7/23/08
Blossburg News & Views
By Cheryl Whitney Boinske
The annual Library Garden Party fundraiser will be held on July 27, 2008 from 1pm to 4pm, at the Hamilton Club in Morris Run, Enjoy great food, garden tours and good company! Tickets are $25 per couple or $15 single. For tickets please call 638-2197 or 638-2295.
Blossburg Memorial Library book club reading list:
July: The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
August: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
September: The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
October: Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
November: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
December: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
January 2009: Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
A food pantry is held the third Monday each month from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Blossburg. For more information, contact Betty Johnson at (570) 638-2805. The Food Pantry serves as many as 100 people every month and is in need of PEANUT BUTTER, SPAGHETTI SAUCE & Monetary Donations. Any food item you may donate is greatly appreciated!
The Class of 1993 will be having their 15th reunion on Saturday, November 29th 2008 at 7pm at the Mansfield VFW (next to Aces & 8's Pudgies). For additonal information and to RSVP Please contact Jennifer Thomas/Gluszczak at 570-659-5272, Lori smith at 570- 638-2245 or Gena Burns at 607-425-1727. The Class of 1993 would also like to invite members of the Class of 1992 and the Class of 1994 to help celebrate with us.
Blossburg VIBE will have computer, magazine and clothing recycling bins
at the Riverside Plaza Parking lot on October 11th Fall Festival event.
There was a ton of fun at Siloa Lutheran Church July 13th-17th; this is the first time in the Siloa Lutheran Church history that they embarked on VBS solo. They have in the past went in with other churches in the area. This year's theme was 'Friendship Trek', and indeed it was a Trek of a lifetime. The VBS director for this year's adventure was Sue Berguson. There were 28 children, 7 youth and 17 adults in attendance. Our focus for all that Jesus taught us was a mission project to send children in Liberia to school. We took up an offering each an every night for this cause. The 'little' Bible school at Siloa Lutheran Church collected $366.67 throughout the week from the children. We made this offering process fun with a little competition of girls against boys. The children will sing at the Sunday Service July 2oth sporting there VBS clothing and there beautiful singing voices and they will take the final offering for their mission project. There was also a competition amongst the children to gather points by memorizing scriptures, the Lord's prayer, Psalm 100, bringing a friend, bringing your Bible etc. Austin Jackson was the top boy and Jillian Berguson was the top girl. They were awarded cross MP3 players. Everybody who participated in VBS received a gift. That doesn't include all the fun things they did in crafts. They made a big bird house themselves, they put a VBS logo on a T-shirt. Be sure to keep your eyes open for the kids to be wearing them and ask them about there Trek at Siloa Lutheran Church VBS.
REMINDERS:
A food pantry is held the third Monday each month from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 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, 6:30 p.m.
Loretta Frost-Steffen; a Creative Memories Consultant holds scrapbooking classes every Tuesday night from 6pm to 10 pm. Call for more information: 570-404-4336
If you or your organizations have any birthdays, anniversaries, congratulations, sympathies, events, information or any questions for Blossburg News & Views, please contact Cheryl Whitney Boinske, (570) 638-3107 or news@blossburg.org.
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