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Well if you're the dumbest, what does that make me? I didn't even consider it could have to do with securing the rights to use the music. I remember in 2014 when Vanguard couldn't do just that and had to redo their show.

I've just been browsing through several corps 990s. In 2022, BD's shows David Gibb's compensation was $638,000, which I thought was incredibly high until I reviewed prior years and saw that in some years he didn't make very much at at considering his role. Mostly, it looks like he made about $140,000. This is just one example of people in those positions that don't seem to take pay some years, or very little in some years. Therefore, I'm guessing a big chunk of the $638,000 was in some way back pay. Is this what happens? I'm just curious, because in some years it seems as though is barely a liveable wage.

Not even close. I am by far the dumbest person on this site. You guys teach me about this activity.

Once again you are smarter than I.

Here's a link to where it was at least the last few years before it got canned, not sure if it was at a better venue before that. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mt+Hope+High+School+Athletic+Fields/@41.6879754,-71.2727179,43m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89e455d7a7a437dd:0x62f45bf1eb6d282a!8m2!3d41.6886032!4d-71.2716053!16s%2Fg%2F11txfjzz7j?entry=ttu

Probably living at home with your parents and still selling girl scout cookies.

Hey Santa Clara, It looks like you're in good company 🤣 https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/13/prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-charity-foundation-declared-delinquent/

so the Diner scene, but with Samuel L Jackson and Uma Thurman packing?

good enough that the PIAA moved there. Hershey has become a giant pain to run anything but concerts in.

Well, you probably got to have cookies with both organizations, but I would choose instrumental music! 🎵 😁 Both organizations teach wonderful life lessons.

I also had a choice between band and Boy Scouts. The answer was easy. I was a bad as in lousy Boy Scout. Made it to Tenderfoot but that was probably out of pity. I had a tendency to be out of step in band. Out of step can be corrected, being a lousy Scout could mean getting lost in the wilderness never to be heard from again. I chose band and I made the right choice. Since you marched in a Top 12 finalist, you probably did too!

i am all too aware

OT: When I was in fourth grade, I got a choice: Band or Girl Scouts but not both. I wonder how different my life would be now if I had chose Girl Scouts?

That was always my complaint to my wife who served as a Girl Scout leader. I helped her transport (band truck w/permission) & inventory all of the cookies that most of the profit went to the district office to pay their salaries. Then they wanted her to serve as an area manager that was a volunteer position. She finally said 'nope'. But she loved serving the local troop. Most all of the cookie profit goes up the chain of command.

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I believe the stadium is more than ten rows high, but I’ve never counted. I’ve heard from a few corps that the field is less than optimal though I’ve also heard kids love marching as fireworks are shot over the bay. It sounds as if you know that from experience either as a marcher or staff member. I do know that the move to Cranston was due to a near accident with a corps entering the field and one exiting. It was pretty well documented on here. There was supposedly a leaked letter from DCI that had specification’s for the stadium but the person I know who was associated with the show mentioned the lack of space between the stands and field being an accident waiting to happen as the reason. The folks who organize the July 4th events are very safety conscious.

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How is CVs parking situation? Haven’t been there since the construction years back and parking in a field in semi-dark doesn’t seem to be DCI quality

if it's a school program, odds are the school will be ok with it. outsiders...even a fundraiser for a school program....well outside of football or basketball probably not so much. and just thinking of around here...logisitcally.....CV would probably be the only facility that could do it. Yes schools use Hershey, but it's not their stadium. and with CV, you're right up against 11/Carlisle Pike which means on ticked off trucker jamming the horn could ruin a ballad. and if they hadn't gotten turf to host the PIAA stuff they wouldn't do it. Dover was great for the Open Class show last year and this coming year, but you want big gins there you need about 30 more rows of bleacher

Ah, ok. Those shows are gone from my head for some reason.

right. the former BSA will just charge more fees to participants to keep at the upper levels

Star chose to leave. Cadets had to. therein lies the difference. it sucks that they are gone, but it's clear that any type of rebirth using any of the iconic name or marketing/legacy terms just opens up all the cans of worms again

Speaking of staff and costs: I remember in the 1970s the janitors in Central Dauphin district went on strike. They were smart and went on strike middle of summer. Well.. school board tried to break strike by claiming no janitors meant no summer football practice. Turned out public was more concerned about underpaid janitors….

yeah sorry hit the wrong number. been dealing with too many chapters during the day job

right 4th chance. LOL