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Gift-quality spirit-wear!

Buys with Pride logoJust in time for Christmas, high quality Dixie Band/Guard spirit-wear!

These limited time items aren’t for fundraising. Our marching band was blessed with a formidable crop of rookies this Spring, and they quickly followed the veteran members’ lead — working diligently to put an amazing show on the field. Their parents/guardians also made great sacrifices to help our students succeed in this activity. So whether this was your first Band season, or you’ve been around for years, every member of our band family deserves to wear the colors and emblems of the Dixie Heights Marching Colonels. And that’s why we’re selling these beautiful items pretty much at cost.

It’s not a huge catalog. October was well underway when we started kicking around ideas for a spirit-wear sale to cap off an amazingly successful marching season. We’d love to have more choices for everyone, but given a compressed time-frame, limiting our selection to 10 products was the only way we could allow nearly two weeks for accepting orders. So we opted for a handful of basic yet stylish items, and we hope you’ll find something that you or the loved ones on your gift list will wear proudly for many years.

To deliver your items before December 25, we cannot accept orders or payment after Sunday, November 20. Order now!

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Open for business

Open for business

Well, sorta open for business.

Buys with Pride logoToday I activated and configured our e-commerce payment plugin, then tested it in sandbox mode. Sorry if that sounds like gibberish. What it means is that all we need to do now is add products to our online catalog, and we’re ready to sell online. Credit card payments from our online buyers will go directly to the Boosters’ PayPal account.

Also, the volunteer management component of our CRM is fully functional. I’ve added several shifts for Concessions and Craft Sale in order to test the back and front ends, and everything seems to work nicely. We can tweak various details as needed, but I’m excited to report the basic functions are all doing what they should. Feel free to try it out!

Still some archived meeting agendas and financial documents to reconnect before we’re fully in-sync with the legacy website. I’ll be in touch with volunteers who may be able to help expedite this task.