We do not require membership in the WPA to compete
at our events. *(This
has now changed, please see
rules) Membership is encouraged, recommended,
and necessary for us to achieve our purpose, which we
have designed to benefit you and your music. The WPA
wants every interested person and band to be a member
if they value what we do, but we want you to support
us willingly.
Also, the BCPA wants to see its members become members
of and active in their local organizations. We do not
charge admission to our events because we want anyone
who is interested to know they are free to come. But
we will happily accept any donation a spectator wants
to make. And once we have a presence as a not-for-profit
organization we can seek private and public funding
from outside our membership.
In conclusion, I want to thank Coleen Popochock, who
agreed to stay on as Treasurer and Secretary. No one
really knows how much Coleen contributes to the WPA,
mainly because she is so humble, but we know her contribution
is enormous. Suffice it to say, without her the WPA
would be a miserable shadow of its present self. *(Coleen
served as Treasurer and Secretary when the WPA was just
getting started. The WPA would like to thank her for
her generosity and hard work. We wouldn't be where we
are today without her)
If you would like to volunteer for the WPA we could
use help in the following areas: stewards, concessions,
registration, newsletter, fund raising, establishing
not-for-profit status, and the youth band initiative.
John Dally
