2 Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, April 18, 2001 Annual poetry festival at PSU Wilkes-Barre The nineteenth annual Hay- field Poetry Festival will be held on Sunday, April 29, in Hayfield House at the Penn State Wilkes- Barre campus in Lehman. The festival will feature workshops and readings of two popular po- ets, Jerry Wemple and Liz Rosenberg. Sponsored by Arts at Hayfield and the Penn State public. Pre-registration is required for the morning workshops and lun- cheon. Booksignings will follow the afternoon readings during which time visitors may talk with the poets and purchase their books. A coffee/tea recep- tion will follow. For more infor- mation or to register, please call David Chin, Ph.D. at 675-9247 or e-mail: dpc5@psu.edu. Wilkes-Barre Honor Society, this event is free and open to the Fire Co. flea market and craft show The Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company will hold a Flea Market & Craft Show on Saturday, April 28, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Sunday, April 29, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the fire hall on Orange Road. Tables and spaces are still available, and refreshments will be served. For more information call 333-4557, 333-5912, or 333-4696. Catherine Gourley to speak at Library Luncheon Catherine Gourley, a Wilkes-Barre native and graduate of Cough- lin High School and Wilkes University, will speak at the Back Moun- tain Memorial Library Friends 13th annual “Luncheon with a Spe- cial Author” on Thursday, April 26, at the Apple Tree Terrace, New- berry Estate, Dallas. Gourley’s award winning books are The Courtship of Joanna, a story about the experiences of Irish immi- grants working in the anthracite coal mines in Northeastern Penn- sylvania in the 1880's; and three books in the popular American Girl Nonfiction Series. She and her husband reside in Dallas. Lunch is served at noon, and the program begins at 1:15 p.m. The cost is $16.50, with proceeds benefiting the library. Tables of 8 may be reserved. Call the library, at 675-1182, for more informa- tion and to make reservations. 16. French government honors WWII Veterans Washington, D.C. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Prin- cipi and H.E. Francois De liEstang, ambassador of France, an- nounced that the French Government will present certificates to World War II veterans to thank them for their participation in the liberation of France. To be eligible, a veteran must have served on French territory, in French territorial waters or in French airspace between June 6, 1944 and May 8, 1945. The certificate will not be issued posthumously. Presentation of the certificates is expected to begin later this year. The application form will be available from vet- eran service organizations and on a special Internet site maintained Checks must be received by April WBGH auxiliary delivers violets to patients As part of their yearly tradition, members of the Wilkes-Barre Gener- al Hospital auxiliary distributed African violets to patients throughout the hospital the first full day of spring. The tradition is held with intention of brightening the day for patients by bringing a little bit of spring to their rooms. From left: Lina Schifano, Trucksville; Ellen Ayre, Mountaintop; Peg Kropiewnicki, Plains; Nancy Evans, Bear Creek; Lisa Allardyce, Av- oca; Darlene Dalessandro, Moosic; Elizabeth Covert, Dallas; Trudy Schmitt, Thornhurst; and Alice Biernacki, Mountaintop. Hand donates painting for SPCA raffle The SPCA of Luzerne County will celebrate its 44th Anniversary on Wednesday, April 18 at the Woodlands Inn, Plains Twp. To help with the celebration, internationally reknowned artist Sue Hand, Dal- las, has donated one of her paintings titled the Rainbow Bridge which will be raffled off with several other prints and painting by local artists. Reservations and raffle tickets are available from the SPCA. Pictured with her painting of the Rainbow Bridge is Sue Hand of Sue Hand’s Imagery, Dallas. Local dance to cure all ills A New England Contra dance sponsored by the Chicory House and the Folklore Society will feature the Medicinal Purpose with Syracuse caller Katy Heine. The dance will take place on Saturday April 21, at 8 p.m. at St. Therese’s Church, Pioneer Avenue at Davis Street in Shavertown. No partner or previous experience is necessary. The Chicory house is an all-volunteer nonprofit coffee house, sponsoring folk music and dance in the Wyoming Valley. Admis- sion to the dance is $6 for adults and $15 for families. Dancers may bring a snack to share at intermission. Further information is available at 333-4007. Local dancers present ‘Puss In Boots’ More than 100 dancers from the Back Mountain, ranging in age from four years old, will appear in “La Chat Boote,” better known as, “Puss In Boots,” staged by the Joan Harris Dancers on Sun., April 22 at the Irem Tem- ple Auditorium in Wilkes-Barre. Students from Joan Harris Cen- tre’s Back Mountain Campus in the Twin Stacks Complex in Dal- las will pool their talents with dancers from the school’s Kingston Campus for two perfor- mances scheduled for 1 and 5 p.m. Choreographed by Jackson Township resident Elisabeth Harris, the performance is based on the work of Roland Petit of the National Ballet of Marseille. Harris is a certified ballet instruc- tor with the Dance Educators of America Organization. Tickets Cancer Society & are $7 in advance and $9 the day of the performance. They can be purchased at the Joan Harris Centre's Back Mountain Campus in the Twin Stacks Complex in Dallas, at Broadway Dreams in Kingston and at the Harris Centre’s Kingston Cam- pus in the West Side Mall. For more information, call 674-3699 or 287-7977. Among the Back Mountain students who will per- form in the character ballet, “Puss In Boots” are, left, knelling: Lee Riccetti, Shaver- town. Second row: Chelsea Yenason, Dallas, Taylor Kelly, § Dallas. Third row: Merideth i Davies, Dallas, Ashley Mihal, © Shavertown, Jessica Kostzews-| ki, Dallas, Emily Ashton, Dallas | @® and Ashlie Morris, Dallas. { | by the French government: http: / /www.info-france- usa.org/news/sttmnts/ww2 /index.htm. Senior Citizens Centers, sponsored by the Luzerne /Wyoming Counties Agency on Aging, offer hot noon meals Monday through Friday to people 60 years of age or old- er. Donations from participants are gratefully accepted and needed in order to expand this program. The following is the menu for the week ofApr.19-25. All menus include margarine, milk and coffee. THURSDAY: Dutch fried chicken, parsley boiled pota- toes, glazed carrots, cranberry juice, rye bread, applesauce. FRIDAY: Baked pollock over linguini w/newburg sauce, veg- etable medley, mandarin orange & pineapple compote, whole wheat bread, lemon birthday cake. MONDAY: Volunteer Appre- ciation Day. Stuffed chicken breast w/gravy, whipped pota- toes, buttered broccoli, mixed fresh fruit salad, dinner roll, peaches & cream cake. 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