Port Angeles High School graduate Lance Menes decorates a truck that will transport him during Friday’s graduation parade from Ediz Hook to Port Angeles High School. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles High School graduate Lance Menes decorates a truck that will transport him during Friday’s graduation parade from Ediz Hook to Port Angeles High School. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Graduates parade through Port Angeles

Port Angeles High School graduates, from left, Hannah Basden, Zoe Smithson, Peyton Rudd and Jenna McGoff inflate balloons that will adorn a car taking part in Friday’s graduation parade through the streets of Port Angeles from Ediz Hook to the high school. The parade, developed to honor graduates after COVID-19 forced the cancellation of commencement in 2020, was kept as a prelude to the conventional ceremony at Port Angeles Civic Field.

Port Angeles High School graduate Emi Halberg decorates the family car as her mother, Christine Halberg, is reflected in the car window at the start of Friday’s graduation parade through the streets of Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles High School graduate Emi Halberg decorates the family car as her mother, Christine Halberg, is reflected in the car window at the start of Friday’s graduation parade through the streets of Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles High School graduate Everett Hunsaker, left, watches as sister Emma Hunsaker and father Brent Hunsaker decorate a car at the beginning of Friday’s graduation parade through the streets of Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles High School graduate Everett Hunsaker, left, watches as sister Emma Hunsaker and father Brent Hunsaker decorate a car at the beginning of Friday’s graduation parade through the streets of Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Vehicles participating in Friday’s Port Angeles High School graduation parade stage on Ediz Hook before embarking on a route through the city to Port Angeles High School. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Vehicles participating in Friday’s Port Angeles High School graduation parade stage on Ediz Hook before embarking on a route through the city to Port Angeles High School. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles High School graduates, from left, Hannah Basden, Zoe Smithson, Peyton Rudd and Jenna McGoff inflate balloons that will adorn a car taking part in Friday’s graduation parade through the streets of Port Angeles from Ediz Hook to the high school. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles High School graduates, from left, Hannah Basden, Zoe Smithson, Peyton Rudd and Jenna McGoff inflate balloons that will adorn a car taking part in Friday’s graduation parade through the streets of Port Angeles from Ediz Hook to the high school. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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