Tuba Car Wash

This week has been thankfully slow on the charity side of my life, so I can get caught up with work...

The Tuba fundraisers which started last week are still going on and have taken up quite a bit of my time.  On Monday, I took Stephen to the Cary Band Booster Meeting.  Stephen was first on the agenda and informed the parents about the progress of the fundraisers.  Cary Band Booster President Bob Murray took great pleasure in introducing Stephen and the Tuba student led fundraising efforts.  Bob kept prompting Stephen as the parents clapped for each fundraising success by saying "but wait, it gets better..."

On Friday morning, Stephen was presented a check for $1,000 from the Heart of Cary Association (HoCA).  That is Doc Thorne (HoCA President) on the left and Joy Pike (HoCA Board member and Treasurer) on the right in the picture above.  The money was donated by an anonymous member of HoCA to dedicate a Tuba in honor of former Cary Mayor and long-time Cary Band supporter, Mr. Koka Booth.  Bob Murray was also in attendance and after the presentation ended, Doc and Joy kept thinking of fundraising ideas for Stephen to follow up that it was hard to get out of there and let everyone get back to work!  Have you ever had one of those times when the cue is given to leave, everyone gets up and then the conversation restarts?  Well after 3 of those, I went outside and kept trying to reel Stephen out of the office...  Lots of fun!


Today was also lots of fun as the Tuba students and their friends again set up to run a car wash from 9:30am to 1pm outside the Band Room at Cary High School.  We had all of the car wash stuff identified from last week (and the signs from last week) so getting ready for the car wash was relatively easier than last week...  More kids came out which made it so that I did not have to help wash any of the cars (a bonus for me!).  I did run out to get donuts to fuel the kids (Krispy Kreme), and then had to make more trips to get car wash liquid and to replace a hose that had an end fitting failure.  One of the other parents arrived with pizza at the end which was definitely a hit with the kids.

The car wash was another success with a constant stream of cars and there was only maybe a 5 minute lull in the action.  There were even 2 trusting folks that left their keys and cars to be washed while they went to watch a youth baseball game at the Cary High fields.  Several people stopped by just to give a donation.  The final tally was $460, which is a great result for a morning effort!  More car washes and other fundraisers are planned by the Tuba students over the summer.