When I read Saturday's Blossoms and Barbs in The Monroe Times, I was saddened by Lara Smith's barb about the MHS band's Cheese Days parade performance. This barb, the Times' readers' online string of negative comments and the local buzz about MHS band students and instructors is the result of misinformation and an incomprehensible desire to complain about and judge the time and talent our youth have volunteered to the community.
Complainers misunderstand band's talents