Fairfield Band Aides launches pop can drive

The Fairfield Community School District Band Boosters organization known as Band Aides has started a pop can drive to raise money for the high school and middle school band programs.

All aluminum cans and bottles can be dropped off at the Fairfield High School before all home football games and also at any of the scheduled band concerts.

The FHS band trailer will be located just west of the Trojan Stadium bell tower, near the front entrance of the stadium. Donations of cans and bottles can be dropped off at the trailer at any time before and during the football game.

Proceeds from the pop can drive will be used to help fund the FHS band trip to Florida in 2021.

'It's a small thing, but when everyone is participating in the can drive, it makes a real big difference,” said Aaron Adam, band director at Fairfield Community School District.

Fairfield Band Aides is comprised of a 13 member board of directors and numerous parent volunteers supporting the FCSD band directors and their programs. Money raised is used to fund student scholarships for music camps and band trips, purchase equipment and instruments, including recent upgrades to the FHS marching band drum line, much needed brass instruments at Fairfield Middle, and brand-new marching band uniforms in 2017. Band Aides also collects used instruments to be refurbished and distributed to music students in financial need.

Fairfield Band Aides is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the instrumental music programs within the Fairfield Community School District since 1999. For more information or to make a donation, contact Treasurer Eric Henderson by email at erichenderson@lisco.com, by phone at 641-919-9396, or on Facebook by searching Fairfield Community Schools: Band Aides.