Actress Tammy Blanchard best known for her Emmy Award wining role as a young Judy Garland in CBS’s 2001 mega docu-drama Life with Judy Garland:Me and My Shadows, will appear in “Amish Grace,” a Lifetime LMN drama Sunday, March 28, at 8pm.

Based on a True Story and Book Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver- Zercher.

When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community.

Ms. Blanchard stars as Amy Roberts the wife of Charles Carl Roberts the shooter at Nickle Back. Also appearing with Ms. Blanchard in Amish Grace; Kimberly Williams Paisley, and Matt Letscher.

Read more about Ms. Blanchard’s acting career next month in our River View Observer Celebrity Cover Interview with this talented New Jersey actress.

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 The Theater Company (TTC) and Art House Productions (AHP) are teaming up to celebrate Women’s History Month and to prepare and present new voices in the local music scene with cabaret performances and a free workshop March 12 & 13, 2010.

 Women In Song will be a one night only cabaret featuring the talents of Mimi Francis, Margaret Leone and Judith Moss as they perform female-centric songs in honor of Women’s History Month. Leone and Moss are regulars on the local cabaret scene working with Musical Director David Zimmerman throughout Hudson County. Francis was just seen in TTC’s production of RENT and has sung in cabarets throughout the NY/NJ metro-area including Dangerfield’s, The Duplex, Don’t Tell Mama’s, and Piano’s.

New Voices Cabaret & Workshop has been organized to help singers work on a song with which they’d like help “polishing” with a Musical Director and Director. The workshop is free and will culminate in the performers participating in a cabaret performance that evening with the ladies of Women In Song headlining.

There is a $10 cover charge (refreshments available) and tickets are currently available for purchase at

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/101515 (cash/checks at the door). Art House Productions

(www.arthouseproductions.org) is located at Hamilton Square, 1 McWilliams Place, 6th Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07302

(SE Corner of Hamilton Park, near Erie/8th St). A link to directions as well event details can all be found on TTC’s

website at www.thetheatercompany.org/Cabaret.htmlThere is no charge for the workshop. Participants must bring the sheet music to a song with which they New Voices Cabaret & Workshop March 13, 2010 – 4pm workshop, 8pm show at Art House Productions

Workshop: are familiar and would like to work on with a Director and Musical Director to “polish” the song for performance at the 8pm show that evening. To register for the workshop, please email info@thetheaterno later than 48 hours in advance of the workshop start time. Location information for Art Housecompany.org

Productions is the same as listed above. A link to directions as well workshop details can all be found on TTC’s website at www.thetheatercompany.org/Workshop.htmlNo cost to participants, but there is a $10 cover charge (refreshments available) for audience members.

Show:Tickets will be available for purchase at the door – cash/checks at the door. Location information for Art House Productions is the same as listed above. A link to directions as well event details can all be found on TTC’s website at www.thetheatercompany.org/Workshop.html

Contact: David Zimmerman Phone: 201.248.2788 the.theater.company@gmail.com 268 4th St., 2nd Floor Jersey City, NJ 07302 www.thetheatercompany.org

For more information about Women In Song, New Voices Cabaret & Workshop, TTC or Art House Productions, please visit ww.thetheatercompany.org or email info@thetheatercompany.org or www.arthouseproductions.org or email info@arthouseproductions.org

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Wishing Everyone a Happy, Healthy, Safe and Prosperous 2010

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We should expect to see a fairly noticeable campaign from leading appliance manufacturers and the stores that sell major appliances in the coming months. In addition to the government-sponsored rebate program, most people replacing dated appliances with new, more efficient models will actually realize a costs savings in terms of energy usage.

With Energy-Star rated products in particular, there are significant savings possible from the standpoint of water and electric usuage , especially with appliances like washing machines  and refrigerators.

Although the original cash for clunkers program had its problems, it definitely drove sales of automobiles at a time when there would likely have not been near that level of consumer activity. And while the impact of the appliance program is expected to be fairly minimal in comparison to the automobile program, it will definitely have an impact and it will most certainly be a welcome boost to appliance manufacturers and retailers.

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