Wal-Mart Gig

We have been asked to play the national anthem at Wal-Mart's Grand Reopening next Friday morning. We will have a short 30 minute practice next Thursday (Aug 2) morning at 8 a.m. All we need to do is run through the anthem a few times for the people that don't know it.

Then Friday morning (Aug 3) we will meet at Wal-Mart at 7:45 a.m. We will play the anthem ad then are free to go. Please plan to be there if you can so we look good in the public's eye.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Call for pictures

If you have any pictures from summer marching band would you please get me a copy. I would like to make a summer MB photo page for the web. You can e-mail me or send them on a disk.

Thanks

Party was Great!!!

For the ones who could not make it because of work or other obligations we are sorry you missed it. We had a great time playing games, eating, and just hanging out. My wife, Heather, says you are all welcome any time.

I was very impressed that the house was clean when you left, and that you were all gone within 10 minutes of the end. Thanks again for the great time. The only regret I have is that I forgot to take pictures.

Party

UBIC Parade

We will not be doing the UBIC parade in August. After the parade on the 24th we will be off until August 6. See you then.

23rd Army Band In Vernal

The 23rd Army Band is performing a concert at the Western Park Amphitheater next Friday night. (July 27) It will be at 7 p.m. Tickets are free. This would be an excellent band to go see. Try not to miss it.

They will be in Roosevelt the next night and in Heber on the Sunday night.

Notification Help

SIS is in the process of being rolled over for the new school year. This means that I could not get everyone's address. With the help of the office I did get the address of the students who will be Juniors or Seniors next year. A lot of the younger students are siblings of these students and will know of the letter. However I need your help to let everyone else know about the information I need. If you know a younger student who does not have an older sibling in band please tell them about the letter and have them either call me or check out the online version here at the blog. I want to get a good idea of who to expect for the fall marching band. I can get the Aug 4 question answered by the students who show up next week for the 24th parade.

I just mailed out the letter today, so you should see it by Saturday. Thanks in advance for all the help. It is amazing how much I am still trying to learn after being here almost a year. We are doing great though thanks to all your help.

Letter to All

Please read this letter if you have not received one in the mail. I will be sending them out before the week is out.

UTIPS Information

If you would please take a moment to go to my UTIPS
site and take the short survey it would help me a lot. I will be sending home a letter to you with the same survey. Either fill out the paper one and get it back to me, e-mail
me the answers, or do the UTIPS version. Whichever you choose I need this back to me by July 27th.

Thanks for the help in tis matter it will help us plan for the fall.

If you use the UTIPS site follow these simple directions:
1. Hit the link
2. Choose Survey for Class
3. Choose the grade you will be in for name
4. Click Login and Start
5. Answer all 12 questions
6. Click Submit

UBIC Parade?

There is a parade in Roosevelt on August 4. It is a Saturday and would start at 10:00 a.m. Are we interested in playing in Roosevelt for a parade?

July 4 Parade

The parade last week was very well done. I was very pleased with how good you looked and sounded. We received numerous compliments. Great job. I need everyone at practice this week, please plan to attend. Parade this Wednesday line-up is at 4:00 p.m.

Lowes' Ground Breaking

You all know about the Lowes that is being built on 40. You may have noticed that they broke ground for it already. What you don't know is that there will be an official ground breaking on August 14. We have been asked to play at the event and we agreed. The meeting time will be announced at a later time. Plan now to attend that day.

Summer Parade Update

It has been a while w/o a post. So here is the latest info for the summer.

Parade tomorrow line-up @ 9:00 a.m. Remember black pants and black shoes.

Rodeo parade date and time reported were in error. I made the mistake of looking at the official rodeo website (http://www.vernalrodeo.com/) and they listed the parade as on the 12th. (It turns out that the information on their web page is over a year old.)

I had some very helpful parents who heard that the parade was actually on the 11th. I did confirm this discrepancy and the parade is on the 11th. It is also earlier in the day than reported. It is at 5 not 6. Line-up will then be at 4:00 p.m. on the 11th.

The other parade in July will be on the 24th with line-up at 9:00 a.m.

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Thank You

I just want to extend a thank you to all of you who helped with our move last week. We had several issues arise with the move, but with your help we did get done fairly quickly.

Summer Marching Band

We have a poor return of summer MB slips. Please plan to participate. If time is a concern talk to Mr. Gibson about working with your schedule. We really want a large band for the parades.

Next 2 weeks

Be sure to check out the calendar for the next two weeks. (Link at right)

We have a lot of service to do in the next 2 weeks. Please be there to help out.

Thanks for the Quilts

New BPSA and Junior Drum Major Results

Here are the members of the new BPSA for next year. They will begin their duties on June 4 with the start of summer marching band. Congratulations to all of them. Please give them your full support.


President Landon Manwaring
Vice President Courtney Evans
Secretary Cecilly Francisco
Librarian Brinli Aycock
Librarian Katie Slaugh
Historian Allyson Beddes
Equipment Manager Heather Fugal
Uniform Manager Nashelle Pearson
Senior Representative Ethan Kitzmiller
Junior Representative Katie Watkins
Soph. Representative Hayden Manwaring
Jazz Representative Josh White
Senior Drum Major Sara McPhie
Junior Drum Major Melyssa Pierce
Student Member at Large Katie Palmer

A word about the slide show

Every year I have taken pictures throughout the year to remember the things we accomplished. After the second year of this I discovered the ability to make a digital collage to share with the students. From that point on I have done a slide show at the end of every year. This year I got kind of overwhelmed toward the end of the year and did not have a lot of time to accomplish this task.

I had mentioned the show many times throughout the year and did not want to disappoint the members of the band who wanted to see it. I had about 1200 pictures to sort through and I tried hard to get some of everyone. I did this in about 10 minutes. I am sure that I left some students out on accident, and I noticed that some students had several pictures in the show.

My intent of the show is not to exclude, or showcase. If you were left out of the show or felt like it was to focused on one student please forgive my speedy compilation and neglect. All of the pictures that I had to choose from will either be on line or are there now. I hope you enjoyed the show despite the fact that it was put together in a sloppy fashion. I will strive to do better for next year.

I have in the past not given out copies of the shows I have created, but I might be willing to change that policy if there is a great desire to do so.