The Logansport Music Boosters are facing a challenge, and they need your help.
The school corporation band program needs new instruments at a cost of more than $80,000, and the music boosters have a challenge grant from the McTaggart Charitable Trust to cover two-thirds of the expense.
All the music boosters have to do is raise the rest, or about $27,000.
The boosters believe that music is a critical part of any school curriculum.
Zach Crowder, the high school band director, notes that music is the only subject in the curriculum that connects the right and left sides of the brain. It also teaches teamwork and discipline, he said, and it makes kids into better students.
Dave Workman, the president of the music boosters, points to studies that have found students involved in school music programs have higher grade point averages. They’re also less likely to get involved in gangs or to abuse drugs or alcohol.
In other words, the school music program is one the community might do well to support.
If you’d like to help the music boosters reach their goal, one easy way to do it is to buy a package of trash bags at McCord’s Do It Best. You get the trash bags, and the music boosters get a $4 donation from every sale.
Or you can just send a check.
You’ll be making an investment in the future of our community. And you’ll be helping to create some beautiful music.
Want to help?
If you would like to become a member of the Logansport Music Boosters, call president Dave Workman at 574-722-4222. Or you can send a check to Logansport Music Boosters, P.O. Box 1057, Logansport IN 46947. Workman asks that you send the check to his attention and make a note in the memo line concering the McTaggart grant.
