Sales
DALLAS FIRE AND AMBUL-
ANCE AUXILIARY is selling
Christmas Vigil Candles. Each set
contains 12 ‘candles, bags and sand.
The cost is $2.00 per set. They will
available at the Borough Build-
g, Wednesdays 6:30 to 8:30, Sun-
days 1 to 4, Besecker Realty, Carol
Carroll’s Beauty Shap or by calling
Arlene Campbell 675-6492 or Blod-
wen Shaffer 675-0661.
A CRAFT EXHIBIT AND SALE
and handcrafted items will be con-
ducted December 2 through Decem-
ber 17 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily at
College Misericordia’s Art Gallery.
Opening preview will be held
Sunday, Dec. 2, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Events
THE ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S
EVE PARTY sponsored by the
Jackson Township Volunteer Fire
Department will be held at the
Township fire hall from 7 p.m. to 1
a.m. Food, beverages, party favors
and live music provided by the
“Formation” will be featured.
A limit of 150 reservations are
available on a first come first serve
basis. For further information, call
696-2487 or Paul Malak 696-2217.
COLLEGE MISERICORDIA’S
sponsor a ‘‘Career In Law Day’ for
high school students, Thursday,
Nov. 29, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in
McHale Hall on campus.
Attorneys Nancy Shupnik and
Judy Gardiner-Price will be the
guest speakers.
Individuals and groups interested
in attending the Career In Law Day
can contact Dr. Savelli at or 218,
ext. 264.
PTSA will sponsor a dance at the
Lake-Lehman Jr. gym on Friday,
Nov. 30, from 7 to 10.
The dance is to benefit the U.S.
Marine Corps ‘Toys for Tots Cam-
paign’. Admission will be $2.00 or a
new or used (but not broken) toy.
EVERYONE IN THE AREA is
invited to the Christmas Tea at The
Oldest House, E. Main St., Lacey-
ille on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 1
The event is the Laceyville Histor-
people of the area for thier support
and interest throughout the years.
The home is easily reached from
Route 6 by any of the three Lacey-
ville exits.
COLLEGE MISERICORDIA will
present its annual Madrigal Dinner
featuring Old English costumes,
scenery and singing on Friday, Nov.
30, and Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m.
in Merrick Hall on the campus.
Tickets are currently on sale at
the college. Call 675-2181 for more
information.
THE WEST SIDE JAYCEES will
sponsor a ‘Night at the Races” on
Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the
Swoyersville No. 1 Hose Company
Hall, Shoemaker St., Swoyersville.
Admission is $2.00 and includes
refreshments. Proceeds will benefit
West Side Jaycee charities. All are
welcome to attend.
THE WYOMING VALLEY SIN-
GLES CLUB will hold their first
annual Christmas Party at the
Knights of Columbus Council 302
Home, 429 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-
Barre on Friday, Dec. 14.
The party will begin at 6 p.m.
with dinner, games and dancing to
the music of Pete & The Happy
Knights of Mountaintop. The cost
will be $11.00 per person with a cash
bar.
The Club offers a wholesome
atmosphere where single, divorced
or widowed individuals can meet
and socialize. The club offers din-
ners. dancing, bus trips, pool par-
ties, get togethers, etc.
All age groups are represented in
the club and all members are
screened.
Anyone wishing more information
may write or call: Singles, P.O. Box
254, Pittston, Pa. 18640 (717) 288-
8500).
AN OPEN HOUSE will be held
Friday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Idetown Methodist Church House in
honor of Mabel Hoover on the occa-
sion of her 87th birthday. Everyone
is welcome to attend.
Programs
A UNIQUE JOINING OF THE
LOCAL COMMUNITY, the region’s
public radio station and the area’s
professional chamber choir will
take place in December when
WVIA-9OFM and the Robert Dale
Chorale co-sponsor a Messiah Sing-
In.
The sing-along will take place at
the Lucan Center, St. Luke’s Epis-
copal Church, Scranton, on Dec. 23
at 2:30 p.m. The event will serve as
a preview of the tercentenary cele-
bration of Georg Friedrich Handel,
the composer of ‘‘Messiah’’ musical
score. A limited number of copies
will be available at the door for $5.
Tickets are available on a first-
come, first-serve basis and may be
obtained from Chorale members;
the Cetta Parrish Music Co., 517
Linden St., Scranton; by calling
WVIA- 90FM at 655- 2808; or by writ-
ing the Robert Dale Chorale, 301
Tulip Circle, Clarks Summit, PA
18411. Advance reservations are
encouraged. Donation is $4. A recep-
tion will.be held at the Lucan Center
immediately following the perform-
ance.
THE WILKES-BARRE CHRIS-
TIAN WOMEN’S CLUB will sponsor
a buffet on Wednesday, Dec. 19,
from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Gus
Genetti’s, Market Street, Wilkes-
Barre.
Elaine Decker, the first and
former chairman of the Wilkes-
Barre Christian Women’s Club will
be the featured speaker with a duet
by Holly and Dwight Hodne as the
entertainment.
For buffet and nursery reserva-
tions, call Frank Gilbert at 696-3756
or Vera Kresge at 824-5937. Reser-
vations close Monday, Dec. 17.
MARK TWAIN, America’s favor-
ite humorist, comes to Penn State
Wilkes-Barre in a performance by
Will Stutts on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 8
p.m. in the Bierly Auditorium on the
Lehman campus. The event is free
and open to the public.
Will Stutts has been performing
his one-person plays for 19 years.
Born in 1949, Stutts attended Yale
University’s School of Drama, and
received his MFA in Acting in 1972,
followed by more than a year’s
study with Lee Strasberg and the
Actors’ Studio.
To obtain more information about
this cultural program, contact Jody
Millard, Penn State Wilkes-Barre,
at 675-2171.
COLLEGE MISERICORDIA will
sponsor a credit-free program enti-
tled ‘Microwave Cooking for the
Holidays” on Wednesday, Nov. 28
from 6:30 to 9:15 p.m. at the Admin-
istration Building.
Professor Joan Krause will dis-
cuss and demonstrate how to pre-
pare a variety of meals for the
holidays.
A fee of $26 and $10 for materials
is required. For more information,
call 675-2181.
Meetings
THE LUZERNE COUNTY BOR-
OUGHS’ AND TOWNSHIPS’ ASSO-
CIATION will hold its next meeting
on Thursday, Nov. 29, at 6 p.m. in
the new mens dormitory dining hall,
Wilkes College.
Mr. Peter Nelson, Department of
Community Affairs, Harrisburg,
will speak on ‘Federal Revenue
Sharing and the impact of handi-
capped and accessibility require-
ments on local governments funding
from this source.”
Please call in your reservation no
later than Wednesday, Nov. 28, 824-
4651, ext. 220.
CUB SCOUT PACK 281, Dallas,
will hold its pack meeting, Friday,
Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Dallas
United Methodist Church. All Cub
Scouts and Webelo’s and their fami-
lies are urged to attend.
VETERANS OF THE VIETNAM
WAR, Post 2, will meet Thursday,
Nov. 29, at 8 p.m., at the Coral
Lounge, 245 Owen St., Swoyersville.
The Veterans of the Vietnam War,
Inc. is a full service organization
open to all veterans.
ARTS AT HAYFIELD, an organi-
zation with goals of bringing cul-
tural events and programs to the
Back Mountain area, will meet on
Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in
the Hayfield House of Penn State
Wilkes-Barre. The board of direc-
tors is composed of community
members an faculty and staff repre-
sentatives of Penn State.
Plans are in the works for the
spring program of Arts at Hayfield,
which will begin with three one-act
plays by Chekkov on Feb. 14, 15,
and 16. Walter Kelly, a member of
the Arts at Hayfield board, will
direct the plays which will be
staged in Hayfield House. y
The group will sponsor workshops
for children and adults in the
spring, according to Candyce Fike,
president of Arts at Hayfield. Some
of the children’s workshops will be
print-making taught by Nora Walsh,
French taught by Mrs. Fike and
wreath-making taught by Kathy
Millington.
CHAPTER 9 DISABLED AMERI-
CAN VETERANS will conduct a
meeting on Monday, Dec. 3, at 7:30
p.m. at the Parsons VFW, Scott St.,
Wilkes-Barre. Commander Richard
Pierce will preside and election of
held.
Other items on the agenda include
membership and hospital activities,
reports by Paul Migatulski, VAVS
representation and Peter Dudish,
national service office.
Refreshments will be served and
all members are urged to attend.
Concerts
RESIDENTS OF WILKES-
BARRE/SCRANTON and surround-
ing areas are cordially invited to
attend Wyoming Seminary’s annual
Christmas Concert titled ‘Christ-
mas Musical Offering’, on Sunday,
Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. in the Church of
Christ Uniting, Market Street,
Kingston.
Under the direction of John M.
Vaida, music department chairman
at the college prep school, a com-
bined orchestra and voices of the
Wyoming Seminary Chorale and
Madrigal Singers will perform var-
jous selections including, ‘‘Orches-
tra Suite in A”, by J.S. Bach and
“Jubilate Deo’’, by Gabrieli. This
year’s concert will also highlight
“Messiah Part 1’ by Handel, in a
combined choir of students, faculty,
alumni, parents and friends.
The concert is opened to the
public with no admission charge,
and is sponsored by the Wyoming
Seminary Music Department.
A CHRISTMAS CONCERT featur-
ing College Misericordia College
Chorus will be held Wednesday,
Dec. 5, at 8 p.m. in Walsh Audito-
rium on the college campus.
For further information, call 675-
2181.
Workshops
KING’S COLLEGE will host a
two-night workshop on academic
and administrative applications of
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micro-computers from 7 p.m. to 10
p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, and
Thursday, Nov. 29, in the college’s
microcomputer laboratory, located
on the fourth floor of the adminis-
tration building.
Under the sponsorship of the
Lehigh Valley Association of Inde-
pendent College, Inc. and the Ben
Franklin North East Tier Advanced
Technology Center, the workshop
will be open to faculty and adminis-
trators of member institutions of the
two organizations.
People from member institutions
who wish additional information on
the workshop can call Candace
Brown at the Ben Franklin Technol-
ogy Center at (215) 861-7900.
IN AN EFFORT TO PROMOTE
students’ personal development as
well as intellectural growth, Penn
State Wilkes-Barre will present an
assertiveness training workshop for
students at the Lehman campus on
Thursday, Nov. 29, from 4 to 8 p.m.
The second in a series of five
student development workshops,
this program will help the student to
examine the differences between
assertive, aggressive and non-asser-
tive behavior; to look at individual
and to
recognize verbal, non-verbal and
cognitive assertions.
John Farkas, director of counsel-
ing and academic advisement at
Keystone Junior College, is leading
the workshop series. He has a bach-
elor of science degree in secondary
education and social studies and a
master’s degree in counselor educa-
tion, both from the University of
Scranton. He also teaches assertive-
ness training for the educator at the
Luzerne Intermediate Unit.
KING’S COLLEGE will host a
two-night workshop on academic
and administrative applications of
microcomputers from 7 p.m. to 10
p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28 and
Thursday, Nov. 29, in the college’s
microcomputer laboratory, located
on the fourth floor of the adminis-
tration building.
Under the sponsorship of the
Lehigh Valley Association of Inde-
pendent College, Inc. and the Ben
Franklin North East Tier Advanced
Technololgy Center, the workshop
will be open to faculty and adminis-
trators of member institutions of the
two organizations.
People from member institutions
who wish additional information on
the workshop can call Candace
Brown at the Ben Franklin Technol-
ogy Center at (215) 861-7900.
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Exhibits
THE WYOMING VALLEY ART
LEAGUE is presenting the 1984
Members’ Fall Art Exhibit at the
First Eastern Bank, corner West
Market and North Franklin Sts.
Wilkes-Barre. The exhibit will con-
tinue until Friday, Nov. 30.
The Grumbacher Bronze Medal-
lion Award was presented to Don
Keenan for his oil painting ‘‘Another
Side of Sharon.” “First Snow” a
watercolor by Harry Hayes won
second place. An oil painting titled
“Little Girl and Lillies” by Pat
DeVergilis won the third place.
“The Jungle” by Betsy Morris won
the photography award. The Grum-
bacher Award was acquired by
Constance Slusser while President
and is presented annually. This was
the third award.
Co-chairpersons for the exhibit
are Constance Slusser, Mountaintop
and Judith Hatcher, Bear Creek.
Assisting were Claire Chollak, Pres-
ident, Robert Dudeck, Edwin Jame-
son, John Ramsey, Fran Cowett,
Mary Schwartz, Julia Girton, Flor-,
ence Creter, Verna Kovatch.
Judges for the exhibit were Susan
‘Sponenberg of Nescopeck and Vir-
ginia Tabor, Catasauqua.
Lectures
RONALD GAETANO, national
consultant on drug and alcohol
abuse, will be the guest speaker at
Penn State Wilkes-Barre on Friday,
Nov. 30, 11 a.m. in the Bierly
Auditorium on the Lehman campus.
Gaetano’s topic is “Conflict and
Confusion of the College Years.”
Called by a leading national author-
ity ‘“‘One of the most effective
speakers on drug abuse in the coun-
try today,” Mr. Gaetano has spoken
to over 150,000 parents, teachers,
students, senior citizens, military
personnel and corporate employees.
He has conducted numerous semi-
nars and has appeared nationally on
television talk shows and NBC syn-
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