Vernon natives win at film festival

Film. Vernon Township High School graduates won Best Sketch Comedy Film in Austin, Texas.

Austin /
| 17 Oct 2025 | 11:59

Three Vernon Township High School graduates- Doug Dykenga, Billy Rydstrom and Connor Cummins - won Best Sketch Comedy Film at the Austin Comedy in Austin, Texas.

The sketch comedy film is 15 minutes of over 20 sketches Rydstrom, directed and acted in. They met in Vernon middle school and have been friends ever since.

Dykenga and Rydstrom graduated in 2011 and Cummins graduated in 2009.