![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)
News Brief: “Standing with our Neighbors: United Against Hate” event to be held at Islamic Center of Boston
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Above is the Islamic Center of Boston, located in Wayland. The mosque recently received a photocopied hate letter invoking President-elect Donald Trump. Several other mosques around the nation have received the same letter.
Pictured above is a poster detailing the “Standing with Our Neighbors: United Against Hate” event that will take place this Sunday.
On Sunday, Nov. 11, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., a march will take place at the Islamic Center of Boston (ICB) in Wayland.
According to an email sent by Principal Allyson Mizoguchi to all faculty at WHS, the march is in response to a “hateful note” received by the ICB last week.
ICB president Malik Khan wrote in an email to the Metrowest Daily News that the note the ICB received addresses the worshipers at the mosque as the “children of Satan” and that it included the sentence, “There’s a new sheriff in town — President Donald Trump.”
The event is sponsored by the Islamic Center of Boston, the Wayland Clergy Association, the Wayland Diversity Network, Baha’i’s of Wayland, Transition Wayland, Showing Up for Racial Justice Metrowest and other organizations.
Those interested in attending the event are advised by the ICB to meet at the Wayland Town Center and then carpool to Temple Shir Tikva to park for the event. The ICB is located at 126 Boston Post Road, Wayland, MA, 01778.
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Nathan Zhao, class of 2019, is a co-editor-in-chief of WSPN. This is his fourth year on staff. Previously to becoming EIC, Nathan served as the news section...