Perryopolis news
Birthdays This week’s birthday kids are Monday, Bryce Strickler; Tuesday, Dave Dombrowski and Barb Dzara; Wednesday, John Boone and Joel Connell; Thursday, June Rolison and Colleen Orsini Pontoriero; Friday, Donald Rutter; Saturday, Susie Celaschi and Steven Sinal.
Reminders
Ham dinner at Layton Community Center will be held Saturday. Take-outs will be available from noon to 1 p.m.; dinner, 1 to 5 p.m. Costs are adults $7, 6 to 12, $3; under 5, free. Phone 724-736-2955 for orders.
Literacy Classes: basic math, reading, language skills and GED preparation. Contact the Frazier Community Library at 724-736-8480 for more information.
The first Christmas House Tours, sponsored by the Harvest House, will take place on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2 to 7 p.m. Tickets for this event are $20 per person, on sale at the Harvest House. Tickets are limited, so call early. Tour includes refreshments.
Frazier Band hoagie sales will take place on Nov. 16, Jan. 18, Feb. 15, March 15, and April 19.
The Senior Center needs drivers for their “Meals on Wheels Program.” Contact the center for more information at 724-736-2250.
The Book Club meets the fourth Monday of each month. The Nov. 25 selection is “Empire Falls” by Richard Russo.
The Methodist Parish Choir will perform the Christmas Cantata in Newell on Friday, Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m. It will be performed at Star Junction United Methodist Church on Sunday, Dec. 15.
Dance changed
The Frazier Middle School Halloween dance has been changed to Friday, Nov. 8, due to the play-off game. The dance will be held in the middle school cafeteria from 6 to 8 p.m. Any adult interested in being a chaperone should call Barb at 724-736-2661 to volunteer.
Library news
The Frazier Community Library will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons this week due to early dismissal of the students. The library will be open for evening hours, 6 to 9 p.m., on those two days.
The Frazier School Community Library will be closed on Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. 11. The library will re-open on Tuesday at 3:05. Usual winter hours are: Monday through Thursday, 3:05 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Story Hour will begin again on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. We welcome back Dana Boyd as our program director. Assisting Dana for the November Story Hour will be members of the Fayette City Girl Scout Troop. The theme will be “Friendship” so bring a friend.
Christmas shopping
The Perryopolis Village Merchants are holding their annual Christmas Open House today. Watch for specials in each store: Craig’s Root 51, Creations, The Harvest House, Jean’s Country Florals and Perry Floral & Gift. Any Perryopolis merchant wishing to join the group should call the participating merchants and sign up.
First Christian Church
Blood drive: The First Christian Church of Perryopolis will host another Red Cross Blood Drive in the Family Life Center on Thursday, Nov. 21, from noon to 6 p.m. There is a need for blood and also volunteers to bake cookies, provide beverages and volunteer time to assist. Please come out and help in some way.
Thanksgiving Appreciation Service: Our community volunteer firemen, the police department and the ambulance personnel work hard to keep our citizens safe and healthy. We would like to honor their commitment by having a special Thanksgiving Appreciation Service on Sunday, Nov. 24. On that Sunday, the church will hold a combined service at 10 a.m., followed by a reception in the Family Life Center. Please make a special effort to come out and honor these dedicated individuals. In addition to the special service, on Thanksgiving Sunday, we will be collecting personal products such a soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes, hairbrushes, deodorant, etc., to distribute to our “Adopt-A-Family” homes. Please help us to share in our blessings.
There will be a Community Thanksgiving Service on Sunday, Nov. 24, at 7 p.m. at the newly built Newell United Methodist Church. Help represent our church at this important community event.
Master Life Bible Study is held every Sunday night at the church at 7:30.
Choir practice is at 7 p.m. every Thursday.
PAHS
The Perry Area Heritage Society met on Oct. 22 with 18 members present. Those individuals are interested in an office and others nominated for 2003-04 are as follows: president, Pam Newmeyer, Dan Coldren; vice president, Shirley Baldwin; secretary, Ginny Wingrove; financial secretary, Doris Jean White; and treasurer, Cindy Wadsworth.
The Board of Directors will remain the same. The election will be held at the next on Nov. 26. Everyone was rejoicing with the success of Pioneer Days. “We finally had a weekend with no rain” was the main remark. Next year, with a lot of hope and a lot of help, the water wheel should be in place and working.
Memorial bricks
The Park and Recreation Authority is accepting requests for memorial bricks ($50) for the patron’s walkway in Karolcik Park. Contact Elma Sokal at 724-736-4031, no later than Dec. 15, to order your memorial brick for spring 2003 display.
Crabby advice
Did you change the batteries in your smoke detectors like you are supposed to when you changed your clock back last week? Did you ever read the back of a 9-volt battery package? Crabby says she never did. Last week, she bought new batteries and finally read the back. Right there in black and white it says ‘Do not put batteries in your pockets.” This information came a little late for Crabby.
A couple of years ago she was changing the batteries in her smoke detectors and put one in the pocket of her jeans. She also had her keys and some change in her jeans pocket. As she walked around the house, she noticed a warm feeling slowly growing in her pocket. It soon turned into a burning sensation. She grabbed all the things out of her jean pocket and threw them on the table. Her keys were downright hot and so was the battery. Apparently, one of the keys had touched both terminals of the battery and made a circuit.
Crabby says she danced around for a minute until her pants cooled down and vowed never to put batteries in her pocket again. According to the package, 9-volt batteries can also explode, so give them a little respect – and distance.
Anyone for football?
It was Oct. 26, and “Flower Club Capers!”
Sixteen Flower Club gals and friends gathered at the beautiful home of Gayle Shetterly for a grand Halloween party. The food, to which everyone contributed, was fabulous.
However, the real fun began when Dona Brazzon proclaimed “Let the Games Begin.” With many laughs and comments of “yuk and oookie” the gals reached into paper bags and tried to feel items and decide which “body part” they represented.
Mary Matsko who came as “Rosie” the country bumpkin (complete with blacked-out teeth) was winner of best costume. The “mummy” wrapping was a hit with Helen Svec and Mary Ann Martinak winning with their wrappings. (Oh, I forgot to mention, they were wrapped in toilet paper). Lois Walters wrapped Elaine Hutchinson to where she resembled a poor soul who was in a total body cast. Mary Matsko had a bit of trouble wrapping Marcella Schwenk, as all the paper kept falling around her ankles.
During “Let me entertain you” Pam Petrosky dressed as a VERY large pink baby did a great imitation of Lily Tomlin’s “Edith Ann”, at which time Nedra Lopez (a gypsy with a bad hair day) immediately signed her up for the Perry Players Theatre group.
Lynn Murphy was decked out all in red as some sort of red-devilish person, complete with rubber mask that just about suffocated her before she could cast her spell.
Mary Ann Martinak and friend Carolyn Quarantro were so disguised as old, (and I mean OLD) women that no one knew who they were. Then there was Dona Brazzon who whipped up a quick costume from plastic bags, white paper plates, white Kleenex and napkins, etc. and came as “White Trash!’
The grand finale came with the craziest and most dangerous game of the evening in what we shall entitle “Sort-of-Steelers” or “Female Football.”
Actually, it was a wild game of musical chairs. It was violent and vicious from the first round, when Elaine Hutchinson was the first put out after trying desperately to sit of Lois Walters lap. Round and round they went with foul after foul, “holding: “roughing the kicker” and much pushing and shoving and virtually every sort of illegal move. Around the end of the first half, Norma Bordash (out for blood) sent Lynn Murphy to the floor with a new move entitled “Illegal use of the hips,” which stood her in good stead to be the winner as she put out Mary Ann Martinak in the final round and won the coveted prize.
Frazier ‘Dors, eat your hearts out, you have met your match. Needless to say, a grand time was had by all.
Those party gals are Elma Sokol, Marcella Schwenk, Helen Svec, June Rolison, Dona Brazzon, Gayle Shetterly, Lynn Murphy, Elaine Hutchinson, Lois Walters, Mary Ann Martinak, Carolyn Quarantro, Norma Bordash, Pam Petrosky, Millie Domonkos and Nedra Lopez.