On the Wednesday of Homecoming Week, the East Peoria Marching Band participated in the school’s Homecoming Parade. They marched from Bolin Elementary School to the high school, and were decked out in school spirit! They played “We’re Off to See the Wizard,” which lined up with the school’s theme of “There’s no place like homecoming!”

The class of 2026 freshmen chose to not perform a skit to save themselves the embarrassment and pain.

On Friday, September 30, the Raider football team faced off against the Washington Panthers in the homecoming football game. The student section was a sea of maroon and gold, with pom poms and rally towels aplenty. While the Raiders could not gain any traction in their 51-7 loss, the night still brought plenty of excitement to the crowd in attendance.

On Monday, September 26th, Lydia Eaker and Sebastian Sanchez were crowned King and Queen for Homecoming. The title of royalty was presented at the all-school assembly on Monday, and the attendants were featured in the Homecoming Parade and football game. Congratulations to our homecoming king and queen, Lydia and Sebastian!

The freshman 2022 homecoming attendants are Madi

Your 2022 sophomore homecoming attendants are Chaymen Sanchez and Mersadees Sassman! Mersadees is a varsity softball & basketball player! What Chaymen had to say on being an attendant this year “It felt amazing after finding out that me and my girlfriend got it together, it felt like a high school dream." Congratulations Chaymen & Mersadees!

The female Junior attendant nominees for homecoming court were Phoebe Johnson, Abby Lusch, and Ava Metternich. The male nominees were Jack Brooks, Troy Decker, and Brody Tinnon. The winners for this year’s Junior attendants were Ava Metternich and Jack Brooks.

This year's senior homecoming attendants, varsity football player Gabe Hackney and varsity cheerleader Alexa Woods, were voted on by their fellow classmates. Gabe and Alexa are so proud to represent the senior class this year. Congratulations seniors! You looked great!

Junior Hallway was located in C hall this year. They were given the dark forest theme and had to transform the hallway into a forest. They set the mood by using black paper to cover the sunlight coming in. This created a gloomy atmosphere each time you walked in. Vines were hung up all around the hallway. Some were even hung up on “trees” made from brown paper. This gave off the illusion that you were traversing through a dark forest, almost as if you were in the movie. Finally, there were many warnings about flying monkeys in the forest. These messages were seen near the beginning of each hallway entrance.

This year's homecoming routine was titled "We Ready" and the Raiderettes proved how ready they were to perform this dance. This hip hop dance was also part of their variety show routine, which also included

Everyone had a great time at the Pep Rally on the Friday before homecoming. Students got to play games such as musical chairs, guessing the following lyric of a song related to The Wizard of Oz, minute-to-win-it games, and more as well as learning about the winner of Homecoming week, which of course, was the seniors!

Insider on the Homecoming Parade from a Cheerleader and Varsity Golfer. The HOCO Parade is a night where all varsity athletes ride on float or firetrucks. We go through route throwing candy and waving at friends and family. Being able to be apart of the parade is a highlight of HOCO week!

Friday during homecoming week Mr Baxter hosted a homecoming cookout. Some activities going on were ping pong, football, and tons to eat. Students in their auto classes came together to bring food and drinks as well as games and other activities. Jack Dubois stated “I had tons of fun in my auto class smoking kids in ping pong.”

Objection, here say! Do you hate map testing? Apparently the juniors do. They decided they wanted to to do a court trial arguing if Mr. Yang if he was guilty of messing with map testing. Speaking of the trial, which he was ultimately found guilty. He also had some great improve skills during the skit. Which was a surprise for everyone.

The sophomore class’ hallway was filled with many bright colors to celebrate spirit week. The overall theme was Wizard of Oz; the sophomore theme more specifically being munchkin land. In the hallway you would be able to find bright colors hung on the lights, balloons, and paper puff balls. Stringers and candy made out of pool noodles were also added to their hall. Overall it was a great hallway and better luck next year on winning!

On September 26th, Justin Gale along with a group of Seniors found the Red Ruby Slipper. After using the clues efficiently it didn't take long for Justin Gale to find the slipper behind a trash bin inside one of the lockers in C hallway, giving the Seniors 50 more points! Go Seniors!

Magge Cowen and Maggie Kapusta hosted the variety show this year. They introduced acts with their witty jokes and at the end they even did the worm. Magge Cowen is the student council president and Maggie Kapusta is the vice president.