![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)
As much as I love the food of fall, it seems wrong eating it at any other time. So even though I hate that the weather is getting colder, I can’t wait to spend the next two months indulging myself with apple and pumpkin based recipes.
This weekend, I made a simple pumpkin bread. A warm piece of it was the perfect way to end the long weekend and start fall.
Try out this http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pumpkin-Bread-367512 >recipe!
Last year I wrote a post about the organization Spread the Bread, and I feel that it’s worth bringing up again. After September 11, 2001, Wayland residents Juliette Fay and Karen Kiefer started the organization in order brighten other people’s days. They would bake loaves of bread, attach kind notes to them and give them to people who were suffering in some way or people who help out the community (police officers, firefighters, etc.).
Inspired by this I ended up doubling this pumpkin bread recipe and giving it to a teacher who has been going through a rough time. I don’t know why, but the reaction you receive when you give something is unbelievable. Even if someone isn’t going through a hard time, I strongly suggest randomly giving someone baked goods. It’s extremely rewarding.
