Car Wash Weekend

This weekend was full of prepping for and watching car washes.  You may remember that the Cary High School Tuba students have decided to raise funds for at least 1 tuba since they will have more tubas than ever before.

The number of tuba students has dropped from 10 to 9 as one of the students was accepted to (I think) the NC School of Science and Mathematics.  [Just what were they thinking of, giving up the marching band life for a "higher calling" anyway... LOL ]  The need for more Tubas is still critical even with this small change in tuba personnel!

The car washes were scheduled for Saturday 9:30am - 1:00pm and Sunday from Noon until 3:30pm.  Since quite a lot of the supplies are in my possession, I was 'obligated' to go even though my son Stephen (1 of the 3 tuba student organizers) was in Boston for a funeral on his mother's side.  Fortunately, I was only needed sparingly to fill in only a few times as the students got themselves organized.  It was good to see another of the Tuba students take on a leadership role in organizing the student team to get the cars washed in a quick and perfect manner.

A side note is that my leadership role with my boys' Boy Scout Troop is in Youth Leadership Training, so I was having a great time in watching the development of youth leadership during the car washes.  They will have something cool and interesting to put on their college resumes!

We had several people who had seen the car washes on the Internet (maybe from this article in the Cary Citizen, or our many Facebook posts).  There were 3 former Cary Tuba players ('08) that came together and a former student from Concord who mentioned that his band director patterned what they did from the Cary Marching Band!

The fundraising is going well with the students so far raising $1,100 from their efforts at car washing and another $1,200 in sponsorships.  There will be a few more car washes in July and then the Cary High School Marching Band Camp starts in August so that will be the end of the fundraising window.  We are now discussing the final plans for a sponsorship blitz and the final car washes...  Success is in the air for these students!