| COMM | Sunday, February 26, 2006 UNITY THE POST PAGE 3A & IVIC BRIEFS American Red Cross. Regis- A “Swing into Spring” sale picked up beginning at 9 a.m. from 7:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, College Misericordia’s wealth of trations are being taken at the will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 Saturday, March 4. It will be March 4 at the library on West ~~ resources. The talks span the Babysitting course main desk of the library. p.m. Saturday, March 4 at the sorted, boxed and taken to the ~~ Tioga Street in Tunkhannock. arts and sciences and will out- to be held at libra ry Participants are asked to Back Mountain Memorial Li- food pantry at the Trucksville The event will feature wine, line faculty member’s current A babysitting course offered by the American Red Cross will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 18 in the Com- munity Room of the Back Mountain Memorial Library on Huntsville Road in Dallas. The class is open to boys and girls ages 11-15. The class will pro- vide them with the skills and confidence needed to become a care provider. Participants will learn how to perform first aid, understand how to get professional medical help fast, identify common safety hazards and prevent in- juries, perform basic care rou- tines like diapering, feeding and dressing, handle bedtime issues and more. A babysitter’s hand- book will be included and dis- tributed at the program. A $40 course fee is due at the @: of registration. Checks ould be made out to the bring a bag lunch to the pro- gram. For more information, call the library at 675-1182. Contra dance set for March 4 A New England Contra dance sponsored by the Chicory House and Folklore Society of North- eastern Pennsylvania will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, March4 at the Fellowship Free Evangel- ical Church, 45 Hildebrandt Road in Dallas Township. The dance will feature the music of Kathy Shimburg and Carl Baron as “ Tributary,” along with caller Fern Bradley. No partner or previous experience is necessary. Admission to the dance is $7 for adults and $18 for families. Spring sale at BMT library brary, 96 Huntsville Road in Dallas. The sale will include wreaths, flower arrangements, Easter baskets, rabbit and duck novelties, stuffed animals, dolls, tableware, Mother’s Day gifts and planters. The items will be sold at bargain prices. For more information, call the library at 675-1182. Food program being held by Scouts The Boy Scouts of Troop 281 and Cub Scouts of Pack 281 will participate in the annual Scout- ing for Food Program. Food and money donations collected over a one-week period will benefit less-fortunate families in the community. The Scouts will distribute door hangers from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26 throughout the neighborhoods in the Back Mountain. The food will be FRIENDS Continued from Page 1 cles and met Cleary’s father, Jack, at his Cleary Forest Prod- ucts office. From there, the group went to a small area be- tween Center Moreland and Tunkhannock - affectionately known as “The Swamp” to the Clearys — where the father and son had spent many hours hunt- ing and fishing. “We built a fire and (the sol- diers) told some wonderful sto- ries about Mike,” said Jack Clea- ry. “Many of them were stories I stories I didn’t hear before. They knew the same Mike that I knew. They knew his laugh, his smile d his toughness, especially in he: heat of battle.” First Lt. Peter Robinson met Mike Cleary at Sapper School, an intense course that teaches soldiers skills — such as demol- ishing bridges, roads and bun- kers —to be light engineers. They also attended Officer Basic School together. And it didn’t take long for Cleary to make an impression on the Princeton University gradu- ate. “We hit it off right away,” said Robinson, a native of Eagle, Ida- ho. “Mike and I got inand out of a few scrapes together. I lost some men (killed in action), but no one as close to me as Mikey was. He was by far and away the best friend I had at Officer Basic.” Robinson says Cleary stood out among some of the Army’s best soldiers. “Mikey was the best of us. He really was,” he said. “Of the guys who went through Officer Basic and Sapper School, if you said any of us were coming back to a happy life, it would have been Mike.” Perhaps no one knew Cleary during the heat of warfare better than Capt. Pat Hafner. The Scranton Prep graduate says the two became close before they were deployed to Iraq a year ago. “Two months before we de- ployed, we met while the compa- ny was on lock down,” said Hafn- er. “We really hit it off. We’re both from the same area, so we knew the same spots. We always talked about the things we wanted to do. We had a lot of big plans.” Hafner, who is the company’s Executive Officer, sent Cleary and his men on a mission to de- stroy a bomb factory with a large cache of weapons that were be- ing used by insurgent forces. The roadside explosion took place while the group was returning to the unit. It’s rough, it’s...,” said the 26- year-old Hafner, his voice trail- FOR THE POST/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Jack Claery, father of Lt. Michael Cleary, greets members of his sons company. They gathered for a concert in memory of the fallen Dallas soldier organized by his fiance. ing off. “We lost our first solider, Justin Carter, on February 16 (2005). I don’t think any of (the deaths) have started to sink in. Mike was such a great guy.” After the soldiers and Jack Cleary left the campsite, they joined the rest of the Cleary fam- ily and Kavanagh at Leary’s Kork and Keg in Kingston. The special night of music was organized by Kavanagh and proceeds from the event will benefit the 1st Lt. Mi- chael J. Cleary Foundation. “I think (the visit) is rather bit- tersweet,” said Hernandez, a graduate of Texas Christian Uni- versity.” I think it’s cliché to say, ‘but it’s the best say to describe it. I also think it’s closure of every- one. It’s still strange to know that Mike didn’t come back with our unit and he’s not coming back.” United Methodist Church and the River of Life Fellowship Church. All donations will stay in the Back Mountain. Living history part of presentation The Wyoming Valley Civil War Round Table will hold its annual dinner meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 9 at Picketts Charge Restaurant in Dallas. John H. Ream III will portray 1st Sgt. John Samuel Apperson, a hospital steward in the Stone- wall Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The living history presentation is taken from Ap- person’s diary during the years of the war. Reservations must be made no later than March 2. For reser- vations or more information, including dinner prices, call Maureen at 256-4413. Tunkhannock library hosting wine tasting The Tunkhannock Public Library will hold its third annual wine tasting “Life is a Cabernet” nonalcoholic beverages, hors d'oeuvres, dessert, coffee, a silent auction, a raffle and door information, call the library at 836-1677. Speakers series begins March 2 The inaugural Spring Speak- ers Series at College Miser- icordia will feature four faculty lecturers discussing topics rang- ing from the arts to the sci- ences. The series begins Thurs- day, March 2 and concludes Wednesday, April 25. The lec- tures are held at 7 p.m. in the - Bevevino Library’s third floor McGowan Room on the campus of College Misericordia. There is no admission charge and the public is invited. Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Mary Kintz Bevevino Library and faculty, the series is designed to welcome the com- munity onto campus to share in research, library resources avail- able to the public and what students can expect in terms of prizes. course work and possible ca- The cost is $30 per person reers. + and proceeds benefit the library. A schedule and brief outline A limited number of tickets are of the topics each lecturer will available. For tickets or more discuss during the Speakers Series can be found by visiting the Web site www.misericor- dia.edu. New tax bills mailed in Dallas A new style tax bill has been mailed to Dallas Borough resi- dents. The bill is the result of a new data system at the Luzerne County Courthouse. The bar- coded bill must be presented along with your payment to tax collector Mark Van Etten. Residents who do not receive a bill should call Van Etten at 675-1878. Residents requesting copies of receipts will need to send a self-addressed, stamped envelope along with their pay- ment. Receipts will be returned stamped paid. 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