SYRACUSE — Once again, all 400 tickets for Lakeland Youth Center’s annual Daddy Daughter Dance sold out quickly. Dads and their daughters enjoyed an evening of dancing at the Oakwood Resort Event Center Saturday, March 12. Organizers stopped counting when the waiting list for tickets went over 27.

Before the dance approximately 79 girls, who had signed up beforehand, met at Lakeland Youth Center to have their hair and nails done compliments of students in the cosmetology department at Fairfield Junior/Senior High School.

Girls danced with their dads or their granddads. There was a craft table where the girls decorated stars with their names on them with glue and glitter. A local photographer took each families photo to be made into a commemorative magnet. There was even an ice cream sundae bar.

At one point, with Miami Sound Machine’s “Conga (Let’s do the) all the girls were dancing the Conga around the dance floor while their dads took photos. There was also a limbo contest as well.

Tracy Sumpter, Lakeland Youth Center, said this year she made the centerpieces for the tables out of gumballs, Twizzlers and red hots because at past dances, the girls have taken the centerpieces home with them.