![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 2007, this apocalyptic theory went viral on the internet, resulting in an eruption of various doomsday arguments and scenarios appearing in the media, particularly on social media websites.
The 2009 movie, “2012” depicts the end of the world with catastrophic geological events such as the eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera. This film brought even more publicity to the controversy surrounding December 21, 2012.
Those who believe that the world will end on December 21, 2012 have many theories about how it will happen. These potential disasters include solar flares, black holes, asteroids, collisions with another planet and a zombie attacks, to name just a few.
Over time there have been countless other apocalypse predictions. The last predicted apocalypse date that was highly publicized was at the turn of the new millenium, on January 1, 2000.
Do you believe the world will end on December 21, 2012?
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