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Anne Coar Crowley’s lat-est new book, “The Night-ingale Sings,” is an auto-biography in which Mrs. Crowley takes on the jus-tice system after the mur-der of her daughter, Anne Hodgins, on Sept. 1, 1980. The cost is $10 and is avail-able at Cable’s Store and The Forest City News. It is also available by mail to Anne Crowley, 1011 Edge-brook Dr., Endwell, N.Y. 13760. Shipping is $3.50.

Copies of her history book of Vandling also are available for $10 at The For-est City News.

The Forest City Area Rotary Club recently donated $1,000 to Kennedy Park following their Wine Festival in Septem-ber. Pictured left to right are Stephanie Collier, Rotary Club; William D. Orasin, Forest City Council President; and Ei-leen Lynch, Rotary Club.

Rotary Club donates $1,000 to Kennedy Park

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Dear Editor: I have enclosed my check

for another year, even though I don’t know many living there now. I enjoy the funny little stories ands jokes. I have many wonderful memories of my children there—sled-ding, skiing and ice skating. My cousin Sister Ann Patrice Murnock, and I, reminisce a lot about those days.

God’s blessings for a won-derful Christmas season to all.

Prayerfully,Lillian Hanchin Chapin

Erie, PA People in Photo Left to Right: Peter Quigg; President Community Foundation of the End-less Mountains; Father Ryan Maher; President Scranton Prep; William Aubrey; Chairman Peoples Security Bank & Trust Co. Board of Directors; Joseph Ferretti; Executive Vice Presi-dent Peoples Security Bank & Trust Co.; Sharon Byrne; Senior Vice President Peoples Secu-rity Bank & Trust Co.

Peoples Security Bank & Trust recently provided more than $71,000 in scholarship as-sistance to deserving students attending Scranton Prep. The donation was made through the Pennsylvania Education Improvement Tax Credit pro-gram administered by The Community Foundation of the Endless Mountains. This assistance will benefit 30 stu-dents from northeastern Penn-sylvania who otherwise might

not have had the opportunity to receive the rigorous educa-tional experience offered by Prep.

This recent scholarship aid continues a tradition that Peo-ples Security has of support-ing Scranton Prep, and since 2003 the bank has worked with The Community Foundation of the Endless Mountains in administering and managing its education and charitable priorities in Pennsylvania and

New York. William Aubrey, Chairman of Peoples Security Bank & Trust, states that “the bank is proud to partner with Scranton Prep in providing this assistance to our region’s talented students.” Christian Davis of Scranton Prep points out that this assistance from the bank will help augment Prep’s robust financial aid program and will expand the opportunities offered by the school.

Peoples Security Bank provides Scranton Prep students with scholarships

by Theresa OpekaA new supervisor, complaints

about properties and the passage of the 2017 budget were among the items discussed at the Mon-day, December 5 meeting of the Herrick Township Supervisors.

Supervisor/Road Master Mary Reeder sent in her resig-nation on November 18. Brian Zembrzycki was appointed to fill the rest of her term which ends in December 2017. Joe Te-desco will remain as acting Road Master.

There was a complaint about a property on Creek Road that has 4 or 5 cars on it. The com-plaint also said the people living there do not have a septic system or water. Supervisor/Secretary Nancy Harvatine said COG will look into the matter further.

Harvatine also said Zoning Officer John Watts said there is no zoning violation at a garage at the corner of Stark and Lewis Lake Roads. Complaints said the property is being used for com-mercial use. She said they will contact Solicitor Marisa McAn-drew for further information.

The budget for 2017 passed at 2 mils and no change from the tentative budget.

The township’s website is up and running: www.herricktwp.org. General information and various forms (like zoning per-mits) that can be downloaded,

are among the items that can be found on the website. A sugges-tion was made to put the map of the township on the website.

Harvatine, township EMA Coordinator Andy Belcher and members of Pleasant Mount Emergency Services attended an Active Shooter Seminar held recently at Mountain View High School. Short films about mass shootings were shown as well as an FBI agent talking about how they deal with parents and the media. Harvatine said it was amazing how many people are involved.

The township received $764.14 in state police fines.

Williams Field Services noti-fied the township about a pipe-line project on the Tinklepaugh property in Gibson Township and the corner of Herrick Town-ship.

COG said the Flood Plain Ordinance may need to be re-viewed and may have to change for only those in the flood plain.

Tedesco said there were re-pairs on the township trucks and is have someone check out the recurrent beaver problem at Lowe Lake.

The reorganization meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 3 at 7pm, followed by the regu-lar meeting. The auditors meet-ing will be held on Wednesday, January 4.

Brian Zembrzycki new Herrick Twp. Supervisor

Happy Birthday to: Melissa Nebzydoski, Mary Ann Ku-likowski, Steve Nebzydoski, John Houghtaling, January Price, Megan Davis, Vivian Carey, Chuck Theobald, Charles Conk-lin Sr., Tom Nebzydoski, Carrie Keyes, Megan Saul, John Callan, Mackenzie Hartman, Nicolas Andrews, Eileen Davis, Kate-lyn Sinawa, Nathaniel Camp-bell, Edward Howell, Riley Zu-kosky, Amelia Bennett, Brynn Vinton, Mike Rosenfeld, Brenda Baudendistel,Madison Lee and Carrie Eltz.

Happy Anniversary to: Tom and Alice Sampson and congrat-ulations to Emory and Bernice Doyle who are celebrating their 69th Wedding Anniversary on December 14. They are formerly from the Orson area and now liv-ing in Florida.

Congratulations to Brian Zem-brzycki in nearby Herrick Town-ship on becoming one of the township’s supervisors. Sure he will do a great job.

Thank you to Pleasant Mount Emergency Services for serving breakfast on Nov. 27th to all the local veterans free of charge. It was greatly appreciated.

The Pleasant Mount United Methodist Church will be hold-ing Christmas Eve Service at 7pm. There will be no church service on Christmas. The church is also

looking for people to play chimes at the Christmas Eve service.

Some fun facts about Christ-mas: The Germans made the first artificial Christmas trees out of dyed goose feather; Each year more than 3 billion Christmas cards are sent in the U.S alone; The “true love” mentioned in the song “Twelve Days of Christmas” does not refer to a romantic couple, but the Catholic Church’s code for God. The person who receives the gifts represents someone who has accepted that code. For ex-ample, the “partridge in a pear tree” represents Christ. The “two turtledoves” represent the Old and New Testaments; According to Guinness World Records, the tallest Christmas tree ever was a 221-foot Douglas fir that was displayed in 1950 at the North-gate Shopping Center in Seattle, Washington. The traditional three colors of Christmas are green, red and gold. Green has long been a symbol of life and rebirth, red symbolizes the blood of Christ and gold represents light as well as wealth and royalty; In Poland, spiders or spider webs are com-mon Christmas tree decorations because according to legend, a spider wove a blanket for Baby Je-sus. In fact, Polish people consider spiders to be symbols of goodness and prosperity at Christmas.

New member to boostactivities at Rail-Trail

Carissa Dewey has been hired as program manager at the Rail-Trail of NEPA. She plans to increase family-friendly activities on the trail.

By Jennifer Butler

Carissa Dewey is very excited about her new post as program manager at the Rail-Trail Coun-cil of NEPA. Having just come aboard last week she is excited to be part of the effort that brings recreational activities to the area.

Born and raised in the Catskills in upstate New York, the young woman has spent a majority of her life in the great outdoors and loves every min-ute of it. Upon graduating from Westchester University with a degree in English, she decided to spread her wings and landed in Stanley, Idaho. “I did a lot of recreating there,” she laughed, noting that it was a very small, rural town.

When family and friends called, she realized she missed them too much so she returned to NEPA and now resides in Clarks Summit. Prior to her new employment, she worked at the Dalton Country Store and Elk Mountain, and ran her own ca-tering business and still does - The Food Snob.

“I believe in really getting the family outside so I try to make it fun for them, and we are plan-ning events to do so,” said Ca-rissa.

Her first event to be involved with will be a Winter Trail Day’s

Winter Solstice celebration to be held on Dec. 17 at 10 AM at the Rail-Trail Council headquarters in Union Dale.

The solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s tilt is the fur-thest away from the sun. The RTC will host a morning warm up of pilates with Patti Walker, a licensed fitness instructor, be-fore heading out to the trail with snowshoes and skis. Participants are urged to call ahead for reser-vations at 570-679-9300.

“A short clinic in snowshoe basics and we will have snow-shoes available to lend,” said Ca-rissa. Afterwards, Cable’s Deli will offer Winter Solstice lunch specials!

“Nowadays people are often too busy to get outside, so we try to make it fun for them to do so,” she added.

This summer, the newcomer to the RTC would love to intro-duce the newest fad of geocach-ing to the trail and even a scav-enger hunt for the youngsters when the weather permits. She is also in the process of making improvements to the trail’s web-site.

Carissa resides in Clarks Sum-mit with her son, Henry Butler, and fiance, Rhett Butler. She has two brothers and a sister, and many nieces and nephews!

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