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Mustang 12.21.2012
Random Dancing
Prop AA Passed
A dance party errupted after the Encinitas Holiday Parade.
Over a month after the election, the school construction bond gained the necessary 55 percent majority.
As the Holiday Parade wound down and families walked with their blankets and hot chocolate towards their cars, a throbbing beat caught their attention. This year’s Holiday Parade took an unusual turn when a spontaneous dance party broke out in front of Charlie’s Foreign Car in downtown Encinitas. The Encinitas Rotary Club held an event before and after the Dec. 1 parade to showcase their work, and as the parade ended and the music got louder, dancing came about organically, said rotary member and manager of Charlie’s Foreign Car Niko Sougias. Christmas songs provided the back drop for the Rotary Club’s event, but when DJ Guy Williams of G-Dog Productions changed the music to well-known pop songs like Psy’s “Gangnam Style” and Usher’s “Yeah!” about Senior Marisa Pearce gets ready to join the crowd of dancers outside of Charlie’s Foreign 100 people flocked to the event. Car. Photo courtesy of Sadie Olson. Williams said this was the best event he had ever done because of the diversity of the dancing crowd. “It was people from every walk of life. We had little kids with their parents and teenagers together,” said Williams. The dance party lasted about an hour, providing fodder for many embarrassing Youtube videos and Facebook posts as iPhones were pulled out by a large portion of the bystanders. Visit sdamustang.com to see videos of the spontaneous dance party. -laurel sorenson
After weeks of counting absentee ballots, prop AA, the school construction bond, passed by a margin of .52 percent, about 409 out of 78,574 votes. The election was so close that immediately after the election it seemed as if it would not get the 55 percent needed to pass. The bond allocates $449 million to the San Dieguito Union High School District and will bring a series of campus improvements to SDA immediately following graduation The bond will spur several new infrastructure improvement projects. These will take about six years and will begin with the construction of a new track, field and stadium. This portion of the bond program is expected to be completed by late September of 2013 in time for fall sports. “It’ll be a synthetic field… a lot like [the fields at] LCC and Torrey,” said Tim Hornig, principal. Until the field at SDA is finished, a new field will be used at Oak Crest Middle School. This will be renovated and finished by mid-August, in time for certain fall sports. “[This will be used] for teams like field hockey… juniors this year should only see the construction of a stadium this summer,” said Hornig. Next, will be the construction and renovation of science and math buildings in the 120’s, 100’s and 90’s area. According to Hornig, sophomores should expect to see the start of these changes in about 2015. One of the final steps in construction will be the construction of the English buildings, not expected to be completed for several years. “Freshmen should see the… start of the English buildings… Incoming freshmen should really expect to see construction for all four years [of high school],” said Hornig. - taylor knudson