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This year a total of 136 School District 27 graduates shared in bursaries and scholarships with a total value of $157,050.

The top academic students at Williams Lake secondary this year are Seamus McGrath, Joe Borsato, Emily Guterson, Elsa Navratil, Louis Butterfield, Ellis Smith, Jenny MacDonald, and Josh Bush.

On behalf of Dry Grad, Jessica Ball accepts $235 from the Tribune, which donated half of the proceeds from the Hats Off to Grad advertisements to Dry Grad.

Top Columneetza secondary academic students are Kiani Evans, Erik Groenenberg, Stephanie Horsley, Caitlin Langford, Megan Lucks, and Tara Sprickerhoff.

On a sunny, early June afternoon, an Alexis Creek mule deer doe lays down amid dandelions that she will later eat.

A Grade 11 woodwork student at Columneetza secondary holds the beginnings of a bird feeder while Hannah Chestnut, a Grade 1 student at Chilcotin Road, drives in a nail.