![The Wayland Police Department have issued a warning on the rise of scammers during the holiday season. “Hang up [the phone]. if you get a text and you do not know who it's from, just delete it. Don't click on any links, nothing,” Wayland police chief Edward Burman said. “Every single one of them is a scam.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/img_0954_720-e1734676255647.jpg)
![WHS’s Connect Program ran its annual holiday gift drive to fulfill the wishlist of children enrolled in the Dorchester based non-profit daycare organization, the Yawkey Center. This drive brought the town together and impacted both the students in Connect, as well as the greater Wayland community. “You could see how helpful the town was and how our community came together and wanted to help out a community that wasn't our own [and] kids who were less fortunate than we were,” senior and Connect Program member Jordynn Lee said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/screenshot_2024-12-20_at_12.21.24___pm_720-e1734734228474.png)
![The Boy Scouts will be selling trees on Fridays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays noon to 6 p.m. until they sell out.
“This event is one of the things that [the Boy Scouts] get to have a direct impact on the community,” freshman Alex Macleod said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-8.38.38 AM.png)
In the ninth edition of WSPN goes clubbing, WSPN’s Annika Martins and Jenny Shine interview Open Mic club leader Kanmani Sekhar.
What is Open Mic Club?
“[Open Mic] is a club where people can get together and create their own pieces of writing,” Sekhar said. “On the weekends or anytime there are open mics in the area, we go together and perform.”
How did this club begin?
“I was looking into spoken word poetry before, and then I just thought, ‘Why not do it with other people like my friends?’” Sekhar said. “And then I was like, ‘Why not just make it a [school] club?’”
Why should someone join the club?
“[Join the club] if you like creative writing, want to work on public speaking or you fit into any of those two categories,” Sekhar said.
What are meetings like and how often are they?
“I haven’t had any [meetings] yet, but hopefully [meetings] will be really casual,” Sekhar said. “We will be bouncing off ideas and free writing.”
What is one goal that you have for the club this year?
“Our goal is [to have] at least more than 10 outings and try to do as many as possible,” Sekhar said.
