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Putting "Home" In Homecoming
Cited as the “best Homecoming ever” by those
involved, the fall 2013 event had students, employees,
community members and even the local news station
(KSDK) talking. The changes slowly began in the fall of
2012 with the first major change to Homecoming; the
parade and game would be hosted on a Saturday. In
years’ past, the parade was on a Thursday afternoon at 4
pm and the game was on a Friday night.
Save the date for
Homecomings to come:
Sept. 13, 2014
&
Sept. 17, 2015
Elementary schools quickly jumped aboard
the change and incorporated floats and student
ambassadors to walk in the parade. Superintendent
Mark Penny thought a shift to a Saturday parade
would not only allow more involvement from all
district schools, but get more community members
to feel like they were a part of Homecoming. “We
were forgetting the keyword in Homecoming. It