RHS Band Holds Patriotic Fundraiser

Published June 24, 2009

There will be no "sleeping in" for dozens of Ravenwood High School students this Independence Day. Instead, members of the RHS Marching Band will be out in full force July 4 as they begin the task of placing American flags in the yards of hundreds of homes. It's part of a special fundraiser at Ravenwood High School called the Perpetual American Flag program.

For $40, the students install an American flag in the homeowner's yard on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day and Veterans' Day. The students put the flags up between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. the day of the event and take them down later that evening. Eight neighborhoods throughout Brentwood and Nolensville are participating in the program.

"The response from the neighborhoods has been amazing," says RHS Band Booster President-elect Dennis Jackson. "Everyone is so excited about how the band is helping to honor and show our patriotic spirit for America."

The money that's raised will be used to cover the cost of the marching band program, which includes trips like the one they plan to make later this year to Dallas, Texas to participate in the Cotton Bowl Parade.

To sign up for the Perpetual American Flag program, email Dennis Jackson at RHSflag@hotmail.com. Homeowners must live in the Avalon, Benington, Brookfield, Inglehame Farms, Liberty Downs, Raintree, the Reserves of Raintree, or Winterset Woods subdivisions. Organizers plan to add more neighborhoods next spring.