3-11-10 Update: Intermediate Mixed Choir, Period 1 WILL NOT be going Tuesday night to North, but will be going to Districts on April 6 at Willamette University. Women's Choir, Period 5 and Intermediate Mixed Advanced, Period 5 WILL be going to North on Tuesday, March 16. Kids to report to school by 4:45pm, bus leaves at 5:45, Show at 7 at North HS. Students may go home with parents from North, or ride bus back to McNary. Pick your students up NO LATER than 9pm at McNary. Thank you. APPLEBEE'S PANCAKE FEED - Saturday, March 13, 8am-10am. If you have your ticket already...see you there. Tickets WILL be available at the door. Arrive by 9:30 to get your fill! $7 REALLY IMPORTANT!!! We have only received $200 in donations from my previous email about the piano lab opportunity. PLEASE forward the article below to your friends, family, colleagues and anyone you know who might be willing to support the wonderful things going on here at McNary for your kids in music. And drop in soon to see all the wonderful things that the kids are working on with our new technology lab stations. Thank you for your support. Pie forms are due next week. Please have forms and money in by Wednesday the 17th. Concert Choir WILL BE at the Advanced Choir Festival on Wednesday at 7pm at Sprague High School. Tickets at the door. Thank you and please help us get the information out about the Piano Lab. Jim PLEASE CUT AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING AND SEND OUT FOR YOUR KIDS! New money is needed for piano lab Published: March 4, 2010 By LANCE MASTERSON, Keizertimes New donators will need to step forward if the McNary choir program is to achieve its goal of purchasing a new state-of-the-art piano lab. The fund-raiser received a big boost when the Keizer Rotary Foundation pledged $6,500 in matching funds to the project. But more money is needed. "We're in a position where we have $6,500 and we have to leverage that money, and we are reaching out to the community and asking who wants to help out? Who wants to contribute?," said Jeff Kuhns, the lead Rotarian on the project. Community participation is crucial. "The Keizer Rotary Foundation did attach a string in that we need to raise $6,500 of matching funds from new sources," added Kuhns. "That means the Foundation wants us to reach out to the community and identify new people who want to support this project and to make pledges." Because of the Foundation's mandate, any choir-based fund-raising efforts already dedicated to other needs - such as for purchasing robes - is off limits. "Everything the choir is doing to raise funds, now or in the past, none of that counts. None of that counts. None of that can be applied toward the matching funds. That's separate monies for separate things," said Kuhns. The goal is for the money to be raised within 45 days. If this deadline is met, it gives choir director Jim Taylor enough time to purchase 12 pianos and set up his lab by fall. Use of the lab will extend way beyond the choir program. "It will be a daily part of classes for myself, band and orchestra. Kids will step out of a class on a consistent basis, and our goal is to have them work in the piano lab four times a month. Beginning students as well as advanced students will benefit," said Taylor. The piano lab will also be open afternoons, from 3-7 p.m., provided enough adult volunteers are signed on to ensure coverage. "All of the stuff we have available, not just the piano lab, will be available to the kids of the Keizer community during these hours," said Taylor. Taylor added use of the lab will benefit the school as a whole, not just his department, because of the positive impact music has on education in general. "We want better students, not just for music, but for science and English and math," said Taylor. The school has enough space available for a new piano lab. McNary has the largest choir program in the state. Fellow Rotarian Bob Zielinski joined Kuhns in sponsoring the project. Contact Jeff Kuhns at kuhnsj@keizer.org <mailto:kuhnsj@keizer.org> for more information or to make a donation. Checks can be made out to McNary High School, which is registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit.
December 8, 2009
IMPORTANT LETTER FROM MR TAYLOR
Includes an updated calendar!
Please click on the link, print, sign and return the note to Mr. Taylor
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