Luke Pelloni of the Meeker Fire Department pumps accelerant onto the Meeker High School Homecoming bonfire at the Rio Blanco County Fairgrounds. The fire sparked a great Homecoming in which the MHS football team won 52-0 over Grand Valley. For more Homecoming photos, see below.
Homecoming royalty was introduced to the student body at Meeker High School during the dance on Saturday night in the school district administration building basement. From left to right are: second attendants Jason Pelloni and Madeline Amick; first attendants Austin Purcell and Andi Urista; and Homecoming Queen and King Paige Jones and Markus Archuleta.
Hundreds of local residents, parents and students line the sidewalk in front of the Rio Blanco County Courthouse for the 2014 Meeker High School Homecoming Parade. The high school royalty, athletes, cheerleaders and other parade entrants made their way, led by the VFW Color Guard and the MHS Marching Band, down Main Street, past the courthouse, then all gathered on the courthouse lawn for a big pep rally.
T.J. Shelton and Jenna Walsh were voted in as royalty for the Meeker High School Class of 2016. The two students are juniors and prominent figures in the MHS Junior Class.
Lowell and Ann Klinglesmith were chosen as the grand marshals for the Meeker Homecoming Parade on Friday. The Klinglesmiths were chosen for their tremendous support of Meeker High School.
It was mostly the underclassmen who worked as cheerleaders during the Homecoming Powderpuff football game Wednesday might. The cheerleaders were, left to right in top row: Josh Cochran, Austin Russell, Korey Hood and Caleb Bradford. Bottom row, left to right, are: Christian Gomez and and MHS varsity cheerleader Delenn Mobley.
Even the town’s businesses got into the mood for Meeker High School’s Homecoming last week as several business painted on their windows their best wishes for an MHS success at football on Friday. Above are the front windows of Bank of the San Juans, but there were several other businesses that joined in the window painting.
The senior girls, on the left in red, get set to center the ball during the Meeker High School Powderpuff football game on Wednesday night. The senior girls defeated the underclass girls’ team 18-0 on three touchdowns. None of the extra-point attempts were successful.
Meeker football player T.J. Shelton got in a strategic shot with the sledgehammer into the windshield of this car as part of the Homecoming Car Smash, just off the high school campus on Thursday. The car was painted with the name of the Grand Valley Cardinals, who the Cowboy football team thrashed Friday night by a 52-0 score.
Dancing was the order of the evening as students from all grade of Meeker High School did a good job of filling the dance floor at the Homecoming dance on Friday might in the Meeker School District’s administration building. Rock, country and a variety of music classifications were represented as refreshments were also served until the dance’s end at midnight.
Luke Pelloni of the Meeker Fire Department pumps accelerant onto the Meeker High School Homecoming bonfire at the Rio Blanco County Fairgrounds. The fire sparked a great Homecoming in which the MHS football team won 52-0 over Grand Valley. For more Homecoming photos, see below.
