Student Union Building’s First Birthday Bash

Feb. 1, 2017 marked the first birthday of the Mel Lindbloom Student Union building.

The Green River College celebrated its very own Student Union building’s first birthday, hosted by the Student Life Office. The event had free admission, as long as students brought their ID cards.

There were bright rainbow balloons at the front entrance of the building, and happy students all around.

The Student Life Office provided free cake, goodie bags and other freebies for the students.

Seattle Balloon Decoration vendors made plenty of balloon creations for the students. Julez Lockridge, a GRC student, was very intrigued by the balloons and just had to get one for herself and her son.

Another student, Amethyst McKnight, decided to stop by the booth and get herself a flower shaped balloon.

The event also had face painters available to the students. Amy’s Artistic Expressions provided amazing face painting skills at the event. Lauren Stanton, a GRC student, decided to get a Spider-man design on the side of her face as a friend of hers (whom had already had her face painted) held her hair back.

Another student was getting a flower design painted on his face from the other face painter.

At another station, Pauline Elevazo and Lizbeth Perez-Valdez from the Student Life Office were handling out goodie bags to students in exchange for their self-portraits. Most students drew very artistic versions of themselves. An artist had agreed to use all of the portraits that were done at the event and make one big piece of art work for the college.

Many students at the event were overjoyed at the array of free activities. Including McKnight, who said she “loved all the options of cake, and the balloon animals were so cool.”