Rebuilding Day
Volunteers from the Cupertino Rotary Club painted a home on Erin Way in Cupertino on Oct. 28 during Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley’s annual fall Rebuilding Day. Rebuilding Together coordinated more than 400 volunteers to perform home maintenance and repairs at 18 project sites across Santa Clara County.
Last year, Rebuilding Together performed repairs on over 288 low-income homes and nonprofit facilities. On average, 15% of these repairs are completed by volunteers.
Rebuilding Together is looking for volunteers for National Rebuilding Day next April. Email Alaina at Alaina@rtsv.org.
Banding together
Homestead High School band directors John Burn and Ben Scharf will be part of a band of their peers in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov. 23.
Burn and Scharf will be among 400 band directors marching in the “Saluting America’s Band Directors” parade entry. This year marks the second time Burn has been in the parade.
“Leading the Homestead band in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade back in 2011 was amazing,” Burn said in a statement. “Now getting to actually march the parade with my trumpet will truly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
This year also marks the second time that the band directors’ entry has been in the parade. The entry will again convey the theme, “America’s band directors: We teach music. We teach life.”
Throughout their careers, the music educators in this band have collectively mentored and taught hundreds of thousands of students.
