eo" October 2, 2005 COMMUNITY THE POST PAGES CIVIC BRIEFS Mountain Grange plans flea market ; The Mountain Grange No. 567 will hold a flea market from 9 am. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 at the grange on West Eighth Street in Carverton. Lunch and snacks will be sold from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Driving directions om Trucksville: follow Carv- erton Road to the stop sign at the end. Turn left onto West Eighth Street and follow it to Bodle Road. The grange is locat- 2d across from Bodle Road. Driving directions from Tunk- hannock: take Route 29 and urn left onto Route 292. Go through Center Moreland to Village Road in Franklin Town- ship. Go through Orange, where age Road become West t-te Oh J pr pr Gy way Vill ®: Street. Continue on West Pighth Street to Bodle Road. The grange is located on the right. Arts at Hayfield sets arts, crafts show Arts at Hayfield will hold its annual Homespun Holiday Arts and Crafts Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 at the Penn State /Wilkes-Barre cam- pus in Lehman Township. Hand- crafted holiday items including wreaths, dolls, jewelry, furni- ture, and clothing will be avail- able in the athletics and recre- ation building and the student commons. The cafe commons and the bookstore will be open. A $1 donation is requested. For more information, call 675-9232. Entry forms available for student art show Entry forms for the Jan. 8 student art show are available at The Waterlily, East Overbrook Road in Shavertown. The art show is open to students in grades 7-12 who attend the Dallas, Lake-Lehman, Gate of Heaven school districts, as well as private art studios. Entry forms may be picked up from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Food pantry shelves are almost empty The Back Mountain Food Pantry is looking for donations to stock its shelves for the fall. Though all non-perishable food is welcome, the greatest need in the canned food category are stews, carrots, peas, beets, to- matoes, kidney beans, sweet potatoes, fruit, fruit cocktail, cranberry sauce, apple sauce, spaghetti sauce and canned milk. Other items needed in- clude Hamburger Helper, boxed potato and rice mixes, cake mixes, bread and muffin mixes, sugar, dry milk, pancake mix and syrup. There are 180 households registered with the food pantry. Those numbers include infants, children and youth, 25 percent; adults, 55 percent; elderly, 20 percent. Through support from churches, schools, service orga- nizations and individuals, the pantry collected and distributed more than 44,000 pounds of food to low-income families in the Back Mountain last year. Individuals or groups wishing to donate food may call 696- 2917 for more information or to arrange a mutually convenient time for volunteers to receive the food. Scarecrow-making, hayrides available The Whistle Pig Pumpkin Patch is holding a make-your- own-scarecrow day and free hayride weekends. The scare- crow-making will be held from noon to dusk Sunday, Oct. 2 at the patch on Route 29 in Noxen. Straw and fabric for heads and faces will be provided. The hayrides are held from noon to dusk Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 30. For more information, call 298-0962 or e-mail WhisltePigPump- kin.com. Alzheimer's support Group sets meeting The Alzheimer’s Support * Group will meet at 11 a.m. Oct. 6 at the Meadows Nursing Cen- ter in Dallas. The facility is located at 55 W. Center Hill Road. The public is invited. Art lessons available Mondays New Visions Art Studio is offering art lessons for the fall. The classes are open for chil- dren ages 6-12 and will be held from 6-8 Mondays beginning Oct. 10. The Oct.10 class fea- tures leaf print mats and collag- es. The Oct. 17 class features barn with fall foliage and paint- ing with watercolors. The Oct.24 will feature drawing a haunted house, marker and charcoal. The cost is $ 25.00 for one class or $69 for all three. To register, call 696-5515 no later than Oct. 5. Annual toy run to benefit children The third annual Seed of Abraham Toy Run will be held at 11 a.m. Oct. 8 at the Back Mountain Harvest Assembly Church on Carverton Road in Trucksville. The public is en- couraged to bring a new toy to the third annual event, which benefits the Cross Walks Mobile Children’s Ministry. Entertain- ment will be provided by the “Victory in Heaven” blues band. For more information, call Brad Edwards at 696-9513 or Guy Giordano at 388-2513. Fall craft show set for Oct. 23 The Dallas High School Boys Soccer Club will hold its annual fall craft show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23 at the high school. More than 100 vendors from Pennsylvania and New Jersey will be represented, sell- ing various crafts including hand made items, semi-precious gemstone jewelry, needlework, candles, ceramics, potpourri, quilts, stenciled lampshades, woodcrafts, wreaths, handmade dolls and homemade candy. Club members will be selling lunch and baked goods through- out the day. There will also be raffle tickets sold with prizes donated by local stores and shops. Civil War group holding meetings The Wyoming Valley Civil War Round Table will hold Tony DeLacy’s Licensed Battlefield Guide program during its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Oct. 13. The Civil War Round Table holds its meetings on the sec- ond Tuesday of each month in the lower level of the Daddow- Isaacs American Legion on Route 415 in Dallas. This is not a reenactment group. Anyone interested in becoming a member or learning more about the Round Table is invited to attend a meeting. For more information, call Leonardo at 675-0468 or Pelton at 675- 5790. Members of the Dallas marching band took third place in Group | at the Tournament of Cham- pions at Lake-Lehman. Lando crowned county fair queen Lauren Lando certainly made her first voyage as pageant con- testant a memorable one. The Dallas High School se- nior was recently crowned queen at the Luzerne County Fair. Lando resides in Dallas with her mother, Colleen Burns, and brother, Jonathan. At Dallas, she is an honor roll student, a member of the volley- ball team and is active many stu- dent organizations. Lando is also a member of Below, members of the Dallas color guard perform in the Tour- nament of Champions at Lake- Bands shine under lights ment of Champions competi- tion last weekend at Edward Valley West (73.20) captured first place in Group III and Lehman. Our Lady of Victory Church in Harveys Lake and a volunteer at Masonic Village in Dallas. Veal parmesan, turkey tetrazzini on seniors menu The Senior Citizens Center, sponsored by the Area Agency for Luzerne and Wyoming Coun- tions from the participants are ac- cepted and needed to expand the Tuesday: Dutch fried chicken, butternut squash, cauliflower, whole wheat bread, vanilla pud- Yhe Lake-Lehman High first place in Group I and won ties, offers hot meals at noon, ding, and milk and coffee. \ School marching band for best music and visual. Shi- Monday through Friday to peo- ~~ Wednesday: Stuffed cabbage, @ held its annual Tourna- kellamy (79.10) and Wyoming ple 60 years old, or older. Dona- whipped potatoes, green beans, whole wheat roll, chilled peach- es, and milk and coffee. H. Edwards Stadium in Leh- Group IV, respectively. Both program. Thursday: Turkey tetrazzini man Township. Thirteen bands also received the top The following is the menu for over noodles, seasoned spinach, ~ bands from the Wyoming Val- scores music and visual. the week of Oct 3. orange juice, whole wheat bread, ley, Poconos, Allentown and New York areas competed un- Here are the results of each group in order of finish. Monday: Veal parmesan, penne with tomato sauce, parme- gelatin, and milk and coffee. Friday: Fish cake with Ameri- der the lights. Group I — Pittston Area, san cheese, tossed salad withItal- can cheese on a sandwich roll, Host Lake-Lehman re- Lackawanna Trail, Dallas, ian dressing, Italian bread, oat- tarter sauce, potato puffs, cole ceived the best overall score East Stroudsburg North, meal cookie, and milk and coffee. slaw, apple, and milk and coffee. (81.00) from the judges, but Wyoming Area, Coughlin, " could not win because it was Nanticoke Area, Palmerton ; ) the host band. Back Mountain - and Binghamton. Back Mountain COG holding open space workshop neighbor Dallas finished third in Group I with a score of 73.60. Pittston Area (80.15) took Group III - Shikellamy, Po- cono Mountain East and Par- kland. Group IV — Wyoming Valley West. appointment today. Salon & Day Spa Wedcomes Back Jennie White Receive 20% Off your first visit with Jennie with this ad* "I'm looking forward to seeing all of you very soon!" Call Jennie to schedule your 674-5555 *Offer valid for past, present, and future clients. RTH FOR THE POST/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK The Back Mountain Council of Governments Multi-Munici- pal Open Space Greenways Out- door Recreation Master Plan for Dallas Borough, Dallas Town- ship, Kingston Township, Leh- man Township will hold a work- shop from 4-7 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Kingston Township municipal building at 180 East Center Street in Shavertown. The purpose of the workshop — conducted by Pennsylvania Through the doors of with Natural Lands Trust - is to share the results of the four com- munity “assessments” which NLT has performed for each of the four participating Back Mountain municipalities. Fol- lowing a light dinner, there will be a hands-on exercise which demonstrates how to incorpo- rate conservation zoning and conservation subdivision stan- dards into local codes. The public is invited to attend. 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