By Andrea Holata

BRIGHTON — With some dressed in Halloween costumes, Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School students celebrated the end of the first nine weeks Oct. 31 with an awards ceremony. More than 200 awards were given throughout the day to kindergarten through eighth-graders.

Students received awards for citizenship, effort, writing, Creek and participation in the 100’s book club. Some also received academic awards for earning at least a 3.0 to 3.4 GPA (bronze award), 3.5 to 3.9 GPA (silver award) and 16 students schoolwide received the prestigious gold award for achieving straight A’s.