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Booster President Resignation

from: Fritz Knack
to: vp@vanceband.org, secretary@vanceband.org, treasurer@vanceband.org
cc: Robert Carrington <director@vanceband.org>, et al.
subject: My Resignation as Booster President

Effective immediately, I am stepping down from the role of President of the Vance High School Band Boosters.

I assumed the position (this time around) at Mr. Carrington’s personal request. As he has made it very clear to me that our friendship has ended, I no longer feel it is appropriate for me to hold a leadership role in the organization.

I will wrap up the fruit sale details and place the order, as promised. I will also plan to coordinate the delivery to the school, unless the Boosters would rather find someone else to do that. And I will absolutely honor my promise to Skillet’s Mom to help transport their large order. If I have forgotten other specific promises or obligations, please do bring them to my attention, and I will make sure they are honored.

Sometime over the next couple of weeks, I will wrap the web site up for handing off. Except for small quarterly and annual payments to the hosting provider, the site should pretty well run itself for a while. I will communicate payment information to the Treasurer and site host when I have those details neatly gathered. If you have (or know someone who has) the technical skills to manage a hosted site running cPanel and WordPress, please contact the Director.

I believe my efforts, contributions, and seven marching seasons’ dedication speak for themselves. It is certainly with mixed emotions that I resign. I intend to remain an active parent–pit crew, chaperone, whatever rank-and-file effort is needed–but it is no longer my place to try to shape or strengthen the program itself.

Thank you to everyone who has helped make this experience so incredibly rewarding. I do sincerely wish you the best of luck.

Best regards,
Fritz

Itinerary for October 24th: The “Ridges” Double Header Competition

 7:00am Dress and Load
 7:45am Leave Vance
 8:35am Arrive at Porter Ridge High School and Unload
 8:45am Bathroom and Unloading
 9:05am Gloving
 9:25am Basics Block
 9:55am Warm-Up and Pluming
10:40am SHOWTIME!
11:15am Debrief and Eat Lunch at Porter Ridge


12:15pm Leave for Hickory Ridge High School
 1:30pm Arrive at Hickory Ridge and Unload
 1:50pm Bathroom and Unloading
 2:10pm Gloving
 2:30pm Basics Block
 3:00pm Warm-Up and Pluming
 3:45pm SHOWTIME!
 4:15pm Debrief and Undress
 4:45pm All Students in Stands to Watch Bands
 6:00pm Awards
 6:45pm Lock and Load
 7:30pm Arrive at Vance, Unload and Clean
 8:00pm Roll Call

The school addresses are:

Porter Ridge High School
2839 Ridge Road
Indian Trail, NC 28079

Hickory Ridge High School
7321 Raging Ridge Rd
Harrisburg, NC 28075

Dress for the weather! It’s always going to be a little colder than you expect.

October 17th Competition at Mooresville High School

Here is Saturday’s itinerary.

Itinerary
11:00am Band Rehearsal at Vance
12:00pm Dress and Load
12:30pm Leave Vance
 1:10pm Arrive at Mooresville High School and Unload
 1:20pm Bathroom and Unloading
 1:40pm Gloving
 2:00pm Basics Block
 2:30pm Warm-Up and Pluming
 3:15pm SHOWTIME!
 3:45pm Debrief and Undress
 4:15pm All Students in Stands to Watch Bands
 8:40pm Exhibition Peformance of The Pride in Motion
 9:00pm Awards
 9:45pm Lock and Load
10:30pm Arrive at Vance, Unload and Clean
11:00pm Roll Call

The school address for directions is 659 E Center Ave, Mooresville, NC 28115-2592.

Remember to dress for the weather.

Catawba College Competition, October 10

Here is the itinerary for Saturday’s competition at Catawba in Salisbury:

Itinerary for October 10th Catawba College

11:00amBand Rehearsal At Vance
 1:00pm Snack Dress And Load
 2:00pm Leave Vance
 3:00pm Arrive At Catawba College And Unload
 3:10pm Bathroom And Unloading
 3:30pm Gloving
 3:50pm Basics Block
 4:20pm Warm-Up And Pluming
 5:00pm SHOWTIME!
 5:20pm Debrief And Snack
 5:40pm All Students in Stands in Uniform to Watch Remaining Bands
 6:30pm Preliminary Awards


The FINALS performance order is based on placement.


 8:05pm Finals Begin
10:15pm Awards
11:00pm Lock and Load
11:45pm Arrive at Vance, Unload And Clean
12:15am Roll Call (approximate time)

The school address for directions is: 2300 W Innes St, Salisbury, NC 28144-2488.

Forestview Results, New Neighbors

Special congratulations to Elantra and Lily for their Second Place award for Drum Major Performance during their debut.

And a special note of thanks to the classy folks over at the brand new Cox Mill High School. When they discovered that they’d received the #2 DM award by mistake—and as disappointed as they must have been—they immediately chased us down to set things right.

Forestview Details

This stuff was up here yesterday but appears to have vanished from the band’s Google calendar. Retyped:

Itinerary for October 3rd Forestview High School

11:00am Band rehearsal at Vance
12:00pm Dress and Load
12:45pm Leave Vance
 1:30pm Arrive at Vorestview and Unload
 2:00pm Warm-up Procedure
 3:00pm SHOWTIME
 3:20pm Debrief
 4:00pm All Students in Stands to Watch Bands
 8:00pm Awards
 8:45pm Lock and Load
 9:30pm Arrive at Vance, Unload and Clean
10:00pm Roll Call

Address for directions: 5545 Union Rd, Gastonia, NC 28056-8127

Calendar Updates

The calendar has been updated with competition destinations and other details that I have.

SELL FRUIT!

Update: That calendar link above is pretty ugly. The band’s unembedded Google calendar is a prettier picture of the same information. (I’m planning on making this site look better soon, but I don’t want to risk the downtime while our fruit link needs to be available.)

Links Page Update: Citrus Sale Links

These forms have been added to the Band Handbooks and Forms page:

Fruit Sale Instructions
Student Fruit Credit
VHS Band Fruit Sale Supplemental Order Form

Update [9/23]: The supplemental order form didn’t look right, so I’ve put a new version up there.

Fruit Order Link

Florida Indian River Groves now offers a free service that allows us to accept credit card payments. Here’s the link to the fruitorder.com site: https://www.fruitorder.com/orderFundraising_pre3.asp?orgId=957717. I’ll add some more prominent links shortly, but now you have something you can share by email, Facebook, etc.

Also watch the site for an update to the forms link. I’ll post the supplemental order form and the instructions.

Please remember to get your email address to me so that I you can get full credit for the sales you generate.

Volunteer/Booster Opportunities

Please print a copy, fill it out, and drop it off.
2009 Fall Season Volunteer Sheet.

There’s also a copy on the Forms page.