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- Hello, my name is Thad Keener.

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I'm the principal here
at Arctic Light K-8.

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We had a wonderful year.

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Thank you for everyone
who chose our school.

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(crowd murmurs)

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We had a cold winter.

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We came back from spring break
and we were told to just,

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you know what, stay home.

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This has been one for the history books

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and I wanna thank all the students.

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I wanna thank all the families.

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Thank you for working with us.

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Staying connected, doing the
online learning that we had

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and adjusting each time we had

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to make a change to our system.

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We lost quite a few things
from the father-daughter dance

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to other dances for our older students.

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We almost lost our yearbook.

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If you noticed, our staff pulled together

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and made a quick year book.

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If you didn't get one, do let us know.

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We have workbooks for our
students in kindergarten

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through third grade to just keep

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their learning going over the summer.

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And we are very hopeful
that all the learning

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we've been doing this past quarter,

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we're gonna take this
learning and be as positive

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about August.

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Hopeful opening our doors on August 19th

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and going full forward with all

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the new learning that we have.

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But at the same time, we are very aware

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(fire truck hoots)

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planning for all kinds
of adjustments as needed.

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Again, thank you everyone
for all your efforts.

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The staff did an amazing job

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our students you did a great job.

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(crowd cheers) (cars hoots)

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Thank you Fort Wainwright and the parents.

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We miss you all.

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It is nowhere near the
same without you here.

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Thank you and be well.