MULLAN ­— It appears school pride is still alive and well in the small Silver Valley town of Mullan, Idaho.

Mullan High School (MHS) celebrated homecoming last week with several activities and events in accordance with volleyball and football games.

The festivities began on Monday with the students participating in a “plunger race,” in which students humorously attempted to move a person across the floor with only the suction power of a plunger.

Tuesday’s-after school activity had the Mullan football players trading their pads and pigskin for tights and a net when they attempted to beat the Lady Tigers at their own game in a powderpuff volleyball match.

Even with the help of a T-Rex, the boys couldn’t top the girls’ energy and fell two games to one.

At the halfway point of homecoming week, the MHS classes took each other on after school Wednesday in a tug-of-war contest that was eventually won by the seniors.

All of these events, though, were just the lead up to the Thursday and Friday fun.

Immediately following the volleyball game Thursday night between the Lady Tigers and Kootenai High School

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(see the Shoshone News-Press sports section for more information), students participated in a Mullan tradition and enjoyed a massive bonfire just outside of town.

There they held an egg toss competition and had fun supporting the MHS student body by paying to smash a car with some heavy objects.

Food and drinks at the bonfire were provided by the Mullan Trail Gas & Grocery and United Steel Workers Local 5114.

MHS homecoming week culminated on Friday when the students competed in a relay race while wearing “drunk goggles” before the football game against Kendrick High School (see sports section).

At halftime, MHS seniors Royal Barnes and Kayleen Gribble were crowned as the homecoming king and queen, respectively.

Don Kotchevar, Mullan High School principal, was please with how the week turned out.

“Homecoming went well, the kids were very involved,” he said.

In addition to the events, MHS was bursting with school spirit thanks to some hard work from the pep club.

Kotchevar said that, “the pep club did an outstanding job making signs for all of the athletes and decorating the school.”

Laura Fritz, MHS teacher, led the pep club in this decorating effort.

All-in-all, things went great for the students and staff in purple and white — despite the outcome of that week’s athletic events.

“Even though we didn’t win our homecoming games, we had a great time at school,” Kotchevar said.