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24 Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Tuesday, May 1 1 1 999 Weatherly Mary Rose Minnick, 146 Briar Lane, 427-8865 Leave Items at: Weatherly IGA, Main Hudsondale Sts. Candidates' Nighf today in borough The White Haven Chamber of Commerce will host Candidates' Night today at the White Haveji Community Building, north end of Main Street. Jake Ripa, county commissioner candidate, will speak at 6:30 p.m., followed by Crestwood School Board candidates Naomi Bases, Mike Hanlon, Emilia Kramer, Jeffrey Hirt, Louise Fino, Mark Allen, and Bill Jones. An intermission will follow. County candidates will speak beginning at 8:30 p.m.

John Peters, coroner candidate will begin, followed by commissioner candidates Jim Burns, Phil Struzzeri, Stephen A. Urban, and Parker Bartley. Late-responding candidates will speak after Bartley. The event should end by 9:30. Each candidate will speak for three minutes, then answer questions posed by moderator Seth Isenberg.

Refreshments will be served. 1 WAHSAA DINNER The annual Memorial Day dinner sponsored by the Weatherly Area High School Alumni Association will be served at Salem U.C.C. on May 31 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Get tickets now from Jack Koehler at 427-4601, Pete Garber at 427-8058, or Tim Frable at 427-4867.

If you have a reservation form, send it to Koehler at 108 Hudsondale Weatherly, along with your check for the proper number of tickets that you want. Your tickets will be held at the door for you. Dinner will consist of roast beast of chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, butter and rolls, soda, coffee and dessert. The public is welcome. Get your tickets now.

Let's make this the biggest and best event ever. Come and renew old friendships and make new ones over a good meal. The cut-off date for tickets and reservations is May 24. ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs.

Terry M. Schiavone, Freeland, are celebrating their 25l wedding anniversary today. Mrs. Schiavone is the former Joyce Malloy. They have three children, Heather, Terrah and Terry II.

HONORED John Kruk, White Haven Poconos, a Freeland Post Office carrier, was honored for 25 years of service. Presentation of a 25-year pin and congratulations were made by Postmaster John Butala, left, to Kruk and his wife, Carol. Fellow employees celebrated the occasion with a lunchtime pizza party. A congratulatory letter was received from Edward Burke, Harrisburg District manager. Kruk started his postal career in 1974 as a clerk in Herndon, and in 1978 became a city carrier in Moriches, N.Y.

He transferred to Freeland in 1990. He served for three years in the USMC from 1954 to 1957. He and his wife married in 1958. They have three sons, a daughter, and three grandchildren. John plans to retire in October.

Freeland and White Haven Correspondents: Joe Falatko, Freeland, Fern Pohl, White Haven 636-3861 Leave items in 443-9935 Box At Videomania Leave items at home, 532 Centre St. or 118 Fern St 314 Towanda St. LIONS MEET The Quakake Valley Lions Club will hold its May meeting today at 7 p.m. at the Still Creek Tavern. President Bob Kester will conduct the business part of the meeting.

Reports will be submitted on the recent hoagie sale and the barbecue chicken dinner scheduled for June 26. Lion Moon will be chairman of the event. The Quakake Lions would like to thank those who volunteered during the recent cleanup day on Quakake Road and who helped at the hoagie sale, especially Mary Jean Searfoss and family. Amanda Zacharias Senior of the month Amanda Zacharias, the daughter of Donald and Melanie Zacharias, Buck Mountain Road, Weatherly, has been selected as senior of the month for April at Weatherly Area High School. Zacharias is in the academic curriculum and is a consistent first honors student.

She is a member of the girls' varsity basketball and softball teams and the senior Envirothon team. She serves as treasurer of the senior class and as historian of the Future Business Leaders of America. She is also a member of the school band, Carbon County band, Student Government Association, National Honor Society, and SPARC. In the community, Zacharias has done volunteer work for the March of Dimes and American Cancer Society. She is also a blood donor for the American Red Cross and is a Sunday school teacher at her church.

She will attend Bloomsburg University and plans on seeking a dual certification in secondary education with a concentration in mathematics and elementary education. Sponsors for the month are Garber Insurance and Finance Services and Summit Bank, both in Weatherly. MMI expansion hearings set A review of a major land development application submitted by MMI Preparatory School will take place Thursday at 7 p.m. before the Foster Township Planning Commission. The hearing was noted in the report by the township zoning officer, Keith Wheeler, at the township supervisors' meeting Monday evening.

It also was announced in a public notice by the planing commission secretary, Dorothy V. DeNoia. A zoning hearing on the MMI expansion also is scheduled by the Foster Township Zoning Hearing Board on May 26. In other actions, the supervisors also set the tap-on fee for new connections of the Ag-Mar sewer at $500. A meeting will be held May 25 at 6 p.m.

to review the communications tower ordinance. Also to be reviewed and advertised will be the ordinance prohibiting the sale and possession of drug paraphernalia as advocated by the Drug Task Force in the township. The roadmaster, zoning officer and solicitor monthly reports were accepted. The roadmaster report indicated traffic signs were replaced, playgrounds reopened, and there was a request for light at the Ag-Mar Playground. Wheeler's zoning report included the following: five contractor licenses, $250; 10 building permits nine zoning permits, $225; occupancy permit $25; burning permit, $10; sale of zoning map, $10; sale of three zoning ordinances, $75; total income, Five complaints were received and acted on.

Janelle Heydt Borough girl gets scholarship offers Janelle Heydt, daughter of Gary and Melodie Heydt, Indian Run Road, Weatherly, has been offered scholarships from several colleges and universities. She has been offered the $26,000 academic scholarship from Shenandoah University, an $18,000 achievement scholarship from Wilkes University; a $32,000 Bomberger Scholarship from Ursinus College, and the $34,000 Valedictorian's scholarship from Susquehanna University. She is a senior enrolled in the college preparatory curriculum at Weatherly Area High School. She is a member of the band, county band, Student Government Association, Future Business Leaders of America, and the Science Olympiad Team. She serves as editor-in-chief of the high school yearbook, and editor of the school newspaper.

She is also a member of the National Honor Society, the senior envirothon team, and the German Honor Society. She was the Weatherly Area High School Senior of the Month for October, and the Hazleton Elks Senior of the Month for November. In the community, Heydt serves as the vice president of the Weatherly 4-H Club and is a member of the Lehighton Community Band. She represents Weatherly Area High School on the CAN DO Board of Directors and studies dance at the Joan Sacco Dance Studio in Hazleton. She is a youth deacon on her church consistory and a Sunday School teacher.

She was also accepted at West Chester University. She plans to attend Shenandoah University to major in pharmacy. QUILTING CLASS Weatherly Area Community Library will sponsor a quilting class Friday at 7 p.m. The quilt block will be churn dash. Items needed to bring are material, needle, thread, thimble, ruler, scissors, pencil and notebook.

Class size is limited and a donation is being asked. Call Donna at 4274515 by today. Refreshments will be served. CENTENARY MEETINGS The Board of Trustees of Centenary United Methodist Church will meet today at 7 p.m. The Church Council will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Both meetings will be held in the social rooms of the church. I RABIES CLINIC A rabies clinic will be held Sunday from noon to 2 p.m. at Citizens' Fire Co. Dog and cat licenses will also be available. I BIRTHDAY Ken Minnick, 146 Briar Lane, celebrates his birthday today.

North Side Softball starts Arson awareness class held The North Side Softball League is under way for another season. Regular league play will be on this week at the Higland and Eckley fields and the formal opening will take place with 14 of the league's 15 teams in action Sunday. Here's the schedule for this week and Sunday's games (H indicates the Highland field, the Eckley field): Tonight The Other Side vs. Eckley Reds, Jesse-Sutton vs. Yarmey's at H.

Wednesday Calello's vs. ANNIVERSARY And Mrs. Thomas Mr. Howanitz, 134 Adams Freeland, celebrated their 40 wedding anniversary over the weekend. A dinner was held in their honor for family and friends at the Top of the Eighties, hosted by son and daughter-in-law Tom and Jenn Howanitz.

Mrs. Howanitz is the former Irene Olenick of Freeland. GROVE WORK Freeland VFW grove work is scheduled Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. Volunteers are welcome. LITTLE LEAGUE Tonight's Freeland Little League scrimmages are: Legion vs.

VFW, Fire Co. vs. of 6. SOCIETY DINNER The Mother's Day dinner of the Altar and Rosary Society of the Roman Catholic Community of Freeland will be held this evening at the Lookout House. VFW HA MEETS The Freeland VFW Post 5010 Home Association will meet tonight at 6.

3 YEARS OLD Barron, the son of and JoAnn (Zoshak) Drums, is 3 years old Brett George Barron, today. ANNIVERSARY Zoshak, Freeland, is Patty celebrating her birthday. RECYCLING Today and Wednesday are recycling days in Freeland. determine the cause and origin of fires, and where appropriate, investigate and successfully prosecute cases of arson. Implementation of arson awareness in Pennsylvania was made possible by an assistant grant from the U.S.

Fire Administration to the office of the state fire commissioner, and a Fire Investigator Response Enhancement Grant from the Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority to the state police Fire Marshal Division. The class was informative and well taught by the instructor. Attending were Laura Puzzetti, Charles Puzzetti III, Charles Puzzetti and Larry Skinner of the Lehigh and Lausane Fire William J. Hines, Steve Motsney, Mark Moyer, Thad Williams, Stanley Teprovich, Kevin Hines, Jeff Bobish and Richard W. Donald of the Beaver Meadows Fire Department; Chris Evans, Andy Solonoski IH, Jonathan Eroh, Timothy Harkins, Chad Hischar, Corey Gerhart, Paul W.

Bray, Arnold Selert, Neil Feaster, Frank Buonaiuto, Robert O'Donnell Randy Hinkle, Steve Kadelak, Steven Mehalko, Arthur Michael, Dale W. Younker and Richard D. Knepper of Citizens' Fire Jason J. Metrick, Weatherly Police Department; and Wayne Nothstein, Carbon County EMA director. 427-4705 FREE DELIVERY PIZZERIA mm om ma iimtji Wed-Sit nwt-IOpwt Smi-Tum.

4pm-10pm QS5BEBSSEESE5EZ 90 YEARS Mrs. Elwood "Woody" Anthony, Sandy Valley, is celebrating her 90th birthday today. She is the former Melvina Weaver of Sandy Valley. Many years ago she worked as a clerk in the Sandy Run Post Office. TOPS 1172 is setting goals Freeland Chapter 1172 of TOPS had as its program topic "Setting Goals" at last week's meeting.

The presentation was made by Marie Dancho. TOPS will meet this evening at 6 at the Freeland Borough Building. There were 14 members in attendance at last week's meeting, a high, and a weight loss of five pounds was recorded. Wendy Schade again was queen for the week. Dancho was the 5050 winner and Mary Lou Potoskie was the straw draw winner.

The forbidden food for the week was chocolate and the free food was fat-free ice cream. Dancho also presented a short quiz called "Attitude," which was taken by all. A new contest begins tonight. Noted is that it would be a great night for new members. 4 The meeting closed at 7:30 with the TOPS closing poem.

HORSESHOES START The clang of the quoit against the hobber will echo through the lower Freeland Public Park starting this evening as horseshoes for the season start. But, before the play at 6, there'll be a work party starting at 5. Volunteers everybody interested are invited at both times. There will be refreshments. BOOSTERS RUMMAGE The Freeland Booster Club's rummage sale at the Public Park will be on all this week.

Good, clean useable items for sale can be brought to the park pavilion each evening from 6 to 8, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. These also are the sale hours. SDCTH BIRTHDAY Todd Miller, son of Francis and Judy (Fox) Miller, Freeland, turns 6 today.

Todd is the grandson of William and Anna Mae Fox, Freeland, and Francis and Nancy Millker, White Haven. A family party was held in his honor Friday and a school party was held Saturday. BIRTHDAY Joseph Berger, Conyngham, former Freeland lumberyard owner, is celebrating his birthday today. Sun Valley team is number 1 Medash's, Battered Mug vs. Ecolab at Clover Bar vs.

Sun Valley Motors at E. Thursday Youth Services vs. TOS, Eckley vs. Hazle Auto Parts at H. Friday Miller's vs.

Ecolab, Clover Bar vs. at Yarmey's vs. Jimbo's, Jake's vs. Hazle at Sunday (all games at Highland) 11 a.m., Jimbo's vs. Medash; noon, Miller's vs.

Y.S.; 1, Clover Bar vs. Ecolab; 2, Calello's vs. TOS; 3, Eckley vs. Yarmey's; 4, Jake's vs. SVM; 5, vs.

Battered Mug. this one, with Bill Shive's three-run homer in the last frame the clincher. Homers also went out by Jeff Heidecker and Medash's Ziggy Zoshak, and BM's Bill Streit went 4-4. Calello's got by Miller's Ziller's grand slam was a biggee and Chris Foss also homered for the winners; Bob Spock, Hap Ayers and Dave Lappe hit 'em out for Miller's. Jake's toppled Youth Services 17-10, with homers by Joey Antolick, Dave Meckes and Keith Fry.

signups slated On March 14 local firefighters, EMS and fire personnel received a training class called Arson Awareness for Emergency Response Personnel. The Carbon County Fire Chiefs in conjunction with the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal's Division sponsored the class. The class was held at Citizens' Fire Co. No. 1 of Weatherly.

State police fire marshal Trooper Daniel Balliet of the Hazleton barracks was the instructor. The course, although focused on fire personnel, is appropriate for all emergency responders (fire, fire police, police officers, and EMS) who might arrive first on the scene of a fire. Its goal is to prepare these "first on the scene" responders to make observations and take actions which will help fire investigators Sun Valley Motors, the last-place team last season in the North Side Softball League now is No. 1, tied for first-place with three other teams after opening night action in the league Monday. Playermanager Russel Cherone's Sun Valleyers hung on for a 16-15 win with a bottom of the 7 rally against Jimbo's.

Despite the 33 runs, there were no homers. Other action: Battered Mug 10 Medash's 7. A last inning spurt also featured hoops, camp Signups continue for the Pizza Basketball League at the Freeland YMCA. The league offers summer basketball play for boys entering sixth, seventh and eighth grades this fall. Games are played Sundays.

There are registration fees for YMCA members and non-members. Questions can be directed to the YMCA, 636-3640. The YMCA's Tom Landers and Joe Flanagan also announced details for the Freeland YMCA Basketball Camp. The dates are: third- and fourth-grade boys, June 22-25, 9 a.m. to noon; fifth- and sixth-grade boys, June 22-25, 1 to 4 p.m.; fifth- through eighth-grade John D.

Carbon County COMMISSIONER Proven girls, June 28-July 1, 1 to 4 p.m.; and seventh- and eighth-grade boys, July 5-8, 1 to 4 p.m. The camp motto is, "Learn the game the Freeland YMCA way." There will be awards, free T-shirts and personal evaluation. There is a registration fee and the deadline is June 18 at 9 p.m. Applications are available at the YMCA. ANNIVERSARIES John and Mary (Kundrat), Uhrin, rifton, are celebrating their 44 wedding anniversary.

They have two children, John IIL and Mary Sue Horsefield, and two grandchildren. Mary also is celebrating her birthday. Ability Dedication Experience Leadership Paid by the committee to re-elect Mogitski Commissioner Drug-tip hotline Call anonymously: 450-2080.