Festive balloons, zigzagging streamers, and a colorful banner spelling out “C-A-N-D-Y-L-A-N-D” greeted guests and brightened the gym for the Homecoming dance. The only thing that outnumbered the decorations was the amount of students in attendance: the dance drew over 400 students, more than double last year’s 170.

Getting the dance ready for that many students was not easy, according to Ms. Lauterborn, Student Council advisor.

“There was a ton of work involved,” said Lauterborn. “Senior class decorated the gym. It took them about two days to do that. Ordering the food, the cake and the punch and all that, took a whole day.”
For junior Kayanna Wymbs, that hard work paid off and made the dance more fun than last year.
“It was a lot better,” Wymbs said. “They actually decorated the gym, and the music was better. It was just a lot of fun overall.”

Junior Korinna Brandt agrees that the music was improved.

“The DJ was better,” Brandt said. “I think they told him to stop cutting off in the middle of songs. Last year in the middle of a song, he would switch to a different song. He didn’t do that as much this year.”

Brandt said that although not everything was perfect, the food was better quality than previous years, which added to the fun of the dance.

“The cake was actually good this year,” Brandt said. “My freshman year, it was horrible.”