Seth’s Sightings

This column was finished by battery power, as I was not quite done with it when the transformer blew up less than a block away from The Journal’s office. PPL crews were quick, having power back on in under two hours.

For sightings, Ruth and I spotted a doe and her days-old fawn on the hillside overlooking Big Boulder. Other critters include a healthy, tubby porcupine, groundhogs of all sizes, and the first of summer’s fireflies.

On one of our evening rides home from White Haven, driving after dark, I sighted a fox seated at a little

by Seth Isenberg

opening at the bottom of a tree just off Lehigh Gorge Drive in Foster Township. We’d slowed to see a deer pass when I sighted the fox, sitting or standing there, thinking it was well hidden. It was also watching the deer, paying no mind at all to us.

It’s also the season for wildflowers. We are seeking to identify an orange/red bell-like flower with a yellow accent that we sighted roadside in Dennison Township on our visit to Detweiler’s Farm. We are also sighting thick stands of flowering mountain laurel, including off Tunnel

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Road, Routes 93, 940 and 534. It’s a good year for the laurel bloom. Also of note, waterlilies starting to bloom, including on Penn Lake.

Congrats to the Vegas Golden Knights. It used to be that some cold climate city team would be proudly raising the Stanley Cup, in May. Now the Cup’s home is in the desert of Nevada, earned in June.

And the Calder Cup is still to be awarded as of this writing. The decision will be in the desert in California—Palm Springs, where the Coachella Valley Firebirds make their home. Old time AHL team Hershey Bears, established 1934, is pitted against the brand new Coachella Valley team. Both have been playing some terrific hockey. CV has been fantastic all year. The Bears had an amazing run through the Calder Cup playoffs, getting hot at the right time. We went to the opening night performance of In the Heights at DeSales U’s main stage. This is the big music offering for this year’s PA Shakespeare Festival. See the review elsewhere in this issue. It is a highly entertaining performance. If you can snag tickets, go performances run until July 2.

We spent a couple of hours at the Great Tastes of Pennsylvania Wine Festival at Split Rock on Saturday, enjoying the music by North of 40 and some lobster treats from the same food truck found the previous weekend at the White Haven Summer Market. On that occasion, we had been just a few minutes too late to partake. We also found and bought some wine we liked. Sunday, we enjoyed a successful Father’s Day performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Big Boulder Ski Area. The young PA Shakespeare Festival players were wonderful. We hope to see more shows there. This coming Sunday through the next is the start of this summer’s Downtown

Bethlehem Restaurant Week which features great meals at very reduced prices. We are already planning ahead for the July 4 weekend and have on our list a free performance by the 70’s Flashback Band on July 1 at City View Park and the city’s fireworks that night.

Good health to you all.

New registration site for Weatherly Halloween parade

The Weatherly Area Community Chest’s annual Halloween Parade will be held October 28, with a rain date of October 29.

Due to safety concerns, registration will now take place at Tweedle Park on High Street, beginning at 1 p.m.

Following registration, the parade will form and begin at 2 p.m. The route will be onto High Street to Franklin Street; down Franklin Street to West Main Street; down West Main Street to Plane Street and then follow the regular route over the bridge past the old borough building to Eurana Park, where prizes will be awarded, candy distributed and refreshments served. Organizations wishing to participate need only to show up and register. The Weatherly Area Community Chest parade is open to the public and encourages anyone, any organization or political representatives, to join in on the fun and take part in the event, whether it be walking, in a car, or on a float.

Any questions contact parade chairperson Mary Rose Minnick at 570-427-8865.