Westonka Students Participate in Memorial Day Services

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 26. The Mound Westonka High School 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. American Legion Post 398, Auxiliary 398, and SAL Squadron 398 of Mound presented the colors and ran the program.

Several Grandview Middle School sixth grade language arts students were chosen to read their essays on “What the American Flag Means to Me” at the ceremony. Essays were chosen based on quality, content, shared experiences, and their efforts towards describing the meaning of the flag to them. The winning essays were written by Josey Brown, Wesley Rabin, Jonah Christian, Salvatore Suttle, Rowynn Sandberg, Finley Winther, Lana Kinapoe, Leela Ramthun, Levi Dahlman, Aiden Kevitt, and Lincoln Letnes.

Director Gretchen Chilson conducted the MWHS band, which performed "The Star-Spangled Banner," "Sounding of TAPS,” “Armed Forces Medley,” and “God Bless America.” Over 60 students performed in the band.

"Every year I'm proud of how many of our Westonka families send their band students to perform at this program," said Chilson. "It's so meaningful to our community, and so appreciated!" 

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