QUEST Camp Takes Kids Back to the Outdoors WBRE 23.JUL.08
Bloomsburg-
They call it the Kids' Outdoor Amazon Adventure Day Camp. And this camp definitely lives up to its billing. Twelve-year-old Perri Harmon, of Bloomsburg, said, "I just love the outdoors and doing stuff like this that challenges me.”
Put away the computer and video games. For a full week, these 12 kids are experiencing the outdoors in a whole new way. It's all thanks to the QUEST program at Bloomsburg University.
B.U. Senior Tabitha Chlubicki explained, "We try to promote them to work as a group and promote everyone else around them and encourage them to go further. Hopefully they take that with them and encourage their friends and teammates in other sports that they do in the future."
The Bloomsburg Police Department is telling residents to make sure any window mounted fans or air conditioners are installed so nobody can remove them and get inside your home. There have been these types of incidents reported on East 6th Street, East 8th Street, and Catherine Street, and Mary Avenue. Police are still investigating the reports.
According to criminal complaints filed on July 16th two Bloomsburg University Co-eds are being charged with defrauding the Columbia County Public Assistance Program and the Federal Food Stamp Program.
According to the complaints Bloomsburg University students Stephanie Soto age 19, and Dalila Vasquez age 19, were interviewed on August 30th, 2007 to determine their eligibility to participate in the Public Assistance programs. Based on the information they provided to the Columbia County Assistance program eligibility was established. Both Soto and Vasquez were made aware of their responsibility to report changes affecting this eligibility. Both students were made aware of the 20 hours per week work requirement and provided documentation that they were scheduled to work at Aramark Dining services located on campus. [read more]
A Williamsport man is facing several charges after taking a digital camera and debit card from the room of a BU Co-ed in Elwell Hall.
Bloomsburg University police were called to the 6th floor of Elwell hall for the report of a theft on July 11th at 2:07AM. Police met with community assistant Lauren Dyer, Shadet Warren an Elwell Hall resident, and two unidentified black males. Dyer said that Shadet Warren was missing a debit card and digital camera. Dyer found the two males in the lobby, recognizing that both males didn’t live in Elwell Hall. [read more]
The Starbucks located at 34 E Main Street in Bloomsburg is on the store closure list released on the Starbucks website Thursday. The list contained 616 company owned stores it will close by the first half of 2009 according to CNN Money. [read more]
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s (PASSHE) Board of Governors today voted to increase tuition by $181 for the 2008-09 academic year. For the fourth year in a row, the increase will be below the rate of inflation.
The new annual tuition rate for full-time, resident, undergraduate students beginning this fall will be $5,358 – the lowest rate among all four-year colleges and universities in Pennsylvania. PASSHE’s total tuition and fee increases over the last five years have been the lowest among all public university systems in the United States. [read more]
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