As you may have noticed, the

pep-fest on Friday, April 15th did

not have anything to do with

athletic related activities as every

other pep-fest in the history of

Cannon Falls High School has.

Amy Dombek, head of the

student council, came up with

the idea for a new type of pepfest

during a conference meeting

with other teachers. She thought

that there were extremely talented

students that were not being

recognized and should be. The

other teachers agreed and this

prompted the student council

to plan the event. Dombek mentioned

two students, Elizabeth

Piene and Michelle McCoy as

doing a lot towards the planning

of the art-fest.

McCoy states, “Our goal [with

the art-fest] was to recognize

other groups that aren’t sports.”

This goal was received positively

by the teachers and faculty whocommented that the students

cooperated and were well behaved.

Kayla Nygaard seems to sum

up the opinion of most the

students by saying, “It was awesome!”

But there have been differing

responses by some, such as Cynthia

Thornburn, who comments,

“It was nice to acknowledge the

students involved in non-athletic

activities, but it could have been

better if all the spring activities

were incorporated into one

pep-fest so that no one group is

singled out.”

Even so Dombek is definitely

going to continue the art-fest

next year and is even thinking

of changing it into some sort of

“variety show” with more things

such as skits from the spring

musical. All in all the new art-fest

was considered a success and

will hopefully be continued for

many years to come.