Welcome back to the new Year. I hope you all had a restful break. While we were out on break two of our high school students competed at the Area band competition for the All State Band. Congratulations to Pedro Balderas for placing first and making the All State 4 A band. And to John Walgren for placing 10th in his field. It is quite an accomplishment to make it into the Area finals.
Upcoming events for the spring semester include Solo and Ensemble for High school on February 4th. Hays is hosting the event and as always we are running concession stands. We will need volunteers to sign up for shifts all day and also to bring cookies and brownies two to a package. Please bring them in baggies already packaged . Christie Loosier is the Chairperson for the concession stands. To volunteer for shifts please contact Karolyn Guttierez HBBVolunteer@gmail.com We need lots of volunteers all day long even if you can work a 2 hour shift we appreciate it. There will be sign up sheets at the booster meeting as well.
Next band booster meeting is January 23rd at 7:00 Hays band hall. We hope you can join us.
Scrip orders can be placed from 6:30- 8:00 the night of the booster meeting at Hays high school or at Judy Chida’s home 305 Prickly Pear Pass in the Coves of Cimarron on Sunday January 22 from 1-5. Or at Kathy Cavin’s home 1-5 on Sunday. Their contact information is on the website please call or email them to make arrangements to drop off your order. haysbands.org No late orders are accepted. We place the order first thing the Tuesday morning following band meeting. The cut off time is the end of the booster meeting January 23rd. Remember spring trips are coming up so make sure you have enough $$ to cover the expenses. Also as we look ahead to next spring for the Big trip make sure you are saving up some money for your students travel account.
This years’ spring trip for high school will be to South Padre. Your student should have brought home a note with the approximate costs and an interest survey so they know how many students will be interested in going. The dates are March 30- April 1st.If you did not get the note please check the website for further details.
Attached is the Dahlstrom Newsletter from Mr. Gerdes complete with dates for UIL, solo and Ensemble and the spring trip.
Coming up is the District Wide Musical “ Footloose”. This is a fun modern Musical. Many of our high school band kids are in the production this year. Show are February 2, 3, and 4th. On the 4th there is a matinee at 2:00 and shows at 7:00 all 3 nights. Thursday they are doing ½ price tickets for faculty and students in Hays. Bring your ID. Regular ticket price is $10. Come out and support our amazing students in this great musical Production.
We have finally finished up the tamale and coke sales we had a number of NSF checks related to this fundraiser. If our treasurer contacts you about an NSF check attached to your students order please make every effort to assist her. The money that would go to you student account cannot be posted until all checks have cleared for your order. This has prompted a new policy for the Band Boosters. In all future fundraisers we will only accept checks from the family actually placing the order ( parent/guardian of the band student.) You will have all cash and checks go to you and will write us one check for the complete order. This will apply to all fundraisers that we do in the future. We are tracking down many $8 checks and are charged a $5 fee for every NSF check. This is too time consuming a process since we have no way of contacting these people as they are not band family members. I know many of you are wanting your money in your child’s account but we cannot clear up the books until these checks have been resolved. Thank you all for your assistance in taking care of this. We have a policy in place currently where after 3 attempts to collect payment from an NSF check if payment is not made we will turn over the checks to the District Attorney’s office for Prosecution.
Thank You and see you at the meeting on the 23rd at 7:00 hays band hall.
Theresa Spong Band Booster President
Upcoming events for the spring semester include Solo and Ensemble for High school on February 4th. Hays is hosting the event and as always we are running concession stands. We will need volunteers to sign up for shifts all day and also to bring cookies and brownies two to a package. Please bring them in baggies already packaged . Christie Loosier is the Chairperson for the concession stands. To volunteer for shifts please contact Karolyn Guttierez HBBVolunteer@gmail.com We need lots of volunteers all day long even if you can work a 2 hour shift we appreciate it. There will be sign up sheets at the booster meeting as well.
Next band booster meeting is January 23rd at 7:00 Hays band hall. We hope you can join us.
Scrip orders can be placed from 6:30- 8:00 the night of the booster meeting at Hays high school or at Judy Chida’s home 305 Prickly Pear Pass in the Coves of Cimarron on Sunday January 22 from 1-5. Or at Kathy Cavin’s home 1-5 on Sunday. Their contact information is on the website please call or email them to make arrangements to drop off your order. haysbands.org No late orders are accepted. We place the order first thing the Tuesday morning following band meeting. The cut off time is the end of the booster meeting January 23rd. Remember spring trips are coming up so make sure you have enough $$ to cover the expenses. Also as we look ahead to next spring for the Big trip make sure you are saving up some money for your students travel account.
This years’ spring trip for high school will be to South Padre. Your student should have brought home a note with the approximate costs and an interest survey so they know how many students will be interested in going. The dates are March 30- April 1st.If you did not get the note please check the website for further details.
Attached is the Dahlstrom Newsletter from Mr. Gerdes complete with dates for UIL, solo and Ensemble and the spring trip.
Coming up is the District Wide Musical “ Footloose”. This is a fun modern Musical. Many of our high school band kids are in the production this year. Show are February 2, 3, and 4th. On the 4th there is a matinee at 2:00 and shows at 7:00 all 3 nights. Thursday they are doing ½ price tickets for faculty and students in Hays. Bring your ID. Regular ticket price is $10. Come out and support our amazing students in this great musical Production.
We have finally finished up the tamale and coke sales we had a number of NSF checks related to this fundraiser. If our treasurer contacts you about an NSF check attached to your students order please make every effort to assist her. The money that would go to you student account cannot be posted until all checks have cleared for your order. This has prompted a new policy for the Band Boosters. In all future fundraisers we will only accept checks from the family actually placing the order ( parent/guardian of the band student.) You will have all cash and checks go to you and will write us one check for the complete order. This will apply to all fundraisers that we do in the future. We are tracking down many $8 checks and are charged a $5 fee for every NSF check. This is too time consuming a process since we have no way of contacting these people as they are not band family members. I know many of you are wanting your money in your child’s account but we cannot clear up the books until these checks have been resolved. Thank you all for your assistance in taking care of this. We have a policy in place currently where after 3 attempts to collect payment from an NSF check if payment is not made we will turn over the checks to the District Attorney’s office for Prosecution.
Thank You and see you at the meeting on the 23rd at 7:00 hays band hall.
Theresa Spong Band Booster President
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