Misericordia University student photojournalist Samantha Allen of New Milford, PA has been recognized by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association (PNA) in the category of sports photography for a picture that was published in The Highlander student newspaper.
This under-the-basket action shot was taken during a Cougars women’s basketball game, and earned her a Student Keystone Press Awards Honorable Mention.
The award will be presented to Allen at an awards luncheon in Hershey in March. The annual PNA contest recognizes high school and college/university journalism that provides relevance, integrity and initiative in serving readers. Misericordia University competes in Division II of the Keystone Press Awards that recognizes four-year colleges and universities with enrollment under 10,000.
The Montrose Key Club is sponsoring a weekend of fashion related events, March 9th and 10th with profits to benefit the Ronald McDonald House of Scranton. All events will be held at the Montrose Junior Senior High School.
Not to be missed will be the Friday night, March 9th Basketball Game with a fashion twist. The players, mostly junior and senior class members, will be playing ball while wearing semi-formal and formal dresses. The Game starts at 7:30 pm and donations will be collected as admission. 3-point and Tricky Shot Contests will be $1 each, and refreshments will also be sold.
Early Saturday afternoon, March 10th from 11:30-1:00 pm will be a Royal Tea in the library for young Princes and Princesses, ages 4 through 4th grade ($10/child fee with pre-registration required).
Mid-afternoon through early Saturday evening, 3:00-5:30 pm, students and parents are invited to visit the Fashion Expo being held in the gym featuring formal wear vendors, florists, photographers, casual wear and accessory vendors, hair & beauty consultants, a seamstress, and even chair massages! There will be door prizes, raffles, product demonstrations and samples, special discounts for expo-attendees, coupons, and refreshments.
Saturday night at 6:00 pm in the auditorium join for the culminating event of the Prom Fashion Extravaganza and Expo by supporting students as they strut their stuff in a diamond inspired Fashion Show.
There are still a few spaces available for the Expo. Contact Suzanne Bennici at sbennici@masd.info, by calling 1 (570) 278-3731 or Johanna Reed on Facebook to inquire.
Three local wildlife conservation groups have made commitments to financially assist high school students who would want to attend the 2018 Pennsylvania Wildlife Leadership Academy (WLA). The wildlife conservation groups are the Susquehanna branch of the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA), The Wilson F. Moore Memorial chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) and the Susquehanna County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs (SCFSC).
The WLA looks for highly motivated students between the ages of 14 and 17 to join one of their 5-day residential summer field schools. Students should have a demonstrated interest in the outdoors and in wildlife and/or fisheries conservation.. Each of the 5 summer field schools focuses on a single species: whitetail deer, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, brook trout and bass. Students will gain extensive knowledge about Pennsylvania wildlife, habitat, natural resources, conservation leadership experience and communication skills. After graduating from the Academy’s summer field schools the students return to their communities to engage, educate and inspire others about conservation. Upon successful graduation from one of the camps the students may be designated as a Conservation Ambassador. Conservation Ambassadors will receive letters of recommendation for college and job applications, certification of community service work, certificates designating them as Conservation Ambassadors and the opportunity to obtain 3 transferable undergraduate level college credits through Cedar Crest College.
The 3 Susquehanna County wildlife organizations have supported students in the past years with the Susquehanna QDMA supporting eight students, The Wilson F. Moore NWTF chapter supporting one and the SCFSC in its first year of support for the WLA.
Each of these three organizations have committed $400 of the $500 field school fee.
If you are interested in being nominated for the WLA whitetail deer field school (Bucktails) contact: Susquehanna Branch QDMA President Mike Koneski stackbarrel@frontier.com or 570-965-7625 / Bob Wagner Branch Secretary at 570-278-1197 x108 or eagle@epix.net .
If you are interested in being nominated for one of the fisheries field schools (brookies or bass) please contact: SCFSC President Mike DePaola at mikedepaola60@gmail.com or John Ord at scfederation@gmail.com or 570-396-8798.
If you are interested in attending the wild turkey (gobblers) or grouse (drummers) field school please contact: Wilson F. Moore Memorial chapter President Al Cuevas at 570-396-5033 acecuevas76@gmail.com or NWTF Life member Dave Wilcox at davidwilcox@epix.net or 570-278-2818.
Each of the organizations is hoping that a Susquehanna County high school student will apply to the WLA and then make a connection with the local sponsor group.
To learn more about the Wildlife Leadership Academy, look on their website www.wildlifeleadershipacademy.org.You can go to the website to find more information about getting enrolled in any of the field schools. The mission of the Wildlife Leadership Academy is to engage and empower high school age youth to become Conservation Ambassadors to ensure a sustained wildlife, fisheries and natural resource legacy for future generations. The Academy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is a cooperative initiative involving state agencies and conservation organizations.
The application deadline is ending soon.
