CHALLENGER BAND LOOKS TO CONTINUE MARCH OF SUCCESS.Byline: Joanne Crawford Education Challenger Middle School's advanced Wildcat Marching Band Noun 1. marching band - a band that marches (as in a parade) and plays music at the same time band - instrumentalists not including string players placed third in a Martin Luther King Day parade competition in San Diego. ``It was our first overnight trip,'' said band director David McCasslin. ``The kids were absolutely great. It just goes to show you that if you have great kids, you're champions in a lot more ways than one.'' The band is preparing for its concert season and raising money to march in more parades and shows, including the Patriots Parade in Laguna Beach, the Swallows Parade in San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano (săn wän kăpĭsträ`nō), city (1990 pop. 26,183), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1961. San Juan Capistrano has some manufactures, including aircraft parts, medical apparatus, and boats, but the economy is , the Music in the Parks Music in the Parks is a day-long adjudication festival for student choral, orchestral, and band ensembles, held annually across North America. Music groups perform before adjudicators who rate the ensemble in the morning, and then spend the day at an amusement park such as Six Festival at Magic Mountain, Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm. Band boosters are collecting donations and conducting fund-raisers to pay for the trips, which are too expensive for some students' parents. The fund-raisers include selling World's Famous Chocolate bars for $1 each. The band also has individual benefactors. ``I had one gentleman who sent me a check for $500 last year,'' McCasslin said. ``He's already given me a check for $200 this year and he called me yesterday and said he was sending me another check. I've got a couple of teachers who sponsored kids when we went to San Diego. I told them I had two kids who couldn't afford to go so the teachers coughed up some money real fast.'' LANCASTER - Los Angeles artist June Wayne will be keynote speaker March 6 at the 11th annual Women's Conference at Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. . The event will include lunch and performances by musician Alissa Welsch and poet, artist and mathematician Eugenie Trow trow intr.v. trowed, trow·ing, trows 1. Archaic To think. 2. Obsolete To suppose. [Middle English trowen, from Old English . Wayne, director of the Tamarind tamarind (tăm`ərĭnd), tropical ornamental evergreen tree (Tamarindus indica) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), native to Africa and probably to Asia, but now widely grown in the tropics. Lithography Workshop, held her first show in 1935. She was honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. with a 50-year survey of her career called ``June Wayne: A Retrospective.'' The advance registration fee of $15 must be paid by Feb. 26. Registration forms are available at the Student Services Building at the college, 3041 W. Ave. K. For more information on the women's conference, call (661) 722-6540. |
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