We were honored to celebrate Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day on April 28th with our friends at The Biondo Group, who invited children and grandchildren of their staff to explore new ideas and pay attention to the moments in life that move us in certain directions. Working with the theme “Sparking Aha Moments,” the children, ages 8 to 11, spent part of the day at the Biondo offices in Milford, PA playing games and doing activities that
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Smart phone photo editing is the topic that Coal Cracker youth-led news reporters will explore on January 30th. The free training session will be led by Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Pierre-Pierre, a multi-media and entrepreneurial journalist. Coal Cracker reporter Ashley Stetson (at center in the above photo) will act as a youth trainer for the session, lending her smart phone photo editing expertise to the conversation. Ashley is a seventh grade student at Mahanoy Area Middle School. She has been a
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Coal Cracker, a Mahanoy City-based youth-led newspaper that is a project of Heron’s Eye Communications, will host a FREE journalism skills workshop titled “News Writing and Reporting for Your Community” on Thursday, July 9, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm, on the second floor of the Mahanoy City Public Library. Veteran journalists Chris Mele and Meg McGuire will lead the session. The workshop is open to young people, of any school district, grades 5 – 12. No prior journalism experience is
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