How could anyone be a member of this community and not notice the school district’s music students selling gift wrap and candy, holding garage and bake sales and silent auctions, running a weekly Bingo game for years, and pleading for financial support from the City Council and business community? That’s what pays for their trips — supplemented by large contributions of time and money from music parents, who pay their own way as chaperones.
I’m sure the Santa Monica-Malibu music students would be happy to send Mr. Trybus a postcard from their various performance locations, if he would kindly reciprocate with one from whatever planet he’s been living on for the past two or three decades.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 4, 2003. Read the original PDF.