Marching Terriers Annual Fruit & Poinsettia Sale

The CCHS Marching Terriers have held this fundraiser for years! This sale is one of the THE BEST ways to bump up that student band account, so please support your student in making sales. Also, this sale is very good at attracting easy repeat customers, so every effort this year will most likely pay off next year as well.

Our students' customers look forward to this opportunity to support the band, and it offers students a great way to increase their student band accounts. The student band accounts help pay for band camp, uniforms, and trip expenses. Approximately half of the profit from fruit sales ($6-7 depending on the specific product), plus $3 per poinsettia, will be deposited into students’ band accounts. The remainder is deposited into the Band Booster account, which is used for food during marching season, equipment expenses, and more.

If you need anything, contact Susan Pimentel at FruitSale@MarchingTerriers.com.
To download the sales information handout given to the students, click here.

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Fruit and Poinsettia Sale Dates:

October 18 - November 3, 2015

Delivery: Early December

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Fruit (Oranges and Grapefruit)

Our citrus fruit comes fresh from Florida Indian River Groves. Their product is of consistently high quality and we will again offer navel oranges and red grapefruit in both 20- and 40-pound boxes, as well as 20- and 40-pound mixed boxes of oranges and grapefruit. Customers have the option of placing their orders online using a credit card (a $1 processing fee is applied to each online order).

Fruit is picked the day before it is shipped to CCHS.  It is very fresh, and lasts quite nicely.

FRUIT can be ordered online...

But all sales are

LOCAL delivery ONLY.

To see our online brochure, or to order online:

1. Click the Florida Indian River Groves picture above.
2. You will see the online brochure with products and prices for our sale.
3. If you need it, our Organization ID is 885199.
4. Enter your student's name in the "comments" section of the order form.

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Poinsettias

Poinsettias at the Mioux Greenhouse, Nov 2014

Our poinsettias come from Mioux Greenhouse, located in Carlyle, IL. We will have plants available in red, white, and “ice-punch” – a beautiful pink-and-cream mixture. The poinsettias come in 6 ½” pots with foil wrap and a plastic sleeve – gift-ready!

Poinsettias can be ordered online by contacting FruitSale@MarchingTerriers.com

• Remember to mention your student's name when you contact us.

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Ordering online makes sure your information is clear and payment is processed properly (please note there is a $1 processing fee is applied to each online order). However, our students benefit greatly and have more fun when they work directly with their customers.
Order in whatever way works best for you!

Thanks for your continued support!
Webmaster@MarchingTerriers.com

Band Booster Meeting Monday, Senior Night, and SIU Homecoming

We have a Band Booster meeting at 7:30 PM in the Band Room at CCHS on Monday, October 19, 2015. There are a few things that really impact the parents and students that will be covered, so please join us.

Things we'll be covering include:

• Mr. Townsend will have information about how the band did at the contests we attended; quite a bit has happened since the last meeting. 
• Our Treasurer has updated the Student Accounts and they have been posted to MarchingTerriers.com. Again, there are many students in the red. Please check your student's account and if you have any questions, our Treasurer will be on hand tomorrow to answer them.
• We'll be checking in with our fundraising committees. Fruit and Poinsettia Sales packets go home with students on Monday; if you have any questions or concerns, we can get those answered for you tomorrow night, too.

There's a handful more business to cover but our goal is for the meeting to last no more than an hour.

This week's (busy) band schedule:

• Monday: Band Booster Meeting at 7:30 PM.
  Students bring home Fruit & Poinsettia Sales Packets.
• Tuesday: the last Tues night rehearsal 6-9 PM.
• Friday: Senior Night! 5:30 PM Call Time for the Seniors; Senior Parents are welcome as well. Get your photo with your Senior Student! Guard and Battery at 5:30 PM; 6:00 PM all other sections.
• Saturday: SIU Homecoming Parade here in Carbondale. 8:00 AM Call Time at CCHS. Eat breakfast and be ready to perform in full uniform.

Thanks!

CCHS Homecoming and SIU Music & Motion

This week is CCHS Homecoming! 

The Terriers play against rival Marion on Friday at home. Game time is 7:00 pm.

Our schedule:

• Friday: Home game vs. Marion. Call time 5:30 for Guard, Battery; 6:00 pm for Pit, Winds. 50/50 Raffle, Quatros and Larry's House of Cakes $10 gift certificates sold at Bleyer Field by the Band Boosters. Come cheer us on!

• Saturday*: SIU Music & Motion - Call time 9:30 AM (Eat Breakfast before), performance at 1:00 PM, return to CCHS around 2:30 PM.

• Students need show shirts, shorts, black socks, tennis shoes, band polo.

• You may sign your student out at SIU with a bus chaperone after their uniform is put away.

*Itinerary for SIU Music & Motion, also posted on our website, and detailed in the Google calendar.

Newton/Robinson Saturday, Jazz/Strings Concert Thursday, and Oh, Some EIU Pics.

Here's the schedule for this week, a little late because the itinerary got complicated:

• Tuesday: 6-9 PM Rehearsal. Check the weather, and encourage your student to dress for a chillier weather; we will still be practicing outside. No rehearsal on Thursday (Thursday rehearsals are over for the season).

• Thursday: Jazz and Strings Concert: The Carbondale Terrier Music Program presents our first concert for the Jazz and Strings programs. Come listen to what they've been working on! Call Time for student performers is 6:30 PM; Free concert in the auditorium at 7:00 pm.

• Saturday*: Robinson/Newton Double Header: There are 2 contests that we will attend on October 10, 2015. We have performed at both before. Newton is on the way to Robinson and is an afternoon event, Robinson is 30 minutes up the road and is an evening event.

• Students need show shirts, shorts, black socks, tennis shoes, band polo. May bring sweats/jacket for evening (black, CTM logo preferred).
• Eat breakfast before the morning call time of 8:00 AM! Pack a lunch for the bus ride up to Newton.
• The Band Boosters will be buying pizza for dinner! In Robinson, the band will stop at the park for dinner. We have arranged for pizza to be delivered, we'll bring fruit and drinks with us, too.
• We need COOKIES! We need 20 dozen cookies altogether for desert. Email President@marchingterriers.com to let Carol Brandenburg know how many dozen cookies you can send with your Marcher on Saturday. Please send the cookies on paper plates or in a disposable container.
• Students will arrive home late, about 12:15 AM. Buses will need to be fully unloaded before students are released. Help out if you can!

*Updated Itinerary for Newton/Robinson is here, posted on our website, and detailed in the Google calendar.

Also... New pictures from last week's EIU event are up on the website.  Thanks to Jonathan Springer and Mindy Jarboe for their visual donations.

EIU, Oct 3, 2015. The DreamZzz field show detail photo by Jonathan Springer.  
And yeah, as the judge shows, it was cold.

EIU, Oct 3, 2015. The DreamZzz field show detail photo by Mindy Jarboe.