For the calendar:
Thursday, October 9 – Parent Rose Parade Meeting, 7:30-8:30pm in Main Campus Auditorium
Thursday, October 9 – Silvers at LW Main Campus Stadium, 7-9pm – Pick up Uno’s Dough Raiser tickets & flyers! Ticket money for sold tickets can also be given to Mariam Kassem, Dawn DiLorenzo, or Jill Trygier.
Saturday, October 11 – Buckeye Invitational at Ohio State University Stadium. Enjoy the best view of the season! Performance time is 8:45pm. Click HERE for complete Buckeye Invitational Performance Schedule.
Tuesday, October 14 – Fall Concert for Red, White, and Winds at Main Campus Auditorium
Friday, October 17 – Alumni Band Dinner and Show at Homecoming Game
Sunday, October 19 – UNO’s Dough Raiser – More details below
Tuesday, October 21 – Fall Concert for Freshman Bands – Upbeat Club meeting following the Freshman Concert, starting ~8pm at Freshman Campus Auditorium
Marching Band Parents – Please plan to attend Rose Parade Parent Meeting on Thursday, October 9, 7:30-8:30PM in Main Campus Auditorium to share information on necessary forms, trip costs, further itinerary details, etc.
Alumni Event: We have 113 Lakota and Lakota West Alumni signed up to attend our first Alumni Weekend! Volunteers are needed to register alumni, and help with set-up, serving, and clean-up after Band and Alumni Dinner on Friday, October 17. Click HERE to sign up!
50/50 Raffle will kick off this week!
2015 ROSE PARADE® 50 / 50 RAFFLE – TICKET SALES START THIS THURSDAY
Would you like to be the winner of a big cash prize? Or, perhaps sell one of the winning raffle tickets to a friend or family member, and get a winning ticket seller prize for yourself? Would you like to be part of a raffle fundraiser where half of the ticket price goes directly to help pay for students’ trips to Pasadena? Read on for details on our 50/50 raffle!
- Tickets will be available for pickup by parents starting this Thursday evening at the Rose Parade meeting. Upbeat Club members must sell the tickets.
- We will sell tickets through December 15, or until a maximum of 5,000 raffle tickets are sold. Prizes will be:
o Grand prize – $5,000 or 25% of ticket sales
o First prize – $2,000 or 10% of ticket sales
o Second prize – $1,000 or 5% of ticket sales
o Third prize – $500 or 2.5% of ticket sales
o Two Early Bird Winners – $250 each! First early bird drawing is coming up quickly, October 19 at UNO’s Dough Raiser. Second early bird drawing will be at the Marching Band Concert on November 6.
o The sellers of the four top prizes can win a winning ticket seller’s prize of $250 (or 1.25% of ticket sales).
o You can turn in sold tickets with payment to Katie or Leslie at any Thursday night Silvers practice or at the Band Concert on October 14.
o Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. Cash or checks payable to Lakota West Upbeat Club.
o The Grand Prize Drawing will be on December 15, at the Holiday Band Concert at Lakota West. You do not need to be present to win.
o Complete raffle rules are on the website: www.lakotawestbands.org
o If you’d like to win a ticket seller prize, make sure your name is on the ticket stubs when you turn them in. There is a spot for the seller’s name on every ticket stub.
o Please return any unsold tickets – we have to track all tickets, because we cannot sell more than 5,000 tickets.
Questions? Contact Katie Klopfenstein (513.235.9814 or raffle@lakotawestbands.org) or Leslie Twardowski (513.470.5426 or twardol@yahoo.com)
UNO’s Dough Raiser Volunteers and Ticket Sales needed! The Uno’s Dough Raiser is our biggest Rose Parade Trip Fundraiser and requires the help of over 120 volunteers! The monies earned from the Dough Raiser will help fund the $100/student that LW Upbeat Club has budgeted to take off each student’s Rose Parade trip. The Dough Raiser is Sunday, October 19 starting at 11:00am with last seating at 8:00pm. Uno’s Chicago Grill partners with the Lakota West Upbeat Club to host an All You Can Eat Buffet in an exciting and electric atmosphere. The day will feature a great buffet including their famous pizza, pasta, vegetables, salad and soda, ice cream donated by Bruster’s for dessert, live music by our drum-line, jazz combo, marching band leadership team, Symphonic Winds Chamber groups, and an Alumni jam session. Face painting and balloon animals will be available for children and perhaps a fire engine. Improvements from last year include increased seating so we can accommodate more guests.
You can help by:
Signing up to help on the Uno’s Dough Raiser Sign-up Genius: Both student and adult volunteer help is needed – see role descriptions on sign up genius for which roles are most suitable for whom. Shifts are long to minimize turnover and ensure the success of the event. All volunteers during the Dough Raiser itself will receive a free T-shirt to wear as their “uniform” for the day. Click HERE to sign up!!! Please sign up early to select your choice of available roles.
Selling Dough Raiser tickets: At Thursday’s Silvers rehearsal on October 2, each marching band student received an envelope with 6 numbered Uno’s tickets for each band member and instructions to sell. Please encourage your student to sell the tickets or help them sell them to neighbors, co-workers and relatives. Cash and any unsold tickets need to be turned in by the Thursday, October 16 Silvers rehearsal. Pre-sold ticket numbers will be checked against the paid for list at the door – so please make sure you turn in money for any pre-sold tickets. If you need extra tickets, please email Mariam Kassem at lwunos@gmail.com.
Spirit Wear, Rose Parade Jackets and Rose Parade Brochures: Please note that there is now a 2nd page on the Spirit Wear Order Form for Rose Parade items – short sleeve white t-shirt, long sleeve black t-shirt, Rose Parade jackets with logo and official 2015 Rose Parade programs! Rose Parade jacket sizes will run the same size as the kids jackets. Once they arrive, try your kids on. We will also have a very limited supply of sample sizes available shortly. Because of price point and personalization, we will not be able to make exchanges. Spirit Wear orders can be picked up each week at Thursday night Silvers practice. If you have any questions regarding Spirit Wear, please contact Rachel Butler at spirit@lakotawestbands.org.