by Logan Meriwether, Student Reporter
With Homecoming just around the corner at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, school officials are urging students and alums to purchase Homecoming buttons.
Homecoming buttons cost $10 each. They serve as admission tickets to the Miss Cinderella pageant, Talent Night, and the Homecoming football game. Some Alva merchants will offer discounts to customers wearing buttons during Homecoming week.
Each Homecoming button comes with a number, which is entered into a drawing for $500 worth of Alva “Chamber Bucks.” The drawing will be held at halftime during the football game.
Funds from the sale of the ceremonial buttons pay for “the Miss Cinderella Pageant for high school senior females, the Homecoming parade, band and parade float competitions, Ranger Royalty, and more,” according to a statment on the NWOSU website.
The theme of this year’s Homecoming is “Paint The Town Red.”
To purchase buttons, contact Karen Koehn, chairperson of sales, at (580) 327-7273; the Alva Chamber of Commerce office, located at 502 Oklahoma Blvd., at (580) 327-1647; the Northwestern Foundation office, located in the Student Center, at (580) 327-8593; or the Northwestern business office, located in Herod Hall, at (580) 327-8536.
Homecoming will be held Oct. 24 – 26.