GRAD GALLERY: Celebrating the class(es) of 2023
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A trio of graduating seniors with the Ephrata High School class of 2023 blow kisses during the processional at the school’s graduation ceremony in the football stadium on Friday.
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A pair of graduating seniors with the Ephrata High School class of 2023 celebrate during the processional at the start of the school’s graduation ceremony on Friday.
A member of the Othello High School class of 2023, right, receives his diploma from Othello School Board member Sharon Schutte. Graduation ceremonies for the senior class, about 270 strong, filled Huskie Stadium with family and friends who cheered them on.
Brand-new Othello High School graduates take a peek at what’s actually inside that diploma cover. About 270 seniors graduated in a ceremony Friday in front of parents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents, many other relatives and friends.
A Royal High School senior received her diploma from School Board President Craig Janette, left, on Friday.
A Royal High School senior looks a little in awe as she steps down from the stage with her high school diploma.
Moses Lake High School Graduates pose for a photo together while flashing toothy grins Friday evening between Frontier Middle School and Lions Field in Moses Lake. Several students said their friends helped them through the trials of high school.
Family members stop to pose with an MLHS graduate whose mortar board was bedecked with flowers. This grad wasn’t the only one with an armful of flowers, candy and other sundries as congratulatory gifts for their academic achievements. During the graduation ceremony, MLHS principal Sheila Kries listed extensive academic and athletic accomplishments attributed to the class of 2023.
170 graduates of Wahluke High School walked across the stage inside the school’s gymnasium on Friday, receiving large cheers from the crowd of family, friends, teachers, mentors and school administrators.
Wahluke’s Class of 2023 Salutatorian Fernando Pazaran smiles during the graduation parade down the streets of Mattawa. The new Warrior alumni rode down Road S SW inside and on top of decorated pick-up trucks and SUVs, with some graduates riding on horses and on top of a backhoe.
COLUMBIA BASIN – Celebrations aplenty occurred throughout Grant and Adams counties over the weekend as about two weeks of graduations at area high schools began. Below are some photo highlights of the festivities. The Columbia Basin Herald will have full coverage of the graduation ceremonies in a special keepsake edition of the paper on June 12 so that area students can have something with themselves and their friends from across the region in one place. We congratulate the class of 2023 and we wish them nothing but success as they venture onto the next stages of their lives.
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