SCHOOL BRIEFS

Applications are now being taken for the Music Box Theatre Academy, a musical theatre workshop for students ages 13 to 18, at the Music Box Dinner Playhouse, 196 Hughes St., Swoyersville.

Tuition is $275 per person and sessions begin April 27. Students will perform Disney’s “High School Musical 2” on June 18, 19, and 20. Call 283-2195 for information and enrollment forms.

Education Center holds registration

Trucksville Early Childhood Education Center (formerly Trucksville Nursery School) is currently registering students for the 2010-11 school year. The center offers classes for children ages 2 to 6 years old.

The center offers morning and afternoon programs, as well as a Kindergarten Extension Program for morning kindergarten students in the Dallas School District.

Families may call 696-3899 for an appointment to tour the center. Walk-ins are also welcome at any time.

MU sets Movie Night

The Misericordia University Student Activities Department has announced the campus will begin to offer movies in the recently renovated Lemmond Theater in Walsh Hall.

The schedule includes “Precious” at 3 and 8 p.m. today, Feb. 7; and “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” at 3 and 8 p.m. on Sunday, March 14.

Admission is $1 for Misericordia students with ID and $2 for the general public.

Lock-In fundraiser at Friendly’s

The Dallas Lock-In Committee will hold a fundraiser at Friendly’s Restaurant in Dallas from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday Feb. 10.

A percentage of eat-in and take-out sales from that night will be donated to the Lock-In.

Seminary schools host Visitation Day

The Wyoming Seminary Upper School in Kingston and Lower School in Forty Fort are offering a Visitation Day for area elementary, middle aKnd high school students and their families on Monday, Feb. 15.

Registration will begin at 8 a.m. at the Lower School and at 8:30 a.m. at the Upper School. Visiting students will attend classes, tour campus and have lunch. Parent tours also will be available.

For more information or to schedule a visit, call the Lower School Admission Office at 718-6610 and the Upper School Admissions Office at 270-2160.

DHS Lock-In Committee will meet

The Dallas High School 2010 Graduation Lock-In Committee will meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb.18, in the Dallas High School Library.

Grocery certificates for Mr. Z’s and Thomas’ Family Market will be sold in increments of $50 at this meeting. Students are now being asked to e-mail a baby or toddler photo and a photo from senior year to lockinpics@comcast.net for the Lock-In video. Photos will be returned the night of the Lock-In.

Schoenberg Festival at Seminary

Wyoming Seminary Upper School will present a special Schoenberg Festival, offering instrumental and vocal music by Arnold Schoenberg, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, and Tuesday, Feb. 23, in the Great Hall of Wyoming Seminary, 228 Wyoming Ave., just north of Kingston Corners.

The Saturday concert will present Schoenberg’s piano trio “Verklaerte Nacht” and several short pieces by Schoenberg’s student Anton von Webern; the Tuesday performance will feature Schoenberg’s melodrama “Pierrot Lunaire.”

Program addresses elder abuse

The Luzerne-Wyoming Counties Elder Abuse Task Force of Pennsylvania will host two free elder financial abuse education programs, “Protecting Yourself from Elder Financial Fraud: Don’t Become a Victim!” from 10 a.m. to noon on Monday, March 8, in Sandy and Marlene Insalaco Hall at Misericordia University.

To register, call 822-1158. Lunch will be served following the noon workshop and light refreshments will be available at the evening program. Deadline for registration is March 1.

Lock-In fundraiser at T.G.I. Friday’s

Back Mountain residents are asked to support the Dallas High School Grad Lock-In by eating in or taking food out at T.G.I. Friday’s in Wilkes-Barre any Wednesday or Thursday until May 20, 2010.

A portion of sales will be donated to the Lock-In and coupons must be presented to servers. Coupons can be printed from the Dallas School District Web site..