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CHOIR CONCERT — Rochester High School choir members perform in a concert this year. Photo provided by Rochester Community Schools.
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MUSIC BOOSTERS — The Rochester Music Boosters started this year to help pay for uniforms, instruments and other needs of Rochester Community Schools’ choir, band and color guard students. The boosters include, from left, Vice President Shawn Rensberger, member Jera Rensberger and President Brenda McClain. Photo by Leah Sander.
Rochester Music Boosters established for school choir, band assistance By LEAH SANDER Staff Writer
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PRACTICING — Rochester High School student Daniel Yocum plays. Photo provided by Rochester Community Schools.
Rochester Community Schools students in choir, band and color guard are now receiving extra assistance with instruments, uniforms and more thanks to a local group. The Rochester Music Boosters was established as a nonprofit in February and officially started fundraising at the beginning of the 2024-25 school year. Though officially separate from RCS, its mission is to “benefit the (corporation’s) music programs,” said Brenda McClain. She serves as president of the group, with Shawn Rensberger the vice president, Natalie Leslie the treasurer and Natalie Damer the secretary. Though all of the leadership has kids who either are currently involved with music at RCS or who were previously, people don’t have to have such connections to join the boosters, said McClain. The group meets at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of each month in the Rochester High School choir
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JAZZ BAND — Rochester Community Schools’ jazz band members practice. Photo provided by Rochester Community Schools. room, and anyone is welcome to come. There’s no cost to show up for a meeting or formally join the boosters. Rochester Music Boosters will have its next meeting on Jan. 16, skipping December due to the holidays.
As the group had to pay for startup costs, its money has gone thus far to snacks for kids in the music programs. With continued fundraising, money should pay for field trips, equipment, attire and more for those “primarily in middle and high
school,” said McClain. Teachers will make requests to the boosters, with the group deciding on whether or not to approve them. Fundraising has included selling music-themed T-shirts through Continued on page 3
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