All competitions are mandatory and count towards your grade. Please contact Mr. Burn at john_burn@fuhsd.org as soon as possible if you will not be in attendance.
This is an OVERNIGHT trip. If you forget anything, you’re out of luck, unless you can get your parents to drive to Fresno to bring you things (they will not be pleased). Please remember the following points:
1) BRING YOUR INSTRUMENTS, CLEAN marching shoes, shoe bags, gloves, hair supplies, and 2 pairs of CLEAN black socks. Check your socks… by the end of the season they turn grey from multiple washings. If they are no longer BLACK, get new ones. We will be competing twice, so bring enough supplies for two competitions. Please remember to wear a shirt with short sleeves, no collar. Also, remember to wear your boxer shorts (we’ll be changing outside).
2) Bring toiletries for one night in a hotel. Bring your green Band shirt (colorguard, wear your WHITE shirt)/field show shirt, band jacket/field show sweatshirt. It will be cold.
3) No smoking, no alcohol, no illegal drugs
4) No inappropriate sexual behavior
NOTE – All students and parents signed a behavior agreement at the beginning of marching season acknowledging compliance with rules of conduct, or suffer the consequences. Anyone caught smoking, drinking, in the possession of illegal drugs, or demonstrating inappropriate behavior will be sent home immediately, at the expense of the student’s parents, in addition to possible suspension from school and expulsion from band.
5) You and your roommates will be sharing queen sized beds/sofa sleepers. If you prefer, half of your group can bring sleeping bags. There is limited space on the bus, so please decide ahead of time who will bring what.
6) No radios or boom boxes allowed (ipods or mp3 players with headphones are acceptable).
7) Everyone is expected to respect others and their belongings.
8) Use the buddy system! Do not wander off by yourself! You are required to stay in groups of AT LEAST 3. Ditching, i.e. "losing," or leaving a fellow student behind during a free block of time - is not acceptable
Schedule for Saturday, November 20th
8:30 am Full band meeting in the band room
9:30 am Begin rehearsal
12:30 pm End rehearsal, load truck, get lunch
Percussion, tubas, color guard, BRING A LUNCH.
You will not have time to go out for lunch after loading the truck.
1:30 pm Load busses/depart for Fresno
4:30 pm Arrive at Fresno City College
Fresno City College
1101 E. University Ave
Fresno CA 93741
Eat booster provided snack
Use bathrooms
Unload truck
Get in uniform
5:15 pm Warm up
6:45 pm Homestead PERFORMS!
7:15 pm Change out of uniform, eat booster provided dinner, return to stadium
WEAR BAND SHIRT OR FIELD SHOW SHIRT with band jacket as outer layer (NO section shirts) remember you are representing HOMESTEAD at all competitions!
9:15 pm Awards (Drum Majors AND Seniors in uniform)
Finals lineup announced!
10:00 pm Load buses/depart for Hotel
10:30 pm Arrive at Hotel/Bed-Check
Homewood Suites
835 Gettysburg Avenue,
Clovis, CA. 93612
phone number 559-292-4004
ROOM KEYS
Everyone in your room must be present before room keys will be given to you, so make sure you all find each other and arrive as a group to collect your keys.
Do not yell out or announce your room number in a public place. This is for the safety of you and your room mates. You can never tell what stranger might be listening.
Schedule for Sunday, November 21st
7:30 am Breakfast at hotel
8:30 a.m. Return to rooms and wait for chaperone to check you out of your room.
Be in your rooms ALL PACKED and ready to be excused by
chaperones. Your room will be skipped if you are still packing when
the chaperone arrives. Your room will be skipped if all of your
roommates are not in your room and ready to go.
9:00 am Load busses and depart for practice field (Clovis East)
9:30 am Practice at Clovis East High School
Clovis East High School
2940 Leonard Ave.
Clovis, CA 93619
12:30 pm Eat booster provided lunch
1:30 pm Load busses/depart for show site
2:00 pm Arrive at Fresno City College. Get into uniform
2:30 pm Start warmup
Final competitions!
Times to be announced
After performing, STAY IN UNIFORM
6:45 pm “Full Retreat” Awards Ceremony
7:30 pm Change out of uniform, grab dinner, load bus
11:00 pm Arrive at Homestead/Unload truck
Please contact Vicki Feltman at Vicki.feltman@gmail if you have any questions.
WE NEED TO KNOW…..
1) All marching band and color guard are expected to participate at each competition. Contact Mr. Burn if you will NOT be attending WBA Championships.
2) With students sharing rooms, we would prefer to hold any medications.
3) Please contact Vicki Feltman at Vicki.feltman@gmail.com or lead bus chaperone Deborah Smith at Deborah@bobsmithrealtors.com if your student will NOT be on the bus going to WBA on Saturday, or if your student will NOT be coming back on the bus on Sunday. We don’t want to waste time waiting for someone who won’t show up at bus departure.
4) If you are picking up your student, we want to make eye contact with both parent and student before you leave, so that we make sure everyone has hooked up; we would hate to have a student THINK their parent was picking them up, only to have them end up stranded in Southern California after everyone else left. See either Vicki Feltman, Deborah Smith, or your student’s bus chaperone before leaving. If you do not show up by the time the buses are ready to leave, your student will be going home on the bus. We will not hold up the buses waiting for your arrival.
WBA Championship Competition Details
Come support the Mighty Mustang Marching Band and Color Guard!
Where: Fresno City College, 1101 E. University Ave, Fresno CA 93741
When: Saturday, November 20th, Prelims, begin at 2:00 pm;
Homestead performs at 6:45 p.m.
Sunday, November 21st, Finals, begin at 2:00 pm;
Homestead performance, TBA
GENERAL ADMISSION: $20.00 for both Saturday and Sunday; $15.00 for Senior Citizens & Children under 12. Children 5 and younger are admitted free. (1 wristband good for both sites and both days)
Concessions available, cash only, bills larger than $20 will not be accepted
Note: Outside food and beverage cannot be brought into the stadium
VIDEO TAPING: No Tripods, monopods or any other apparatus in the stands.
Important Addresses:
(location of prelims and finals)
Fresno City College
1101 E. University Ave
Fresno CA 93741
DIRECTIONS fROM THE NORTH
1. Highway 99 South
2. Merge onto Freeway 180 East
3. Exit on Blackstone/Abby
4. Make a right onto Abby St.
5. Continue north as Abby curves left onto Blackstone Ave.
6. Continue past McKinley Ave. and prepare to turn left
7. Turn left on University Ave. (there is no stop light/stop sign here)
Only registered vehicles & buses will be allowed to park in
designated areas. Additional vehicles will be sent to spectator
parking or you may park on the surrounding streets.
Please check for parking restriction signs on the streets to see if
parking is permissible or not.
(where band will stay)
Homewood Suites
835 Gettysburg Avenue,
Clovis, CA. 93612
The band will be staying Saturday, Nov. 20th at the Homewood Suites in Clovis, not in Fresno. The address is 835 Gettysburg Avenue, Clovis, CA. Their phone number is 559-292-4004. This Homewood Suites just opened in February, 2010. A lot of GPS units do not recognize the address. The hotel is at the intersection of Gettysburg Avenue and S. Clovis Avenue and shares the main entrance with the Hampton Inn & Suites.
Peggy Marshall is coordinating hall monitors to make sure students stay quite and in their rooms. We need two people per shift (12am-1am; 1am-2am; 2am-3am; 3am-4am. If you can help, please contact Peggy at peggymarshall@yahoo.com
Photography:
No tripods or monopods are permitted in the stadium
Tri-Star Photography will be taking official group photos
DVD of individual bands and the Championship contest can be purchased on site shortly following their appearance. You can pre-order on site or order online later.
