n honor of the second anniversary of freshman Antonio Reyes’s drowning at Wenatchee High School on Nov. 17 , ASB sold $95 worth of memorial bracelets and leaders are considering how to use the money to pay tribute to his life.

ASB sold memorial bracelets for $1 in the ASB office through Nov. 15. Students were also encouraged to wear the memorial T-shirts sold in 2011 to school on Nov. 15, according to junior ASB assistant activities coordinator Christa Dietrich.

Dietrich said ASB wants to use the money from the bracelets to go towards celebrating Reyes’s life, possibly through a permanent memorial, though they have yet to decide how.

“We [ASB] still need to talk and decide how to use the money as a group,” Dietrich said. “If we decide on a permanent memorial, it first has to get approved by the principal.”

ASB is questioning the effectiveness of permanent memorials in the building and their impacts on the school’s atmosphere, ASB Adviser Brent Grothe said.

“I think we need to take a look at memorials and see if they are the best option for the transitory nature of high school,” Grothe said. “Half of the students here remember what happened, half of them don’t.”

Grothe said the memorial at the school’s entrance for senior Mackenzie Cowell, who was murdered in February 2010, wasn’t installed by ASB. The mural near the music department in honor of Mackenzie Clennon, killed by a drunk driver in 1997, was initiated by her family. No one has requested ASB to make a permanent memorial for Reyes, Grothe said.

“I don’t want to bug people, because it has been two years. I don’t think it should be up to me [if there is a memorial]; I think it’s up to the high school,” junior Jose Reyes, brother of Antonio, said. “Personally, I would like to have a memorial.”

Grothe said ASB has focused on “living memorials” in the past and will probably recognize Antonio with another “low key” living memorial next year.

“We don’t want people to mourn [Antonio’s death],” Dietrich said. “We want people to celebrate his life.”