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Pat Williams were instrumental in planning this. We greatly appreciate their communityminded support.” Salsa, fruit spreads, cobblers and more will be available for $10 a jar with 50% of the proceeds going to the VFW Memorial Park fund. “Having the drive-through fundraiser on the day of the parade, I’m hoping people will stop by and get some of our great products and support the VFW,” Jamison said.
“It will be OK; you’ll be fine,” Florence Jamison told her children as her health was failing. At 96, she had lived a long, full life. Growing up on a farm in Newton Township, Florence worked alongside her parents, often cooking meals to feed farm hands who came during the great depression looking for Love at first sight work. Later she studied to be a nurse during World War II, and graduated in 1947 with the “My mom met my father nursing corps at Hahnemann Hospital in when he showed up as a Scranton, now Geishired farm hand in inger CMC. Newton Township “She wanted to do A drive-through in 1936,” Jamison said. her part,” said her fundraiser “They were smitten. It son, Lee Jamison. was love at first sight. But Annie’s Country Kitchen will Jamison shared they didn’t get married until hold a drive-through fundraiser that he came from a 1950 after my father got back for the VFW Memorial Park family who modeled fund Monday, May 27, from 8 from the war.” what love of country a.m. to 5 p.m. at First NationLester Jamison signed and patriotism was al Bank, 125 N. State Street up for the Army Air corps about. His father, in Clarks Summit. Salsa, fruit in 1942 after the bombing Lester Jamison, and spreads, cobblers and more of Pearl Harbor. Jamison two uncles served will be available for $10 a jar shared that his father in World War with 50% of the proceeds trained on the radio but II. Jamison’s going to the cause. was disappointed when he brother served learned he wouldn’t see in Vietnam. combat behind the lines. Having so many Later, on an Army Air Corps base, Lester family members and his friend, ‘Spike’ O’Hara, spotted a rewho served during cruitment poster looking for paratroopers. war time left an impression on Lee Jamison, The pay was more than double what they who created a living memorial by organizing were making and they were guaranteed to a drive-through fundraiser to be held during see combat. They volunteered to transfer to the Clarks Summit Memorial Day parade on the paratrooper division. Monday, May 27, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at First “It turned out to be the 101st Airborne DiNational Bank, 125 N. State Street. vision,” Jamison said. “They got their trainA variety of products will be available ing and then shipped overseas. My dad made for sale at car windows of those who drive his first combat jump on D-day.” through to purchase a taste of his family This year marks the 75th anniversary of business, Annie’s Country Kitchen. World War II’s D-day. Learning the things “First National Bank was generous in his father experienced astounded Jamison. providing an ideal place to hold our event,” Lester rarely wanted to talk about the war Jamison said. “(Clarks Summit Borough) Mayor Herman Johnson and Councilman Please see Living, Page 12
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Top left: Pvt Lester L. Jamison served in the Army Air Corps in WWII in both the European and Pacific Theatres. Jamison returned safely in 1946 and married his sweetheart, Florence Thompson. The couple settled in Newton Twp. and raised four children. Jamison passed away in 1985. Top right: Florence Thompson in her Nursing Corps Uniform in 1947. Florence was a lifetime resident of Newton Twp., where she lived with her husband Lester Jamison and four children. Florence Thompson Jamison died on Feb. 13.
VFW Post 7069 Memorial Day ceremonies Abington Memorial, VFW Post 7069, 402 Winola Road, Clarks Summit, will sponsor a Memorial Day parade on May 27, starting at 11 a.m. The line of march will form at the Clarks Summit Elementary Center on Grove Street at 10 a.m. From Grove Street, the parade will turn left on State Street to Winola Road and conclude at the post home where a memorial service will be conducted. To be included in the parade, participants must register by calling the post at 570-586-9821, daily after 1 p.m. Post 7069 will also hold services on Memorial day at the following locations: Abington Hills Cemetery, 8:30 a.m.; South Abington Park at the tank, 9 a.m.; Clarks Green Cemetery, 9:30 a.m., and Hickory Grove Cemetery, Miller Road, Waverly, at 10 a.m.
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A shiny red tribute The late Robert J. Habeeb Sr., one of the founding members and a past president of the Chinchilla Hose Company, enjoyed volunteering and being involved in the Abington-area community. “South Abington Township did not have a fire company. It was a farming community that was turning into a residential community,” said Habeeb’s son, Timothy Habeeb of Clarks Summit. “My dad went to New Jersey to buy a used fire truck.
He and others put up their houses for colleterial.” Habeeb added his father drove the truck up the Burcher Street Hill as a test to see if it would make it up. Habeeb Sr. owned a store called Bob’s Cut Rate. “My dad put a sign-up sheet on the counter for anyone who wanted to be a firefighter,” Habeeb said. “Everyone who came in the store signed up. The year was 1956, and that was the year the Chinchilla Hose
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Company was charted. “My mother, the late Shirley Habeeb did not know about the fire truck or the house being used as colleterial until she went to the fire house for a celebration for the new fire truck.” The first fire station in South Abington Township was at a cinder block factory which was later torn down. The present fire station on Shady Lane Road was then built. Please see Tribute, Page 12
While eating lunch with some coworkers in the breakroom, one of them pointed out the meal I’d packed for myself was the epitome of an elementary school lunch. I could hardly disagree after looking up from my peanut butter and jelly sandwich, bag of Doritos, yogurt, Capri Sun juice pack and oatmeal cream cookie. But there were differences between this and the lunches I ate almost every day in kindergarten through fifth grade: 1. this one wasn’t packed in a Disney princess lunchbox; 2. in elementary school, the Doritos would’ve been pretzels (I only liked those and regular salted potato chips); 3. the strawberry “J” in the PB&J would’ve been grape (the only flavor I’d eat back then). I was a picky eater as a child. Some might say I still am, but not to the same extreme. I prefer the term, “selective palate.” I was in high school before I’d eat any pizza topping other than plain cheese. I still don’t like pepperoni, but I now crave bacon and/or ham and pineapple on my pizza (don’t judge, pineapple haters). I’ve always loved pasta, but there was a phase in which I refused to even touch spaghetti because the noodles reminded me of worms. And those PB&J sandwiches? They had to be cut in symmetric halves (down the center from top to bottom), not diagonally (from corner to corner). And the crust? I did not consider it edible until I reached middle school. Potlucks, large family dinners and summer barbecues are especially difficult for us people with selective palates. Church ladies used to tell me I “don’t eat enough to keep a bird alive” because I’d go through the long food line in the fellowship hall and sit down with only cheese and crackers on my plate. It wasn’t that I wasn’t hungry; I just didn’t like casseroles. And at cookouts I lived mostly off potato chips, occasionally nibbling on a hamburger (ketchup only, no cheese and definitely no mustard), because I didn’t – and still don’t – like hot dogs. Hamburgers were never a favorite, but eating one was better than going hungry. My culinary repertoire did eventually expand. Some foods took more tries than others (Brussels sprouts, for example),
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Bob Habeeb with the 1956 fire truck.
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