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Freshman Aries Skowron readies her flute for rehearsal with the Northrop marching band.
Northrop’s BOP rallies to ‘Unite!’ The Northrop High School Big Orange Pride marching band has added its own band invitational and a regional competition to its schedule for 2015. John VanPatten directs the band for the third year. This year’s roster includes a total of 89 in the band and color guard. The 2015 production is titled “Unite!” It is set in 2067. “Our society has been decimated,” reads a show synopsis. “The citizens are poor, cold, sick
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and hungry. The central authorities rule over the land with an iron fist. The citizens must learn to band together, united, in order to create a better world for themselves.” Despite that somber setting, VanPatten said, the show ends on an optimistic note, and the band members embrace it. “They love it,” he said. “Two of the pieces are by the British band Muse. The band members enjoy playing popular music. They’re connecting with it a lot more this year.” The show spans more
than a century of music. Part I is “Desolation” based on “Dies Irae” from Verdi’s “Requiem.” Part II is “Oppression” based on “Fly To Paradise” by Eric Whitacre. Part III is “Revolution” from “Uprising” by Muse. Part IV is “Absolution” from “Resistance” by Muse. The band will perform “Unite!” on Saturday, Sept. 26, in a Mid-States Band Association regional competition at Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers, Ind.
Soon after news broke of the cancellation of the Huntertown Heritage Days Festival for 2015, board members of the Huntertown Family Park began more serious discussions about a grand opening celebration for the park, located just off the corner of Woods Road and Old Lima Road in downtown Huntertown. Officially, the first Family Fun Day will take place on Saturday, Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “We are gearing up for a big day. We are going to have a lot of things to do,” Dan Holmes, Friends of Huntertown Parks Inc. president, said. “When Heritage Days called us and told us they were canceling out, they asked us if we would like to do something. We had already had something planned.” The festival committee wanted the park board to sponsor something similar
to the festival, Holmes said. “We knew we couldn’t do a 2-3-day thing because we didn’t have enough time. We decided on a one-day grand opening,” he said. While all the details aren’t cemented yet, numerous activities have been planned and posted on the park’s website — huntertownfamilypark.com. Planned events include historical tours of Huntertown on horse-drawn carriages, face painting, sidewalk chalk drawing and balloon animals among other children’s activities, a yoga demonstration, a pumpkin toss, a corn-hole tournament, a visit from Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehab, a vintage car drive-in, and displays from the Huntertown Fire Department. The park board will provide details on future park plans. Additionally, the Miss Huntertown Pageant will kick off the festivities at 10 a.m. Any girls between the ages of 5-19 who live
in the Northwest Allen County Schools district are invited to enter. Registration information, entry forms and sponsorship information can be picked up at Classic Cuts Salon at 14427 Lima Road in the Huntertown Strip Mall or contact pageant director Kara Fralick by phone at (260) 760-2290 or through email at bembleyemily@ yahoo.com. The park committee has set up an event page on Facebook which provides updates. As of Monday afternoon, over 450 people indicated through Facebook that they would be attending the event. “The word is just now starting to get out,” Holmes said. “If there are 400-some, do they come with a husband or wife or kids?” Holmes said that parking for the event is available at Riverside Manufacturing and Precision Laser See FUN, Page A10
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The Carroll High School marching band performs during halftime of a football game. The band marches Saturday at Penn High School in Mishawaka.
that we start turning things to gold, and as the show progresses we’ll have an entire field of gold.” The show is set to: “Gathering The Elements,” by Alex Yoder; “Fields
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The Charger Pride Marching Band is performing “Alchemy” this year. “We’re moving faster than I think we have before,” director Doug Hassell said of the 2015 show. “It’s a different direction, with some new music and some adaptations. I think people will find some recognizable melodies, but it’s fairly complex.” “As the show progresses you will see the color guard dressed in what an alchemist or wizard might wear, and you’ll see these four medicine balls that are put into a giant pot,” Hassell said. Those ingredients represent earth, water, fire and wind. “The idea is
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