MORGANTOWN — After Meatball Monday comes Turnaround Tuesday.
“Now, we get the dinners out the door,” said Keith Reed, the longtime director of Morgantown High School’s Red and Blue Marching Band.
Today is the day of the band’s annual spaghetti and meatball dinner.
It’s a pretty tasty fundraiser, Reed said, for a band that has performed from Preston County to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Dinner will be served from 4-7 p.m. today at the school on Wilson Avenue. The cost is $9 for adults and $5 for children under 12.
There’s even a drive-through service along Prairie Street or Edgewood Street, Reed said.
“You don’t have to get out of the car if you don’t want to,” the director said.
Band parents, boosters and members annually put the fixings together, which usually includes 100 pounds of pasta and 2,100 meatballs.
Said meatballs were rolled and prepared the day before in the school kitchen, Reed said, for the aforementioned Meatball Monday.
Reed said the dinners date back to at least the 1970s. Makes for a lot of meatball memories, the director said.
“Helping with it is really nice,” band member Rachel Howard told The Dominion Post during last year’s Meatball Monday.
“And it gives the band fundraising opportunities so we can do cool, memorable things,” the clarinetist said.
Meanwhile, the band is readying for its annual “Spirit of America” concert next month at the Metropolitan Theatre downtown.
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