![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)
Wayland graduates Justin Lerner and Evan Sneider’s paths have crossed in a big way since graduation. Lerner -an aspiring film director – wrote and directed his first full-length feature film Girlfriend in Wayland. Evan Sneider also starred, playing a young man with Down Syndrome pursuing an old high school crush whose run into some hard times. WSPN caught up with the Wayland grads for an interview on their experiences working on the film.
Girlfriend hits select theaters in spring 2011.
EAB • Dec 5, 2010 at 10:58 AM
This is such a great story! I am so happy for Justin and Evan and for all who were involved in the film. Although I don't know either one of them, it's great to hear good things happening to local boys. You've mad Wayland proud!
NOTGIFFORDDELLE • Dec 2, 2010 at 8:36 PM
DAMPLO REFERENCE ! ! ! ! ! ! !
outsider • Dec 2, 2010 at 11:55 AM
This is just really cool. Well-done video, hope to see the film when it comes out!
wspnfan • Dec 1, 2010 at 5:34 PM
Great interviews! Nice job getting the local angle on what will undoubtedly be an important film. Love the shoutouts to the WHS teachers, too! 🙂
redbear#1 • Nov 29, 2010 at 3:17 PM
Great interview and awesome story. Can't wait to see the movie. Stuff like this is what makes WSPN great!