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Lenape High School Marching Band wins USBands Group I State Championship

From Staff Reports  |  Burlington County Times

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Sights and Sounds: National Night Out in Burlington County

Mayor Tiffani Worthy and Community Engagement Officer Sally Landrum speak about National Night Out at Millcreek Park in Willingboro.

Adam Monacelli, Burlington County Times

MEDFORD – The Lenape High School Marching Band won the USBands Group I category at the open class New Jersey State Championship on Oct. 30 at Lombardi Field in Old Bridge with a score of 87.600. Their “Viva Las Vegas” also took top honors for Best Music, Best Color Guard, Best Visuals and Best Overall Effect.

The marching band is under the direction of Steve Waldron and is led by Drum Major Andrew Kanzler and Color Guard Captain Christina Ngo.

The show’s song selections include “Luck Be A Lady,” “Big Spender,” “The Gambler,” “Viva, Las Vegas” and “We’re in the Money.” 

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This is the 11th state title for the band in the past 13 years and is the 30th championship title won by the band. 

Next up for the band is a performance for the National Championship at MetLife Stadium on Nov. 6.

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Munsee

Local Event: An Evening with Larry Spotted Crow Mann

Event listing from Boston Public Library: Wednesday, November 3 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Join us for a discussion with Larry Spotted Crow Mann, award-winning author and Citizen of the Nipmuc Tribe of Massachusetts. He will talk about his new book, Drumming & Dreaming, an inspiring and healing journey of Algonquian Tales of the Nipmuc Tribe. Boston Public Library President David Leonard will provide opening remarks. This program will take place in the Rabb Lecture Hall on the Lower Level of the Johnson Building at the Central Library in Copley Square. Registration is required. To attend in-person, please visit the link in the registration box on this calendar entry. This program will also happen over Zoom webinar. To attend online, please visit this link to register. About the book: Drumming & Dreaming is an inspiring and healing journey of Algonquian Tales of the Nipmuc Tribe. Award-winning writer Larry Spotted Crow Mann skillfully brings forth the Oral Tradition in this brilliantly woven Collection of Legends that beckon the Spirit of the Land and the Ancient Voices that still have so much to Teach us all. The Art of Native American Story Telling has been passed down for thousands of years. They give life and meaning to everything in the Universe. They show us lessons of Love, courage, kindness, respect, humility, truth, and wisdom. We learn the skills to interact with our environment as a living being and codify those teachings within our own existence. All Lovers of Native American legends, culture, and history will be vividly inspired and thrilled to add this captivating book to their collection. Some of the Stories in Drumming & Dreaming will be featured in a state-wide curriculum across Massachusetts as part of a Life Skills Training for teacher and student and for alcohol and drug prevention in Native American teens. To…

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Munsee

A Celebration of Saints and Native Americans

On Nov. 1, the University president, Joseph Marina, S.J., sent a message to the University community celebrating both the Solemnity of All Saints and National Native American Heritage Month. Below is his note.

Today, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of All Saints. This is a sacred day in which we not only remember the great men and women of the Catholic faith who continue to provide us with good and holy example but also a special time to invoke their aid for the graces we desire. Many of us tend to gravitate toward St. Ignatius and other Jesuit role models in our prayers and our actions. Nothing wrong with that! But the Communion of Saints is far more expansive. It is comprised of those in Heaven along with those who live on Earth, all held together by the love of God and the ardent desire to share that love. The Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it this way: “It is not merely by the title of example that we cherish the memory of those in heaven; we seek, rather, that by this devotion to the exercise of charity, the union of the whole Church in the Spirit may be strengthened (#957).

Also, November is National Native American Heritage Month. It is a time to celebrate cultures, traditions, histories, and to acknowledge the important contributions of the original inhabitants of our continent.  This month is also a time to educate and raise awareness about the unique challenges and sufferings Native people and communities have faced historically and in the present. 

The University of Scranton has officially adopted a Land Acknowledgment Statement to recognize and honor the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Lenape, the Munsee, the Shawnee and the Susquehannocks in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The Statement reads:

 The University of Scranton acknowledges the original inhabitants and nations…

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Mohegan

CT nurse saves life of Mass. woman who collapsed having seizure at Mohegan Sun

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Nanticoke

Future gas-to-fuel plant welcome news for region

Editorials

Nov 3, 2021

We are glad to learn that Nacero Inc. is building a natural gas-to-fuel plant in Newport Township, near Nanticoke.

According to an Associated Press article in Monday’s Sun-Gazette, the $6 billion project will create 450 jobs at the plant, after its construction creates hundreds if not thousands of jobs. These jobs have the potential to be family-supporting careers and the Nanticoke area is not an unreasonable commute from southeastern Lycoming County.

The company plans to build nine such plants across the country, with construction of the first underway in Texas. A study by that project by the University of Texas expects the project to have a “$25 billion ripple effect.”

It means more prospective buyers for people selling homes from southeastern Lycoming County through Columbia and Luzerne counties, more customers for restaurants and stores, more taxpayers on county and school district rolls and more neighbors joining our churches and community groups.

It means growth.

Beyond the jobs created, the plant will use a catalytic process to convert natural gas rather than more traditional processes. The catalytic process release fewer pollutants. The plant also will convert methane, itself a pollutant, into natural gas and then into fuel. Thomas Tureen, chairman of Nacero’s board, noted that the gasoline produced also releases less ground-level ozone into the air.

It all illustrates the role natural gas plays as a bridge, a source of energy that is cleaner than coal and oil and can be consumed while other alternatives to energy, such as solar, wind and hydroelectric are better developed to be realistic alternatives.

This project is progress — both on the environmental front and in terms of…

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Mohican

Apex supports Absolute Investment Advisers as Convertible Arbitrage Fund exceeds USD500m

Absolute Investment Advisers (Absolute), a long-term client of the Apex Group (Apex), has closed its acquisition of Mohican Financial Management (Mohican).

Absolute is the fund adviser to the Absolute Convertible Arbitrage Fund (ARBIX) while Mohican Financial has been the Fund’s subadviser. The strategic transaction brings the two firms together.
 
Apex has worked with Absolute to support fund launches and provide ongoing fund services since its foundation in 2004. Absolute provides access to non-traditional investment strategies in mutual fund structures and continues to prove the value offered to investors by the asset class. In this case, the Absolute Convertible Arbitrage Fund (ARBIX) was launched on 14 August, 2017 with USD25 million in legacy assets and a 15-year track record. Fund assets under management have since grown to over USD525 million. Earlier this year ARBIX was named Lipper’s 2021 Best Alternative Equity Market Neutral Fund ranked one of 19 as of 11 March, 2021 for the three-year period.
 
“Convertible arbitrage is increasingly attractive to investors since it can complement either the fixed income or alternatives sleeve of a diversified portfolio. It may provide investors an opportunity for a moderate return with relatively low volatility, which is increasingly difficult to find in the current low interest rate environment. Convertible Arbitrage is, in our opinion, one of few strategies today that may consistently offer the potential for alpha and the team from Mohican has the experience, knowledge, and track record to execute on the opportunities present in the convertibles market,” explains Brian Hlidek, Managing Principal Sales & Marketing at Absolute.
 
Chris Koons, Head of Mutual Fund Services at Apex Group, says: “We truly value the collaborative relationship we have built with Absolute over the last 15 years, and are delighted to see such impressive growth with their latest product. We…

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Lenni Lenape

Eastern over Lenape – Girls soccer

Cami Silvestro produced one goal and two assists for second-seeded Eastern in its 4-0 win against 15th-seeded Lenape in the first round of the NJSIAA/Wawa South Jersey, Group 4 Tournament in Voorhees.

Kasey Eustace, Katerena Kokolis and Carly Schulman rounded out the rest of the scoring in the victory as Alex Clark made nine saves in the shutout. Eustace and Kelsey Barratt added to the box score with one assist each for Eastern (18-2-1), which will host 10th-seeded Cherokee in the quarterfinals on Friday at a time to be determined.

Ryann Foley compiled 10 saves for Lenape (4-12).

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Delaware Tribe

Celebrating National Native American Heritage Month at Penn State

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State student organizations and units at campuses across the commonwealth will be holding events in honor of National Native American Heritage Month, celebrated during the month of November. Here’s a look at some of the events taking place at the University’s campuses. Please check back, as additional events may be added throughout the month.

According to the Library of Congress Native American Heritage Month website, Native American Heritage Month, also known as American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month, celebrates the rich and diverse cultures, traditions and histories of the Native people and recognizes the significant contributions of the first Americans. 

This recognition began as American Indian Day on the second Saturday of each May. The day was established through a proclamation by the Congress of the American Indian Association’s president on September 28, 1915, and was the first formal appeal for recognition of Indians as citizens. In 1990, then-U.S. President George H.W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 “National American Indian Heritage Month.”

Acknowledgement of Land

This past summer, in collaboration with the Indigenous Peoples Student Association (IPSA) and the Indigenous Faculty and Staff Alliance (IFSA), Penn State’s Office of Educational Equity and Office of the President developed a land acknowledgement, a formal, institutional statement that recognizes and respects Indigenous peoples as the original stewards of this land and the enduring relationship between Indigenous peoples and their historic territories, which reads:

The Pennsylvania State University campuses are located on the original homelands of the Erie, Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora), Lenape (Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe, Stockbridge-Munsee), Shawnee (Absentee, Eastern, and Oklahoma), Susquehannock, and Wahzhazhe (Osage) Nations. As a land grant institution, we acknowledge and honor the traditional caretakers of these lands and strive to understand and model their responsible stewardship….

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Munsee

New Dining Hall Name Unveiled at Ground Blessing Ceremony

As burning sage perfumed the air on a crisp fall morning, campus, state and tribal leaders gathered yesterday to ceremonially bless the ground and announce the name of the University of Maryland’s first new dining hall in nearly 50 years.

It will be called “Yahentamitsi” (Yah-hen-tuh-meet-c), which means “a place to go to eat” in the Algonquian language spoken by the Piscataway, who are indigenous to Maryland, and will open in 2022.

“Today we have the opportunity to reimagine and to see what is familiar to us, but through Piscataway eyes. This campus has been here for a very long time—yet many of us were blind to its history,” said UMD President Darryll J. Pines. “As a land-grant institution, I believe it is our responsibility to record, to interpret and to raise public awareness about tribal history. This effort was long overdue.”

This is the first UMD building to be named for Maryland’s Native American heritage; it will feature art, artifacts and other educational materials from the Piscataway people, on whose ancestral lands the university stands today. The name was developed in partnership with Piscataway elders and tribal members, as well as UMD faculty, staff and students, including the American Indian Student Union (AISU).

“Having a beautiful place like this that is being represented and being honored for our ancestors, it means a whole lot,” said AISU treasurer Jeremy Harley ’23, a member of the Piscataway Conoy tribe. “It makes me feel like I have a space here on campus that I can truly say this represents myself, this represents my people, this represents my family.”

Yahentamitsi is part of the new Heritage Community, which includes Pyon-Chen Hall, which opened in August, and Johnson-Whittle Hall, which like the dining hall will open in 2022. Each building’s name…

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Disney on Ice skates ‘Into the Magic’ at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre Jan. 6-9, 2022

 Added on 10/26/2021  NEPA Scene Staff  Disney , Mohegan Sun Arena , skating , Wilkes-Barre Disney on Ice skates ‘Into the Magic’ at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre Jan. 6-9, 2022

From a press release:

Hosts Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse bring audiences on an expedition across raging seas, snow-covered mountains, and the marigold bridge in Disney on Ice presents “Into the Magic.” This action-packed extravaganza featuring Disney’s “Moana,” “Frozen,” “Coco,” and “Beauty and the Beast” with other beloved Disney characters skates into Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre from Thursday, Jan. 6 through Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022.

Produced by Feld Entertainment, Disney on Ice presents “Into the Magic” takes families on a high-sea adventure as Moana sets sail on a life-changing quest to save her island with help from the demigod Maui. With the ice floor transformed into the vast oceanic scape, Disney on Ice allows Moana’s strength and determination to take center stage. This engaging atmosphere lets audiences deepen their existing connection to their favorite wayfinder and discover one’s true identity is never out of reach.

Journey across the Marigold Bridge with Miguel from Disney/Pixar’s “Coco” into the magnificent and mystical Land of the Dead and discover a vibrantly colorful performance with skeletons in a beautiful cultural celebration of family.

Dazzling production numbers invite audiences into the world of “Beauty and the Beast” as Belle shows what it means to be fearless. Along with her new friends in the enchanted castle, Belle is encouraged to step outside the ordinary and find joy in the bleakest situation. As she looks beyond the harsh exterior of the Beast to reach his gentle heart, fans learn there are teachable moments in everyday life.

Through the…

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