Our Youth Band needs your help

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Hi guys

The Rangitikei College Youth Brass has been invited to play in the Queensland State Brass Band Championships in 2004, and we need a bit of a helping hand to get the kids there.

We are currently fundraising to raise the money, you can see our progress on our webpage:

http://www.marton.co.nz/bands/fundraising.htm

and I was wondering if some fellow kiwis would like to lend a helping hand by donating a dollar or two, either by cheque (if in NZ) or by PayPal (for overseas).

Details of how to contribute are on the webpage, and have a look around the rest of the site.

I would also like to put in a plug for our local Marton website:

http://www.marton.co.nz/index.htm

if you have any questions about our band, or Marton, I will be more than happy to answer them.

cheers

Brian Williams
Eb BASS and webmaster

email: rangitikei_college_youth_brass@yahoo.co.nz
website: http://www.marton.co.nz/bands/index.htm

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One Final Appeal

The RANGITIKEI COLLEGE YOUTH BRASS band is close to arriving at it’s fundraising total to get t o BUNDABERG, very close indeed.

We have collected, through fundraising events and donations from within our community, about 80% of our total we projected that we would need. The adult band members in our band have made financial contributions also, supporting the entire essence of this venture that “the kids go for free”.

We were going to approach our community and appeal for additional assistance when disaster struck in the Rangitikei and surrounding regions. Just before the weekend of the 14th – 15th Feb, heavy rain started falling in our region and on Monday 16th a Civil Defence Emergency was declared in the Rangitikei, with flooding that hasn’t been seen here for the last 100 years.

We have had power cuts, trees uplifted, homes – farms – and businesses under water. Telecommunications have been intermittent, drinking water is non-existent in some areas, and now to top it all off – we have looters going through the homes of the people evacuated and living in emergency accommodation.

If you want to donate to help this band of youngsters fulfil their mission, (some of which are going through hardships) goto this webpage

http://www.marton.co.nz/bands/fundraising.htm

and details of how to contribute are there. If you have a dollar or two spare it would be most appreciated. ( As I am writing this, the rain is falling [again] quite heavily; gale force winds are hitting our house; and the lights are [frequently] dimming as the power fluctuates – neat eh! )

Cheers
Brian Williams

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photos of the floods http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,0a10613,00.html
state of emergencyhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2822405a11,00.html