CHS Jazz band to play concert tonight

Colfax High School jazz band returned from Gresham, Ore., Sunday after winning the second-place trophy in the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival. Colfax placed second in its division to Milwaukie, Ore., a school of about 1,400 students in the Portland area.

Colfax band director Mike Morgan said the Mt. Hood festival places schools from a wide range of sizes in each of its competition divisions. The second-place win at Mt. Hood follows the Colfax band's first place win three weeks ago at Columbia Basin College in Pasco.

Senior guitar player Ryan Reynolds won an outstanding soloist award to finish out his c...