Band Buzz: September 4, 2022

As many of you know by now, Class of 2019 Falcon Band member Samuel McBurnett passed away recently. Sam was an All-State tenor sax player, and older brother to Jack McBurnett (class of 2022). To pay tribute to Sam, we are encouraging the band students to wear orange, which was his favorite color, for Wednesday’s after school rehearsal. Please wear any orange you may have, and if you have an extra article of orange, please bring one for someone who may not have orange in their wardrobe.

All CCISD home games (or those 'visiting' other CCISD schools) will have tickets sold online through GoFan.co for CLHS. You can order virtual tickets in advance if you'll be attending a game, and you'll need a clear bag for the CCISD stadiums.

Our game this week is our first home game! It is at Veteran's Memorial stadium, which is next to Clear Creek High School.

CCISD Veterans Memorial Stadium
2305 East Main Street
League City, TX 77573

If you are volunteering to ride a bus, you will not need a ticket as a parent chaperone. If you are arriving at the game on your own, you can order your tickets through GoFan at this link: https://gofan.co/app/events/641084?schoolId=TX17681

Some of you ordered contest meals (Saturdays in October) but not game meals (Friday evenings before the football game). If you would like to order game meals, then please do so at this link. The deadline is Tuesday September 6th.

https://form.jotform.com/222454988308163

Mr. Pearce is looking for a parent or other volunteer to video tape our band performances! If you are handy with a video camera and wouldn't mind helping, please contact Mr. Pearce directly: jpearce@ccisd.net.

Amazon Smile

To have a portion of your Amazon purchases go towards the band, shop through smile.amazon.com and select select Clear Lake Falcon Band Booster Club as your charity.

Kroger

Please help contribute towards the band every time you shop at Kroger. Enroll in their Community Reward program and select Clear Lake H.S. Falcon Band Booster as your charitable organization.

Our mattress fundraiser is coming up fast on September 17. The company will turn part of Clear Lake High School into a full mattress showroom, and we get a profit of all of the mattresses, massage chairs, pillows, and other items sold that day. If you are in the market for a new mattress or know someone who is, encourage them to visit the school on Saturday! See the full details in the flyers below.

Our main responsibility for this fundraiser is to advertise it to the community. If you would like to help us advertise by placing a yard sign in your front yard or would like a poster to hang at your business, church, or any other group gathering area, please have your child pick one up from the band office following school or rehearsal on Monday

We are hosting a marching competition on October 1!

All hands are going to be needed to pull off this event, so begin thinking about what areas you can help in, please!

We are hoping to raise $8,000 plus on this event.

We are going to need a setup crew starting at 7 AM, bus and truck parking crew, ticket/box office crew, ushers, Airgram sellers, Band Check-in, Warm-up monitors, ushers/ concourse monitors, Adjudicator hospitality and press box monitor, and finally clean up crew. Those jobs will be in addition to our regular volunteers needed for other contests.

I also need someone to be in charge of the event and band volunteers.

Thank you!

Sam Draper

Looking for information from prior weeks or want to see your student in action? You can find more information about band happenings on the CLHS Band Buzz Blog.

We also have a photo gallery of our band and color guard. Check it out here!

Have pictures you want to contribute to the gallery? Submit your pictures by following the link below:

Parents who like to contribute photos, should follow the following steps:

1. Set up a Google account, if you don't already have one
2. You don't need a "@gmail.com" account, you can set up a google account with an already existing email account like @ccisd.net or @yahoo.com
3. Next, email webmaster@clhsband.org with the email address associated with your google account
4. We will then provide access to our photo album where you can upload unlimited photos
5. If you encounter issues, please email webmaster@clhsband.org

Kanch Weerasinghe

FBBC Webmaster

This year is Clear Lake High School's 50th anniversary!

There are already big plans in the works for Homecoming weekend, including at the football game. If you are planning to attend the Homecoming football game at Challenger Columbia Stadium that night and you are NOT volunteering to help move band equipment or chaperone on the bus, you may need to order tickets sooner rather than later as there is a risk they may be sold out closer to the date. (Volunteers who ride the bus and move equipment are included with the band's entry that night.)

You can get more information about Homecoming tickets and special Homecoming events on the Anniversary website: https://clearlakehighschool50thanniver.godaddysites.com/

If you would like to contribute to the Band Buzz, please contact the appropriate committee or board member. They can send fully edited information to the following e-mail address: VP@clhsband.org . The deadline for submissions is midnight each Wednesday night.

Thank you,

Rebecca Garland

(2nd VP Communications)