Charge admission to Sights and Sounds? Will a family of six be charged admission in order to see its child sing on stage? I liked the event much better in its earlier years before the group morphed it from a nice community celebration into a Central Texas extravaganza–a classic case of “mission creep”. The organization in which I participate has never done as well financially from sales since Sights and Sounds took over selling beverages some years ago. I thought that move was temporary in order to pay for improved electrical wiring and that was fine; but it never ended. The more jaded among us figured that the move from cash sales to tokens was more to guage how much money we were taking in rather than safety issues surrounding handling cash. We seriously considered kissing-off Sights and Sounds altogether some years ago, but decided to continue for the lessons that such an event might teach our young participants–planning and organizing something outside of our usual routine, meeting the public in a commercial setting, adhering to safety and health regulations. We cannot afford to lose money on this venue in order to teach those lessons–we can teach them elsewhere. To the Sights and Sounds Committee–please consider returning the event and its spirit to earlier times.