2/28/07

Blossburg News & Views
By Rhonda Myers

Thought for the week: "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage, and with the best you have to give." Eleanor Roosevelt.

Announcements:
Happy Birthday to Carol McAdaragh on Feb.29; Marjorie Montague on March 1st; Marian Lindquist, Walter Vaughn, and Katie Augustine on March 2nd.

The Southern Tioga Gridiron Club will be having a Chicken BBQ (by Sleezy) on Saturday, March 3rd, in front of the Bloss Holiday Market beginning at 10:30am. The library book club selection for March will be The Dog Walker by Leslie Schnur. Book club is open to all adults and offers free baby-sitting. Please contact the library at 638-2197 for more information. The library offers free high-speed wireless internet and five computers for public access. Be sure to check out Thomson Gale Legal Forms on the library’s website at www.blossburgmemoriallibrary.com. The database offers online access to professional legal documents free of charge, including: bankruptcy, divorce, living wills, power of attorney, taxes, real estate, and many more.

VIBE is holding a public meeting on Monday, March 5, at 6pm in the community room of the Blossburg Memorial Library to inform the community about the Skate Park project and to solicit community input. A skate park is a facility to safely use skateboards and in-line skates. The purpose of this project in Blossburg is to improve social and recreation options for youth in the North Penn area specifically, but also all of the Southern Tioga School District area. The skate park will be located on the current basketball court on Island Park in Blossburg. For more information about this project and/or meeting, contact Heidi Jones at 638-2486 or Jill Nickerson at 638-3459.

REMINDERS:

Scrapbooking -Tuesday nights from 5 to 9 pm Come on out and be pampered and work on your albums.Call Loretta @ 404-0588

A food pantry is held the 3rd Monday each month from 10am-12pm and 6pm-8pm at The First United Methodist Church of Blossburg. For more information, contact Betty Johnson at (570)638-2805.

T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets every Monday at the First United Methodist Church of Blossburg. Weigh-in is at 5 p.m.

Blossburg BINGO! Every Monday bingo is held at St. Mary's Hall, 6:30pm and every Wednesday at the fire & ambulance building, 5:30pm

BINGO has changed at the Blossburg Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Building. It's still every Wednesday night. The doors open at 5pm. However,effective February 14th, Bingo will start at 6:00pm INSTEAD of 6:30pm.

Weight Watchers meet every Wednesday at The First United Methodist Church of Blossburg. Weigh in starts at 5:15 pm.

If you or your organizations have any birthdays, anniversaries, congratulations, sympathies, events, information or any questions for Blossburg News & Views, please contact Rhonda Myers, (570)638-3193, and news@blossburg.org

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