district while still preserving Zero PE for those band students who want and/or need it. We have some students who could not even have been in band at all this coming year without zero period PE, so this is extra good news for them!

CG Happenings

After school practices continue TuTh until 4:45pm.....NOTE: there are NO after school practices during the week of parent conferences (Oct 27-31)

MWF practices have started. Arrive at school NO LATER than 7:25 pm. Band room doors are locked by 7:30, so if you arrive late you will have no access to equipment in the band room!

NewsFlash for ALL Guard Members

Uniform Fitting will be after school on Wed October 15 until 4:45pm and/or after practice on Thursday 10/16 until 5:45pm. You will not automatically stay the whole time. You may leave when you are finished.

REMINDER!!!! YOU MUST TURN IN GRADE CHECK FORMS TO MR WALLS RIGHT AWAY. Come and ask for a new one if you have lost yours!

ATTENDANCE POLICIES: all members received a copy at camp. If you know in advance that you will be missing a practice, then Mr W should also know. If you are at school, you must be at practice. ALL absences must be cleared with MR W ASAP after they occur!

REMEMBER ......

Drum Major .... CONGRATS to our new DM for 2008-09, Lindsey D and 8th grade assistant Breanna F. 7th grade assistant will be Olivia V. They kept SMS proud traditions alive at USA DM Camp. Lindsey and Breanna were 2 of the 3 finalist for the "most distinguished" award with Lindsey winning. BOTH girls also came home with award plaques 7th grade assitant DM Olivia, despite having NO marching experience, received a "Superior" evaluation for her final marching and spinning routine.

Warrior Band percussion section is to be congratulated on a great summer and a great camp as well. Section Leader Marissa and 7th grader Andrew were the only members at every summer practice. they will now have after school practices on Thursdays until 4:45. These practices will continue at least thru end of October. Big thanks to our volunteer coaches Ashley and Joel and for GiGi for help with mallets.

Congrats to all of our BAND and COLOR GUARD 2007-2008 award winners. Perpetual award winners included: JOHN PHILIP SOUSA AWARD Nicole N and Haley A ... BAND DIRECTORS AWARD Rory H and Ali T ... 6th grade JESSICA HYLTON AWARD Shawnee T and Katie B ...CG DIRECTORS AWARD Courtney C and Stephanie G

MARCHING AWARDS 2007-08 (Centennial performance is on YouTube!)

GARCES results (8 schools competing overall, SMS vs Beardsley and Richland in division 3A): DM 1st place in division (highest overall), PERCUSSION 1st place in division (highest overall), COLORGUARD 1st place in division (highest overall), BAND- HIGH MUSIC SWEEPSTAKES (2nd year in a row for 1st time ever!), SMS WMB&CG - SWEEPSTAKES AWARD for highest overall score!! ..... WEST HS (5 schools competing) SMS makes history by winning SWEEPSTAKES for 2nd weeek in a row! (no high music award was given) SMS placed 2nd or 3rd in perc, DM, and CG but WHS did not give trophies for those awards .... Veteran's Day Parade: best MS/JH CG (bands were not judged)..... CENTENNIAL: (6 schools competing) 1st place CG (2 tenths of a point from Sweepstakes), DM SWEEPSTAKES, PERCUSSION SWEEPSTAKES, MUSIC SWEEPSTAKES, and OVERALL SWEEPSTAKES!!!! First time ever that we won SWEEPSTAKES at ALL of our competitions!!!!! marching_band

MARCHING AWARDS 2006-2007

GARCES results (8 schools competing overall, 3 schools in our division 2a): DM 1st place overall, PERCUSSION 1st place in division (2nd highest overall), COLORGUARD 1st place in division (highest overall score), BAND (and entire unit) 1st place in division plus BAND HIGH MUSIC SWEEPSTAKES ........ STOCKDALE results: CG 1st place by a landslide 8 points, PERC 2nd place by just 1/10th of a point, DM 2nd place, BAND 1st place ......... CENTENNIAL results: CG completes a season sweep by winning SWEEPSTAKES, PERC 2nd place, DM 1st place, band 2nd place

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