![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)
On Sunday, Oct. 27, the Connect Program along with the National Honors Society (NHS) and Students Against Destructive Discussions (SADD) hosted the annual Fall Festival. The event included games, festivities and a haunted house set up in the WHS field house. “The biggest difference this year compared to others is, we had the support of SADD who gave us the big bouncy house we had at the event,” senior Connect member Kai Drayton said. “We also had NHS members come and help out with activities, as well as a series of food trucks. The only issue which was annoying is some [kids] thought they were too cool to be scared.”
Credit: Melina Barris
From left to right, senior SADD leader Cate Ellenbogen, senior National Honors Society (NHS) secretary Tilly Myles and senior SADD leaders Venezia Sebastainelli and Jackie Rainville help out with the Connect haunted house.
