Congratulations to two of our students, Alicia Curtis and Carly Hines, for qualifying for the American High School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall. They will be traveling to New York for 5 days in February to join some of the most talented high school performers from across the country. They will rehearse with renowned music conductors and then have a final performance at Carnegie Hall!

The Rancho San Diego Music Foundation is raffling off a 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe at our end-of-year Pops Concert! Raffle tickets are $50 each. Only 300 tickets will be sold, so each ticket has a 1 in 300 chance of winning! Winners need not be present to win. Please click here for details and information on how to purchase tickets.

The Tri-M Solo & Ensemble Festival will take place on Saturday, March 3rd (NOT March 17th as stated at the parent meeting) from 8am to 5pm at Valhalla. Please click here for details and application information.

If you haven't had a chance to yet, please log onto the CHARMS website to enter your family's information. This information is important in order to keep our music program organized. The school code is "valhallahsband" and your student password is your student ID#. Click here for more detailed instructions.

The Rancho San Diego Music Foundation has teamed up with the YellowBrickMall.com, an online shopping mall that donates a percentage of online sales back to us. You can help by linking to and purchasing from any of the hundreds of national online merchants shown on our page on the YellowBrickMall.com site: www.yellowbrickmall.com/vhsmusic.php. You can also find the link to this page on our fundraisers page. So, please take a look at the wide variety of stores available and while you are remembering birthdays, weddings, getting travel and events tickets and general shopping-you can be helping our organization and our students at the same time. This is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to help in our passive fundraising efforts!

Don't spend your spare time in a classroom. Take your drivers education course at your own pace. The Drivers Ed class at HighschoolDriversED.com provides students with the knowledge needed to earn a learners permit and drivers license. Use the discount code of "hsde105" and you will save $15 off the course and earn $20 for our music and color guard program! View this flyer for more information.