LAKE NEWS
VOL. 26, NO. 13
Lake Harmony PA
JANUARY, 2021
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Ruth Isenberg, Editor Seth Isenberg, Ads / Distribution Publishers (Continuing the work of founders Frank Pieri and Mary Farnschlader, 1995 – 2018) Lake News is published monthly for the enjoyment of Lake Harmony area residents and visitors. Copies are free and are mailed to Lake Harmony box holders. Find additional copies at The Country Peddler and at selected area businesses. Subscriptions are also available, for $24 by first class mail, or $15 as a PDF via e-mail. Mail your check to CANWIN at 211 Main St., White Haven PA 18661. E-mail us at lakenewslakeharmony@gmail.com Call us at CANWIN’s office, 570-215-0204, Seth x302 and Ruth x304 To submit an article or photo, use the above e-mail, or give us a call. Articles may be accepted or rejected. If accepted, they will be edited. Submitted items can be returned by arrangement. Articles appearing in Lake News may not be reprinted without permission of Lake News or CANWIN newspapers. Mailing address is 211 Main St., White Haven PA 18661.
Resolved…
by Ruth Isenberg
1. Not to complain about things that can’t be helped or changed. Staying socially-separated isn’t fun, but it is necessary. I know too many people who have gotten COVID to ignore safety protocols. 2. To do what I can to make things better. If my words or actions can help ease a situation or calm someone’s mind, I will make the effort. 3. To listen and really hear others, including or perhaps especially, those I don’t agree with politically or otherwise. 4. Not to take these resolutions, or myself, so seriously that I miss out on the many good things in my life. 5. To enjoy every bit of sunshine, music and color this wonderful world has to offer, and to be grateful for the many blessings of life.
LOCAL CONTACT INFORMATION Kidder Township Office 570 722-0107 Kidder Township Police (non-emergency #) 570 722-0192 Lake Harmony Vol. Fire Co. (non-emergency #) 570 722-8138 Lake Harmony Rescue Squad (non-emergency #) 570 722-1782 For emergencies, call 911. If you do not live in an area served by 911, call 570 325-9111.
KIDDER TOWNSHIP MEETINGS
Kidder Township Supervisor meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at the township building, and unless otherwise noted, begin at 6:30 PM. Notices of special meetings are posted at the township building and advertised. Planning meetings are held the 1st Wednesday at 6 PM; Zoning meetings, the last Monday at 6 PM; EAC, the second Wednesday at 7 PM. The public is welcome. Some meetings are being held online due to COVID restrictions.
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Entertainment Around Lake Harmony The Lake Harmony Entertainment Scene remains quiet due to Covid, but we can visit Boulder View Tavern to enjoy some music and socially distanced company from 6 to 9 p.m. on these dates: Jan 21 Strawberry Jam Jan 22 Regina Sayles Jan 23 Strawberry Jam Jan 28 Strawberry Jam Jan 29 Andy Sleboda Jan 30 Erin McClellan Feb 4 Stawberry Jam Feb 5 Kenny and Britt Feb 6 Tony Alosi Feb 11 Strawberry Jam Feb 12 Adam McKinley Feb 13 Timmy Fitz Feb 18 Strawberry Jam Feb 19 Regina Sayles Feb 20 Bill Hoffman
Holy Ghost Distillery a small batch craft distillery and craft cocktail bar is open
Makers of McNamee’s Black Irish Bourbon and Szczypkowski Vodka & flavored Vodkas. Visit our tasting room located just minutes from Lake Harmony and Jack Frost Mountain at 990 Route 940, White Haven, 18661 - 1 mile west on Route 940 from the traffic signal at Moseywood Road Open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekend And weekdays by appointment Curbside pickup is available Visit www.holyghostdistillery.com Book a Private Room / Table Reservations available for Friday, Saturday and Sunday; limited to parties of 6 or less. Call 570-990-2673 Also offering 60-minute Bourbon and Chocolate pairings classes and Certified Bourbon Steward classes.
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Lake Harmony Post Office Notes by Christine Gilliar
Happy new year! A special Thank You for everyone who thought of us this Christmas, very nice of you to think of us at this busy time of year. I would like to apologize to everyone who is still waiting on packages to arrive, me included. Hopefully we will get caught up & there will be an end in sight.
USPS announces stamp release dates
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will honor the influential nuclear physicist (1912-1997), who See PO NOTES, page 8
The Postal Service has announced release dates for the first three stamps of 2021, along with the cities where the virtual dedication ceremonies will originate: Lunar New Year: Year of the Ox: Tuesday, Feb. 2, Chicago Love 2021: Thursday, Jan. 14, Loveland, CO Chien-Shiung Wu: Thursday, Feb. 11, New York City
Year of the Ox, the latest Lunar New Year stamp, will call to mind the elaborately decorated masks used in the dragon or lion dances often performed during Lunar New Year parades. The Love stamp series will continue with a lighthearted and colorful digital illustration with the word “LOVE” and three large hearts shown in an unconventional palette of color duos,
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established herself as the authority on conducting precise and accurate research to test fundamental theories of physics. I hope everyone is staying safe between COVID and the snow and cold. So a little educational time on how tracking works. o You place an order for something. When it’s shipped you get a tracking #. If it’s a 25 digit tracking number it’s a good Postal tracking #. Tracking Service / Sample Number. USPS Tracking ® 9400 1000 0000 0000 0000 00.… It will give you an estimated time it should be delivered. That’s when you start checking the tracking # if you haven’t already. When you read it has arrived at unit and attempted, then it’s ready for pick up at your local Post office. Other than that it’s not ready for pick up. We do not have any special powers to speed it up or see anything different than what you see when you track it. When you’re assigned an address always use what your Post Office tells you to use and the proper way of using it. If you don’t it could get delayed. If you do not get delivery and you are assigned a Post Office box but the company claims they can’t use PO box insist on it. Explain if you don’t good chances are it will be returned to sender for the
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Some fun facts:
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Now and again — 10 facts from the past
pieces of mail and packages a day. Companies will learn real fast to add your box number if they want payment! If necessary you can send them this as an example of what your address form should look like. Your Name House number street name Box 1234 Whatever town PA 01234
A mail truck displays a sign encouraging customers to provide mail slots or receptacles in Washington, DC, in 1916. At the time, carriers spent an estimated 30-60 minutes each day waiting at residents’ doors. Image: Library of Congress 1. Abraham Lincoln and Harry S. Truman are the only Postmasters who have been elected president (so far). In 1833, when he was 24, Lincoln was appointed Postmaster of New Salem, IL. In 1914, See PO NOTES, page 10
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Truman was appointed Postmaster of Grandview, MO. Before Adlai Stevenson served as vice president under President Grover Cleveland, he was First Assistant Postmaster General, while various biographies state William McKinley, the 25th president, was a clerk at the Poland, OH, Post Office at the outbreak of the Civil War. 2. William H. Carney, a letter carrier, was the first African American to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. Carney received the honor for his Civil War-era service in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first regiment composed entirely of African American soldiers. Their story was told in the 1989 film “Glory.” 3. The first official airmail delivery in the United States was by hot air balloon. This occurred in 1859, when balloonist John Wise completed a 30-mile demonstration flight from Lafayette to Crawfordsville, IN. 4. Hinsdale, NH, has the oldest original Post Office building. The office has operated in the build-
ing since 1816. 5. General Electric has the nation’s easiest to remember ZIP Code. The code for the company’s location in Schenectady, NY, is 12345. 6. Not everyone was a fan of the first full-color flag stamp. Because postage requires cancellation, some collectors opposed the 1957 release of the stamp, seeing the cancellation as a desecration of the flag. 7. Postal pioneer Mary Katherine Goddard is part of the Declaration of Independence. In 1777, Congress tasked Goddard, America’s first known woman Postmaster, with printing and distributing the first copies of the declaration with all signatures — a job she completed in two weeks. Although she used the gender-neutral “M.K. Goddard” as her name when she ran the newspaper, her copy of the declaration lists her full name at the bottom. 8. A postal employee’s son created Mr. ZIP. The beloved cartoon figure was originally designed by Harold Wilcox, an advertising agency employee whose father was a letter carrier. Mr. ZIP was initially used by Chase Manhattan Bank for a bankby-mail campaign, but then the American TeleSee PO NOTES, page 12
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Continued from page 10 phone and Telegraph Co. acquired the design and allowed the Post Office Department to use it. 9. Postal Service employees were once honored with stamps. The 1973 release consisted of 10 8-cent stamps depicting services performed by postal workers, including stamp sales inside Post Offices and mail processing and delivery. 10. Until 1923, city letter carriers had to knock, ring or whistle at doors. Initially, carriers hand-delivered mail to customers. By 1912, new customers were required to provide mail slots or boxes, and since 1923, all customers have been required to have a mailbox or slot to receive mail. We are hearing lots of changes coming once again to the Post Office. So please have PO Box on all your mail, always have your key for your mail box and think positive thoughts that nothing will change here in Lake Harmony. I know I’m hoping nothing will. As always, “We thank you for your business.” April Shaner, Postmaster Christine A.Gilliar, SSA (fancy for clerk)
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New distillery welcomes tasters Holy Ghost Distillery on Route 940 in Kidder Township is now open and selling their own Szczypkowski Vodkas and flavored Vodkas, as well as McNamee’s Black Irish Bourbons. The business, five years in the making, is a distillery and a craft cocktail bar – a destination location for family, friends and co-workers. Owners John and Janice Sepcoski bought the Route 940 property just over three years ago, and have been busy building out the business, and getting it open late in 2020. It’s a place to have unique parties and outings. And, if you are interested in classes, it is the place where you can learn the entire process, from mash making through fermentation, distilling, bottling and cocktail making. HGD is the first distillery in Pennsylvania to become a Stave & Thief Society Establishment member. The owners are certified as Executive Bourbon Stewards to hold the Certified Bourbon Steward classes. You can register on www.holy ghostdistillery.com for this and other classes.
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What’s better than chocolate and booze? Holy Ghost Distillery, is offering 60-minute Bourbon and Chocolate pairings classes led by Janice Sepcoski. “Our goal is to make terrific affordable craft products,” said John. “We have been traveling the states visiting countless distilleries. We have invested hundreds of hours learning and perfecting this craft by working and volunteering in distilleries around the country.” Check out upcoming events on their website or book a private room in their tasting house. By summer, plans are to offer live music in a grove out back on the property on at least two Saturdays a month. This winter, HGD is open weekends from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and weekdays by appointment. Find them at 990 Route 940, White Haven, PA, 18661, or go west on Route 940 past the Moseywood Road traffic signal for about a mile. Call ahead for curbside service, or to book a table, at 570 990-2673.
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It has been a beautiful month of winter weather. Cold and crisp, with infrequent frostings of snowfall that have not made the roads unsafe for driving. This would normally be perfect weather to take a day trip, or make a dash for a weekend. Lake Harmony is a great launching pad for an interesting day or weekend away — in any direction.
In a normal year, it would be a perfect time for a drive to Atlantic City, or into Philadelphia or New York City, but with the virus at large, none of the above is prudent, as we’d find crowds. I am left searching for a more intimate road trip to celebrate our upcoming anniversary. I remember a fun weekend in the late 1980s in Atlantic City when a snowstorm blew in from the Atlantic, leaving Ruth
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and me stranded, but with plenty of things to do, until the storm passed and the roads were clear. Crossing a state line is still being discouraged, so a trip to Corning or Elmira or even Syracuse is off the table until more people are vaccinated. Annapolis is on our travel card — perhaps this summer. I’m left looking at places like Bedford, Wellsboro, or even Gettysburg, or perhaps a remote cabin someplace in central PA. I’ll tell you what we finally select in an upcoming issue. Looking back, our holiday plans for dining and museums were locked down just when we had some time to be out enjoying them. Instead, it was at home with entertainment via streaming videos through late December and the New Year. Since early this month, we’re back out enjoying the Lake Harmony area’s restaurants — keeping our distances, in masks. We are lucky to have these entrepreneurs so please eat in or get take-out as we want to keep them open and their staffs employed. Thanks to all of you, locals and visitors, for keeping Lake Harmony vibrant. For our visitors, thanks for going here for you road trip. Ruth and I wish you good weather, good skiing, and a safe and healthy time.
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Obituaries NANCY K. DEISROTH On Saturday December 26, Oceanside in Maine or at the Powder Hole, hot Tang 2020, Nancy K. Deisroth, loving and hot cocoa with marshmallow fluff, the kitchen wife of Peter B. Deisroth, Lake table at the Lentz’s, tobogganing, skiing (yep, she Harmony, and mother of three did), blueberry crisp, baked beans, fireflies, sand children, passed away quietly at candles and driftwood, ahhh the childhood bliss. the age of 82. Mom’s passions were openly shared whether If memory serves, mom and it be reading, gardening, journaling in her enddad’s first date was a baseball less notebooks, singing with the Choralairs or the game. Picture if you will, she slenPhilharmonic, hosting fabulous dinner parties and der, all smiles with a shock of red opening our home to anyone who had no place to hair and he dashing (also slender) very charming, cargo. There was always someone new at our dinner rying hot dogs (with mustard) and a couple of beers. If table and mom insured they felt welcomed and a you know anything about these two, mom would have part of our family with a “little something” if it was been patient and attentive while dad navigated the their birthday or setting up a menorah during stadium seats with his hands full of baseball staples Hanukah, offering a warm bed, a hot meal and making friends along the way, you get the visual…. especially family and fellowship. An unlikely pair to the naked eye, they were We were all appalled when she instituted “no smitten! Dad proposed to mom in December 1961 TV at the cabin” rule yet quickly abided as did our in front of the entire family on her very first visit friends and family. Compensation….she read to to Hazleton. Of all those gathered at the Deisroth’s us aloud Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Jules that evening for yuletide festivities waiting on Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. WVIA Santa and trimming the tree, mom was the last to played on the radio continuously in the backopen her Christmas stocking. There in the toe was ground, she would sing and we’d listen to Bert & I an engagement ring. A heartfelt proposal followed records and cassettes of old radio shows. Garrison and to all of our good fortune, she said yes! Keilor was a frequent guest over the airwaves, fireFast forward, the Amherst grad and middle school side every Saturday night. Everyone was welcome. English teacher tied the knot on a snowy winter day Mom’s favorite snack was a cup of tea and ginger in February of ‘62 in Derry New Hampshire where snaps and she kept a jar filled with Oreos on the mom was born, then quickly took up residence in a counter for the when the Petersons came over. She nifty old house on Triangle Street in Amherst, MA. always sang the Star Spangled Banner (in harmony It was there that the first two of three children were of course), lended her soprano vibrato to the annual born, Kerry Lynn followed by Peter Brundage. Jr. Delaware Water Gap Jazz Mass and enriched our A few years later, they moved to Hazleton (Second lives with her beautiful melodies. She even took piaStreet), and the third bundle of joy arrived, Robert no lessons one year so she could play the Moonlight Frederic. Some years after Robb was born and at Sonata, her one hit wonder on the keyboard. mom’s insistence, dad traded the rag top two-seater As a graduate of Keen State Teachers College, Karmann Ghia for a Volvo station wagon from EZ See NANCY K. DEISROTH, page 21 Wienches, oh the stories that little car could tell. Through the years dad kept mom on her toes and we three children engaged with clubs, friends, sports, picnics, school activities and regular visits to New Hampshire to see our grandparents, Nana K (Bertha) and Daddy Derr (Bob), always maintaining old traditions and creating new ones as only a mom can do. With all of that, somehow she managed to sit on boards and run the PTA at our neighborhood elementary school. I can hear the clicking of her old Smith Corona tap tap tapping on carbon paper in the kitchen. Close your eyes and even you can smell our wet woolen mittens drying on the old steam radiator and tuna wiggle bubbling away on the stove top. Our childhood was filled with friends, camping
NANCY K. DEISROTH, Continued from page 20 mom was a gifted teacher in Amherst and in the Hazleton Area School District and would never allow a student to fail. Once she dressed as the Wife of Bath and read to her class in Old English as they followed along on her hand scribed scrolls. Her writer friends from Breadloaf would come to our house annually for a writer’s conference and she created a newsletter to keep them all engaged between retreats complete with her own sketches. Mom was an abundance of creativity, a master intellect and sparkling conversationalist. We are not the only ones to have thought so as she was a two time fellow at the Virginia Center for the Arts. Completing her Masters from Wilkes in Creative Writing was one of her many highpoints on the educational plane. All of those talents allowed her to become a most accomplished senior proofreader and editor at the Hayworth Press for many years. As a poet and writer, mom drew from her life experiences and those of others with an uncanny ability to weave incredible tapestries of words. When she would read aloud those words transformed again and engaged her listeners with her emotion and expressiveness. Her elegant waves of colored words painted watercolor images of prose and verse, a true and very special gift. She even won a couple of Poetry Slams in New Hope soon after grandson Peter Angelo was born!
Lake News, January 2021 —21 Educator and bohemian spirit meets stoic and romantic Marine-German and English united in matrimony, theirs was a union of unconditional love. Mom never became a white water paddler (there was a canoe trip down the Connecticut River one summer with dad however) yet she did appreciate the family passion for adventure and listened thoughtfully to the tails of wet exits, Eskimo rolls and surfing waves engaged and thankful to be a landlubber. Dad equally appreciated and loved to see mom in action on the stage or radio marveled by her ability to move easily from one conversation to the next always managing to tie in a teaching moment. They shared treasured moments at art museums, Longwood Gardens, traveling and listening to really good jazz. Mom leaves behind countless people whose lives she had touched in some way. . . . students, classmates, fellow writers and friends, her sister, nieces, cousins we her children, grandchildren and especially our father, shall be her legacy. In her memory it is now up to all of us to carry her in our hearts and look for the signs and the symbolism around us that she so loved. Find her in the bright colors of the garden, the shimmer from the lake on a moon light night. Hear her voice with the grammatical correction in the back of our heads and in the whispers of bagpipes echoing on a clear summer night; with her gentle hand, she will be forever be our guide in the poetry of our lives.
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Obituaries NANCY L. PETERSON Nancy L. Peterson, mother, of Cape Neddick, ME, Mary F. Compagner wife of grandmother, great grandmother, Doug of Grand Haven, MI, Nina F. Peterson wife of family matriarch, of Lake HarSue Decker of Ottawa, Canada; brother Robert Hafmony, entered peacefully into ner of Webster, NY; 16 grandchildren; 3 great grandthe loving hands of her Lord on children; and many nieces, nephews and friends. Thursday, January 14, 2021, at Nancy graduated from Our Lady of Mercy High home surrounded by her beloved School in Rochester, NY. She earned her B.S.N. in family, at 84 years of age. Nursing from Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Born Wednesday, December Nancy was a long tenured nurse in the Med - Surg 2, 1936 in Rochester, New York, Dept. of Gnaden Huetten Hospital of Lehighton. she was the daughter of the late Philip, and ElizaShe was a member of the Nazareth College beth (Foery) Hafner. She was also predeceased by Alumni Association, and especially enjoyed going her husband Francis N. Peterson on April 10, 1993; to lunch and socializing with her friends. Nancy daughter, Elizabeth F. Lutz; sisters, Marie Aubel, enjoyed traveling to visit her children, grandchiland Virginia Hafner; brothers, Thomas and Freddren and great grandchildren all over the United erick Hafner. States and Canada, running errands for Peterson Surviving are sons, Mark F. Peterson of West Ski and Cycle, socializing and watching Nina, Eric Hollywood, CA, Eric F. Peterson and his wife Nancy and John play in the Peterson Band. She was an of Blakeslee, Scott F. Peterson and his wife Hilary of active member of St. Peter the Fisherman Roman Dallas, John F. Peterson and his wife Diane of Jim Catholic Church and had unshakable faith. Thorpe; daughters, Julie F. Marcoullier wife of John See NANCY L. PETERSON, page 23
Lake News, January 2021 —23 NANCY L. PETERSON, Continued from page 22 A long-time resident of Lake Harmony, Nancy and Fran built their home in Lake Harmony Estates in 1965. Some of their closest neighbors were the Barnis and the Howards, who remain good friends of the family to this day. Before making Lake Harmony the family’s fulltime residence, Nancy and Fran lived with their children in suburban Pittsburgh, but they vacationed in Lake Harmony every year. Some notable events from that era include the Moon Landing party on July 20, 1969 when it seemed as if all of Lake Harmony was at the Peterson household to witness that historic milestone on TV. The following day, Nancy’s seventh child, Elizabeth Frances, was born. Nancy was at the lake the night of the Split Rock Lodge fire in 1970. She went to the scene of the catastrophe to offer her services as a nurse. Nancy helped her family through some difficult years. When times got tough, Nancy went to work to help support the family. She was a cashier at Thriftway and worked at Big Boulder Ski Area before getting a job as a nursing instructor at the Vocational Technical School in
Jim Thorpe. Her next career move took her to the Gnaden Huetten Nursing Home, followed by joining the medical-surgical team at the Gnaden Huetten Hospital, now known as St. Luke’s in Lehighton. She worked there until she fully retired at the age of 75 and she maintained long friendships with her former colleagues, whom she affectionately referred to as “the old nurses.” Nancy made sure her children received religious instruction in the Catholic faith and brought them to Mass every week — first at Split Rock Lodge, then the Lake Harmony Fire House and finally at St. Peter the Fisherman R.C.C. Her children have fond memories of their mother waiting for them at the base of Big Boulder Ski Area to take them to Mass on Saturday afternoons during ski season. She was also quite proud of her children who attended Penn State University and was known to wear a “Penn State Mom” sweatshirt as a part of her favorite attire. In her later years, Nancy could often be seen tooling around the lake and the surrounding area in her familiar Buick, going to the post office, Peterson’s Ski and Cycle, the Francis E. Walter Dam, and other locations. Nancy enjoyed volunteering at the Lake Harmony Fire House, stuffing envelopes for their fundraising campaigns. She called her children every day and enjoyed doing FaceTime with her children and grandchildren. Nancy also mastered text-messaging and she became known as the “Queen of the Emojis.” The Peterson Family is extremely grateful for all the love and support they have received from the community. They want to thank in particular the Lake Harmony Rescue Squad for their prompt response to the 911 call. Even though Nancy is no longer with us, she lived independently and serves as an inspiration to her children, grandchildren and loved ones. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the Philip J. Jeffries Funeral Home & Cremation services of Weatherly. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on January 20, at St. Peter The Fisherman R.C.C. Monsignor Donald Chizmar officiated. Memorials in her name may be made to: Shriners Hospitals for Children, Operation Smile and Lake Harmony Rescue Squad. A memorial service, followed by interment at St. Matthews Church Cemetery, Weatherly, will be held at a date to be announced. Online expressions of sympathy or a fond memory of Nancy can be placed by visiting www.griffithsfuneralhomes.com
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Obituaries NANCY LEMAIRE Nancy (Nemecek) Lemaire, 72, of Albrightsville, Secretary at Carbon County Vocational School and passed away Thursday morning at Lehigh Valley later retired after 30 years of working at Split Rock Hospice, Allentown. Resort in Lake Harmony. Nancy was born on December 31, 1948 to the Nancy loved picking hard shells, watching the late Anna (Sedlock) and Frank “Bugzie” Nemecek action at her milkweed patch and continuing her Sr. She is survived by her husband of 23 years, Aunt’s Rooster collection. She enjoyed spending William F Lemaire; her daughter Amy Knepper time with her family, Christmas and her end of Braciszewski, granddaughter, Alyanna ; Son in summer adventures with her granddaughter. She Law, Charles of Berlin, Maryland; and her brother will be dearly missed. Frank Nemecek Jr. of Mechanicsburg. A graveside service was held Wednesday, JanuNancy grew up on Bugzie’s Mountain, Sumary 13 at St. John Slovak Lutheran Cemetery, Summit Hill and is a graduate of Panther Valley High mit Hill, with Pastor Marjorie Keiter officiating. School class of 1966. She began her career as a
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Mauch Chunk Trust supports hospitality & restaurant worker relief The Mauch Chunk Trust Company presented a $5,000 donation to the Pocono Mountains United Way Hospitality & Restaurant Worker Relief Fund to support local workers who are navigating the uncertainty of steady employment throughout the pandemic. To show appreciation to hospitality and restaurant workers for their contributions to our community, Pocono Mountains United Way established the Hospitality & Restaurant Worker Relief Fund in December 2020. As an offshoot of the organization’s Crisis Response Fund, 100% of all donations will be utilized in the form of direct mini-grants to workers. To date, the fund has collected over $138,000. With over 284 applicants served, monies still remain to help those in need. Hospitality and restaurant employees who live or work in Wayne, Pike, Monroe, and Carbon counties are eligible to apply. Eligible recipients will receive funds in the form of a $250 gift card, virtual gift card, or ACH transfer. Gift cards can be used as cash anywhere major credit cards are accepted.
unds will be provided via “Tremendous Rewards” via email or text message, with the option of choosing how you would like to receive the funds. Mauch Chunk Trust joins a growing list of major contributors including the Pocono Mountains United Way, The Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau, Monroe County Government, The Mattioli Foundation, ESSA Bank & Trust, and United Way of Lackawanna and Wayne Counties. “This warms my heart that our community continues to show up and respond when we are challenged, that we are coming together to serve those that have served us, that we care for the vulnerable,” said Michael Tukeva, President/CEO for Pocono Mountains United Way. “Recipients have shared that they are using these funds to pay for groceries, to pay for their rent, and to celebrate the holidays. You have given the gift of hope, and for so many, that is immeasurable,” he said. Chris Barrett, President/CEO at Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau, knows the impact that this funding is having on members of the community. See MCT DONATION, page 30
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“We are grateful for the partnership of the Pocono Mountains United Way that brought this program to fruition. Hundreds of our co-workers have been helped in some small measure at this critical time in their lives…and we will continue to provide that assistance through additional donations for as long as possible.” Hospitality and restaurant employees across the Pocono Mountains can apply online at www. poconounitedway.org for financial assistance. The application requires basic demographic information as well as a 2019 tax return and most recent paystub to determine income eligibility and verify recent employment. Mauch Chunk Trust Company was incorporated August 25, 1902 as the successor institution to the Second National Bank of Mauch Chunk, established in 1864. We remain a locally owned and managed independent community bank, with the main office in Jim Thorpe. Mauch Chunk Trust operates 7 community offices and 1 trust/investment office, with presence in Schuylkill County in the Tamaqua area (Hometown & West Penn). For more information on Mauch Chunk Trust, please visit www. mauchchunktrust.com or visit @MauchChunkTrust on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn.
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