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JUNE 9, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVIII • NO 8
Unifying Students Through Fitness
A Tassel Is Worth The Hassle BY COURTNEY MENGEL
n Friday, June 11, approximately 250 students will graduate from Solanco High School (SHS). The commencement ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. at the Solanco football field, 585 Solanco Road, Quarryville. Recently, senior class officers Kayla McCauley, Anna Stickler, and Paige Balliet spoke to the Advertiser about their time at SHS. Advertiser: How has your senior year been going? Balliet: This year made me realize what I value. You never realize how much you miss something until you don’t have it. S t i c k l e r : It’s been tough. We couldn’t come together for events, and a lot of the seniors aren’t here because they’re online. I see probably three seniors a day. McCauley: Our senior year went a lot different than everyone expected, we missed out on a lot of things, but I think the school district has been good with keeping things as normal as they can be. Advertiser: Is there anything you want to tell the Class of 2021? Balliet and Stickler: We miss you! McCauley: I feel like we all have adapted well and made the most of the year. We have a bright future ahead of us because we all got through this together. A d v e r t i s e r : If you could give a message to yourself when you were younger, what would it be? Balliet: Don’t worry about what other people think of you, focus on having fun. Stickler: It all will go by fast, so take the time to enjoy everything. Go to the dances, football games, everything. McCauley: Expect plans to change and embrace that change because you’re obviously changing those plans for a reason. Advertiser: What will you miss most about high school?
BY COURTNEY MENGEL
“Whenever I come to Unified Fitness, I always have a smile on my face,” said Emma Kline, a Unified Fitness buddy and 10th-grade student at Solanco High School (SHS). “The heaviness of everything going on in life and in school just vanishes when we’re out here.” Unified Fitness is a new sixweek program at SHS that promotes inclusion among students through fitness activities. Before the program began, SHS students applied to serve as buddies for the Life Skills class, and SHS fitness and adapted physical education teacher Kacie Hershey grouped students into pairs. The program is similar to the Special Olympics in that each Life Skills student completes a heptathlon, which focuses on strength, endurance, and agility. The heptathlon provides the Unified Fitness participants with the See Unified Fitness pg 5
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Senior class officers Paige Balliet (left) and Anna Stickler will be among those who graduate from Solanco High School on June 11.
B a l l i e t : I’m going to miss the closeness of the community and knowing everyone in our classes. Stickler: I agree with Paige. I’m going to miss how close everyone is. McCauley: I will miss everyone,
especially librarian Emily Dawley. She’s stood by us and has does an awesome job planning events and helping us through high school. This fall, class president McCauley and class vice president
Stickler plan to attend the Pennsylvania College of Health Science for nursing. As for class historian Balliet, she will attend Penn State’s main campus to major in kinesiology and exercise science.
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