Peru Circus Festival Band, Inc.

31 West Seventh Street Peru, Indiana

Diane Haley, Director Scott Thompson, Co-Director Jarrod Ellis, Co-Director

April 2, 2018 Northern Indiana Community Foundation, Inc. ATTN: Corinne Becknell Lucas, Associate Director 715 Main Street PO Box 807 Rochester IN 46975 Dear Corinne: As suggested, I am writing to update our Peru Circus Festival Band, Inc. 2017 Community Support Grant. We had applied for $14,400 and you awarded us a grant of $1,600 to use for a fund raising meal. You said you would most likely re-look at the grant request again this year. Here is an update on the funds awarded and used. We used $631.83 of the grant on March 10 for supplies and advertising for a Spaghetti supper. We served about 230 people and our net profit was $1127.13. We are having a hog raffle this summer and a Nelson’s barbecue chicken meal in the fall. For the hog raffle, the hog has been donated and we will use about $250 of the grant money for processing. We expect to use the balance of the grant money for advertising and other costs related to Nelson’s barbecue chicken meal. Our next, and most pressing fund raising project, will be to record a new Circus Band music CD, this year, that will be available for sale in 2019 in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the Circus City Festival. The cost to record, pay copyright fees and produce 1000 CDs will be just under $5000. On the original grant request, we had asked for $3,500 for this project. This new number reflects more realistic costs. The other requested items on our original Community Support Grant request have not changed. Cost for advertising/postage $ 300 2 Used Tubas 4,000 2 Used Mellophones 1,200 1 Used Baritone Horn 800 1 Used Baritone Sax 3,000 Total for all these items (including music CD project) is $14,300. Thank you for what you have already helped us with and thank you for the re-look of our 2017 Community Support Grant. Sincerely

Rex E. Stitsworth President