![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 WSPN’s podcast Friday Fast Five, reporters will interview staff and students around Wayland High School and ask them five quick questions. This week, WSPN’s Jane Tardif and Jillian Mele talk to former WHS student and current teacher Joel Mode about his teaching experience and other interesting facts.
0:00 – Intro
0:21 – What is your name, position and how long have you been at Wayland High School?
0:35 – What made you want to become a teacher? Have you always been a teacher and why did you choose Wayland?
1:05 – What is your favorite part about Wayland?
1:19 – What would you say the biggest difference is between when you went to high school here and now? Do you enjoy teaching at the place you went to school?
2:22 – What is it like being a wrestling coach at Lincoln Sudbury and a teacher at Wayland?
2:47 – Is it difficult to balance that?
2:58 – Outro
