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Guinness World Record

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Stevenson's Spirit Fest Aims to Break World Record, Support Charity

Saturday's event, which is open to the entire community, will benefit the Lauri S. Bauer Foundation for Sudden Loss.

School spirit and community spirit will merge Saturday for Stevenson High School’s annual Spirit Fest, a community that raises funds for a local charity.  A highlight of this year’s event will be an effort to break the world record for the most people salsa dancing while holding glow sticks. “Each person will have a green glow stick in one hand and a yellow one in another as they dance in a salsa line in the shape of an ‘S’ for Stevenson,” said Brett Erdmann, a Stevenson teacher who serves as community service coordinator and sponsor of the National Honor Society, which runs Spirit Fest. Dance students at the school have taught members of the National Honor Society (NHS) how to do the salsa. The NHS members — about 450 of them — will be on…

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