February 21, 2018
Every guest a queen. King at Night to Shine
It surely was a Night to Shine during the Tim Tebow Foundation annual prom held Feb. 9 in churches around the world for persons with special needs. The Lehigh Valley host church was Riverbend Community Church on Roble Road in Allentown. Pastor Joe Velarde was the master of ceremonies. This year, 700 churches hosted the event. Emotions of pure joy were apparent the entire evening among the guests, from the moment they entered onto the red carpet before cheering observers. Caregivers, volunteers, businesses offering their services for free, such as several photographers acting as paparazzi and photo booth set-ups. DJs played music that kept the guests running to the dance floor. Make-up and hair styling services were set up, even a shoe shine station. Photo: A highlight of the Tim Tebow Foundation proms is the crowning of the king and queen. The beauty of Night to Shine’s concept is every guest receives a crown and feels like royalty.
By Lori Patrick
Graphic commentary by Ed Courrier
Pleasant Valley mourns graduate’s death
Pleasant
Valley School District, Monroe County, is mourning the loss of one of its own. Chris
Hixon, a 1986 graduate and athlete at the Brodheadsville school, was among
those killed in the shootings last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in
Parkland, Fla. Hixon was the athletic director at the school. News sources
close to Parkland say Hixon was one of the first to be identified after a
former student entered the school brandishing an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and
numerous magazines.
By Judy
Dolgos-Kramer
PCFLV strikes gold at Hearts gala
The
Pediatric Cancer Foundation of the Lehigh Valley (PCFLV) raised more than
$100,000 at its Hearts of Gold Gala recently. The swanky fundraising event was
hosted at the Iron Lakes Country Club in Allentown. Guests in tuxedos and
evening gowns enjoyed cocktails, dinner, a wine pull, and a live auction of
children’s artwork conducted by auctioneer Jason Douglas Houser. Other items up
for bid included an oil painting of SteelStacks by Banana Factory artist Lauren
Kuhn, glassware centerpieces donated by Warner Art Glass Center, as well as
gift baskets from Crayola Adventure and others. A mixed media work, “Be YOU
Tiful,” by young brain cancer warrior Jillian Sayre fetched $5,000, the highest
bid for any of the artwork. Ashley Russo emceed the affair. Russo is the Emmy
Award-winning executive and president of ASR Media. Photo: Andrew and Abbe
Abrams, Sarah Miller, Kris Buss and Emma Rawlins staff the check-in table.
By Ed Courrier
50th anniversary ‘sparks’ new project
The Lehigh Valley Community Foundation recdently celebrated its 50th
anniversary as a public charity. Wanting to commemorate the past 50 years in a
special way, the foundation created the “Be the Spark” grant-making project.
Its success was observed by the community during a 50th anniversary Capstone
Event Jan. 24 in the Fowler Blast Furnace Room at the ArtsQuest Center. Photo: 50th Anniversary Vision in Philanthropy Award winner Luther J.
Hottle, Jr. (center) with Lehigh Valley Community Foundation grant recipients
Erik Ruth from the Kellyn Foundation (left) and Diane Elliott from New Bethany
Ministries (right).
By Allison Poczak
This time, Becahi boys come out on top
It was Round 2 for Bethlehem Catholic
with their date in the East Penn Conference championship and the Hawks made
sure they didn’t go through the same emotions they endured a year ago when
Allen thumped them 84-62 in the league championship. Instead, a Holy War battle
against Central Catholic Friday night at Liberty’s Memorial Gymnasium came down
to the buzzer as Central point guard Jay Vaughan’s three-point attempt to push
the game to overtime smacked off the rim, preserving a 47-44 victory.
By Peter Car
Becahi girls claim back-to-back league title
It was just one of those shots,
the kind that would change everything one way or another, and it did for
Bethlehem Catholic’s girls’ basketball team when Taliyah Medina hit a three
pointer with 40 seconds left in a one-point game with Allentown Central
Catholic last Friday night at Liberty High School.“My teammates were telling me
my dad [coach Jose Medina] said pull it out, but you know, the adrenaline and
momentum of the game, you don’t hear anything sometimes, so if I would have
missed that, oh, I would have been dead. So when I made that, all I could do
was just pump my fist. He was yelling, everybody on the bench jumped up. It was
absolutely amazing,” Taliyah Medina said. Forty seconds later, the Hawks were
crowned East Penn Conference champions with a 40-37 victory over the Vikettes.
By Katie McDonald
Moving ‘Pictures’
Art inspiring music, inspiring
more music, which inspired more art.
Sounds like a tongue-twister, or a lesson in cause and effect. It all
started in 1874 with a gallery exhibition of the drawings and paintings of
Victor Hartman, an artist and architect who was a good friend of the Russian
composer, Modest Mussorgsky. Victor Hartman had recently died, and Mussorgsky,
looking for a way to honor the memory of his friend and his work, decided to
try to capture the essence of some of his paintings and sketches in music. He
wrote a piece for solo piano with 10 sections, each focusing on one of the
pieces of Hartman’s art in the exhibition. Years later in 1922, Maurice Ravel
decided to “colorize” the original version for piano by orchestrating it to be
played by a full symphonic orchestra with all the different instruments. Over
the years, more than 90 composers have written orchestrations and versions
based upon the music of the original “Pictures at an Exhibition” for piano.
By Diane Wittry
Bethlehem APL: Remembering The Beatles
Bethlehem Area SD: ‘NCC still creamof the crop’
Bethlehem Area SD: Planning begins for summer
Bethlehem: Rotunda exhibit opens March 7
Hellertown: Council revisits junker ordinance
School: BAVTS students first in LV competition
School: Students showcase skills in District competition
Lehigh Valley: United Way grant helps combat human trafficking
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