The annual senior parking lot painting event concluded Oct. 21. The event, which had been postponed because of weather, is a fundraiser for the senior class and allows students to personalize their own parking space. There is a make-up day Nov. 4th from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. for painting a parking spot for seniors who have bought a spot.

“It’s a rite of passage for seniors, something they look forward to throughout their time at West Shore,” senior class sponsor Kimberly Walling Walling said.

The price for buying the parking spot was $20, but there was a separate payment if the students were painting.

“It’s $40 to paint a spot, and they come out with their friends,” Walling said. “[The] designs are pre-approved, and they have a good time together.”

The parking lot, which is known as the “Senior Parking Lot,” is not only limited to seniors. While seniors have priority when they go to buy their spot on registration day, if there are still spots left over, the juniors have the ability to buy them. Senior class historian Iona Peters said that while it might be fair, the school should wait to sell some of the spots.

“I kind of feel like it is first come, first served,” Peters said. “I feel like they should give it a week or two for seniors.”

Peters, who has a parking spot in the lot, was there on Saturday and painted her own parking spot.

“I painted something that said, ‘Reserved for a silly goose’ and then drew a silly goose on my parking spot,” Peters said.

The students are also expected to have their own supplies.

“None of the supplies are included,” Walling said. “They bring everything to school, and they take it back home with them. Students [are] encouraged to talk to their friends to share some of the costs, for example, the paint [cost].”

By Genevieve Giguere