High school grad reflects on what was lost in the pandemic

By now everyone has lost something to the pandemic. It may not be a job or a life, but graduating high school students will almost certainly miss out on the final day of classes, crossing the stage to accept their diploma, wearing their grad dress. "To have something you’re looking forward to for so long get all of a sudden taken away was really hard," says Grace Whiteley, a 17-year-old Grade 12 student who has been looking forward to the coming weeks for years. "I shouldn’t be think