Area schools celebrate graduation

Three area high schools are holding graduation ceremonies Sunday, capping secondary education careers for 131 students.

Van Buren High School will graduate 34 seniors beginning at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the high school gym.

The senior awards assembly is at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the high school.

Baccalaureate was held May 12.

Pekin High School has 55 seniors receiving diplomas beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday in the high school gym.

Class of 2013 valedictorian and salutatorian Graham Wittrock and Rachel Wonderlich are graduation speakers.

The band and choir will provide music at the ceremony.

Pekin Class of 2013?s motto is ?We have come a long way but not half as far as we will go.? The class flower is a red rose dipped in silver and class colors are lavender and silver.

The senior awards assembly was held this morning at school.

Pekin baccalaureate is at 7:30 p.m. today in the high school gym.

Cardinal High School has 42 seniors earning diplomas at a ceremony beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Cardinal Class of 2013?s motto is ?Twenty years from now you?ll be more disappointed by the things you didn?t do than by the ones you did do ? explore, dream, discover.?

The class song is ?Good Riddance,? by Green Day; the class colors are silver and purple. The class flower is a white rose with purple tips.

A senior class breakfast is at 8 a.m. Friday at school, followed by the senior awards ceremony at 9:15 a.m.

Baccalaureate was held May 12.

Fairfield High School holds graduation at 2 p.m. June 2 in Trojan Stadium.

Maharishi School will have graduation ceremonies at 1:30 p.m. June 9 in the school auditorium.