The Great Bend USD 428 Board of Education will be asked to approve requests from Great Bend High School music groups when it at 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, at the District Education Center, 201 South Patton Road. GBHS A Cappella Choir requests a spring break trip to Washington, D.C. and GBHS Orchestra Director Isaac Enochs requests a change to the 2019-2020 calendar with early dismissal for high school classes when the school hosts the Western Kansas Orchestra Festival, Nov. 15-16, 2019. More than 700 orchestra students from schools west of U.S. 81 will attend the event.