Two parades were held this week to celebrate grads from Harrison Trimble and Riverview High Schools.
On Sunday night, June 21st, Bernice MacNaughton High School, a group of parents have organized An event to recognize graduating students, but in a different way, and while ensuring physical distancing..
Tara Charters is a member of the parent group Friends of the Highlanders.
She says the graduates are invited, along with their families to gather at the Hub-city drive in.
“We’re able within the first hour to do a highlights reel of their year, and their Valedictorians speeches, etcetera. During that hour, we are also giving away four $500 bursaries,” Charters says.
She says the parents see this as more of a replacement for their safe grad, not their prom, “We encourage them to come in their school colours, lots of green and white. We want to have a real celebratory, almost like a pep rally feel to it.”
After the highlights reel, the families will depart, and leave the grads to enjoy a movie.
Charters says, “I think a lot of parents felt, graduation is celebrating the collective. Celebrating your friends achievements, as well as your own. So, we really felt, we really wanted to do something, give the kids an avenue to be able to celebrate each other’s achievements.”
Proms and full graduation ceremonies for 2020 could not be held this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gates open at the Hub City Drive-In at 6:45pm on Sunday, June 21st.
