By ABIGAIL KREIDLER
Student contributor
Every year, Oil City and Cranberry High Schools combine for the annual homecoming dance.
The schools switch it back and forth between whether it will be at Cranberry or Oil City. This year, the dance will be held Saturday, Sept. 17, at Oil City’s football field, weather permitting.
Each school has its own homecoming court. Five Oil City girls have been nominated for homecoming queen and have picked their escorts. Cranberry’s court includes 6 girls and 6 boys that were picked by the high school’s students. The escorts are responsible for escorting the girls in the parade, at the homecoming football game, and into the dance.
The queens are announced at Friday’s football game. Cranberries’ queen will be named before the game starts, and Oil City’s queen will be announced during halftime. The Oil City Oilers are playing Franklin this year at the Oil Field.
Students at either high school are allowed to attend the dance and can bring a guest, even if they go to a different school or they have graduated. Guests who are not Oil City or Cranberry students must sign a guest form.
Junior Exec plans dance throughout the year, but homecoming is left up to the students that are in Senior Exec. They plan the theme, which is Friday Night Lights this year, and decide where the dance will be held. They also decide what decorations they will use and how to decorate. The seniors will be setting up decorations on the day of the dance.
Abigail Kreidler is a student at Oil City High School and a member of the school’s Oiler News staff.
