The meeting minutes from our January Booster Meeting are attached. The next Booster Meeting, aka Parent Meeting, is February 19th at 7pm. (Unless otherwise noted, the Parent Booster Meeting will always be held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7pm in either the Band Room or the Chorus Room at the high school.) If you have any questions, please contact any board member at the contacts at the bottom of the email. Please attend! The band cannot be amazing without amazing parent support!
News
The Band Boosters currently have the position of "Contracts Officer" open due to a vacated position. This is a Board position. We need to fill the open position as quickly as possible. In accordance with our bylaws, the Board has nominated Cyndie Moore for the position of Contracts Officer. Voting for this position will take place at the next Booster Meeting, which is scheduled for February 19, 2019 at 7pm. If there is anyone else who is interested in being nominated for the position, you must notify the Executive Board in writing prior to the meeting. Attendance of this Booster Meeting is vital. We must have at least 25 Boosters in attendance to be able to vote someone into a board position. Please be sure to join us on 2/19/19 @ 7pm.
Grades K – 5
New member: $100 (includes t-shirt, flagpole, drinks, and snacks)
Returning members: $75 (includes t-shirt, drinks, and snacks)
Dates: 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13
Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Practice Location: Seminole High School Auditorium
Performance: Seminole Visual – March 16, 2019 – time TBA
Please note that the performance is the last Saturday of Spring Break. RSVP and questions to Stephanie Madrinan at sbgdkk@gmail.com. Please include: child’s name, parent’s name, grade, shirt size, and phone number. Bring payment (cash or check) on the first day. Checks payable to Seminole High School Band Boosters (SHSBB).
Congratulations to the 19 students that participated in the 2019 All County Band Festival! Please enjoy these quality, multi-cam videos of their performances at Mahaffey theater from 2/2/19.
Pinellas All County Middle School Honor & 9-10 Concert Bands:
Pinellas All County Middle School Band & 11-12 Symphonic Band:
This is a friendly reminder that with the various concert and jazz band events coming up very soon, we want to reflect the best possible impression of our award-winning program. You can help us by ensuring the following:
· Your student’s concert attire should be clean and wrinkle-free. It’s best to transport concert attire to and from school in a garment bag rather than in student Warhawk bags.
· Appropriate footwear should be worn. We recommend those wearing dresses should wear closed toe flats or heels. No sandals or sneakers.
· Students who wear tuxedos should wear long black socks. No sock with designs.
· Some students opt to wear sports bras or leggings/long pants under their dresses. Please ensure these clothing articles cannot be seen when in concert dress - while sitting and walking.
All students should own all attire needed for concerts and should not be using the uniform room donations as their own personal items. If they are missing items or need to borrow something for an emergency, please speak with Leadership or contact our Uniform Mom, Beckie Biglin.
Does your student like to draw? Have them submit their design for the Seminole Visual T-Shirt design.
Not only will the winner’s art work be placed on the Visual T-Shirt, but they will also receive a free shirt and a $25 Chick-fil-A gift card!
Contest ends Saturday, February 16th
· Must be original art work
· No more than 3 colors can be used in design
· Design should be approximately 11” wide x 11” high
· Top 3 will be voted for online.
Give entry to Beckie Biglin in person no later than 2/16 or email to shsbbspecialevents@gmail.com
There are 38 volunteer spots for the Spaghetti Dinner and only 7 have been filled.
We still need 22.9% of our donations filled.
And only 21 people have confirmed they are coming to the dinner.
Friday, March 8th
Seminole High School Gym
We need everyone’s help to make this event successful!
· We need 2 people to arrive at 3 pm that begin the process of setting up the gas pot cookers and get the sauce and meatballs going. Pasta will be pre-cooked and warmed during event.
· We need about 4 additional people to arrive at the school around 4 p.m. to help with set up.
· The other volunteer jobs should be self-explanatory.
· We don't want anyone to miss the show, so if we have to, we can do the cleanup and breakdown after the performances.
· The sign up for 50/50 is a good job for someone that is good with talking to people - you will be selling the tickets and the more we sell, the more we make (and give to the winner!)
· Students can earn volunteer hours at this event
We plan on feeding approximately 150 people this year. In the past two years, we have been able to make the Spaghetti Dinner 100% profitable by soliciting donations for the labor and food items needed to make it happen. We are fortunate enough that Kevin Green has volunteered to donate all the spaghetti sauce, noodles, meatballs, Parmesan cheese & bread! THANK YOU, KEVIN GREEN!!! There are still areas that we need donations. Feel free to sign up for as many donations as you like! Don't forget, we need many volunteers, too - so check the other sign up genius list to put in some valued time!
Performing Student’s dinner starts at 5:00pm - cost for dinner is $8
Family & friends dinner starts at 6:00pm – cost for dinner is $12
Shows will start at 7:30pm - Door entry only for family & friends is $5
You can pay for the dinners at the door but please RSVP for the dinner below so we have an idea of how many people will be attending. In addition, if you would please RSVP for your performing student it would help with our count.
RSVP signup: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a054aaea729a6f58-spaghetti2
Volunteer’s signup: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a054aaea729a6f58-spaghetti
Donations signup: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a054aaea729a6f58-spaghetti1
Contact Beckie Biglin at shsbbspecialevents@gmail.com with any questions.
Only 46 volunteers’ spots filled out of 281
Only 1 donation spot filled out of 51
The Seminole High School Band Aides Boosters in coordination with the Florida Federation of Color guards will host the Annual Seminole Visual Spectacular Competition on Saturday, March 16th, at the Seminole High School gym. This is a MAJOR FUNDRAISER FOR THE ENTIRE BAND PROGRAM, and we will need 'all hands on deck' to make this another successful event.
Schools are still signing up for this event, so we do not have the final count attending. Shift times & quantity needed may change as we get closer to the event.
All volunteers need to wear their orange "SHOW HOST" shirts or the green SHS band booster’s polo and khaki pants or shorts & wear comfortable shoes.
Volunteers are not given free admission to the show unless they have volunteered/worked for eight hours or more.
Volunteers get a meal tickets for every 4 hours that they work:
1 shift = 0 meal tickets
2 shifts = 1 meal ticket
3 shifts = 2 meal tickets
4 shifts = 3 meal tickets
Seminole Visual Volunteers: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a054aaea729a6f58-2019
Seminole Visual Donations: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a054aaea729a6f58-20191
Please contact Beckie Biglin at shsbbspecialevents@gmail.com with any questions.
Please be advised that Spring Formal, scheduled for this Friday, February 8th, has been cancelled. Due to low ticket sales and limited response, the decision was made to cancel the event. Any tickets that were already purchased will be refunded. We will plan to bring the event back next year, in hopes the results will be more successful. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any Executive Board Member.
February 5 Cheesecake Sales begin
February 6 Spirit Night at Pieology
February 8 Spring Formal – Sadie Hawkins Dance
February 9 Tag Day at Publix on Oakhurst
February 10 Tag Day at Lowe’s on Ulmerton Rd / Zumba Fitness Fundraiser
February 14 Cookie Sales begin
February 17 Garage Sale
February 19 Board Meeting
February 27 Spirit Night at BJ’s on Park Blvd
March 8 Spaghetti Dinner
March 9 Pow Wow Parade
March 16 Seminole Visual
March 18 Golf Tournament