25 $1 8 Pages Thursday, May 21, 2020 & Bird City Times 136th Year, Number 21 Local schools plan late graduations By Ann Burr moved to June. On Saturday,
[email protected] June 27, at 10:30 a.m. Jayden, Local graduations will happen, Guienevere, Kaylynn, and Grace just not as normal. Things will be will take to the football field, and rather different for the graduates walk across the grandstand, while of Cheylin and Saint Francis. This guests sit below on the field to year there will be no stuffy gym, watch. surrounded by family, friends, and At Cheylin, graduates will beloved community members, have a set number of guests that walking the stage. they can invite and it will be an Graduating class Both Cheylin and St. Francis R.S.V.P. event, this will not be schools have delayed the gradua- open to all. So they are working tion ceremonies to later this sum- on family and friends and cross- mer. With social distancing mea- checking with each other to make puts on parade sures in place due to coronavirus, sure they don’t double up on the SENIORS OF 2020 put on a Senior Stroll Parade last week the graduation ceremonies have same guest. The graduates most to celebrate graduation. Pictured clockwise from above: had to be postponed. surely feel bad that all cannot at- Perla Yanez and Alondra Yanez rode their horses down The outdoor grandstands will tend, nor will there be a traditional Main Street; Jayce Nider and Seth Mills enjoyed the fresh be transformed into a stage in receiving line.