North Fayette Valley is celebrating Homecoming Week, Monday-Friday, Sept. 18-22, with a Homecoming parade and community pep rally at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, on the courthouse square in West Union. The 2017 North Fayette Valley Homecoming Court includes (front, l-r) Gene Anne Berst, Marin Ehler, Marrah Burrack, Macy Halverson, and Claire Hanson; (back) Lukas Olson, Jordan Baumler, Wyatt Van Sickle, Jace Burrow, and Garrett Lauer. (Chris DeBack photo)
NFV celebrates unity during Homecoming Week
By Chris Deback
cdeback@thefayettecountyunion.com
North Fayette Valley fans, it’s time to break out your best TigerHawk gear and help the students at NFV finish celebrating Homecoming Week!
Homecoming Week is Monday, Sept. 18 through Friday, Sept. 22. Each day of the week the students at NFV are encouraged to participate in different dress-up days. Those included Millionaire Monday, on which students were to dress in their best attire, and Twin Tuesday, on which pairs of students were to dress the same.
The remainder of the dress-up days are as follows: What the Heck Are You Wearing Wednesday — students should dress in a wacky, but still appropriate outfits; Throwback Thursday — students should wear something from the past; and Spirit Day Friday — students should dress in school colors.
The theme for Homecoming this year is a simple one, “NFV Homecoming.” This will be the final school year that North Fayette and Valley are officially two separate districts.
“We want to celebrate our schools and communities as a united North Fayette Valley and show others what it means to be NFV,” said Jon Kullen, NFV Student Council advisor.
Thursday afternoon, North Fayette Valley students will be giving back to the communities they call home with service projects throughout the district. Students will also be working on Homecoming floats throughout the week.
The TigerHawks will host a massive Homecoming parade starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, on the courthouse square in West Union. It will be followed by a community pep rally, at which the Homecoming Court will be introduced.
On Friday, the North Fayette Valley cross country team will continue its annual tradition of taking turns running the game ball from the opposing team’s school to the high school, arriving just in time for the districtwide pep rally to begin. This year, the cross country team won’t have as far to run with the football team’s opponent, the Oelwein Huskies, located in southern Fayette County.
The TigerHawks will look to crush the Oelwein Huskies in the annual Homecoming football game, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m.
Every year North Fayette Valley students select a Homecoming Court. The court this year includes Gene Anne Berst, Marrah Burrack, Marin Ehler, Macy Halverson, Claire Hanson, Lukas Olson, Jordan Baumler, Wyatt Van Sickle, Jace Burrow, and Garrett Lauer.
