While COVID-19 concerns have cancelled in-person classes and activities in south central Iowa and across the state, the Pella Community School District has largely been able to forge ahead with little-to-no impact on daily routines. Pella Schools Superintendent Greg Ebeling says staff and administrators have worked with students and families to keep education in person whenever possible for the majority of the district’s population, while at the same time aiming to provide virtual and remote options for families who opted to do so or for those in COVID-19 quarantine. Pella Middle School Student Council members Sydney Namminga, Isabella Ebersole, Alexander Demuth, and Ben Wilcox all say it’s been important for them to have some sense of normalcy, especially after missing out on school this past spring and many activities and other events since the beginning of the pandemic.