Patty Battin
Dec 9, 2025
Secretary - Patty Battin
I am going to step down as secretary.
If anybody wants that job, let me know. I'll teach you.
VP Uniform Lisa Cavanaugh
The only really big step for uniforms is that we have to get the uniforms to Orlando, so if anybody wants to help with that, I will happily take volunteers.
I also need a volunteer to pick up the Glencoe jackets and help getting them to and from the dry cleaners. Then we have to get them back to Glencoe.
Our winter concert is next week. For the formal attire, so winds symphonic band they have a specific dress that they wear.
If they wear dresses, there's also a tux option, you can wear a tux with a bow tie. If you need help finding something let me know.
Jazz band is different. They wear all black.
It's black and white attire for concert bands. On a concert night, if your child is in a concert band or jazz and symphonic, they wear their symphonic outfit. So if they're only in jazz, they will be all black. But if they are in both, we default to the more formal attire.
I'm going to be reuniforming about 20 students that we can't find. If you've got uniform bags or uniforms at home, please bring them back because we are missing some from the last championship show. They are all pretty much all out for washing except for about 20 that were having issues finding jackets or finding their bags.
If you're interested in being uniform chair, next year let me know. I'm working two jobs, and there's a small chance I could be going back to school, and it's a lot right now. I will help them. So if you're interested in that, let me know. Thank you.
Volunteer Coordinator - Christina McClelland
Volunteering, I have 176 data entries as of yesterday. Everything has been submitted to Jason for hours and completion. There's 43 families that have completed their 16 plus hours. Total volunteer hours to date 3,342.42.
The Google form, I'm just going to keep putting that on the sheet. Hopefully that's helpful. Insert your hours monthly or weekly, however you want to put those in there. There is a way to check, there are two ways, actually.
If you use the form, it will send you an email. It shows you exactly what you've done. I also have a printed out table that I can tell you the exact dates and time that you've entered it as well as how many hours you have recorded.
If there's any discrepancies we can adjust that and then go in and fix that.
If your company matches donation hours, I can be your person to vouch for your hours because you have to have a person on record to document that part.
There's a couple more pop-up tents. If you haven’t picked yours up they are in train 1.
This Saturday 12/13/25, we have our can drive from 9 to 1.
We make $2,000 to $4,000 per can drive.
The winter concert is 12/16125 at 7pm.
All-night party. If you've already signed up and you're one of those brave souls that's going to be here all night helping with the event, there are lots of fun things.
We have eight volunteers for the early shift from 8 to 1 and then the 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.
We're doing a hot wing contest. We're doing dances. We have so many activities planned. We're going to go bowling.
We're going to do snacks in the middle of the night. Seniors are doing beverages. Juniors are healthy. Salty is Sophomore Sweet is freshman and eighth graders.
Props for winter percussion, winter guard are to be announced.
There will be a sign-up that'll come out with some dates. We're ready to start with the Winter Guard ones.
Basketball Pep Band will be in January, February dates.
There will be 10 games. We'll put 10 games on the schedule and we ask that everybody signs up for five. We'll do a sign-up genius so that it says how many.
VP Fundraising - Heather Buxton
We're almost halfway there to our fundraising, so we're doing really good. Tonight is the burgerville fundraiser.
Can drives January 10th, February 7th, March 7, weather permitting. April 4th is tentative as we have a lot going on that month. May 7th is when we're going to do it in South Hillsboro because we need to hand out flyers for bandwidth.
Pizza Schmizza fund raiser Sunday Dec 21st. It runs all day. It's at the airport location.
Reminder, for your holiday shopping, we do have our Printafy shop. If you ever want to add anything to it, shoot me an email. We are always open. If you have placed an order, we have several orders, I would love to know how the quality was, if it met your expectations.
We have a work-from-home volunteer opportunity that we really need a couple people to help with.
We have a spreadsheet for our auction, which is May 9th, and we really need help getting it filled in. We have over 500 businesses, and we lost all the information for them. So we're working on filling it in.
There's five of us, but we all got a lot going on. So it's been really hard to buckle down and fill in all those lines. So if you can do it, or just even just a little bit, please email me: fundraising@centuryband.org and I will give you a link to the file.
You can fill it in. You don't have to worry about making mistakes because we will fix them on the call.
The last thing, and I pass it around just so the directions are written down.
If you want to start fundraising with your srudent, if you haven't already, I went through all the steps today and figured out how you do it yourself. You go to right card travel, you log in. This is assuming that you're going l on the trip.
You click on tour details, click on gift of education.
There is one thing that was 80% processing to be made online. Unless they want to edit their mail information. So you just copy it, the link, or you can copy an email.
There's an example of that email on the letter, etc. you want to edit your students' name, all of that.
When they do the letter, it's going to have their link on it.
Treasurer - Jason Keezel & Tom Thaxton
Invoices went out for winter. Any questions from the group here about invoices open versus A-Class versus varsity WinterGuard versus JV WinterGuard?
You have volunteer hours. Volunteer hours apply to parents only, not to your students.
There are volunteer hours for winter season, for parents. 10 hours for winter.
The student fundraisers, the Pies , that will be updated and added hopefully by the end of this year, along with the ad showcase money as well.
If you want to have money from your account go towards an Orlando payment there is a form to fill out and it needs to be
turned in no later than the 15th of every month.
Mr. Dunlop
It takes all of us to pull this off. It sounds like a lot because it is a lot.
Both jazz bands played this weekend and they really did a great job.
The second jazz band finished in the middle of the pack, which is a big deal because they have to go up against a lot of schools only in top jazz band.
The first band ended up taking second out of 34 groups and getting a couple of solo awards.
The guy we bring in to help with the Jazz band is one of my good friends for a long time. He's one of the winningest jazz band guys in the Northwest for the last 30 years. But he's just so amazed that we have a great marching band and a great concert band and a great drum line and two winter guards.
So I do think that's true. There aren't that many groups that do all of those things. And if you look at the groups that do all of those things, many of them do come from more affluent neighborhoods because it does cost a lot of money and takes a lot.
We didn't have a chaperone fir the Jazz Festival. And the signup went out a couple times. And here's the reality. If I couldn't have rode the bus, we couldn't have gone.
I do want to stress the reality is that there are things that if we don't get them done, then we have to cut things.
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If there aren't enough parents to do some of that stuff, then we have to decide what we have enough parents to do. Hopefully we never get to that, but I just want to throw it out there because there was that potential. Sometimes I have to drive the equipment truck because the district will only let me do that. I'm the only one that can drive it. And so if I had had to drive the equipment truck, then I would have had to call Christina and say, Christina, you've got to send out a desperate plea.
So just keep volunteering. I want you to know it's worth it. And that the kids get a lot of great opportunities that way and get to do a lot of great things.
I wanted to share a quick story with you.
I got a card from one of our CHOMP students. I think CHOMP makes a big difference. It's every Thursday night, you know, and I don't teach sixth and seventh and eighth in middle school anymore. I'm glad to be there and I love to do it. I think it's a great opportunity for the middle school kids and the high school kids and to get some professionals. But I got a card from one of our CHOMP kids who last year, when she showed up, couldn't play a single note. Nothing. Couldn't get a sound out of her instrument. She also hadn't talked for over two years. Hadn't talked to her parents. Hadn't talked to her friends. Hadn't talked to anybody. And she just handed me a card that said thank you for getting the first sound out of me.
Her life has changed because she said, thank you for getting the first sound out of me. I now play and I get to play with my friends.
We're doing all this so students get an opportunity. I believe that music changes lives. Not just the experience, but just being part of music and having friends.
I think Color Guard changes lives. Alot of students are struggling in that seventh, eighth, ninth grade year where they're just struggling to figure out where they fit in. They're struggling to figure out who they are, who they want to be. Color Guard, I find, is something where they find a place that they fit in with a group of people that accepts them no matter where they start and can teach them to be beautiful and to believe that they're beautiful.
I see it all the time. I don't always get to share it all the time, but I see it all the time. And when I went over to Tobias and there are 22 kids in the JV color guard and they're all just fitting in and they're already starting to bond.
It just stays with them forever.
Thank you, everybody.