Nathaniel Hernandez, 14, squeezes under the limbo stick during Aloha Day at Auburn Middle School on Friday. Students and faculty dressed in Hawaiian fashion, competed in a hula contest, ate Hawaiian pizza and ducked under the limbo stick to help cure the wintertime blues. Guidance counselor Martha Stone created Aloha Day six years ago after faculty had “had it with winter.” Proceeds raised by selling Hawaiian leis and hibiscus hair clips fund the day’s activities. Eighth-grader Richard Grondin, hand at left, and music and drama teacher Liz Rollins hold the stick. Education technician and track coach Claudette Shales, back left, and guidance counselor Katrina Loef are in the background.