The parking lot at Encounter Church in Amherstburg was a busy spot last Saturday morning with vehicles of all shapes, sizes, years, and colors, as part of a fundraiser for the North Star Band end of year trip.
Jack Laliberte is a student at North Star, and organized the event with his grandfather and mom.
“This is the first ever North Star Concert Band Car Jam,” said Laliberte. “There are lots of other events going on here too, like face painting, we have a popcorn machine, we have a vendor market out front, but it’s mostly a big car show.”
Julie Brennan is Jack’s mother stated: “This kind of came about because North Star being a new high school and the kids are just getting their names out there. Music is Jack’s passion; he has been doing music since he was four years old and for the past few years most of the fundraisers have been mostly just the band families and we wanted to get the community more involved.”
“We have over 50 cars,” said Laliberte, “We are doing well, and the funds from the car show go toward our band trip at the end of the year to Cleveland, Ohio.”
“We wanted to get the community out to support them, and this money goes toward their trip at the end of the year for a competition in Cleveland, but to also have some fun visiting the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” said Brennan. “This helps the families by lowering the cost of the trip so these kids get to have these experiences, otherwise some kids may not have the opportunity to do things like this.”
Brennan wanted to send a huge thank you to North Star vice principal Jason Lynn as well as Rob & Tina’s No Frills in Amherstburg for donating all the food for the event, Amherstburg Sobeys for donating food, all the car guys for getting together for the event, and to the community who came out in support of the show.
“We’ll see if we do another one next year, it’s a great turn out, but it was a lot of planning,” said Brennan.
Sunshine and smiles and first-ever North Star band "Car Jam"
By Donna Tuckwell
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