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Winter Faire helps publicize clubs

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Bubble tea, chow mein, pork buns, oreos, doughnuts. Lots of doughnuts. Strolling through the breezeway Thursday during lunch, music was blasting as clubs sold food and got new sign ups at Winter Faire.

2015-01-29 12.57.31Sophomores Gracie Petty and Kelsey So organized the event, which was postponed from its original date of Dec. 17. The week was too busy for ASB, so they decided to postpone it so it could be planned better and not be rushed, Petty said.

“I don’t really know why it’s called Winter Faire because everyone usually refers to it as Club Day, but we want to make it more of a broad thing for the school and a Winter Faire sounds more inviting than just a Club Day,” Petty said.

The goal was to make it more inviting for the students to take a look at the 21 clubs, Petty said.

“We tried to make it so it was more lively so we added the DJ and we allowed people to bring whatever food they wanted, except homemade, just to make sure that the whole school got involved,” Petty said. “It’s more for the school rather than just the individual clubs.”

Freshman Eva Hunter said said that since she is a freshman, she only knew that there would be clubs.

“All I knew was that it was a second Club Day and that was it,” Hunter said. “I thought it was really cool and people seemed really into it.”2015-01-29 12.55.20

Senior Gates Zeng, president of Piedmont Community Service Crew, thought the notice to join was a little late and did not have time to line up food to sell. Instead of making money for his club, he used it like the last Club Day and was able to get a page and a half of sign ups.

“[ASB] sent out an email Monday and they told us that it was this Thursday,” Zeng said. “If I heard about it earlier I would have been able to line up food donations so that I could sell items and make money for my club.”

Despite a short delay in the delivery of her bubble tea, president of Bubble Tea Club, sophomore Alisha Lewis sold out and gathered 30 new members for her club. The club now has about 160 members, Lewis said.

2015-01-29 12.59.24We ended up getting [the bubble teas], we sold them all which was really good and it was a really cool thing because I saw all of my friends coming and they’d bring their friends,” Lewis said.

The bubble teas were being sold for three tickets each, but some people were trying to bargain for a lower price, Lewis said. Someone even offered to breakdance.

Bubble Tea Club, which is new this year, has more than exceeded the 10 members Lewis thought she would have.

“I started Bubble Tea Club out of a liking for bubble tea. It’s a big thing in Piedmont,” Lewis said. “I thought it would be a good way to bring people together.”

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