The Northwestern Music Boosters have been a driving force to why the Northwestern band is so successful. Northwestern Local Schools is located in the little town of West Salem, Ohio and it's music program has thrived in Wayne County and the surrounding counties no thanks to their Music Boosters. These pictures will give you an accurate description of what the Music Boosters do but I will take time now to explain what exactly they do to help the band.
Every year the Music Boosters puts on a spaghetti supper to help raise money for not only the band but for they choir as well. The money that is raised with this event gets put to buying instruments for the students, trips to Cedar Point and new uniforms for the high school marching band. The students have a month to sell raffle tickets that will be announced on the first Saturday of the March. Local businesses help pitch in by donating baskets and packages to be given away at the raffle. The Friday night before the raffle there is a concert that the students put on and the range is 5th grade through high school.
Parents and the community can go to football games to see the marching band, three stage concerts and are invited to be a part of music boosters meetings that happen every second Tuesday of the month. This way the parents, teachers and community members may have a say in what happens to the money that was raised or to be aware of what is being done to grow the students musically.
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| Candice Flemming and Jaylnn Reed, fifth grade drummers for the Northwestern band, wait in anticipation for the director to give them queues on Music Booster provided instruments on March 4, 2016. |
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| Ariel Smith, a fifth grader at Northwestern, leads the clarinet section in the opening song to start the night on March 4, 2016. |
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| High school french horn players Audra Gill (Senior) and Bailey Adler (Junior) read and play their Music Booster provided instruments and music on March 4, 2016 |
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| Director Ralph Negro of the Northwestern High School band presents the players after the opening song concludes on March 4, 2016. |
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| Ralph Negro, head of the Northwestern band and High school director, thanks the music boosters, principle, super intendent and parents for coming out on March 4, 2016 before closing with the final song of the night. |
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| High school students preform on new french horns that were provided by the Northwestern music boosters. |
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| Senior Jacelyn Alberts, leads the flute section in the second to last song of the night switching between a flute and a piccolo. |
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| After the last song of the night preformed by the Northwestern High School band, senior Audra Gill proudly holds in front of her the Booster provided instrument. |
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| Spaghetti that was provided on March 5, 2016 by the Music Boosters and prepared by the parents in order to raise money for the organization |
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| Mass amounts of people line up to recieve their spaghetti as more pay at the door and the rest sit and enjoy the atmosphere of community the Booster have provide. |
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| Businesses donate baskets, packages and presents to be given away in the raffle that will follow the spaghetti dinner on March 5, 2016. |
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| Parents and Booster Members serve the community that is attending and supporting this event. |
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| A grandmother of a band student puts dressing on her salad before heading to her table with her family. |
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| As people are flooding into the auditorium to begin the raffle the baskets await patiently on display to be given away to one lucky winner. |
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| Treasurer of the Music Boosters, Jason Wellert, reads off the names of the raffle winners and invites them to come up to receive their prize on March 5, 2016. |
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