BASD: Cable channel on air

The BASD TV cable channel is up and running. The station runs 24 hours, seven days a week on RCN Channel 67 and Service Electric Channel 265.

BASD: Job opportunities

Want a corner office with at view? Get paid to travel? Drive a $100k company vehicle? Come drive bus with us! Will train. Call the BASD Transportation office at 610-861-0360.

For information on available job opportunities in the BASD, visit www.beth.k12.pa.us/.

BASD: New SBR named

Four new students have been welcomed by Superintendent Dr. Joseph Roy as 2018-19 student board representatives. Freedom’s Alianna Davis and alternate Joshua Konschnik and Liberty’s Zoey R. Reifinger and alternate Elisabeth S. Lee will report monthly on school events at school board meetings.

BAVTS: Welding lab expanded

The Bethlehem Area Vocational Technical School held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly expanded and updated welding lab at 3300 Chester Ave. The lab, which had up to 36 students, will now be able to accommodate a total of 50 students per school year.

Broughal MS: Farm To School Program

Broughal Middle School’s Farm To School Program has been given a $2,500 grant from the PPL Foundation through a competitive application and review process.

The program’s activities and hands-on learning experiences give students a broad knowledge of nutrition, gardening, agriculture, and cooking.

When fully implemented, this program will provide the school community access to locally-grown, affordable fresh food, as well as a nutritional education program.

Freedom HS: Free preschool program

Freedom HS offers a free preschool program for parents who live in the Bethlehem Area School District. The program has a few open spots that it would like to fill. The program runs Tuesday through Friday from 9:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. If you are interested, know anyone who may be, or would like more information contact Teresa Fox 610-867-5843, ext. 53403 or email her at tfox@basdschools.org.

Charter Arts: Literary Arts event Sept. 28

Literary Arts performance at the Lodge has been rescheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 28. Tickets will be available at the door or by visiting www.CharterArts.org.

Moravian Academy: Merit scholars

Three Moravian Academy seniors, Emmett Hawkins of Emmaus, Ryan Hoffman of Coopersburg and Lauren Lee of Center Valley were selected recently as semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The program’s scholarship winners will be announced in February and will be awarded in the spring of 2019.

The students took a 2017 preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship qualifying test. Semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, including the highest scoring entrants in each state. Merit Scholar designees are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies.

For more information, visit www.nationalmerit.org.

National PTO event Sept. 27

School parent groups nationwide will join in observing National School Parent Group Day Sept. 27. The event, sponsored by PTO Today, recognizes the hard work PTOs and PTAs do to make their schools even better places for students.

“Across the country, school parent groups provide countless volunteer hours and financial support that helps make schools stronger. National School Parent Group Day was created to applaud the work parent volunteers do in every local community and schools across the country,” said Lani Harac, director of content at PTO Today.

More than 83,000 school parent groups support K-8 schools in the United States. Parent groups go by many names – PTO, PTA, HSA, PTC and PCC, to name a few. While the groups vary in size and scope, they share the common goal of supporting schools so students can be more successful.

School parent groups support schools in two key ways, by providing volunteers and by funding items not included in school budgets. Thanks to the hard work of parent volunteers, schools have more of what students need to thrive, from volunteer tutors to new playground equipment and library books.

For more information about National School Parent Group Day, go to PTOtoday.com/parent-group-day.

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