For the Calendar:
October 15 – Silvers Under the Lights at LW Freshman School – 7-9pm
October 16-18 – Cedar Point Marching Firebirds Trip including Perkins Competition
Tuesday, October 20 – October LW Upbeat Club Meeting, 7:30pm LW Band Room
Friday, October 23 – Homecoming/Football vs. Sycamore
Friday, October 23 through Sunday, October 25 – Taste of Music at PattyBurger
Friday, October 30 – East/West game at Lakota East
Sunday, November 1 – State Marching Band Competition at Dayton – 7:45pm performance time
Thanks to everyone who is selling tickets to the November 8 Uno’s Trucksgiving DoughRai$er! The event is a festive celebration of our band program at Uno’s Chicago Grill off Mulhauser Rd and Union Centre and features an All You Can Eat Buffet, performances by multiple Lakota West Band groups, facepainting, celebrity bartenders, and more! During the DoughRaiser, the Uno’s owners partner with our volunteers to run the restaurant for a day and share all the profits. All proceeds will go towards our new Marching Firebirds Tractor and Trailer and the external wrap of the trailer.
Our DoughRai$er volunteer sign-up is now posted on sign-up genius. Please CLICK HERE to volunteer to help with the DoughRai$er. We need 100+ adult and student volunteers!
Cedar Point Trip attendees both students and chaperones – Want to pick your Subway sandwich for Saturday lunchtime? CLICK HERE to sign-up on the Sign-up genius for Turkey, Ham, Roast Beef, Veggie, or Gluten Free sandwich!
PattyBurger Taste of Music: The next Taste for Music fundraiser will be held on the weekend of October 23, 24 & 25 at PattyBurger located at 9220 Allen Road, West Chester, OH 45069. CLICK HERE for printable flyer to bring with you and 20% of your purchase will go to support the Lakota West band program that weekend.
Important Changes to CHARMS student logins: Effective this past week, an important change has been made to the Charms student-area login procedure to help provide better security and privacy for your student information. As you know, after the school-code (lakotawestbands) is entered, the student’s ID number is their first-time password to the specific student’s area. Effective immediately, if a student has not created a DIFFERENT password, distinct from that ID, they will be directed to the Change Password screen and encouraged to create a password different from the ID to prevent others from logging in to someone else’s account to access their private information.
In a few months, Charms will add an additional step. After the school-code is entered for the “public” area, they will require that the student create both a unique username AND password (different from their ID number), in order to access the specific student area of the account. This Username will need to be unique within our school-code. Charms will also provide a mechanism for the student to be able to retrieve their own username and password via email or text. A new Charms student app (coming soon) will also route the student to the Change Password screen, but the existing app will not. While this might be an inconvenience now, it will provide for better privacy and security for your student’s personal information.
Kroger Community Rewards: The Kroger Community Rewards Program is an easy way to make contributions to the Lakota West band programs. All you need to do is register (or re-register) your Kroger Plus Card and shop at Kroger.
Enrollment is easy…
- Simply register online at www.kroger.com/communityrewards
- Be sure to have your Kroger Plus card handy and register your card with our organization after you sign up.
- If you do not have a Kroger Plus card, they are available at the customer service desk at any Kroger.
- Click on Sign In/Register
- Most participants are new online customers, so they must click on SIGN UP TODAY in the ‘New Customer?’ box. If you have registered in the past, click on Sign In to confirm that you are still registered for the program. Kroger requires participants to re-register every year in April.
- Sign up for a Kroger Rewards Account by entering zip code, clicking on favorite store, entering your email address and creating a password, agreeing to the terms and conditions
- You will then get a message to check your email inbox and click on the link within the body of the email.
- Click on My Account and use your email address and password to proceed to the next step.
- Click on Edit Kroger Community Rewards information and input your Kroger Plus card number.
- Update or confirm your information.
- Enter our organization number (ours is 80376) or name of organization (Lakota West Upbeat Club), select organization from list and click on confirm.
- To verify you are enrolled correctly, you will see your organization’s name on the right side of your information page.
- REMEMBER, purchases will not count for our group until after you register your card(s).
- Do you use your phone number at the register? Call 800-576-4377, select option 4 to get your Kroger Plus card number.
- Members must swipe their registered Kroger Plus card or use the phone number that is related to their registered Kroger Plus card when shopping for each purchase to count.
One simple sign up can equals thousands of dollars to help support the Lakota West band programs.