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Donated instruments can help students
Schools welcome people's help, invite them to open house
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Published: September 21, 2009
If you have an old musical instrument gathering dust in a closet, you can help a student by donating it to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system.
"We will put them in the hands of a child who will be able to use them," said Brad Oliver, the music supervisor for the school system.
Most of the instruments will be loaned to middle-school students taking a beginning-level music class, he said.
Buying an instrument can be a significant investment, he said. A violin might cost up to $500, and a trumpet might cost up to $600.
In Winston-Salem, the instruments can be dropped off at Jackson's Music at 1409 S. Stratford Road, and at Separk Music at 636 W. Fourth St. In Kernersville, they can be taken to The Band Company at 231 N. Main St.
Those businesses have offered to help the school system with repairs, if needed, he said. Donations are tax-deductible. For more information, call Oliver at 748-4070.
If you find an exercise bicycle gathering dust next to that instrument, you might want to donate it to Ward Elementary School for the school's new Read and Ride program, in which students pedal while reading educational magazines.
For more information, call Scott Ertl, a guidance counselor at the school at 774-4674. The school is at 3775 Fraternity Church Road. Ertl, who also is looking for suitable educational magazines, can also make arrangements to have the bike picked up.
Flat Rock Middle School, one of the three new schools that the school system opened this year, is having an open house tonight from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The school is at 4648 Ebert Road.
kunderwood@wsjournal.com
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