Wrightsville Beach School (WBS) was overrun with witches, fairies and superheroes during the school’s annual Fall Festival on Oct. 19. The festival was kicked off with a costume parade, led by Princess Leia (also known as principal Pansy Rumley). She sat in a convertible driven by Darth Vader while students marched behind. After the parade, students in the WBS performance club entertained a crowd of hundreds with their performance of “Thriller.”
The festival had something for everyone, with
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L.J. Woodard leads the WBS Performance Club in its performance of "Thriller" on Friday, Oct. 19. |
several activities to choose from, including a cakewalk, haunted house, creepy crawly slide, pin-the-wart-on-the-witch, Batty Bingo and more. A DJ kept partygoers energized with dance music, and some students competed in “Freeze Dance” on a black-and-white-checkered dance floor.
The cafeteria served as the silent auction room. It was crammed with parents eager to bid on autographed memorabilia, furniture, scooters and class projects. Each class created a work of art to be auctioned off, including bowls painted with the children’s names and whimsical artwork, a desk, table, quilt and a mosaic headboard and footboard.
Silent auction co-chair Stephanie Holt said the auction raised a grand total of $16,500. That is about $1,000 more than was raised at the 2006 Fall Festival silent auction.
“It went so well — it was laid out nicely, and it was fun. Everything went really great — I wouldn’t change a thing,” she said.
The hot-ticket item of the night was a fishing trip that went for $1,500.
Parents managed to drag their children away from the activities long enough to sit down and nosh on
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Caroline Warshaw takes a chance at the SpongeBob sponge toss set up at the WBS Fall Festival on Friday, Oct. 19. |
pizza, popcorn, ice cream, hot dogs, cotton candy and Chick-fil-A meals.
Rumley said she was happy to see some of her old students at the festival.
“Not only are a lot of our current students here, but we even have some of our old students here — it’s nice that they still feel like they’re comfortable coming here,” she said.
Former WBS student Jessica Cummings said she was having a great time.
“I think it’s really fun and really awesome. I have come to almost every Fall Festival — the haunted house is really fun,” she said.
Jared Rosbrugh, 9, said he was having a good time. He said his favorite activity was the haunted house.
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