Decatur High students enjoy enchanted night

Photo by Mike Eckels When the music started, a few student began the line dance, the “Macarena,” during the 2016 Decatur High School prom held this year at the Horton Farms near Decatur April 15.
Photo by Mike Eckels When the music started, a few student began the line dance, the “Macarena,” during the 2016 Decatur High School prom held this year at the Horton Farms near Decatur April 15.

DECATUR -- Deep in the countryside west of Decatur, a gathering place unlike any other in the area stands proudly among the trees and hills of northwest Arkansas. It is a retreat for business conferences, a chapel for weddings and a building large enough to hold barn dances of every kind. The Horton Farms complex, about 10 miles east of Decatur on Bethlehem Road, was the site of the April 15 Decatur High School prom-night festivities.

Students began arriving around 7 p.m. for a night of food, music and fellowship. Dressed in contemporary black tuxedos to suits of blue and gold (Bulldog colors), the men escorted their dates, dressed in long gowns of all colors, into the great hall.

The dance was a little empty at first, with only Jafett Puga and his date taking the floor. That changed when Alex Morrow, one of the Decatur High cheerleaders, took to the floor. Once the ice was broken, everybody got into the act and the dance floor was never empty again.

Triston Stuthers was crowned prom king. Fortunately for Stuthers, his court would consist of not one but two prom queens, Lidia Soto and Lizeth Fuentes.

When it was about 11 p.m., with the magic of the night almost over, couples began to leave the great hall, some bound for home, others out to grab a late-night snack or head off to an after-prom party held at the Decatur Assembly of God church in Decatur. About 20 Decatur High School students attended the lock-in prom party.

General News on 04/20/2016