News and

Notes

It Was a Big Week!

So, how is everybody feeling after the first week of full band camp? Are you bodies sore? Are you super tired? Did you have some laughs and learn a ton of music and marching?

Thank you for your smiles! Thank you for your commit-ment! Thank you for making the work so very worth it all. This is way too hard to do if it isn’t also fun. Students make it fun.

As we head into the final week of full band camp, con-tinue to stay hydrated, ask questions when you have them and work hard. March-ing Band is the biggest un-recognized team sport out there and our Hawk Family is only getting stronger togeth-er!

By now, you should have re-ceived a packet of paperwork from Centennial High School. When we hear of this type of information, we will try to pass it along here, as well.

Seniors and Juniors can pick up their schedules Monday, July 29 from 9:00 - 11:00 am in the gym. Sophomores will pick up their schedules on Tuesday July 30 and Fresh-

men will be able to get theirs on Wednesday, July 31. The Band Directors will allow some time in the morning for students to take care of this business. Please note: they will not release schedules unless all their paperwork is signed and submitted that morning.

If you haven’t yet received a packet in the mail, consider

calling CHS at 527-9330 to make arrangements to pick up the paperwork.

Also, remember, this has nothing to do with the batch of paperwork for band. Blank copies are available in the band office and a list of students with missing band paperwork is posted on the band office window.

Inside this issue:

Calendar 2

Parent Meeting 3

Volunteer Op-portunities

3

Forms, Fees... 3

Communication 4

Contact Info 4

Special points of interest:

Please remember to sell those Chihua-hua’s Baseball Vouchers. This fundraiser ends 8/15 and each stu-dent is expected to sell 5 vouchers.

Questions? Just ask. Contact infor-mation is on the back page for all of us!

You Can Pick up Your Schedule This Week!

CHS Band Pot Luck Picnic 7.28.19

Coming Attractions - Important Dates

DATE EVENT LOCATION TIME

Every Friday Baseball Voucher Handout Band Room Noon-1:00 pm

7/22 - 8/2 Full Band Camp CHS Band Room 7:00 am - 5:00 pm

7/29 Seniors/Juniors p-u schedules Gym 9:00 am - 11:00 am

7/30 Sophomores p-u schedules Gym 9:00 am - 11:00 am

7/31 Freshmen p-u schedules Gym 9:00 am - 11:00 am

8/2 Hawks at Sunset CHS Band Room 6:00 pm

8/3 Trumpets Car Wash 930 El Paseo 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

8/6 Srs./Jrs. Uniform Checkout CHS Band Room 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm ($10)

8/7 Soph/Frsh. Uniform Checkout CHS Band Room 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm ($10)

8/8

First Day of School

First Day of Zero Hour Band Room 7:00 am (Percussion at 6:45am)

8/10 DCI Finals Watch Party CHS Band Room 2:30 - 6:30 pm

8/12 Board Meeting TBA 6:30 pm

8/20 Band Parent Meeting CHS Band Room 6:30 pm

8/23 Pan Am Special Event Concert (Concession) NMSU TBD

8/30 CHS Football vs. West Mesa Field of Dreams

5:00 pm percussion/pit

5:30 pm everyone else

9/7 CHS Football vs. Manzano Field of Dreams

11:00 am percussion/pit

11:30 am everyone else

9/14 NMSU Football Concessions NMSU TBD

9/20 CHS Football vs. Onate NMSU 5:00 pm everyone

9/28 NMSU Football Concessions NMSU TBD

10/2 Marching MPA Field of Dreams TBD

10/4 CHS Football vs. LCHS Field of Dreams (home)

5:00 pm percussion/pit

5:30 pm everyone else

10/5 NMSU Football Concessions NMSU TBD

10/8 Las Cruces Marching Exhibition Field of Dreams TBD

10/11 CHS Football vs. Mayfield Field of Dreams (away)

5:00 pm percussion/pit

5:30 pm everyone else

10/18

CHS Football vs. Hobbs

Middle School Night Field of Dreams

5:00 pm percussion/pit

5:30 pm everyone else

10/26 Pageant of Bands Wilson Stadium - Abq TBD

10/31 CHS Football vs. Gadsden Field of Dreams

5:00 pm percussion/pit

5:30 everyone else

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This Friday evening, we cordially invite you to come see what all this hard work is about, as we host our annual Hawks at Sunset.

We have some special surprises in store for our students and we are so excited to show you what they’ve learned. We will feed the students dinner at the conclusion of band camp and invite you to join us, a little before 7:00 pm. Bring a chair and enjoy a casual dinner from a wonderful food truck. Then, sit back and relax as our students perform their music for their first audience as a Hawk Family.

The performance will begin at 7:00 pm.

We will be in the shaded patio area, adjacent to the band room.

We are so proud of our students and their instructors and we can’t wait to share their amazing talent with all of our families!

Poster, Pop Socket Fundraisers Coming Soon!

Last year was the first year that we created a Band poster. The photog-raphy was donated by Palomara Photog-raphy and students sold one ad each for $100. This is a very easy way to earn a lot of money. We will have more infor-mation at the parent meeting, but, for now, begin to think of businesses you can approach to sell one business-card sized ad for $100. We have leftover posters from last year, if you’d like to see one.

We are also going to be asking every student to sell 2 Pop Sockets - you know, those things that are on the back of every teen’s phone? Ours are black with the CHS Hawks logo. We will be showing a sample at the Parent meeting. These will sell for $5 each, netting us a profit of almost $3 per sale.

Finally, we will have show shirts for sale for $15. They will be free to students. Thanks to the generosity of Comet Cleaners, we earn 100% of the profit from these sales. Show shirts available for purchase at Hawks at Sunset!

Join Us for Hawks at Sunset

1. The website for New Mexico Alcohol Certification is: way-toserve.org. I had it wrong in the power point presentation. :0)

2. An easy fundraiser is to use the Amazon Smile option for all of your Amazon purchases. Simply enter “Amazon Smile” into the Amazon search bar. You will then have options to “Choose Your Charitable Or-ganization”. Search for Cen-tennial Band Parent Associa-

tion. Click on it; and that’s all there is to it! Then, we earn a portion of every purchase you make through the program.

3. The drumline will be playing at the St. Genevieve Festival on Saturday, September 8 in the morning. This was left off the calendar.

4. The entire band will be march-ing in the Hatch Chile Festival Parade on Saturday, August 31 in Hatch, NM. I believe the date was incorrect in the Pow-er Point.

As you can see, there are a lot of moving parts. If you ever notice an omission or error, please let us know. We want the information to be accurate.

Corrections, Additions from the Parent Meeting

Elias Silva showing us the fun that is Concessions!

Deb Hewus - Student Accounts Horns (575-635-0702) Christal Swenson - Student Accounts Percussion (575-993-1640) Elias Silva - Concessions Horns (575-644-9270) Philip Ramos - Director pramos@lcps.net Chris Kaltenbach - Assistant Director ckaltenbach@lcps.net Alicia Grijalva - Color Guard alicianic90@gmail.com

These are your Band Parent Board Officers and Band In-structors for the 2019-2020 School year and their “affiliated” sections: Jeni Raess - President Clarinet (575-312-7394) Carlos Peay - Vice-President Drum Major, Low Brass and Percussion (575-520-0510) Tammy Tellez - Treasurer Low Brass (575-621-3643) Kim Vallejos - Secretary Color Guard (575-571-3626)

CHS Band Parent

Association

P.O. Box 16481 Las Cruces NM 88004

Stronger Together. With Pride. #HawkYeah

Phone: 575-312-7394 (Jeni) Email: CHSBandLasCruces@gmail.com

Did You Know….? Band Parent Association Officers and

Band Instructors