Children are a blessing. Now 180 children! Absolutely! Actually, I should say young adults. Working with the Rio Rancho High School Marching Band and Colorguard has been exhausting, but a true joy as well. We had an awesome marching season with a performance called “Echoes”! Rio Rancho should be proud of its kids! We took 1st in the Pageant of Bands hosted by APS, 3rd in the Zia Marching competition hosted by UNM and then 5th in the Pomona Marching Festival in the Denver area. We’ve competed against New Mexico, Texas & Colorado bands. All of our young men and women were fantastic and I’m so happy to have been able to be a part of their season!
Working with all the adults involved with this group is truly amazing. Mr. Schmidt, Head Band Director, has a talent for putting a marching program together season after season along with Director Mr. Casarez and Director Mr. Pena. The Band Boosters are a wonderful group of adults working hard for our band making sure all the needs are met from fund raising to watering the gang during marching practice making sure they don’t get heat stroke to setting up chaperones and more. My work was modest compared to the tremendous work done by the Band Boosters headed by Stacey Templeton. The work that is done is hard, but well worth it because in the end we all love our kids and appreciate the many others involved! Supporting the arts and activities that our students and children do, will always give us the best memories of our lifetime.
Darlene Jones
Rio Rancho Marching Band Mother/Chaperone
10/27/2008
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