![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)
Senior musicians find a new way to perform during quarantine
The seniors of the WHS band gathered separately from their homes to play Sir Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” In doing so, they found a new way to make music together amidst the pandemic.
June 18, 2020
Although the class of 2020 will lack a traditional commencement ceremony for their graduation, they will not lack the traditional musical accompaniment. WHS Band Director Joseph Oneshuck, in collaboration with the graduating class of band members have put together a virtual rendition of Sir Edward Elger’s “Pomp and Circumstance,” a song that has become a hallmark of the classic American graduation ceremony.
Please enjoy “Pomp and Circumstance” performed by seniors Jake Simmons on bass clarinet; Josh Brient and Jaya Mills on clarinet; Aviva Pansovoy on flute; Cecelia Murphy on oboe; Mika Russo on percussion; Lilly Brooks, Alex Howard and Aidan Keenan on Trumpet; Mckenna Kelemanik on Tuba; and Oneschuk as conductor.
