Special education students from Luxemburg-Casco High School got a chance to check out the lights at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens this week with their friends in tow. Started last year at the school, the Luxemburg-Casco Best Buddies program connects special education students with their regular education peers to do fun monthly activities. Special education teacher Wendy Jacobs says some of the students have even gone outside the special organized outings to basketball games and bowling lanes to invite their peer buddies to other activities.

Best Buddies has chapters at high schools across the country including Luxemburg-Casco, which has approximately 45 members.