![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)
Sadly, Thursday of last week (May 1, 2008) the Indian Exchange students left Wayland high school to go to Orlando and then back to India. All the Indian exchange students lived with students from Wayland High School and they all went to different classes and electives at school, they pretty much became students of Wayland High School.
But before they left for good, they went out with a little surprise performance the day before they left. They opened with a song from India, then the girls performed a native dance of India. Then George Varkey Mammen and Elvin Jacobs (2 of the Indian Exchange students) sang a duet. George Varkey Mammen then performed a solo piece of the song Here Without You, by 3 Doors Down.
Overall it was an amazing performance, and we all will truly miss the Indian Exchange students. The hosts of the Indian exchange students will miss them terribly, and they can’t wait to see them in the summer.
Although they’re gone, we hope we gave them fond memories of Wayland High School to take back to India. If you have any questions about the next Indian exchange program, please go ask Mr. Rockerman or any students who have previously been on a trip.
