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Event is open to all.
SCOTTVILLE — The Scottville Clown Band and the Mason County Central band program are teaming up to present the inaugural Spartan Reunion on Tuesday, Aug. 18.
The evening of music, community and memories will be held in the parking lot of Mason County Central High School. The MCC High School Jazz Band will perform beginning at 6 p.m., followed by the Scottville Clown Band at 7 p.m. Mason County Central alumni are encouraged to attend, but the event is open to everyone.
The concert will serve as a fundraiser for the MCC band program and will include the long-awaited sale of bricks from the former Scottville school building, which was demolished earlier this summer. Bricks will be sold for $10 each.
During intermission of the Clown Band’s performance, three cabinets salvaged from the 138-year-old school building will be auctioned. The cabinets were refurbished by George C. Wilson, one of the Clown Band’s street leaders and an MCC alumnus. All proceeds from the brick sales and cabinet auction will be donated by the Clown Band to the MCC band program. The MCC Band Boosters will sell concessions.
Bricks and auction items can be paid for by cash, check or Venmo.
The concert was originally scheduled to take place at the recently renovated Scottville Optimist Park on the redesigned Scottville Clown Band Shell. However, the Scottville Downtown Development Authority informed the Clown Band earlier this summer that the grounds will not be ready for public events this season because additional time is needed for the grass to become established.
“Because of the large amount of interest in the school bricks and because this event has become a fundraiser for the MCC band program, the Clown Band decided to ask the school if we could hold the event on its campus instead,” said Rob Alway, treasurer of the Scottville Clown Band. “Our hope is to make this an MCC reunion that becomes an annual event. However, the event is not exclusive to MCC alumni, and we certainly welcome and encourage our Spartan neighbors to attend as well.”
Alway added that the concert will be the only date and location the Clown Band will be selling the bricks.
The event will also provide an opportunity for members of the MCC community to meet the district’s new superintendent, Jeff Tuka, and new high school principal Brian Dotson.
Attendees are asked to bring lawn chairs.
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