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With the basketball season over, Conference Awards were announced for both the boys and girls teams. In the boys’ division, Lincoln Thury (12) and Landon Thury (10) made the Great Plains Conference Team and Eli Watchorn was selected for Honorable Mention. Landon was also selected for the LMVC 2nd team, and Lincoln was selected for the LMVC 3rd team.
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Trinity Chaisson was born on January 13, 2003, to Jaime Poignee and Erik Chaisson. She has four siblings, Tristin Poignee, Jessica Streit, Alexander Chaisson, and Iris Newman.
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Avon High School had its first annual mock election on March 10. Keegan McAdaragh (Republican candidate), Haden Cahoy (Democratic candidate), and Riley Rucktaeschel (Reform candidate) voiced their political parties’ beliefs. There were 26 questions in total with five “zinger” questions. These questions had to be answered off of the candidates’ knowledge about their parties’ beliefs on the subject.
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As spring rolls around, so does Prom…and a lot of responsibilities for the junior class. The theme of this year's 2022 Prom is Unlock the Enchanted Night. It is March 26 with the junior and senior class banquet at 6:00 p.m., Grand March at 7:30 p.m., and the dance from 8:30-11:30 p.m.
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On March 21, band director Mataya Larsgaard took selected students from the 7th through 12th band to the Area Band Festival at the Scotland High School. Throughout the day they performed a variety of jazz, lyrical, and march music with a variety of schools such as Viborg-Hurley, Parkston, Menno, Bon Homme, Alcester-Hudson, Armour, Irene-Wakonda, and Scotland.
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Rachael DeJong was born on December 4, 2003 to Dean and Christa DeJong. She has two brothers, Jason and Riley DeJong.
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Monday, February 28, the Avon Boys Basketball Team traveled to Kimball to take on the Kimball-White Lake WildKats for the first round of Region 6B basketball. Unfortunately, the Pirates’ season was cut short due to a 31-54 loss against the WildKats. The Pirates ended the season with a record of 3-18.
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On March 9, Mrs. Autumn Schultz's middle school students went to Alcester-Hudson for the Middle School Music Festival. The festival was made up of schools in the southwest part of South Dakota.
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