BASD: MiniTHON is April 30

The Bethlehem Area School District MiniTHON will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. April 30 at Freedom HS, 3149 Chester Road, for the Four Diamonds Fund for pediatric cancer. The fund provides support to families and provides money for worldwide oncology research.

The 12-hour dance marathon is modeled after Penn State’s 46-hour THON dance marathon. Approximately 1,000 students from Freedom and Liberty high schools will participate in activities to help the fight against pediatric cancer.

For information, visit http://basdminithon.com/, www.basd.org, or #BasdminiThon.

BASD: District now part of VHV

The Bethlehem Area School District is now part of the free children’s Virtual Health Village.

The Children’s Care Alliance and the VHV facilitates the exchange of student electronic health records between different hospitals, clinics, physician offices and school districts in the Lehigh Valley.

The program will provide more complete, up-to-date information available to health care providers, including school nurses, when a child is treated in an emergency room, clinic or doctor’s office or when the student visits the school health room.

Visit http://www.childrenscarealliance.org/ to complete an online consent form or for information.

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