The Forest City NewsForest City - Starting Line for Steamtown Marathon October 9, 2016Named One of 10 Fastest U.S. Marathon Courses by Runners WorldVOL. 129, NO. 10 Wednesday, February 3, 2016

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John P. Kameen

& Patricia Striefsky

It has been reported there are 17,031 permitted uncon-ventional natural gas wells in Pennsylvania located on 4,637 well-pads. 15,285 are horizon-tal wells with 9,631 reported as developed, and 7,051 have re-ported natural gas production. It is also reported that 4%, or 244, wells have been shut-in, or production has been stopped on them since the be-ginning of 2014.

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Ziti with your Sweetie Dinner in Clifford

Ziti with your Sweetie Din-ner Theater hosted by the Clifford Community Youth Group will be held Sunday, February 14, at 2:00 PM at the Clifford Fire Hall - Route 106, Main St. Clifford, PA. Salad, Ziti with Meatballs, Beverage & Dessert will be served while youth present “Once Upon a Crime: The Trial of Goldi-locks”. Donation $10.00. ALL ARE WELCOME.

Tickets available by con-tacting Robin at 570-222-4344 or Lisa 570-222-5493, or from any youth group member or limited tickets available at the door.

The Lady Foresters Girls Basketball Team would like to thank the Forest City Nursing Home for inviting them to come and join in a fun night of BINGO at the nursing center! The girls were touched to see the residents enjoying themselves so much! It’s a great way for these young ladies to give back to their community. They hope to do more visits in the future. Pictured kneeling, Anna Congdon, Laura Statkun, Skylar Fortuner, Katelynn Barry, MacKenzie Hartman; Standing, Erin Urban, Kendra Bendyk, Chloe Calabro, Alyssa Pelick, Kary Gillette, Maggie Kowalewski, Haley Gillette, Caitlynn Bonham

FCR Girls team visits FC Nursing Home

Community Spotlight is a column featuring people who serve our community.

by Art McLain

Forest City PostmasterBeing the Postmaster is an

important job as they are the person in charge of the post of-fice. Forest City has an Acting Postmaster named Christine Starkweather. An Acting Post-master is a Postmaster who is substituting for the regular Postmaster.

Christine is new to Forest City and has only been here for three weeks. She is the Post-master in Damascus and started her career as a Postmaster Leave Replacement in Milanville, PA. One of the things Christine likes about her job is meeting the many customers. She feels priv-ileged to be serving customers in such an important aspect as overseeing that their mail is de-livered to them in a timely and efficient manner along with a terrific group of clerks, city and rural carriers that make it all happen.

Christine is originally from Sullivan County in New York and now lives in Tyler Hill, near Honesdale. She has a 3 year old son, Xavier Jack and a Great Dane named Leah. In her spare time, Christine enjoys draw-ing, painting and paper art. She also likes to go canoeing with her son on the Delaware River.

She has lived in New York City and enjoys taking her son there to the many museums, libraries and zoos. She is homeschooling Xavier Jack and he is currently working on a preschool curricu-lum.

Christine said she feels for-tunate to be in Forest City and likes the community very much. She also offered a great idea which could possibly be a job opportunity for anyone look-ing for a job. The Postal Service lists any employment opportu-nities on its website . By going to USPS.com and searching em-ployment in our area it will list the job opportunities available.

Ms. Starkweather is a very nice lady and an asset to our community. Be sure to say hello and give a welcome to her when you see her at the post office.

Pictured are Acting Postmaster Christine Starkweather (right) and Jerry Taylor (left), a 28 year veteran of the Postal Service.

Who would think a snow-mobile benefit here in February would have to be cancelled due to lack of snow? John Williams, Forest City, advised us that the Brian M. Sheare Snowmobile Poker Run set for Feb. 6 will be re-scheduled to Feb. 20th. Details of the event, to honor the mem-ory of Brian Sheare, who died in a tragic snowmobile accident last year, can be found on page 4.

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to the Suhadolnik family on the recent death of our 1984 Distin-guished Citizen Dr. Robert Suh-adolnik, Roslyn, PA. . We had an article about the family’s celebra-tion of his 90th birthday October 1st. His wife is the former Doro-thy Bezek, formerly of Pleasant Mt. His sister, Sylvia Mayers, Forest City, told us he became ill within the last month and passed away from pneumonia. Dr. Bob and I have had many long (at least 45 minute) phone calls over the years. He was a remarkable person, still working on medical research into his late 80’s. Kind of ironic that a marvelous man who spent his life finding cures for PKU, AIDS, cancer and other devastating diseases, was finally called to his maker by pneumo-nia, called the scourge of the el-derly. He was still teaching medi-cal students at Albert Einstein Medical Center and Temple Uni-versity School of Medicine, Phila-delphia. At the time of receiving his Distinguished Citizen award he said, “My achievements are no more important than those of other careers or daily assign-ments. The important thing is to be at peace with ourselves, our associates and with our Creator.” He certainly was!

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Old age is the only stage of life that we never grow out of. It is just a natural ongoing journey. Although for most, the transfor-mation into old age takes you by surprise!

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about “the big miss” also known as Forest City Country’s “Bliz-zard of 2016.” We have to admit we were “rubbing it in” to family and friends in Allentown, Phila-delphia and Virginia. My friend, Dr. Lee Gerchman, in Allentown, used his 35 year old snow blower to dig himself out of their 31.7 inch record snowfall. When Lee and I were in high school we once spent the night, from 10PM to 7AM, in his car, in a ditch at Crystal Lake after getting caught in a surprise ice storm. We got a ride back to town on a state cin-der truck. I can’t imagine how I would have handled being stuck on the Penna. Turnpike in west-ern Penna. for 30 hours like those motorists Jan. 23-24.

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Thompson Hose Co. Super Bowl Sunday Menu

The Thompson Hose Co. will have a pizza, wings & more sale on Super Bowl Sun-day, February 7 from 12:00 PM- 6:00 PM. Menu is 16” Round plain pizza $10, $2.00 per top-ping (Pepperoni, sausage, on-ion, mushroom); Jumbo chick-en wings $9.00 Doz. $4.50 1/2 Doz.; Boneless chicken wings $8.00 Doz. $4.00 1/2 Doz. (Hot, mild, garlic, bbq, & honey mus-tard). Also available: Mozz. Sticks, battered cauliflower, & jalapeno poppers.

Pre-order call 570-442-1107 or 570-442-1208. Day of call 570-727-2431.

The Greater Carbondale Chamber of Commerce honored a few of its members who were recognized for their achievements in helping better the community over the past year. Pic-tured left to right are Greg Betti, Capra Collina Winery; Carbondale Mayor Justin Taylor, Lapera-Taylor Development; Laure Carlo, GCCC Executive Director; John Marino, N.E.I.C.; Elizabeth Turner, Olyphant Self Storage; Ken Marino, N.E.I.C.; and Mark Burrell, GCCC Board President

GFCI Industrial Park Gets $30,000 Susquehanna County Check

Susquehanna County Commissioner Chairman Alan Hall is shown above presenting a $30,000 check to Bob McGraw, President of Greater Forest City Industries Inc. The money will be used to install a natural gas line into the VISION 2000 Industrial Park in Forest City. The gas line project will cost approximately $280,000. Almost $200,000 of the costs will come from a joint grant from U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and the Appalachian Regional Commission. A $50,000 loan to GFCI from the Forest City Revolving Loan Fund will serve as a match for the $200,000 federal loan. The $30,000 from the Susquehanna County Com-missioners will come from the county’s Act 13 natural gas Impact Fees from the state of Pennsylvania. Shown in photo above, from left, SC Commissioner Betsy Arnold, SC Com-missioner Maryann Warren, Commissioner Chairman Alan Hall, GFCI Pres. Bob McGraw, GFCI Treasurer John P. Kameen, Rachel Hauser of Northern Tier Regional Planning Commis-sion who is coordinating the federal grant, and Tony Ventello, Susquehanna County Progress Authority Ec. Dev. Director.

Carbondale Chamber of Commerce holds Annual Celebrating Progress Dinner

The Greater Carbondale Chamber of Commerce held its 11th Annual “Celebrating Progress” Dinner on Thursday, January 28 at Genetti Manor in Dickson City. Cindy Gillen Klenk, GCCC Board Member, welcomed the crowd to the an-nual dinner, followed by the in-vocation by Father Andrew Ku-rovsky.

Operations Manager of Ge-netti Manor, John Carachilo, of Vandling, provided the group with superb appetizers and a de-licious meal.

Laure Carlo, GCCC Execu-tive Director and Mark Burrell, GCCC Board President, pre-sented plaques for recognition

of members who have made a difference in the community over the past year. Award recipi-ents were Capra Collina Winery, Lapera-Taylor Development, N.E.I.C. (Northeast Inspections Consultants), and Olyphant Self Storage.

Guest speakers for the evening were Bill Fontana, Executive Di-rector of the PA Downtown Cen-ter, who spoke about revitaliza-tion of Business and Residential Districts. Fontana said commu-nities need to focus on regional economies and know what their trade area is. Well defined vi-sions of community develop-ment with a vision statement for communities is a must.

Michael Haas, RLA, Land-scape Architect for Haas Land-scape Architects, provided the group with a power point pre-sentation on the Lackawanna Heritage Valley’s Carbondale River Walk which is being devel-oped from Carbondale to Simp-son.

It will be from behind Little Nikki’s at the Ben Mar and con-tinue to Morse Avenue in Simp-son with trailheads along the way. He said he hoped it would improve the quality of life for the residents of the area by encour-aging recreational activity. In addition, there will be many eco-nomic benefits for the region. Cont. on page 2

Fuel Oil stolenFrom SH church

Bob Duffy, janitor and sac-ristan of Ascension Parish, Forest City, reported that sev-eral hundred gallons of fuel oil were taken from fuel tanks at the former Sacred Heart Church, Hudson and Dundaff Sts.

The oil was delivered sev-eral weeks previously and the tanks were found to be near empty last week. There were no leaks in any tanks or pipes.

Duffy said that such a large quantity had to have been re-moved using a vehicle.

Anyone having any infor-mation should contact the For-est City Police.

Two break-insIn Forest City

Asst. Police Chief Lee Row-an confirmed that two home break-ins occurred in For-est City over the past several weeks. He indicated police had a suspect in the most re-cent one.

Our golf writer, Art McLain, who writes the weekly column “Thinking About Golf” during golf season, is chomping at the bit for winter to end and golf season to start. He wants to start setting up his schedule for golf instruc-tion with special pre-season pric-ing. You can see his ad on page 4.

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when he recognized the name of someone he knew in the 100 Year Old section of “Looking Back.”

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