SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2016
Meet new board members at
Friends of Library meeting
The Friends of the Siuslaw
Public Library (FOL) will hold
its regular monthly board
meeting on Thursday, Jan. 28,
at 11 a.m. in the library’s
Conference Room.
All FOL members and oth-
ers interested in supporting the
library or learning more about
FOL are invited to attend.
This will also be an oppor-
tunity to meet the new board
members.
New
officers
include Ryan Cronk, presi-
dent; Sharon Hobart, vice-
president; Akiko Marsh, treas-
urer; and new Members at
Large, Sadie Stevenson and
Merilee
Mulvey.
Annie
Schmidt and Susy Lacer
remain
as
second-year
Members at Large. Sherry
Curran, former president,
remains on the board as past-
president.
The purpose of FOL is to
support the Siuslaw Public
Library. For questions, contact
SiuslawLibraryFriends@gmai
l.com.
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behalf
of
Oregon
Urology
Foundation (OUF),
Stephanie Kerns, OUF
Resource,
recenrly
presented a grant of
$3,500 to Us TOO
Florence, represented
by facilitator Bob
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Horney (right) receives a check from OUF representative the
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MTG quartet, City Lights Cinemas collaborate to raise funds
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Miles To Go (MTG) jazz
quartet played to a sold-out
crowd at City Lights Cinemas
Jan. 7 and raised $300 for the
Siuslaw High School jazz
band.
Siuslaw band teacher Chris
Rowbotham said, “I can’t
thank them enough for wanting
to help us. I mean, $300 buys
two new jazz charts (sets of
music) for my jazz band. I’ve
been at Siuslaw for five years
and I’ve never bought a jazz
chart because we just didn’t
have the money. We are going
to decide as a class which jazz
charts to purchase.”
Rowbotham is in charge of
both middle school and high
school bands, including the
high school jazz band.
“For the high school I have a
budget of $3,500. The middle
school budget is $2,350,”
Rowbotham said. “Travel and
festival fees come out of that
budget, including paying the
bus driver and gas. Travel kills
a lot of the budget. The
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Siuslaw High School Director of Bands Chris Rowbotham
accepts a check for $300 from Miles To Go jazz quartet
percussionist Nate Kaplan to help support the schools
jazz band. The money was raised during a recent sold out
Miles To Go performance held at City Lights Cinemas.
cious to give us a half-rate dis-
count, but it is still another
$1,350 for four performances
throughout the year.
Remaining funds pay for
instrument repair, maintenance
and to purchase reeds through-
out the year for students that
can’t afford them. The school
also has a number of instru-
ments it could rent to students.
“Unfortunately, about half are
unplayable. We are waiting for
funds to be able to fix them,”
he said.
According to Rowbotham,
an average operating budget
for a 4A school band program
such as Siuslaw would be
$10,000 to $12,000.
MTG percussionist Nate
Kaplan said, “When we first
started last year and I hooked
up with the schools and learned
about their plight, in the back
of my mind I’ve always
thought, ‘as soon as the Miles
To Go thing gets going, and get
some people coming out, then
we will have enough money to
donate to the school (band)
program.’”
After overhead and expens-
es, MTG was able to donate
$300 to the school jazz band
program.
Siuslaw band members
were given free passes to
attend the performance, during
which Rowbotham joined
MTG for several trumpet
duets.
In addition to the MTG
quartet, guest pianist Ken
Wannberg played two arrange-
ments and three local female
singers, Maree Beers, Denise
Dee and Judi Kelly, sang sev-
eral songs each, as well as a
group tribute to Natalie Cole.
MTG was formed in 2014
when Kaplan, convinced brass
instrumentalist Ron Green,
upright bass player Michael
Anderson and pianist Gus
Russell to form a jazz quartet.
Kaplan and Green live in
Florence and Anderson and
Russell live in Eugene.
Kaplan said MTG is plan-
ning a spring performance
with proceeds again going to
support the school band pro-
gram.
Anyone wanting to donate
money to the band or jazz pro-
gram should contact the dis-
trict office at 541-997-2651.
Band donations need to be
specific for either the middle
school or high school band
program.
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