Oh that sounds really delicious. I hope your family has a happy Diwali!

I think Title IX compliance is on a school by school basis. So if High School A wants to add girls wrestling they could pair it with boys wrestling or similar?

Oh that’s sweet. I hope you can celebrate together next year. What does a family Diwali party look like?

Likewise, not my tradition but it's pretty cool to learn about new holidays. Plus, if people who do celebrate it want to get together with family this makes it easier.

To quote /u/Zenith2017, ¿por que no los dos?

20 paid days a year, plus 12 federal holidays (1 per month) would be fantastic.

There should not be a month without a 3 day weekend. August, get your act together!

If it's a state holiday, I think the schools are off.

My job gets the federal holidays, so I would probably still have to work. Honestly, still fighting for Juneteenth. The holiday was created AFTER our most recent contract, so even though the language says "federal holidays" I get the feeling they're gonna hold out until our next contract.

I don't celebrate Diwali, but if I get the day off you bet your ass I'll start lol.

Geeze. Oh. Perhaps I have heard of such a party lol

That’s what Mail-in ballots accomplish. So if we had an Election Day holiday AND mail-in then everybody is covered

Very good point! Unfortunately, that doesn't have bipartisan support (yet).

On the other hand - this would be sick because it would turn Veterans Day into a 4 day weekend!

State Senator Greg Rothman (R-34) and Senator Nikil Saval (D-1) introduced legislation to make Diwali an official state holiday in Pennsylvania. The holiday moves around because it's a lunar calendar, but is typically in October or November. This year it would be November 12.

Diwali is celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and some Buddhists. It's a Festival of Lights.

Any new state holiday is good in my opinion!

Absolutely! The kids are alright. Our local paper had a couple of good quotes from the young women who started this project and it was really inspiring.

I’m not trying to get political about it. I think it’s cool that what started as a grassroots effort eventually led to the creation of enough teams across the state to get PIAA to sanction it as an official sport

More than 1000 female student athletes compete in wrestling across the state. Just last week, Perkiomen Valley and Pennridge became the 99th and 100th high schools to add girls' wrestling programs, the minimum number for PIAA to "sanction" a sport.

Yeah, that’s my take as well. With as much grifting as he was doing it’s hard to keep track. “And the money kept rolling in”- Evita

It is getting a little better. There are still a lot of empty storefronts though

They opened a cafe called Ethan’s eats that does breakfast and lunch it’s really good. The regal room still does catering and banquet stuff

It’s still there!

The key to these two pictures is the old Granada theatre. In the color photograph it is the building near the center. In the b&w photo it is at the top left with its sign clearly visible.

The theatre was a vaudeville and cinema. It closed in 1950. It was later converted to office and retail space but is sadly vacant today.

There will be loads of Penn staters there when the weather warms up. Should be easy to find a ride.

Right! If the FBI did find the gold, where is it now? Or did some rogue FBI agents retire to Cabo with the money?

Whipple Dam State park in centre county is pretty nice. I went there a lot when I was at Penn State, it’s pretty close

This story is so sick. Secret Civil War gold stashed in an unassuming PA wilderness, a pair of amateur treasure hunters find something and then the FBI comes in and excavates, and finds "nothing" despite their own experts saying there was a big mass of metal down there.

I hope we find the truth about this. It would make an awesome book or movie.

>The court-ordered release of a trove of government photos, videos, maps and other documents involving the FBI's secretive search for Civil War-era gold has a treasure hunter more convinced than ever of a coverup — and just as determined to prove it.
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>Dennis Parada waged a legal battle to force the FBI to turn over records of its excavation in Dents Run, Pennsylvania, where local lore says an 1863 shipment of Union gold disappeared on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. The FBI, which went to Dents Run after sophisticated testing suggested tons of gold might be buried there, has long insisted the dig came up empty.
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>Parada and his advisers, who have spent countless hours poring over the newly released government records, believe otherwise. They accuse the FBI of distorting key evidence and improperly withholding records in an apparent effort to conceal the recovery of a historic, extremely valuable gold cache. The FBI defends its handling of the materials.

Maggie Rogers just did an invite only show in Lititz a week or so ago