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Marking their spots
Marking their spots
Class of 2025 seniors kick off the school year by individualizing their parking spaces
-------- Talan Collins / CR News
September 9, 2024
(CR News) - Over the weekend, students in the class of 2025 gathered at school to uphold a senior tradition: painting their parking spots in the senior lot. The event was hosted by the CR Senior Boosters, which had students pay $30 and bring their own painting materials to customize their own space. Profits from the event will help fund the annual Senior Graduation Party.
Stimmel believes that while the “Pay to Paint” event has a bittersweet impact on senior parents, the activity lets them have “just as much fun helping out [their students] with painting as [they] do.”
If you are a senior who missed this event and would like to paint your parking spot, you must first obtain a parking pass with an assigned space from the office, and then scan the QR code on the @crseniorboosters’ “Pay to Paint” Instagram post._____________________________________
(CR News) - Over the weekend, students in the class of 2025 gathered at school to uphold a senior tradition: painting their parking spots in the senior lot. The event was hosted by the CR Senior Boosters, which had students pay $30 and bring their own painting materials to customize their own space. Profits from the event will help fund the annual Senior Graduation Party.
CR Senior Boosters Chair and Parent Amanda Stimmel tells CR News that from her experience working with the program, the event allows students to express their “creativity and individuality,” as well as reveal their hidden interests and artistic talents. Stimmel adds that “adolescence and being a teenager is about growing as an individual and becoming independent,” and that the activity enables students to help each other “mark [their] spot[s]” and “build community and excitement” for the senior year.
Senior Lucas Fish explains that his parking spot’s design was inspired by his last name, leading him to create an ‘underwater’ theme, and Nickelodeon’s ‘SpongeBob SquarePants,’ a television show Fish grew up watching. Fish also found the event especially meaningful as “[he] got to watch [his] brother do it when he was a senior.”
Denise Johnson notes that “everyone gets to [customize] their own spot and kind of portray their personality through their own design.”
Stimmel expressed her gratitude toward a “great group” of parent volunteers who came in to paint bases over last year’s spots, citing the contributions of Bob’s Paint Land alongside Parkrose Hardware in lending a helping hand by providing discounts in addition to distributing extra paint for students to use.
Stimmel believes that while the “Pay to Paint” event has a bittersweet impact on senior parents, the activity lets them have “just as much fun helping out [their students] with painting as [they] do.”
If you are a senior who missed this event and would like to paint your parking spot, you must first obtain a parking pass with an assigned space from the office, and then scan the QR code on the @crseniorboosters’ “Pay to Paint” Instagram post._____________________________________
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