Category: Lifestyle
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Bloomsburg Middle School Student Wins Writing Contest
Read more: Bloomsburg Middle School Student Wins Writing ContestMadeline Polhill, a seventh-grade student at Bloomsburg Middle School, won a writing contest sponsored by Scholastic Scope Magazine and had her first line selected as the first sentence for a short story.Scholastic Scope Magazine invited students to create a first line to a short story and submit it for review. More than 5,000 entries were submitted to the contest. Madeline’s was selected by writer Roland Smith, author of more than 30 novels. He created a short story based on Madeline’s suggestion: “Peering through the window, I caught a glimpse of some piles of old Halloween costumes, three giant plastic flamingoes,…
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The Latest Buzz from BTE: In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Read more: The Latest Buzz from BTE: In the Next Room, or The Vibrator PlayAt the dawn of the age of electricity, Dr. Givings performs some experimental treatments. Dr. Givings’ wife, Catherine, will soon discover the “shocking” side-effects of her husband’s revolutionary gadget.
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Love In Bloom: Six Stories on Love, Lust and Relationships
Read more: Love In Bloom: Six Stories on Love, Lust and RelationshipsPremiering on Thursday, April 26, at 8:00 p.m. in Carver Hall, students of the Telecommunications Department at Bloomsburg University directed this series of short films about love, lust, and relationships on a college campus.
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The Long Journey to Recovery
Read more: The Long Journey to RecoveryHolly Freese tells a story of personal courage and valiant resolve about a Kutztown University student’s recovery from an automobile accident. This is a must read for anyone who might face a life-changing experience.
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Author Stephen Elliot Comes to Bloomsburg University
Read more: Author Stephen Elliot Comes to Bloomsburg UniversityAward winning author Stephen Elliot spoke at Bloomsburg University’s Kehr Union on Wednesday, 28 March, offering his views on the various modern media available to authors through which they are able to present their work. An author of four novels as well as collections of essays and short stories, Mr. Elliot achieved critical acclaim for his 2009 work The Adderall Diaries, a self-described “memoir of moods, masochism and murder” which Elliot claims to be the result of a relationship. Called a “provocative, masterful, thrilling ride” by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Adderall Diaries was named as one of the best…
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Renaissance Jamboree: Townsfolk, BU Students Ready for Annual Celebration
Read more: Renaissance Jamboree: Townsfolk, BU Students Ready for Annual CelebrationThe Renaissance Jamboree, Bloomsburg’s annual one-day street fair celebrates its 34th year this month. On Saturday April 28th the festival will stretch for 8 blocks along Main Street, hosting over 100 art, craft and food vendors, artists, musicians, local businesses and non-profit groups – plus games, children’s entertainment, folk dancing from around the world, a martial arts demonstration, and even a high flying trampoline performance by Flippenout. In past years, the Jamboree sometimes fell on the same weekend as Bloomsburg University’s Block Party. As a result, the Jamboree never became part of the lexicon handed down from class to class.…
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Dodgeball Raises Money for Students in Need
Read more: Dodgeball Raises Money for Students in Need“What’s better than Dodgeball? It’s the All-Star Sport of Gym Class!” Ben Eshelman laughs happily as he describes the go-to rainy-day sport of Phys-Ed teachers everywhere. For those that know Ben, a Personal Trainer at Bloom Health & Fitness on Old Berwick Road, his excitement is infectious but unsurprising. “It’s something that’s fun, gets kids and families involved!” You can’t help but notice the energy. Ben’s words bounce, impossible to avoid. “It’s a ball. You dodge it.” He smiles at you as he lets his Zen-like oversimplification of a simple game sink in. “Yes,” you think. “I get it. I…
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BTE Offers Student Specials
Read more: BTE Offers Student SpecialsBTE is offering special matinees of Julius Caesar for area students.
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Taking a Poverty Resolution
Read more: Taking a Poverty ResolutionMatthew Jones didn’t consider himself to be a typical MBA student when he applied for admission to the Penn State Smeal College of Business. Rather than setting his sights on becoming a wealthy executive, he decided to devote his business and financial research interests to issues of poverty in developing countries. Jones, now a graduate of the Penn State Smeal MBA Program, continues his mission to serve others through a nonprofit he co-founded with his brother, Andrew, a current MBA student at Smeal. Their organization, Poverty Resolutions, grew to fruition following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010.…
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MePush and BTE Partner for Special Show
Read more: MePush and BTE Partner for Special ShowMePush sponsors special post-Christmas performance at BTE.