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EVENTS, PROGRAMS, HAPPENINGS, SEMINARS: July 27 MEETING: Advisory Committee of Clifford Township, July 27, 7:00 p.m. at township municipal building. July 28 PIZZA NIGHT and Open Mic Country, Thurs., July 28, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Kirkwood Elks Lodge. July 29 FREE HOT DOGS, Fri., July 29, 4:00-6:00 p.m. at Mormon Monument, Rte. 171, Susquehanna. Weather permitting. DINNER, Fri., July 29, 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Kirkwood Elks Lodge. July 29-31 MUSICAL: Cabaret, July 29-31, Fri. & Sat., 8:00 p.m. and Sun., 3:00 p.m. at Music Box Dinner Playhouse, Swoyersville. For info call 283-2195. July 30 FOOD PICK-UP: Angel Food Ministries, Sat., July 30, 8:00-9:30 a.m. at Susky UM Church. For info call 853-0919. ROAST BEEF SUPPER, Sat., July 30, 5:00 p.m. at Thompson UM Church. All welcome. CAR WASH sponsored by Sabers Cross Country Team, Sat., July 30, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at Susquehanna Community High School. July 31 BREAKFAST, July 31, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. at Greenfield Vol. Fire Dept. fire hall. GOLF OUTING sponsored by New Milford Area Rotary Club, July 31, 1:00 p.m. at Conklin Players Club. Call 607-759-6958. August 2 MEETING: Hallstead-Great Bend Rod & Gun Club general membership, August 2, 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the club. August 5-6 BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL, August 5-6, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on the Green in Montrose. For info call 278-1881. FOOD & PIE SALE, August 5-6, 9:00 am. - 5:00 p.m. at Retta UM Church, off Rte. 267. August 5-7 OUTDOOR PRODUCTION of “The Music Man,” August 5 & 6, 6:30 p.m. and August 7, 2:00 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours Church, Jackson. For info call 756-2887. ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Catholic Charismatic Renewal of the Diocese of Scranton, August 5-7 at the U. of Scranton. For info call 570-344-2214. August 6 PANCAKE & SAUSAGE BREAKFAST, Sat., August 6, 7:00-11:00 a.m. at East Ararat UM Church. YARD & PIE SALE sponsored by Gill Chapter #12 OES, Sat., August 6, 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at Colonial Brick Motel parking lot. August 7 STEVENS FAMILY REUNION, Sun., August 7, 12:30 p.m. at Hareridge Sportsmen’s Club, Lawton. Bring table service and covered dish/desert to share. Descendents of Aden, Cyrus, Oliver and Harvey Stevens. For info call 396-0105 or 278-3730. PROGRAM: Beaver Ponds, Sun., August 7, 1:00 p.m. at Salt Springs State Park. Fee. MUSIC IN THE PARK, Sun., August 7, 10:30 a.m. worship, 11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Christian music, behind the Clifford Fireman’s Fairgrounds. Rain or shine, for more info call 570-679-2766. Free, bring a chair.
Senior Center Menu August 1 - 5 Monday, August 1: baked ham, lima beans, baked sweet potato, rye bread, peach crisp. Tuesday, August 2: bbq chicken, mashed potatoes, pickled cabbage, ww bread, crackers, strawberry shortcake. Wednesday, August 3: breaded pork chop, peas and pearl onions, herbed brown rice, grain bread, spiced apples, orange juice. Thursday, August 4: crab cakes, lemon dill green beans, roasted red potatoes, lettuce leaf, ww roll, grapes, oatmeal raisin cookie. Friday, August 5: stuffed pepper, tomato basil soup, garden salad, pierogies, crackers, fresh fruit.
Activities For All Ages At Blueberry Festival One of the highlights of the annual Blueberry Festival for most people is delicious food, which will be available in abundance Friday, August 5, and Saturday, August 6, during the 32nd Annual Festival. The Blueberry Festival began in 1980 as a fundraiser for the Susquehanna County Historical Society and Free Library Association, which serves the county with a museum, a main library and three branches (Forest City, Hallstead-Great Bend, Susquehanna), and Books-By-Mail and Books-On-Wheels. Breakfast and lunch will be served on the Village Green during the Festival. For breakfast (8-10:30 a.m.) there will be pancakes with blueberry sauce, sausage, and fruit. At lunchtime, the choices will include hamburgers, hotdogs, pizza, and more. The pizza with fresh blueberries (yes, really!) is a festival specialty! Members of the community will provide a variety of food and snacks all day on Friday and Saturday, starting of course with fresh local-grown blueberries. Snacks include blueberry crepes, cotton candy, and slushies. Blueberry muffins, ice cream, pie and other baked goods will be for sale, as well as lemonade. Jams, jellies, and produce of all sorts are donated by local people to benefit the Association. You can even keep the festival flavor going all year by purchasing one of the popular cookbooks featuring local recipes. The blueberry muffin table is one of the highlights of the festival, featuring muffins made by members of the community. Muffins as well as baked goods of all kinds are needed (please bring to the Library starting Thursday evening), as are volunteer workers. If you can spare an hour or two either day, please call 570-278-1881 or stop by the library. Entertainment and tons of activities for kids are scheduled for both days. As a special treat for all ages, there will be horse-drawn wagon rides from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. both days. For more information on the 32nd Annual Festival, visit www.montrosepablueberryfestival.org.
Wildlife Habitat Field Day Planned Have you ever wondered what you can do with old fields that are now woods? Do you remember when that woods was an old field and you planted trees in it? How has your habitat and the animals that live there changed over the past 50 years? What can you do to your property to make it a better wildlife habitat area? What management can you do even if it is midsummer? Some of these questions can be answered at the July 30 wildlife habitat field day at the Finch Hill Rod and Gun Club in Harmony Township, in the northeast corner of Susquehanna County. The Susquehanna Branch of the Quality Deer Management Association, in a cooperative effort with the Finch Hill Rod and Gun Club, will host the free wildlife habitat improvement field day on July 30. The field day will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with guest speakers and a walking tour of some of the newest improvement projects. Over the past two years the club has accomplished several acres of brush clearing, 5 acres of invasive fern control, several acres of food plot plantings, 100+ new fruit and nut trees planted, several acres of mast tree release and some unique cutting efforts in an old evergreen tree plantation. Club President Jerry Rusek stated, “the club is appreciative of the efforts of Bob Hobbes, who is the forester who wrote our Forest Stewardship Plan, and helps manage our woodland improvement efforts; the guidance of Dave Sienko, our logger, food plot planter and a Board member of the local QDMA branch, whose knowledge of the woods, soils, plants and tree cutting efforts is extremely helpful. We would not have done some of this work if not for the funding that we have received from the local USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service office to help us move forward with our wildlife habitat improvement work. We have a lot more work to do to improve the habitat up to the level that it could be and to help us manage the area for the improvement of all of the wildlife from small birds to our deer and bear.” Activities will begin at 10:00 a.m. with club president Jerry Rusek and club members talking about past management efforts and the most current changes including quality deer management. At 10:30 am. forester Bob Hobbes and logger Dave Sienko will lead a walking tour of habitat improvement projects, including areas where Dave has been cutting evergreen trees, some of which were planted in the 1960’s. Following a light lunch at 11:45 a.m., at 12:30 p.m. Susquehanna Branch QDMA Board of Director members will field questions about habitat improvement for whitetail deer. At 1:00 p.m. Jimmy Stickles, the PA Game Commission Deer Trapping Team leader for Area 3C, will make a presentation about his activities trapping deer for the past three years. Finally, at 1:30 p.m., Dr. James Kroll (aka Dr. Deer), along with John Butler, owner of the Buck Forage Oats Company, will visit the field day and talk with the assembled group. According to the Susquehanna Branch Secretary Bob Wagner, “Our branch, in cooperation with the Finch Hill Club and the Susquehanna and the Wayne/Lackawanna County Forest Landowners Associations, wants to show to all of those who are interested what type of habitat work can be done on a property that is now mostly wooded, but 50 years ago had about 55 acres of open fields. We believe that by seeing these habitat improvement projects many landowners will be encouraged to do similar improvement projects on their own properties.” Club President Jerry Rusek added, “the club members want to tell you about the works of improvement and how it has invigorated the club member’s interest in hunting and managing the property.” For more information or directions call QDMA Secretary Bob Wagner at 278-9363 or club president Jerry Rusek at 350-0966.
Major To Host Crime Prevention Seminars HARRISBURG - Area senior citizens are invited to attend free crime prevention seminars in Montrose and Lakewood during the first week in August hosted by state Rep. Sandra Major (R-Susquehanna/Wayne/Wyoming). The seminars will feature a guest speaker from the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General who will provide information on: identity theft; home improvement rip-offs; foreign lottery schemes; telemarketing fraud; and sweepstakes scams. “Unfortunately, senior citizens are too often the target for those looking to perpetrate identity theft and other schemes,” said Major. “These free seminars will provide seniors with valuable information on how to avoid becoming a victim of one of these crimes and how to report a crime if it happens. I encourage all area seniors to attend.” In Montrose, a seminar will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 3, at 12:30 p.m. at Montrose Square (Senior Housing), 145 Church St. In Lakewood, a seminar will be held on Thursday, Aug. 4, at 10:30 a.m. at the Northern Wayne Fire Company, 1663 Crosstown Highway. The Wayne County Area Agency on Aging will also be on hand at this location to offer free blood pressure screening, Apprise counseling and a social activity following the seminar. Seniors age 60 and older can also sign up for a free box lunch. Those interested in receiving lunch must preregister by calling the Area Agency on Aging at (570) 253-4262. Seating is limited for both seminars. Please RSVP by calling Major’s office at (570) 278-3374.
Stream Ecology: A Nature Walk When we speak of an ecosystem, we are usually thinking of a specific and identifiable place. But no ecosystem stands alone. Each is related to and interdependent with all the others around it. This is particularly (and visibly) true of streams. Because a stream is constantly moving, it takes up and leaves behind many different pieces of the land, air, and other waters along its course. A stream is host to a wide variety of life, including plants, fish, insects and algae. As water flows downhill, it takes up other materials - soils, stones, leaves, garbage and bacteria. It absorbs toxins like pesticides. Winds blow things into the water, and animals leave fur, feathers, and droppings. Diversity is the key to the health of a stream ecosystem. Streams flow throughout Florence Shelly Wetlands Preserve, Thompson, PA, and one of them has been certified to be of exceptional purity, a designation it received because of the presence in it of red algae. Stu Slocum, a retired biology teacher at Mountain View High School and a long-time member of the Florence Shelly Wetlands Preserve Stewardship Committee, will discuss these and many other fascinating aspects of stream ecology on a nature walk, to be held at the preserve on Sunday, August 7, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. The Florence Shelly Preserve is located one mile north of Thompson on Route 171. Parking is available in the lot just opposite Stack Road. The walk is free of charge and no reservations are required. For further information call Andy Gardner at (570) 727–3362. The hike is easy but the trail may be damp, so participants are urged to wear shoes appropriate for walking in wetlands.
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