Oh ho ho, it’s Magic, you know. Never believe it’s not so! *ahem* We hope you’ll forgive us that little blast from the past (and that you’ll also forgive us for getting that Pilot song stuck in your head as well as ours), but we’ve seldom come across a pet with such an apt name! Magic…
Five members of Western Wayne High School’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter recently attended the organization’s annual National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, California. The Pennsylvania delegation totaled 394. The students had the opportunity to compete for honors in one of the more than 60 different business and business-related events. In addition, they were…
If we’ve learned nothing else from the Great Twinkie Incident of 2012 & 2013, this much is clear: you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. It’s funny how easy it is to take something for granted when it always seems to be available. It’s even more interesting how welcome the return of that…
Pop culture for this day in 1979 said it all: Moonraker was the #1 film in the country and “Rock the Boat” held the top spot on the Billboard chart. The boat was certainly about to be rocked, and – yes – it came from the sky. On July 11, 1979 Skylab crashed to the…
It’s July 10th and that means that it’s also a day to observe the cultural customs of Ursus Theodorus. (In other words, it’s Teddy Bear Picnic Day.) You probably remember that upbeat little ditty: not only was it merrily cranked out by countless music boxes and toddler toys, it was also featured as background music…
Shift. Then the number 2. It’s a keyboard combination that we all type with some frequency. And it’s also one that most of us used very little until the last two decades; before email, we just didn’t pay all that much attention to @. So we wondered (don’t we always?) why that little A in the…
This man does not look happy. Thoughtful. Serious. Pensive, maybe, but not really happy. Then again, you’d look less than charmed if you were largely forgotten. The fellow pictured above is Millard Fillmore, and on this day in 1850, he became the 13th President of the United States. He tends to be one of the…
That’s likely a rather unnecessary order, as you’ve probably been soaking up the air conditioning for at least the past week. We certainly have been! And although cool air on command in a wonderful thing, you might not realize how very revolutionary the invention of air conditioning actually was. Before Willis Carrier invented the first air…
Several students from Susquehanna Community High School had the opportunity to visit London, Oxford and Stratford from June 17th to the 23rd. The students were Nicole Barnes, Abby Burdick, Kasey Burdick, and Tyler Petriello. They traveled with Mrs. Weiss and were part of an EF Tour. Highlights included Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, the London Eye,…
Timothy Lescinski, who will enter be a junior at Western Wayne High School in the fall, captured first place in the nation at the annual National Leadership Conference of the Future Business Leaders of America at Anaheim, California Tim competed against more than 120 members from across the country in his event, FBLA Principles &…