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Court Square Theater and X2 Comedy are teaming up on Saturday, Oct. 8 for a comedy pageant to raise funds for theater maintenance, improvements and programming.The FUNdraiser benefit performance will begin at 7:30 p.m.The local and regional comics will be competing for up to $2,000 in cash and prizes. The evening is going to be packed with laughter, and it all supports Court Square Theater, stanley thermobecher this communitys performing arts and film venue, said CST managing director J.P. Gulla. We are thrilled that the event will be hosted by X2 Comedy which provides high quality clean comedy PG-13 shows in the Shenandoah Valley. Performing stand-up comedy during the pageant are: Adam Bush, Chris Cabral, Nathan Carlson stanley website , Beau Johnson, Dawn Mast, Duck Matthews, Kyle Remnant, Paul Snyder, Travis Valle, OliviaYoumans, and Jay Zehr.Also included in the performer lineup is Sam Kaufmans storytelling with a twist, and New and Improvd, billed as JMUs oldest and boldest improv comedy troupe. X2 Comedys Dawn Davis Womack, joined by Chris Womack, will host the event.Contestants will be competing for cash and prizes in the following categories:Best in Show 鈥?Overall Performance $500, plus Harrisonburg staycation package with Hotel Madison accommodation and prizes from other local businesses Comic Genius 鈥?Originality $100 and prizes from local businesses Show Stopper 鈥?S stanley cup uk tage Presence $100 and prizes from local businesses The Peoples Choice Award $250, plus free meal at Capital Ale House and prizes fr Exiq Redskins Logic: Mark Sanchez, Josh Johnson, Reuben Foster 8230; but no Colin Kaepernick
By聽Chelsea ChurchNow that the snow is over and spring is finally here, it is time to make adjustments to the聽school聽calendar. Because of all the school days canceled for the snow, it now has to be made up. This means shorter spring break, less teacher work days and added days at the end of the year. Staunton City Schools average around two snow days per year. After those are used up, other days are put in to make up for lost time.According to the Virginia Board of Education, 180 teaching days stanley website or 990 teaching hours a stanley termos re required within the school year. Because students missed five days of school, they have to make up a certain amount of hours. Monday, April 6, which was a teacher work day and a short extension to the week-long spring break, is now a regular school day. Teachers still need time to put grades in and get ready for the last quarter of the school year, though, so March 25 and 26 are two-hour early release days for Staunton City Schools. Lastly, June 8 and 9 were added to the end of the school year for underclassmen; however, seniors are still able to graduate on time, on June 6.These lost hours are kind of stressful to teachers. They still need to get all their curriculum ta stanley quencher ught and understood before SOLs and the end of the school year, and missing instruction time does set them back a bit. Robert E. Lee chemistry teacher Heather Davis is coping well with this, though. The chemistry SOL is May 21, so Davis has come up with ways to prepare her students for this test |
