March 2006

Every year, extreme climatic problems occur around the globe, with droughts in some places and floods in others. Variations in climate and weather can significantly impact our daily lives in subtle ways. We are irrevocably linked to our ecosystem in events resulting from extremely cold winters, crop failure from draught, or emergency conditions such as flooding, heat waves, or forest fires. Some of these widely dispersed climatic extremes might have a common origin in the occasional warming of sea surface water in the central and eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean.

On March 19, 10 and 1, 2006, at the Frank Guaracini Jr. Fine and Performing Arts Center, Vineland New Jersey, a Perry Award nominated Best Director Joe Marrella recreated Rodgers and Hammersein musical “South Pacific”. Under his direction, the crew and cast worked tirelessly for almost six months to achieve success and they exceeded expectations. Tickets, at $12.00 each, were sold out well in advance for the weekend shows and it was about 90% sold out for the mid-week.

Hi, how are you doing? I’m fine. You want to know why I am in the woods, right? I’ll tell you. My parents really chewed me out all the time. They gave me only one thing that I liked, and that was an audio device. But I had to be aware of Greeks bearing gifts. My dad works in a real estate agency. Every day he’d come home with lots of money, probably about $700. My parents’ plan was to become millionaires, live in complete luxury, live in a mansion, and abandon me and keep me in an orphanage. They were counting their eggs before they hatched! They said, “We should have a girl, not Andy!”