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Stepping forward with her passion Santa Maria High School band director to march in Rose Parade
Gordon Ramsay moves headquarters out of California Celebrity chef is taking his restaurant operations to Texas By BETHANY BLANKLEY THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR
(The Center Square) — Another company has left California for Texas, this time that of British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Gordon Ramsay North America is developing a team of chefs and businessmen in Las Colinas, Dallas, the Dallas Morning News first reported. The Dallas-Fort Worth area is already home to some of the largest restaurant companies in the U.S., and continues to draw new businesses and residents to the area. The region has expanded so much in the past decade that 2020 Census data warranted Texas gaining two congressional seats in the North Texas area. By contrast, in 2020, for the first time in California’s recorded history, the state reported a population Please see RAMSAY on A2
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Samantha Quart conducts her band during a Santa Maria High School concert. Ms. Quart will march with nearly 300 other band directors from across the U.S. in the Rose Parade Saturday.
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“I feel like it is the biggest honor,” Samantha Quart said about being selected to march in the Rose Parade. “I have always known about the Rose Parade. It’s a national acknowledgement. I even have a running joke with my dad about being in the Rose Parade.”
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Samantha Quart loves her job. So much so that her passion impressed the Saluting America’s Band Directors project, which selected the Santa Maria High School band director to march in the 2022 Rose Parade Saturday with nearly 300 other directors from all 50 states and Mexico. The 133rd parade will be televised live at 8 a.m. Saturday on ABC (KEYT-TV, Channel 3), NBC (KSBY-TV, Channel 6) and the Hallmark Channel. Ms. Quart has been a band director since 2016 when she started working in that position at Santa Maria High School. She is originally from Michigan, where she graduated from Central Michigan University, with her degree in music education. “I knew I wanted to be a band director since my freshman year of high school,” Ms. Quart told the News-Press. “When I was in band in high school, my band
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Gordon Ramsay, seen above on the Fox series “Masterchef,” is the latest of many entrepreneurs to move their companies from California to Texas.
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director showed me that I had learned to play my instrument backward, and I didn’t want that to happen to anyone else.” She added, “I had always loved marching band, and I wanted to do something I loved for the rest of my life.” Following a job fair at her university, Ms. Quart began talking to a school in Bakersfield upon her graduation. The opportunity with Bakersfield fell through, but Santa Maria High School had an opening, and the school got information about Ms. Quart from the Bakersfield school. Ms. Quart said marching in the Rose Parade, a famous New Year’s Day tradition on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, feels like the biggest honor to her. “I have always known about the Rose Parade,” Ms. Quart said. “It’s a national acknowledgement. I even have a running joke with my dad about being in the Rose Parade.” Please see PARADE on A2
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