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High school students have
​some spooky fun

Copy by Madison Wisdom 
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 Halloween is an excuse people use every year to dress up, eat a bunch of candy and have a lot of fun. Students on the Kansas Association for Youth (KAY) Halloween committee put together this year’s Halloween party for all the high school students. 

Classes competed against each other in the Halloween games for a homemade trophy and bragging rights. Sophomores won the Jack-o’-lantern Find, Skeleton Toss and the Pumpkin Toss Race, the juniors won the Halloween Charades and the seniors won Find the Spiders.

“It seemed like the senior class was the only class that didn’t cheat, so it was a little aggravating but we still played our hardest to beat Budke and, overall, we did,” senior Jayce Wessel said. 

The Jack-o’-lantern Find was one of the harder games, which required students to find letters hidden in shredded paper to spell the Halloween-related words they were given. 

“The words were all at least 10 letters long and the letters were hard to find since most of the pieces of paper were blank, but it was a lot of fun to have to scramble around to find a letter you needed,” sophomore Natalie Harshman said. 

After the games were finished, Halloween-themed snacks and refreshments were set up in the cafeteria. KAY sponsor Sam Cahoone appointed senior Laken Vandegrift to be in charge of the snacks, and junior Britney Schroer helped Vandegrift with the food. 

 “I am a person who likes to be neat and organized and I liked being able to set everything out all neat and make it look good,” Vandegrift said. 

The snacks and refreshments were made by KAY members ranging from puppy chow to chocolate chip cookies and frosted, colored cookies.

Members of the committee included: senior Landry Hinkson, junior Maddie Dold, sophomores Abby Zuniga and Havyn Schroeder and freshman Mayah Dorsey. 
 
“We all volunteered for it. We were given some things to do to put it together and we made it work,” Dold said. “We chose what games we thought would be the most fun and interesting to watch and then some people from KAY brought the snacks, but I really enjoy being able to have so much fun with everyone.” 

Students and faculty dress up
​for Halloween

Copy by Alexis Delong

Halloween, the time of year when people dress up in a variety of costumes to have fun and get lots of candy.

“I love Halloween because I am able to dress up and have a really fun time. I love seeing so many different costumes on so many different people,” freshman Mayah Dorsey said. 

Student Council hosted a costume contest, in which 21 students and one teacher participated. There were three categories: the funniest, scariest, and most original, with one winner for each.

The contest started off with the funniest costume, which seventh grader Luke Budke won. He dressed as what he imagines himself to look like in 20 years. 

“It was very fun and enjoyable,” Budke said. “I thought I was going to win the funniest category because my costume was pretty funny.” 

The next category was the scariest costume. Sophomore Laura Koch, who dressed up as a cactus that she made herself, won that category. The winner of each category was based on how loud the crowd cheered for each person.
 

“I was very surprised to win the scariest costume category because I was going for most creative,” Koch said. “I was trying to think of something that would be unique, cute and simple, however, it took two hours to make.”

Lastly, they did the most original. English teacher Denise Uhlrich, who designed a very creative costume, won. Uhlrich dressed up as Elton John, a famous singer and songwriter, which she constructed with many various materials. She had worked on this costume since July.

“I have always liked Elton John and when I saw that costume in the movie, I fell in love with it,” Uhlrich said. “It was a big symbol of how Elton John overcame the demons in his life to become the wonderful person he is now.” 
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The winner of each category won a $20 gift card to Casey’s General Store. It was a good way to get the students involved on Halloween. 
“I had a lot of fun with the competition especially because I got $20 of food out of it,” Koch said.
 

Junior high students enjoy
​'Pumpkin Day'

​Copy by Jocelyn Zuniga

Every year junior high Kansas Association for Youth throws a Halloween party or “Pumpkin Day”, which hosted many activities for junior high students to participate and compete in, including two community service projects. 
 
“The tic-tac-toe was my favorite part of the party because it was a physical activity,” eighth grader Micah Cauthers said. “I also really enjoyed the snacks!”
 
For the two community service projects, the students colored pictures, which will be put up on residents’ doors at the nursing home and made cards, which were sent to Veterans’ Village on Veterans Day.
 
The games played included: Halloween tic-tac-toe, which was played with skeletons and spiders, Murderer, which is when the “murderer” winks at other players in a circle and the people winked at “fall dead”. The goal is to catch the murderer before they get everyone killed, and finally Mummy Wrap, where in a short amount of time, teams compete to create the best mummy. 
 
“My favorite game was Mummy Wrap. We got to wrap up Avery, and since it was boys against girls, we tried our hardest to beat the boys,” seventh grader Josepha Inlow said.
 
There were many reasons for the kids to enjoy "Pumpkin Day" from the games to the snacks, especially the candy. 
 
“I loved the snacks,” seventh grader Chaz Smith said. “They were very good and there was lots of chocolate.”
 
Overall, the junior high Halloween party provided fun for the younger students. Not only were the students having fun, but they even participated in some community service work.