Support The Band’s Bottle

And Can Drives

To the Editor:

With all the discussions about the budget, I would like to address an important aspect of our high school that needs your deposit bottles and cans. The Newtown Marching Nighthawks are an important aspect of our high school, giving entertainment during football half-time shows, participating in competitions, and providing healthy experiences for many talented students. Last year the pay-for-play for the Newtown Marching Band was $175 each, plus instrument costs. Since the budget has been cut, the marching band might lose a lot of their funding from the school. This will mean higher pay-for-play fees and more costs left to the Newtown High School Band Parents Corporation (NHSBPC), which helps support all the band programs in the high school.

Therefore, we would like your support in one of the biggest fundraisers for the NHSBPC and the marching band, the Bottle and Can Drives. We have three drop-off points for bottles and cans, in different parts of the town. One point is at the landfill, by the battery disposal site. Another convenient drop-off location is in front of Berkshire Motors, which is across from Newtown High School. The third local drop-off location is behind Newtown Hardware Store. If you drop your cans off at any of these sites please take some time to sort them. The NHSBPC also has drives every second Saturday of the month, during the spring, summer, and fall. The first one this year is on this Saturday, May 10, at the corner of Church Hill Road and Queen Street. If it is more convenient the other three sites can always be used. Remember if you put them into the main recycling bins at the landfill they go to Danbury and do not support your local band. The recyclables picked up from your curbside also do not go to support the band. Please support the musicians among Newtown’s youth by dropping off your bottles and cans at one of these locations. This year the NHSBPC will also be holding a craft fair on May 24 at Fairfield Hills.

Thank you,

Larry Whippie

20 Great Hill Road, Newtown                                       May 7, 2003