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VOL LIX • NO 35
CVHS band drill explores computer concepts
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Family … flowers … fun BY ANN MEAD ASH
will stand out in the second movement. “It’s really pretty,” said Lingo of the solo. “It shows how lonely it is (in the computer).” Pit percussion members will be featured in the beginning and near the end of the show, and duos and trios of guard members may perform together. Kelley showed enthusiasm for the drill, noting, “There’s a lot of room for choreography.” In addition to performing at CVHS home and away football games, the band will take part in a number of competitions, including events at CVHS on Saturday, Sept. 16; one at Eastern York High School on
Emily Rivera and her older sister, Allison, love to create chalk drawings in their driveway. The J.E. Fritz students have a goal of covering the driveway with chalk drawings. Before a recent rainstorm, they had drawn 73 figures on the driveway. “Every time it rains, we start over and try to do more than we did last time,” explained Allison, who is going into fifth grade. Emily, who will be a third-grader this year, recently won accolades for a more permanent type of drawing that she submitted to the Royer’s Flowers & Gifts Kids Club birthday design contest. Emily’s design of three flowers in a vase with the greeting “Have a beautiful birthday” was the winner of this year’s competition. Her card will be sent electronically to all Kids Club members, who can then print it out and bring it to their nearest Royer’s to receive a free balloon. Emily, who received a bouquet including yellow and white daisies, baby’s breath, and red carnations, has followed in Allison’s footsteps in winning the competition. Allison’s design of white daisies on a pink background with the greeting “Have a flower-tastic birthday” won the 2022 competition. Although Emily’s favorite subject is math, she said having the opportunity to be creative in making the card was the best part of entering the competition. “I had to look at a vase because I had never drawn one like that before,” said Emily, who examined one of her mom’s Mother’s Day cards to get a better idea. She chose flower shapes she was familiar with to put in the vase and created a background to resemble blobs of paint on a wall.
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n the fall of 2023, the nearly 60 members of the Conestoga Valley High School (CVHS) marching band will all be moving “In the Grid” not the usual gridiron on the football field, however. “In the Grid” is the title of the band’s fall drill, which will take band members metaphorically into a computer and out again. Band members who practiced the drill the week of Aug. 7 through 11, began the day with stretching exercises in the parking lot before working to master the steps set to
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original music. Students practiced percussion major in charge of from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day front ensemble and drumline, except Friday when they met from Lingo discussed how the four 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then enjoyed movements - called “circuits” a pool party later take band members in the day. The from a cohesive unit band is directed by “There’s a lot of room to isolation and then for choreography.” Aaron Magaro. return them to unity. Drum major Brieck said that the Katarina Lingo color guards are the described the show as concept-driven protagonists, so they remain unirather than character-driven, noting fied throughout the show. Lingo that the theme is based on delving called the final movement an “escape into a digital world where there is no link.” Instruments that will be fealife. Along with Jacquelyn Kelley, tured include the saxophone and unit major of wind instruments mellophones, along with trumpets. and color guard, and Dana Brieck, A trumpet solo by Micah Hoover
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Conestoga Valley High School marching band members practiced the fall drill during band camp.