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Track the New Year!

The 2019 edition of the Greene Country Calendar, by Wendy Saul and Colleen Nelson, is now available! Just $15 each at many local retailers, including Waynesburg Milling Company, Specialty Herbal and Direct Results, Home of the GreeneScene Magazine, in Waynesburg. You can also find it at Thistlethwaite’s Vineyards in Jefferson and Gloria’s Ceramics in Rogersville. Featuring pen-and-ink drawings of many local scenes, the Greene Country Calendar makes a great gift - even if it’s a gift for yourself. If you can’t find one in your neighborhood, Colleen Nelson can be reached at crnelson@windstream.net. She’ll make sure you get one!

Greene County Flyers Club Accepting New Members

If you’ve ever thought about learning to fly or already have a license and would like to start flying again, the Greene County Flying Club offers the perfect chance.They are currently accepting new members and offer two different memberships: a three month or twelve month commitment option. Members can fly the club plane for a special rate – only available to members! They also work with groups that may need access to a plane for educational purposes. FMI, contact Max Loughman at 724-344-9693 or Dan Smith (724) 447-2721. You can also email flyingclub_info@gmail.com.

Blueprints Home Ownership Program

If the home-ownership process intimidates you, or you aren’t sure which steps to take regarding home purchase – Blueprints can help.

Participants in the program will go through comprehensive counseling by a HUD-certified counselor dealing with all aspects of home ownership; from preparation, establishing a solid financial plan, credit worthiness, and becoming mortgage ready to maintaining the home foreclosure counseling, and even home owner education. This program “provides the skills necessary to allow all potential and current homeowners to coordinate with all available resources to help families navigate whatever stage of home ownership they may be in,” according to Kimberly Grewe, housing counselor at Blueprints.

The only mandatory guidelines for the program are that you must be a resident of PA and either a potential home-buyer or current homeowner. There are no income guidelines or fees for this service. To find out more about the program, visit www.myblueprints.org or call 1-877-814- 0788.

Volunteers Needed for Home Delivered Meal Program

Blueprints is looking for volunteers to help with their Home Delivered Meal program, especially out of the Carmichaels area, which includes Carmichaels, Nemacolin, Crucible, and more. The schedules are very flexible – volunteer multiple days a week, one day a week, or even one day a month – anything helps! If you are a volunteer age 55+ you can also enroll in RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program) which can provide mileage reimbursements, supplemental accident insurance, and more.

Warm Nights

Greene County Warm Nights is a FREE overnight shelter providing a warm, safe place to stay on extremely cold winter nights. It’s open when temps are 25 degrees and below December through March. Guests can stay from 7pm to 7am and may arrive for the night between 7pm and 10pm. Located at the Greene County

Fairgrounds, cots and bedding are provided. Hot showers are also available. No pets are allowed. The Greene County Humane Society will house animals overnight at no cost upon request. Must call to register by 4pm pm that day. No walk-ins are permitted. To register call 1-800-417-9460 or dial 211.

Bald Eagle Sighting

Reader Cody Kuntz spotted this Bald Eagle along Icebox Road in Jefferson this November. “I had to pull over and take a picture of it because people would not believe it,” he said when he sent the photo. Although Bald Eagle sightings are still unusual in Greene County, the numbers are increasing. During the 1980s, Pennsylvania only had 3 Bald Eagle nest sites and now the state has around 300, with a nesting site right here in Greene. Hopefully we’ll get to see more of these beautiful birds as their population continues to grow.

Double Trouble

Reader Lisa Crawford of Washington sent us this interesting growth spotted in Waynesburg, PA. A young evergreen is growing in the forks of a maple tree. Lisa said, “I’ve never seen anything like this!” when she shared the picture in an email to us.

If you have a picture of Mother Nature creating some weird and wonderful accomplishment, send them in to the GreeneScene. Your picture could be featured here in our Message Board. Email them to info@greenescenemagazine.com.

Correction: Monument Winner

Amber Donley was our winner for the monument contest in the November issue. Sorry for the incorrect name, Angela... we mean, Amber!