Category: Featured
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Local Girl Becomes a Bodybuilding Pro
Read more: Local Girl Becomes a Bodybuilding ProKasey Shaffer is not what you would expect when you meet a professional bodybuilder. Aside from a few trophies, a sound system that any DJ would be proud to use and a room-filling weight machine, her house near Stillwater is cozy and warm, a fitting home for a petite, attractive young lady, a mother of two, a full-time employee at Kawneer and an athlete with goals and dreams. So it makes sense that she is only too willing to share the secrets of her workout schedules, diet and motivation with anyone who is interested. “At some level, this is a…
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Remember When: Putting Up the Christmas Tree
Read more: Remember When: Putting Up the Christmas TreeUnless you were the ambitious sort that got your Christmas tree up after Thanksgiving, you might be working on that task this weekend. We asked the editors of The Bloomsburg Daily to think back to putting up their trees and recall the good, the bad, and the ugly of the event. Kristin Camplese doesn’t really remember where her family would get the tree, just the arguments (or “discussions” as parents call them) about getting the tree in the stand. “Pre-drilled stands didn’t exist and it required parents holding the tree and screwing in the stand simultaneously, which inevitably ended up…
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The Community Pioneers
Read more: The Community Pioneers“But the pioneer newspaper of the upstart city, like the western railroad, had to call into being the very population it aimed to serve. This gave it certain distinctive features which would long shape American life. … Some American newspapermen have called this preoccupation with the local community the leading characteristic, the principle novelty, and the secret strength of American journalism.” — Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, 1965 The Advocate. The Dispatch. The Tribune. These are the newspapers of America. Their names are bold and active. The Bee. The Herald. The Call. Invoking sound, almost loud, these are…
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The View from Here: Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Read more: The View from Here: Beginning to Look a Lot Like ChristmasIt seems each year we start to see it a little earlier — sights of Christmas. Even well before Thanksgiving it happens in stores around town. You walk into the grocery store to pick up your Thanksgiving Turkey and they are already highlighting Christmas. I don’t know about you, but that gets me down. And then it happens, Thanksgiving passes and the sights and sounds of Christmas become so very welcome! The Bloomsburg Daily photographer, Bob Rush took a few pictures of some of the sights of Christmas in the area yesterday. I know it made us smile to see…
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BHS Craft Fair
Read more: BHS Craft FairEarlier this fall, Gina Piccini, Spanish Teacher and Sophomore Class Advisor at Bloomsburg Area High School contacted The Bloomsburg Daily to let us know that she and her students were planning a new fundraiser. When she told us it was going to be the first week of December we felt like it was so far away. The Holidays this year are taking on new and special meanings as we all are working to take rebuild so much. Now that we are through Thanksgiving and heading into December we wanted to help get the word out for this new event. Let…
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Q&A with Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Read more: Q&A with Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic ViolenceWe recently had a chance to talk with Judy Yupcavage, the Communications Director for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. We talked about the challenges involved in getting support and resources to domestic violence victims, as well as national headlines and the impact of Marcellus Shale gas drilling on housing for victims. We also identified resources available to victims in Columbia and Montour counties. If you or someone you love are affected by domestic violence, please take advantage of the resources readily available and the many people who want to help. 1. Can you tell us a little about your…
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Holiday Memories Opens at BTE
Read more: Holiday Memories Opens at BTEBTE opened its Holiday season with the production of Holiday Memories on Friday with their Annual Food Preview. Each year, BTE kicks off the season by offering free admission to a performance for a single non-perishable food item. Not to worry, if you missed the kickoff on Friday, Holiday Memories by Truman Capote runs from November 25, 2011 until December 30, 2011. This wonderful series of stories has been adapted by Russell Vandenbroucke and is directed by Gerard Stropnicky. Try and make time for a performance this Holiday season! “Oh my, it’s fruitcake weather!” Miss Sook, Truman’s older eccentric maiden…
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The View from Here: North Pole Express
Read more: The View from Here: North Pole Express“I see it!”, “Look Mom, there’s the train!” Everywhere there are small voices echoing with excitement and wonder. A reminder that even in the most challenging times, magic is still here if you take the time to see it. The North Pole Express train ride offered just that opportunity for yound and old. A time to forget about the stress of every day and of the difficult task of rebuilding lives for those who lost so much in this year’s flood. “All aboard!” The conductor announced and it was time to sit back and enjoy the trip down the rails.…
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The View from Here: The Bars of Bloomsburg
Read more: The View from Here: The Bars of BloomsburgWhen I was in college I would come home for the Thanksgiving break and get to see all my high school friends. Most of them had gone off the school, but the Thanksgiving weekend was a chance to come home, spend time with family, and get together with the friends that matter the most. Typically I’d get in on Thursday morning and spend the whole day with my parents and sister as the house filled with the smell of Thanksgiving dinner. I think you know the drill all to well — eat until you can barely move and then fall…
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Thanksgiving Recipe: Cuizoo’s Famous Balsamic Vinaigrette
Read more: Thanksgiving Recipe: Cuizoo’s Famous Balsamic VinaigretteNo one really wants to think about a green vegetable on their Thanksgiving table — unless it is green beans smothered in cream of mushroom soup with fried onions on top. But, come on, that doesn’t qualify as a vegetable. You know I’m right on that. The green vegetable is simply cast aside because the other food on the table is so compelling. And my feeling is that I can have a vegetable any other day of the year. But my husband doesn’t agree with that idea — he thinks that a table filled with turkey, potatoes, stuffing, bread, and…