Chaney is scene for Quinceanera Ball

YOUNGSTOWN — The Quinceanera Ball could be the ultimate Youngstown experience.

Chaney High School, which has been undergoing its own renovation, was the scene Friday for a Quinceanera Ball.

The ball has its roots in the customs of the Aztec Indians circa 500 B.C., when girls, about age 15, left their homes to become wives and mothers.

The ceremony has been revived as a Latino event celebrating a young woman’s spirituality and purity and change from a youth to a woman.