Sarah Pace of Fillmore who graduated in 2013 took her trumpet to the Fight Hunger Bowl game in San Francisco on December 27, 2013. Sarah is currently a student at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and is a member of the 250 student strong BYU Cougar Marching Band. The BYU marching band is under the Direction of Fred McInnis and Assistant Director Art Young. Drum Majors are Hannah Pusey, Conner Cunningham and Leslie Stokes. Sarah has had the opportunity to join 27 other trumpeters and band members and perform at all home foot ball game half time shows and a campus concert this year. A modest band scholarship has helped enable Sarah to focus on her studies when she’s not pumping up the crowd of BYU foot ball fans. BYU students who live with in a three hour drive of the campus were driven by bus along with the instruments to the game on December 25th. Students who went home for the holidays in different states were flown into San Francisco at the expense of the school to help support the football team, cheerleaders and most of all the fans. Band members were able to perform at a pre game rally the day before the game, a tail gate party the day of the game, pre game and half time shows that they shared with Washington’s Marching Band. Band Students were able to do some sight seeing around San Francisco during their time off. To date the Fight Hunger Bowl foot ball game has donated over 300,000 meals to the Bay Area’s hungry through the sale of tickets.

A big thank you goes out to music instructors who have contributed to Sarah’s success and opportunities. Mrs. Camilla Conaway for years of piano lessons, Mrs. Janet Bergamo for primary instruction and introduction to the trumpet and Mr. Greg Godfrey for instruction and many performance opportunities in middle school and high school. This would not have been possible without all of you. More thank you’s go out to the Fillmore School Board for their continued support in our District’s music programs, not only for Sarah but may other students, Fillmore Band Boosters and all their hard work and support and of course band students, their families and supporters.