The Johnston Music Department surpassed all previous fundraising totals during what Chairman Ron Lamoureux called “our best year ever with Custom Fundraising Solutions!”
Perhaps even more impressive was when CFS Executive Jason Glander announced: “Today, our valuable Johnston Music partners sold 19 mattresses, and that was their best sale since we started coming here four years ago.”
All of which means that once all sales contracts are finalized, the Johnston School Music Association will haul in what Glander announced as “a net profit between $2,500 and $3,000.”
“The funds will help out tremendously with our expenses for this year,” Lamoureux explained while emphasizing “that not only did COVID-19 force us to cancel last year’s sale, the pandemic has prevented us from doing a great deal of fundraising, but it’s not going to stop us from rewarding many of our seniors with scholarship awards.”
Moreover, as Lamoureux further explained: “Our JHS music students participate in a dynamic, rewarding and really fun department and many, many colleges place a great deal of value on a student’s active participation in these programs. And some scholarship money never hurts, especially in these difficult economic times.”
As an example of the blue-ribbon program that Lamoureux and Chorus Director Matt Gingras have underway at JHS, the chairman announced, “We are hoping that we may have an opportunity to compete in a national festival next spring and this event would be one of the final fundraisers before we’d travel. Our mattress sale guests just might hear the group’s rehearsing in preparation for those performances.”
Thus, Lamoureux said Saturday “was beautiful and we had a nice turnout of shoppers; we sold 17 mattresses and loads of accessorizing including sheets, pillows and those giant bean bag seats – I need a bigger house so I can get a couple of them.”
To which Lamoureux added: “Matt and I are really thankful for the time that the booster parents put in. Beth Littlefield, Anna Morin, Carol Morin, Holly Banno and Dave Banno all gave a big portion of their day to greet customers and help with our door prizes.”
One of Saturday’s silent success stories included curious shoppers who came from a number of neighboring towns, including Burrillville, which is home for Carol and Wayne Gailbault. They tried out many of the two-dozen-plus mattresses that were placed inside the auditorium foyer and set up in an adjacent corridor, where CFS staffs Kate Finnegan and Jose Olivences along with Glander fielded number of questions about the day’s sale.
“We were hoping people would stop in and see what this sale looks like so that we can build an expectation for the coming years and people will know they can count on us to have this event going forward,” Lamoureux noted. “We were as thrilled with the number of people who checked out the sale as we were with our record sales; it all adds up to more money for our scholarship program.”
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