Godfrey-Lee Godwin Heights Kelloggsville Wyoming

Four Wyoming-area high school bands set to perform

September 12, 2024

GH_ Four high school bands perform BRF 24 1 — The Godwin Heights High School marching band is one of four Wyoming-area bands set to perform on Sept. 14

Multiple Districts — Four high school bands from the Wyoming area will come together for a special performance at 1 p.m. Sept. 14 at Wyoming High School, 1350 Prairie Parkway SW.

Participating bands are Wyoming, Godwin Heights, Godfrey-Lee and Kelloggsville. During the free event, which is open to the public, each band will play its 2024 halftime show.

“The goal of the event is to share our shows with the other Wyoming schools and to get to know each other a little bit,” said Luke Marlowe, the band director at Godwin Heights High School. “Despite being down the street from each other, we don’t compete in the same division, so it’s nice to see everyone’s hard work and support each other.”

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Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Joanne Bailey-Boorsma is a reporter covering Kent ISD, Godwin Heights, Kelloggsville, Forest Hills and Comstock Park. The salutatorian for the Hartland Public Schools class of 1985, she changed her colors from blue and maize to green and white by attending Michigan State University, where she majored in journalism. Joanne moved to the Grand Rapids area in 1989, where she started her journalism career at the Advance Newspapers. She later became the editor for On-the-Town magazine, a local arts and entertainment publication. Her husband, Mike, works the General Motors plant in Wyoming; her oldest daughter, Kara, is a registered nurse working in Holland, and her youngest, Maggie, is studying music at Oakland University. She is a volunteer for the Van Singel Fine Arts Advisory Board and the Kent District Library. In her free time, Joanne enjoys spending time with her family, checking out local theater and keeping up with all the exchange students they have hosted through the years.