March 9

LENTEN FISH FRY, Fri., March 9, 5:00-7:00 p.m. at Susky American Legion. Eat in or take out.

March 11

VESPER SERVICE, Sun., March 11, 5:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Montrose. All welcome.

March 14

LENTEN SOUP SUPPER and Devotions, March 14, 6:00-7:30 p.m. at Gibson UM Church. All welcome. Bring place setting.

March 16

SPAGHETTI SUPPER, March 16, 4:00-7:00 p.m. at Hallstead-Great Bend Rod & Gun Club. All you can eat.

March 17

PIEROGI SALE, March 17, pick up after 2:00 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours Church, Jackson. Pre-order call 756-3047.

CHILI COOK OFF, Sat., March 17, 2:00 p.m. at County Seat Tavern, Montrose. For info call 278-9996.

March 18

PANCAKE & SAUSAGE BREAKFAST, Sun., March 18, 8:00-11:00 a.m. at Thompson Fire Company.

SPRING CRAFT SHOW, Sun., March 18, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at Carbondale Area High School Cafeteria.

March 24

SPAGHETTI DINNER hosted by Blue Ribbon Driven 4-H Horse & Pony Club, March 24, 3:00-7:30 p.m. at Rush Volunteer Fire Hall. Eat in or take out. For info call 570-709-1765.

Monday, March 12: meatloaf w/chunky tomato sauce, green beans, potatoes au gratin, rye bread, cinnamon applesauce cake.

Tuesday, March 13: baked chicken, creamed corn, mashed potatoes w/chives, grain dinner roll, pistachio pudding.

Wednesday, March 14: sloppy joes, chicken noodle soup, carrot and raisin salad, sandwich roll, crackers, oreo cookie vanilla pudding parfait, orange.

Thursday, March 15: roast pork, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, ww dinner roll, spiced apples, pineapple juice.

Friday, March 16: breaded fish filet, steamed broccoli, corn chowder, crackers, chocolate pudding.

The Bluestone Expo 2012 is approaching! The 4th Bluestone Expo will provide a chance for all flagstone quarrymen, dealers, aggregate producers and those in the natural gas industries to see the latest products in the heavy equipment, explosives, saws, safety supplies, blades and other equipment for the local stone industry.

This year’s Bluestone Expo will be held March 24 and 25 at the Broome County Veteran’s Memorial Arena in Binghamton, NY. The event will be from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday and from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday.

Stone cutting and shaping demonstrations and competitions will take place both days. Certified MSHA refresher training classes will be available on site Saturday from 8-4:30. Training certificates will be issued upon class completion. Call 607-363-7543 to pre-register. CPR/First Aid training classes will also be available on site Sunday at 8 a.m.

Come find out everything you need to know about the bluestone industry during Expo 2012. Don’t miss your opportunity to represent the bluestone industry and meet the many faces that have helped to continue this 160 plus year old industry.

BINGHAMTON - On March 10, the Baden-Powell Council, Boy Scouts of America will kick off its annual Scouting for Food drive collecting food donations for the needy across the six counties it serves: Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga and Tompkins counties in New York and Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania.

Scouting for Food is the Baden-Powell Council’s largest service project involving thousands of scouts and volunteers. The council’s goal this year is to bring in 75,000 food items.

On Saturday, March 10, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers from across the Baden-Powell Council will be placing plastic bags on door steps across the six-county areas. Scouts will return to pick these bags up on Saturday morning, March 17. Donations should be placed on doorsteps for pick up before 9 a.m. that morning.

Food donations needed include canned items such as vegetables, meats, chili, soups or juices, and baby formula. Boxed or bagged meals and pastas are also welcome. The ideal food donation bag would include one of each. Please, nothing perishable, frozen or in glass. Monetary donations cannot be accepted.

The Baden-Powell Council is based out of Binghamton, NY. Over 5,000 youth in the area are involved in the program. For more information about Scouting, please visit the Baden-Powell Council Web-site at www.bpcouncil.org.

The Mountain View Drama Club is working hard at rehearsals for their upcoming show Oklahoma! The show is set for March 8, 9 and 10 at 7 p.m. at the Mountain View Jr./Sr. High School Auditorium. Students in grades 8-11 make up this cast and crew as they travel back to Oklahoma in old western times. Some of the featured songs include “The Farmer and the Cowman,” “I Can’t Say No” and “Kansas City.” Please come out and enjoy a night of singing, dancing and an old fashioned love story as the students of Mountain View proudly present Oklahoma! Pictured above: front - Coralynn McHenry, Caroline Miller, Alexa Suchnick, Lucas Jodon, Jolie Winemiller, Ben McCarty, Andrew McHenry; second row - Bethany Klees, Peter Maloney, Jacob Baranski, Ben Maitland, Kyle Heide, Lizzie Miller; back - Stephanie Ostir, Katie Tyson, Abby Sekely, Hayley Maloney, Maddie Ware, Olivia Strauss, Emmillie Miller and Emily Supancik.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - A Web-based seminar sponsored by Penn State Extension will examine municipalities' roles related to water use and protection in the face of burgeoning Marcellus Shale gas development in Pennsylvania.

The 75-minute webinar will begin at 1 p.m. on March 15. Presenters are Charles Abdalla, professor of agricultural and environmental economics in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, and Peter Wulfhorst, extension educator based in Pike County, who specializes in economic and community development.

The uses and values of water are changing in Pennsylvania as a result of the rapid development of the Marcellus Shale gas industry, according to Abdalla. These changes are affecting municipal governments' roles and activities and local outcomes and impacts.

"For example, there has been a significant increase in the demand for water needed in the hydraulic fracturing of shale gas wells," he said. "Public water suppliers, including municipally owned systems, are meeting this demand and at the same time generating sizable revenues through water sales.

"Also, some municipalities have generated new revenues by leasing their mineral rights to watershed lands that supply water to their reservoirs and customers."

Abdalla noted that the webinar will address three topics: water sales, leasing of municipally owned watershed lands and municipalities' potential role in regulating land use to protect water.

"My webinar presentation will provide an overview of what we know - and don't know - about these municipal activities, and existing and potential future issues."

Wulfhorst will discuss the environmental safeguards that may be available under Pennsylvania law to help municipalities protect water.

"Specifically, I will cover the notification changes for both host municipality and adjacent municipality and landowners, and the requirement of a water-management plan not to adversely affect the quantity and quality of water resources," he said.

"Also, I will review the increase in well-location restrictions for existing buildings, water wells, wetlands, public water supplies and streams, and I will discuss rules under which gas operators will be presumed to be responsible for water-supply pollution."

The webinar is part of a monthly series of online workshops that provide education about the opportunities and challenges related to the state's Marcellus Shale gas boom. Information about how to register for the session is available on the webinar page of Penn State Extension's natural-gas website at http://extension.psu.edu/naturalgas/webinars.

Previous webinars, publications and information also are available on the Penn State Extension natural-gas website (http://extension.psu.edu/naturalgas), covering topics such as Marcellus gas development's impact on transportation systems; seismic testing; air pollution from gas development; the gas boom's effect on landfills; Marcellus gas water use and quality; zoning; gas-leasing considerations for landowners; implications for local communities; gas pipelines and right-of-way issues; legal issues surrounding gas development; and the impact of Marcellus gas development on forestland.

For more information, contact John Turack, extension educator based in Westmoreland County, at (724) 837-1402 or by email at jdt15@psu.edu.