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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
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Grammy winner CeCe Winans brings More Than This tour to Longview
LONGVIEW, Texas (KTAL/KMSS) — The most awarded female gospel singer of all time, CeCe Winans, of the legendary Winans gospel family, is performing in Longview as part of her More than This world tour. The Winans are widely regarded as the first family of gospel music. The parents released music as Mom and Pop Winans. CeCe and eight of her nine siblings went on to become recording artists. Four of her brothers performed as The Winans, CeCe formed a duo with her brother BeBe, three other siblings had solo careers, and several of their children and spouses also performed. Gospel music is the Winans' domain, and CeCe may be the queen. In addition to her 17 Grammy Awards, 31 Dove Awards, and 15 Stellar Awards, she is also the best-selling female gospel artist ever. From her debut album, Lord Lift Us Up, with BeBe in 1984 to her debut solo album, Alone in His Presence, in 1995 to 2024's More Than This, Winans has created an incredible career. Winans brings her incredible voice and over 40 years of hits to the LeTourneau University Belcher Center in Longview on September 15 at 7 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
NBC News
28-04-2025
- NBC News
Teacher goes viral on TikTok for video explaining why she went to school at night in her pajamas
Sarah Ashley Winans woke up in the middle of the night with test anxiety. Only, she wasn't the one set to take the state exam. She's the middle school teacher who would be administering it. Winans, a teacher in Eastman, Georgia, went viral for a video she shared April 23 of herself realizing she forgot to plug in her computer cart the day before her sixth grade class was set to take a state exam. 'You're probably going to laugh. I was in bed. I was like dead asleep, and for some reason, I just woke up, and I sat up straight in the bed, and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I did not plug this Chromebook cart in,'' she tells Because her classroom doesn't have many outlets, she recalls unplugging the computer cart for a pencil sharpener, to make sure she had plenty of No. 2 pencils ahead of the state tests. But she never plugged the cart back in. So at around 10:15 p.m. on April 21, Winans hopped out of bed, put her shoes on, grabbed her car keys and texted her school's administrator. She picked up the keys to the building and within minutes, she was walking through the hallways of her middle school — still in her pajamas and hair says she lives just 5 minutes from the school, so she 'didn't even think to put on clothes.' When she arrived to the school, she walked into her classroom, plugged in the cart (yes, it was actually unplugged) and went back home, unable to fall back asleep. She jokes when she told her fellow teachers, 'nobody was shocked.' 'I'm the sixth grade chair person, and I coach cheerleading, and I own a dance studio. I do a bunch of different things, so I'm kind of just like, I have so many irons in the fire,' she says with a laugh. 'So I can forget kind of easily sometimes.' Later, she thought of all the security cameras around her school and asked her administrator if she could see the footage. 'She let me look at it, and then I said, 'I have to record it,'' Winans recalls. The footage, which Winans shared to TikTok in a now viral video, shows the teacher in her pajamas, slides and bonnet getting out of her car right outside the entrance and walking through the hallways before arriving at her classroom. On her way out, she flashes a peace sign at the camera. 'POV: You forgot to plug in your Chromebook cart and state testing starts tomorrow,' she wrote over the video, which has more than 13 million views and 2 million likes as of April 28. She set the footage to the Hannah Montana track, 'This Is the Life' — fittingly the first song TikTok suggested to accompany the video, she says — and soon, had a viral video on her hands. Winans says she's been taking screenshots of her favorite comments on the post, including: 'I just know you were stress texting your principal.' 'The way you definitely had to ask someone else for this footage too 😂 I'm dying lol' 'Girl you so lucky the school ghost didn't get you 😂 … I refuse to go into my classroom after dark!' 'Yall know she was (on the phone) with someone bc she was scared to death.' ('And I was, I was on the phone with one of my friends. I was like, 'Oh, I've got to talk to somebody before I come in here,'' Winans says.) In the caption of the video, Winans added, 'Test taking anxiety isn't just for the kids. Mind you…this was at 10:15 p.m.' Winans says pre-test nerves 'definitely' caused her to wake up in the middle of the night. Part of being a teacher is being nervous for her students, 'because I don't want them to be nervous,' she says. 'I don't really sleep the week of testing, because I want them to be OK, and I want them to feel confident, not to be nervous and worried,' she says. 'I know testing can really put a lot of pressure on people.' Winans says she's shocked by the attention the video has received. 'This is just something we do. Teachers, you make mistakes, and you forget to do things and, I mean, you just do what you have to do to make sure your kids are successful,' she says. 'And I just was doing my job.'
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Jackass Brewery tapped to represent Pa. breweries at 'Beer is Bipartisan' event in D.C.
Jackass Brewing Company in Lewisburg was one of six Pennsylvania breweries invited to Washington, D.C., to represent the state's beer industry during an event with 17 Congress members from Pennsylvania. Jackass owners Larry Winans and Skip Kratzer traveled to the nation's capital on Tuesday to take part in the event 'Beer is Bipartisan' in the Department of Agricultural room in the Longworth House Office Building for the U.S. House of Representatives. Jackass Brewery, which opened in 2020 has two locations: one at 2268 Old Turnpike Road, Lewisburg, and the newly-opened Williamsport facility in Lycoming County. 'We met with congressmen from Pennsylvania, their staffers and a few others,' Winans said. 'We had conversations with them, talked about what Pennsylvania does, how much beer it produces, and what the industry does for the state. It was intended to get people together. There's a lot of divisiveness and we wanted to talk rather than being political and taking sides.' Pennsylvania ranks second in the nation in the economic impact generated by its craft breweries at $5.474 billion in 2023. Producing 3,132,799 barrels a year, the state also ranks second nationally in volume, and third in the number of craft breweries, with 530, according to the state Department of Agriculture. The event, sponsored by the Nardelli Group, also included Yards Brewing Company and Love City Brewing, of Philadelphia; Susquehanna Brewing Company, of Pittson; Tröegs Independent Brewing, of Hershey; and Zero Day Brewing, of Pennsylvania. Nardelli Group President Mick Nardelli is familiar with Jackass because Winans is on the board for Breweries of Pennsylvania. Each of the breweries brought samples of their products. Winans said they brought Foggy Doo, a double IPA, and Moms with Pitchforks, an amber ale. 'They were very well received,' Winans said. Winans said he and Kratzer left the event feeling positive. 'The staffers and congressmen and women are people too, and they want to listen and want to do what's best for Pennsylvania,' he said. 'That's fantastic that everyone could get together to be as apolitical as possible and just talk about the industry. These people who seem so far away in Washington are not so far away. That's a fantastic feeling.' U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser (PA-09) shared his experience with Jackass at the event on several social media accounts. 'Last night, I sampled some of Pennsylvania's finest beers alongside skilled local brewers and fellow members of the Pennsylvania delegation,' Meuser wrote. 'I enjoyed meeting Skip Kratzer and Larry Winans, co-founders of Jackass Brewing Company in Williamsport, whose beers stood out as some of the best on the panel — though I may be slightly biased, as they proudly represent Pennsylvania's beautiful Ninth District.'
