Last October, Rusty Wallace car dealerships donated $30,000 to Austin-East Magnet High School’s marching band for new uniforms. One year later, the band has plans to reveal its much anticipated new attire at the Oct. 4 homecoming game.
The funds purchased 50 new marching band uniforms and 75 raincoats for the Austin-East Marching Roadrunners. The school had not purchased new band uniforms since around the early 2000s.
“Some of my coaching staff that are with me now wore these same uniforms when they were in high school,” said Alyx Blumenstock, the school’s director of bands…