The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA

Artist captures beauty of the valley
Amy Abattoir moved to central Pennsylvania from New York City a couple of years ago. She’s still amazed with the beauty of the region.
Christian Youth Awareness Day isn’t the same old hymn
WILLIAMSPORT - If you’re planning on attending the first Annual Christian Youth Awareness Day to hear some grand organ solos or choir hymns, stay home and watch reruns of “The Lawrence Welk Show” on PBS.

This isn’t your parents’ Christian music by a long shot.

Held Saturday from 5-10 p.m. at the Pickelner Arena in Williamsport, the event is designed to provide an evening of music, faith and fellowship amongst the younger generation in the area.

The event also hopes to dispel the false notion that popular Christian music is as flat, stiff and uncomfortable as a pew seat.
Shikellamy Marching Braves have winning season
The Shikellamy Marching Braves are coming off a season that would make any football team jealous.
Hear the singing mailman
There¡¦s plenty of good live music out in the Valley this weekend, from Danville to Lewisburg to Middleburg and Selinsgrove.
Marching band try-outs a waiting game
Mark Joseph, Christin Folker, Dylan Wynn and Victor Gowl arrived on the Penn State campus on Aug. 18 to try out for The Penn State Blue Band.
A little bit blues, a little bit funk
Singer and songwriter Vicci Martinez likes a good pizza pie when she’s gigging on the road. Despite her preference for pizza, the 25-year-old musician still considers herself a poster child for the term “starving artist.”
40 artists, musicians participating in arts weekend
The Stroll Through the Arts Weekend features 40 artists displaying their works in businesses along the six blocks of downtown Market Street on Friday evening and “Dance to the Music” Saturday evening.
Grandparents can help grandchildren love reading
Within the last week, two grandparents from opposite ends of the country e-mailed to say that they regularly buy books for their grandchildren based on my reviews. Of course, I’m very flattered.
Award-winning poet part of Visiting Writers Series
Poet Fleda Brown will read from her work as part of the 2009-10 Visiting Writers Series, sponsored by The Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. The reading will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the university’s Isaacs Auditorium in Seibert Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Author to give reading
Rebecca Black will give the Eighth Annual Drew Darrow Memorial Reading at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 in Bucknell Hall at Bucknell University.
Digital Media Gallery to host exhibit
Lycoming College will host “pre-existing condition,” a solo exhibition by Gregory Maxim Burdett in the Digital Media Gallery, Mass Communication building, Friday to Dec. 4.
Local high schools present fall plays
Area high schools are preparing for their fall plays. Click here for a listing.
Entertainment Briefs
WILLIAMSPORT — Violinist Riana Muller, a strings instructor at Lycoming College, will perform a piece titled, “Animal Crackers,” in the College’s Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall at noon today . Her show is part of Lycoming’s Noon Concert Series.
Dance and movement workshop scheduled at Bucknell University
LEWISBURG — The Community Arts and Music Series (CAMS) will host a Dance and Movement Workshop with Bucknell dance students at 11 a.m. Saturday . The free workshop will be held in the Tustin Dance Studio on the campus of Bucknell University.

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