Freshman, Elaina Weaver and Braxton Hajenga were crowned Carnival King and Quenn.
After the return of class skits last year, the school again had class skits. The Freshman won with a skit, Big Sandyville, a modern-day story of an old tale-Cinderella. I'm sure it won because the Freshman class only has three girls. Because it was about a formal ball, all the freshman men had to dress up in formal wear, some even wearing back high heels. I especially enjoyed the little mice-squeaking!
The sophomore class wrote a skit about a lonely girl who came into her own at the annual school ball. The theme was how cruel people can be. The girl fell asleep on the couch, and the guest came to her house, put makeup on her, and dressed her up. She went to the ball and danced with a handsome boy. In the next scene, she is asleep but is awakened when the handsome boy comes to visit her at her house.
The Juniors wrote a Who-dun it. There was an engagement party with old high school friends, and slowly, several murders took place. When the power went off, there was a scream, and another one died. They blamed the kitchen servant, Chase Gasvoda, but he said he didn't do anything! One was pushed off the roof; one was hit with a blunt object. The murderer was Heimbigner because when he asked them to come to his 3rd-grade birthday party, the only one who came was Jenny. He wanted all of them dead. This skit got good applause.
The Seniors had a Wild West skit. It was about two brothers who loved the same woman. One brother asked her to marry him. The other brother was in a bar with six cowboys, playing cards, drinking, smoking, and cussing until one brother killed his other brother, saying, "You ain't my huckleberry!" It was the best acting.
The Carnival King and Queen were Freshman Braxton Hajerga and Elaina Weaver.
King and Queen Candidates: Sophomore class Wes Cox and Keira Galbavy; Junior class: Jenny Sant and Darrell Sunchild; Senior Class candidates: Cooper Taylor and Tosha Allderdice.
It was dark, late after the Carnival was over when I saw three girls who had never experienced the Carnival walking home. I asked how the night went. "It was so much fun!" We sometimes forget how wonderful things are when they've been done for so long, year after year. I've asked; no one remembers when it started, at least 50+ years.
