This coming week will be a hectic one for most of the student body, but especially for Student Council members and StuCo adviser Allison Stamey. Numerous events take place throughout the week, however, it takes months to prepare the perfect homecoming.

The week consists of spirit days, decorating contests, pep rallies, the parade, the game, a volleyball tournament and dance. To celebrate the school’s diversity, the theme this year is “We are the World.”

One of the biggest events next week is the parade on Thursday. There is a lot of ‘behind the scenes’ work that has to be done for it including typing up a parade list, and getting convertibles, drivers and twenty parade workers.

“We have representatives [from] all around the world in our figure pattern,” Stamey said. “Schools and groups can choose any place in the world they want to represent [in the parade].”

According to Stamey, the first 25 floats to start the parade are tradition. These include ROTC, Farmerettes, principals, homecoming court, cheerleaders and the grand marshal, superintendent and mayor. The grand marshal this year is Kris Gutierrez who is a former alumnus from LHS and is now a news anchor for NBC 5 News.

“He graduated from here in 1995…he was a soccer player here, very active,” Stamey said. “He was a top anchor in Chicago. He’s back home now, so he’s happy about that. His mother and dad still live in Lewisville and he comes and helps us with a lot of stuff.”

The three campuses came together to decide on spirit days. They had to base the days on what would incorporate the theme as well as what people would actually participate in.

“We met with anyone that wanted to come at the end of the school year last year,” Stamey said. “We put announcements out to Harmon and Killough and our kids, and we had meetings. It was mostly officers, committee chairs and people that were active in the student councils over there. And then we had them text and tweet out people. We tried to do it where it would kinda match the whole ‘world theme.’”

An event which takes not only an intensive amount of time to get ready but also a large amount of money is all fundraised by StuCo members.

“We aren’t given a budget, we aren’t given a penny from the district office,” Stamey said. “We fundraise for everything we do. What we’re hoping is that our homecoming dance makes enough money to provide us for the next year. We have to fundraise, and fundraise, and fundraise.”

On Saturday morning the volleyball team and StuCo are holding the second annual Volley for Jenna Volleyball Tournament. The tournament is in honor of Jenna Sigety, a senior who passed away a week before homecoming in 2007.

“She was a volleyball player, and a student council member so that’s why [StuCo and volleyball] teamed together to try to help raise money for her LEF Scholarship,” Stamey said. “The Sigety’s never miss a volleyball game here. Every time you go, the Sigety’s are still here supporting the Farmers even though they haven’t had a child here since 2008.”

To end the week, decorations will be finalized and the homecoming dance will take place on Saturday at 8 p.m.

“It is going to be a black light dance with neon decorations, so it’s going to be ‘Outta this world’ kinda theme,” Stamey said. “Then we are going to have bubble machines going with the neon glow in the dark bubbles. We will do the drop again.”

Feeder schools and members from the community will unite to make this week a memorable one.

“I love seeing Friday dress up…I love the parade…it’s one of the best things we do, I mean you’re talking six thousand people who swarm up,” Stamey said. “I love the community pep rally because people in the community never come to pep rallies, so when we do it there in front of city hall, it’s a different feel…it’s a different environment. And I love the dance because all four grades come together and have fun.”

While it’s a crazy, event-filled week for StuCo, students are looking forward to all of the festivities.

“We want everything to be perfect and we want to please the whole student body, so over four thousand students, and that’s kind of stressful,” senior StuCo president Kayla Conner said. “I’m looking forward [to it being] my last [homecoming] of high school. I’m excited for it. I’m really looking forward to the dance and getting to hang out with all my friends.”