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FRACKVILLE EDITIONSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1976

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ELLIS SAYS: Cool heads and warm hearts solve more problems that hot heads and cold hearts.

r Doing~' "IName change

There's a new name for anold organization in Frackville.The ladies auxiliary of St. Johnthe Baptist Polish NationalCatholic Church voted at theirFebruary meeting to changetheir name to The BlessedSacrament Society.

First member admitted tothe group under the new nameis Diane Minakowski ofCresswell Gardens.

Although the name may havechanged, the leadership hasn't.Helen Dower was elected toanother term as president, anoffice she has held for sometime. Other electees are VicePresident Bert Payne,Financial Secretary Val Golba,Treasurer Lottie Snokus,Auditors Carolyn Boychoek,Diane Minakowski and LouiseGurski. Installation is at nextmeeting.

Fund raising promotionscoming up include an Easterdinner and a May 23 Chineseauction featuring free coffeeand cake.

Lottie Snokus was toasted onher birthday, for which a cakewas baked by Hild Tomczyk,co-hostess with Val Go)ba.

Remembered in prayer wasthe late Stl!lla Staneck, whoselong presence in society ac-tivities is greatly missed,

Brownie doingsFrackville Brownie Troop

136will do its bit or the nation's200th birthday by helping tokeep America Clean. The girlshave enlisted in the JohnnieHorizon 76 Cleanup AmericaProject. Each memberreceived a kit with a mem-bership card, bike decal, litterbag and information sheet.

At this week's meeting thebrownies also received foldersconcerning energy as depictedby the adventures of "EnergyAnt." The girls were remindedof Girl Scout Sunday on March7, when they will attend the9:30a.m. Mass in AnnunciationChurch, reporting to the hall at9:10.

On March 12 tile troop willfocus attention on the' "Flameof Freedom" to be ignited bygirl scouts around the world incommemoration of the 64thbirthday of girl scouts and200th birthday of the nation.The Freedom Flame lightingwill be signified that day by allscouts joining their families inilluminating porch lights at 5p.m.

The meeting was conductedby leaders Joanne Lazusky andValerie Bukowski. Par-ticipants in the opening flagceremony were bearers DeniseReilly and Robyn Gawrylik,guards Tracey Buchanan andLisa Bainbridge, and callerMimi Leschick. Brownie goldcollector was Candice LaDD.

Elks ladiesFrackville Ladies of the Elks

were given ideas and things todo with flowers at theirFebruary meeting from guestspeaker,. Randy Neyer,proprietor of Randy's Flowers.

Neyer pinned an orchidcorsage on Mrs. Ella Kaup,and created an imaginative icebucket floral arrangementwhich was awarded to Mrs.Stella Ryder. Mrs. Mary Pricereceived an innovative singleorchid arrangement.

Ann Bendrick and MaryConapinsky served as thecommittee. New membersinitiated were' Helen Fisherand Patricia Kershitsky.

Rotary ClubAn insight on the operation of

the Schuylkill CountyChildren's Services waspresented at the meeting of theFrackville Rotary Club.

Warren H. Frei, executivedirector of the program, told ofthe Social Services of child'swelfare, expla~ned the detailsof the operation, the set up onstate guidelines to meet therequirements of a 24-hour day,seven days a week.

He told of the supervision,investigation and revaluationof foster homes and noted thatthere are 4,700 children in thecounty eligible for service in anagency. He presented statisticsshowing that in 1975the agencyserved 1,630 children andexpected to top that mark thisyear. ,

As of Jan. I, 1976,he reportedthat 145children were in fosterhomes and that there were 20children adopted within thepast year.

Cost of operation for the pastyear was listed at $398,703,withthe county portion, $81,056.

The guest speaker was in-troduced by Rev. HerbertMobley who also pronouncedthe invocation .. Ben Filer, afoster parent, was present andextended a warm welcome bythe Rotarians.

Pictured at presentation of an official FrackvilleCentennial Flag to the Central Centennial Associationby Cub Pack 790 are, from left, Cubmaster Robert

Berg, Scouts Duane Dean, Joseph Bollnsky, Wade

Brosius and Roger Lane, and Centennlal ChairmanJames Hahn. The Cubs raised the funds themselves

Centenniol association receivesofficial flag from Cub Pack 790

Highlighting the SixthAnnual Blue and GoldBanquet of Cub Pack 790 wasthe presentation of the officialFrackville Centennial Flag toCentennial General ChairmanJames Hahn. This flag, whichwill be used in all Centennialfunctions, was purchased withfunds earned by the Cubs.

The banquet opened with thetraditional candle lightingsymbolizing the cub spirit.Nicholas Donchak sang"America the Beautiful". DenThree conducted the flagceremony followed by "GrandOld Flag" by Cub Donchak andinvocaticm by Rev. ,J. RobertKehrli. Participating in theflag ceremony were WilliamO'Donnell, Paul Kopey, JeffreySedar, Edward Rakowsky,Thomas Myers and DenLeader Joan Marie O·Donnell.

The pack charter waspresented to Pastor Kehrli ofZion.Lutheran Church, the unit·sponsor, by District ExecutiveFrank Jara, who alsopresented the 1975 NationalPresident's Award for. packaccomplishments to Cub-master, Bob Berg, who then

. presented the individualawards to den leaders, whopresented them to the Cubs tobe worn on their uniforms.

Cub advancement awardswere: Wolf rank to Rick Greenand John Seasock; dennercords to Delmar Phillips and •George Norwich; .arrowpoints: gold and silver bear toJohn Seasock, silver wolf toMark Tomczyk and PaulKopey, arrow of light toRichard Whelchel.

Webelos activity badges.went to: Charles Cickavage,showman; Gerald Green I

geologist; Roger Lane, artist,engineer and showman;George Lazusky, aquanaut andgeologist; Richard Whelchel,

. artist, aquanaut, geologist,naturalist, scholar, scientistand sportsman

Pack awards to outstandingcubs of 1975: GregoryCickavage, Russell Cun-

Wannabuy ahoagie?

If you like- hoagies (and who. doesn '1) , the Boy Scouts ofFrackville Troop 91 will helpwhet your appetite with somegood home-maders on March13. The scouts hope to raisemoney by selling the subs, andare taking orders' until March8-all patronage appreciated.

Meanwhile, the boys are alsosharpening up their first aidtechniques for the big meet in .Tamaqua on March 13: Troop91 tratlitionally is a strongcompetitor in this importantaspect of scouting, and they'regoing to Tamaqua intent uponanother trophy.

Scoutmaster Scotty Brad-bury commended the troopshowing.at the recent KlondikeDerby and noted that theRattlesnake Patrol ~nderBruce Berg had 18gold nuggetsand placed 5th. The Polar BearPatrol with Robert Bricker asleader had 15 nuggets and theBlack Panther Patrol led byWilliam Cabulis collected 12.The troop also was praised forwonderful turnout at church

ningham, Stephen Dellock,Ronald Elsavage, Roger Lane,George Lazusky, RobertNeiberger, Delmar Phillips,Paul Smiley, Richard Whelcheland David Cickavage. #

.Perfect attendance awardsby Scoutmaster ScottyBradbury ,to Delmar Phillips,George Lazusky, one year;Gregory Cickavage, RogerLane and David Cickavage,two years.

Prizes for salesmanshipduring the financial campaignto Roger Lane, Duane Dean,

, Wade Brocius, JosephBelinsky, Delmar Phillips,Kenneth Kutchinsky, Jeffr!.y

Kovach, Billie O'Donnell,George Lazusky, RichardWhelchel, Joseph Bluge,Chucky Sanko and Russell'Cunningham.

John McGowen, president ofthe Schuylkill CountyHistorical Society, exhibitedthe Revolutionary Soldieruniforms, equipment andmanner of fighting. He wasdressed in the uniform of the1776Pennsylvania Soldier and .displayed uniforms of theBritish soldier and variousState Militia. Mr. McGowenalso gave a slide presentationon this subject and told howthese are being recreated for

the public to know and un-derstand o~ heritage.

The closing Ceremony wasby Den One led by Mrs. TerryLane. Scouts who told a story ofAmerica while spelling out theword using flash cards wereRoger Lane, Kenneth Kut-chinsky, Chuck Sanko, JosephBolinsky, Mark Tomczyk,Robert Neiberger and AnthonyBolinsky.

. The banquet theme wasBiCentennial and the tableswere decorated with cen-terpieces depicting variousevents of history made by thecubs. -

Would you say th'at, according to this sign, things are looking up for FountainSprings but looking down for Frackville? Or maybe the interpretation might be:to ,heaven with Fountain Springs. and to the other place with Frackville. In anyevent, this somewhat abusedsil;jn along a rural road in the valley west of Frack-ville is a source of amusement for observant motorists. (Klinefotol

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