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Student Council Spreads Candy Cane Cheer (PHOTOS)

Rylee Gallicchio ’26
President of Student Council Ada Gorka places a candy cane onto a car door handle at Nonnewaug High School on Dec. 20.
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Rylee Gallicchio '26, Reporter • December 20, 2024

WOODBURY — ‘Tis the season to spread holiday cheer. For Nonnewaug’s Student Council, that cheer came in the form of a few hundred candy canes.

Student Council members spent time after school Dec. 19 writing handwritten “Happy Holidays” tags and attaching them to candy canes. Then, they went to the campus parking lot and hung those 300 candy canes on every car’s driver’s side door handle during Period 4 on Dec. 20.

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Rylee Gallicchio ’26
Rylee Gallicchio ’26, Reporter
Rylee Gallicchio is a junior at Nonnewaug and writes for the NHS Chief Advocate. This is her first year writing for the Chief Advocate. Rylee lives in Woodbury and is hoping to accomplish many published and well-written pieces this school year.
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