Can you define yourself in six words?

Students in journalism professor Bob Vucic's Journalism in the Digital Age class at Lebanon Valley College took up the interesting challenge as a class project. Soon it spread throughout the campus – everyone from the president of the college to the cooks in the cafeteria took on the creative exercise.

The six-word challenge was featured on an NPR broadcast, but it has its roots in an urban legend.

Here's how the story goes: Ernest Hemingway bet someone that he could write a story in just six words that was so powerful, it could make the reader cry.

Hemingway typed this: "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.''

True? No one knows. But it has inspired some to be creative.

How would you define yourself in just six words?

Ingrid Campbell sat with a group of friends, chatting and listening to music. This was her first prom, and she was enjoying the afternoon. It may have come a few decades late, but it didn’t matter.

In Germany, where she was born and raised, there were no proms. But for Campbell, of Middletown, it’s never too late.

She was one of nearly 100 in attendance at the 16th annual Senior Citizens Prom held at Lower Dauphin High School on Saturday, April 6 . . .

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In the time that it takes you to read this story, two children will be sold into sexual slavery and four children will die as a result of dirty water in Africa. It’s a scary reality, but one Stephanie Strauss hopes people will come together to change.

Strauss, a Middletown Area High School graduate, holds an annual coffeehouse, which she calls PUREhope Coffeehouse, at a Highspire church to raise money and awareness to fight sex trafficking, HIV/AIDS and water crises in Africa.

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Middletown Borough Council is planning a series of three ward meetings and a town hall meeting in March to “allow residents to hear updates about issues facing the borough from the professional experts advising council,’’ according to a borough media advisory.