June 13, 2018
A Flag Day story
Beth Masiado has always taken pride in the American flag and shown the utmost respect for those who work to protect it and everything it stands for. In both times of well-being and times of tragedy, the American flag has held great significance for her. A few years ago, she joined the organization Stars for Our Troops before branching off to found her own organization, Stars for Our Heroes. Both organizations are devoted to recognizing the men and women who serve this country, but while Stars for Our Troops explicitly recognizes veterans and members of the armed forces, Masiado’s Stars for Our Heroes is all-encompassing. Photo: One day while walking past Girl on the Hill Framing in Bethlehem, Beth Masiado had an idea. After speaking with framer Dawn Moser, the two worked together to create a shadowbox.
Beth Masiado has always taken pride in the American flag and shown the utmost respect for those who work to protect it and everything it stands for. In both times of well-being and times of tragedy, the American flag has held great significance for her. A few years ago, she joined the organization Stars for Our Troops before branching off to found her own organization, Stars for Our Heroes. Both organizations are devoted to recognizing the men and women who serve this country, but while Stars for Our Troops explicitly recognizes veterans and members of the armed forces, Masiado’s Stars for Our Heroes is all-encompassing. Photo: One day while walking past Girl on the Hill Framing in Bethlehem, Beth Masiado had an idea. After speaking with framer Dawn Moser, the two worked together to create a shadowbox.
By Katya Hrichak Photos by Ryan Hulvat
‘A hero is in all of you’
Amid an
ecstatic throng of thousands, years of grueling work now behind them, Freedom
HS’s graduated seniors were nonetheless unable to focus squarely on the
vacations, vocations, friendships and adventures to come. For the past is prologue,
and the June 6 commencement at Stabler Arena was themed, “Reflections in the
Mirror,” and it was marked by reminders of all they’d leaned thus far, the
people who helped them, and how their experiences can inform successes to come.
Photo: A Freedom
graduate waves to her family in the stands at Stabler Athletic and Convocation
Center during the processional at the June 6 graduation ceremony. She is one of
451 who took home diplomas that evening.
By Nate Jastrzemski Photos
by Ed Courrier
‘Memories are yours forver’
The 188 members of Bethlehem Catholic HS’s class of 2018, dressed in
their brown caps and gowns, proceeded into the high school’s filled-to-capacity
auditorium the evening of June 6, eagerly awaiting the moment they would become
high school graduates. Following the procession of the graduates to the
familiar tune of Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance,” the ceremony began with an
invocation given by school chaplain, the Reverend Kevin Bobbin, in which he
prayed that God would stay close to the graduates and prepare them for what
lies ahead. Photo: Following a
commencement tradition, Bethlehem Catholic graduates move the tassels on their
caps in unison from left side to right. They then descended the auditorium to
the gymnasium, where they threw their caps in the air in celebration after
removing their individual tassels.
By Katya Hrichak Photos
by Lori Patrick
‘Hit opportunities head on’
“Go big,” he
said, and it was certainly keeping with the evening’s theme. Liberty HS lives
up to that advice, and School Board President Michael Faccinetto knew it. From
the giant crowd filling Stabler Arena to the brim, to the opening trumpet
fanfare, to the night-long pageantry, no other local school hosts a
commencement like Liberty. The class
of 2018 was given the send-off it deserves June 7, with a special
guest, multiple award recognitions, and musical interludes by the chorus and
world-famous band and bagpipers. Photo: This group of Liberty ladies graduating
was ready to celebrate prior to their Class of 2018 commencement.
By Nate Jastrzemski Photos by Dana Grubb
By Nate Jastrzemski Photos by Dana Grubb
Mystery cooking competition
Eight
culinary students competed May 18 in the annual mystery basket cooking
competition at Northampton Community College’s Hampton Winds Restaurant for a
chance to win a scholarship to attend a weeklong externship at one of celebrity
chef Emeril Lagasse’s New Orleans restaurants.
Six judges evaluated the contestants in seven categories:
texture/doneness, taste/balance of flavors, proper cooking techniques, plating,
sanitation/organization, overall technique/ portion size, and creativity with
using the mystery basket ingredients. Photo: Luke Guensch contemplates how to prepare his
chicken. Ultimately, it became the appetizer, served with a vegetable puree. Guensch
also served a broccoli salad with grilled striped bass as the main course.
By Joanna Ireland
Academic signing Day
The top 10
academic scholars from both Freedom and Liberty high schools were recognized at
the fifth annual academic signing ceremony June 5, which was held in the
Bethlehem Area School District’s Education Center. Students in attendance and
their parents heard words of appreciation and encouragement from both
Superintendent Dr. Joseph Roy and Assistant Superintendent and Chief Academic
Officer Dr. Jack Silva, and received some advice from Dr. Robert Flowers,
provost of faculty affairs at Lehigh University, who related some of his own
experiences when he headed off to college. Photo: The academic scholars from
Freedom and Liberty high schools are all smiles after signing their letters of
commitment and then facing the cameras of their parents, who were also in
attendance.
By Dana Grubb
Carpenter Cup team opens this week
The Lehigh Valley’s 2018 Carpenter Cup baseball team was announced
last week as the squad looks to prepare for this year’s edition in
Philadelphia. This will be the 26th year of the franchise, as they look to buck
a recent trend of being ousted from the first round in two of the last three
years. Freedom sophomore outfielder Nick Stannard is the lone Bethlehem player
on the list, as the team is led by 10 players from Parkland and Emmaus. LV will
open up the tournament on Thursday at Philadelphia’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Park
against Suburban One National/Bicentennial at 12:30 p.m. The next round of
action will take place next Monday, before the semifinals and finals move to
Citizens Bank Park next Friday and Saturday.
By Peter Car
LV Summer Theatre – Part 2
Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre (MSMT) promises spectacle with a
big, splashy family show, a stage-filling classic Frank Loesser musical, and
the high-flying acrobatics of a modern circus. “It’s going to be a very happy
summer,” says MSMT artistic director Charles Richter. “There will be lots of
premiere-performing.” The 38th season kicks off with Disney’s Broadway musical,
“Beauty and the Beast,” June 14 to July 1. The production will feature lavish
scenic design, spectacular special effects, and “a touch of Disney magic,” says
Richter. “We’ve been trying to get the rights for years,” Richter says of “Beauty
and the Beast.”
By Kathy Lauer-Williams
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