Striking up the bands at annual festival

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

When the Scott City High School band marched down South High Street in Jackson Tuesday afternoon playing the "Mickey Mouse Club" theme, Mary and Wilferd Glasser sat on a bench in the hot sun waiting. They didn't drive from Kelso, Mo., to hear the band salute the mouse. Their granddaughter, Maria Lett, plays French horn in the band.

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