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How Do You Look at Things?
January 2015
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Perspective is a particular attitude toward, or way of, regarding
something; a point of view. Traditionally in January, we take stock
of our lives, and resolve to change things, or make things better.
We want for more, or for something to be different; to do or un-do
something about ourselves. We want to start anew, with the New
Year. But do we need to?
Recently, a close friend of mine suffered the loss of a sibling.
She had been sick for quite some time, and often my friend and I
would comment on what a good attitude her sibling had. She joked
and laughed, made the best of her situation, and was hopeful all
through her fight. How easy would it have been for this woman to
be full of woe, and fear? But she wasn’t. Her perspective was focused on getting well, and smiling while she did it! And my friend
was so strong and realistic through it all. I don’t know that I could
have done it.
Around the same time, another dear friend was diagnosed with
a potentially life-threatening disease. She kept the information to
herself, until she couldn’t. We never knew she was sick. We never
knew what her struggle was. She chose to smile. She chose to continue on with her daily routines, with pep in her step, and the same
sassiness she has always had. When she opted for a radical surgery
to make herself healthy again, she felt it was time to let us know.
They day of her surgery, not even a few hours after, she was contacting her friends to let us all know she was ok! A few days later,
she was out and about, asking what she can do for us! Amazing. I
am in awe of her strength and attitude every day.
In the big picture, the little trifles that bother us in our daily lives
do not compare to what these two women have been through. Or,
what many others in the world go through each and every day. I
often find that person in the mirror yelling at me to stop complaining. Stop worrying about the things that don’t really matter, or that
cannot be changed. (cont. right)
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Do I need to lose a few pounds? Uh…yeah! Do I drive a 14 year
old truck with dents and pink paint scratches? Yup. Does my almost-200 year-old house need, well, everything? It does. But you
know what? Those extra pounds mean that my family and I have
enough food to eat. My old truck gets me where I need to go, generally without fail. And my house? Well, it’s not new, and it’s not
pretty, and it really does need to be brought into the 21st century,
but it is mine. I have a warm bed, a roof over my head, running water, a fridge full of food, pets to cuddle with, and a happy, healthy
family that has grown up there, making memories to share with
their families one day.
I’d say, when put into perspective, I really do not have too much
to complain about.
Happy New Year! I wish you all love, laughter, happiness and
peace in 2015.
Enjoy this issue ~ Lisa
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Last year was a great success and a lot of fun! Please call us at
610-681-4733, and let us know you would like to enter a chili, one
week in advance, by 1/24/15. Last minute chilies will be accepted.
It is $5.00 to enter a chili, or to come out and eat. All you can eat
chili for $5.00! There will be trophies and bragging rights for the
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What is Piecemakers? It is a time for learning quilting and sharing crafting. Teens and adults are invited to join in the experience.
We meet twice each month: every 1st Tuesday evening, from 6:308:30pm, and every 3rd Monday afternoon, from 12:30-3:30pm.
We are blessed to have Ann Marie Lambert, a local quilting teacher
who will teach and encourage you in your quilting.
Please bring your own sewing machine and a project to work
from, or you may use a provided prepackaged quilt kit to donate as
a finished project to Quilts for Kids. Not a quilter? Bring your craft
to share and fellowship with the group.
Registrations are requested for these free classes, but you are
welcome to join us without pre-registration. We look forward to
quilting and crafting with you.
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Young At Heart Seniors
Young At Heart Seniors meets
at the Polk Twp. Fire House Social Hall, Rt. 209, in Kresgeville.
The January meetings will be on the 6th and the 20th, at 10:30am.
There will be refreshments. FMI: Janet at 570-722-3895.
Stephanie Pearce, MSW, LCSW
Providing supportive counseling services for adolescents,
adults and families impacted by mood disorder and grief and
loss issues. Practice also specializes in providing counseling
to individuals and couples impacted by:post partum depression
and anxiety, perinatal loss, infertility and reproductive trauma.
Call for FREE telephone consultation: 908-300-1163
2334 Rt. 209 Brodheadsville, PA 18322
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HELP TRANSFORM ELDRED!
MEAT PIE SALE
Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran
Church, 500 Church Drive, Palmerton, is holding a meat pie
sale through January 4. There is a choice of four kinds: beef,
pork, chicken, or chicken and pork mixed.
To place an order: church office 610-681-5200, or 610681-5403. Meat pies must be picked up at the church on
January 19 or 20.
2 - WEST END HAPPENINGS • January 2015
Eldred Township is
looking for volunteers to help transform the former Eldred Elementary School into a vital resource for the community. Help will
be needed with minor repairs to the building, landscaping, and development ideas as well as with all aspects of planning, publicizing
and managing. If you would like to be a part of that effort, please
email the Township or drop off a note at the Township Office indicating your area of interest and qualifications. You can also mail
your information to the Township at P.O. Box 600, Kunkletown,
PA 18058.
We look forward to drawing from all parts of the community
for this exciting project, and we encourage all residents to come
forward with their ideas and input!
• Please note: Eldred Township residents can stay informed of our
latest news and events by joining our email group, Eldred Township Updates. This group receives emails on average once or twice
a month or, when something significant needs to be shared with
residents. You can join this group by contacting Darcy Gannon
at d.gannon@eldredtwp.org; phoning 610-81-4252, x2; or sending
your information via US Mail to Darcy Gannon, Eldred Township,
PO Box 600, Kunkletown, PA 18058. We also have a sign-up sheet
on the counter at the Eldred Township Municipal Building. The
preferred contact method is via email, since then we will have the
correct spelling and layout of your email address and can easily
add you to our group.
Kunkletown Vol. Fire Co. Breakfast
On Sunday, January 4, from 7:30 a.m.
to noon, Kunkletown Vol. Fire Co. is having their monthly breakfast. Cost is $6.00
adults, $5.50 reduced rate adults, $4.25
children 12 and under. Menu includes eggs
to order, with ham or sausage, home fries,
toast or SOS; orange juice, coffee, tea, hot
chocolate and milk. The firehouse is at 597
Kunkletown Rd., in Kunkletown.
Did You Know . . . ?
The winter of 1779-1780 was so cold that ice was
piled 20 feet high along the Delmarva Coast and
stayed there until spring. The upper portion of the
Chesapeake Bay and the entire Potomac River was
frozen solid. People were able to walk from Annapolis to Kent Island and from Alexandria into DC.
Yes . . . No . . . Maybe So . . .
A coffee pot was the thing that was viewed with the first
web cam. Yes? No? Maybe so? answer appears on pg. 16
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Sponsor-A-Maple Tree
The Kettle Creek Environmental Education Center is once again
promoting its “Sponsor-A-Maple Tree” program. Would you, your
organization, family, company, etc. like to help Monroe County
students by sponsoring one of our maple trees? For $25, a tree can
be sponsored which includes many benefits: receipt of a Certificate
of Sponsorship, a map of the sugar bush showing the location of
your tree, a pint of our own pure maple syrup and free admission
for up to four people to our Annual Public Maple Sugaring Day
on Saturday, March 7. Sponsoring a maple tree makes a great gift.
This fundraising program, sponsored by Monroe County Conservation District’s Environmental Education Center, helps offset
costs for the maple sugaring educational program that has benefited students throughout Monroe County for over 30 years. The
Center always tries to keep costs to the students affordable, but due
to the overwhelming interest in our program the expenses have increased. By participating in our “Sponsor-A- Maple Tree” program
you can help offset these costs.
Sponsor a maple tree today! For more information, please call
the Center at 570-629-3061, Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., or visit our website at www.mcconservation.org to download
a sponsorship form and a schedule of the programs we offer.
NOW HIRING:
Part-Time SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS in Brodheadsville,
PA. No experience necessary; we train. Must be available Monday
through Friday, split shift early AM and PM. Must have clean driving record and must acquire all clearances. Reliable and responsible individuals need only apply. We offer Competitive Hourly
Wages and Free Training leading to a Commercial Drivers License
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For more information: 570-402-2282. One School Lane, Brodheadsville, PA 18322.
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Pocono Dance & Social Club dances are held every Friday evening at the CLU Club at 265 S. Courtland St. in
East Stroudsburg. Admission is $8 members, $10 guests ($5
first time guests). For more info call 570-807-8178 or 570424-1838. All ADULTS welcomed.
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Monroe Winter Farmers Market
New this year, the Farmer’s Market has partnered with the Sherman Theater in Downtown Stroudsburg to stay open all winter long.
The Monroe Winter Farmers Market will offer great preserved
goods, jams and jellies, cider, baked goods, raw milk, cheese, yogurt, maple syrup, farm fresh eggs, produce (while available), local
wine, pet treats, artisan soaps and more!
The Farmers Market will be open Saturdays, 8am to Noon,
through March 28 (closed Saturday of Thanksgiving), inside the
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Kettle Creek hosting Trip to PA Farm Show Pennsylvania is proud to host the largest indoor agricultural exposition in
the nation, with nearly 6,000 animals, 10,000 competitive exhibits
and 300 commercial exhibits. Join us for a trip in our 14 passenger
bus to the 99th Pennsylvania Farm Show, being held in the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg.
We’ll leave from the Kettle Creek EE Center at 8:30 a.m. and
return at 8:30 p.m. Cost is $24/non-member, $18/EE Center Member. Pre-registration and payment is required and limited. Refunds
will be given only if notification is made at least one week in advance. Note: inclement weather date is Thursday, January 15.
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Our Family says “Thank You”
On November 12, my
husband and I had a terrible house fire. We live right in Kresgeville.
The fire company was there in minutes. It was so devastating, not
only for the loss of our house, but also our dog, Lillie.
One of our friends started a “Fire Fund for Tim and Cindy Wallace” on Facebook, and so many people have donated. People at
my work took up a collection, strangers gave us clothes, and the
Red Cross helped us with a place to stay, and in getting things
we needed at that point. Neighbors and family members, and our
church, were there for us, and supported us tremendously.
The Polk Township Fire Company was amazing, and deserves
a HUGE thank you to the firefighters and the chief, Billy TIppet,
who I’ve known for over 25 years, as I took care of him when he
went to “The Growing Place” child care center, where I used to
work for 19 years. It was so surreal to have him there.
Thank you to everyone who played a part in helping us get
through this terrible ordeal. - Cindy and Tim Wallace
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VETERAN CALENDAR
HELP US HELP VETERANS
Thank you to all those who have brought us photos of their soldier(s) for our 2015 calendar, which is now available for purchase
- at West End Happenings, West End Awards and West End Printing, and other locations thoughtout our community.
The cost of the calendar is $5.00, and all proceeds will go towards VALOR’s Maj. Paul Syverson Veterans Sanctuary, located
at the former Hotel Jonas, on Rt. 534 in Jonas. The shelter will
provide housing, supervision and basic job-search skills for up to
fifteen people at a time. (Please see the VALOR facebook page for
more information and volunteer opportunities.)
Please consider purchasing one or more 2015 VALOR calendars to give as gifts to family and friends. Inside you will find each
month has been sponsored by a local business, accompanied by
some special offers.
Thank you, once again, for helping us to support the less fortunate in our community. ~ West End Happenings
Veteran’s Support Group - VALOR Veterans Un-
stoppable program, a vet-to-vet counseling service, will meet every 3rd Tuesday of each month, at 7pm, at the Gilbert American
Legion Post 927 (downstairs), located at Rt. 209 and Fairgrounds
Free Estimates • 570-856-5276 • Fully Insured Road in Gilbert (tank out front). Participation is FREE.
For more information: Glen Lippincott (combat-wounded Vietwww.kennyspropertyservices.com
nam vet) at 570-242-0810; 570-992-6038; email glipp@ptd.net;
STAY IN YOUR CAR! Cars break down. It’s a fact of life. lippincottg@gmail.com.
Nowadays we are lucky that most of us have cell phones. To keep safe
during a break down, here are a few things to remember: Pull off to the
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junk or scrap CAR, VAN or TRUCK
diately. Keep your seatbelt attached, close your windows, and lock your
doors. You should call 911 if you are in an unsafe area, or in a dangerous
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ber for help. While waiting, secure your valuables so that they may be
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While it is advisable to remain in your car, safe and secure, if your car
has stopped in the road, or if it is on fire, carefully remove yourself from
the car and relocate to a place that is a safe distance away. Always stay
cell
aware of your surroundings while waiting for help to arrive. Do not stand
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The Quilted Crow
610-379-4700
179 Interchange Road, Lehighton (next to Wells Fargo)
COMING IN 2015!
HOURS
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For Hand Quilting
For Working with Wool
- Quilt Retreat
- Beginning Quilting
- Block-of-the-Month Programs
- The Pineapple Quilt
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Call or visit us at: www.The-QuiltedCrow.com
for more information on these and other events.
Knights of Columbus shows support
Employment & Rehab Services
for
This winter the Penn State Extension Green Industry Team will
be offering a series of three sessions called the Green Industry Winter Updates. These two hour-long sessions will be taught by Penn
State educators at other sites, and delivered live over the internet to
the Monroe County location. Each of the sessions will feature two
speakers from the Penn State Extension Green Industry Team. The
presentations will run 1:00-3:00 pm, at 724 Phillips Street, Suite
201, Stroudsburg. Dates & subjects include:
~ Thursday, January 22: Drift Control- Bill Riden (2 core recertification credits); Plant Galls of Herbaceous and Woody Ornamentals- Tom Butzler (2 recertification credits in Category 05, 06, 18,
23 & Private)
~ Wednesday, February 18: Sprayer Clean Up- Bill Riden (2 core
recertification credits); Invasive Weed Identification & Management- Nancy Bosold (2 recertification credits in Category 05, 06,
07, 10, 18, 23 & Private)
~ Monday, March 2: Spray Adjuvants for the Green IndustrySandy Feather (2 core recertification credits); Controlling Grassy
Weeds in Turfgrass with Herbicides- Dr. Pete Landschoot (2 recertification credits in Category 07, 18, 23 & Private
The cost for each participant is $15.00 per session. Space is limited; pre-registration is required. To register visit: http://extension.
psu.edu/plants/green-industry/courses/green-industry-winter-updates and search by zip code 18360, or call 570-421-6430.
Burnley
Members from local councils of the Knights of Columbus gathered recently for their annual holiday luncheon at Burnley Employment & Rehab Services in Stroudsburg. Representatives from the
Knights of Columbus took the opportunity to tour the vocational
center for individuals
with disabilities, and celebrate the holidays with
Burnley employees.
During the luncheon,
the Pocono Mountains
Council of the Knights
of Columbus #4159 presented Burnley with a
donation of $1,000. The
Brodheadsville branch
of the Knights of Columbus, the Msgr. Connel A. McHugh, Council #7141, also made a
$1,000 contribution to Burnley. The donations will benefit individuals with disabilities in Monroe County, enabling the non-profit
organization to provide training and employment opportunities.
Burnley Employment & Rehab Services, a division of Allied
Services, has been empowering people with disabilities for more
than 50 years, providing training and employment opportunities
for individuals in Monroe and surrounding counties.
photo above l-r: Carla Robinson, Assistant Director of Operations, Burnley Employment & Rehab Services; Christopher Sweeney, Sr., Past Grand Knight of the
Knights of Columbus Council #7141 of Brodheadsville.
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Happy Birthday to my Wonderful Husband,
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from: Sandra Fast
Members of the Mommy &
Me class (right), held at Salem UCC Church in Gilbert,
colored beautiful Holiday pictures to display here on our
West End Happenings walls.
Pictured from left to right:
Barrett Tweddale, Danielle
Fink, Joshua Mantilla, and
Molly Gower in front. FMI
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Happy New Year from The Garden of Giving!
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold
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Safe Haven Dog Adoption Day
Safe Haven Pet Rescue will hold dog adoption days from 11 - 2
on Sunday, January 18 at Tractor Supply, Route 209, Brodheadsville. There will be many young dogs available for you to meet
and get to know. A pre-adoption application with references and a
home visit prior to adoption is required.
Safe Haven Pet Rescue is a small group of
dedicated volunteers from the West End of the
Poconos who save highly adoptable dogs from
high kill and overcrowded shelters and finds
them loving homes. They have saved more than
700 lives so far.
Safe Haven Rescue needs volunteers to help
with adoption days, fundraising, transporting
dogs to vets and groomers and fostering homeless dogs until they find their forever homes.
Help save homeless dogs. Come to Cherry’s
Sunset Restaurant, Route 209, Kresgeville at
6:30 PM on Tuesday, January 20, for a bite to
eat and meet the volunteers.
For more information about Safe Haven, to
find a list of dogs available for adoption and
adoption applications, or to volunteer, please
visit www.SafeHavenPa.org . Contact Safe Haven at SafeHaven@epix.net. Join Safe Haven
Pa on Facebook. “Saving one dog won’t change
the world, but surely for that one dog, the world
will change forever.”
The Garden of Giving hopes you had a great 2014 and wishes you
an even better 2015!
In an effort to better ourselves, almost half of all Americans
make resolutions each New Year, with the top five being to lose
weight, get organized, spend less and save more, enjoy life and
stay fit. Studies show that people who explicitly make resolutions
are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don’t
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For anyone resolving to get more exercise, lose weight, spend
time with family and friends, or help those in need, The Garden
of Giving has many opportunities that can assist you in achieving
your goals. The Garden of Giving is always in need of volunteers
to help in the office, serve on the board, and help in the Garden, including team leaders, as well as donations of supplies and funding
to purchase what is needed for the Garden and chickens.
The Garden of Giving is an excellent opportunity for youth and
scouting groups to learn about gardening, science, health, nutrition,
and many other valuable life skills and lessons on a weekly, biweekly or monthly basis. For more information call 570-402-1282,
or email gardenofgiving@gmail.com.
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AARP Driver Safety Class – February 21
A one day, four-hour refresher class is open only to those who
Every Wednesday, at Western Pocono Community Library, the Miller-Keystone Blood Center will be collect- have previously taken the class during the last three years, and
ing Blood Platelets and Whole Blood, from 12:00 p.m. want to maintain their auto insurance discount (no first timers).
In cooperation with the AARP, Chestnuthill Township will be ofto 6:00 p.m. Please call 1-800-223-6667 to make an apfering the AARP Driver Safety class at the Chestnuthill Park buildpointment.
ing, located on Rt. 715, half mile north of WaWa (on Route 209)
in Brodheadsville. The AARP Driver Safety Program (formerly
“55-Alive”) is the nation’s first and largest classroom refresher
course designed for motorists age 50 and older.
All automobile insurance companies doing business in Pennsylvania are required by state law to give an additional minimum
discount of 5% to all qualified policy holders over 55 years of age
who take the course. Some insurance companies extend the disFROM ATTICS TO BASEMENTS . . . ANYWHERE count courtesy to all those over 50 years of age. Check with your
insurance agent to be sure you qualify. Each person taking this
course will be given a completion certificate that is valid for three
years.
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The four hour class, taught by a trained, unpaid volunteer instructor, is given in one four-hour session. The cost is $20 per person, or
$15 with an AARP membership number, payable at class time. The
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fee includes all materials, including a workbook that students may
keep. Class size is limited, so you must register to assure placement
Pride In Chestnuthill
in any class.
The Pride in Chestnuthill (PIC) Committee will not be meeting in
The Brodheadsville class will be held Saturday, February 21,
January or February. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, March
from 1pm to 5pm, at the Chestnuthill Park, 221 Route 715. Call
12, 7pm, at the Chestnuthill Twp. Municipal Building on Rt. 715.
570-619-4006 to register or for more information.
We will be planning our spring cleanups. Please join us.
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37 Different Recyclables Accepted at NO CHARGE
ASK ATTENDANT FOR RECYCLING DETAILS • 570-992-4654
Bi-Metal Cans
Clean Wood Waste (cannot be painted, treated, stained)
Aluminum Cans
Electronic Recycling • Appliance Recycling • Freon Recycling
Bulky Metal Items
Leaves • Brush/Tree Trimmings
Clear Glass Containers
Christmas Trees
Brown Glass Containers
Garden Residue
Blue Glass Containers
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Office Paper • Phone Books • Books
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(cont. from left, Award)
on Aging Advisory Council to a person or organization that has contributed to a program of excellence which enhances the quality of life
of Monroe County senior citizens.
In 1975, Helen retired from East Stroudsburg University, where she
had served as assistant dean of women, health and physical education
teacher, director of recreation and coordinator of outdoor education.
After retiring, Helen devoted herself to many volunteer efforts in her
community. She was well known for her lectures to many community
groups. She also wrote several books with the proceeds donated to the
GFWC Western Pocono Women’s Club honored Retired and Senior Volunteer Program.
by PA First Lady, Susan Corbett GFWC Western PoCarpentry
cono Women’s Club Community Improvement Project Co- Chairmen,
Charles F. Houck II
(Framing, Trimming)
Owner
Pat Mackes and Pat Krome, along with their spouses, Eugene MackPA LIC#102928
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es and Larry Krome, recently attended a reception at the Governor’s
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Residence in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania’s First Lady, Susan Corbett,
Decks
extended an invitation to those groups who won the Pennsylvania
Basements
Horticultural Society’s Gardening and Greening contests. The GFWC
Garages
Western Pocono Women’s Club received this honor for their beautifiBrodheadsville, PA
Additions
cation project across from the Chestnuthill Diner on Route 209.
Remodeling
First Lady Susan CorPat Krome, Pat Mackes
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bett was presented with
a gift from the PA Horticultural Society for
promoting horticulture
and her work in the gardens around the mansion.
GFWC Western Pocono
Women’s Club received
Route 115 & Marian Lane, Brodheadsville
a sign recognizing their
garden as a “Garden of Distinction” in the PHS Gardening and Greening Contest. They also received a certificate that reads: “The Penn• Wheel Alignment
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improve the quality of life and create a sense of community through
horticulture in the category of Public Spaces.”
The Western Pocono Women’s Club meets at 7PM on the third
Monday of each month, March through December, at the Effort Unittate
ed Methodist Church on Merwinsburg Road, in Effort PA. Their next
meeting will be held March 16. The club is open to all women 18 years
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December. Pictured (photo above, right) from left, are: Representative-elect Dave Parker; MCAAA Executive Director Patty Fritz; Helen G. Brown (HGB) award recipients Roland Vonderheide and Diane
McFadzean; Monroe County Commissioners John Moyer and Charlie
Garris; Robin Rader, on behalf of Representative-elect Jack Rader;
Monroe County Commissioner Suzanne McCool; Senator-elect Mario Scavello; HGB award recipients Dan and Frances Ferguson, and
Rosemary Brown.
The Helen G. Brown Award, which was established in Helen’s memory by family, is given annually by the Monroe County Area Agency
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watch your favorite team on our BIG SCREEN TV’s
A casual setting for Special Occasions. Call for booking information.
610-377-1819 • www.PJsPub.com
Pocono Youth Orchestra Opens
The Pocono Youth Orchestra will present the first concerts of
their twenty-seventh season on Saturday, January 17 and Sunday,
January 18. The Winter Concerts will be held in the Stroudsburg
High School Auditorium, beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, and
3:00 p.m. on Sunday. A free-will donation will be accepted at the
door.
The Pocono Junior String Orchestra will perform Music from
Frozen, by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. Additionally, Carold Nunez’ M to the Third Power and Vivaldi’s Inverno
will be performed. PJSO violinist, Nia Esposito, will be featured
on Billy & St. Anne Tip the Canoe, including three popular fiddle
tunes arranged by Gary Gackstatter. The PJSO will also be joined
by the East Stroudsburg High School South Choraliers, under the
direction of David Lantz, to perform Thomas Morley’s A Suite of
Three Madrigals arranged by Bud Caputo.
Selections to be performed by the Pocono Youth Orchestra include Richard Wagner’s Introduction to Act III of Lohengrin, and
Carmen Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet. The PYO Strings will be
featured on Richard Meyer’s Of Glorious Plumage. In addition,
The Emergence, composed by PYO senior violinist/pianist Abby,
will be presented. The program will conclude with “Hungarian
March” from The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz.
The orchestras are under the direction of Anthony and Audrey Simons. For further information, call 610-965-0268, visit us at www.
pocono-youth-orchestra.org, or follow us on facebook.
West End Park & Open Space Commission
Your Community . . . Your Park
• ZUMBA: Tuesdays from 6:00-7:00pm.
• RIPPED Fitness: Tuesdays from 7:15pm-8:15.
All fitness classes are held at the
• YOGA: Wednesdays from 9:30am-10:30am.
Chestnuthill Park Bulding: 221 Rt. 715,
Brodheadsville. Cost: $5.00 each class.
• PiYo: Thursdays from 6:00pm-7:00pm.
PiYo is a music-driven athletic workout inspired by Pilates and Yoga.
• BINGO: Friday, January 16, 6:30pm, Chestnuthill Park Building.
Doors open at 5:30pm. 50/50 Guaranteed Payout!
Specials • Pull Tabs • Door Prizes. $15.00 admission
FREE EVENT
WINTER
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at the
West End Regional Park
578 Evergreen Hollow Rd.
• PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW Bus Trip: Monday, March 2, departs at
6:15am from Chestnuthill Park; returns at 7:00pm. “Lights, Camera, BLOOM!”
Experience the magic of movies and horticulture. Show celebrates the
silver screen. Cost: $65 pp.
• DISCOUNTED SKI TICKETS now available! Camelback, Blue Mountain,
Shawnee, Elk Mountain, Big Boulder/Jack Frost, and Montage Mountain.
FMI: www.weposc.org and Facebook
Register for events/activities at:
570-992-9733 or bkozen@weposc.org.
P.O. Box 243 • Brodheadsville, PA 18322
www.weposc.org or 570-992-9733 for information and registrations
10 - WEST END HAPPENINGS • January 2015
Get Outdoors PA
with naturalist
Don Miller
Saturday, January 10
1:00 pm - 4:00pm
For more information:
570-992-9733 / bkozen@weposc.org
Maureen H. Christy
Certified Public Accountant
Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor
Notary Public
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Bookkeeping and Payroll Service
Individual and Small Business Taxes
“When you need help with your numbers . . .
I am the number to call.”
Kunkletown, PA 18058
E-mail: mhccpa@ptd.net
Call 610-681-6694 for an appointment
(evenings and weekend appointments available)
Western Pocono Community Library January Events
• Bookworms, WPCL’s Adult Book Discussion Group
Western Pocono Community Library’s adult book discussion
group, Bookworms, will be meeting on Thursday, January 15th,
at 7 pm to discuss Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That
Saved America, by Timothy Egan. If you are interested in joining
our group, need to borrow a copy of the book, or for general questions, please call the library at 570-992-7934.
• eBooks at the library!
Did you know that Western Pocono Community Library has
books available for you borrow and download to your device for
FREE? The library has been working very hard to add titles to
each of the platforms available to patrons; Overdrive (thousands
of titles to choose from) and Axis360 (over 1,200 titles and adding
all the time).
Recently, the library has added such titles as: Hope to Die by
James Patterson, Scorched Eggs by Laura Childs, The Escape by
David Baldacci, The Burning Room by Michael
Connelly, just to name a few, not to mention
several murder mysteries by Margaret Truman,
and great selection of children’s and young
adult titles.
You can go to the library’s website, www.
wpcl.lib.pa.us, and click on Overdrive button,
or go to http://wpcl.axis360.baker-taylor.com
and begin searching for your favorite titles to
download and enjoy. There are no fines or fees,
no late books. For more information please feel
free to contact the library at 570-992-7934.
• Saturday Family Fun Time at the Library
Western Pocono Community Library will be
holding a Saturday Family Fun Time every Saturday, beginning at 10:30 a.m. This program is
open to families of all ages. There will be stories, songs, games, crafts and even a visit from
a Therapy Dog. Children will be given the opportunity to read to one of the well-trained dogs.
For more information, please contact the library
at 570-992-7934
Keep checking our schedules, Facebook page,
website and announcements for other programs
and fun events being planned at WPCL! Boomer’s Angels Dog Adoption Day
On Sunday, January 25, come to Tractor Supply, Route 209,
Brodheadsville from 11- 2, to meet some of the beautiful loving
dogs that Boomer’s Angels have for adoption! Boomer’s Angels
Animal Rescue & Care is a new group in Northeastern Poconos
that was formed to give as many homeless and downtrodden dogs,
cats, bunnies and critters the brightest future possible. Boomer’s
Angels rescues and re-homes dogs, cats and critters. Be an Angel
for a homeless pet. To find more information, visit www.BoomersAngels.com, find us on Facebook, or call 570-350-4977.
Middle School Supports the Community
The Pleasant Valley Middle School Builders Club worked hard collecting and getting all of the
school donations separated
and ready for pick up by the
Monroe County Homeless
Initiative, VALOR (Veterans
Assisted Living Out Reach),
and Toys for Tots. A job well
done by the MS students, and
Builder’s Club advisor Mrs.
Dekmar!
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Help Make Wishes Come True
Refer a Child, Become a Volunteer in Monroe County
“Kettle Creek Winter Go Outside Day” Program
On Saturday, January 10, in conjunction with Get Outdoors PA,
we will be hosting a program for the whole family on natural winter
time happenings at Kettle Creek. This 2-hour program will begin at
10 a.m. Please join us as we explore the trails at KC marveling at
nature’s resilience even on a cold January day. Please dress to go
outside. Cost: $5/non-members, $3/children under 12. EE Center
members free.
To pre-register for the program, please call the E. E. Center at
570-629-3061, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
and most Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information on
other programs we offer visit our website at mcconservation.org.
Make-A-Wish® Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia has ways
for Monroe County to help grant the wishes of children living with
life-threatening medical conditions. Local residents are encouraged
to become a wish volunteer and/or refer a child to Make-A-Wish.
Become a Volunteer - Currently, the local Make-A-Wish chapter is
working to grant 18 wishes in Monroe County and it needs kindhearted individuals to step forward and volunteer their time and friendship
in order to assist with wish fulfillment. Since 1987, there have been
200 wishes granted in Monroe County. To become a wish volunteer,
individuals must be at least 21 years of age, pass a criminal background check and attend a training session.
Refer a Child - Every wish starts with a referral – in fact, a wish is
not possible without one. Be the start of a wish-come-true today by
referring a child who is between the ages of 2 ½ and 18 and has a
life-threatening medical condition.
To learn more about referring a child or becoming a volunteer,
please contact Maggie O’Brien at 570-341-9474 or visit our website
at greaterpawv.wish.org.
Make-A-Wish® Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia is a
non-profit organization that grants wishes to children, aged 2 ½ to
18, with life-threatening medical conditions. Currently, the local
chapter is one of the most active in the country, having fulfilled more
than 15,000 wishes. For more information, please call Make-A-Wish
at 800-676-9474 or visit the web site at greaterpawv.wish.org.
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off
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BRETT’S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR
& MOWER SERVICES Pick-up & Delivery Available
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Located at Sugar Hollow Farms - Effort
Servicing and Repairing Mowers, Lawn & Garden
Tractors, Generators, Snowblowers, etc.
KEEP YOUR OUTDOOR POWER EQUIPMENT RUNNING STONG.
SERVICE IT TODAY TO SAVE ON COSTLY REPAIRS LATER.
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Baby Names from Huffington Post
As the end of 2014 draws near, BabyCenter has released its annual list of most popular baby names. The top three names on both the
girls’ and boys’ lists are the same as they were in 2013.
Continuing down the popular girl names list, Madelyn has risen
up to #10, bumping Chloe off the top 10 list. On the top 10 boys’
names list, Caden and Logan have replaced Jayden and Jack. The
rankings are based on the names of over 406,000 babies born in
2014 to moms registered on the BabyCenter website.
Most Popular Girl Names: Sophia, Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella,
Mia, Zoe, Lily, Emily, and Madelyn. Most Popular Boy Names:
Jackson, Aiden, Liam, Lucas, Noah, Mason, Ethan, Caden, Jacob,
and Logan.
As in past years, BabyCenter also analyzed some of the inspirations behind current baby name trends. From TV shows to sports
news, it seems many interesting factors affect parents’ naming
choices.
Based on the BabyCenter survey, the character names from “Orange is the New Black” skyrocketed in popularity, with Galina up
67 percent, Boo 57 percent, Suzanne 39 percent, and Nicky 35 percent. The names Piper, Larry, and Dayanara also saw a big boost
in popularity.
The character names from “House of Cards” are also rising in the
ranks, with Garret jumping 16 percent, Claire up 14 percent, Zoe
13 percent, Remy 11 percent, and Francis up 5 percent. In addition
to the name Claire becoming more popular, both Robin and Wright
jumped up, 12 percent and 65 percent, respectively.
As further proof of Shonda Rhimes’ rise to pop culture domination, her character names are also becoming more popular choices
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for parents. With “Grey’s Anatomy,” the name Arizona rose 35
percent, Callie 30 percent, Avery 25 percent, Miranda 15 percent
and Owen 14 percent.
“Scandal” names like Fitzgerald and Huck are up 56 percent
and 44 percent, respectively, and Cyrus jumped up 13 percent.
The “Scandal” actors are also seeing growths in popularity for
their names. Bellamy rose up 28 percent, Scott 25 percent, and
both Darby and Guillermo moved up 18 percent. Oddly, Olivia and
Kerry have decreased.
Rounding out ShondaLand, the names Annalise and Connor from
“How To Get Away With Murder” are both up 5 percent, Asher
moved up 4 percent and Rebecca 3 percent.
Between 2013 and 2014, 16 of 22 character names from Nashville
have shown increases in popularity, including Luke (44 percent),
Avery (25 percent), Deacon (22 percent), Daphne (15 percent),
Gunnar (15 percent) and Scarlett (13 percent). While the name Juliette is on the decline, actress Hayden Panettiere’s name rose 23
percent. BabyCenter also found that “Southern-style names” are
also on the rise, with Macon up 29 percent, Virginia 21 percent,
Charlotte 19 percent, and Raleigh and Austin up 11 percent.
The Frozen effect on baby naming remains strong, with Elsa and
Duke both up 29 percent and Hans jumping up 19 percent. Already
quite popular, the name Anna remains at roughly the same level.
Sending off Derek Jeter this year seems to have affected parents’
baby name decisions, as Jeter rose a whopping 82 percent and Derek is up 4 percent.
On the flipside, the top most unusual names were: Girls – Agape,
Aggie, Amore, Audi, Cheska, Chia, Cyan, Elowen, Esty, and Gitty.
For Boys – Albin, Anthem, Basil, Bender, Berk, Blayde, Braven,
Castle, Charleston, and Dagon.
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We have NO minumum number of days required,
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To see all that we have to offer your child, contact us at:
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Fun and Odd Food Facts
Worried about selling ice cream in chilly Vermont, the financial
backers asked the team to sell hot soup as well!
• On Demand. What were the first vending machines in the U.S.
used to sell?
The first vending machines were used to sell chewing gum in the
New York subway system.
• Hot Dog! How many hot dogs do Americans eat each year? Is it
10 million, 500 million, or 16 billion?
Americans eat more than 16 billion hot dogs each year.
• Culinary Delight. Antoine’s Restaurant in New Orleans is a culinary icon. The restaurant is known for a particular dish, named
after a famous American family. Can you name the dish?
Oysters Rockefeller, reportedly named for John D. Rockefeller, is
one of Antoine’s signature dishes.
• Food Slang. If you were in a road-side diner night late one night
and heard the waitress say to the cook, “A full house and stretch,
squeeze it seaboard.” What has been ordered?
Someone ordered a grilled cheese, bacon and tomato sandwich
(full house). The ‘stretch’ is a soda. ‘Squeeze’ means make it fast.
‘Seaboard’ means that it’s a to-go order.
• Animal Crackers. In 1902, Barnum’s Animals emerged in the
colorful five-cent box that looked like a circus wagon cage. The
string allowed families to hang the treats from their Christmas
trees. How many different animals have been represented in the
Barnum boxes?
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Tang, the powdered orange drink, traveled to the moon in 1969.
• Where’s the Beef? Americans love beef, but do you know which
I think you might dispense with half your doctors
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if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
Prime Rib tops the list of our favorites. In order,
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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• Favorite Ice Cream. What’s the favorite
Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavor of Justin Timberlake?
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(cont. from pg. 3, Yes . . .)
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Yes! The Trojan Room coffee pot was the inspiration for the
world’s first webcam. The coffee pot was located in the corridor
just outside the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer
Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. The webcam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid
pointless trips to the coffee room by providing, on the user’s desktop computer, a live 128×128 greyscale picture of the state of the
coffee pot.
The camera was installed on a local network in 1991 using a
video capture card on an Acorn Archimedes computer. Employing
the X Window System protocol, Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote the
client software and Paul Jardetzky wrote the server. When web
browsers gained the ability to display images in March 1993, it was
clear this would be an easier way to make the picture available. The
camera was connected to the Internet in November 1993 by Daniel
Gordon and Martyn Johnson. It therefore became visible to any
Internet user and grew into a popular landmark of the early web.
At 09:54, on 22 August 2001, the camera was switched off when
the computer department moved to its new premises. The pot (a
German Krups model, which was the fourth or fifth seen online)
was auctioned on eBay for £3,350 to Spiegel Online, the Internet version of the German Der Spiegel magazine. Coverage of the
event included front-page mentions in The Times and The Washington Post, as well as articles in The Guardian and Wired.
After being refurbished by employees of Krups free of charge,
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1. Air seal your home - One sure way to have inflated heating bills
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1. The number of people living in poverty in the United States decreased from 2009 to 2010.
2. The number of families in poverty is decreasing.
3. Since its inception in 1946, the National School Lunch program
has served over 200 billion lunches to school children in need.
4. According to the U.S. government, a family of four—two adults
and two children—is living in poverty if it earns less than $35,000
annually.
5. Most people who are living in poverty are African American.
6. The federal minimum wage is $5.85 per hour.
7. The poverty rate among the elderly in the United States is higher
than that of any other age group.
8. If every person in the United States that is living in poverty lived
in the same state, it would be the most populous state in the nation
– the state of Poverty, USA.
9. One of every five children in America lives in poverty.
10. Adults who have regular work, but remain poor – the “working poor” - are finding it more difficult to lift themselves out of
poverty.
11. In a 36 month period, almost one out of every three Americans
lives in poverty at least two months. (cont. pg. 20)
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St. Joseph Regional Academy will host its Second Annual “Be
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Mauch Chunk Lake in Jim Thorpe. Registration is $35, and begins
at 9:30 A.M. The first plunge starts at 11:00 A.M. All proceeds go
towards operating costs for the school.
The event will feature Amanda Salovay, the principal of St. Joseph’s, as one of the “premier plungers”. Mrs. Salovay has promised to plunge if students collect enough pledges to meet their
fundraising goal of $10,000. Mrs. Salovay will plunge at various
levels: $1000 (up to ankles), $5000 (up to knees), $10,000 (up to
waste), over $10,000 (all in!!!)
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program that teaches Christian values and emphasizes academic
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7. Rearrange your furniture to assure all heating vents are
clear - Keep seating areas away from outside walls so you do not
feel drafts while you relax.
8. Make sure you have a fresh furnace filter - Furnace filters are
vital at keeping dust out of the passageways in your home, making
the furnace work less to keep your home warm. Along those same
lines, ensure that nothing is obstructing your furnace and also get
an occasional tune-up to make sure it’s in good working order –
once every few years should do it. Here’s some solid information
about basic furnace maintenance.
9. Use an insulation blanket on your hot water heater - Most
modern hot water heaters are already well insulated, but many old
heaters lose a ton of heat in a very inefficient manner, causing you
to waste money heating your utility closet. If you have an older hot
water heater, consider getting an insulation blanket for it in order
to help it keep the heat inside, keeping your water warm and not
losing heat to the environment of your utility closet.
10. Keep blinds and curtains open on the sunny side of the
house and closed on the other side - If sunlight is coming in a
window, you should pull back the curtains and let the sunshine
in. Otherwise, keep the curtains drawn, as without direct sunlight
you’ll lose heat to the outside even through a well-insulated window. Let the sun be your guide here. If the sunlight’s coming in,
open up the curtains. Also, drapes can cut heat loss in half if they
have an insulating liner. Let your drapes hang loose, and be sure
they don’t block heat registers and air-return ducts.
(cont. pg. 20)
(cont. from pg. 18, Heating)
2. Make sure the attic is well-insulated - Since heat rises, it’s not
surprising that quite a bit of heat is lost through the roof of your
home, hence the need for significant insulation in your attic. Take
a peek up there and make sure there’s plenty of insulation to go
around. If you can, check the insulation in other ceilings, exterior
and basement walls, floors, and crawl spaces.
3. Dress warmly inside and keep the temperature low - Why
keep the house at a high temperature when you can just toss on an
extra sweatshirt instead? Lower your home’s temperature a bit and
cuddle up with a blanket – you’ll be toasty warm and you aren’t
burning money to keep other parts of your home warm.
4. Get a programmable thermostat - A programmable thermostat can automatically lower the temperature of your home at night
and when you’re at work, making the heat run less when you’re
not actively using it. Such a device can pay for itself in a season,
making it well worth the investment.
5. Minimize or eliminate use of vent fans - If you have a vent
fan in your kitchen to eliminate cooking smoke, or you have one
in your bathroom to get rid of moist air, try as hard as you can not
to use them. Use a fan to ventilate the air out of the room into other areas of the house instead. A vent fan will carry that warm air
straight outdoors, guaranteeing extensive heat loss.
6. Turn off the heat in unused rooms - Close the heating vent in
the guest bedroom or any other room in the house that you don’t
use very much. This works well if you have well-insulated interior
walls. If you don’t, this won’t help much at all, but you may get a
slight boost from it.
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(cont. from pg. 19, Heating)
11. Ceiling fans set at slow speed push warm
air away from the ceiling and move it around
the room without creating a chilling breeze This spreads the heat more evenly, and will make
you feel more comfortable
12. Tap heat that’s there anyway - There are
plenty of activities you do around the house that
generate warmth, such as cooking a meal or taking a shower. When you shower, keep the bathroom door open so steam spreads to other rooms.
(cont. from pg. 18, Poverty)
12. While the number of people in poverty is increasing, the number of people in extreme poverty is decreasing.
13. Children of single mothers are more likely
to experience poverty than the children of married-couple families.
14. Almost one quarter of those with annual incomes of less than $25,000 had no health insurance in 2010.
Poverty Quiz Answers:
1. False. In 2010, 46.2 million people were in
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annual increase in the number of people in poverty. Since 2007,
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percent to 15.1 percent. Source: Current Population Survey (CPS),
2011 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) (cont. right)
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2. False; the number of families in poverty is increasing. In 2010,
out of 78.6 million U.S. families, 9.2 million lived in poverty,
which is statistically different, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, from the 8.8 million families living in poverty in 2009. The
poverty rate for families rose to 13.2 percent in 2010, up from 12.5
percent in 2009. 2009 and 2010. U.S. Census Bureau.
3. True. The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in over 101,000 public and non-profit private school and residential child care institutions. Children
from families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the poverty
line are eligible for reduced-price meals, for which students can be
charged no more than 40 cents. In 2010 alone, more than 31.7 million children each day got their lunch through the National School
Lunch Program. Since the modern program began, more than 219
billion lunches have been served. Source: USDA Food and Nutrition Service
4. False. The federal “poverty threshold” in 2010 for a family of
four with two children 17 or younger is $22,113. However, basic
needs researchers estimate that it takes an income of about 1.5 to
3.5 times the official poverty level, depending on locality, to cover
the cost of a family’s minimum day-to-day needs. Source: U.S.
Census Bureau
5.False. Over 19.5 million non-Hispanic white Americans
lived below the poverty line in 2010. In the same year, there
were 13.2 million Hispanics in poverty, 10.7 million African
Americans, and 1.7 million Asian Americans in poverty. 27.4
percent of African Americans lived below the poverty line in
2010—the largest percentage of any group, up from 25.8 percent in 2009. 26.6 percent of Hispanics, 12.1 percent of Asian
Americans, and 9.9 percent of non-Hispanic white Americans are living in poverty. Source: 2009 and 2010, U.S. Census
Bureau. (cont. pg. 27)
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of its founding members’ role in protecting the homeland against deadly German U-boat attacks during
World War II, and carrying out other vital wartime domestic missions.
Among those honored will be our
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of Palmerton (left), and posthumously, Richard L. Yuengling Sr. (D.G.
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The organization was founded
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During the war, members of CAP’s coastal patrols, using their
own or borrowed planes, flew 24 million miles from March 1942
to August 1943, over the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in order to ward
off German U-boat attacks against U.S. shipping – especially domestic oil tankers bound for Europe
- to help fuel the military machine.
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The CAP coastal patrols, flying out of 21 bases located along the
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spotted 173 U-boats and attacked 57, and sunk 2. They also escorted more than 5,600 convoys, and reported 17 floating mines, 36
bodies, 91 ships in distress and 363 survivors in the water.
The Senate passed legislation authorizing the
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the House following suit a year later. President
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“I salute CAP’s founding members for their
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the homeland during World War II,” said Maj.
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“Now, some 73 years later, CAP’s rich history of
service continues. Modern-day members, nearly 60,000 strong, still perform vital homeland
security missions, search and rescue missions
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~Friday Family Film; Friday, January 9th, 6:30 -7:30 p.m.
Bring your family along to Jacobsburg Environmental Education
Center for a craft activity and movie night! This month we’ll be
screening “The Butterfly King” a story about the beautiful Monarch butterfly. Craft time starts at 6:30 p.m. and the movie starts
promptly at 7:00 p.m. Please register as supplies and seating are
limited. To register, contact Lauren Forster at laforster@pa.gov or
610-746-2801.
~ Winter Bird Count; Saturday, January 10th, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Spend the day birding at Jacobsburg and other places in the Bushkill Creek Watershed counting birds and looking for oddball species that may have wandered into the area. Dress for the weather
and bring binoculars and a lunch. To register, contact Rick Wiltraut
at rwiltraut@pa.gov or 610-746-2801.
~ Speaker Series; Friday, January 30th, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
First Speaker Series program of 2015. Kathy Uhler will present
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“Birds of Prey”. A Monroe County native, Kathy is the Founder
and Director of the Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education
Center, [PWRC], a place where injured and orphaned wild animals
native to PA are cared for until they can fend for themselves, when
they are released back into the wild. The facility serves six counties
and takes in more than 1,000 animals annually, including fawns,
owls, hawks, squirrels, rabbits, songbirds, raccoons and bears. We
hope you can join us for this special evening featuring live hawks
and owls! To register, contact Rick Wiltraut at rwiltraut@pa.gov
or 610-746-2801.
~ Eagle Watching along the Delaware; Saturday, January 31st,
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The upper Delaware River is one of the best places in the east to
observe wintering Bald Eagles. Venture up along the river in the
scenic Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area from Arrow
Island to Milford. Golden Eagles have been observed on these trips
in the past. This is a great opportunity for photographers. Dress for
the weather and bring binoculars and a lunch. There will be a stop
for snacks and hot beverages along the way. To register, contact
Rick Wiltraut at rwiltraut@pa.gov or 610-746-2801. Limited van
transportation is available for first time participants.
Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center is located at 400
Belfast Rd., in Nazareth. You can also view community programs
online at http://events.dcnr.pa.gov/. If you need an accommodation
to participate in a program please contact the park office. With at
least three days notice, interpreters for people who are deaf or hard
of hearing are available for educational programs.
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The Buzzzzzz on Honey
contributed by Mary McHugh, West End Happenings Sales Representative
There is nothing in the world quite like honey, just ask Winnie the Pooh!
For thousands of years, honey has been utilized all over the world and in just
about every culture. It has been used as a form of currency,
like liquid gold, to sweeten food and beverages, as a preservative and as a base for countless folk remedies and herbal
medicines. Here are some facts about honey and the busy
bees that make this deliciously beneficial nectar.
• A typical Bee colony consists of 30,000 to 60,000 bees
and 99% of the colony is made up of female bees, known
“Oh, bother!”
as worker bees.
• A single worker bee produces only 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. Working cooperatively, thousands of worker bees can produce over 200
pounds of honey for the colony within a year.
• Bees have an excellent sense of smell which allows them to find their hive.
• Honey Bees do a dance when they return to the hive to inform the other bees
where the flowers are.
• Honey is the only food source produced by an insect that we humans eat.
Bears like it too!
• Worker honey bees transform the floral nectar they gather into honey by
adding enzymes from their stomachs to it. They then fan their wings over the
liquid to reduce the moisture. These actions help keep the honey indefinitely
without spoiling as is seen whenever ancient pots of honey, still perfectly
preserved, are found during excavations of early Egyptian tombs.
• About 80% of the food on the supermarket shelves is there because bees
have pollinated crops -- where would we 'bee' without them?
• With it's known anti-inflammatory effects honey helps soothe coughs... specifically buckwheat honey
• Treats burns and wounds. Honey, with it's superior anti-bacterial benefits
is applied directly or in a dressing which is usually changed every 24 hours.
• Honey contains small amounts of a wide array of vitamins and minerals,
including niacin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium and zinc. Thus, using honey instead
of sugar provides you with more nutrients for your calories.
• Better for Athletes. At 17 grams of carbohydrates per tablespoon, honey
makes an excellent source of all-natural energy that is superior to other conventional sources. The National Honey Board recommends adding honey to
your bottle of water for an energy boost during workouts. Snacks with honey
can be eaten before and after, and honey sticks can be used during endurance
events.
• Taking a spoonful of honey before bed can help you get a more restful sleep.
• Fewer allergies: Taking a high-quality raw local honey for two months
before allergy season may help lessen your allergies. Bees carry the pollen
that aggravates seasonal allergies, and some of that pollen becomes part of
the honey. Consuming honey daily before allergy season can help your body
grow accustomed to the pollen and immunize your body against it.
• Moisturizing skin: Honey not only attracts water but it helps absorb and retain it on hair and skin. Because of this, honey is added to many beauty products. You can enjoy the moisturizing benefits of honey at home by stirring it
up with milk for a facial, adding it to your bath water to soften skin, or mixing
it with olive oil as a natural hair conditioner.
• Raw Honey is not strained, filtered, or heated therefore retaining all of its
nutritional value and better for medicinal and dietary uses.
It is important to note that honey is not appropriate for children younger
than 12 months because it can contain the bacteria that causes infant botulism.
~ Health & Wellness ~
Tick Bite Can Make You Allergic To Red Meat CBS News
A bug can turn you into a vegetarian, or at least make you swear
off red meat. Doctors across the nation are seeing a surge of sudden
meat allergies in people bitten by a certain kind of tick. This bizarre
problem was only discovered a few years ago but is growing as the
ticks spread from the Southwest and the East to more parts of the
United States. In some cases, eating a burger or a steak has landed
people in the hospital with severe allergic reactions. Few patients
seem aware of the risk, and even doctors are slow to recognize
it. As one allergist who has seen 200 cases on New York’s Long
Island said, “Why would someone think they’re allergic to meat
when they’ve been eating it their whole life?”
The culprit is the Lone Star tick, named for Texas, a state famous
for meaty barbecues. The tick is now found throughout the South
and the eastern half of the United States. Researchers think some
other types of ticks also might cause meat allergies; cases have
been reported in Australia, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Japan and Korea. Here’s how it happens: The bugs harbor a sugar
that humans don’t have, called alpha-gal. The sugar is also is found
in red meat - beef, pork, venison, rabbit - and even some dairy
products. It’s usually fine when people encounter it through food
that gets digested.
But a tick bite triggers an immune system response, and in that
high-alert state, the body perceives the sugar the tick transmitted
to the victim’s bloodstream and skin as a foreign substance, and
makes antibodies to it. That sets the stage for an allergic reaction
the next time the person eats red meat and encounters the sugar.
It happened last summer to Louise Danzig, a 63-year-old retired
nurse from Montauk on eastern Long Island. Hours after eating a
burger, “I woke up with very swollen hands that were on fire with
itching,” she said. As she headed downstairs, “I could feel that my
lips and tongue were getting swollen,” and by the time she made
a phone call for help, “I was losing my ability to speak and my
airway was closing.” She had had recent tick bites, and a blood test
confirmed the meat allergy. “I’ll never have another hamburger,
I’m sure,” Danzig said. “I definitely do not want to have that happen to me again.”
In Mount Juliet near Nashville, Tennessee, 71-year-old Georgette
Simmons went to a steakhouse on June 1 for a friend’s birthday
and had a steak. “About 4:30 in the morning I woke up and my
body was on fire. I was itching all over and I broke out in hives.
Nothing like that had ever happened to me before,” she said. A few
weeks later, for a brother’s birthday, she ordered another steak.
Hours later she woke “almost hysterical” with a constricted throat
in addition to hives and a burning sensation. She, too, recalled tick
bites. Dr. Robert Valet at Vanderbilt University said Simmons was
one of two patients he diagnosed with the meat allergy that day.
He warned her it could be worse next time. “I never did eat a lot of
red meat anyway but when I go out I like a nice fillet. Right now I
wouldn’t even eat hamburger meat,” Simmons said.
At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, “I see 2 to 3 new
cases every week,” said Dr. Scott Commins, who with a colleague,
Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, published the first paper tying the tick
to the illness in 2011. One of the first cases they saw was a bow
hunter who had eaten meat all his life but landed in the emergency
department several times with allergic reactions after eating meat.
More cases kept turning up in people who were outdoors a lot. “It
seemed something geographical. We thought at first it might be a
squirrel parasite,” Commins said. “It took us a while to sort of put
everything together” and finger the tick, he said. (cont. pg. 26)
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Dr. Erin McGintee, an allergy specialist on eastern Long Island,
an area with many ticks, has seen nearly 200 cases over the last
three years. At least 30 involved children, and the youngest was
4 or 5. She is keeping a database to study the illness with other
researchers.
“It is bizarre,” she said. “It goes against almost anything I’ve
ever learned as an allergist,” because the symptoms can occur as
long as eight hours after eating meat, rather than immediately, and
the culprit is a sugar - a type of carbohydrate - whereas most food
allergies are caused by proteins, she said.
Allergic reactions can be treated with antihistamines to ease itching, and more severe ones with epinephrine. Some people with the
allergy now carry epinephrine shots in case they are stricken again.
Doctors don’t know if the allergy is permanent. Some patients
show signs of declining antibodies over time, although those with
severe reactions are understandably reluctant to risk eating meat
again. Even poultry products such as turkey sausage sometimes
contain meat by-products and can trigger the allergy.
“We don’t really know yet how durable this will be” or whether
it’s lifelong, like a shellfish allergy, Valet said.
The meat allergy “does not seem to be lifelong, but the caveat is,
additional tick bites bring it back,” Commins said. Michael Abley,
who is 74 and lives in Surry, Virginia, near Williamsburg, comes
from a family of cattle ranchers and grew up eating meat. He developed the meat allergy more than a decade ago, although it was
only tied to the tick in more recent years.
“Normally I can eat a little bit of dairy,” he said, but some ice
cream landed him in an emergency room about a month ago. He
admitted having had recent bug bites.
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of Longaberger Baskets, Vera Bradley, and Coach Handbags. Proceeds from the event will benefit Project Warm, a service project
that donates new coats to needy children in this area. It will also
benefit other Rotary projects.
As soon as the date is finalized, information will be posted on
www.westendrotary.org, and in the February issue of West End
Happenings.
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percent of the people in poverty in the U.S., but only 24.4 percent
of the population. Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance
Coverage in the United States: 2010, US Census Bureau
10. True. The working poor in America grew poorer during 2010,
with incomes dipping farther below the poverty line than in any
other year in the new millennium. Source: Income, Poverty, and
Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010, US Census
Bureau
11. True: Many Americans tread just above the poverty line every
year; barely hanging on. Source: Dynamics of Economic Wellbeing, US Census Bureau
12. False. The number of people living in extreme poverty - those
with incomes below half the poverty line - increased to 20.4 million in 2010. Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010, US Census Bureau
13. Frue. Children under 6 years old are particularly vulnerable to
poverty. Children under 6 living in families with a single female
head of household live in poverty at the rate of 58.2%, compared
to 13.4% of children living in poverty in married-couple families.
Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the
United States: 2010, US Census Bureau
14. True. 26.9% of people with annual incomes less than $25,000
were uninsured in 2010, compared to 8% of people with annual
incomes of $75,000 or more. The total number of uninsured persons increased to 49.9 million in 2010, from 48.9 million in 2009.
Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the
United States: 2010, US Census Bureau (this number has changed
since the inception of The Affordable Health Care Act).
The latest US Census states that in Pennsylvania, the percentage
of persons living below poverty level, between 2009 – 2013, is
13.3%. That’s too many.
6. False. The federal minimum wage became $7.25 per hour
July 24, 2009. A single parent with one child working at this
minimum wage full-time every week of the year ($7.25 x 40
hours x 52 weeks) would earn $15,080 before any deductions
or taxes—only $240 above the poverty threshold of $14,840.
Source: 2009 and 2010, U.S. Census Bureau.
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8. True. The current population of Poverty USA is
larger than the populations of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, Utah,
Wyoming, Nevada and Nebraska… combined.
Source: People and Households, US Census Bureau
9. True. In the year 2010, 16.4 million, or 1 out of
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5 Soc. Security Changes in 2015 Monroe County Seniors’ Express Times
Social Security recipients will receive 1.7 per-cent bigger checks
in 2015, the Social Security Administration announced . And some
groups of workers will begin receiving benefit statements in the
mail with a list of taxes paid and an estimate of their future retirement benefit. Here’s a look at the new Social Security benefits,
taxes and services workers and retirees will experience in 2015:
• Bigger payments. The 1.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment is
expected to result in the typical retiree getting about $22 more per
month. This change will increase the average monthly benefit for
retired workers in January 2015 from $1,306 before the cost-ofliving adjustment to $1,328 after. The average benefit for retired
couples who are both receiving benefits is projected to increase by
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for Urban Wage Earners and
• Clerical Workers. Previous cost-of-living adjustments have
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1.7 percent increase retirees will receive in January is similar to the
1.5 percent adjustment for 2014 and 1.7 percent increase in 2013.
• Higher tax cap. Most workers pay 6.2 per-cent of every paycheck
into the Social Security system until their earnings exceed the tax
cap. The maximum taxable earnings will increase next year from
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• Larger earnings limits. Social Security beneficiaries who are under age 66 can earn as much as $15,720 in 2015, before $1 in benefits will be withheld for every $2 earned above the limit. Retirees
who will turn 66 in 2015 and have signed up for Social Security
can earn up to $41,880 before every $3 earned above the limit will
result in one benefit dollar being withheld. However, once a retiree turns age 66 there is no limit on earnings and Social Security
payments are recalculated to give the retiree credit for the withheld
benefits.
Your statement might be in the mail. If you will turn age 25, 30,
35, 40, 45, 50, 55 or 60 next year and don’t have a Social Security
online account, you can expect to receive a paper Social Security
statement that lists your earnings history, taxes paid and expected benefit about 3 months before your birthday. And after age
60 workers will receive a statement annually. The SSA expects
to send nearly 48 million Social Security statements each year.
These mailings, which were sent annually to all workers age 25
and older between 1999 and 2011, were suspended in April 2011
to save money. Statements are also available online at any time via
so-cialsecurity.gov/myaccount, and 14 million people have created
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(cont. from left)
• Place a non-slip bathroom rug by the side of the tub to step out
onto. Your child may not have perfect balance yet, so try to teach
your child to be extra careful when he’s wet and getting in and out
of the bath.
Take Precautions to Avoid Burns - Follow these tips to keep the
temperature under control and protect your little one’s sensitive
skin.
• To prevent accidental burns or scalding, set your hot-water thermostat between 100-125 degrees Fahrenheit. A good test is to
place your hand under the hot water only, and if it’s still comfortable, then the temperature is at the right level for your little one.
Anti-scald devices are also available to keep the water temperature
at a safe level.
• Never put your child in the bathtub while the water is still running; the water temperature could quickly change, or the water level might become too high.
• Always run the cold-water tap first when filling a bath, then mix
in the warmer water to reduce the risk of scalds or burns.
• The water temperature in the bath should be between 90 and 100
degrees (check with a bathtub thermometer), as babies and preschoolers generally like a cooler bath than most adults.
• Don’t allow your children to touch the taps; she may not be strong
enough to turn them now, but soon she will be. Constant reinforcement of this rule is a good idea and always place your child on the
far end of the tub, away from the taps. (cont. pg. 30)
Top 5 Bathtime Safety Tips
To help parents make
bath time safer for their kids, NickJr.com has compiled the following top 5 safety tips and suggestions from experts.
Safeguard Your Bathroom - Like other areas of your house, your
bathroom must be safeguarded from and protected against the wanderings and curiosities of your little ones.
• Keep the bathroom locked at all times while you’re not inside
with your child. Install a hook-and-eye lock high enough up on the
door so she cannot unhook it.
• Install toilet and cabinet locks to prevent curious minds from mischief or even danger.
• Remove or make inaccessible sharp objects such as razors, scissors, toothbrushes, nail clippers, or nail files. Cleaning products,
detergents and bleach, medications, vitamins, cosmetics, electrical
appliances, and mouthwash (which has a greater alcohol content
than wine) should also be locked away.
• Consider placing your own bath and beauty products--soaps,
shampoos, conditioners, body lotions, after-shave, shaving cream
out of the tub and out of reach.
Protect Against Slips - It’s bound to get slippery when your little
one starts playing in the suds. Take special precautions to make
sure to void accidental falls, bumps, or bruises.
• Install a faucet cover over your bathtub taps to prevent a painful
collision. They come in colorful, fun animal shapes. You can find
this item at baby-supply stores and online vendors.
• Install a colorful, cheery non-slip mat or bath decals to prevent
accidental slips and falls. These can be easily found at baby-supply
and hardware toys. (cont. right)
January 2015 • WEST END HAPPENINGS - 29
(cont. from pg. 29, Bathtime)
Ensure Bath Toy Safety - Every kid loves playing with toys in
the tub, but it’s up to you to ensure those toys remain clean and
germ free.
• Avoid buying spongy, porous, or wooden toys, as they tend to
retain moisture--a perfect breeding ground for bacteria.
• Rinse out all toys thoroughly after each bath and air dry until all
surfaces are dry.
• Toys with holes in them tend to collect water. Squeeze these toys
out thoroughly and let to air dry.
• If you have a dishwasher, run the toys through once a week or so.
• Approximately every two weeks or so, clean the toys with bleach.
Use about one tablespoon of liquid bleach for each gallon.
Never Leave Your Child Alone in the Bathtub - The importance of this tip cannot be stressed enough. Don’t let everyday
distractions endanger your child.
• The most important rule of bathtub safety is never leave a child
under 6 alone in the bathtub, not even for a few seconds. Tragically, young children have drowned in only a couple of inches of water. So whatever it is--the phone, the door, something on the stove,
another child wants attention--has to wait. If it’s really important,
take your child out of the tub, wrap her in a towel and walk with
her out of the bathroom, remembering to lock the door behind you.
• If you’re alone in the house with your child, take everything you
need before you start the bath so you don’t need to run out for
things and leave your little one alone. Bring along your cell, make
sure nothing’s on the stove (or it doesn’t need any attention for a
while).
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Awards would like to thank everyone
who helped to make our year wonderful,
and to wish our advertisers, readers, and
your friends and families all a healthy,
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Polk Twp. Volunteer Fire Company Breakfast
Breakfast will be held on January 18, from 7:00am to 11:30am.
Donations for adults: $ 6.00, children (3-12 Yrs): $ 3.50. Proceeds benefit the Fire Company. Menu includes eggs, homefries &
choice of 1 meat (bacon, sausage, ham); French toast, homefries, &
choice of 1 meat; Creamed Chipped Beef on toast with homefries;
orange juice, coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. The firehouse is located
on Route 209, in Kresgeville.
Also, a Spaghetti Dinner will be held on January 24, from 4pm
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The Monroe County Treasurer’s office would like to inform you
Office Hours by Appointment
that 2015 dog licenses are now available, and valid from January 1,
2015 – December 31, 2015.
The Department of Agriculture has increased the fee by $.05 this Thank you for all the food and clothing donations you have made throughyear, so the fees are as follows:
out the year, that have been donated to local food pantries and distribution
• Male/Female dog - $8.50, or $6.50 neutered/spayed.
locations. Please remember that with the holidays, supplies have no doubt
• For Seniors with Male/Female dog - $6.50, or $4.50 neutered/ been severely depleted. We will continue to accept food and clothing dospayed.
nations to help replenish our local services, so that our community families
• Lifetime licenses are available, but your dog MUST be mi- will not go without. Thank you for your support.
cro-chipped.
• Lifetime fees are: Male/Female dog - $51.50, or
$31.50 neutered/spayed.
• For Seniors with Male/Female dog lifetime fees
are: $31.50, or $21.50 neutered/spayed.
It is state law that all dogs, 3 months of age
and older, must have a current year license, or be
subject to a $300 fine per dog. In order to provide
added convenience and service to the pet owner,
the Treasurer’s office will mail dog renewal post
cards for each dog directly to you. If you need
more applications, you can print them from our
website, or you can apply and pay online, at www.
monroecountypa.gov/treasurer. There is a $2 convenience fee.
You can purchase your license in the office from
8:30 am top 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. If
paying by mail, please fill out an application, and
make checks payable to “Monroe County Treasurer”, and mail to: 1 Quaker Plaza, Room 103,
Stroudsburg, PA 18360.
3361 Rt. 611 • Bartonsville
If you no longer have your dog, please call the
Please call for dates and times.
office so the files can be adjusted. If you are a new
Kinsley’s ShopRite Community Room • Brodheadsville
dog owner and cannot obtain an application, or a
Second Monday of each month • 2:00pm-4:00pm
current dog owner and did not receive a renewal
notice in the mail for a 2015 license, or any other
information, please call our 570-517-3182.
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Transform YOUR Life . . . NOW!
Chestnuthill Twp. Historical Society
The Chestnuthill Township Historical Society will not
be having a meeting in January. We are planning to
have our 4th annual yard sale on Saturday May 2. Our
next meeting will be on, Wednesday, February 18th,
7pm at the park building, on Route 715. We plan future activities and projects each month. Please join us,
to help preserve the history of our beautiful township.
~ Health & Wellness ~
(cont. from left)
Tomosynthesis is the newest of the adjunct
screening modalities. Hologic, a Bedford, Mass.based manufacturer, received approval from the
Food and Drug Administration for its tomosynthesis technology in 2011.
The study compared the detection rates for
about 25,000 women aged 50 to 69 years old.
During a news conference, Skaane said it was
Neil Sekol, Independent Distributor: 570-392-9850 • 570-801-5001
the “best and most practical solution” to better
email: nts1wellbiz@gmail.com • www.nsekol.vemma.com
screening women with dense breast tissue, in
part because there is less training needed to teach
3-D Imaging could Increase Breast Cancer Detection: radiologists familiar
with mammography to use tomosynthesis
Study from Modern Healthcare, via PMC
when compared to other modalities.
Using digital breast tomosynthesis technology, a more advanced
A second study of breast cancer screening also released Tuesday
form of mammography, can help increase breast cancer detection
looked
at a more controversial issue in the radiology community—
rates for women with dense breast tissue, according to a new study.
“Our results show that implementation of tomosynthesis might at what age a woman should start undergoing screening for breast
indicate a new era in breast cancer screening,” Dr. Per Skaane, the cancer.
Debate persists about whether women should continue to start
study’s co-author and a radiologist at Oslo (Norway) University
Hospital, said in a news release. The study’s authors reported re- undergoing mammograms at age 40, as many patient groups and
clinicians recommend, or get screened every two years starting at
ceiving financial support from Hologic.
Tomosynthesis, also called 3-D mammography, creates a 3-D age 50, unless a strong family history or dense breast tissue are
image of the breast. Traditional mammography creates a two-di- present.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force made the second recmensional image. But there are still questions about higher doses
of radiation associated with the newer technology and whether the ommendation in 2009 and has been criticized by cancer groups as
higher costs are offset by improvement in detection rates.
well as some radiologists.
The study, released recently at the Radiological Society of North
Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco conAmerica’s annual meeting in Chicago, found that using a combi- ducted a retrospective study of 136 patients who had been diagnation of digital mammography and tomosynthesis caught 80% nosed with breast cancer from 1997 to 2012. They found that 90%
of cancers in women with dense breasts, compared to the 59% of of the patients did not have a very strong family history, and 86%
cancers diagnosed in women who only underwent mammography. of the patients did not have extremely dense breast tissue.
Women with dense breast tissue are at higher risk of getting Breast tissue density is split into four categories. About half of the
breast cancer. It’s also more difficult to identify their cancers in women in the U.S. have dense breast tissue, which are categorized
a mammogram, where tumors appear white. Dense breast tissue as a “3” or “4” under the American College of Radiology’s scoring
also appears white and can shield tumors from being detected by
system.
radiologists.
If a healthcare provider implemented a risk-based screening
Efforts have been underway in recent years to better educate
system based on the task force’s recommendations, this would
women and clinicians about the differences in breast cancer screening for these women. Nineteen states have passed laws requiring mean about 75% of breast cancers in women in their 40s would be
healthcare providers to notify a patient if she has dense breast tis- missed, the researchers concluded.
“Neither family history nor breast density in combination or
sue. That’s up from 13 states that had passed breast density notifialone are sufficient risk factors to safely triage patients in riskcation laws at this time last year.
Other screening modalities, including ultrasound and MRI, also based screening,” Dr. Bonnie Joe, chief of women’s imaging at
are considered adjunct screening methods for women with dense UCSF, said in a statement.
It’s not the first time that researchers have presented data at
breast tissue. They are more expensive and can produce higher
RSNA to make the case against encouraging women to wait until
rates of false-positives than mammography.
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age 50 to begin receiving breast cancer screenings.
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We would like to thank the below-listed partners that supported
Toys for Tots this year. We met our goal to help as many children
in need as we could. Our motto is “Every Child Deserves Christmas”. Without the support and the generosity of the people of the
West End, and Monroe County, many children would not have had
the joy of Christmas. Thank you!
- Raymond P. Fitzpatrick MSgt (Ret)
Pleasant Valley Elementary 610-681-3005
Pleasant Valley Middle School
570-402-1000
Pleasant Valley Intermediate
610-681-3091
Polk Elementary 610-681-3091
American Legion Post 927 610 681-5838
Kinsley’s ShopRight 570 992-2666
Jeker’s General Store 610 891-4360
Dollar General (Brodheadsville) 570 992- 1728
Dollar General (Rt. 115, Effort)
570 620-9104
First Niagara Bank of Kresgeville 610 681-5777
Western Pocono Community Library 570 992-7934
Cherry’s Sunset Restaurant 610 681- 4482
Polk Township Volunteer Fire Company 610 681- 4370
Polk Township Municipal Building 610 681-2888
Chestnuthill Twp Park 570 992-1274
Chestnuthill Twp Municipal Build 570 992-7247
Ross Township 570 992- 4990
West End Awards 610 681- 6467
West End Printing
610 681- 6154
West End Happenings
610 681-8612
Homestead Veterinarian Clinic 570 620- 0528
Mrs. Bush’s Adult care 610 381- 3713
A Cut above Salon and Spa 570 992-7676
Brodheadsville Chevrolet
570 992- 0200
Curves of Brodheadsville 570 992-1300
Getz Personal Care 570 629-1334
Personal Touch Cleaners 570 992-3181
Eldred Twp Municipal Building 610 381- 4252
YMCA (Eldred Location) 570 807- 3068
Strausberger’s Insurance Agency 610 681- 4005
Lynn’s Motel Bar & Lounge 610 681- 4166
West End Physical Therapy 610 681- 3637
Wells Fargo Bank 570 992- 0184
Advanced Auto Parts (Brodheadsville) 570 992- 4592
Beltsville Beverage 610 681- 2739
Armory Gun Shop 610 681- 4867
Brooklyn Bridge Bagels 570 629- 0888
Relay for Life 570 688-9304
Spinellis Pizzeria 570 402-2700
Dunkelberger’s 570 992-3865
StarBites Take Out 610 951-4304
Jackson Township Municipal Build
570 629-0153
Dollar General of Saylorsburg
570-992-8161
Ace Hardware570-801-7880
Kresgeville Deli610-681-4535
Home Storage570-424-4253
Morghan Rake Coffee
610-951-4400
Orlando & Sons Auto Repair
570-730-3871
Coleman Insurance Agency
610-681-6802
Warner’s Propane610-681-4181
Peebles610-681-2419
January Facts, Customs and Traditions
In the very earliest Roman calendars there were no months of
January or February at all. The ancient Roman calendar had only
ten months and the new year started the year on 1 March. To the
Romans, ten was a very important number. Even when January (or
Januarius as the Romans called it) was added, the New Year continued to start in March. It remained so in England and her colonies
until about 200 years ago.
~ New Year’s Day - New Year’s Day is the first day of the year,
in the Gregorian calendar. In modern times, it is January 1. It is a
time for looking forward and wishing for a good year ahead. It is
also a holiday. People welcome in the New Year on the night before. This is called New Year’s Eve. In Scotland, people celebrate
with a lively festival called Hogmanay. All over the world there
are parties, fireworks, singing and dancing, to ring out the old year
and ring in the new. As the clock strikes midnight, people link arms
and sing a song called Auld Lang Syne. It reminds them of old and
new friends.
~ The Door Custom - In the old days, the New Year started with a
custom called ‘first footing’, which was suppose to bring good luck
to people for the coming year. As soon as midnight had passed and
January 1st had started, people used to wait behind their doors for
a dark haired person to arrive. The visitor carried a piece of coal,
some bread, some money and some greenery. These were all for
good luck - the coal to make sure that the house would always be
warm, the bread to make sure everyone in the house would have
enough food to eat, money so that they would have enough money,
and the greenery to make sure that they had a long life. The visitor
would then take a pan of dust or ashes out of the house with him,
thus signifying the departure of the old year.
~ New Year Superstition - The 1st of January was a highly significant day in medieval superstitions regarding prosperity, or lack
of it, in the year ahead. A flat cake was put on one of the horns of
a cow in every farmyard. The farmer and his workers would then
sing a song and dance around the cow until the cake was thrown to
the ground. If it fell in front of the cow that signified good luck; to
fall behind indicated the opposite.
~ St Agnes’s Eve 20 January - This was the day on which girls and
unmarried women who wished to dream of their future husbands
would perform certain rituals before going to bed. These included transferring pins one by one from a pincushion to their sleeve
whilst reciting the Lord’s Prayer, or abstaining from food and drink
all day, walking backwards up the stairs to bed, and eating a portion of dumb cake ( previously prepared with a group of friends in
total silence and often containing an unpleasantly large portion of
salt) before lying down to sleep.
~ Festivals and Traditions - Wassailing has been associated with
Christmas and New Year as far back as the 1400s. It was a way of
passing on good wishes among family and friends.
~ Plough Monday - The day on which work started again after
Twelfth Night was known to countryfolk as Plough Monday: the
day on which labourers had to return to the fields. The day was
also nicknamed St Distaff’s Day: the day on which women had to
return to work with the distaff (another name for a spindle) after
the Christmas holiday.
~ 25th - Burns Night - The people of Scotland honor their greatest
poet, Robert Burns. He was born on January 25th nearly 245 years
ago (1759) and wrote his first song when he was sixteen. A traditional Scottish meal is neaps (swede), tatties (potato) and haggis
washed down with whisky. (Also known for ‘Auld Lang Syne’)
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National Soup Month
With the cold weather still in abundance, January is the perfect
month to celebrate and enjoy soup of all kinds.
It is thought that soup could trace back as far as the Neolithic
Age, with evidence suggesting that people who should have died
out through natural selection were kept alive for a long time before
the discovery of milk, which was later used to keep such people
alive. Soup seems the most likely way to have nourished these people – perhaps a broth made of boiling water and meat.
From thick, creamy, calorie laden soup (also known as a Bisque
or Chowder), to the water-based and healthier broth or consommé,
and the vegetable-laden chili and gazpacho, almost every country
around the world has its own special recipe. Why not expand your
pallet and try a new flavor for Soup Month?
To aid you in that, here is an “interesting” recipe that was published in 1954 in the Marion Sentinel, in Iowa. It is Dwight D.
Eisenhower’s recipe for Vegetable Soup . . . in his words.
The best time to make vegetable soup is a day or so after you
have fried chicken and out if which you have saved the necks, ribs,
backs, un-cooked. (The chicken is not essential, but does add something.)
Procure from the meat market a good beef soup bone – the bigger
the better. It is a rather good idea to have it split down the middle
so that all the marrow is exposed. I frequently buy, in addition, a
couple pounds of ordinary soup meat, either beef or mutton, or
both.
Put all this meat, early in the morning, in a big kettle. The best
kind is heavy aluminum, but a good iron pot will do almost as well.
Put in also the bony parts of the chicken you have saved. Cover it
with water, something on the order of 5 quarts. Add a teaspoon
of salt, a bit of black pepper and, if you like, a touch of garlic
(one small piece). If you don’t like garlic, put in an onion. Boil all
this slowly all day long. Keep on boiling till the meat has literally
dropped off the bone. If your stock boils down during the day, add
enough water from time to time to keep the meat covered. When
the whole thing has practically disintegrated, pour out into another
large kettle through a colander. Make sure that the marrow is out
of the bones. I advise you to let this drain through the colander for
quite a while as much juice will drain out of the meat. (Shake the
colander well to help get out all the juice.)
I usually save a few of the better pieces of meat to be diced and
put into the soup after it is done. The rest of it can be given to
your dogs or your neighbor’s chickens. Put the little containing
the stock you now have in a very cool place, outdoors in the winter
time or in the ice box; let it stand all night and into the next day
until you are ready to make your soup.
You will find that a hard layer of fat has formed on top of the
stock which can usually be lifted off since the whole kettle full of
stock has jelled. Some people like a little bit of fat left on, and I
know a few who like their soup very rich and do not remove more
than about half the fat.
Put the stock back into your kettle and you are now ready to make
your soup.
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In a separate pan,
boil slowly about a
third of a teacupful
of barley. This should
be cooked separately
since it has a habit,
in a soup kettle, of
settling to the bottom and if your fire
should happen to get
too hot it is likely to
burn. If you cannot
get barley use rice,
but it is a poor substitute.
One of the secrets
of making good vegetable soup is not to cook any of the vegetables
too long. However, it is impossible to give you an exact measure
of the vegetables you should put in because some people like their
vegetable soup almost as thick as stew, others like it much thinner.
Moreover, sometimes you an get exactly the vegetable you want;
other times you have to substitute. Where you use canned vegetables, put them in only a few minutes before taking the soup off the
fire. If you use fresh ones, naturally they must be fully cooked in
the soup.
The things I like to put into my soup are about as follows:
1 quart of canned tomatoes
½ teacupful of fresh peas. If you can’t get peas, a handful of green
beans cut up very small can substitute
2 normal sized potatoes, diced into cubes of about half-inch size
2 or 3 branches of good celery
1 good-sized onion (sliced)
3 nice-sized carrots diced about the same size as potatoes
1 turnip diced like potatoes
½ cup of canned corn
A handful of raw cabbage cut up in small pieces
Your vegetables should not all be dumped in at once. The potatoes,
for example, will cook more quickly than the carrots. Your effort
must be to have them all nicely cooled but not too mushy, at about
the same time.
The fire must not be too hot, but the soup should keep bubbling.
When you figure the soup is about done, put in your barley which
should now be fully cooked, add a tablespoonful of “Kitchen Bouquet” and taste for flavoring, particularly salt and pepper and,
if you have it, use some onion salt, garlic salt and celery salt. (If
you cannot get “Kitchen Bouquet,” use one teaspoonful of Lee and
Perrin’s Worchestershire Sauce.
Cut up the few bots of the meat you have saved and put about a
small handful into the soup.
While you are cooking the soup, do not allow the liquid to boil
down too much. Add a bit of water from time to time. If your stock
was good and thick when you started, you can add more water than
if it was think when you started.
As a final touch, in the springtime when the nasturtiums are green
and tender, you can take a few nasturtium stems, cut them up in
small pieces, boil them separately as you did the barley, and add
them to your soup. (About one tablespoonful after cooking.)
Congratulations FBLA On Friday, December 12th, Pleasant Valley FBLA traveled
to Lehigh Carbon Community College to attend the Region 21 FBLA competition. PVHS
has qualified 39 students for the state competition in April! There are three students waiting to hear from the state if they have made it, possibly bringing the total to 42!
Student NameEventPlace
1. Toolan, TimAccounting I2nd
2. Baker, EylienaAgribusiness3rd
3. Rosario, IsannyBusiness Calculations4th
4. Somnez, NicoletteBusiness Communications2nd
5. Hnatowicz, JustinaBusiness Law1st
6. Babu, AlexandraBusiness Law3rd
7. DeJesus-Carrero, HarleyBusiness Law4th
8. Kaye, SarahBusiness Math3rd
9. Herman, AustinComputer Problem Solving4th
10. Wolff, BrandonDesktop Publishing1st
11. Cerbone, MaryEconomics1st
12. Dingle, EvanEconomics3rd
13. Weiler, LoganEmerging Business Issues1st
14. Mitchell, MahasinEmerging Business Issues1st
15. McKenzie, Marcell
Emerging Business Issues
1st
16. O’Connor, Joe
FBLA Principles and Procedures
1st
17. Eberhardt, Lizz
FBLA Principles and Procedures
2nd
18. Heron, ElizabethGlobal Business Issues1st
19. Howard, DarbyGlobal Business Issues1st
20. Valle, MarkGlobal Business Issues1st
21. Hajratalli, NarissaHealth Care Administration3rd
22. Lawrence, Celine
Insurance and Risk Management
2nd
23. Ficke, StarMarie
Insurance and Risk Management
3rd
24. Coyle, Sara
Intro. to Business Communication
1st
25. Marks, River
Intro. to Business Communication
2nd
26. Fish, Tyler
Intro. to Information Technology
2nd
27. Massa, Nick
Intro. to Information Technology
3rd
28. Colon, Matt
Intro. to Information Technology
4th
29. Bongiovanni, Gina
Intro. to Parliamentary Procedure
1st
30. Kautz, Natalie
Intro. to Parliamentary Procedure
2nd
31. Diamond, Holly
Intro. to Parliamentary Procedure
3rd
32. Beck, AubreyMarketing1st
33. Bennett, AlyssaMarketing1st
34. McLaughlin, AbbieMarketing1st
35. Steinmetz, Alexandria
Securities and Investments
2nd
36. Hernandez, Ariana
Sports and Entertainment Management
1st
37. Hurtzig, Jenna
Sports and Entertainment Management
1st
38. Sarwar, Jake
Region 21 President Elect and Out-going Secretary
39. Harvey, Bryan
Computer Simulation and Game Programming –
awaiting placement (state graded prior)
40. Fitgerald, Tim
Community Service Project- awaiting placement
(state graded prior)
41. Tyler, Johnson
Community Service Project- awaiting placement
(state graded prior)
42. Bonser, BrittneyImpromptu Speaking1st
January 2015 • WEST END HAPPENINGS - 35
Color, add snow flakes or a winter background,
and bring your art work to West End Happenings, Rt. 209, Gilbert, to receive a special treat! HAVE FUN!
First name: __________________________________________________
36- WEST END HAPPENINGS • January 2015
Age: ________
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Sports & Recreation
PV’s Coach John Gesiskie
Inducted into Wayne Area Sports Hall of Fame
Coach ‘G’, as he is familiarly known, PV’s Volleyball coach, was
recently honored with an induction in the Wayne Area Sports Hall
of Fame. Reprinted here is his career biography, in full as it was
presented to him. We are all proud of his many accomplishments,
and not just his ones at Pleasant Valley!
John Gesiskie
John is a 1975 graduate of Western Wayne High School. While
at Western Wayne John participated in varsity basketball for three
years, and ended his high school basketball career with an All-Star
selection his senior season.
John then moved on to Western Kentucky University to continue his basketball career. Unfortunately because of an injury,
John’s collegiate basketball career was prematurely ended. He
transferred to East Stroudsburg University to begin his Division I
volleyball career. While at ESU, John’s teams finished 3rd in both
his junior and senior years in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association. John was also a team captain of the 1981 team.
Following a stellar collegiate volleyball career, John moved on to
the coaching ranks. Along with various recreation and club teams,
John has also coached at East Stroudsburg University (Men’s and
Women’s), the Royal Saudi Air Force Team in Saudi Arabia, Brandywine Heights Boys’ Volleyball Club, and currently at Pleasant
Valley High School.
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While coaching at East
Stroudsburg, the women’s team
had an 8th place national finish in 1981. John coached the
Royal Saudi Air Force team to
an undefeated championship
at the All-Military Tournament
in 1983. In three years with
the Brandywine Heights Boys’
Club, they won one Berks County Championship and were runners-up the other two years. In
the past 20 years the Pleasant
Valley Girls’ Volleyball team
has a record of 388 – 197 with John as the Head Coach. They
have won nine MVC championships, have had 17 winning seasons,
15 District XI play-off appearances, and two 3rd place finishes in
District XI playoffs.
John has coached nine MVC MVP’s, over 20 All-Conference
players, 15 All-District XI All-Stars, and two All-State players.
John’s teams have also been selected for the District XI Sportsmanship Award three times. John’s Pleasant Valley teams have
also been very involved in community Service. They have raised
nearly $1000 for local food pantries, they volunteer at Brookmont
Nursing Center, and have raised over $30,000 for United Way.
John is a Health & Physical Education teacher here at PVHS,
and lives with his family in Effort.
Sports & Recreation
Dance ’til Dawn
owner/director Dawn Massa
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
BRODHEADSVILLE • Rt. 209 • West End Plaza
Ballet • Tap • Jazz • Tiny Dancers • Mommy & Me
Modern • Hip Hop • Musical Theater • Gymnastics
Lyrical • Special Needs • Adult Classes
Competitive Teams
WWW.DANCETILDAWN.NET
Karate Lessons
under the direction of
Rocco Lombardo
Saturdays 9:15am • call for details
For more information, call: 610-681-2379
Do Your Own Thing Day in New York City
(cont. from left)
Once arriving in the city about 10am, you are free to do your own
thing. At 4:45, we board the bus for Little Italy. At 7:45, board the
bus for home, arriving at 10:00pm at Pleasant Valley High School,
and 10:30pm at Blue Valley Lanes.
30 seats have been reserved to see Honeymoon in Vegas. Cost
for the show is $109.00 (additional from bus cost). Seats are in the
front mezzanine. Payment for show tickets is due by January 8th.
Please contact Teresa Weinman if you are interested in going on
the trip, at weinman@ptd.net, or call 570-350-2181. Make checks
payable to Teresa Weinman, and send to: Teresa Weinman, 113
Sunnyhill Lane, Saylorsburg, PA 18353.
Seats are assigned on a first paid basis. Feel free to pass this on to
your friends and relatives.
Personal Fitness Training
Kevin Nagle, MEd.
ISSA, Certified Fitness Trainer
WPA Level 2 PaddleFIT Coach
Women • Youth • Men • Athletes
On Saturday, April 18, take a trip to New York City, and do your
IN HOME OR GYM
own thing! Price is $42 per person, and includes light breakfast on
Meal Plan
the bus, driver’s tip, bus, snacks on the way home and PRIZES!
Advice
http://www.beltzvillestanduppaddle.com/
Buses leave from two locations: 7:30am departure from Blue Valley Lanes, in Wind Gap, 8:00am departure from Pleasant Valley
High School, in Brodheadsville. Please arrive at your stop 15 min- Did You Know . . . ? During the first Super Bowl in 1967, NBC
was still in commercial when the second half kicked off. Officials asked the
utes prior to departure. (cont. right)
Packers to kick off again.
570-269-2400
January 2015 • WEST END HAPPENINGS - 39
WEST
WEST END
END LITTLE
LITTLE LEAGUE
LEAGUE
BASEBALL
BASEBALL // SOFTBALL
SOFTBALL 2015
2012
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION FOR
FOR SPRING
SPRING SEASON
SEASON
West End Little League is open to Boys & Girls, ages 4-16, who reside in Ross,
Polk, Chestnuthill & Eldred Townships. PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Wednesday • January 14, 2015 6pm-8pm Pleasant Valley HS Rt. 209, NEW AUDITORIUM
Saturday • January 17, 2015 9am-2pm Pleasant Valley HS Rt. 209, OLD AUDITORIUM
LOOK FOR SIGNS
Registrations after the 30th will be charged an additional $25.00 late fee.
New & Returning Players will be required to submit proof of age and residency at registration. Players will
not be accepted without proper documents. Each player will need a copy of these documents for their files. We
cannot combine documents for multiple family members. Please make copies of these documents, per player, as
we will keep them. Do not bring originals. To make this process easier for the parent, we are suggesting the
followinig per player: Copy of Birth Certificate; copy of Driver’s License; copy of Car Registration; copy of Car/
omeowners Insurance. All documents must have the family name, as well as a physical address. If player name
is different than family name, a note attached with reason and signature of parent will be accepted (marriage,
adoption, divorce, etc.) Review website for further documents that may be accepted: “Residency Requirements”
All Parents will be required to attend an orientation prior to registering. Please
understand, registration is not a quick process. Please allot enough time to register.
We will do our best to get it done in a timely matter.
Anyone interested in signing up for Manager/Coach, Team Parent, Board Positions, Committees or League
Volunteer will be required to fill out additional documents, as well as a volunteer application. Your SS# is
mandatory on this document, as well as a copy of your current driver’s license. Please bring an additional
copy if your intention is to volunteer. Team sponsors are needed. Paperwork will be available at these dates.
Sponsors are considered for workbond fulfillments. Please check website for further information.
Work Bond Policy is in effect and will be enforced. Please review the Policy
on our website prior to registration.
You will need 3 or more checks/money orders per player to sign up. NO CASH will be accepted.
There will be NO EXCEPTIONS. Checks/money orders made payable to W.E.L.L.
Check #1: registration fee ($50 pp for T-Ball / $70 pp all other levels)
Check #2: mandatory fundraiser ($40 pp, maximum $60.00 per family)*
Check #3: work bond $100 (this check will cover family)
*Family Cap Policy is still in effect. Speak with anyone at the tables for information
on families of 3 or more players. Separate checks will be needed per division SOFTBALL
or BASEBALL. If multiple players PER DIVISION, then you can combine payment checks.
Bringing a spouse or relative to help you with multiple signups is strongly suggested.
Please be advised THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THESE REGISTRATION TERMS.
Persons with cash will be asked to return with checks or money orders before registering players.
For more information: www.leaguelineup.com/westendlittleleague.
40 - WEST END HAPPENINGS • January 2015
West End Signs & Awards
Trophies, Banners, Plaques,
Medals, Personalized Gifts & More!
Rt. 209, Gilbert • 610-681-6467
Sports & Recreation
ANYTIME FITNESS announces its
OPENING IN BRODHEADSVILLE
Anytime Fitness, the world’s largest and fastest growing 24-hour
co-ed fitness franchise, is pleased to announce it is open for fitness
in the West End Plaza.
“For many people, joining a gym can be an intimidating experience” said Todd and Maryam Silance, Anytime Fitness club
owners. “Our gym is small enough that we can provide personalized attention for all of our members. Whether weight-loss is your
goal, increased strength or improved balance and flexibility – at
Anytime Fitness, we’re able to help you achieve whatever results
you seek.”
Anytime Fitness will have staffed hours daily, but members can
access the club whenever they like using a computerized key-fob
system.
“We make it easy for our members to exercise whenever and
however they like,” said Silance. “The gym will always be clean
and well-maintained, featuring the best exercise equipment available. We have personal trainers on staff to help you learn how to
use all of the equipment and to develop an individualized workout
plan, if you like. We also have group fitness classes and a ‘Fitness
on Request’ system (Wellbeats) that allows members to choose
from dozens of video classes whenever it’s most convenient for
them.”
At the Anytime Fitness club in Brodheadsville members have full
use of top-quality equipment and amenities, including:
• Circuit and resistance training machines
• Free weights
• Cardio equipment, including treadmills, elliptical machines,
and stationary bikes
• Group fitness classes, including yoga, Zumba, bootcamp, etc.
• Wellbeats, kiosk-based video group fitness
• Private bathrooms, changing rooms and showers
“We’re eager to show off our club to the community and hope
those who have been curious about our gym will stop by,” Silance
said. “A Grand Opening celebration will be held late January 2015
but until then club tours and membership information is available
at the gym or by emailing us at brodheadsvillepa@anytimefitness.
com.There’s no better time than the present to get started on the
path to a healthier and happier lifestyle.”
JOIN
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JANUARY SPECIAL
Stop in and discover a great way
to get in shape!
WE DO VARSITY JACKETS!
1421 West End Plaza • Brodheadsville
610.951.4225
AnytimeFitness.com
*See Club for Details.
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Considering Scouting?
Sports & Recreation
Boy Scout Troop 109 meets weekly at St. Peter’s United Methodist Church on Old Rt. 115 in Saylorsburg. Boys in middle school
through high school enjoy camping, learning valuable outdoor, voPV’s EPC Football All Stars
Congratulations to our Pleasant Valley’s Football All Star picks! cational, & life skills while having fun! Join the adventure to endless
possibilities! For more information, visit http://troop109saylorsburg.
Seven young men were chosen 1st Team.
ScoutLander.com. Contact Mr. Wayne Lee: 610- 381-2569, or email
2014 EPC North Division PV All Stars:
wlee@ptd.net; or Mr. Ken Smith: 570- 402-4913.
1st Team*
Ahmad Curtis
Matthew Burke
Brendan Kearns
Eric Marbury
Ausytn Borre
Brian Joseph
Nyiem Nevarez
Basket Auction and Family Fun Day
Well done
to all our
2014 PV Bears
football players
and coaches!
Presented by PVI and PVE PTOs, with FREE ADMISSION, on
February 21st, from 10:00-3:00 (snow date February 28th), at
Pleasant Valley Intermediate School (PVI). Baskets to be auctioned, starting at 2pm. Must be present to win.
There will be food, crafts, games, big ticket items, cake walk,
and a 50/50. Tickets for Basket Auction, Family Fun activities
*Reprinted from December with corrections and the 50/50 will be sold throughout event.
PV Boys’ Varsity Basketball Home Game Schedule
Tuesday
01/06/15 PM West
7:00PM
01/13/15 PM East 7:00PM
Friday
01/16/15 ES North
7:00PM
Saturday 01/17/15 Blue Mountain 2:00PM
Tuesday 01/27/15 ES South* 7:00PM
Friday
02/06/15 Stroudsburg**
7:00PM
*Senior Night **Pink-Out Game - wear your pink! Rafffles and sales!
Come out for 1/2 time fun and 50/50’s! Join us at our Community Breakfast at Kinsley’s on January 24, from 9am - 1pm. Bring your friends and
support our PBV Boys’ Basketball teams!
Steamtown National Historic Site Entrance Fee-FREE Day! Tuesday
The national parks get even better with entrance fee-free days
at Steamtown National Historic Site, downtown Scranton! Steamtown NHS will waive the daily entrance fee, which includes admission to the parking areas, park grounds, visitor center, history
roundhouse and technology museums, theater, and scheduled interpretive tours, on Monday, January 19. Hours are 9am – 5pm.
FMI: 570-340-5200; www.nps.gov/stea/index.htm.
NO ENROLLMENT FEE FOR THE NEW YEAR! (valid thru 1-31-15)
CHILD
CARE
Rt. 209 S. / Rt. 115, Brodheadsville • behind CVS
570-992-4040
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GROUP EXERCISE CLASSES
ZUMBA • BOOT CAMP • YOGA • CORE TRAINING
CYCLE • PILATES • TABATA
email: Wellfit @epix.net • web: Apexzonefitness.com • Mon-Thurs 5am-10pm / Fri 5am-8pm / Sat & Sun 7am-4pm
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Sports & Recreation
Still accepting REGISTRATION for 2014-15 Season
Happy 50th Birthday Nike!
Nike turned 50 this year. To celebrate the shoe and apparel company’s five decades in business, take a look at a few snippets from
around the web, some that many people may never have known,
about the world’s most famous sports brand.
• Founded in 1964 - Nike was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon
Sports, and initially operated as a distributor for the Japanese shoemaker Onitsuka Tiger (now known as Asics). It officially became
Nike Inc. in 1971.
• Just $1,200 in the bank - The company was founded with just
$1,200 in the bank. It was created by Bill Bowerman, a track-andfield coach, and Phil Knight, a middle-distance runner from Portland who was enrolled in the University of Oregon.
• ’Dimension 6’ - Knight had originally wanted to call the company
“Dimension 6.” The Nike name comes from the Greek goddess of
victory, and it’s pronounced “ny’-kee.” Nike’s first employee, Jeff
Johnson, came up with the name.
• A eureka moment - The first Nike shoes were made inside a waffle iron. Bowerman’s first eureka moment for footwear innovation came in 1971, when he and his wife were making waffles for
breakfast. It sparked an idea for a grooved pattern on the sole of
trainers to help athletes grip running tracks. It spawned the “Nike
Waffle Trainer,” patented in 1974 (at the expense of his wife Barbara’s waffle iron).
• The Nike Swoosh - The Nike swoosh was designed by Portland
State University student Carolyn Davidson, for just $35 (just over
$200 in today’s currency). At a later stage she was given stock that
is now worth more than $640,000.
• Inspired by a serial killer? - The slogan “Just Do It” was inspired
by serial killer Gary Gilmore, who said “let’s do it” just before he
was executed by a firing squad in 1977. The revelation was made
in a 2009 documentary about advertising called “Art & Copy.”
• The first ‘Just Do It’ campaign - The first “Just Do It” campaign
launched in 1988. The ad featured Walt Stack, a then 80-year-old
running icon, plodding across the Golden Gate Bridge.
• Michael Jordan’s haul - Despite the fact that he hasn’t played
basketball professionally since 2003, Michael Jordan still reportedly earns $60 million annually in royalties from Nike, according
to Forbes. That makes him the athlete with — by far — the biggest
Nike endorsement deal.
• ’The Bucharest Buffoon’ - Romanian tennis professional Ilie
Nastase, “the Bucharest Buffoon,” was the first athlete to sign an
endorsement contract with Nike, in 1972. Nastase was a gifted tennis player but also became infamous for his erratic temperament
and was lumped with several fines, suspensions, and disqualifications throughout his career.
• A first for a Beatles song - Nike’s 1987 ad for the Air Max shoes
was soundtracked by The Beatles’ “Revolution” — the first time a
Beatles song had ever been used in a TV commercial, according to
the Career in Sports book.
• The first Nike store - The world’s largest Nike store is not in its
US homeland but on London’s Oxford Street. It cost £10.5 million
to build the store, which spans three levels and roughly 42,000 feet.
It was constructed around the theme of a town square.
570-992-5299
Cinthia Marino - owner/artistic director
B.A. in Dance • B.A. in Psychology
Boys & Girls ages 18 months - adult
Ballet • Tap • Jazz • Pointe
Contemporary • Modern • Hip Hop
Dance With Me (aka Mommy & Me)
Tots In Tutus • Tumbling • Zumba
Jumps, Leaps & Turns • Adult Classes
Thank you so much for making
Cartesion Dance Academy #1
TWO YEARS IN A ROW!
Register for a class in January
and get
February’s Class FREE
GOOD FOR 1 CLASS / STYLE ONLY
Expires 1-31-15. Not to be combined with other offers and/or discounts.
ZUMBA is Back!
Tuesdays • 6:00-6:45pm. Call for details.
CARTESION DANCE COMPANY
Pre-Professional Performance Company
Why choose Cartesion Dance Academy:
• Affordable Pricing with Professional Training
• Family-oriented Atmosphere
• Highly-qualified and Trained Instructors
• Convenient Location
• Multiple Payment-plan Options
• Observation Windows
• Professional Sprung Dance Floors/Sound System
• Classes for Recreational - Professional Dancer
Register online 24/7: www.cartesiondance.com
Located in the Midtown Plaza • Rt. 209, Brodheadsville
across from McDonalds, behind Subway
www.riversiderehab.com
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January is National Blood Donor Month
Did you know:
~ Every day in the United States, blood is needed in hospitals and
emergency treatment facilities to care for patients with cancer and
other diseases, for organ transplant recipients, and to help save the
lives of accident and trauma victims.
~ Every two seconds someone in the US needs blood. More than
38,000 blood donations are needed each day.
~ Blood can be separated into at least three components: red blood
cells, plasma, and platelets.
~ Just one blood donation can help save up to three lives. 60% of
the US population is eligible to give, but only 5% of those actually
do.
~ In an emergency, anyone can receive type O negative red blood
cells, and type AB individuals can receive red blood cells of any
ABO group. Therefore, people with type O negative blood are
known as universal donors.
~ Donating blood is easy! To donate, you must be healthy, and
meet age, weight and other donor requirements.
~ Donating blood is a safe process. A sterile needle is used only
once for each donor, and is then discarded.
~ The actual blood donation typically takes less than 10 – 12 minutes. The entire process, from the time one arrives to the time the
donor leaves, takes about an hour.
~ A healthy donor may donate blood every 56 days.
~ The average adult has about 10 to 12 pints of blood in his/her
body. Approximately one pint is given during a donation.
Sports & Recreation
~ Blood and blood products are perishable. Donated red blood cells
must be used within 42 days of collection.
~ During an emergency, blood must be on the shelf ready for transfusion in order to save lives.
To learn more about donating blood, visit www.aabb.org. If you
already know you’d like to donate, see below for some local drives
taking place in January.
• January 5
Jack Frost Ski Resort: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM
1 Jack Frost Mountain, Blakeslee
• January 9
Jackson Township Fire Hall: 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Route 715, Reeders
• January 17
Pocono Township Fire House: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Rt. 611, Tannersville
• January 26
McDonalds: 1:00PM – 6:00PM
Route 209 and 115, Brodheadsville
Kunkletown Fire House: 1:00PM – 6:00PM
Kunkletown Road, Kunkletown
• January 30
Monroe County Career and Technical Institute: 11:00 AM – 3:30
PM
66 Laurel Lake Rd., Bartonsville
WINTER CLASSES STARTING JANUARY 5TH
REGISTER NOW!
2338 Rt. 209, Sciotta
www.elitegdc.com
Ballet • Tap • Jazz • Hip Hop • Lyrical . . .
and much more!
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Seedling Sales To Begin January 5
Landowners can help wildlife by planting trees and shrubs.
While it might be winter, landowners can begin making plans to
help wildlife this spring – and beyond – by planting tree and shrub
seedlings offered by the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Howard
Nursery. The 2015 seedling order form is available online, and sales
are set to begin Jan. 5.
Most seedlings are sold in units of 25, but 100-seedling bundles
also are available in mixes to benefit deer, game birds and songbirds,
as well as to improve riparian and winter-thermal habitats.
The 2015 order form contains a wide selection of evergreens,
shrubs and fruit- and nut-bearing trees. Most species are native to
Pennsylvania, and with the exception of black locust, all of the available hardwoods are grown from seed collected from Pennsylvania
sources and processed by Game Commission personnel.
This year’s order form features three species that have not been offered regularly in the past. Nannyberry, a native large shrub or small
tree, produces fruits that are an important food source for many birds
and mammals in the fall and winter. Another shrub, northern bayberry, can grow to 12-foot heights and produces berries important
to birds. And wild plum can grow up to 20 feet tall, with roots that
can form excellent wildlife thickets in bottomlands, woodlots and
other areas.
For both northern bayberry and wild plum, units of 25 1-year-old
seedlings are available for $12.50. Nannyberry is sold in 25-seedling
units priced at $8.75, but – like many of the seedlings offered for
sale – can be purchased at a discounted price.
Although a discount is not offered for all species or habitat bundles, orders of 12 or more total units qualify for applicable discounted pricing. With the discount, prices are as low as $3.75 per bundle,
or 15 cents per seedling. The mixed-oak bundle costs $6.25 with
the discount. Species that qualify for the discount are marked on the
order form.
Annetta Ayers, superintendent at Howard Nursery, said there is
a very limited supply of some of the seedlings for sale, wild plum
included. Those who are interested might want to call Howard Nursery at 814-355-4434. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday
from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Orders can be placed by telephone, as well.
The order form and information about the seedlings for sale will be
available at the Game Commission’s website, www.pgc.state.pa.us.
Place your cursor over “General Store” in the menu bar at the top
of the homepage, then scroll down to “Howard Nursery” and select
“2015 Seedling Order Form” from the drop-down menu. The form
usually is posted to the website shortly before sales begin.
If you have problems downloading the order form, you likely need
to install the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be
found by doing an Internet search and downloaded for free.
The order form can be completed and submitted online, or printed
out and faxed or mailed. Payments are not due until the order is
confirmed by Howard Nursery. For those without Internet access,
order forms can be obtained at Game Commission offices or various displays or booths at shows in which the agency participates
through the spring or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope
to: Howard Nursery, 197 Nursery Road, Howard, PA 16841. While
the order form provides a brief description of the tree species available and their benefits to birds and wildlife, more information is
available on the website under “Tree Seedling Index.”
The preferred method of delivery is by United Parcel Service
(UPS). Shipping and handling charges do apply. Orders are shipped
only Monday through Wednesday to assure delivery for weekend
planting. However, orders also may be picked up in person at the
nursery once buyers are notified the order is ready. Generally, seedlings ship in the month of April.
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Store Hours: Sunday-Thursday: 11am-10pm • Friday & Saturday: 11am-11pm
BIG CHEESE
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Family Fun Center
Birthday Parties, Play System, Video Games
570-992-3626
Route 209 (Monroe Plaza) Brodheadsville
570-992-5035
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99¢ Bread with purchase
of any Regular-Priced Pizza
Medium 14” Pizza with
1 Topping just $5.55 +tax
Quality Waste Disposal
and Recycling Service
610-381-2198
All materials can be mixed in one recycle can.
Recycling since 1990
- 45 Gallon Curbside Trash Pick-Up Rates -
PAYABLE 3 MONTHS IN ADVANCE
PAYABLE 3 MONTHS IN ADVANCE
$24.00 mth. = $72.00 qtly.
$27.50 mth. = $82.50 qtly.
$30.50 mth. = $91.50 qtly.
$34.50 mth. = $103.50 qtly.
$36.50 mth. = $109.50 qtly.
$38.25 mth. = $114.75 qtly.
No larger than 32 gallon cans or bags.
$2 each extra can/bag over limit - payable at pick-up.
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P.O. Box 589
Gilbert, PA 18331
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Admission 6pm-8pm
Recycle more with SINGLE STREAM.
It’s FREE with our Once-a-Week Trash Pick-Up!
- 32 Gallon Curbside Trash Pick-Up Rates 1 can or 1 bag limit
2 can or 2 bag limit
3 can or 3 bag limit
4 can or 4 bag limit
5 can or 5 bag limit
6 can or 6 bag limit
WEDNESDAY SPECIAL
Pay Yearly
in Advance
SAVE 5%
1 can or 1 bag limit
2 can or 2 bag limit
3 can or 3 bag limit
4 can or 4 bag limit
5 can or 5 bag limit
6 can or 6 bag limit
$25.00 mth. = $75.00 qtly.
$30.50 mth. = $91.50 qtly.
$35.00 mth. = $105.00 qtly.
$37.00 mth. = $111.00 qtly.
$39.00 mth. = $117.00 qtly.
$41.00 mth. = $123.00 qtly.
No larger than 45 gallon cans or bags.
$3 each extra can/bag over limit - payable at pick-up.