9/17/08

Blossburg News & Views
By Cheryl Whitney Boinske

Northern Tier Helping Hands is gearing up for their second annual Childrens Christmas Program. If you or anyone you know needs help this Christmas for their children, please contact Janie via email or by phone at 570-297-1219.

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 Kiwanis Auction, September 20th, at 10:00am, Downtown next to Acorn Market. Food & Music & Plenty of great auction items. Donations can be dropped off at the Boro Building. Can call for pick up - 638-3688, 638-2189, 662-3103, 324-2690

Blossburg VIBE and NTSWA will be sponsoring a recycling drive during the Fall Festival October 11th from 11 am to 5 pm at the Riverside Plaza. Accepted electrical items are: computers, TV's (up to 19"), printers, scanners, monitors, circuit boards, cables, keyboards, CPU'S, laptops, modems, hard drives, mouse. Unacceptable items are: microwaves, hand held appliances, copiers, stereo's, VCR's, DVD players. Clothing containers will be available. Please bring clothing that is clean, paired shoes (securely tied together), hats, belts, sheets, paired socks, curtains, drapes (not foam backed) towels. Magazines and cell phones and cell phone batteries will be accepted also.

Anyone interested in setting up a free booth for non profit promotion, food or sell your wares at the Fall Festival please contact Kathy at 638-0274.

The class of 2010 is publishing a cookbook and need your recipes! To share recipes please visit the publishers web site at www.gandrpublishing.com. You will need to log in using the username *sarahb* and password *sarahb*. Please have recipes submitted by *October 30th 2008*. Thank you.

An e-mail account has been set up through the Blossburg.org website for people to submit events to be posted on the sign by the green bridge. The address is: sign@blossburg.org

The Friends of the Blossburg Memorial Library met on Tuesday September 9th to discuss the upcoming Used Book Sale scheduled for October 21st through the 25th. It will be held in the Community Room of the Library. The Friends are now accepting donations of used books, games, videos, DVDs, CDs and cassette tapes that are in good condition. No Readers Digest Condensed Books, magazines or Text Books please. Hours will be noon to 8 PM Tuesday through Thursday, Noon to 5 PM on Friday and 8 AM to 4 PM on Saturday. There will be an advance sale open to Friends members only on Monday, October 20th from 4 PM to 8 PM. New memberships will be available that evening.

There will be a work bee on Thursday, September 18th to sort and price books for the sale. There is a lot of work to be done between now and the sale and volunteers are urgently needed. The next regular meeting of the Friends will be held on October 14th at 6:30 PM.

The Friends have recently contributed $1300 to enable the Library to participate in the Gates Foundation funding for new computers to be used for internet access. They also plan to contribute another $2600 in matching funds toward the Gates Foundation grants to be awarded in 2009. The new computers have also made it possible for the Library to offer free computer training classes for senior citizens. Five individuals took part in the training sessions taught in July by Friends President, John Kaiser. The Blossburg Library plans to offer additional classes in November.

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