High Schools up and down US Highway 89 have been celebrating Homecoming this week. Think marching bands, Homecoming court candidates, chrysanthemum corsages, hand-painted signs, and football game heartbreakers. No sports scores this week, but lots of Homecoming news.
Headlines from Highway 89
King for a day: Choteau teen with Down syndrome vies for homecoming crown
(Great Falls Tribune, Great Falls, Montana)
The 19-year-old senior is a proud Choteau Bulldog--and a huge football fan--but until Friday night, he had never made it on the field.
Powder Puff game ends in a 6-6 tie (Star Valley Independent, Afton, Wyoming)
"The annual Senior/Junior Powder Puff game ended at the conclusion of overtime."
Video game programmers drop Xboxes, hit running track
(Daily Herald, Provo, Utah)
"When an Orem-based video game development company wrapped up an employee cooking contest in the spring, all signs pointed to the need for another competition -- immediately."
Volunteers and sponsors make National Public Lands Day big success (Southern Utah News, Kanab, Utah)
Like an army of ants moving across the desert floor,
more than 100 volunteers worked on four projects in the Grand
Staircase-Escalante National
Monument.
Dignitaries invite Pride of Prescott band to New Year's Day Parade in London (Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona)
The Pride of Prescott High School Marching Band may be marching in the 2010 London New Year's Day Parade.
Pinal County Sheriff Candidate Disputes Photo Speeding Ticket(Apache Junction News, Apache Junction, Arizona)
"A car owned by Republican Sheriff candidate Paul Babeu was cited for speeding by photo radar however, Babeu has not accepted responsibility and wrote on the ticket that the identity of the driver is "unkown" (sic)."
This weekend on America's greatest highway
Oct. 4 parade features home-built fire train (Glendale Star, Glendale Arizona)
Glendale Fire Engineer built a kids fire train for special events. See him at the annual fire parade to raise money for the Glendale Firefighters Charities.
