Senior Project Benefits WCCRA

by Barbara Mastriania

FARWELL – Bucktail Area High School senior Alaina Tripp likes to dance. So it was only natural that she chose to sponsor a benefit Valentine dinner and dance for her senior project.

She plans to work toward a degree in elementary education in college with a minor in special education so it also came naturally to choose Western Clinton Recreation Center as the recipient of the $1,128 she raised from the dinner dance.

Tripp, who is the current Miss Bucktail, is thrilled that about 100 people turned out for the dance, one of the snowiest Valentine’s eve in years. Some of the people who attended traveled through blizzard and whiteout conditions from Lock Haven and elsewhere to get to the Sons of Italy for the dance.

“I’m extremely grateful to everyone who attended,” she said recently as she presented a check for $1,128 to recreation center administrator De Anna Poorman this week. “We’re grateful to the really hard work Alaina put into the event and for choosing us as the recipient. Alaina is helping make our community better.”

The money Tripp raised will go toward the recreation center’s current expansion project for the construction of a new weight room.

She is a member of the National Honor Society and the environmental and interactive clubs, the student council and the year book committee at Bucktail. She’s played basketball four years and tennis for three years and as Miss Bucktail represented BHS in the Flaming Foliage Festival parade and activities.

She’s looking forward to college but says it will be sad to leave her high school friends and teachers.

She is a daughter of Barry and Peggy Tripp of North Bend. She has an older siser, Adrienne and brother, Derek.