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Scenes from the Sons of Italy takeout dinner which served more than 700 patrons | PAGE 5
Scenes from the recent baseball game in which Old Forge faced off against Riverside | PAGE 8
Stumping the experts Area students prepare quiz show questions BY JOSH MCAULIFFE SPECIAL TO THE TRIBORO BANNER
state Sen. John Blake, the Scranton Public Library staff and the Riverside School For the past decade, students at RiverDistrict administration. side Junior-Senior High School have been The late state Rep. Sid Michaels Kavudoing their part to preserve and spotlight lich also fielded a regular team, and his local history. memory will be honored at this year’s Riverside is among the key contributors event. to the Lackawanna Historical Society’s Every year, the game show’s questions annual “You Live Here, You Should Know are researched and prepared by students This!” local history game show, which from Riverside and Valley View high celebrates its 10th anniversary Saturday, schools. The Riverside team, typically May 4, at the Lodge at Montage Mounmade up of about five to seven students, tain. is advised by district elementary teacher The event will take place at 6 p.m. Shawn Murphy, a longtime local history inside the Lodge’s Slocum Hollow Bar buff. & Restaurant. Admission is $10 for the The majority of the team’s work is congeneral public and $5 for students, with ducted at the historical society, given its proceeds benefiting the Historical Sociextensive archives. Murphy said he thorety. Food and drinks will be available for oughly enjoys the challenges and camarapurchase. derie that come with helping the students For more information, contact the Hisput the questions together. torical Society at 570-344-3841 or lackawa“The students are always amazed by nnahistory@gmail.com. some of the people who came from or As usual, the game will consist of eight moved to Lackawanna County that have teams answering Jeopardy-style quesmade a big impact,” said Murphy. “After tions about the people, places and events our first meeting in the fall, at the Hisin Lackawanna County’s rich and diverse torical Society, we do some research. We history. There will be new categories and give the students, especially the newbies, special speed rounds designed to test play- an overview of what it’s all about. From ers’ knowledge of more obscure subjects. there, the students can pick any topic Teams will consist of well-known they want. One student might cover Northeast Pennsylvania personalities and sports history in the county. Or another history experts. The 2018 winning team might be doing entertainment, from the representing the Historical Society will vaudeville days and up.” return, as will perennial favorites led by Riverside students Madison Aulisio and Emily Taylor both said they’ve learned a lot during their time on the team. “My favorite topic to learn about is local sports,” Madison said. “I, myself, play a sport for Riverside and I find myself TS_CNG/TRIBORO/PAGES [T01] | 05/01/19
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Students from Riverside High School tour the Lackawanna County Courthouse as part of research for this year’s “You Live Here, You Should Know This!” From left: Gianna Gaidula, Madison Aulisio, Emily Taylor and Brian Marianelli. knowing and relating to sports more than anything. I find it interesting to learn facts about all sports from the schools around us, as well as the history behind our local sports.” “I definitely feel like I have more appreciation for the local history around us,” Emily added. “I find myself telling my family about some of the historical facts I’ve discovered through this process. Buildings and places that normally I wouldn’t even think about, now I find myself imagining their importance from the past until now.”
If you go What: “You Live Here, You Should Know This!” local history game show, benefiting the Lackawanna Historical Society When: Saturday, May 4, 6 p.m. Where: Slocum Hollow Bar & Restaurant, Lodge at Montage Mountain Details: Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for students. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. For more information about the program, contact the historical society at 570-344-3841 or lackawannahistory@gmail.com.
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Meeting notice The R & L Civic Club will meet on Friday, May 3, at 8 p.m. at St. George’s Hall in Taylor. Also, anyone
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the Taylor Police Department will hold the class at the Taylor Community Library. Teens, adults and seniors are ALL welcome to this presentation which runs 1-2:30 p.m. Registration is requested but not required. The event is free. For more information or to register contact the library at 570-562-1234.
See what its like to be impaired while driving.”Drunk Goggles” Virtual reality goggles let you have that experience without the danger of actually driving. On Saturday, May Riverside music concerts 4, the Taylor Community Library The spring elementary school conwill hold a presentation that will allow anyone over the age of 12 to try certs for Riverside are: • Tuesday, May 7, at Riverside High the goggles first hand. Officer Thomas McGovern from Please see Briefs, Page 4
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Fire co. breakfast Taylor Fire and Rescue, 1137 Reynolds Ave., will hold its semi-annual pancake and sausage breakfast Sunday, May 19, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eat in or take out.
Karate classes The Shinko Ryu Karate Club of Taylor will offer free summer karate classes for beginners outside of the Taylor Community Center starting Monday, June 3. (You must start before June 29.) Classes will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays at 6 p.m. for children and adults 6 years of age and older. Sneakers and socks required. For more information call 570-562-1891 or 570-562-1917.
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“Midnight at the Wandering Vineyard” by Jamie Raintree Growing up, it was Mallory and Kelly. Kelly and Mallory. Nothing could come between them. That summer before college, bucket list in hand, they greeted every sunrise and chased every sunset. Then Mallory met Sam, everything changed. Older, experienced and everything Mallory never knew she wanted, Sam was her first taste of love and the one adventure Mallory didn’t want to share with Kelly. Kelly had her own secrets, too, until the night tragedy struck and their perfect summer and their friendship unraveled. Now, after ten years away, Mallory is home and determined to make amends. No more secrets, no more half-truths. As Kelly slowly lets her guard down, Mallory convinces her to complete their unfinished list of hopes and dreams. Mallory’s not the only one back in town, and when Sam reappears, Mallory risks making all the same mistakes and maybe a few new ones to try to heal that which was broken. “The Accidental Beauty Queen” by Teri Wilson Charlotte Gorman loves her job as an elementary school librarian, and is content to experience life through the pages of her books, which couldn’t be more opposite from her identical twin sister. Ginny, an Instagramfamous beauty pageant contestant, has been
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charge of the Presidential Protection team. She knows that something is amiss when she is summoned to a private meeting with the President and his chief of staff without any witnesses. No could she have predicted that she’d be forced to take on an investigation surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the First Lady with strict orders to keep it a secret. The First Lady’s absence comes in the wake of the scandalous, public revelation of the president’s affair, so at first it seems as though she is simply cutting off all contact as she recuperates at a horse farm in Virginia. What begins as an innocent respite quickly reveals itself as a twisted case when the White House receives a ransom note along with the First Lady’s finger. “The Goodbye Café” by Mariah Stewart California girl Allie Hudson Monroe can’t wait for the day when the renovations on the Sugarhouse Theater are complete so she can finally collect the inheritance from her father and leave Pennsylvania. After all, her life and her fourteen-year-old daughter are in Los Angeles. Allie’s divorce left her tottering on the edge of bankruptcy, so to keep up on payments for her house and her daughter’s private school tuition, Allie packed up and flew out east. Fate has a curve-ball or two to toss in Allie’s direction, she just doesn’t know it yet. She hadn’t anticipated how her life would change after reuniting with her estranged sister, Des, or meeting her previously unknown half-sister, Cara. She’d certainly never expected to find small-town living charming. But the biggest surprise was that her long-forgotten artistry would save the day when the theater’s renovation fund dried up. With opening day upon the sisters, Allie’s free to go. But for the first time in her life, she feels like the woman she was always meant to be. Will she return to the West Coast and resume her previous life, or will the love of “this amazing, endearing family of women” be enough to draw her back to the place where the Hudson roots grow so deep? “I’ll Be Watching You” by Courtney Evan Tate In an unthinkable flash, Emmy Fisher’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Leah, seemingly drowns close to shore one summer night at least that is what the police report says. In deep grief, Emmy needs time and courage before she can enter Leah’s bedroom. When she does, she finds something at first bewildering, then unspeakable, as she begins to understand the full implications. She uncovers evidence that Leah had been secretly involved with someone, someone perhaps older, someone with dark appetites. Bit by bit, the last few months of Leah’s life unfold in a terrifying way that Emmy can hardly imagine. All she knows is that she has to find the person who took her sweet daughter’s innocence.
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40 years of dance
The Moosic Youth Center (MYC) School of Dance is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary performance on Saturday, May 11, at 6:30 p.m. at Riverside Jr.-Sr. High School. Tickets can be purchased at the door. Proceeds will benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Gina Aldrich is artistic director. Pictured are some of the performer, including alumni.
SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Senior graduates, kneeling, from left: Sarah Wolfe and Megan Small. Standing: Carolina Beverage and Marren Pollack.
Sitting, from left: Natalie Puckett, Madison Weist and Brooke Lyons. Kneeling: Elizabeth Beecham and Catherine Beecham. Standing: Madison Survilla, Addy Norris, Victoria Winter and Tori Natale.
On floor, from left: Elizabeth Beecham, Hannah Pearse, Allison Jones and Catherine Beecham. Standing: Natalie Puckett, Ryleigh Thomas, Kendal Marianelli and Lacey Durkin.
From left, sitting: Virginia Jacobson and Jamary Luciano. Second row, kneeling, Mallory Pollack, Alexandria Brody, Mia Muskey and Paige Conflitti. Third row, sitting on chairs: Carolina Beverage, Megan Small and Sarah Wolfe. Standing: Elizabeth Gething, Caroline Zelsnack, Isabella Allen, Bailey Cooper, Alexis Carter and Cierra Cooper.
Seated, from left: Adelyn Phillips and Cali Kolodzieski. Kneeling: Isabella Conrad and Kennedy Cole. Standing: Aryanna Fletcher, Serenity Kinney and Tori Allen. Alessandra Kasisky is also a student.
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