Dundee High School will celebrate Homecoming on Friday, Oct. 3. This year’s Queen and King will be crowned at halftime of the Dundee v. Onsted varsity football game. Queen candidates are seniors (seated, left to right): Meagan Meadows, Marisa Jaworski, Charly Bronson and Robin Ackerman; king candidates are seniors (standing, left to right): Scott Hawks, Justin Heisler, Cosell Beavers and Camden Good. Not pictured are Amber Faunce and Brian Vella.
Ida High School’s annual Homecoming celebration is Friday, Oct. 3. This year’s Homecoming Queen will be crowned at halftime of the Ida v. Melvindale varsity football game. Queen candidates are seniors (left to right): Jodi Gilbert, Lyndsay Miller, Julie Vogelsang, Megan Steils and Rachael Anderson. The photo was taken on Tuesday, which was “Dress Like Your Teacher Day,” of Spirit Week.
Walkers gathered outside Dundee High School before beginning their two-mile “Light the Night” walk on Wednesday, Sept. 24.
Dundee’s third annual “Light the Night” walk to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, was held on Wednesday, Sept. 24. Walkers carried red balloons, or white balloons if they were a person or family member touched by cancer. Pictured left to right are: Patti Cawood (event organizer), Glenna Hurst, Anne Herlocher, Cissy Garrett and Katie Cawood. Patti Cawood’s son Aaron is a survivor.
Katie Perdue decorated her fingerpainting while Spencer Perdue worked in the background on Monday, Sept. 29 in the after school art class at Summerfield Elementary-Middle School.
Area residents were thrilled with a brilliant double rainbow on Saturday, Sept. 27. The rainbow was spotted from all over town, although depending on one’s vantage point, it appeared to be over the downtown, over M-50 by Kroger, or over the woods east of town. Maybe that’s what they mean the futility of chasing rainbows; it sure was pretty, though.
Dundee High School’s Homecoming Court includes (seated, left to right): junior Amanda Alexandrowski, sophomore Whitney Bodine, freshman Elizabeth Wertenberger and (standing, left to right): junior Adam Southerland, Michael Williams and Aric Craft. Homecoming is Friday, Oct. 3.
Rose Sancrant prepared her last luncheon at the Dundee Senior Center on Friday, Sept. 26. She is retiring after five years.
Former longtime Dundee cross country coach Jim Beck congratulated Dave Schofield of Dundee on winning the Vikings’ Beck Invitational on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Schofield finished the course in 17:14. The Dundee course is not a fast one, but it’s interesting, with three miles of cornfields, meadows, woods and hills.
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