Sunday, August 27, 2006 CIVIC THE POST PAGE 3 glaviield Festival to feature Donegal Weavers The 22nd annual Arts at Hayfield Summer Festival will be held Sunday, Aug. 27 at the Penn State Wilkes-Barre cam- pus in Lehman Township. This year’s festival opens at 10 a.m. and runs through 4:30 p.m. on the campus. An admission do- nation of $1 per adult is re- quested at the gate. The festival is one of the two primary fund-raising activities of Arts at Hayfield, which funds a number of community activities. Those activities range from musical and theat- rical offerings at Penn State Wilkes-Barre to underwriting assistance of Kirby Center per- formances, Celebrity Lun- cheons, Music Under-the-Stars and local library outreach for books on the arts. This year’s event will feature a variety of entertainment, from the folk rock toe-tapping artistry of “Just Us” to the Back Mountain Theater Group to the Celtic musical heritage performed by The Donegal Weavers. Other entertainers scheduled to perform are jug- gler Robert Smith and fiddler/ one-man band Jay Smear. The entertainment perform- ance times are Donegal Weav- ers, 11:30. am. to 12:30 p.m.; Robert Smith, 12:30-1:30 p.m.; Jay Smear, 1:30-2:30 p.m.; Back Mountain Theater Group, 2:30 p.m.; Just Us, 3:30 p.m. A yearly festival feature is the guided tour of Hayfield House, the main administra- tion building of the school that was built during The Great De- pression by Mr. and Mrs. John N. Conyngham primarily as a summer residence. Tours will be conducted at 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. during the fes- tival. For more information, call 675-9232. KUNKLE FIRE COMPANY John L. Carey, MD Cheryl A. Carey, CRNP Boonin, MD to the Krishnakant A. Patel, MD HOLDING CHICKEN BARBECUE Fa Patrick C. Kilduff, DO The Kunkle Volunteer Fire Co. will hold its annual chicken barbecue and flea market from am.to7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2 on the fire com- pany grounds on Kunkle Road. The rain date is Sept. 3. Dinners including chicken halves are $8 for adults and $3 for children. Chicken halves will be sold separately for $3.50. A flea market will be held from 9 a.m. until all items are gone. To reserve a table, call 675- 3334 or 675- 2728. Above, Bill Fedrow cooks some of the many chicken halves during a previous barbe- cue. Gary D. Nothstein, DO Mark W. Puffenberger, MD Fran McGlynn, CRNP Back Mountain New patients welcome! The Back Mountain welcomes Dr. Patrick C. Kilduff to the InterMountain Twin Stacks Center in Dallas. You are invited to meet Dr. Kilduff and the entire staff. Find out how the professionals at InterMountain Medical Group can make your life healthier and happier. Come join us! im, InterMountain MEDICAL GROUP P.C. TWIN STACKS CENTER 1180 Memorial Highway, Dallas ® 570-675-0900 http://intermountaingroup.com CIVIC BRIEFS Dallas ambulance begins subscription drive The Dallas Fire and Ambulance Company recently began its annual ambulance subscription drive. Any resident of Dallas Borough who did not receive a subscription letter should call 675-0636 or e-mail DallasSta- tioni@epix.net as soon as pos- sible. Theater company presenting musical The Back Mountain Theatre Company will present the musi- cal "Let Your Hair Down Rapun- zel" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 27 at the annual Arts at Hayfield Summer Festival on the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus in Lehman Township. The musical will feature a group of 30 local young cast members. The festival opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 4:30 p.m. Alzheimer's group sets monthly meeting The Alzheimer’s Support Group will meet at 1 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 7 at the Meadows Nursing Center in Dallas. The facility is located at 55 W. Center Hill Road. The public is invited. Kiss the Pig contest accepting $1 votes The Dallas Harvest Festival Com- mittee is holding its fourth an- nual “Kiss the Pig" contest dur- ing the Dallas Harvest Festival. The festival will be held Sunday, Sept. 17 on Main Street. The chiefs of five Back Mountain volunteer fire departments are participating in the friendly “Kiss the Pig" competition. The contes- tants are Harry Vivian, Dallas; Jack Dodson, Kunkle; Dennis Bonning, Lehman Township; Gary Beisel, Shavertown; and Bill Eck, Trucksville. Bright pink labeled ballot jars and posters are locat- ed at locations throughout the Back Mountain, specifically stores and businesses along routes 309, 415, 118. Local resi- dents may purchase as many $1 ballots as they wish through Sept. 17. Ballot jars will also be available during the festival. The identity of the winning “kisser” will be announced at the festival district magistrate James Tupper, who will witness the kissing of "Rocco Rooter,” a potbelly pig owned by 4-H educator Marge Bart of Dallas. Half of the money collected will be donated to the winning chief's fire department, while the other half will be used to defray the cost of next year’s festival. Last year’s winner was state Sen. Charles Lemmond. Blood drive set for Sweet Valley The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 1-6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30 at the Church of Christ in Sweet Valley. Anyone who donated in June is eligible to donate. All donors will be registered for a drawing for $50 of gas. There will be three winners. There also will be drawings for three plasma televisions. Blood supplies are dangerously low and the flood in late June made supplies even lower. A scheduled appointment may be made to reduce the time needed for donating. To schedule an appointment, call 823-7164, ext. 2150. The Red Cross requests that all donors bring identification and their Red Cross Blood card. Any- one 17 years of age, weighing a minimum of 10 pounds and in good health are eligible to do- nate. Choral Society plans auditions The College Misericordia Choral Society will hold auditions for openings in all parts from Aug. 29 to Sept. 19. The Choral Society is one of Northeastern Penn- sylvania’s premiere arts orga- nizations. Its membership ’in- cludes Misericordia students and faculty, and community members of all ages. The Choral Society welcomes new singers with mu- sic-reading ability and a dedi- cation to singing great choral music. Rehearsals are held from 7-9:30 p.m. Tuesdays in the Banks Stu- dent Life Center's Kennedy Lounge. New singers may regis- ter for an audition by coming to any of the first four rehearsals, beginning Aug. 29. The Choral Society will perform Mozart's delightful “Sparrow” Mass, as well as a selection of Christmas favorites this fall. For more information, contact the choral society director John Curtis at 674-6739 or jcurtis@mi- sericordia.edu. Special T-shirt benefits autism fund PT Boutique will be selling a limited edition T-shirt to benefit the local Earthly Angels Autism Fund during the FUNDRIVE 4 A CAUSE, which will be held from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16 at Grotto Pizza in Harveys Lake. The shirts, which will be available in all sizes, are $12. For each shirt sold, $3 will be donated to the local chapter of Earthly Angels Autism Fund. The highlight of FUNDRIVE 4 A CAUSE will be a PT Cruiser caravan from Luzerne to Harveys Lake. In addition to the grand finale from 2-4 p.m., an awards presentation will be held at 3 p.m. There is no admission charge to the event. Farmers Market open at library The annual Farmers Market at the Back Mountain Memorial Library is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Saturday through Sept. 16 on the library grounds, Hunts- ville Road in Dallas. Among the features at the Farm- ers Market are locally-grown seasonal fruits and vegetables, gourmet international cheeses, fresh baked goods and dairy ice cream. Local vendors include Brace's Orchard, Dymond’s Farm Market and Bakery, | Gourmet, Creekside, Emma's Bakery and the Lands at Hillside Farms. Vendor stalls will be set up on the pavement of the library park- ing lot. Patrons are asked to park on the lawn behind the library. 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