Neon Night Out

By Lauren Nickerson/Staff Writer

The sweat was flowing and the music was pumping as students of all ages from CFHS gathered for a neon dance party this summer. The dance started at 9 p.m. right after fall kickoff and lasted until about midnight. 

Everyone showed up decked out in neon attire. “Everybody really went all out with the neon. I rocked a neon green wig,” senior Natalie Rokes said.

The party was held in a warehouse at senior Andrea Martinson's house that senior Walker Martinson and his friends prepared for. "It took my four friends and I about 15 hours to set the place up. We also had to put black lights up so everyone would glow in their neon stuff. It was hard work but for sure worth it,” Martinson said. 

The five guys made a Facebook invite for the party and sent it to many sophomores, juniors and seniors. "We thought it would be cool to make the party open to sophomores just coming to the high school to make them feel welcome," Martinson said. 

The invite stressed the importance of a clean party with no alcohol. Martinson asked Tyler Ruane, a friend he met at church, to be the bouncer for the party. His job was to stand at the door and make sure no alcohol was let inside. "I thought the whole thing was awesome. I only had to kick a few people out for trying to sneak some alcohol in," Ruane said. 

The main point of the dance was to bring all the grades together and have some clean fun to start off the school year. "I wanted to show everybody that you can have fun without drinking, and it was just a good way to kick off the year without partying the wrong way," senior Alec Braun said.

Braun and his friends plan on having another neon dance party this year. "We’re trying to do it again either for New Years Eve or around the end of first semester.”rst semester,” Braun said.