Waukegan High Drum and Bugle Corps to get new drums

The Waukegan High School JROTC Drum and Bugle Corps will receive new donated equipment from a nonprofit organization next month.

Bravo Waukegan, a group that supports the music faculty and programs of Waukegan public schools, will deliver the new bass drums and snares to the corps on March 3 at the Brookside Campus.

"We were impressed by their commitment and were told of their need for new equipment," Karey Walker, the executive director of Bravo Waukegan, said in a news release Wednesday.

Walker said her organization has provided trumpets and trumpet instruction to the drum and bugle corps in the past.

The corps will use their new equipment during Drill Down, a competition and open house held by the Waukegan JROTC Corps of Cadets each year. This year's event will celebrate 100 years of the Waukegan JROTC, making it one of the oldest programs in the nation. It also is the second-largest program at a regular, nonmilitary high school in the country.

This year's event will be on April 14 at the main gymnasium of Waukegan High School's Washington Campus.