PAGE 12 THE DALLAS POST SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013 Tyler Spaciano, left, and Brady Ecenrode display handmade notecards. TUMUC festival benefits United Methodist Home for Children mission festival to benefit the United Methodist Home for Chil- en in central Pennsylvania was held Feb. 24 at the Trucksville United Methodist Church Sunday School. The hour-long event opened with the children singing, led by Musical Direc- tor Dr. Stephen Broskoske. The junior and senior high classes sponsored a bake sale and presented a skit based on the Parable of the Sower, found in Matthew 13. The younger classes each had a sta- tion where they offered handmade items or led carnival-style games in exchange for a donation. The nursery class offered homemade butter cookies and had a variety of toppings and icings at their cookie decorating station. The second-grade class sponsored carnival games such as ring toss and skee ball. The students instructed “cus- tomers” how to play the games and treats were given for each donation. Other classes offered handmade wares (made by the children), including note- cards, soaps and scarves. The children collected $339.85 which will be added to donations col- lected during worship throughout the month of February and sent to the facil- ity in Mechanicsburg. Shown here with a selection of and Lisa Banta. handmade soaps are, from left, first row, Jared Weisenberger and Abby Hastings. Second row, John Kozokas Ella Fleshcu is ready for the next player at the ball toss game. These soaps were made by fifth and sixth-graders at the Trucksville United Methodist Church Festival. y Riley Egan, left, and Debbie Shilan- ski show off handmade scarves. Helen Bubul, Master Gardener, Penn State Extension, Luzerne: County, arranges plants for the plant sale to be held at the Mas- ter Gardeners’ annual Spring Into Gardening Workshop at Penn State Wilkes-Barre Campus in Lehman on Saturday, April 27. Master Gardeners plan annual spring workshop The Master Gardeners’ An- nual Spring Into Gardening Workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 at Penn State Wilkes-Barre Campus in Lehman on Satur- day, April 27. A flea market will also be held, along with sessions on turf management, trees for your landscape, expressing personal- ity in the garden, soil, water fea- tures in gardens, shade gardens, gardening for four seasons and vegetable gardening in unug= weather. ) Vincent J. Cotrone, Regio i Extension Urban Forester, will be the keynote speaker, dis- cussing “Trees and Shrubs in a Changing Landscape.” Master Gardeners will be available at the information table to answer personal gardening questions. Seating is limited. For more information, contact Penn State Extension, Luzerne County, at 825-1701. Daddow-Isaacs Dallas American Legion Post 672 hosted the winners of the annual Essay Contest and Oratorical Contest and their parents at the Post Home. Reverend Wiliam Lewis, Post Chaplain, gave the Invocation and Benediction. Win- ners were presented with a certificate, a medal and a cash award. The topic for the essay contest was “Should the Supreme Court Be Appointed a . Legion contest winners honored or Elected?” Tom Boyle, of Lake-Lehman, captured first place in the local oratorical contest. Drew Harding, of Dallas, captured first place in the local essay contest for the sec- ond year in a row. Paul Caiccia was sec- ond, Mary Sharon Caiccia was third and Casey McAndrew gained an honorable mention. John Emil Sr., District 12 Commander, congratulated Harding for winning the district contest and finishing second in inter-district competition. He also congratulated Tom Boyle for being the first oratorical participant on the local level in many years and for plac- ing second in the district competition. He invited both to an awardsceremony to be held April 28. KT supers honor Kolesar The Kingston Township Board of Supervisors recently presented a plaque to Michael Kolesar in recognition of his 21+ years of ser- vice on the Kingston Township Planning Commission. Kolesar re- linquished his position with the Planning Commission as of Dec. 31, 2012. From left, are Supervisor Sam Barbose, Michael Kolesar, Chairman Jeff Box, Vice Chair Shirley Moyer and Supervisor Jim Reino. 8 Third-graders receive dictionaries from Dallas Rotary Club All third-grade students in Back Mountain schools were recently given a dictionary. The Dallas Rotary Club Dictionary Project Com- mittee, chaired by Rotarian Bill Nafus, distributed more than 400 books to Dallas and Lake-Lehman School District students. Third- grade teachers welcomed the Rotarians and thanked them for their dedication to literacy and education. Dictionary Project Chairman Bill Nafus is shown here presenting a dictionary to his grandson, Jesse Blight, a third-grader at Dallas Elementary. {1 { Nf
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