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EVENTS, PROGRAMS, HAPPENINGS, SEMINARS: March 23 SOUP NIGHT, Wed., March 23, 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Dimock Community Church. MOMMY & ME STORY TIME, beginning Wed., March 23, 9:30 a.m. at Susquehanna Branch Library. Register at library. MEETING: Advisory Committee of Clifford Twp., March 23, 7:00 p.m. at township municipal building. SPAGHETTI DINNER, Wed., March 23, 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Kirkwood Elks Lodge. March 24 PIZZA NIGHT and Open Mic Country, Thurs., March 24, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Kirkwood Elks Lodge. March 25 WEBINAR: Five Steps to Business Success, Fri., March 25, 9:00-11:00 a.m. For info/to register call (570) 341-0270. LENTEN FISH FRY, Fri., March 25, 5:00-7:00 p.m. at Susquehanna American Legion. DINNER, Fri., March 25, 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Kirkwood Elks Lodge. March 25-26 RUMMAGE SALE, March 25 & 26, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, New Milford. March 26 CHICKEN BBQ, Sat., March 26, 11:00 a.m. at South Montrose Community Church. GOSPEL MUSIC with Carol and Charlie Reed, Sat., March 26, 7:00 p.m. at Susquehanna UM Church. All welcome. SPAGHETTI DINNER and bake sale, Sat., March 26, 4:00 p.m. at Thompson UM Church. All welcome. SPAGHETTI SUPPER, Sat., March 26, 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Thompson UM Church. All you can eat. March 27 CRAFT SHOW sponsored by Carbondale Area Soccer Parents, Sun., March 27, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at Carbondale Area High School. For info call 282-2739. S.A.L. BREAKFAST, Sun., March 27, 8:00-11:00 a.m. at American Legion Post 357, Hallstead. All welcome. March 29 WING NIGHT, Tues., March 29, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Kirkwood Elks Lodge. April 1-3 MUSICAL: Pinocchio, April 1, 6:00 p.m., April 2, 1:00 & 5:00 p.m. and April 3, 1:00 p.m. at Music Box Dinner Playhouse, Swoyersville. For info call 570-283-2195. April 2 CHICKEN & BISCUIT DINNER, Sat., April 2, 4:00-7:00 p.m. at St. John's Church Hall. Eat in or take out. PIEROGI SALE, April 2 at St. Martin of Tours Church, Jackson. Pre-order call 756-3047. PANCAKE & SAUSAGE BREAKFAST, Sat., April 2, 7:00-11:00 a.m. at East Ararat UM Church. PANCAKE SUPPER to benefit Presbydestrians Relay for Life team, Sat. April 2, 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Franklin Hill Presbyterian Community Building. All you can eat. April 2-3 HUNTER SAFETY COURSE, Sat., April 2 and Sun., April 3, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at Blue Ridge Sportsmen's Club, New Milford. Pre-registration required, visit www.pgc.state.pa.us. For info call 570-267-0253.
Senior Center Menu March 21 - 25 Monday, March 21: roast ham, parsley potatoes, lima beans, baked tortilla chips, rye bread, peach cobbler. Tuesday, March 22: shepherd’s pie, tomato soup, lettuce wedge, ww bread, crackers, banana cake. Wednesday, March 23: bbq chicken, baked potato, green & yellow wax beans, ww roll, pretzels, orange. Thursday, March 24: hot roast beef sandwich, mashed potatoes, brussel sprouts, grain bread, banana, oatmeal raisin cookie. Friday, March 25: macaroni & cheese, stewed tomatoes, garlic spinach, ww dinner roll, fruited bread pudding.
Where can you eat, laugh, and shop, all in one place? At the thirteenth annual Auction Night! This fundraiser for the Susquehanna County Library and Historical Society keeps getting bigger and better every year. It is held at the VFW Hall in Montrose, PA (on Route 706). Admission includes a summer barbeque dinner with all the fixings, beverages, and desserts. Doors open at 4 p.m. and dinner starts at 5 p.m. Dozens of door prizes will be awarded all night, so don't lose your ticket stub! At 6 p.m., the auction will begin. Two guest auctioneers - George Conner and Bob Smith - will once again make this a delightful, laughter-filled event. A wide array of items have been donated, and more are coming in. Antiques, art, a stone wall workshop, event tickets, baskets, gift certificates, golf packages, jewelry, services - there's something for everyone, and for every price range. For more information on Auction Night, call 570-278-1881 or visit www.susqcolibrary.org/auction.
Breast Cancer Stories Being Collected Port Matilda, Pa. - Tammy Miller, international speaker and author, is collecting your stories for the new publication, “Pink Ribbon Stories: A Celebration of Life.” This book will be filled with words to encourage, inspire and make you smile, from anyone whose life has been touched by breast cancer, including survivors, family, friends, caregivers and medical personnel. Information can be submitted to Tammy at pinkribbonstories@tammyspeaks.com as a Word document (1,200 word max) or in the body of an e-mail. According to Tammy, “This project has great value in allowing people to tell their story, help others understand that they are not alone on the path of breast cancer, and to help provide funding for the valuable services provided to women all across the State through the PA Breast Cancer Coalition.” Anyone needing assistance with the telling or typing of their story should contact Tammy, and someone will interview you and write your story. All stories are subject to editing for space. Author reserves the right to refusal. The deadline for all submissions is June 1. The book will be published in the summer of 2011, with proceeds going to the PA Breast Cancer Coalition.
The Endless Mountains Children's Choir will hold regular Thursday rehearsals, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., at the South Gibson United Methodist Church. Rehearsal dates for March, April and May are: March 24 and 31; April 7, 14, 20 (Wednesday) and 28; and May 5, 12, 19 and 26. The children are now selling Easter flowers as a fundraiser. For information please contact any choir member, Dr. Sezer at 570-756-2729, or manager Boyd Manzer at 570-756-3047. This fundraising effort will help defray the cost of their PA-Acda All State participation fees. All children who love to sing are welcome - new members are encouraged to join the choir. There is no charge or tuition cost. Children receive weekly vocal training during rehearsal, while learning music for community performances, and the uniform (choir robe) at no cost. If you have a child who loves to sing, please have him/her join the choir. There are many other honors choir opportunities provided by being a member of the choir such as PA-ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) Middle School Honors Choir; ACDA All Eastern Division Children's Honors Choir; and ACDA National Children's Honors Choir. EMCC has had students participate in all of these honors choirs. Students will again participate in the PA-ACDA Middle School Honors Choir this summer. This year EMCC is also starting a children's theater. They will be doing musical plays (Broadway Juniors). Any questions or further information, please contact Dr. Christine Plonski Sezer at 570-756-2729 or drcsezer@yahoo.com.
Hill Country Artists Program Upcoming Thursday, April 7 starts the new program year for members and guests of Hill Country Artists. The April program begins at 7:00 p.m. at the Claverack Building on Rt. 706, east of Montrose. Member Rip Howard will demonstrate his method of doing a quick oil painting, a method he has mastered to complete a painting in two hours (the program will not last 2 hours but will be condensed). Rip is noted for his wonderful landscapes where he captures the light in a most realistic way. Hill Country Artists is a group of artists from Susquehanna County that meets once a month from April through December. Each meeting has a short business session and an educational program, followed by refreshments. Everyone is welcome, whether an artist or not. For more information contact Rita Eddy at 570-553-2500 or Chris Lathrop at 570-278-2141.
Mobile Vet Center Hours Announced TUNKHANNOCK - Reps. Karen Boback (R-Columbia/Luzerne/Wyoming) and Sandra Major (R-Susquehanna/Wyoming/Wayne) announced the April schedule for visits to Tunkhannock by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ mobile veterans center, which provides services to veterans and their families. The mobile vet center is scheduled to visit the area of the Route 29 and Route 6 Bypass in Tunkhannock (across the street from Gay’s True Value), from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, April 4. It will be available at Boback’s office, located at 6 Cross Country Complex in Tunkhannock from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, April 18. Additionally, the date for the March visit to Boback’s Tunkhannock office has been rescheduled. The previously announced date of Monday, March 21, will now be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, March 28, at 6 Cross Country Complex in Tunkhannock. Appointments for mobile veterans center services are not required. More information about the center and veterans services is available at RepMajor.com or RepBoback.com.
Participants Sought For Research Study Penn State's School of Forest Resources, along with several Penn State Cooperative Extension county offices, have received funding from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Water Resources Research Center to conduct a research study on the potential impacts of Marcellus gas drilling on rural drinking water wells. The data collected from the study is for research purposes, Penn State officials said. About 200 private water wells near completed Marcellus gas well sites will be selected for free post-drilling water testing of several water quality parameters. Interested water well owners would need to attend a local workshop to receive water testing materials and instructions. The local workshop will be offered at the County Office Building, 81 Public Avenue, Montrose, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 7. At the workshop, each water well owner will be asked to complete a short survey about their experiences with nearby gas well drilling. Water samples and completed surveys will need to be returned to the Penn State Cooperative Extension office at 81 Public Avenue, Montrose, the following morning between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. so they can be returned to the Penn State water testing laboratory. The water samples collected in this study will not be legal chain-of-custody samples that are required to legally document impacts from gas drilling. Instead, the results will only be used for research purposes and for the education of the homeowner. To be eligible for the study and the free water quality testing associated with it, participants must meet all of the following criteria: Own a private water well (no springs/cisterns can be included in the study). Have an existing Marcellus gas well (drilled and hydrofractured) within about 5,000 feet (one mile) of the water well. The gas well must be a Marcellus well and not a more traditional, shallow gas well. Provide copies of water test results from a state-accredited water lab showing, at a minimum, pre-drilling concentrations of total dissolved solids, chloride, and barium in the water well. Be willing to collect a sample from the water well on the morning after the workshop and return it to the Penn State Extension office between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. on Friday, April 8. Due to funding constraints, all eligible applicants cannot be promised inclusion in this study. Selection will be based on eligibility, geographic location and other factors. Participants selected for the study will personally benefit by receiving a free test of their home drinking water supply and information about the results of those tests. Interested residents with water wells that meet the research criteria should contact Penn State Cooperative Extension at (570) 278-1158 or jmk20@psu.edu to register.
County Federation Is Talkin’ Turkey On Saturday, April 23 the Susquehanna County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs will be hosting its annual Spring Sportsmen’s Banquet at the Hallstead/Great Bend Rod & Gun Club from 5:00-8:30 p.m. The keynote presenter will be National Wild Turkey Federation Regional Biologist Bob Eriksen. For tickets or more information please contact John Ord at (570) 853-2815 or scfederation@gmail.com. The club will be serving their world famous spaghetti supper for the County Federation’s 64th annual Spring Banquet as biologist Bob talks turkey with the community. Bob Eriksen is a regional biologist with the National Wild Turkey Federation working in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware. Prior to joining the NWTF staff about ten years ago, Bob served as a wildlife biologist supervisor for the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries for more than twenty-eight years. He has worked on wild turkey research and restoration, black bear research and wildlife damage management. Bob has been a member of NWTF since the late 1970’s. Bob and his wife Sue have six grown children and seven grandchildren. He lives in northwestern New Jersey but spends most of his time in the Keystone State. Bob is an avid turkey and deer hunter who started turkey hunting in Pennsylvania back in his college days. Bob is a very dynamic speaker with years of experience and knowledge to pass along, so bring your appetite for this evening of fun, friends, food and fundraising! Doors open at 5:00 p.m. and reservations required by April 12. The mission of The Susquehanna County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs is to provide a countywide, united voice for the concerns of all sportsmen and conservationists; to insure their rights and interests are protected; and to protect and enhance the environment and all our natural resources for future generations. Together with the PA Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, the oldest and largest organization of its type in PA, they represent well over 100,000 sportsmen and conversationalist across the state. If you would like more information on becoming a member of The Susquehanna County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs feel free to contact John Ord at (570) 853-2815 or scfederation@gmail.com.
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