Tigard girls defeated Jesuit Friday morning in a tough-fought game and will now play on the Consolation Finals! Tigard Pep Band will be there! Here are the details:
Saturday March 9
9:15 AM call time at THS
We'll travel to and from the Chiles Center by bus
We'll pep, pep, pep for the girls as they take on those pesky Lions from West Linn
And then we'll come home! Probably getting back around 1:00 PM
Both our boys AND our girls have prevailed in the first two rounds of the playoffs, and now it's on to the Chiles Center for the Quarterfinals! Both teams are scheduled to play the prime time slot - 8:15 pm each night. Boys play Wednesday; girls play Thursday.
Here are the details:
Call time for each day is 6:45 pm
Buses will transport us to and from the Chiles Center (University of Portland)
We should return around 10:15 or so
A win for the boys team will have them playing at 3:15 pm on Friday. We will get information out as soon as it is available about when we'll be heading out.
A win for the girls team will have them playing at 8:15 pm on Friday. If the boys are NOT playing Friday afternoon, call time will be 6:45 pm. If the boys ARE playing Friday afternoon, we will go to the boys game, then to dinner, then come back for the girls! More details to come!
It is important that we have as many band members as possible at these performances. If you have homework, please work on it BEFORE we leave for the Chiles Center. If you have an unavoidable conflict, please talk to McKee right away.
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Newberg holds a special place in my heart. Although I have not lived there since 1977, I am a proud Newberg High School graduate. It was at NHS that band director Dick Elliot gave me the confidence to become a life-long percussionist, and choir director George White helped me develop the singing voice that led to my participation in the Portland Symphonic Choir, the chorus of the Oregon Symphony. Social studies teachers Dan Lever and Ed Wiesehan instilled in me the understanding that the names and dates of events are such a small part of learning about history – they helped their students see the how and the why, and led us to discernment and interpretation, essential components of critical thinking. And for me, the influence of these four educators and several others at Newberg High helped me to decide to pursue a career in education.
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Newberg is where I met the man I married, introduced by a friend in the lobby of Pennington Hall at George Fox College (now University). Newberg is where both of my daughters moved for their own post-secondary experience, each graduating from Fox. I have many dear friends in Newberg, including those in my faith community. Newberg is where my parents-in-law retired, living the final years of their lives at the aging-in-place community at Friendsview.
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Newberg is a town of 25,000+ in the heart of Oregon Wine Country, with both small-town shops like Chapters Books & Coffee and suburban-type businesses including Fred Meyer. Community events include the 1st Friday Artwalk, Wednesday (evening) Market, the Summer Concert Series at the Chehalem Cultural Center, the yearly Old Fashioned Festival, and much more. Newberg is one of my favorite towns, for so many reasons.
