deacon victor moratin visits browndale and serves at area...

PAGE 12- THE FOREST CITY NEWS, FOREST CITY, PA 18421 * WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2017 * PHONE 570-785-3800 * email fcnews@nep.net

Roast Beef Dinner set for Sun., July 16

St. Peter and Paul R.O. Church will hold a roast beef dinner at their church hall, Belmont Turnpike, Union Dale (Greek Settlement) on Sunday, July 16 from noon to 2:30 PM. There will be a dance from 3:30-6:30 PM. For tickets or for further in-formation call Walter Terry at 570-448-2384.

Four Forest City Regional students qualified for and competed in the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science’s Annual State Competition at The Pennsylvania State Uni-versity, Main Campus. Representing Forest City Regional School were Juniors Maggie Kowalewski, Katie Nebzydoski, and Lucas O’Neill and Seventh grader Maria Spinelli. Katie Nebzydoski and Maria Spinelli received first place honors and Maggie and Lucas received second place awards. We are very proud of their accomplishments.

Projects presented included: Maggie Kowalewski- Classical Conditioning of Planar-ia. She studied the ability of flat worms to remember the preferred direction to travel through a maze after shock therapy stimulus. Katie Nebzydoski- Effects of Lactation Stage on Casein Concentration in Bovine. She tested the protein concentration in milk from cows of that have had varying numbers of calves. Lucas O’Neill- Flight of a Ping Pong Ball. He tested the ability to place spin on a ping pong ball and how it affected the trajectory of the ball. Maria Spinelli – Fighting Fish. She tested to see which colors of simulated fish caused Beta Fish to show the most aggressive behaviors. Pictured left to right are teacher Audrey Nebzydoski, Katie Nebzydoski, Maggie Kowalewski, Lucas O’Neill, and Maria Spinelli.

FCR PJAS students see success at state competition

by Art McLain

By Art McLain “For many are called, but

few are chosen.” Matthew 22:14. Deacon Victor was called and is humbled that he was chosen. Recently while on vacation in our area Dea-con Victor spent some time serving with Father Clarke at Ascension and St. Katherine Drexel Parishes of Forest City and Pleasant Mount. Deacon Victor is a transitional deacon and will become a priest next year. It has been an interest-ing journey for Deacon Vic-tor, a young man who has relatives in Browndale.

Growing up in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb near Washington, D.C., he would describe his life as be-ing typical. Attending school and attending church on Sun-days, an average teenager. It was while Deacon Victor was attending community college that his life started to take a different course.

Victor’s sister was attend-ing the University of Mary-land. His sister was involved with a campus ministry named FOCUS for Fellow-ship of Catholic Students. With all of the temptations of college and life in general it is easy for young people to fol-low the wrong path. Victor was encouraged by his sister to develop his relationship with God and find ways to minister to the community. Victor had planned to at-tend the University of Mary-land also and possibly study engineering. After getting involved with the campus ministry Victor knew that he was being called to serve the Lord. Victor’s path led to the Fathers of Mercy, a Ro-man Catholic congregation of priests who have a history

dating back to France in 1808. Today this congregation ex-ists only in the United States.

A day in the life for Deacon Victor starts with daily prayer and mass. There are studies and each student is assigned chores as they are responsible for the care of the house that they live in. There is also time for sports and recreation.

Deacon Victor noted that the masses in our area were well attended through out the week. He would encourage us to stay in prayer and gives credit to his grandmother for being strong in her faith. He believes it was through her prayers that he was able to re-alize his calling to serve God.

Priests are under obedi-ence and Deacon Victor does not know where he will be sent to serve once he becomes a priest. He is currently a stu-dent in Kentucky and Fathers of Mercy have a strong tradi-tion of sending missionaries to preach all over the United States for parish missions and retreats. There is a possibility that he could also be sent to Australia.

Deacon Victor’s uncle and aunt, Santos and Maria Mar-quez live in Browndale. His cousin, Dayanara, is an altar server at Ascension Parish, Forest City. Browndale was discovered and chosen some-what randomly by the fam-ily as a vacation spot. It was about halfway between his family’s home in Maryland and his uncle’s family in New Jersey. Deacon Victor’s rela-tives liked Browndale enough to make it their home. Dea-con Victor likes our area very much and expects he will re-turn each year during his va-cation.

There is no mistaking his

inner joy while in the com-pany of Deacon Victor. Even through the telephone his voice is soothing and the love of Jesus shines through. “The joy of Christ,” is how Deacon Victor explains it. He noted how busy Father Clarke is and Deacon Victor is ready to give more and more of him-self to serving the Lord.

Taking a quick glance to-ward a television Deacon Vic-tor offered another comfort-ing thought. “It is easy for us to be distracted by what is going on in the news. God is in charge,” Deacon Victor re-minds us.

It is a blessing to get to know this young man. The next time he visits our area he will be Father Victor Moratin. May God continue to bless you and thank you for the love you share with us.

Deacon Victor is shown with his family

Jack Pevec, Browndale, was honored on Thursday, June 15 by the Browndale Fire Company, for his 50 years of service to the Com-pany. Senator Lisa Baker presented him with a cita-tion.

In a tribute to Jack Pevec, his lifetime friend Dave Rich-ards recalled many of their youthful indiscretions as well as Jack’s faithfulness to the Fire company. Richards recalled that Jack began with the Fire Company in the late 1960’s under the regime of Happy Richards, John Blod-nikar, Mike Wallace, Hank Celbusky, Frank Bedene and other “characters.”

In the 1970’s Richards recalled that the “younger group” stepped up, con-sisting of himself, Shivitz, Jack Dombrosky, Tommy Lubaszewski and Joe Cel-busky.

Richards said that Jack be-came Chief Driver and was always the first one at the firehouse when there was an alarm. He also became the man who could make any-thing needed or fix anything broken. Also anything which needed to be done to the hall or picnic grounds was effi-ciently done.

His major project, along with his relative, Paul An-

derson, was refurbishing and repainting the Old Dodge firetruck with new paint and new lettering, even the logo “Keep On Pumpin’.”

Jack also, he said, helped him spec out the new truck to replace the Chevy truck.

Richards then recalled the new members who came into the company over the past years, all of which Jack would take under his wing to ensure they were made knowledgeable of the opera-tion of the equipment.

Richards said that Jack is now a trustee of the organi-zation and through this of-fice provides an overview role of the department.

He concluded: “His knowledge, cooperation and enthusiasm and love for the fire company and the fire service has been shown for the last 50 years, and for that we say THANK YOU and congratulations for a job well done.

Browndale Fire Compa-ny President Juliann Doyle spoke about Jack Pevec as well. Her speech is as fol-lows:

Jack has always been our “go to” guy as far as fixing all sorts of things. He served as our chief engineer for many years in the 1980’s and as our

chief truck driver. Currently he serves as a trustee with a level head on his shoulders. He can be counted on to be fair and work through a de-cision.

In looking through the minutes of the early 1980’s he served as vice president for one year and declined to serve as president because I believe Jack is most com-fortable in the membership seat and not as an officer. He could always be counted on to attend the meetings, even the many “special” meet-ings we called in the 80’s he was noted as in attendance, showing his commitment to the fire company and its pur-pose.

Jack attended all the train-ings he could while still em-ployed full time at Gentex corporation. In 1978 he sec-onded a motion to purchase 3” hose which at the time was a big deal. The minutes also reflect he was the repair-er of the chairs at the old hall. He served the fire company as delegate for the NEPA Volunteer Fire Federation Convention. All these items just go to show his commit-ment and involvement in the Browndale Fire Company over the past 50 years.

Jack Pevec, middle, was honored recently by the Browndale Fire Co. and Sen. Lisa Baker, for his 50 years of service to the Company. Pictured left to right are Russell Cur-tis, Dave Richards, Pevec, Sen. Lisa Baker, and Fire Chief Josh Debevec.

Pevec honored for 50 years with the Browndale Fire Co.

Dr. Kathryn PisarcikGraduates

Dr. Kathryn Pisarcik was one of 16 doctors completing an Internal Medicine resi-dency at the Department of Medicine’s Resident Gradua-tion for Lehigh Valley Health Network held on June 2, 2017, at the Lehigh Coun-try Club, Allentown, PA. At the ceremony, Dr. Pisarcik received the Interns’ Senior Recognition Award, hav-ing been selected by polling of first year residents for an outstanding teacher/mentor from the graduating class.

Dr. Pisarcik, the former Kathryn Nebzydoski of Pleasant Mount, resides in Alburtis, PA, with her hus-band, Matthew, and children, Mitchell, Natalie, and Owen. She is an honors graduate of Forest City Regional High School and the University of Scranton, and completed her medical school training at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Pisarcik has accepted a po-sition in hospital medicine at Lehigh Valley Hospital—Muhlenberg, Bethlehem, PA.

Rabies clinic atThompson Fire

A rabies clinic will be held at the Thompson Fire Hall, Water St., on Sat., July 8, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The cost for rabies is $7 and distemper is $15. Please bring most recent vaccination certifi-cate to copy from.

Administered by Orson Corners vet Clinic, 298 Cross-town Highway, PO Box 98, Lakewood, PA 18439.

Lackawanna College Graduates

Lackawanna College awarded more than 370 as-sociate degrees and cer-tificates to students from 15 states during its 123rd commencement on Satur-day, May 20 in the College’s Student Union in downtown Scranton.

The following local stu-dents earned degrees and certificates:

HUMAN SERVICESKatie Knight, Forest City;

and Melinda Ann Tanzini, Forest City.

NATURAL GAS COM-PRESSION TECHNOLOGY

Willard H. Cobb, Thomp-son; Adam Nicholas Mac-Donald, Susquehanna; Bry-an Thomas Owens, Clifford Township; Tyler Scott Phil-lips, Susquehanna; and Brad Lewis Sherman, Susquehan-na.

PETROLEUM & NATU-RAL GAS TECHNOLOGY

Mark Vincent Zappe, Thompson; and Constance Jean Zebrowski Chisek, Thompson.

Deacon Victor Moratin visits Browndale And serves at area Roman Catholic parishes

Hist. SocietySeeking FCHSYearbooks

The Forest City Branch Li-brary recently gave a number of yearbooks to the collection at the Forest City Area Histori-cal Society where they gener-ate a lot of interest from those viewing the memorabilia.

The yearbooks at the Histor-ical Society Museum are from 1948 to 2015, except the follow-ing volumes: Any before 1948, also 1951, 1957, 1965, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1916.

If anyone has a copy of any of these missing yearbooks and wishes to donate it to the Historical Society, they can call 570-785-3800.