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THE FOREST CITY NEWS, FOREST CITY, PA 18421 * WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016 * PHONE 570-785-3800 * email [email protected] - PAGE 3
* School Affairs and People in the News *
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FCR Pre-K registration April 28 & 29
The Forest City Regional School District has scheduled K4-Pre-Kindergarten Registration for Thursday & Friday, April 28 & 29, 2016. Appointments will begin at 9:00a.m.
Parents are required to phone the elementary office (570)785-2410 to schedule an appointment. The registration process will take approximately 45 minutes. The child’s medical/health information will also be recorded.
District policy requires K4-Pre-Kindergarten students to be 4 years of age on or before the first day of school.
Parents/guardians must bring the following items to registration:
child’s birth certificate,proof of residencyproof of income,child’s social security number;
andchild’s immunization records.Immunizations should include:3 DpT3 Polio1 MMR3 Hepatitis 2 Varicella or history of Chicken
Pox diseaseWe look forward to meeting the
students and parents of the Class of 2030!
Michelle Kowalewski re-cently joined AgChoice Farm Credit as a loan officer based out of the Endless Mountains (Towanda) office. Kowalewski previously served 10 years as an agricultural enterprise edu-cator with Penn State Exten-sion in Susquehanna County and also worked for the Pa. Beef Council and Fulton Bank. A Penn State graduate with an agribusiness management degree, Kowalewski and her family live in Montrose.
“My husband and I are ac-tive leaders with 4-H, the Susquehanna County Junior Holstein Club and the Harf-ord Fair, just like many of our AgChoice customer-owners,” Kowalewski said. “I’m very excited to join the AgChoice team and help people in our rural northeast communities operate successful business-es.”
AgChoice Farm Credit’s Endless Mountains branch of-fice is located in Towanda, Pa., and services more than $69.4
million in total loan volume for agricultural, forest prod-ucts and rural customers in Bradford, Lackawanna, Sul-livan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wayne and Wyoming counties in Pennsylvania. To learn more about AgChoice Farm Credit and its financial programs, visit www.agchoice.com.
Kowalewski joins AgChoice
Michelle Kowalewski
Giles on Dean’s List at Univ. of Rochester
Scott A. Giles, a freshman
majoring in computer science at the University of Rochester, has been named to the Dean’s List for academic achievement for the fall 2015 semester.
Giles, a resident of Waymart, Pa., is the child of Chris and Ed Giles, and a 2015 graduate of Forest City Regional High School.
Mark Walsh, author of the newly released “Primeval,” touted his work at the March 28 meeting of the Forest City Lions’ Club, held at the Can-dlelight Inn, Herrick Center. The book is not just a straight-forward historical account. In its closing chapters, Walsh attempts to point out what has gone wrong in the four-town community that makes up “Forest City Country” — Browndale, Forest City, Rich-mondale and Vandling.
To begin, he presented a se-ries of tables to illustrate his point that past efforts to “in-dustrialize” the area have not worked. Tracing area popula-tion from 1920 to the present, he cited colliery employment which peaked at 2,000 ver-sus dress factory/shoe factory which never exceeded 500. “The factories did not last, and when they worked they didn’t produce enough jobs to offset the loss of the coal business. What’s more, they were based on the idea of payment of low wages, not reasonable, living wages.
Walsh contends that they gave birth to a “Culture of poverty. “ To this day, 21 % of the population of FC lives at or below the federal poverty level,” Walsh stated.
To remedy what Walsh calls “a critical socioeconomic prob-lem,” the historian-author suggests dozens of moves, all presented in a whirlwind Chapter Ten and all stemming from research he did to sup-port his approach.
He said Forest City’s Main Street supports 50 “open for business” establishments but also had 18 closed storefronts in his January, 2015 survey. He suggests “aggressive cam-ouflage” to remedy what he calls “the ghost-town effect of all of these shuttered busi-nesses,” He said Forest City sports a full 26% of its stores as shuttered. Walsh rolls out more than a dozen “camou-flage” ideas aimed at making the sites look better than aban-doned.
Telling of eight focused-group research sessions he
held with area residents, Walsh insists that our com-munity has three undeniable strong points. They are (1) the mountains, (2) the forests, and (3) the river. “These wonder-ful attributes were here before we humans got here, and are likely to be here until long af-ter we leave,” he says. He told of what residents said in the groups.
Many of the Walsh visions are hard to disagree with. He urges aggressive clean ups, and even more aggressive paint-ups using student labor. Then he suggests a controver-sial idea that the four towns merge into one, and they then expand their boundaries “to provide room for expansion.”
Walsh proposes that the new unified town run from Stillwater on the north to the mountain ridges east and west to an east-west line about a mile south of the present limit of Vandling! Then, he envi-sions surrounding the new mega-town with (a) a system of nature trails tied into the Rail-Trail and (b) a circular access road, onto which new streets with new “upmarket” housing are joined.
He also sees aggressive “cosmetic reforestation” and a measure of “true reforesta-tion” by which “trees, trees and more trees” are planted. Plantings would include “tree parks” within the town as well as decorative features like “the Center Street Water-fall.” Moreover, “Lackawanna Headwaters Park” would link the town, the Rail-Trail and, of course, what he calls “our river.”
Basic to the Walsh visions is a new organization, to be called “Shepherds of the For-est”, a name he borrows from J. R. R. Tolkien. He insists that a new organization is critical because the size of the task demands it. “Shepherds” will have one task, and one task only: the restoration of Forest glory as William and Elizabeth Pentecost found it. “Take care of the trees, and they will take care of us,” Walsh concluded.
Transition Fair at FCR April 7The Transition Fair, in it’s
8th annual year provides all students with the opportuni-ty to meet with professionals in the areas of post-second-ary education, employment and independent living with a goal of providing a smooth transition from high school to adulthood. It will be held at the school on April 7, 2016 from 9:00-11:00.
Confirmed providers and professionals include but are not limited to: The Tre-hab Center, Special Kids Network, Human Resource Center, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Universal Technical Institute, Lacka-wanna College/Lake Region, Keystone College, Scranton Electricians JATC, Commu-nity Vocational Services, PA National Guard, Center for Independent Living, Wayne County Office of Behavior and Development, John-son College, Wayne County Public Library, Trehab Drug and Alcohol, Susquehanna/Wyoming County Transpor-tation, Victims Intervention Program, YMCA, Luzerne County Community College, First National Bank, Heroin Prevention Task Force, Unit-ed States Navy, United States Coast Guard, Wayne County Transportation, Forest City Police, Women’s Resource Center, United States Air Force, Wayne County Em-ployment/Training, Wayne
County Chamber of Com-merce, NEIU#19, Northamp-ton County Community College, Wayne memorial Hospital, Honesdale Nation-al Bank, Community Care Behavioral Health, Lackawa-nna County Career Technol-ogy Center, and the Pennsyl-vania Careerlink.
Western Wayne, Wal-lenpaupack, Susquehanna Community High School and Wayne Highlands students will join the Forest City Re-gional student body in gath-ering important information in the transition process.
Pet of the Week
Alexa is a nine-year-old Pomeranian who live in Waymart with her mom and dad, Candy and Tom Carney. She gets
here grooming done at Sasha’sBoutique, Waymart
Susq. Co. Farm Bureau Meeting Sat., April 16
The Susquehanna County Farm Bureau will hold its annual Spring meeting on April 16 at the Mon-trose Bible Conference, Lake Ave-nue Hall. A social time will be held from 11:30 a.m. to noon, followed by a soup/salad bar luncheon. Cost is $15. For more information and reservations, please contact Donna Williams at 942-6348. The deadline for reservations is April 9.
A “Meet the Candidates” forum will include candidates seeking of-fice or reelection. Invites have been forwarded to Presidential Candi-dates, US Congress and Senate, PA Representatives from our District, State Treasurer, Attorney General and Auditor.
A Chinese Auction will be be held. Proceeds benefit Ag Educa-tion Programs.
“Primeval” author speaks to local FC Lions Club
Amer.-Slov. Clubto meet April 10
The American-Slovenian Heritage Club will hold a meeting on Sunday, April 10, at 1 p.m. at Elegante’ Restau-rant, Forest City.
Mt. View GardenUpcoming Events listed
The April meeting of the Moun-tain View Garden Club will be held on April 19 at 7 pm at the Clifford Fire Hall, Route 106 in Clifford. This month’s speaker is Gayle O’Brien from Humming Hill Lavender Farm & Apiary who will be doing a presentation on Growing Lavender in NEPA. The May meeting will be held on the 17th and will feature artist Joe Kluck doing a demonstration called “Paint Your Garden.”
The garden club presents a $500 scholarship to a deserving senior from both Forest City and Moun-tain View High Schools who are pursuing a degree related to the environment, land, plants or ecol-ogy. For a copy of the scholarship application, go to their website at mountainviewgardenclub.org.
The 12th annual Plant Ex-change & Marketplace will take place on June 5 at the Clifford Picnic Grounds. The Marketplace will be held from 11:30 til 3 featur-ing local artisans, refreshments and music. The Plant Exchange & Sale will be held from 1 til 3 at which time you may purchase pe-rennials grown in local gardens or you have the option of exchanging two perennials from your garden for two plants of like size or value.
For more information about the garden club, visit their website listed above or contact their mem-bership chair, Mary Ann O’Pecko at [email protected] or 570-785-5691.
Chicken & Biscuit Dinner in Thompson April 9
The Thompson Hose Co. will hold a Chicken & Biscuit Dinner Buffet on Saturday, April 9 from 5:00pm - 7:30pm. Includes: chicken, biscuits, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, tossed salad, des-sert, & beverage. Adults $10, children 5-12 $7, under 5 free. Takeouts available. Check out www.thompsonhoseco.com for upcoming events.
Mark Walsh
Night at the RacesSat., April 23
The Costello-Monahan-Brown American Legion Post 964 presents a “Night at the Races” which is the annual spring fund-raiser, on Sat., April 23, at Pleasant Mount Fire Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m. and post time is at 7 p.m. There will be door prizes and refreshments. For more infor-mation please call 570-448-2817.
Tri-County Srs.to meet Apr. 11
The Tri-County Senior Citi-zens will meet on Monday, April 11, at 1 p.m. at the Wil-liam Penn Apartments.
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Breakfast in Great Bend Sat., April 9
An All-You-Can-Eat Break-fast will be held on Sat., April 9 at the United Methodist Community Church, Main Street, Great Bend, PA, from 7am-10am. Cost is $8.00 Adult, $4.00 Children under 10. Menu: Ham, Home Fries, Our “Famous” Breakfast Sau-sage, Pancakes, Eggs to Order, Biscuits, Sausage Gravy, Dan-ish, Fruit, and Beverage. It is a Fundraiser for UMCC Youth Group Trip to Kingdom Bound Christian Festival.