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Jaguar Pride Turning Campus, City Blue in Time for EIU Homecoming End of the week
Jaguar Pride Turning Campus, City Blue in Time for EIU Homecoming End of the week
Puma Pride is on the rise in Charleston as the community plans itself for Eastern Illinois University’s Homecoming 2014 exercises.
“Bright Lights, Blue City:
Homecoming 2014” occasions are taking put this week, coming full circle with the conventional parade, football amusement and other prevalent occasions on Saturday, Oct. 25.
This year’s Homecoming committee arranged various topical occasions and exercises outlined to exhibit EIU Puma Pride all through campus and the city of Charleston. A few Charleston-area businesses arrange to highlight window shows, garden signs and marquees showing their EIU pride and soul.
Community inhabitants are welcome to go to numerous Homecoming occasions, both on and off campus. The foremost prevalent of those will happen on Saturday.
Early risers can plan for a full day of action with a warm supper, affability of the Charleston Rotating Club. Serving for the 15th yearly all-you-can-eat hotcake breakfast will take put from 6:
30 to 10 a.m. within the stopping part of Dirty’s Bar & Flame broil, found at the southeast corner of Seventh Road and Lincoln Road. The cost is $6 for grown-ups and $3 for children beneath 10, with all continues from the occasion getting to different neighborhood charities.
With their appetites taken care of, diners can either burn off those calories or simply support those who are by attending the 15th annual EIU/Charleston Homecoming 2.5k (1.5-mile) Race/Walk at 9 a.m. Participants will begin at the corner of Seventh Street and Lincoln Avenue, make their way north on Seventh Street to the Charleston Square, then return to EIU’s Old Main via Sixth Street.
An entry fee of $10 will be collected from each participant, while awards are designated for the top male and female finisher in each of three categories: run, walk and wheelchair.
The EIU Homecoming Parade is an annual tradition consisting of campus/community entries – floats, bands and decorated cars, to name just a few. Participants will line up near on the east side of Old Main and, beginning at 9:30 a.m., march northward up Seventh Street to Monroe Avenue, west on Monroe to Sixth Street, then head south to Polk Avenue where they will again turn west. Upon reaching Division Street, they will turn south, cross Lincoln Avenue and head for Grant Avenue (a.k.a. Panther Way), winding up at the tailgate area at O’Brien Stadium.
The annual Homecoming football game, in which the EIU Panthers will host Tennessee State, begins at 1:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased the day of the game at O’Brien Stadium, or in advance online, in person at the EIU Ticket Office (Lantz 2530; open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday), or by calling 217-581-2106.
Football fans are invited to arrive early to show their Panther Pride at this year’s Billy’s Backyard Tailgate event, featuring food, inflatable games and live entertainment.
The public is also invited to attend other Homecoming activities, including the “Light It Up Blue” Pep Rally, with
