East Hills: Cash bingo April 7

East Hills Band and Orchestra Association cash bingo, 2 to 5 p.m. East Hills M.S., April 7. For tickets, call 610-867-0541, ext. 44137 or email ehboabingo@gmail.com or visit www.ehboa.org.

Charter Arts: Snow make up day

The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts will be in session as a snow make up day on April 15.

For information, visit https://www.charterarts.org.

Sweeney Todd; guitar; dance programs

The theatre production ‘Sweeney Todd’ will be held at 7 p.m. April 3 through 6 and at 2 p.m. April 7; ‘An Evening with Guitar’ program at 7 p.m. April 9; The ‘Young Choreographers in Concert’ shows at 7 p.m. April 12 and at 2 and 7 p.m. on April 13. All events are at the school, 321 E. Third St. Visit www.charterarts.org/.

BATV: Skills USA winners

From February 8-27 over 400 students competed in 52 hands-on skill and leadership competitions. These competitions provided a unique opportunity for some of the most talented career and technical education students in the area to showcase their skills. District Gold Medal winners advance to state and potentially national competitions.

This year, the SkillsUSA Council is partnering with post-secondary educational institutions and area businesses to award over $200,000 in scholarships and prizes to the medalists of twelve competitions.

Following the competitions, which took place over the course of three weeks at varying host locations, students gathered at their technical schools for a live, online awards ceremony to hear the results of the competitions and, for the winners, to receive their medals.

Gold medal winners will represent District 11 at the State competition in Hershey, PA this coming April.

BAVTS student winners include:

1st place - Zane Henritzy, Robert Smith, Jordan Krische, Michael Kuzio, Ariel Montanez, Kristan Fleary, Brandon Balliet, Jeremy Myers, Thomas Coffin and Joseph Fekete

2nd place - Elyjah Pinero, Zachery Siekonic, Owen Roth, Brady Rowe, Abigail Wenger, Mersadies Bonilla, Richard Oliver, Tathiana Millien, Anthony Lamoreaux, Billy Gaston and Julia Pletz

3rd place - Matthew Clark, Anthony Hughes, Arianna Viera, Amy Swierczek, Benjamin Murdock, Harkiran Bhullar, Brandon Cordero, Christopher Kulp, Max Heffner, Francisco Lora Nunez and Kenneth Zuniga

Contestants from the following area career and technical schools participated:

Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School (BAVTS)

Career Institute of Technology (CIT)

Lehigh Career & Technical Institute (LCTI)

Monroe Career & Technical Institute (MCTI)

Upper Bucks County Technical School (UBCTS)

Lehigh Valley: Music award winners announced

The Lehigh Valley Music Awards (LVMA) are set to honor four local students who stand out for their exemplary performances both in school and onstage. Lehigh Valley Charter HS for the Arts’ Grace Rosario, Temple University’s Max Hostage, Liberty HS’s Mariah Nagle and Pen Argyl HS’s Karin Guide have been named the recipients of this year’s Youth Education Scholarship Awards.

Grace Rosario is a senior viola major at the Lehigh Valley Charter HS for the Arts, where she leads the viola section of orchestra, string ensemble and pit orchestra. She plans to pursue a career in music and continue her education in the fall of 2019.

Musikfest alumnus Max Hostage first became interested in music at age 11 after finding his brother’s blue lacquered Stratocaster guitar. He intends to major in entrepreneurship and minor in music at Temple University, while continuing to study jazz music and maintain creative projects on the side.

A senior at Liberty HS, Mariah Nagle has performed in eight Liberty productions, most notably as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and will lead as Belle in “Beauty and the Beast” this spring. She plans to continue her education in musical theater throughout college.

Karin Guide has been deeply involved with music since childhood. In elementary school she started singing in choir and playing the violin, and she later took up the tenor saxophone and became a percussionist in Pen Argyl HS’s marching band. Guide plans to pursue music education in college.

Started in 1999 by the Greater Lehigh Valley Music Association (GLVMA), the Lehigh Valley Music Awards are designed to honor and celebrate the musicians and music related businesses of the Greater Lehigh Valley. The LVMAs, now in their 20th year, are a partnership between the Greater Lehigh Valley Music Association and ArtsQuest. For more information on the LVMAs, visit www.lehighvalleymusicawards.org.