Perryopolis news
Birthdays Happy Belated birthday to Shirley DiVirgilio on Oct 1.
Bob Heyges and Angie Zackal today.
Richard Greene and Klancey Burford on Monday.
Pam Means, Ross Ackinclose, Henry Vestrate, Lee Wadsworth and Tina Graft on Tuesday. Khristyne Barch – 2 on Oct. 18, 2001.
Adam King and James Progar on Wednesday.
Lelah Hawker Shepard and daughter Danielle Shepard and Tony Hawranko on Thursday.
Curt Tidholm, McKenna Greene, Barb Smith, Brett Boyle and Antonio Fratto on Friday.
Bea Summers and daughter Sherri Summers Scott on Saturday.
Anniversary
Jeannine and Ed Churby will celebrate their 58th wedding anniversary on Oct. 30. They were married in Point Marion. They are the proud parents of one daughter Wendy Curtis, one son, David, and one son, Jim, deceased. They have nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. A quiet anniversary dinner is being planned by the couple.
Reminders
– October is donation month for the Frazier Community Library! If you would like to help keep the library open, please stop by and contribute to the cause.
– Sunday, Nov. 6, “Cabbage Roll Dinner” at St. John’s Church. Dinner served from noon until 4 p.m. Take-outs available at 11 a.m. (BYOC). Tickets are $7 for adults and $3.50 for children under 12.
– For Perryopolis veterans to get their name on the Perryopolis Area Honor Roll. Separation documents such as a copy of a DD 214 or Form 553 or other official documentation is necessary. Please send your information to: Names Committee, Box 556, Perryopolis, Pa., 15473.
– Sue Daniels will do Reiki on second and fourth Fridays from noon until 4 p.m. This is a free community service, a healing method to help re-balance the body’s natural rhythm and energy flow. Call Sue Daniels at 724-736-4076.
– Frazier High School class of ’65 – 40 year reunion, Friday, Nov. 25, at the Holiday Inn at Belle Vernon (Route 51 and Interstate 70). If you haven’t received your invitation, call Pam Komacko Anderson at 724-736-0453 or Ruthie at 724-736-2578 and leave your name and address. Or e-mail Ruthie Hawker Shields at cinder@dp.net.
– The 4th Annual Christmas House Tour will be Dec. 4, to benefit St. John’s Church. Touring from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. with a Christmas Choral Concert and refreshments at St. John’s Church. For tickets and information, call 724-736-2936 or 724-736-2994. Tickets are $20 per person and are available at “The Harvest House” on Independence Street or by calling 724-736-4940.
– The Perry Township Volunteer Fire Department accepts reservations for the fire hall, which holds up to 300 people. For more information, please contact Elmer Smith at 724-736-4016.
– Ron Potter would like volunteer actors to make a short film of local history. Anyone interested in assisting in this project can call Ron Potter at 412-264-8096.
– Perryopolis Moose dances will be held on Oct. 29, Nov. 12, Nov. 19, Nov. 26, Dec. 3, Dec. 17, Christmas Party. Come ring in the New Year with the Moose and Roger Rush.
– The Perryopolis Old State Bank Museum is open for visitors Mondays and Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon.
– Frazier Band Hoagie Sale on Saturday. The hoagies are $5. The band holds hoagie sales all year, except December and January, ending usually in April.
– Frazier Golf Team is celebrating 20 years of golf at Frazier High School. Anyone who played golf on the Frazier team in the past 20 years is invited to attend the Annual Golf Banquet at the end of October. For more information, contact Mr. Mikesell at Frazier at 724-736-4426.
– Sons of Italy Men’s Lodge 730 Halloween Dance, Saturday, Oct. 29 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Sons of Italy. Music by “Punch.” Costumes are optional, prizes will be awarded. Admission is $5 per person.
Trick or Treat
Trick or treat for the Borough of Perryopolis will be held on Monday, Oct. 31. The Halloween parade will be held on the town circle at 6 p.m. and Trick or Treating will begin at 6:30 and continue until 8 p.m. If you wish to participate in treating the little ghosts and gobblins, please remember to turn your porch light on.
Annual dinner
Perryopolis U. M. Church Annual Roast Beef Dinner will be Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Those under 6 eat free.
Basketball benefit
A spaghetti dinner will be held at the Sons of Italy on Thursday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. This event benefits the St. John’s basketball team. The price for the dinner is $6 for adults and $3 for those 12 and under. Take-outs are available, please BYOC.
Library
If it seems the library is doing an extraordinary amount of fundraising lately, there is a reason. The Community Library has no money! Due to circumstances beyond our control, the funding from the Mary Fuller Frazier Estate has been drastically reduced over the past three years. The Mary Fuller Frazier Estate has been the primary source of income for the payment of staff salaries.
The library is blessed with being housed within the Frazier Middle-High School complex.
The School district provides the Community library with many extras that our patrons have benefited from over the years: a beautiful facility, up-to-date technology and excellent references and resources.
Our patrons make generous donations in the way of memorials and honorariums and we greatly appreciate your generosity.
However, we now find it necessary to raise funds in order to pay the Community Library staff.
Please know the Library Board of Directors spends many hours in speculation and planning to meet this critical budget crunch, not only for this year but future years. We have been actively seeking funds and grants along with sponsoring fund-raisers.
While the Library Board of Directors and staff may be able to raise needed funds to maintain our hours of operation for 2005, if we do not get a restoration of our funding from the Frazier Estate, the doors of the Community Library may have to close in the not too distant future
Volunteers needed
The Perryopolis Senior Citizens Center is looking for a few good people who would volunteer to deliver Meals on Wheels to housebound seniors in the Perryopolis Area. Help is needed Monday through Friday around the lunch hour. Call the Senior Center at 724-736-2250 to volunteer.
Story Hour
The Frazier Community Library will hold Story Hour on Saturday, Oct. 29, from 11 to noon. The theme is Halloween.
Christian Church
Pastor Classes. Rev. John will be having a series of Pastor Classes for those who are interested in becoming baptized. Please call the church or Rev. John if you are interested. Classes will be on Tuesdays (Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1 and 15) at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary.
WOW leaders needed. It is time to start making the new schedule of WOW leaders for next year.
If you think that you would like to help with this ministry, please contact Judy Jaskiewicz at 724-736-0402. The more volunteers we have, the fewer the times you will have to teach each month. Even if you don’t have children that attend WOW, you can still be a WOW (Wonders of Worship – children’s church) leader!
A weekly time of fellowship continues Wednesday at 7 p.m. for all those who would like to share and discuss God’s Word. We will meet at the Matsko home (133 Commodore Drive) with our Bibles. The topic will be “The Key to Spiritual Growth” and the scripture passages will include Deut 34:5-12, Joshua 1:1-10, Psalm 1: 1-3.
Don’t forget the annual congregational dinner & meeting, Sunday, Oct. 23, at 6 p.m. in the Family Life Center.
FYI
What’s in your chimney? Worrying about the high price of heating her house and shop this winter, our Crabby decided to install a small wood stove (she already had just sitting in the cellar) to help heat her house.
Old Girl Scouts are always thinking safety first, so Crabby called Advanced Chimney to have her chimney cleaned. Two nice young men named Mike and Ryan came to Crabby’s house to clean out her 100-year-old chimney.
She informed them that it probably hadn’t been used in over 40 years and that she had already started the cleaning process by hauling out three five-gallon buckets full of soot and junk, but didn’t have the right tools or know-how to reach the rest.
Ryan and Mike took out a chimney brush with extensions and after an hour of fighting with the contents, successfully dragged three large galvanized tubs of twigs, bird nests, straw and hay out of the old chimney. Mike said he had never, in his chimney cleaning career, seen so much debris in one chimney.
Crabby asked if there was any prize for having the dirtiest chimney in Fayette County, but Mike said there was no prize that he knew of. Bummer.
Then the two dusty, sooty gentlemen told her that an old chimney needs to be lined with tile or steel to be “up to code” and that she couldn’t use it anyway now that it is clean. So now the chimney has to be stuffed back up so that it doesn’t suck all the heat out of Crabby’s cellar this winter. At least the birds will have a nice clean chimney to build their nests in next spring.