Annual WMC Dance Benefits Twp. Food Pantry

recently held its annual semi-formal dance, where each year proceeds from the event benefit a charity.

This year's theme was "Winter in the Park." The following information was provided by the school.

This year the proceeds from the semi-formal dance are donated to a local charity. This year the students voted to help the Washington Township Food Pantry. The Washington Township Food Pantry is a division of ICOWTA (Interfaith Community Outreach of the Washington Township Area). According to its website, ICOWTA was established in 1996 and its membership is composed of Deacons and concerned members from 10 area churches and other club and business organizations.

In an effort to promote this year’s charity, the school returned to the tradition of selling discounted dance tickets with a donation of two non-perishable food items. As a result, the school collected over 40 cases of non perishable food and was able to make a $2,000 donation to the Washington Township food pantry.  

This year, over 500 students purchased tickets to the dance. Students were in awe when they entered the gyms and saw them transformed into a snowy park, complete with sky scrapers, a skating rink, giant dangling snow flakes and a 30-foot evergreen tree made of 1,000 green balloons. Student art work and paintings hung throughout the gyms.

Each year Director of Guidance, Randy Evans, sketches out the plans for the decorations and with the help of a team of teachers and students the sketches become reality. The construction and art work was led by Pete Angus, Barry Buchanan, Erin Feltmann, Jay Herrigel, Chris Kling and Tom Lawrence. 

The set up and clean up was made possible with the help many WMC students including: Katherine Jasek, Christian DiGiralomo, Austin Roland, Nick Battitori, Ellysa Lamperti, Danny Brookes, Kiera Montgomery, Ashley Fleming, Kim Marino, Lexis Kambour, Kelsey Foster, Mattie Gagnon, Kimberly Lom, Aseema Daley, Margaret Moroney, Noelle Oh, Kayla Pena, and Rohith Vudatha.