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Vol. 17 Issue 8
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Harvest
SEPTEMBER 2025
Students paint way to memorable senior year
Festival returns
Class of VIERA VOICE Klinton Landress
Woody the Crow Boy posed in last year's Harvest Festival.
BY JEFF NAVIN
and vocalist and banjo player John Apfelthaler, will entertain the Viera Harvest Festival crowd from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 18 at Woodside Park.
The Penny Creek Band, a bluegrass band led by vocalist and bass player Susan Pounds, guitarist and vocalist Chris Paganoni, mandolin player and vocalist Fritz Kraemer
HARVEST FEST
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Taliyah Basped, a senior at Viera High School, put the finishing touches on the painting of her parking space with the help of her mother Jessica Basped and her sister Tamia Basped.
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in the colorful painting of their parking spaces. It is a tradition in which seniors leave their mark on the parking spaces they are assigned for their final year of school.
It is a senior tradition repeated at high schools throughout Brevard County and schools elsewhere that
PAINTING
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