BREAKFAST: Sat., Aug. 4, Pancake and Sausage Breakfast, 7-11 a.m., East Ararat UM Church.

MUSIC: Sat., Aug. 4, David Burdick will be performing at the Susq. UM Church at 7:00 p.m.

YARD/PIE SALE: Sat., Aug 4, Yard and Pie Sale, 8:00 am – 2:00 p.m., Colonial Brick Motel, Great Bend.

REUNION: Sun., Aug. 5, Stevens Family Reunion, 12:30 p.m., at the home of Rich and Fran Valentine, 258 State Rte 2051 Montrose, PA.  Watch for signs. Bring own table service and dish/dessert to share.

MUSIC: Sun., Aug 5, Music in the Park, 10:30 a.m. Worship Service, and 11:30 until 5:30 Contemporary and Christian Music, Clifford Fireman’s Fairgrounds.

RUMMAGE SALE: August 9, 10, 11, Fabulous Finds Rummage and Bake Sale, at Christ Episcopal Church, Susquehanna.

Mon., July 30: baked ziti casserole, garden salad, italian green beans, italian bread, fresh melon chunks.

Tues., July 31: bbq chicken, mashed potatoes, cucumber and tomato salad, biscuit, oreo pudding parfait.

Wed., Aug 1: beans and franks, zucchini tomato soup, roll, crackers, watermelon wedges.

Thurs. Aug. 2: roast pork, chunky applesauce, sweet potatoes, rye bread, crackers, peach and blueberry crisp.

Fri., Aug. 3: beef roll up, boiled red potatoes, snap peas, ww dinner roll, carrot cake, gravy.

A Forestry & Wildlife Educational Field Day will be held on Saturday July 28, 2012.This event will be held at the managed woodland of Christy Ann Strange. Her woods are located a half mile east of the intersection of Route 170 and the Beech Grove Road near Aldenville. The program will start sharply at 1:30pm. There will be guided tours to the different stations to observe the different forestry and wildlife habitat management practices completed on Strange’s property.

"This is a Forestry Field Day you surely do not want to miss!" explains Craig Olver with Forest Care LLC. Mr. Olver is a Wayne county resident and retired forester from the Wayne Conservation District with 30+ years experience in helping people to manage private woodlands.

The first stop will be at a 175 feet wetland crossing built by Chaz Augello Excavating. This was an old farm road used by work horses and small farm tractors. This road was built to carry 25 ton log trucks. Paul Reining, Forest Specialist with the Wayne Conservation District, will explain how wetlands crossings were installed using five 35 feet long culverts, 330 feet of road fabric, and number 4 stone, 22 inches thick to build this crossing. "No small feat to build this log truck road" assures Consulting Forester Craig Olver. We had to get a driveway permit and a wetland crossing GP # 7. An additional 600 feet of road will be built by pulling in old stone walls from sides of this farm road to give the base needed to carry the log trucks.

The second stop will be to inspect the 9 acres of Timber Stand Improvement (TSI) that was completed this past winter. A Service Forester from the DCNR Bureau of Forestry will explain TSI, the weeding of a woods garden. Diseased, deformed and defective trees were cut down, plus a general thinning of this dense pole size northern hardwood forest. This work released the higher quality hardwoods from competition for moisture, nutrients and sunlight. The results are healthier and faster growing trees.

Another stop on the guided tour will be to see the work done to control invasive plants of Multi Flora Rose and Red Barberry. Strange’s woods were completely covered with these plants. They restricted any forest management, reforestation and access to her woods. These plants were sprayed in August 2011 with the herbicide Accord using a backpack mist blower. Forest owners will be impressed to see the results.

The Susquehanna Branch of the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) will be talking about gas pipline seedings, wildlife habitat management of the new seeding areas and what you can do to help manage these new seedings. According to Bob Wagner, Branch Secretary. "Our QDMA branch has recently had a dvd produced that explains how the landowners, with pipeline on their properties, can apply quality habitat management practices to manage and improve the seedings that are being planted on the pipelines."

If the health of your woods is important to you, plan to attend this Forestry Field Day at Christy Strange’s woods, (1262 Beech Grove Road, Prompton, PA 18456) on Saturday, July 28. The program is sponsored by the Wayne-Lackawanna Forest Landowners Association, the Wayne Conservation District, DCNR Bureau of Forestry, Delaware Highlands Conservancy, and Forest Care LLC.

Mr. and Mrs. Elton Tyler of Hallstead will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on July 26, 2012.

Elton and Tregertha were married on July 26, 1952, in a double ring ceremony, which took place at the parsonage of Kennett Square Baptist Church. Rev. Richard J. Thomas, pastor, officiated.

Mr. and Mrs. Elton Tyler

Mrs. Tyler is the former Tregertha Leanore Stoddard, daughter of the late LeRoy and Ruth Stoddard, Fleetville, Pa.

Mr. Tyler is the son of the late Donald and Gladys Tyler, New Milford, Pa.

The couple originally resided in New Milford, before moving to their home on Airport Road, Hallstead in 1959 to present. They raised their four daughters there; Thena Summers (husband Robert), Serena Tyler-Brown (husband the late David Brown), Larena Nickerson (husband Robert) and Darena Sellitto (husband David).

They are the grandparents of Scott Summers (wife Victoria) and the late Brooke Gall.

Elton retired from IBM in 1987 and Tregertha an Avon representative for forty years. They enjoyed many years of camping with friends before and after retirement. For many years they enjoyed bringing joy to the community with their Christmas display.

Cards of congratulations can be sent to their home at 104 Airport Road, Hallstead, PA 18822.