After a year of unpredictable days, Beaver County schools are determined to offer juniors and seniors a night they can count on by giving them a prom.
Despite a rise in local cases of COVID-19, this high school staple will go on for most local districts next month and give back to students a bit of what the pandemic has taken away from them.
Some of the events announced are as follows: Central Valley School District s prom is scheduled for 6 p.m. May 7 at The Club at Shadow Lakes in Hopewell Township, Blackhawk School District s prom is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 14 at Blackhawk Stadium and Beaver Area School District s prom is scheduled for 6 p.m. May 22 at The Club at Shadow Lakes.
After two years of use in Pennsylvania schools, it s safe to say that the state-sponsored Safe2Say Something app is helping to protect students in Beaver County.
The app, run through the Pennsylvania Attorney General s office at a cost of $1.6 million annually, was implemented in 2019 and provides a safe way for students to anonymously report threats or unsafe activities. While area districts have had some issues with false reporting, county and school officials say it s saving lives. The first year when it was open and available to the students, it got kind of misused, said Bo Blinn, the school resource officer for the Beaver Area School District. A lot of the investigations we went through came out to be kind of unfounded because they weren t legitimate.