Filling Orono with lots of love

Filling Orono with lots of love

Ellie Fasbender

Editor in Chief

Valentines day, love it or hate it, every year on Feb. 14 you will see red, pink, and purple hearts, chocolate everywhere, and little cupids flying all over. Valentine’s day is meant to symbolize a person’s love for either their significant other, or even a friend.

Movies, card shops, and candy stores advertise this holiday just as heavily, if not more, than Christmas. Almost immediately after seeing reindeer and santas everywhere it flips the switch to Valentines Day. Candy is repackaged with hearts in red, purple, and pink wrappers that fill the aisles.

According to abcNEWS the holiday is expected to bring in about 18.2 billion dollars in sales. That would mean that each person spends around $136.57.

It’s become a tradition for the Orono Newspaper staff to create a video on some of Orono’s couples. This year the couples chosen to be in the video were Chad Mrachek and Kendall Mauer, Natalie Brockman and Nick Byrnes, Daniel Walker and Anne Marie Ross, Mckenna Crandall and Holden Scharf, Reece Clifford and Ella Klaers, Grace Berbig and Griffin Mohs, Darby Sween and Nick Messerli-Mohs, and finally, Josie Peterson and Jack Patterson.

The couples were asked a series of questions and a few tricky tests. The videos were the perfect combination of adorable and hilarious. In the video the viewer has the opportunity to get to know couples from all different grades. Each couple has been dating for a different amount of time and that really contributes to the hilarity of the video.

“It was fun to see how much Reece actually knew about me”. Sophomore Ella Klaers said.

According to abcNEWS 54 percent of Americans are expected to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Of that 54 percent 20 percent purchase jewelry presents (one of valentines most common gifts). The estimated jewelry sales come to 4.3 million dollars every year.

“I thought it was really funny to she what she didn’t like” senior Chad Mrachek said.