GILROY
– An option for making graduation night celebrations safe and
fun in Gilroy is now officially on the table.
GILROY – An option for making graduation night celebrations safe and fun in Gilroy is now officially on the table.
Tickets for Grad Night, an all-night lock-in party for graduating seniors at Gilroy High School, are now on sale. Tickets can be purchased for $50 each at lunchtime from 12:30 to 1 p.m. at Gilroy High School in room G3.
On the day of Grad Night, tickets will be $65 each.
“Sales have been a little slow, but it’s still early. We knew it would be a little slow the first week,” event co-chair Jody Yusim said. “We’ve planned for 250 kids. We’re hoping for at least 200.”
As of Wednesday, roughly 30 students purchased tickets for the affair which will include food, music and a variety of entertainment from casino-style gambling to a hypnotism show by Travis Fox.
Other entertainment organizers have confirmed include bungee basketball, human foosball and carnival-style games. Students will also get chances to win items such as VCRs and CD players as well as gift certificates to In-N-Out Burger, Wal-Mart and Old Navy.
“We are working on other prizes like items for their dorms, maybe a set of dishes or other things they’ll need next year at university,” Yusim said.
The event, which has a wild West theme, follows graduation ceremonies and takes place inside the GHS gym. Doors are open from 9 to 11 p.m. After 11 p.m., students cannot leave the gym until 5 the next morning unless a parent pulls them out.
Organizers are in the midst of a $40,000 fund-raising campaign to offset costs from the event. They have been asking businesses and individuals to help pay for the event for several weeks now. Yusim says the response has been “slow.”
“It’s been a tough year economically. We’re down this year in the fund raising the kids are doing, and we’re down this year with the fund raising from the community,” Yusim said.
While donations have come up short thus far, organizers remain hopeful the community will give its support.
The bulk of fund raising for this year’s Grad Night party will be done, organizers said, through a mail-in sponsorship campaign that kicked off last week. Past donors and Chamber of Commerce members were some of the roughly 600 Gilroyans who received mailers.
For more information, contact Jody Yusim at
848-2405.
