AUGUST 17

Chicken-n-Biscuit or Ham Dinner: Wednesday, August 17 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm at Clifford United Methodist Church Main Street, Clifford. Take out or Dine with us Includes dinner, dessert & drink.

AUGUST 18

Wimpie Supper: Thursday, August 18th at 5:00pm. Join us at the Starrucca Baptist social room for our Wimpie Supper. For more info please call 570-727-2802

AUGUST 19

Movie and Music In The Parks: Saturday, August 19 at 6:30pm at Midtown Park. The woman’s group Saving Grace will sing in the gazebo at Midtown Park. The concert begins at 6:30pm, bring a chair or blanket. Refreshments will be available.

AUGUST 20

Good News Lunch: Saturday, August 20 at Noon at Saint Marks Church in New Milford. Free meal! All are welcome!

Movie and Music In The Parks: Sunday, August 20 at 8:00pm At Blue Ridge Park the movie Zootopia will be shown in the pavilion. Refreshments will be available.

AUGUST 21

Clifford Township Historical Society: Sunday, August 21 from 1:00-4:00pm the Clifford Township Historical Society invites visitors to experience local history first hand at its three township sites. Spend the afternoon with CTHS docent-members as they relate three stories about this area’s great history. See, read, and learn from an ever-growing collection of artifacts about the people who founded this region. The ‘Museum of Local History’, which includes the ‘General Store’ is located inside the community center building on Cemetery Street in Clifford (just off Rte. 106), the ‘Baptist Church’ is on nearby Church Street and the ‘Hoover School’ is just two miles away on St Rte 2014. Each site is handicap accessible.

Hymn Sing and Ice Cream Social: Sunday, August 21 at 11:15am at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 276 Church St. Montrose. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will hold a community hymn sing at 11:15am followed by an ice cream social at the church. The hymn sing follows the 10am Sunday service. The ice cream social will be held in the church’s memorial garden, following the hymn sing, weather permitting. If it rains, the ice cream social will be held in the parish hall. Everyone is invited to attend.

AUGUST 22

HOT DOG SALE: Monday, August 22, The Blue Ridge Senior Center is having a hot dog sale at 81 Elizabeth Street, Great Bend. It will include hotdog and bun, beans, chips and homemade cookies. Please call the center too, so we know how many to order. 570-879-2896

AUGUST 27

Roast Beef Supper: Saturday, August 27 at 4:30pm at the Thompson United Methodist Church, 586 Main Street, Thompson PA. Take-Out starts at 4:30pm, eat in starts at 5:00pm.All are welcome!

EVERY WEDNESDAY

LUPO’S CHICKEN SPIEDIE SANDWICHES & SALADS: Susquehanna High School Football Confession Stand, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. All proceeds go to SEA students for their Science trips to Costa Rica & Iceland next June.

Monday: Tomato basil fish, augratin potatoes broccoli & cauliflower, whole wheat roll, oatmeal cookie

Tuesday: Chicken philly sandwich, corn chowder, tossed salad, whole wheat roll, apples & berries w/ whipped topping

Wednesday: Roast beef, mashed potatoes, roasted beets & carrots, whole wheat roll, apple bread pudding

Thursday: Pork marsala, brown rice, snap peas, crackers, fruit salad

Friday: Penne w/ meatsauce, italian wedding soup, italian green beans, sorbet

Celebrity readers, entertaining characters, and a free book to take home is what the Northeastern Pennsylvania Reading Association (NPRA) will provide for kids and their families during Reading Time at the Mall. The event is on Saturday, August 20th in the center court at the Viewmont Mall celebrating Back to School by the Mall. From 10 AM to 2 PM that day, this free event for children of all ages I scheduled to enjoy listening to TV and radio celebrity readers and children’s authors. Community personalities will also read their favorite children’s book to groups. Every child who listens to a story receives a free book and his/her name is part of a special drawing by the reader for additional book prizes.

Attorney Paul Keeler, District Judge from the Abingtons, will be one of the celebrity readers, authors, characters, and team mascots who will read to children and their parents at “Reading Time at the Viewmont Mall.”

There will be a basket raffle for a large beautifully wrapped basket of back to school supplies as a part of the event. Money raised by NPRA is used to distribute free books to children, sponsor Babies and Books, present Young Authors’ Day in November, as well as to present professional development sessions for teachers throughout the year. The association is a professional organization dedicated to improving and promoting literacy serving over thirty school districts, colleges, universities, libraries and child care providers in Lackawanna, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming counties.

So parents, plan to bring your kids to the mall on Saturday for them to enjoy Reading Time at the Mall, get a free book of their choice, and to get a jump start on the beginning of school.