NEW PALESTINE — Vehicle horns were honking, sirens were blaring and students couldn’t stop smiling as the New Palestine High School class of 2020 took part in a parade on Saturday, May 30.
While it may not have been the graduation procession many had imagined, it was still a red-and-white, Dragon-colored festivity for the New Palestine seniors
Several dozen members of the New Palestine High School Class of 2020 and their parents mustered at Cross of Grace Church in New Palestine to take part in the caravan ride. The event was designed to send the seniors out on a high note on the weekend they would have graduated. (A ceremony is planned for July.)
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Margo Tiede White, a parent of a senior and district kindergarten teacher, helped organize and spread the word about the event. She said it was important to acknowledge the seniors who’ve had to deal with the pandemic during their final semester of high school.
“It was better than expected,” Tiede White said of the parade.
Megan Tiede White, her daughter, rode the route with her classmates and noted it was great to see people lined up along streets and roads to make the seniors feel special.
Participants were asked to decorate their vehicles in school colors and make signs to celebrate the Class of 2020 as they traveled through town honking horns acknowledging graduation.
The caravan took off from Cross of Grace Church, 3519 South County Road 600W, around 10 a.m. Saturday morning. The group of dozens of vehicles, accompanied by first-responder units with lights and sirens active, traveled north on 600W to County Road 300S; turned east to Gem Road; and went south to U.S. 52 in the heart of New Palestine. The procession then went east on U.S. 52 to Meridian Road; then north to U.S. before heading west.
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