Feb Parent Meeting

Fundraising 

• Our current fundraiser that is going on right now is the Candy Graham. So we've already sold 107 of them. Our goal to be sold out is 144. That is going on until February 17th. 

• Jazz and Jags. Tickets are on sale and you have until the end of this month to get the discounted rate $55.00. March 1st It goes up to $60.00. This year you can purchase it with just a meal or for an extra $15, you can get two drink tokens. Three days before the event, it goes up to sixty five dollars at the door.

• We're looking for donations. I do have a letter with our tax ID on it. Let me know if you need this. We are 501C3. 

• So for example, a coffee themed basket. You don't have to buy things, just go to different businesses, like Starbucks,  Big River Coffee. When you go to places, say, what can you donate? 

• We meet every Sunday at 10 o'clock up here at Big River Coffee. If you want to come up and email businesses and hang out with us and laugh and have a good time. 

• We've got Jet River packages. We've got a really cool package from Columbia Sportswear. 

• You can also email me or Christina. Mine is auction@centuryband.org. We don't have to join us on Sundays, we have probably about three to four hundred more businesses to contact. We really need your help. Another big thing is, if you have any old baskets around the house, bring them to the school. 

• Our bandwidth run is the next big event, May 17th. We are locked in with the city of Hillsboro.

• One More Time Around Band May 30th and we have got a goal that we want to try to have the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people playing Louie Louie at one time. Our goal is to have a thousand people. The biggest one is 720 people. So we want to hit a thousand people. We're trying to get a hold of the Kingsmen to see if they'll come out here to be a part of that. We're in contact with Channel 12 News so it's gonna be a big event and so we're gonna see if we can do the tacos again. 

• Flower baskets. Order April 1 - 22. Pick up May 8 and 9. 

• Can drive this coming weekend. If your students can't come, due to practice you can bring five bags for a fundraiser point. The next one is March 8th. 

• Blue Ox, axe throwing, June 1st, 5pm-7pm. We get 10 lanes. 100% of the tickets go to our band. It's $30 for two hours. You can purchase food and drinks on top of that, it is going to be a party for us parents. No kids, just parents. So put it on the calendar. We are putting tickets on sale. It'll be on the website. It'll be on sale May 1st.  Let's have a little competition. And then we're working on one more big family event. 

• There is a new rock climbing place in Hillsboro that has reached out to us. So I'm coordinating a date so that we can have friends and family and stuff like that go and get a discounted rate to go climb. 

Volunteers

• January was sort of a quiet-ish month, so there were not as many hours. 

• It's 16 hours for the fall. 10 hours for winter. 

• Please keep filling out your Google forms. It's okay if you miss some of the older ones. Just use the most current one or reach out to me. You can take a picture and send it to volunteers@centuryband.org. We can show how many volunteer hours the band gets from parents and it'd be a great thing to put in the newsletter 

• There's lots of things happening in February and then into March. 

• Continue to do those volunteer status and renewals. You get a little email from Hillsboro School District that says you're due for your renewal. Once done send the screenshot that you're still approved. 

• If you come to volunteer at school, come in through the front office to sign in during the school day. You will get your regular sticker and then they'll walk you down the hall to your destination. The reason I also bring that up is we are working on a sign up by next week to help Mr. Dunlop with his fourth period class. He needs someone to sit in the sound room so that he can do some things in a fourth period class. From approximately 2pm - 3:30pm, you can bring a book, you can knit or crochet, you have to be cognizant of people around you but you're watching the kids that would be in the sound lab. There's no responsibility beyond watching. 

• You already know about the can drive, that sign up is out. 

• For winter percussion, there will be a sign up for next week. I'm gonna combine the sign up. It'll be the props Monday and Wednesday. We'll have loading the semi. That's also next week and we will need chaperones. We will need people to help with food. We'll need our tent and crew at camp that helps with that. So there's gonna be several different ways that people can help volunteer. 

• Winter Guard is going to San Diego. No sign up for that. I think that's all within their group. 

• You're all fabulous. Thank you for what you do. I can't say it enough. 

Kristin Keezel

• We were working on going towards the 2026 big band trip. 

• Every four years we go on a big band trip. We have one really strong option and three backups, if needed. 

• Since you came to the parent meeting tonight, you get to give a little bit of input of what would be your preference or if you have any comments about any of the trips. 

• We'll work with Dunlop to figure out what our hope is to have a trip ready to go and pay a plan for you guys by probably the beginning of March.

• Any of the trips we'll talk about today will cost somewhere between about $2,500 and $3,000. 

• Trips 1 and 2 will be approximately June 30 - July 5, 2026,

• 1st trip, the favorite choice is Washington DC. We have been invited to represent the state of Oregon in the 250th celebration of the United States. We will march in the parade on July 4th. This is for 2026. We'll probably have a performance, kind of like what we did at Pearl Harbor, but at World War II Memorial, and then possibly a jazz performance as well, similar to what we did at Hard Rock. Dates would be approximately June 30th to July 5th. So we're thinking five nights, six days. Going to things like the Spy Museum, throwing in a theme or water park for the kids, a lot of the memorials and monuments, the Natural History Museum, the Smithsonian's American History Museum, or the African-American Museum. We are slated to go to the Marine Corps Silent Drill Team concert and the changing of the Guard of Arlington. We'll go to Bowling. Hopefully get a tour of the Capitol Building. Go to Mount Vernon. Go to the Air and Space Museum. So a lot of sightseeing built in, a lot of fun built into that trip. 

• 2nd trip is going to New York and Philadelphia, same timeframe June 30th to July 5th. We would go to the celebration parade in Philadelphia on July 3rd. That was the actual signing of the Declaration of Independence. Some sort of concert set up performance, again, I'm not sure where that would be, but similar to like out front of the Pearl Harbor World War II Memorial, something like that, and then also the jazz performance. Sites that we would be seeing, Empire State Building, Central Park, Apollo Theater going on a New York City Harbor cruise, going to a Broadway musical or show, 9-11 Memorial, going over in Philadelphia to Valley Forge, to Independence Hall, doing the Boston Tea Party Museum, some sort of theme or water park built into that trip as well.

• Trips 3 and 4 will be April(ish)

• 3rd is Nashville and Memphis. That one would be probably April-ish, so during the school year. We would have a group that records at Studio B, which is where Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, many famous stars have recorded in Nashville. 

• We would go to the Grand Ole Opry and play at the Plaza in front of the Opry, and then have some sort of performance at Liberty Park in Philadelphia. That would include, the National Museum of African American Music, the RCA Recording Studio B, the Country Music Hall of Fame, we'll attend the Grand Ole Opry show. Go to Beale Street, do a barbecue dinner at Carly Veragos. go to the Graceland Ranch Show, some studios, and then the National Civil Rights Museum. 

• 4th is Disney World in Orlando instead of California because we thought that would be a little bit more of a perk. There's the Disney Parade. They do have a recording studio workshop that they would do. Those would be the only two performances there. The sites there pretty much were in the parks. They'd be doing the Dr. E parks. I'm trying to push for us to go to Kennedy Center to see NASA as well. 

• I did try Ireland. It was really cool but I realized that I would want to go and my husband would want to go and we had two kids that would want to go and that trip would be more like four to five thousand dollars per person. 

Elizabeth Martinez

• Cassandra and I are taking over the hops from Sheryl Hughes, and I've already seen responses from 29 people, which, thank you very much. We might need a lot more of you to want to do Hops.  Our email, if you are interested and haven't already told me is concessions@centuryband.org.  My mom(the secretary) will put together a group for Hops so that if we have information you send out, she'll be able to send it out to everyone at once through CutTime. 

• We are looking at Wednesdays. We have to do at least one Wednesday a month to get prefered days. Fridays and Saturdays. That way, we can maximize our earnings potential. On Fridays and Saturdays, I would earn about $100 a night. That's the wages and the tips. The weekdays are a little lighter, $70, $80 a night. 

• New this year, they're gonna be mostly cashless. You have to do better tips when it's cashless. It's easier to hit 15%. 

• Just to make sure everybody understands, the money from the concessions does not go to the bad, it goes to your kid's bad account. The bank gets 20% of the money. Most of that money goes into your student’s account to pay for these trips. 

• Another change this year the students have to be 16 to work. 

• The season starts April 4th. After Winterguard ends just before percussion ends. 

• If we have a lot of interest on Wednesdays, I can pick a later Wednesday in April.

• I need to fill eight shifts and they are 4-5 hours. It's usually 5-9. I paid $180 for the whole year. And it was a big year. We were going to San Diego. 

• If you have any questions, just email. 

Treasurer

• Fair shares, if you haven’t paid, please pay. 

• Volunteer hours, I've applied it to those that have reached the 10 hours or gone above. That's been removed from your account. If you happen to notice on a statement that it's still there, send me an email. 

• If you've ordered candy grams, please pay for those.

• Everybody's been invoiced for everything, so it's up to date. If you don't remember  getting it, I can reset it. 

Mr. Dunlop

• My Saturday last week. 6am arrived at the school. I took the jazz band to  West Salem Jazz Festival, which our jazz bands are doing great. We had to go first, which I think is a bad slot. They still took fifth place and scored an 80 and 87 and an 90, which are just great scores. The second jazz band or the silver jazz band actually took third place and got a trophy. We're excited about that. A lot of progress in both of those groups and great things happening. 

• Then over to Liberty for an honor band performance that they did this year for the first time in Hillsboro, and we had some very good musicians there. I was really proud of the fact that you can pick our kids out and I thought that was great. 

• Then I went over to the Winterguard competition at Tigard for the rest of the day. I could not have been more thrilled at the Winterguard competition. 

• Our A Guard, which we call them, what you want to see is progress, and if you looked at last year and you look at this year, it's exponentially better. in how many of them there are, and what they're doing, and how they're being trained. 

• The Varsity Guard  are spectacular. I love their show, it's spectacular. I've seen probably a thousand color guard shows, and I put it on one of my favorites. It's just beautiful. It's just very fun to watch, and so I hope that you get a chance. It was a great day. 

• We have a great group of coaches. I honestly believe right now our color guard staff is the best staff in the Northwest. 

• I'm excited about the Drum Line Show and the coaches that we have there are great. I love that we have young, fun coaches.

• This is a trip year for all of the little groups. One year we do a big trip with everybody. That's next year. This year is the year that we have other groups taking trips like the Jazz Band, the Winterguard, the Drum Line. 

• We were hoping the Jazz Band would get into the Ellington contest, of which we did not. Then we are exploring other options. I will say no Oregon band has ever gotten in in 15 years. We have been accepted to the Kansas City as the big bassy one. It's called Basically Bassy. We've talked about doing that one. And then we have talked about doing the Lionel Hampton one in Moscow, Idaho. I've decided today we are only going to do the Lionel Hampton one. Last year, I came back from Lionel Hamptonso excited. I told them then that we were going to go back. I don't want to give that one up. I want to give my word and do it.

• The advantage of the Lionel Hampton is that we can take both groups. We would only be able to take one group to Kansas City. It's an awesome festival. They do something I've never seen before. They pick the top saxophone player. They pick the top trombone player. They pick the top piano player, top drummer. And then they call them into the big concert. And they say, OK, you guys are the winners. And then they go on stage and play something together. They have no idea what it's going to be. And someone will say, how about, and I'll try to pick a standard that people are supposed to know. And they get on stage, and they play. And then they pick the top musician of the whole festival. Last year, Nathan was the top saxophone player. 

• We'll do a school bus, we'll do a hotel instead of a gym floor because I haven't been able to find a gym floor that will let us do Wednesday night. The competition is on Thursday. We will try to make it pretty inexpensive because we're going on the school bus and it's Moscow, Idaho. 

• Drumline. This was supposed to be a drumline trip year. It got decided that they were not going to take a big trip this year. I was really against that from the beginning. I don't want to tell all the coaches what to do, but I definitely was strong vocally about thinking that was a mistake, which I still think it was a mistake, personally. But I also understand the reasoning behind it. 

• We have a trip scheduled on the weekend before spring break, to North Thurston, which is supposed to be an all-nighter. We're going to do school bus and sleep in the gym and do a competition. Nobody will get to do a trip next year. What I would like to do is enhance the North Thurston trip a little bit. I would like to take them to the Great Wolf Hotel so that they can have some fun. Maybe we will cruise up to Seattle, I can call the drum instructor at the University of Washington and said, hey, can we come up to UW? 

• The issue with that is we do not have a budget. We will have to charge for that. I'm pricing it right now. I think we can do it for approximately $150 a student. 

• If you have any questions you can text me or email me and we can chat about it. 

• The Venetian jazz. This is a Hill High fundraiser. The venue is a cool place to perform. It starts at 7pm. The Silver Jazz Band will go first, they'll be at 7pm. The 1 o'clock Jazz Band will go at 8 o'clock. You've got to get your own, 6:30 is call time. 

• The Solo Ensemble is March 8th. This is a great way to get over some of the nerves and have a little bit of experience with that. They don't have to do it. It's a voluntary thing. They do have to do a solo this semester if they're in any band except the jazz band. 

• Cluster Concert is the 18th of March. The Cluster Concert is the one with all the schools in the gym.

• Parade camp is April 11th and 12th. We are going to Camp Rileya, which we've already confirmed. It's the military training camp at the beach. This is the preface for the St. John's Parade, the Rose Parade, and the 4th of July Parade, maybe Hazel Dell Parade. 

• The Camp Rileya fee is the spring fee that you got charged initially that the students are able to work off with the fundraiser. It's not a separate fee. 

Members Present 

Jaclyn Petersen

Elizabeth Martinez

Marcel Gose

Senja Gose

Marlicia and Thomas Tharton

Becky Takera

Chrisy Hennigan

Tina and Wah Tran

Jamie and Frank Hoxsey

Valary Smith

Memory Bybee

Jackie Revilla

Lisa Cavanaugh

Laorne Beedle 

Heather Buxton

Christine Carpenter

Ginger Price

Madeline and Jeff Snively

Christina McClelland

Shaun Ryeshar

Kirsten Keezel 

Lisa Hoffman

Crystal Conners

Niki Carr