![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)
On April 17, WHS students participated in the Day of Silence, a day dedicated to supporting those who have been bullied about their sexual orientation and gender identity.
People could choose to participate by remaining silent all day or by wearing badges to show their support.
“I chose to speak because I don’t ever want to be silenced, and even though I think it’s important to bring attention to it, I think there are a lot of different ways,” the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) advisor Naomi Rosenthal said.
30 students and one teacher officially signed up to remain silent for the whole day. Throughout the day, however, more joined in and showed their support by wearing one of the badges available in the Commons.
“There was so much interest and a lot of participation. Teachers were super enthusiastic,” Rosenthal said. “I think that even if you didn’t choose to be silent, the feeling in the building was that this was an important day.”
@FullMEquality • May 1, 2015 at 9:47 AM
Good for them. GSAs are very important, and I hope every school will have a GSA and every GSA will be inclusive, accepting all whose gender identity, sexual orientation, relationship orientation, or existing relationship (or that of their parents) makes them a target for discrimination or bullying. Think polyamory, for example.