116 Avonworth High School seniors graduated Friday evening at Lenzner Field in an outdoor, socially-distanced ceremony for the class of 2020, a notable change from the traditional early June ceremony with community members filling up the bleachers, While “Pomp and Circumstance” played over the field’s speakers, 31 masked students entered the field single file, finding…
Author: Danica Raich
Co editor-in-chief for Avonews in 2020-2021
Allegheny County Restrictions Cause Prom at the Priory to Be Canceled
Avonworth’s Prom scheduled for July 9th at The Priory in downtown Pittsburgh has been canceled. The event, aimed to give the senior class a second chance at Prom, will not take place due to the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus, Mrs. Dwulit announced in an email the morning of Friday, July 3rd. The high…
Protest In Pittsburgh During the Black Lives Matter Movement: An Interview with Editor-in-Chief and Photographer Keyaira Cameron
On Sunday, May 31st, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests, my co-editor-in-chief Keyaira Cameron heard about the Pittsburgh protests and decided to attend as a photographer. Here is a transcript of a conversation we had about the experience of documenting the protest as a photographer and her thoughts about the protest in…
Seniors Celebrate Graduation in Car Cruise Across District Neighborhoods
The Avonworth community gathered to celebrate the unconventional graduation of the seniors on the evening of Friday, June 5th. In place of typical graduation ceremonies was a car parade that involved about a 3rd of the graduating class. At the start of the procession, both the Avonworth administration and teachers of the senior class gave…