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Westonka Participates in Memorial Day Services
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May 30, 2023 — Westonka students took time to honor and remember our nation’s fallen soldiers, by participating in the community Memorial Day service at the Gillespie Center on May 29. The MWHS band performed several patriotic numbers, uniformed students from the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were on hand, and student readers shared essays they had written.
Several Grandview sixth grade students from Joey Martin and Bailey Fowler’s language arts classes were chosen to read their essays on “What the American Flag Means to Me” at the ceremony. Essays were chosen based on quality, content, experiences shared, and their efforts towards describing the meaning of the flag to them.
Winning essays in Martin’s class were written by Genevieve Fosler, Brady Miller, Maddie Schley, Gretta Bode, Connor Christenson, Lisell Sheridan, Winston Sovari, Avery Eaton, Noel Bray, and Tristan Mullett. Fowler’s winning essay writers included Gianna Gardner, Reinhardt Rieger, Jamesyn-Lynn Herr, Wyatt Pfau, Harriett Petitt, Lizzie Bacon, Amelia Fritz, Preston Carver, Grace Houghton, and Sam Zattler.
Pep and jazz band director Lauren Husting conducted the MWHS band, who performed patriotic music. Two of the band’s trumpet players, junior Joseph Wolf and sophomore Kristopher Nelson, also joined the Mound American Legion by playing taps at several remembrance ceremonies at local cemeteries, which followed the Gillespie Center event.