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Local artist Jayne Smith works with WT students

Over the past several months, students in the Cross-Categorical class at Wayne Trace have been teaming up with senior art students in order to create a beautiful collection of artworks as part of an Art Possible Ohio Adaptation, Integration, and the Arts grant. Under the guidance of local artist Jayne Smith, these students have been inspired to work together and learn a variety of new weaving techniques, from branch weaving and making birds’ nests to fashioning table runners and creating a colorful twelve-foot long fence weaving. In their last studio session together this month, Defiance artist Zoe Smith joined the artistic team as each student learned how to finger weave their very own scarf just in time for the extremely cold weather.

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Corbin Kimmel 4-time champion at Van Buren

The Wayne Trace wrestling team traveled to the 46th annual Van Buren Invitational which hosted 31 schools in the competition. Corbin Kimmel, the 120-pound senior, secured the win becoming a four-time champion of the tournament. In the 46 years of the tournament, Kimmel is only the 7th to achieve this success. Wayne Trace holds two of the seven four-time champions, something no other school has accomplished to date. Corbin Kimmel was also awarded the coveted Most Valuable Wrestler of the tournament due to his wrestling and completion of the championship mark.

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