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student council, skills for life collaborate to make holiday dreams come true. through the charity committee of the cheltenham high school student council, local elementary school children with special needs or who come from low income families will receive gifts this holiday season. “this is important, especially at this time of year,” said charity chair leslie melecio, “because it’s good to remind ourselves of the significance of giving back.” for at least the past decade, senior afwé griffin, a sabre fencer for the fencing academy of philadelphia - north in wyncote, helped to facilitate a fencing demonstration with coach james miller for a group of young students from the meadowbrook school this past weekend. the meadowbrook students learned about maneuvering the fencing st*ip and how fencers score points. in related news, griffin and chs sophomore naomi congratulations to cedarbrook eighth grader eyota bey who won the 400 meters in 1:00.12 in the mid school division of the opening preliminaries at the 45th anniversary colgate women’s games at brooklyn’s pratt institute on saturday, dec. 15. every year, thousands of gi*ls and young women compete in the games in grade divisions for ribbons, medals and points. events include.. three instrumentalists qualify for pmea district 11 band and orchestra festivals. based on their recent auditions, three chs musicians earned a spot to perform at district 11 band and orchestra festivals in january. juniors ifenna amaefuna (violin) and naomi aires (cello) will compete in the district 11 orchestra festival jan. 10 – 12 at plymouth-whitemarsh high school for conductor allan r. scott. senior tommy scott (french horn) will compete in the district 11 band festival january 23 – 25 at pottsgrove high school for conductor james colonna. selected from a pool of more than 350 students, these at this past week’s deca district 10 conference at temple university, 17 cheltenham students earned the privilege of