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SHHS students: ‘Say their names’

On Juneteenth at 7 a.m., the Wallingford-Swarthmore Sunrise hub executed a banner drop over the bridge on Chester Road over I-476. June 19, also known as Juneteenth, is the day on which enslaved people in Texas were finally granted freedom — two and a half years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The banner read “Say Their Names” and listed the names of recent Black victims of racially motivated police brutality and violence.

Thank you, Andrea LaPira

Andrea, we thank you for your steady hand during uncertain times. For your leadership, for your example, and for instilling confidence in us as professionals at a time when all of our jobs, roles, and expectations were upended without warning. We thank you for working without stopping, with no desire to be in the spotlight. As we move into new uncertainties of next year, we thank you for keeping us afloat and together, feeling supported and heard.

Pomp and unforeseen circumstances

Our son graduated from Strath Haven High School last Friday, and this community helped make it a day to be remembered. Yes, there is a pandemic. Yes, it rained, so the graduation had to be indoors. But our neighbors in Wallingford, Swarthmore, Rutledge, and South Media showed us what community and kindness and hope and love are all about.