9... June 11, 2006 civic THE POST PAGE 3 CIVIC BRIEFS Dance to benefit Wega scholarship The Kyle Wega Memorial Scholarship Fund will hold a benefit dance from 6-11 p.m. Saturday, June 24 at Irem Tem- ple Country Club in Dallas Township. The cost is $20, which includes food and bever- ages. The event is open to people of all ages. Among the performers will be Soul Bus- ters, Strawberry Jam, Stone Soup featuring John Shemo, Concrete Road, Eddie Day, and Dallas School District superin- tendent Frank Galicki as “El- vis.” The scholarship fund is being operated through the Luzerne Foundation. All pro- ceeds from the dance will go to e scholarship fund. Each ar, a scholarship will be given to a Dallas student. Tickets are available at Gal- lery of Sound, J&J Deli, and on the school district’s Web site at www.dallassd.com. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Market on the Pond to be held June 17 Vendor spaces for the highly- popular “Market on the Pond” at The Meadows Nursing Cen- ter are available. The annual event — which benefits the center’s residents — will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 17 at the center, 55 West Center Hill Road in Dallas. The center can accommodate 108 vendors. Vendor spaces are $20 and may be reserved by calling 675-8600, ext. 195. The rain date is June 24. Contributions for the odds and ends booth at Market on the Pond are being accepted. Items needed included paper- @: and hard cover books, ovies, DVDs, cassette tapes, jewelry, never-used items and crafts. Clothing and broken items cannot be accepted. Donations may be brought to the main lobby from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 10 at the center. Kunkle Fire Co. sets breakfast = The Kunkle Volunteer Fire Company: will hold a Father’s Day breakfast from 7 a.m. to noon Sunday, June 18 at the fire hall at the intersection of Kunkle Road and Route 309. ickets are $5 and will be avail- le at the door. For more information, call 675-3334. Dinner-dance to benefit auction The Back Mountain Memo- rial Library Auction will hold its annual dinner-dance from 6-11 p.m. Friday, June 16 at Irem Temple Country Club. The evening will begin with refreshments from 6-7 p.m., followed by dinner at 7. A mini auction, silent auc- tion, a raffle and dancing will follow dinner. Tickets are $37.50 a person or $75 per couple. Tickets may be pur- chased at the front desk of the library, which is located at 96 Huntsville Road in Dallas. For more information, call 675- al las Post Fire company plans breakfast The Lehman Volunteer Fire Department will hold a break- fast from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sun- day, June 11 at the fire hall. The menu includes eggs, bacon, sausage, home fries, pancakes, toast and beverages. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children. Face value period to end June 22 Kingston Township tax col- lector Karen Rose reminds residents the face value on the 2006 county/township taxes will end Thursday, June 22. All payments must be postmarked on or before June 22 to be eligible for rebate value. The tax office is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday and Thursday at the Kingston Township municipal building on Center Street in Shaver- town. Payments may also be dropped off in the mail slot in the vestibule of the building. Dietrich Theater offering yoga The Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock will hold yoga classes from 10-11 a.m. Mon- days, Wednesdays and Sat- urdays. The instructors are Melissa Russo and Mary Franc- es Giordano, certified Hatha yoga instructors. The cost is $10 per lesson. The classes will teach or reinforce the basic yoga poses, which gently stretch and strengthen the body. Special attention will be given to proper breathing and alignment in the postures. Bring a yoga mat or beach towel. To view a list of all classes being offered at The Dietrich, visit the Web site www.die- trichtheater.com. For more information, call The Dietrich at 996-1500. Vendors needed for Noxen craft show Vendor spaces are available for the Noxen Volunteer Fire Co.’s craft show, which will be held in conjunction with the annual Rattlesnake Roundup on June 15-18. Spaces are avail- able inside and outside of the tent. Spaces are $30 each. To reserve a space, call the fire company at 298-2061, call Sandra at 639-2504 or fax the request to 298-2403. There will also be representatives at the fire hall from 7-8:30 p.m. Mon- day nights. Holistic market set for June 17-18 A holistic market and fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 17-18 at the North- moreland Fire Hall in Center Moreland. Some of the features will be books, jewelry, candles, gifts, crafts, wind chimes, soaps, massages and food. The admission is $1 for adults and children age 10 and older. To get to the fire hall, take Route 309 to 29 north. Follow that road to Route 292 and turn left. The fire hall is on Route 292. MARKET ON THE POND SET FOR JUNE 17 AT THE MEADOWS utive director. Volunteers at The Meadows Nursing Center in Dallas are preparing for the annual Market on the Pond fund-raiser, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 17 on the center's grounds on West Center Hill Road. The event will feature more than100 vendors offering a variety of goods and treasures. The booths include odds and ends, plants, jewelry, books, raffles, residents’ crafts, re- freshments in the Pavilion and more. A bake sale will also be available. Last year’s bake sale raised more than $1,000. The rain date is June 24. All proceeds benefit the center's residents. Members of the committee planning the event, from left, front row are Jill McHugh, Midge Smith, Betty Miller, Pat Frodsham, Leona Walter, Irene Transue and Betty Glass. Second row: Marilyn Gregorski, volunteer coordinator; Bob Law, auxiliary presi- dent; Lloyd Ryman, chairman; David Klingerman Jr, Meadows administrator; Gary Kirk, Meadows assistant administrator; and Carl Noto, EEI exec- MASTER GARDENERS TO PRESENT PROGRAM The Penn State Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of Luzerne County will hold the program “A Walk on the Wild Side’ from 6-8 p.m. June 28 and Aug. 15 at Hay- field House on the campus of Penn State Wilkes-Barre in Lehman Township. The program will provide the concepts of cre- ating habitat and managing pests in the garden. The Penn State Garden Selects Trial Garden will provide a look at the best new plant cultivars, their growth habits, and resistance to disease, deer. Reservations, along with a $5 fee per person, must be made by Friday June 23 or Aug. 1 for the respective workshops. For more information, call 825-1701 or e- mail Luzerne@psu.edu. Master Gardener Roberta Troy, left, and Master Gardener coordinator Mary Pat Appel will serve as presenters during the program. insects and Summer camps at Dietrich offer kids a variety of adventures Children interested in traveling into outer space, making movies, creating robots, exploring the arts and theater, and learning about an- cient mythology should take ad- vantage of the summer camps at The Dietrich Theater in Tunkhan- nock. The summer camp series be- gins from 10 a.m. to noon June 19- 23 with a “2006: A Space Odyssey” for students ages 5-12. Campers will learn about outer space, aliens, planets and intergalactic travel while creating stories, live theatre, arts, crafts and more. Amy Colley, artist-in-residence at the Dietrich Theater and Michaela Moore of All About Theater Per- forming Arts School will instruct children in all aspects of visual arts and dramatic arts, including movement, mask-making and use, painting, costume-making, jewel- ry creation, group art projects, crafts and theatre games. The following week, from 2-4:30 p.m. June 26-30, students will have the opportunity to explore the arts through the use of technol- ogy in the Dietrich’s “Digital Arts Camp.” Rand Whipple of Box of Light Theatre will show students | how to make claymation movies, build robots, and explore the use of special effects. The camp is | geared toward students ages 8-12. During the evenings that week, Whipple will teach a special digital ou filmmaking workshop to adults J and teens called “Move Over Mr. Spielberg.” The Dietrich will combine the | arts with favorite children’s litera ture in an “All About Drawing |} Camp” from 10-11:30 a.m. during the week of July 10-14. 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