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Sunday, March 7, 2010
THE DALLAS POST
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SCOUTS ENJOY PRE-POLAR BEAR WEEKEND
Boy Scout Troop 281 in Dallas recently hosted Troop 150 from Chinatown, NYC and Troop 967 from Havre de Grace, MD at its
annual Pre-Polar Bear Weekend at Camp Acahela. First-year Scouts slept outside in tents for the first time in the winter to
prepare for the upcoming Polar Bear Weekend. The Scouts from all three troops spend the weekend skiing, snow-tubing and
ice-fishing.
WEBELOS ATTEND POLAR BEAR CAMP
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Webelos Il from Harveys
Lake Cub Pack 693 recently
attended Polar Bear Camp
at Camp Acahela. The
Scouts spent the day with
Boy Scouts from Sweet Val-
ley Troop 444 who were
competing at different
events. The Cub Scouts en-
joyed learning scout skills,
sledding and other fun ac-
tivities. Polar Bear fulfilled
the Cub Scout requirement
of attending a Boy Scout
camp and will prepare the
Scouts for crossing over to
Boy Scouts in April. From
left, are Evan Newell, Sage
Visneski, David Williams,
Ryan Dourand and Adam
Motovidlak.
Dallas High School students will compete at national ‘Lifesmarts competition
Attorney General Tom Corbett
has named Dallas High School the
2010 “LifeSmarts Consumer Chal-
lenge” state champion following
Tuesday’s competition held in Har-
risburg.
The victory means Dallas will
represent Pennsylvania in the Na-
tional LifeSmarts competition to be
held April 24-27 in Miami, Florida.
LifeSmarts is a consumer chal-
lenge competition for high school
students across the nation.
The National Consumer League,
in partnership with nonprofit orga-
nizations, government agencies
and educational organizations,
make the competition available to
teens in every state. The Attorney
General's office plans and imple-
ments the program for Pennsylva-
nia.
Corbett said the nine top scoring
teams were invited to the state fi-
nals and were chosen based on
their scores on three separate tests
that were posted online.
The Internet-based competition
asked students a host of questions
related to such topics as personal fi-
nances, the environment, tech-
nology, consumer rights and re-
sponsibilities and health and
safety.
Each student earned points
for the questions answered cor-
rectly. Their team score was de-
termined by the average of the
top four student scores from
each school.
INTERVENED
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Jason Dalla Verde, 25, Pittston,
lectric and acoustic guitars.
“Declarations,” which was re-
leased in December, is the band’s
first CD. It contains eight songs:
“In Your Presence,” “Scream,”
“Declarations,” “Hungry For
You,” “When He Died,” “Decem-
ber,” “Curse of Blood,” and “Blood
of Grace.”
“The typical music industry ap-
proach is you get a certain sound
and you stick within that pocket,”
Mike Warner said. “With our
songs, youre dealing with so
many diverse styles that the lis-
tener is actually kind of assaulted
by the changes from one song to
the next.”
The song “Curse of Blood” is
about abortion and the band
hopes it will discourage women
from having such procedures.
The lyrics of the song’s verses
tell three stories — the voice of the
unborn baby, the voice of the
mother and the voice of the na-
tion. Cathryn Warner sings the
voice of the baby while Manassy
sings the voice of the young moth-
er.
Mike Warner, who wrote the
song, was inspired, in part, by for-
mer Alaska governor Sarah Palin
because she has a son with Down
PETE G. WILCOX/ THE DALLAS POST
Mike Warner plays the keyboards during a sound check at High Point Baptist Church in Larks-
ville. Also pictured is Jason Dallaverde, right.
syndrome and an unwed teenage
daughter who had ababy. He even
suggested the name Palin for the
band.
“That was just a name that I
threw out there because I felt that
this was going to be the song that
really etched our mark in the mu-
”»
sic industry...” Warner said.
“These are two scenarios that al-
most always yield abortions and,
yet, in both of those difficult preg-
nancies, they made the decision
to keep their baby. I felt that was a
very compelling and inspiring
message and decision.”
BROADWAY
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“By the end of the second
night she offered me to come
back the following week for two
weeks and the rest was history,”
White said.
White met her partner, a jew-
elry designer named Donna Bar-
nett, in Key West. The two
moved in together and, soon af-
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ter, White auditioned for the
Broadway musical “Finian’s
Rainbow.” She landed the role of
Dottie, performing in the show
for two and a half months until it
closed in January.
White and Barnett held a com-
mitment ceremony, attended by
Allen and Creel, following a per-
formance of “Finian’s Rainbow”
last October. They made their
marriage legal on Feb. 4 in Con-
necticut. ,
Most recently, White has been
ut
asked to take on the roll of Mom-
ma Morton in “Chicago,” cur-
rently playing on Broadway.
She will begin the role some-
time in early spring.
White is looking forward to
performing once again in the
Back Mountain.
“It’s lots of fun,” White
said. “The people are great
there. It’s fun to look around
and see all the faces and peo-
ple enjoying themselves and
being a part of that. That's
what entertainment is all
about.”
“Declarations” is available
for purchase on the band’s Web
site at www.aweband.com.
GREENBRIAR RESIDENT
NOTES 102ND BIRTHDAY
Anthony Verdi, a resident of The Village at Greenbriar, cele-
brated his 102nd birthdasy recently with a party held in his hon-
or. Verdi's wife, Mafalda, to whom he has been married for 76
years, celebrated with him.
Rehearsing a scene from “Beethoven's Seventh" to be performed
by Ballet Northeast March 13 and 14 at the Dorothy Dickson Darte
Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Wilkes Uni-
versity are, from left, first row, Mia Carlson and Katharine Mar-
ianacci, of Dallas. Second row, Julie Degnan, of Harveys Lake, and
Cally Richardson.
Ballet Northeast performs
Beethoven's Seventh’
Ballet Northeast will perform
its signature ballet, “Beethoven's
Seventh” and other diverse
works at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday,
March 13, and at 2 p.m. on Sun-
day, March 14, at the Dorothy
Dickson Darte Center for the
Performing Arts on the campus
of Wilkes University.
Featured in the lead roles in
the Beethoven piece will be
guest professional artist Tim
Early, of Philadelphia, BNE solo-
ists Julie Degnan, of Harveys
Lake; Juliana Gorman, of Frty
Fort; and BNE alumnus, T.J. Fir-
neno.
Supporting the principal danc-
ers will be BNE’s corps de ballet,
featuring Mia Carlson, Cally Ri-
chardson, Katharaine Marianac-
ci, of Dallas; Kelly Ferrell, Mary
Kathryn Siejak and Kara Law-
son.
Others in the ensemble in-
clude Mary Sharon, Ciaccia, Har-
veys Lake; Jesse Florance,
Deidre Davis, Megan Ferrell,
Louis Gerstle, Sandrine Gib-
bons, Lisa Lombardo, Mary
Mash, Dan Pascoe, Victoria Ren-
dina, Amanda Ruppert, Emily
Smith, Maggie Sullivan, Sarah
Polansky and Mikaela Rowe.
Tickets, at $20 for adults and
$15 for seniors, students and
children, may be purchased on-
line at www.balletnortheast.org
or by calling the Degnan Ballet
Center at 287-5802.
The Misericordia University
women’s track team placed sec-
ond in the indoor MAC cham-
pionships recently at Lehigh Uni-
versity.
Senior Robin Razawich, of Dal-
‘Razawich takes third in high jump competition
las, was third in the high jump
while tying the school record
(4’11-3/4”). She was also part of
the winning 4x200 relay team
along with Jen Lozier, Stephanie
Grow and Sue Bochnovich.
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