Standard-Speaker from Hazleton, Pennsylvania • Page 8

8 Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Saturday, October 31, 1998 Northern Schuylkill Shenandoah! St. Mary's lists observances Standard-Speaker HAZLETON, PA. McAdoo 'if r5 1 1 oT. Here are upcoming observances at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, East Grant Street, McAdoo: The Rosary Society and Sodality of Blessed Virgin Mary will have its Communion Sunday at 8 a.m.

Mass. Recitation of the Rosary will precede the Mass. Sunday is the feast of All Saints Day. Children will form a procession in the parish hall at 9:45 a.m. and will proceed for Mass at 10 a.m.

They are asked to dress up in honor of their baptismal or confirmation saint. Readings will be done by Christopher Kerestus, Christopher Gugliemini, Crystal Chernigo and Melanie Swenda. The prayer after Communion "Soul of Christ" will be recited by Joseph Polashenski and Andrew Baranko. Cemetery devotion will be held at 2 p.m. in the parish cemetery.

The feast of All Souls Day will be celebrated with Masses Monday at 8 a.m., noon, and 6 p.m. Vi I Fall bazaar at borough church JOHN E. USALISStandard-Speaker People Till the aisles of the new U.S. Factory Outlets store in the Schuylkill Mall at its grand opening. The Frackville location is the company's first establishment in Pennsylvania.

New anchor store opens at mall At SOUP, BAKE SALE William Penn Fire Co. will hold a soup and bake sale Tuesday from 11 a.m. to sellout at the fire company. Bring containers. HALLOWEEN DANCE A Halloween dance will be held today from 9 p.m.

to 1 a.m. at the William Penn Fire Co. The cots is $5. Proceeds benefit the fire company. BORO HALL CLOSED Shenandoah Borough Hall will be closed Tuesday for election day.

Garbage pickup Tuesday will be done Wednesday. Recycling pickup on the east end of the borough will also be done Wednesday. CHURCH NEWS All Saints Day will be observed this weekend at regular Masses at St. George and Our Lady of Mount Carmel parishes. All Souls Day will be observed Monday with Masses at St.

George's at 7 and 7:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., and Our Lady of Mount Carmel at 7, 7:15 and 7:30 a.m. The Masses will be offered for the names on the envelopes on the altar. Blessed Christmas wafers will be available in the church vestibule after Masses beginning the weekend of Nov. 7 and ending the weekend of Nov.

28. CLOTHES DRIVE A used clothing drive will be taken up at parishes of the Diocese of Allentown Nov. 7 and 8. Usable clothing and shoes will be accepted. Contact your Catholic church office for drop-off points.

The clothing will be sold to manufacturers who will recondition it for resale in Eastern Europe and Africa. The proceeds from the sale of the clothing to the manufacturers will be deposited into the Bishop's Charity Fund, which is used for the needy of the diocese. BUS TRIP SET Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Shenandoah is sponsoring a bus trip to Atlantic City on Nov. 18. To ensure your seat make your final payment by Wednesday.

Call Lena at 462-2103 or Irene at 462-0167. FOOD SALE An election day soup and bake sale will be held at Father Walter J. Ciszek Elementary School from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be a variety of homemade soups and baked goods.

The soups are available in quarts for $3 and $3.50. Proceeds benefit the school. Penn State science experiment went into space with Glenn STATE COLLEGE (AP) A Penn State biology experiment by went into space with John Glenn. Professor Dan Cosgrove's research studies a family of proteins called expansions that help the growth in cell walls. His research group discovered the expansions in 1992.

Four canisters of cucumber seeds went on the shuttle Thursday. Two were to be taken out of a refrigerator and allowed to germinate for 36 hours in orbit. Then they will be placed in a liquid nitrogen freezer. i flwitiiifaii 1 if WnSSBWBSHHll i v. it i St.

Kunegunda's fall bazaar will be held Nov. 7 from 5 to 9 p.m. and Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

in the church hall at 36 E. Washington a block east of Route 309 in McAdoo. Visitors can expect plenty of ethnic foods like halupki, halushki and pierogi all homemade and traditional American foods like barbecue, hot dogs and soups. There will also be plenty of treats to take home from the bake sale. Fun and games will be available to satisfy both young and old.

All kinds of interesting things can be checked out at the flea market. Religious articles will be on sale just in time for the Christmas season and children will be sure to enjoy the "Make and Take" arts and crafts area. Many will be pleased to take home some of the prizes from the raffles. A crowd pleaser will be the large tricky trays area where there will be over 70 tricky tray prize baskets, including a Beanie Babies basket, angel basket, and baskets featuring collectible Barbies, Hess trucks, baseball and football cards, and beauty items. The bazaar will also feature a raffle to please the true sports fan.

Some lucky person will win four tickets to the Nov. 22 Philadelphia EaglesNew York Giants game, field-level seats on the 30-yard line. There's also an Eagles sports bag. JOHN E. USALISStandard-Speaker Fred Raiff, left, chairman of U.S.

Factory Outlets, cuts the ribbon to the new store in the Schuylkill Mall with Nick An-tonazzo, executive vice president of real estate development for Crown American Properties, the mall owner. Tuesday the church will be the host parish for Marian Movement of Priests Holy Hour. Holy Hour will be held at 5 p.m. Everyone is invited to pray in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament with priests who meet monthly to pray and form Cenacle. Friday is First Friday of the month.

Masses will be celebrated at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Holy Hour will be observed at 6 p.m. and will conclude with Eucharistic Benediction. The parish is preparing festivities for Nov.

22, the Feast of Christ the King. The parish is celebrating its 105th anniversary. The church was built by Slovak ancestors. The corr nerstone was blessed in November 1893. A dinner will be held to celebrate the occasion.

Tickets are available by calling the rectory at 929-1061. Entertainment will be provided Nov. 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. by Mike Shema, the one-man band. Nov.

8, "Polka Joe" Manjack will entertain from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with a broadcast of the Magic Polka Machine Show on Magic 105.5 WMGH radio. Students of the Hazleton School of Dance will perform at 1 p.m. followed by everyone's favorite strolling troubadour, Danny Farole, at about 1:30.

For the children there will be a visit from a popular storybook character, face painting, a lollipop game and a beanbag game. There will also be a free drawing for a $25 gift certificate from Toy Works. Children can drop off their coupons for the drawing at the bazaar. The Rev. Joseph Grembocki and the parishioners at SI.

Kunegunda invite everyone to join in. VFW DANCE TONIGHT fj McAdoo Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6708 will host a dance today from 9:30 p.m. id 1:30 a.m. Music will be provided by Young Gun. There will be prizes awarded for best costume! A donation of $4 is asked.

VFW TO MEET Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6708, McAdoo, will meet Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the post rooms. Members are asked to attend. The members then visited Father Walter J. Ciszek School and 375 stundets at Shenandoah Valley Elementary.

"We at Post are very proud to be able to promote out great safety program at our local schools," said Yenchick, who is also Post safety chairman. "We are honored to have Officer Ollie, Pennsylvania State Chairman Ernie Leibensperger and National Safety Chairman James Hanson from Fremont, Neb." Others in the group included Edwin Miller, state first vice president; his wife, Dolores, a Post board member; Bill Kern publicity director; and Robert Rineeer, from Post Lancaster. The TPA is a non-profit fraternal organization for men and women that promotes safety, community service, a program for the hearing impaired and the Homer T. Wilson Fund for its members in need of help. Post Mahanoy City, has been an active group in the area.

It has provided safety vests for crossing guards, coloring books for fire companies and CHAD stickers for children's car seats. Post has also sponsored blood drives and done other safety and community service projects. The members meet at 8 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month at the American Legion Home, East Center Street. New members are always welcome.

SOUP SALE The St. Canicus Women's Guild of Mahanoy City will hold a soup and sandwich sale Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 6 n.m. in the church hall. The meal includes beverage and dessert for $5.

Additional North Schuylkill News on Pages 14 16 Mahanoy City 1 TPA promotes safety in schools Frackville By JOHN E. USALIS Standard-Speaker FRACKVILLE There were plenty of early bird shoppers at the north wing of the Schuylkill Mall as the much-anticipated grand opening of the U.S. Factory Outlets store in the Hess's Department Store building was held with fanfare, gift certificate giveaways and a radio broadcast. The north wing of the mall has been a quiet place since the doors were closed on Hess's in early 1997, not the best situation for other stores in that section. The hustle and bustle of shoppers as the new anchor store begins operations just in time for the Christmas rush is a welcome sight to mall administration and businesses in that wing who will benefit from the extra shopper traffic.

Crown American Properties announced in midsummer that the retailer planned to put its first Pennsylvania store in the vacant building. With the store's opening, the mall is back to full strength with five anchor stores. The other anchors are Kmart, The Bon-Ton and Phar-Mar, along with Weis Supermarkets near the mall. The long-term lease was signed in July, with renovation to the building beginning almost immediately afterward. A major part of the renovation was par-; titioning the building since the firm did not take over the entire Hess's 85,483 square feet, a space much larger than the outlet chain needed.

The new store has 46,050 1 square feet in retail space, with an additional 7,110 square feet used for storage and receiving, I bringing the total to 53,160 square feet. The building was divided in a way to use the three-bay loading along with adding 1 restrooms and employee lounge. Walls were used to close off the over 32,000 square feet of lef- tover space. Customers enter the store through the mall entrance or the outside east entrance. The north entrance has been closed off except for use as an emergency exit.

The grand opening included speakers, moderated by mall general manager Nello DelGreco. The first was Lori Kane, member services director for the Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce. "I've been coming to the Schuylkill Mall since it opened in 1980, and I've seen many of my favorite stores come and go. I'm very happy that I have another store that I can come shop at," Kane said, expressing best wishes on behalf of the chamber and its 1,052 members. Kane then turned to Fred Raiff, U.S.

Factory Outlets chairman, and asked him whether the store takes VISA, MasterCard or Discover, to which he replied, "All of them." Another business repre-." sentative on hand was Mark Scarbinsky, vice president and director for the Schuylkill Economic Develop-; ment who welcomed the store on behalf of SEDCO. "There are many new and positive events happening in Schuylkill County, and what we i see here today is another exam-! pie of this," he said. "A company I ready to proactively and ag-J gressively compete in the local market place. Obviously they knew from their site selection Deputies named for election process and analysis that Schuylkill County was the place to be for growing a business. "U.S.

Factory Outlets will positively impact and benefit our community in several different ways, to include additional job opportunities, alternate shopping options, and a new payroll and real estate tax options for our community." Scarbinsky praised Crown American administration for the hard work it did in securing such a notable retailer to its mall family. Schuylkill County VISION Executive Director Denise Schlegel said the store opening helps meet the goals of the VISION initiative by bringing jobs and other benefits to the county. "We are thankful you are here, and we are very excited about you being a part of Schuylkill County, which is growing and moving faster than any other county in this region at this time," Schlegel said. "The first thanks has to go to you, the customers and shoppers, who for the last 18 years have patronized our center here," said Nick Antonazzo, Crown American executive vice president. of real estate development.

Antonazzo also thanked the mall's retailers for their support over the years, and complimented Raiff on his company's high standards and the positive working relationship with Crown American officials. "I worked very closely with Mr. Fred Raiff, and I can assure you that if their service and quality and commitment to the Schuylkill Mall is anything like the relationship that we have established with Fred and U.S. Factory Outlet, I'm sure you will have a very outstanding operation. And Fred, I want to thank you for the fine work in getting everything done," Antonazzo said.

As the ribbon was cut, the crowd applauded and then rushed into the store, looking through racks and displays of name-brand closeouts and short lots which offered savings on men's, women's and children's apparel, housewares, bed and bath items, linens and domestic items. Raiff said the store is in the county for the long haul. "The main thing is that we're not here for a day or a week or a month, we're here for 25 years," Raiff said. "Our customer is what we call middle America. Our goods are solid, everyday things that people like to wear and buy.

We carry closeouts from about 300 different com panies under contract. They're names that I can't mention, unfortunately, but names customers will recognize when they look at the labels. We have closeouts from major department stores. We sell our merchandise about 75 to 80 percent off the original price." Raiff said the store has items for the home as well as clothing, and that a customer will never know what he or she might find. Raiff said the company has stores in 15 states, and hopes to expand its operations in Pennsylvania.

Store manager Bob Brooks, a 10-year veteran with the company, sees the store as beneficial to the company and the area. "I like the area. It's a thriving mall and it's a pleasure being here," he said. Co-op starts at mall Sunday Something old is something new at the Schuylkill Mall as mall officials announced that the Sugarman's space will become an antique and collectibles coop. The co-op, called Black Diamond Antiques and Collectibles to celebrate the county's heritage, is scheduled to open Sunday, according to mall general manager Nello DelGreco.

He said it will provide a unique element to the mall. Antique and collectible dealers now can lease space in the co-op short or long term, with no shop time required. "We took a look at what the community didn't have, coupled with the ideal location on Interstate 81," DelGreco said. The concept is a viable use for the mall and the area, and brings a new twist to shopping." Mall officials said the space will house 74 dealers featuring collectibles from before 1960. Crown American Properties, the mall's Johnstown-based developer, started the concept in the North Hanover Mall, Hanover, and the Carlisle Mall, Carlisle.

Dealer inquiries can be made by calling the mall office at 874-3660 or 874-3088. N.Y. TRIP SLATED The Frackville recreation board is sponsoring a bus trip to New York City Nov. 28. For reservations or information call 874-1537 or 874-3978.

OFFICES CLOSED TUES. Frackville Borough offices will be closed Tuesday for election day. Members of Mahanoy City Post of the Travelers Protective Association of America, along with the state and national safety chairmen, visited elementary schools in Mahanoy City and Shenandoah during National Safety Week last week. Post teaded by National Director Emil Yenchick, began the day at Mahanoy Area Elementary where 505 students from kindergarten through fourth grade learned about Halloween safety through a film called "See and Be Seen." Precinct; Dorothy McElhenny, Fourth Precinct; Lucille Sullivan, Fifth Precinct; Allen Brokenshire, Sixth Precinct and Phaon Maury, Seventh Precinct. Shenandoah Borough Aldona Pribish, First Precinct; Dave Letcavage, Second Precinct; Joseph Meldazis, Third Precinct; John Romovage, Fourth Precinct; Robert Loughlin, Sixth Precinct; John Purcell, Seventh Precinct; Anna Parrell, Eighth Precinct; Mike Cecchini, Ninth Precinct; Agnes Thomas, 10th Precinct; Joseph Kolonsky, 11th Precinct.

West Mahanoy Township Leo G. Treshock, William Penn District; Mary Raibeck, Alta-mont District and Michael F. Treshock, Lost Creek District. West Penn Township John Brown, North and South Districts. Tamaqua Borough Charles Miller, North Precinct; Sheldon Shafer, East, First Precinct; William Moyer, East, Second Precinct; John Pavelich, Middle, First Precinct; John Laughlin, Middle, Second Precinct; Albert Pajakinas, South Precinct.

Girardville Borough Bruce Ellison, Middle Precinct; Albert Miller, West Precinct Classified Ads Bring Results Dial 455-3636 These deputy constables were appointed by President Judge William E. Baldwin to fill vacancies in polling places in Schuylkill County for Tuesday's election: Ashland Borough Clarence A. White, First Precinct; Donald Helwig, Second Precinct; Lawrence Staudenmeier, Third Precinct and Susan Jones, Fifth Precinct. East Union Township Donald Fellin to Sheppton District and James P. Stauffer to Brandonville District.

Butler Township Joseph V. Kneib, Englewood District; Thomas Colihan, Fountain Springs District; Malcolm Johnston, Northeast District and Albert Raguzinsky, Lavelle District. Coaldale Borough Nicholas Teno, East Precinct and Sandra E. Simmons, West Precinct. Frackville Borough John Shearn, North Precinct; Ed Michaels, South, First Precinct; John Gaverick, South, Second Precinct; Eric Vinskie, Middle Precinct.

Kline Township Eugene P. Moisey, South District Mahanoy Township Michel Beruck, Hills District Mahanoy City Borough Violet Burke, First Precinct; Christine Gaydosh, Second Precinct; Mary Kohan, Third.