This Week in Band!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our Spaghetti Dinner and helped us make this another successful event! We truly appreciate all your support! Special thanks to all our volunteers, and student volunteers who jumped in to help! Thank you to Mrs. Skoch and the Jazz Band for the awesome performance! Lastly, thank you to all who supported our raffles and helped us raise scholarship funds! Congrats to all the winners!
Thank you to all who attended our FCMB Informational meeting on April 20th! It was great to see so many new faces and start talking about a new marching season! For those of you unable to attend, the information can be found on the website.
HUGE THANKS!
At the beginning of the school year , we were approached by Adventure Subaru on Mentor Avenue and they chose Music Mentors as organization to support for the year for their "Share the Love" Event! If you were lucky enough to view the commercials online that our fearless directors appeared in, you may have seen this campaign! Around mid April, Mr. Poremba received an amazing email stating that Adventure Subaru was awarding Music Mentors a check for over $6300 from this campaign! To say we are grateful and appreciative is just not enough! So if you find yourself out and about shopping for a vehicle, you may want to visit Adventure Subaru as they definitely have our kids on their minds! A HUGE ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR ADVENTURE SUBARU!
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2022-2023 Music Mentor Board Positions
At our April meeting, the Nominating Committee presented their slate of officers for the 2022-2023 season. The slate of officers is as follows:
President: Angie Arslanian
Vice-President: Amy Freeman
Treasurer: Julie Bates
Secretary: OPEN
As you can see the positions are unopposed but a voice vote will be held at our May meeting to ensure the nominated officers are elected by a majority vote.
As we seem to have rounded the corner of our restrictions due to Covid-19, we will be resuming with in person monthly meetings going forward and we invite you all to join us and become involved.
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Committee Positions for 2022-2023
We have several opportunities for all of our parents/family members to get involved! You can read more about these positions in the "About Us " link on the homepage of our website. Currently our chairpersons are as follows:
- Service Crew - Jason Bednarski (willing to serve for 2022-2023). Service crew helps us build and fix props and equipment, loading/unloading the semi, helps at football games, and concerts with stage set up, and also various events through out the year such as OMEA. Email: [email protected]
- Chaperones - Meredith Everett (willing to serve in 2022-2023) Chaperones are responsible for riding buses to away events and also monitoring our students at our home events. Many times our chaperones are also filling in for assistance with props on the field, etc so we can enter/exit in a timely fashion. Email: [email protected]
- Uniforms - Carol Gommel (Willing to serve for 2022-2023 but will need someone to shadow her for future years) Uniform committee is responsible for distributing and collecting uniforms after each event. Also, assist with minor quick repairs and fitting students for uniforms and concert attire. Important - you do not need to know how to sew to assist on this committee! A couple uniform members may travel to events and games to assist with issue that arise at these events. Email: [email protected]
- 50/50 - Christina Smelcer (willing to serve for 2022-2023) The 50/50 held at the football games is run by the Music Mentors group and benefits the band. Concessions at the football games goes to Cardinal Parents for the athletics teams. 50/50 is our second highest fundraiser of the year! We are looking for "outgoing, ready to walk the stands" volunteers who like to talk to people selling 50/50 tickets in the football stands. We need 10-12 sellers at each game to continue to be successful! Plus, you get to enjoy the game while talking to others, watch halftime and enjoy the second half of the game as we only sell the first half! Email - [email protected]
- Hospitality - Jess Thellman (Willing to serve for 2022-2023). Hospitality volunteers are two-fold, many times they overlap! First, if you are interested in donating homemade goods, or store bought goods to help us serve our band and the visiting band at halftime, please sign up. Secondly, Jess also needs help on the field during the game setting up our snacks and helping distribute snacks during 3rd quarter meet and greets at our home games. Email: [email protected]
- Scholarship Committee - Kim Bednarski (Willing to serve for 2022-2023). These volunteers seek out donations for our scholarship raffle to be held at the end of the band season. This committee is of utmost importance as it is the primary source of income for the Senior scholarships we award in the spring.
Email: [email protected] - Webmaster - Michael Siskind (Willing to serve for 2022-2023 year) Manages our website and helps update as necessary Email: [email protected]
We are looking for volunteers! We can find something for everyone! Please feel free to email our chairs and get more information or if you are ready to make 2022-2023 a fun filled year and join our crew! Please note, all volunteers do need to get a background check completed at the Mentor Board of Education in the summer. This background check needs to be completed on a yearly basis.
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Volunteers needed for the Lake County Fair!
We are need of both student and adult volunteers for parking assistance for the Lake County fair from July 26-31st! This is a HUGE endeavor but with 180-200 band students we should be able to fill these volunteer slots quickly! If everyone took one shift, we can staff this completely to assist in our fundraising efforts! Information and sign up can be found on the home page of the website! Please help us out!
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This Week in Band:
May 4th, Wednesday: Guard and Majorette Clinics
May 4th, Wednesday: 7 pm, Music Mentors Meeting at MHS
May 5th, Thursday: 7 pm MHS Spring Concert and Awards