The story of L-S's first Mini-THON in five years through the eyes of those who attended.
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The cafeteria featured dancing with special lighting, food, balloons, and fun!
Students from Lampeter Elementary and Hans Herr combined to raise $2938 for the kids
The auxiliary gym featured a bouncy house, an inflatable obstacle course, and
the wrecking ball, seen here
The competition gym was open for games and general recreation early in the evening
Everyone returned to the gym for more dancing before the middle school total
was announced
The middle school raised $3391; it would have been easier to photograph
if they weren't constantly waving the signs!
Bear Shank and Nate Patterson play ping pong in the upstairs lobby
The Tonight Show featured an opening monologue, thank you notes, and Family Feud
After an unscripted Tonight Show, students glow danced in the grand lobby
Perhaps the highlight of the evening, at 2 AM, bubble soccer began!
In total, the Mini-Thon raised $17,753, shattering its $10,000 goal
Videos
A speech from Mr. Will Torres, patriarch of a "Four
Diamonds Family", who spoke at the event:
"For The Kids, Hallelujah!" - an adapted version of
"Uptown Funk" written specially for L-S Mini-Thon:
Bubble soccer in the gym:
Quotes
"I thought that Mini-Thon was really fun even though at some points I could fall asleep wherever I was. I also thought it was astounding how much we were able to make as a HS and how much we raised total. I do hope that there will be another Mini-Thon in the near future." -- Sean Burke, 10th grade
"It's the best night of my life. I don't usually get to stay up this late." -- Sawyer Lancaster, 7th grade
"It was awesome ... staying up all night!" -- Maggie Swarr, 5th grade
Photos and Video by David Johnson, LSNews.org Co-Director of Photography and Benjamin Pontz, LSNews.org Editor-In-Chief Content curated by Benjamin Pontz, LSNews.org Editor-In-Chief
This morning Lampeter-Strasburg students district-wide were treated to a musical teaser of this weekend's The Wizard of Oz. Performances are in the Lampeter-Strasburg High School Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7 pm with a matinee at 2 pm on Saturday as well.
Photos by Jonathan Klein, LS News Editor-in-Chief
The following photos are by Logan Thompson, LS News photographer
Baseball tryouts are finally starting. It is a three-day process, and coaches will be evaluating us at our
primary position. We will take hitting, fielding, live baseball, and drills. After those three days, the coaches will have enough information to determine whether or not we will have made the team.
So far we are two days into the tryouts. They have been going great so far. The first day we went onto
the varsity and junior varsity fields. We were split up into teams of about nine or ten. one for every position on the field and scrimmaged against the opponent.
The second day it was a little wetter than the coaches would've liked so we did out hitting inside Martin Meylin. We still went outside for drills and defensive evaluations.
Coach Swarr has been hosting open gyms for a while and it seems like over that time he has been evaluating us there. I say this because the tryouts are very similar to the open gyms we have been
having. Today will be the last day of tryouts and I…
