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FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 2014

For a review of “The Monuments Men,” see Page 3

We saw you at...

Greater Pottsville Winter Carnival Yuengling Night

Linda Mullins, Orwigsburg, left, and Terry Alexander, Pottsville

Jim Humphrey, left, and Heather Pavelko, both of Pottsville For more photos from the event, see Page 4

Carnival queens See Page 2

Queen of Snows

Winter Carnival wraps up with Senior Princess pageant

BY ERIC PEDDIGREE COPY EDITOR

T

epeddigree@republicanherald.com

he coronation of the Queen of the Snows will be held Saturday in Pottsville.

The celebration is the grand finale of the 47th annual Greater Pottsville Winter Carnival.

The Senior Princess pageant will begin at 7 p.m. at Pottsville Area High School’s Robert W. Wachter Auditorium. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. and tickets are $6.

Amanda Boris, Winter Carnival board member, said 18 women ages 18 to 29 from If you go Schuylkill County have What: Greater been competing Pottsville Winter for the last Carnival Senior month for a shot Princess pagat the crown. eant The field will be When: 7 p.m. narrowed to Saturday eight at SaturWhere: Pottsday’s pageant ville Area High School’s Robert before the judgW. Wachter Audi- es get a final look at the womtorium Cost: $6 en.

“The final judging event will be the question at the pageant,” Boris said. Each of the final eight will be asked a question from Master of Ceremonies Henry Nyce, publisher of The Republican-Herald.

Boris said the women were previously judged at three events — the judges’ reception, Senior Princess Fashion Show and Yuengling Night.

Entertainment during the pageant will be provided by LA Dance Theatre Inc., Saint Clair, and T.J. Fitzpatrick.

After the 2014 Queen of the 2

JACQUELINE DORMER/STAFF PHOTOS

LA Dance Theatre Inc., Saint Clair, will entertain Saturday during the 47th annual Greater Pottsville Winter Carnival Senior Princess pageant at Pottsville Area High School’s Robert W. Wachter Auditorium.

Snows is crowned, the contestants will shake off the stress at the Queen’s Ball. This year’s ball will be held at 10 p.m. at Hillcrest Hall, Minersville.

Boris said the women are excited to relax after a month’s worth of Winter Carnival events.

“The pressure is over from the judging events,” said Boris, whose mother, Dee, is the coordinator for the Senior Princesses. Amanda Boris said she has been involved with the Winter Carnival since she was 5 years old but has been assisting Dee with the Senior Princesses for four years.

Along with music and dancing, Boris said the ball is special because the new queen will join her royal companions, the 2014

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Snowdrop and Snowflake princesses. Those pageants were held Feb. 1, with Elise Caroline Eister, 9, of Minersville, being named Snowdrop Princess and Kara Pytko, a junior at Minersville Area High School, taking the crown of Snowflake Princess.

Completing its 47th year, Boris said the Winter Carnival is a Schuylkill County tradition that the public should support and come out to enjoy.

“It’s something that has been going on in the Schuylkill County area for 47 years and it provides something to do in Schuylkill County in the (winter) months,” Boris said.

For more information, visit the Winter Carnival’s Facebook page.

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Corene Parrish, Schuylkill Haven, was crowned the 2013 Queen of Snows.

‘Monuments Men’ harks back to an earlier war-movie era

They don’t make ’em like “The Monuments Men” anymore.

For those of a certain age — or who simply have a deep interest in American war films — this George Clooneydirected WWII drama recalls the kind of stout-hearted combat movie that seemed to be so popular from the 1950s through the early ’70s.

In fact, the plot — a group of older art experts recruited to sneak into Europe and rescue priceless works before the Germans or the Russians can get them — recalls the likes of “The Dirty Dozen” or “Kelly’s Heroes,” in which a small band of men must infiltrate Nazi lines.

There’s none of “Saving Private Ryan’s” graphic realism or “Inglorious Basterds’” cheeky cultural horseplay.

There are no shades of gray.

Even the score by Alexandre Desplat and the closing credits seem straight out of 1962.

All of that is kind of cool in theory but, as a film, “The Monuments Men” falls short even if its message — forms of creativity are worth preserving even in times of disaster — remains a compelling one.

Based on a true story and the book of the same name

by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter, “The Monuments Men” — with its shifting tone between light comedy and drama — rarely gets the viewer invested enough to really care what happens to them. And that’s unfortunate, because it really is a fascinating footnote in history.

Clooney is Frank Stokes, an art historian who at the beginning of the film is begging President Franklin

MOVIE REVIEWS Roosevelt to send a team to Europe to salvage much of the West’s cultural heritage.

The president is intrigued but tasks Stokes with putting together a team of fellow art professionals to do it himself.

So Stokes calls museum curator James Granger (Matt Damon) and other professionals in the field, including historian Preston Savitz (Bob Balaban), sculptor Walter Garfield (John Goodman), architect Richard Campbell (Bill Murray), art dealer Jean Claude Cler mont (Jean Dujardin) and Englishman Hugh Bonneville (Donald Jeffries), whose art credentials remain nebulous.

Once in Europe, Granger has to track down Claire Simone (Cate Blanchett), an informal double agent who works for the Nazi bureau in charge of taking art to Germany, where Hitler wants to open a sprawling Fuehrer Museum. However, she really has ties with the Resistance and is keeping tabs on where the art is going.

All of this is rife with possibilities, but the set-up is too rushed. Clooney and co-writer Grant Heslov only offer thin character sketches, so when everyone is put in jeopardy, their fates don’t really matter. It’s hard to care about any of them.

“The Monuments Men,” a Columbia/Fox release, is rated PG-13 for some images of war violence and historical smoking. Running time: 118 minutes. ★★

“The LEGO Movie” If the Looney Toons team had played with plastic

blocks that snap together, “The LEGO Movie” is the kind of surreal subversion they might have made.

Their Looney heirs, the guys behind the original “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller), have turned a 90-minute exercise in product placement into a trippy clarion call for creativity — for not following “the instructions” of these fiendishly simple Danish building blocks.

The story — if you can call it that — is a riff on “Tron,” an alternate world out of

sight of our own whose denizens lead an assault on conformity.

The characters, ranging from a blind wizard (Morgan Freeman) and “master builder” ninja (Elizabeth Banks) to Batman (a growling Will Arnett), an evil overlord named President Business (Will Ferrell) and his Bad Cop (Liam Neeson) henchman, make the case that it’s those who can improvise, invent and see the world differently who are “the special.”

Jerky computer animation vividly mimics the shiny

look and tactile feel of LEGO blocks. The movie shows off these blocks as “the Original Transformers,” clickable into a wild variety of shapes, from cities to saloons, sailing ships to the plastic sea they sail on.

A clever touch - the writers note how creative kids slip small, everyday objects into their LEGO play as golf balls (Teet-leest), Q-Tips, 9 volt batteries and Xacto knives (“The sword of Exact-Zero!”) become exalted props in this universe.

The animation is a plasticcoated blur at times. Many of

the jokes will fly over the heads of the intended audience, and the sermonizing about being creative gets repetitive.

But from its slapstick physics to its theology (“The Man Upstairs”), “TheLEGO Movie” amuses and never fails to leave viewers — especially adults — a little dazzled at the demented audacity of it all.

“The LEGO Movie,” a Warner Brothers release, is rated PG for mild action and rude humor. Running time: 91 minutes. ★★★

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MONUMENTS MEN PXC (PG-13) 6:00P, 9:15P NUT JOB 2D (PG) 12:30P NUT JOB 3D (PG) 3:30P RIDE ALONG (PG-13) 12:45P, 4:00P, 6:30P, 9:00P THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (R) 1:00P, 4:00P, 6:30P, 9:45P VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG-13) 12:15P, 3:45P, 6:45P, 9:15P

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LABOR DAY (PG13) (1:10*, 4:20*), 7:10, 9:55 RIDE ALONG (PG13) (1:05, 4:05), 7:05, 10:05 THE NUT JOB (PG) (1:20, 4:10), 7:00, 9:40 LONE SURVIVOR (R) (1:15, 4:15), 7:15, 9:40 FROZEN (PG) (4:20) 12 YEARS A SLAVE (R) 9:30 *TIMES NOT SHOWING SAT

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We saw you at ... Yuengling Night on Jan. 31

From left, Larry Trakes and Krista Wilson, both of Morea, and Patrick Kane, Lake Wynonah

Linda Deatrich, Schuylkill Haven, left, and Kelly Malone, Orwigsburg

From left, Ali Rhoades Hobbs, Helene Homovich Coyle and Elizabeth Robison, all of Pottsville

Photos by Jacqueline Dormer

From left, John D.W. Reiley, Billie Payne and Rich Torpey, all of Pottsville

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Valentine’s Day Certificates Available!

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THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS TODAY MEETING — Parkinson’s Support Group, 1 to 3 p.m., Schuylkill Rehabilitation Center, 300 Schuylkill Center, 300 Schuylkill Medical Plaza, Pottsville. Susan S. Schuettler will present “Improving speech intelligibility for persons with Parkinson’s disease.”

BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES — 7 to 9 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, Centre Street and Howard Avenue, Pottsville (use Second Street entrance).

Sponsored by Pottsville Recreation Commission. Call 570-622-6619.

FOOD PANTRY — Hosted

by New Life in Christ Ministries, 3:30 to 5 p.m., 217219 Market St., Cumbola.

To qualify for food pantry you must have a PA state-issued ID card and fall at or below the income guidelines.

Emergency food pantry available by appointment only, call 570-277-6041.

MOCK LOBSTER AND HAM DINNER — 4 to 7 p.m., Friedensburg Fire Company.

BUCK FEVER ROD & GUN CLUB - 825 Ravine St., Pottsville -

VALENTINE’S DAY DANCE Friday, February 14 9:00 p.m. to Midnight

Music by, BOYS UPSTAIRS $5.00 Cover

Takeouts available.

MEETING — Schuylkill Amateur Repeater Association, 8 p.m., Schuylkill County Emergency Operation Center, 435 N. Centre St., Pottsville. Meetings open to all who are interested in amateur radio.

SMOKE-FREE BINGO — 6:45 p.m., doors open 5:30 p.m., Summit Station Fire Company, 88 Firehouse Road, Summit Station. Food available.

SummitFire34@comcast.net for more information.

SATURDAY AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE — Noon to 5 p.m., Mr. D’s Interiors LLC, Route 901, Minersville. To make an appointment to donate blood, call 1-800-REDCROSS or log onto redcrossblood.org.

ANNUAL GREATER POTTSVILLE WINTER CARNIVAL EVENT — Senior Pageant, 7 p.m., Pottsville Area High School auditorium, followed

by Queen’s Ball, 10 p.m., Hillcrest Hall, Minersville.

2501 West End Avenue Pottsville - 570-622-8741

Tonite Happy Hour 4-8 pm

$2.25 “You Call It” 60¢ Wings Music By “DJ RAZZ” Saturday -

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Sunday $1.80 Natural Light Drafts Coming 3/15 - “Adrenalyn”

ANNUAL HOMEMADE SOUP AND BAKE SALE — 8 a.m. to noon, Salem United Methodist Church, 133 S. Liberty St., Orwigsburg. All proceeds benefit Local Outreach Mission Projects.

FREE COMMUNITY SOUP SOCIALS — 4 to 6 p.m. first Saturday of the month, Founders Hall at Trinity United Church of Christ, 22 Lafayette St., Tamaqua. Use lower parking lot entrance to hall.

FREE CLOTHING CLOSET — 10 a.m. to noon, Bethany Evangelical Congregational Church, 13th and Market streets, Ashland. Namebrand clothes and coats for all sizes and ages. Call 570875-3000.

LOVE IS IN THE AIR EVENT — 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Schuylkill Mall, Frackville.

Vendors include Scentsy, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef and more.

MEETING — Celebrate Recovery, 9 to 11 a.m., Fearnot Assembly of God Church, 1152 W. Mountain Road, Hegins. Christ-centered and Bible based program focus-

ing on dealing with life’s hurts, habits and hangups.

Free. For more information or directions, call Brian at 570-205-2813.

MEETING — Pottsville Open Writers, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Pottsville Free Public Library, 215 W. Market St., Pottsville.

NITE AT THE RACES — Doors open 7 p.m., races begins 8 p.m., Citizens Fire Company No. 2, Mahanoy City. Admission $10, includes food and refreshments. Horses $5 each.

For more information or to purchase a horse, call 570449-9404 or 570-773-1173.

Sponsored by Citizens Fire Company No. 2 and Mahanoy City EMS. OPEN HOUSE — 1 to 6 p.m., Walk-In Art Center, 220 Parkway, Schuylkill Haven.

Visit artists in their studios.

PINS FOR PAWS — Glow bowling and Chinese auction, 6 to 10 p.m., Strike Zone Alleys, 2501 W. End Ave., Pottsville. Benefits Ruth M. Steinert Memorial SPCA, Pine Grove. Tickets $10, to order call Diane at

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Adults $8.00 Kids (under 12) $4.00 Eat in or Take out Free Delivery in Town Call 570-385-0393 to order.

St., Girardville. Wings $8 per dozen, fries $3, fries with any wing sauce, $4. Eat in or take out. Call 570-2761406.

ZUMBA BENEFIT CLASS — 6 to 7 p.m., Penn State Schuylkill gymnasium, Schuylkill Haven. Admission $5, all proceeds benefit THON. CAKE DECORATING CLASS — Valentine Bouquet, 1 to 3 p.m., Tamaqua Community Art Center, 125 Pine St., Tamaqua. Bring 8 cupcakes to decorate. Cost $10, includes supplies. Contact instructor Daughn Edmonds at 610-413-3344 or email dedmunds@ptd.net.

SUNDAY

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST — 7 to 11 a.m., Friendship Fire Company, Seventh and Pine streets, Frackville.

Eat in or take out. Call 570874-4030.

CANCELLATION — Beef stroganoff sale, New Minersville Fire Company. Call 570294-6235.

Please see CALENDAR, Page 8

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REUNION BREAKFAST — Pine Grove High School Class of 1969, 9 a.m., Red Lion Cafe, Deturksville.

Call 570-345-8683. Group meets first Saturday of each month.

SAUERKRAUT AND PORK SUPPER — 3 to 7 p.m., Cressona Masonic Hall, Third and Ash streets, Cressona. Adults $8, children 12 and under, $4. Eat in or take out. Bags of sauerkraut for sale.

SPAGHETTI DINNER —11 a.m. to 6 p.m., East Norwegian Township Fire Company, 16 Sunshine St., Diener’s Hill. Adults $7, senior citizens, 55 and up and children, 12 and under, $5. Local delivery to surrounding areas.

SUNDAY SCHOOL WINTER CARNIVAL — 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Freidens United Church of Christ, 520 Chestnut St., Hegins. Games, food and bake good items.

WING NIGHT — 5:30 to 9 p.m. or sellout, Rangers Hose Company, 6 E. Ogden

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We all fall off the wagon once in a while

For most of my life, I’ve gone through phases in which I obsess about weight loss. It’s just something I was poisoned with when I was a kid by a number of outlets and, to be honest, it’s been a major thorn in my side. It’s inconvenient and consuming and only in recent years have I really found a formula that works for me.

My secret? Eat real food and exercise but also let yourself indulge once in a while. That’s what works for me.

For others, expensive structured programs, pills, fad diets and all kinds of trickery are the key, but for me, I honestly stick with nothing other than eating right and exercising as a routine — not as a diet, not as a new exercise fad. It must be just another thing in my list of daily duties just like brushing my teeth and going to work.

I try to keep it interesting, though. I throw a couple things in there for a sense of excitement, like kale smoothies, apple cider vinegar shots and coconut oil pulling, but, for the most part, I try to keep it as natural a process as possible.

Oh, but I didn’t always.

The real backstory is, I used my very first check out of

down the scale until I finally hung it up and decided to do it the old-fashioned way.

Jenna I have, for about seven years now, been in a routine Wasakoski of getting up early every morning and going to the gym pretty religiously. If I wouldn’t make it in the morning, it would be a must for after work. my very first checkbook Exercising regularly is when I was 12 years old to key to my mental and physipurchase diet pills from the back of some teen magazine cal health, but everyone, once in a while, falls off the — where, it is kind of diswagon. gusting to have advertiseLife gets in the way and ments for diet pills. the excuses start rolling in.

Sad? Yes, but I thought I ended up losing a bunch pills would work miracles of weight over the summer and my adolescent chub thanks to stress and anxiety, wasn’t getting me any slow dances and phone calls from so I held off from going to cute boys. Again, sad, I know. the gym because my clothes were all falling off and I figI wish I had never felt that ured the then-devastatingway about myself, but it’s something I understand and life-event-makes-me-notwant-to-eat diet was working a demon I must deal with. wonders.

Going forward, the pills Then, in an effort to didn’t work, but it didn’t stop return to normalcy, I started me from taking more pills and trying new tricks. I hon- going back to the gym. Then, once again, life got in the estly think I tried everyway, vacation got in the way, thing.

Halloween parties got in the I did the shakes, I tried way, Thanksgiving got in the starvation, I binged, I way, work got in the way, purged, I worked out obseswine got in the way and so sively, I cleansed, I fasted, I ate six times a day, I ate every on and so forth. I hadn’t really gained any weight, maybe three days. I did it all. I’m just a few pounds which I telling you, if there was a needed back from my fad, I tried it, and I just unhealthy summer weight Oprah Winfrey’d up and

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loss, but I definitely fell out of sync and out of shape.

I was knocked right off track.

So, in early December, I started the T-25 workout and I honestly loved it, I mean, I hated it, too, but overall, 25 minutes a day and that’s it?

Sign me up; this is how I will get back on track. I called the gym and suspended my membership, vowing to be back as soon as I finished the six or eight weeks of this program. That would have placed me in the first week of the New Year in the best shape of my life.

Well, that didn’t happen.

Instead, I had taken up smoking, and drinking wine had become my new favorite hobby.

It’s so easy to stay off track once you are derailed, but, never is there a point of no return.

I like to be in good shape.

Feeling out of shape is depressing and inconvenient. It’s harder to get dressed as confidence sinks, it’s harder to walk up flights of steps and less gets done around the house among other things.

So, I’ve cut down on smoking big time because I prefer to be able to breathe when I work out, and plan to be completely done with it in a

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out — that may be incorporated into my routine once I’m back on track, but baby steps have been working for me, so that’s what I’m sticking to — back to the routine.

There will always be a constant body image struggle in my head and that sucks.

If I could give one gift to the younger me it would be to tell her there is no easy way, and through dedication to eating right and exercising as routine, she could build the self-esteem needed to avoid body image issues and gain the confidence needed to shut up the voice that tells her she isn’t good enough at any weight.

So, no matter what works for you, just make sure you’re not hurting yourself and you feel good. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says, health and happiness are two keys to a beautiful life, and all that is needed to achieve that is determination. We were all built with that. Sometimes you just have to dig around to find it.

(Wasakoski, a News-Item editor, is a graduate of Von Lee School of Aesthetics and is certified as a professional makeup artist.)

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Saturday, February 8, 2014 • 6:00pm - 8:00pm or 8:00pm -10:00pm, Strike Zone Alleys, 2501 West End Ave., Pottsville.

Cost $10 per ticket, includes 2 hours of Glow Bowling and shoe rental.

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Saturday, February 8, 2014, Start 10:00am Chocolate & Wine: a Triple Good Time Galen Glen Offers the “Triple Crown” of Chocolate and Wine in a Complimentary Valentine Pairing 255 Winter Mountain Drive, Andreas, PA. On Saturdays, February 8 and 15 from 10am to 5pm and Sundays, February 9 and 16 from Noon to 5pm, Galen Glen Winery will host a complimentary pairing that is sure to delight any chocolate lover.

Sunday

Saturday, February 8, 2014 • 11:00am - 3:00pm Fairlane Village Mall, Pottsville.

Take a peek into the past during the annual History Fair. Visit with area historical societies located throughout the Mall and view informational displays rich with the county’s storied heritage during this special one-day-only event.

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few weeks. Remember, it’s what works for me.

The wine? Well, I’m not about to give up my relationship with wine. We’re really in love, and since a food allergy prevents me from drinking all but very specific kinds of beer — the longtime love of my life — wine works for me because liquor doesn’t. I suppose not drinking at all would work, too, but I come from a family of casual drinkers. My family worked for F&S, Durdach’s, The Lion Brewery and more, so I wouldn’t dare shame their memory by not knocking a few back once in a while — in a responsible manner, of course.

Anyhow, my wine solution was to give up the semisweets and switch to drier varieties because I’ve really cut down on sugar. Now, don’t get me wrong, while at an event called “Wine on Ice” over the weekend in Elmira, N.Y., I certainly indulged, but that was all in the name of fun. Come on. You have to live a little.

Sometimes it’s a process to get back on track and easier to tackle one thing at a time.

I tried to jump right back on and went for a fad work-

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Chance of perfect bracket zilch Dear Mark: I am sure you saw the news. Quicken Loans is offering to pay anyone filling out a perfect bracket for March Madness a billion dollars. Do you think anybody will ever fill out a perfect bracket?

Jimmy K. Nada chance, Jimmy! Zippo, zero, zilch!

The $1 billion prize is safe; and believe me, Quicken Loans knows the math of such a feat. The Quicken Loan honchos, along with the underwriter of the challenge, Berkshire Hathaway, fully realize that filling out a perfect bracket and predicting the correct result of all 63 games is one in two to the 63rd power, which just happens to be one in nine million trillion, that’s 1/ 9,000,000,000, 000,000,000. It is easier to hit the Powerball lottery solid on two consecutive draws.

Take for example, last

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full pay 9/6 (9 for a full house, 6 for a flush with one coin inserted) video poker machine that you stumbled Deal Me In upon, isn’t exactly what you thought it was.

If you look closely at most video poker paytables, you Extinct machine will notice a non-linear progression on the royal flush Dear Mark: year. With a kazillion entries payline. Your typical $1, 9/6 I have been a devoted readin ESPN’s Tournament Chalroyal flush payline looks like er of your column for years lenge, there was not one this: 500, 1,000, 1,500, 2,000 and and I just wanted to inform entry that remained perfect 4,000. Note, Diane, the hefty you that I finally found one heading into the round of 32. jump with the fifth coin of those elusive 9/6 video Sure, filling out a chart inserted. These machines poker machines that you makes for good fodder at the said are near extinct. Inform return 99.54 percent of monwater cooler. In my son’s ey bet, assuming you employ your readers that they can case, he attended U of Cinperfect basic strategy. find them at the Odawa Casicinnati, graduated from The $1 Game King no in Petoskey, MI. Michigan, and is now in Diane R. machine that offers a 9/6 grad school at Duke, so he game at the Odawa shows a The casino mentioned has three contenders that above, Diane, just happens to linear progression on the will make the show, and at be a rock skip across the Lit- royal flush payline. It pays least he gets to fill out his off like this: 500, 1,000, 1,500, tle Traverse Bay from my bracket with fervent alle2,000 and 2,500. This home in Harbor Springs. giance. But, Jimmy, let’s get machine, Diane, is shorting That being the case, I something straight here. you 1,500 coins on the fifth moseyed on over the other You, I and my son are never coin if you hit a royal. This day and found your 9/6 Jacks-or-Better game. That game returns 98.87 percent, going to win. No one is.

Mark Pilarski

Well, actually, that is not entirely true. The winner here is Quicken Loans for all the publicity it’s getting. The amount of free media exposure from this marketing maneuver has to be worth tens of millions of dollars.

slightly lower than a true, full pay 9/6 machine.

I also found a 9/5, 25-cent video poker machine, where with optimal play, it returns 98.45 percent. It, too, returns a bit less, but combined with their vast dessert display at their reasonably priced lunch buffet, possibly you have found the Promised Land.

You are using your Player’s card to comp yourself a feeding frenzy, right?

Time to hit

Dear Mark: A friend of mine believes there is a way to determine when a slot machine is going to hit. The thing is, he never wins, nor backs his talk up with any solid facts. He just believes that anyone who works in the slot department in a casino knows when slot machines are about to hit. I believe him to be wrong, but I would love your thoughts on this matter?

Tim H.

I won’t for the umpteenth time beat my readers down with the words “random number generator,” but just take it as fact, Tim, that I write with 100 percent certainty that no one knows when a slot machine is going to hit.

If anybody really knew, that person(s) would make the minimum wager when the machine was cold, and bet the maximum when a machine was hot. In but a few days, they, not Steve Wynn, would own the casino.

Gambling wisdom of the week Gambling itself will only end when human nature has changed completely and there are no more bets to win.

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Sunday February 9th Nativity BVM High School Lawton’s Hill, Pottsville DOORS OPEN AT 11:30 AM BINGO STARTS AT 1PM $25.00 ADMISSION INCLUDES: 15 REGULAR GAMES & 4 SPECIALS ALSO SPECIAL JACKPOT GAME (ADDITIONAL FEE)

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FEB. 14TH & 15TH 2 CAN DINE FOR 24.95 Catering for All Occasions, Funeral Dinners and Luncheons, Birthdays, Christenings etc.

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BINGO — 2 p.m., doors open at noon, St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church Hall, Main and Oak Streets, Shenandoah. Hall accessible to handicapped. Food available. Sponsored by Francis Cardinal Brennan Knights of Columbus Council 618.

BINGO — 1 to 5 p.m., Sheppton-Oneida Fire Hall, 900 Center St., Sheppton.

HALUPKI DINNER — 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. Nicholas Hall, Route 901, Primrose.

Cost $9. Eat in or take out.

Sponsored by St. Nicholas Church.

INDOOR BLOCK SHOOT .22 CALIBER — Noon to 6 p.m., Ryan Township Fire Company, 945 Barnesville Drive, Barnesville. Cost $7, includes all-you-can-eat and drink. Ham and pork loin shoots $3, money shoots $5.

Children welcome to shoot with adult supervision.

LASAGNA DINNER — 12:30 p.m., Life Centre Foursquare Church, Mahantongo Street, Pottsville. Adults $10, children, 12 and under $5, children 5 and under free.

LITTLE RED DRESS EVENT — 1 to 5 p.m., Walk-In Art Center, 110 W. Columbia St., Schuylkill Haven. Featuring heart health education, fashion show, silent auction, more than 50 vendors and George Blum, appraiser and

buyer. Sponsored by Schuylkill Health Auxiliary. Tickets $20.

Call 570-621-4242 or email m bardell@schuylkillhealth.com.

MEAT BINGO — 2 p.m., doors open 1 p.m., Aristes Fire Company, Cost $20.

Food available.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR CRAFT CLASS — A Woven Heart, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Pottsville Center, 201 N. Centre St., Pottsville. Cost $20 one session. To register, call 570-624-3018.

SOPHY JEWELER/UGG BOOT/COACH PURSE BINGO — Doors open 11 a.m., bingo starts at 1 p.m., Nativity BVM High School, 1 Lawtons Hill, Pottsville. Admission $25. Call Diane at 570-294-0551.

THIRTY-ONE BINGO — Noon to 5 p.m., Sacramento Community Fire Company, 2206 E. Main St., Sacramento. Tickets $25. Call 570345-3540. Benefits Ruth M. Steinert Memorial SPCA. CELEBRATE RECOVERY — 5 to 6 p.m., Faith Church, 1168 Centre Turnpike, Route 61, Orwigsburg. Biblical and balanced program created to help people overcome life’s hurts, habits and hangups.

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February 15, 2014 • Open to the Public Cost $20.00 Per Person Price Includes: • Meal Served from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

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FREE BREAD, PASTRY AND ROLLS — 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., pick up at Living Waters Church of God, 155 S. Balliet St., Frackville. Accepting non-perishable food for redistribution. Call 570874-1585.

FREE FEEDING PROGRAM — Soup kitchen open 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. every Sunday, New Life in Christ Ministries, 217-219 Market St., Cumbola. Full meal for families in need. Call 570-277-6041.

MEETINGS — Alcoholics Anonymous, noon and 7 p.m.

Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Friday; noon and 8 p.m.

Tuesday; noon Wednesday and Saturday, St. Stephen Center, 45 W. Fourth St., Mount Carmel.

WINGS — Noon until sellout every Sunday, Rainbow Hose Company, Dock Street, Schuylkill Haven. Cost $9 per dozen. Free delivery in town, including businesses.

Call 570-385-1511.

Must Be 21 Years of Age or Older Call Ce Emerich @ 570-294-1360 For Tickets Roast is held at the Good Will Fire Co., Cressona

Saturday, December 7th.

10:00 a.m. till sold out

Italian Wedding Chicken Rice Chicken Noodle Beef Vegetable Bean Minestrone Potato Leek Clam Chowder Cabbage Sausage All Homemade Takeouts Only

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