Seneca Valley High School Musical

If you want to feel good about the future, kids, and life in general, I strongly suggest that you go see a high school musical, which is what we did last night.  We saw the Seneca Valley High School production of "Annie".  We had a connection to seeing this in that our nephew, Zach, was a part of the stage crew (and the crew did an EXCELLENT job, by the way).  

Anyway, the talent and enthusiasm of the cast, orchestra, and crew that went into this excellent production just makes you feel good all over.  Congratulations and THANKS to all those SV kids who made this happen!

In two more weeks, we take in North Allegheny's production of "Footloose".

Now, attending the play last night prevented us from attending a Lenten Fish Fry at a local church.  Instead, we hit a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Zelionople called the Jackson Fish Company Market Cafe.   Excellent fish sandwich, and, on the bright side, you can hit this place 52 weeks a year if you are so inclined.

The Seneca Valley Film Festival...and Other High School Thoughts

Last night Marilyn and I ventured north to the Strand Theater in the heart of beautiful downtown Zelionople, PA to take in the first Seneca Valley Film Festival.  For over two hours we watched about two dozen short films and videos that were written, directed, produced, and starred students from Seneca Valley High School. We had a horse in this race as our nephew, sophomore Zach Stoner, had a hand in several of these offerings, both in front of and behind the camera. 

I suppose that at this point we shouldn't be surprised by such things, but we were once again blown away by the talent displayed by these young kids.  That was some absolutely amazing stuff that was on display last night.  Congratulations to all of these kids for putting their wonderful abilities, and congratulations to the Seneca Valley School District for making it possible for these kids to have the opportunity to develop and  fulfill the talent within them.

And, of course, special congratulations to Zach!

When I thought about it last night, I realized that attending this film festival put the cap on a school year where we saw an awful lot of positive efforts by a lot of kids:

• Varsity soccer games at Central Catholic
• Freshman and JV basketball games at Central
• Orchestra and Strolling Strings performances at North Allegheny
• The North Allegheny Spring Musical
• The Percussion concert at Mt. Lebanon High School
• The Mt. Lebanon High School baseball team
• The young film makers at Seneca Valley

Congratulations to all of these terrific kids.  It was a joy watching all of it!