![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)
Dear Readers,
This letter comes to you as we students are finishing our first full week of school. All 5 days of education. We haven’t had time to learn much yet, but one thing has become abundantly clear to me: it’s going to be hard to fall asleep in morning classes.
Last week I wrote to you telling the tale of business as usual. That’s still true, but this week we were introduced to a new learning experience in school. In my psych class Monday morning, all of the coffee cups on the tables began to shake. The liquid inside sloshed around, my standard issue blue plastic chair became an expensive massage seat, and the entire building began to vibrate.
No, there were no official earthquakes in Wayland this week, only small ones with their epicenter at 264 Old Connecticut Path. Flattening the rolling hills that used to be next to the media center, language, and history buildings, construction crews provided a complimentary wake-up call to us bleary-eyed seniors in 8 a.m. psych.
However, construction has yet to interrupt any important events on campus. It was a little tight, but parking for the first two home football games was a wild success! A big thank you to student council and the main office for all their work behind the scenes to keep event parking and other activities running smoothly.
On Thursday, the entire student body congregated in the main courtyard for the mad dash that is Club Fair. The annual Club Fair (infamously known as the “Candy Fair”) is an event where WHS’s numerous clubs show off their events, activities, and member benefits (candy and the promise of food at club meetings). We’ve put together our annual gallery showcasing the clubs, as well as the friends roaming around signing up for them.
That’s all for this week! Coming up next week is Senior Parents Night (Wednesday) and Underclassman photos (Friday).
Have a good weekend,
Dave Ryan, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Wayland Student Press Network