The East Atchison winter homecoming festivities will take place next week at Tarkio and Fairfax high schools. The week will end with the Wolves and Lady Wolves taking on Osborn/Stewartsville at the Tarkio Activity Center (TAC) on Friday, January 23. Games will begin at 6:00 p.m. and the crowning of the Fairfax and Tarkio homecoming kings and queens will take place following the games.

The CTA will be hosting a chili supper in the Tarkio Elementary Cafeteria beginning at 5:00 p.m. Friday, January 23. The Tarkio Elementary third graders will be performing their annual parachute routine at halftime of the girls’ varsity game that night at the TAC.

Homecoming festivities include:

TARKIO

Theme – “Cooking the Competition – Wolves Hungry for a Victory!”

Royalty – (king) Noah McCoy; (queen candidates) Bresayda Jimenez, Zoe Madron, Rainy Nordhausen, and Kennedy White; and (attendants) – juniors Bella Bywater and Gavin Mattice, sophomores Rhoni Caudill and Treyton Brown, and freshmen Teagan Taylor and Fisher Smelts

Dress-up Days – (Monday) No school; (Tuesday) White Lie (wear a white-t shirt with a lie markered on it); (Wednesday) Dress Like Your Favorite Teacher; (Thursday) Dress Like You Work At Your Class Restaurant; and (Friday) Wolves Spirit Day

Class Competitions – (Monday) No school; (Tuesday) Ships & Sailors; (Wednesday) Basketball Shootout Relay; (Thursday) Dodgeball; and (Friday) Pep Rally in the THS gym

Fairfax

Royalty – (king candidates) Austin Helfers and Joaquin Hill; (queen) Amelia Larson;  (attendants) – juniors Lexi Brown and Mason Kingery, sophomores Elsey Rogers and Knox Oswald, and freshmen Avery Fast and Riley Koop; and crownbearers – Liam Daugherty and Emma Schlup

Dress-up Days – (Monday) No school; (Tuesday) Adam Sandler Day; (Wednesday) Country vs. Country Club; (Thursday) Throwback Thursday (Vintage); and (Friday) Wolves Spirit Day

Class Competitions – (Monday) No school; (Tuesday) Ships & Sailors; (Wednesday) Knockout; (Thursday) Half Court; and (Friday) Dodgeball