{"id":308122,"date":"2026-10-16T18:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308122\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:23:35","slug":"parkland-names-mckensie-ashner-adrian-lee-2026-queen-n-king-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308122\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkland names McKensie Ashner, Adrian Lee 2026 queen \u2018n\u2019 king \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published October 16. 2026 09:52AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Hundreds of Parkland High School students attended the annual Homecoming Dance on the evening of Oct. 10 in the school cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Candidates for queen included McKensie Ashner, Kelly Bates, Jordana Chung, Camryn Fry and Sarai Wellington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">King candidates included Finn Coen, Quinn Conway, Alex Hurwitz, Tristan Lawrence and Adrian Lee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">By popular demand, McKenzie Ashner was chosen as queen and Adrian Lee was crowned as king.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Groups of friends dined and danced throughout the evening.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY LOU WHEELANDRIGHT: Homecoming King Adrian Lee and Queen McKensie Ashner pose for a photo.<\/p>\n<p>ABOVE: The Parkland High School Homecoming Court includes Quinn Conway, Kelly Bates, Finn Coen, McKensie Ashner, Alex Hurwitz, Jordana Chung, Sarai Wellington, Adrian Lee, Camryn Fry and Tristan Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>Queen McKensie Ashner adjusts her crown during the Parkland High School homecoming dance.<\/p>\n<p>Adrain Lee shows a great amount of joy in being chosen Homecoming King.<\/p>\n<p>Buds Henry Morse, Danna Hartnett and Kaden Nichol are ready to enjoy the Parkland High School homecoming dance.<\/p>\n<p>Friends Safiyyah Hasher, Mackenzie Easler, Kaitlyn Derrick, Cora Droskinis, Emily Oblas and Sophia Tsarouhis are ready for a good time at the Parkland High School homecoming dance.<\/p>\n<p>Warren-Banks Wells and Jayla Adorno pose together.<\/p>\n<p>Parkland High School juniors Riley McDonald and Lucia DeFracisco smile for the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Parkland High School seniors Sadie Hausman and Cayden Roth smile together for the homecoming dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 16. 2026 09:52AM Hundreds of Parkland High School students attended the annual Homecoming Dance on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-308122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}