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April 5, 2006

Director’s Report – Jon Grantham

Amador's winter groups shine at CCGC championships!

Congratulations to winter percussion on earning first place honors in the Percussion
Scholastic Open Class at CCGC (California Color Guard Circuit) championships this past Saturday. The winter guard took 2nd place honors in the Scholastic AA class later
that day.

Best of luck to the winter guard as they travel to Dayton, Ohio this week for Winter guard International Championships. Also, final thanks to all of the parents of both teams who have helped so extensively this season to make both groups so successful.

Many thanks to our fine staff for winter percussion: Vinnie Angelo, Marco Nicola, Joe Haworth and Casey Brohard. Winter guard staff is Jason Davis, Debbie Seeley and Jeremy Cazes.

The parent performance for the winter guards and winter percussion has been set for Tuesday April 11!

Sorry for the late notice. With all of this rain, facilities have been heavily impacted at Amador, but we are all clear. The show will start at 8:00 with the following line-up:
Winter Percussion-intro of staff, members, performance HPMS Winterguard-intro of staff, members, performance AVHS Winterguard-intro of staff, members, performance

Amador to host CMEA Band Festival at CSU East Bay in Hayward!

All three concert bands (wind ensemble, wind symphony and symphonic band) will be performing on April 28th in competition at the CMEA band festival to be held on the campus of CSU East Bay in Hayward. Amador also has the
privilege of hosting the event. Students are expected to work 2 hours at the festival. Scheduling will be done in class with the students next week. Any parents that can help in some support positions that weekend
please contact Mr. Grantham (jgrantham@pleasanton.k12.ca.us). Your help
is GREATLY appreciated!

AVHS GUARD- Jamie Henderson

The guard departs Wednesday for Dayton, Ohio to participate in WGI Championships. A special thank you to Mr. Grantham, instructors and parents.

It has taken a team to make this happen. Guard we are proud of you.

Go Dons!


LAST CALL!! - Sheri Baldwin

This is my last plea for more wine donations for the Wine Toss to be held at the Magic of Music fundraiser this Saturday evening. If you have not yet donated wine to this fun, money making event, please considering doing so - or if you have donated but would like to donate more please feel free to do so. Any donations can be left on my front porch (there are a couple of flower pots you can hide them behind) at 2916 Amoroso Court (Phone: 846-6529) or you may also leave them with Cindy Gehl at 4517 Shearwater Road (Phone: 426-1481). We will accept donations up to the time of the auction, but the sooner you can get them to us the better.

Thank You!


DONATIONS - Cindy Gehl

Thank you to all of the parents and students who made donations to this year's "Magic of Music".
We have more items this year and the quality and variety of the items are quite impressive.

I would like to give a special thanks to Ann Fischer, Amy Lee, Marcia Ikeda and Sheri Baldwin for working with me on the Donations Committee. It is due to their efforts that we have so many wonderful items to offer at the auction.

The following is a list of businesses that made donations. We thank them for their generosity and encourage you to patronize these businesses.

Black Tie Transportation
Cardinal Jewelers
Museum on Main
West Coast Olympic Gymnastics Academy
Towne Center Books
Essy's Tailoring
VIP Cleaners
Kicks USA Martial Arts
Calipso's Salon
Salon Siena
Last Detail, Danville
Intelligent Systems Design
Diane Keller, Independent College Admissions Advisor
State Roofing Systems, San Leandro
Wok's Up, Dublin
Time 4 Order
Armadillo Willy's, Los Altos
McNamara's, Dublin
Big Horn Grill, San Ramon
Girasole
Dorothy Broderson, Slingerland Multi-Sensory
Mary Kay Cosmetics
The Peasant and the Pear, Danville
California Stampin'
styleadvantage.com
UBS Financial Services, Walnut Creek
Jennifer Buck Interiors

Updated: April 6, 2006