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For a review of “The Wolverine,” see Page 3

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Children’s Fun Day at Minersville Community Church, Llewellyn

Julisa, left, and Justina Rivera, Minersville

From left, Shelby and the Rev. John R. Buffington, Minersville, and Andy Hoysock, Pottsville For more photos from the event, see Page 4

Ukrainian Seminary Day to be celebrated See Page 2

Culture on display

Ukrainian Seminary Day a celebration of faith, heritage

BY JOHN E. USALIS STAFF WRITER

parishioners of all churches, but he has noticed a greater jusalis@republicanherald.com interest this year.

What: 79th annual Ukraini“The challenge of bringhe annual tradian Seminary Day ing 12 different parishes and tion of Ukrainian When: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

12 different ideas and 12 difSeminary Day Sunday will be held SunWhere: St. Nicholas Grove, ferent needs and desires into one unified team sometimes Primrose day at St. Nichoappears to be daunting,” said las Grove, PrimThe rain-or-shine event is Hutsko. “The interest in comrose, bringing faith and culture together to sponsored by the 12 parishes ing together has always been there, but for this year in parhelp in the training of semi- and faithful of the South ticular, the interest in the layAnthracite Deanery (Protonarians. presbytery) of the Ukrainian people of all of the parishes The 79th annual event, has been the highest. Attenwhich runs from 11 a.m. to 8 Catholic Archeparchy of dance at meetings have been p.m., promises to draw large Philadelphia. The parishes the highest in previous years, are located in Schuylkill, crowds to enjoy homemade and their input and ideas has ethnic food, music, food, folk Northumberland, Columbia just blossomed. The process and Luzerne counties. dancing, food, Ukrainian has been very fruitful. The The Very Rev. Archpriest vendors and crafters, and, of parishioners from the differcourse, food. Admission and Michael Hutsko, dean of the ent churches get to know one parking is free and buses are protopresbytery, said the ethanother and work beside welcome. No outside food or nic celebration always has each other, which in turn beverages allowed. had strong support by builds a strong sense of community, a strong sense of church.”

Plans for the day include a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy in the hall at 11 a.m. celebrated by Metropolitan Archbishop Stefan Soroka and deanery clergy.

From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., WPPA-AM 1360 will provide a live polka radio broadcast from the grove. The Kazka Ukrainian Folk Ensemble, which has been performing folk music and dance for more than a quarter century, will perform from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

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Kim Fritzges, Mountaintop, works an icon titled “The Nativity” during the 78th annual Ukrainian Seminary Day, Primrose. This year’s event will be held Sunday at St. Nicholas Grove. LEFT: Joe Liptok, member of Assumption of the BVM Roman Catholic Church, Centralia, makes bleenies as Joseph Snyder, Hazleton, makes funnel cakes at last year’s event.

‘Wolverine’ falls short

“To be, or not” ... let’s make it “To slash, or not to slash.”

Because this latest X-Men movie is a lot more existential than recent installments in this comic book series have been.

“The Wolverine” is nothing if not ambitious — a moody, haunted tale of Logan the Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) coping with his ghosts and settling old debts — in Japan, no less. It’s the perfect country for a guy who appreciates a good, sharp blade.

And if this James Mangold (“Walk the Line”) take on the superhero franchise stumbles up blind alleys, overreaches and turns long and repetitious by its bloodybland predictable third act, at least it gives Jackman something worth chewing over for the first 90 minutes.

We first see our man Logan in solitary, stuck in a well in a Japanese POW camp at the end of World War II. His captors panic at the sight of a couple of B-29 bombers, and one frees the American prisoners, very uncharacteristic behavior historically, but hey, this is comic book history.

Logan shields the guard when the big blast comes because this turns out to be Nagasaki, where the second atomic bomb was detonated to force Japan’s surrender.

Decades later, the immortal mutant with the Adamantium knives in his fists is summoned to the side of the man he saved by a martial arts pixie (Rila Fukushima).

“Eternity can be a curse,” the dying old man (Hal Yamanouchi), now a billionaire, speculates. “A man can run out of things to live for.”

He offers his savior the chance to lose his immortality, to live a normal life span without the super-healing powers and strength that make the very idea that Wolverine would have ever been

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a prisoner of war absurd.

Wolverine finds himself mixed up in the succession between the dying man and his heirs. The Japanese mob, the Yakuza, is trying to nab the supermodel-thin granddaughterMariko(TaoOkamoto),and Wolverine chases her crosscountry to protect her.

Wolverine takes his place within Japanese culture as a Ronin, a loner, a samurai without a leader or purpose. He’s dreaming a lot about the mutant he loved but had to kill (Famke Janssen), and fretting over the dying old man’s doctor (Svetlana Khodchenkova), a fork-tongued devil so thin she makes Mariko consider a diet. And then his powers start to fail him.

Mangold sets up an interesting premise — an immortal tired of living faced with mortality. How brave can Wolverine be when the bullets leave permanent holes, when every arrow fired by a ninja could kill and every slashing-fight against samurai sword-wielding foes could be his last?

Then the movie stumbles into the curse of the feeble villains — none worthy of Wolverine’s knives — and the trap of endless fights. The action sequences are grimly violent and entertaining, but there is no one written or cast in this worthy of his best efforts.

Jackman has great presence in this role, brooding, sulking, wisecracking to alarmed airport metal detector operators.

“Hip replacement.”

This “Wolverine” gets our hopes up, and falls short. If you’re the sort who stays through the credits and swoons over whatever variation on the “Nobody ever dies in Marvelland” the tease for the next film promises, this is

for you. For anybody with a more demanding palette, even of a summer comic book movie, “The Wolverine” may leave you wanting the higherminded movie this one promised to be — for a while.

“The Wolverine,” a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, some sexuality and language. Running time: 122 minutes. ★★½

“Blue Jasmine” His camera is mostly stationary and his scenes are static, still mostly driven by dialogue. And Woody Allen’s recent movies have betrayed his increasingly pronounced disconnect from modern mores, culture and speech.

So it’s tempting to dismiss his latest, “Blue Jasmine,” as a melodramatic exercise in stale and stodgy. He’s that oldfashioned.

But get past the chattiness of his heroine, the title character (Cate Blanchett). Yes, her name’s Jasmine. “I changed it. From Jeanette.”

Get past the pun in the title. Yes, she’s blue. Her husband, Hal (Alec Baldwin), was a Wall Street wolf who got caught, lost their fortune, went to prison and left her alone, something she blabs to her fellow passenger on a first-class flight from New York to San Francisco.

Get past the fashion sense, the polished, patronizing accent, the temper, the weary lines Allen gives her. (“God, who do I have to sleep with around here to get a Stoli martini with a twist of lemon?”)

This is a brittle and bril-

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Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” stars, from left, Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin and Andrew Dice Clay liant performance and Jasmine turns out to be one of Allen’s more interesting creations. In this flighty rich woman brought low — she’s had to move in with her grocery store cashier sister (Sally Hawkins) in San Francisco — Allen makes a commentary on class and the way we all overdramatize our lives, lives that most of us only narrate in our heads.

Not Jasmine. She’s the first to blurt that she ignored the slippery dealings that Hal was making, but the last to realize how intellectually lazy her bourgeois life of charity events, shopping sprees and weekends in the Hamptons made her. There is but one quarrel with sister Ginger — “settling.”

Ginger divorced one working-class oaf (Andrew Dice

Clay) and seems anxious to marry another (Bobby Cannavale). Jasmine, the nervous, pill-popping chatterbox, passes judgment on that and keeps her eyes set on a higher prize.

Ginger’s friends suggest a job — as a dental office receptionist. “Too menial.”

She insists she’d rather return to school. To study what, nursing? “God, no.”

Allen toys around with this tired pizza-vs.-Prada conflict in flashbacks, showing Jasmine’s aloof removal from Ginger when she was rich, painting a picture of her “phony” lifestyle with her “liar and thief” of a husband.

The biggest statement here is about character, not class.

The haves are liars and poseurs, the working folks may be loutish but are true blue. Allen stole that from a

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dozen melodramas of the 1930s. Jasmine fends off a groping-grabby dentist-boss (Michael Stuhlbarg from “A Serious Man”) and sets her cap for a wealthy State Department higher-up (Peter Sarsgaard), situations so retro they’re almost hip.

The reason to fall into “Blue Jasmine” is Blanchett’s cagey, broken turn. Here is a female match for Jay Gatsby, a woman as set on living a higher life and asking no questions about how it’s achieved as Fitzgerald’s antihero. Blanchett makes Jasmine the heroine of her own tragedy, refining her narration, polishing her predicament, wallowing in her doom but hellbent on looking stylish in Chanel as she does.

“Blue Jasmine,” a Sony Classics release, is rated PG13 for mature thematic material, language and sexual content. Running time: 99 minutes. ★★½ Reading Movies 11 & IMAX FRI-TUE • 7/26-30

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A mix of art, music, poetry and more will draw visitors to downtown Scranton this Saturday as a way of simultaneously promoting the arts and boosting the local economy.

The inaugural Arts on the Square festival will open at noon on Lackawanna County Courthouse Square, where stages and more than 100 vendors will be set up. Activities will run until 8 p.m.

“I think that (visitors will) like that there’s something for everyone,” said Cristin Powers of ScrantonMade, a group of local, independent retailers and one of the partners planning the festival.

The festival grew out of a meeting this spring between local artists, people involved in arts businesses and the arts council that advises

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Lackawanna County. Maureen McGuigan, the county’s deputy director of arts and culture, said the county wanted to gather opinions about what the public wanted to see in downtown Scranton and discuss local arts and business. The county’s desire to use the square and get people excited about going downtown then combined with ScrantonMade’s plan to hold a summer event to create the festival, McGuigan said.

“As much as it’s about economic development and supporting (businesses), it’s also about educating and engaging people in the arts,” she said.

Powers said so many people were interested in participating that organizers actually had to turn them away.

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The inaugural Arts on the Square festival will draw attention to local artisans this Saturday in downtown Scranton. Organizers include, seated, from left, Maureen McGuigan and Cristin Powers, ScrantonMade; back, Lindsay Barrasse of L. Productions and JVW Inc.; playwright Jack McGuigan and Elizabeth Chiorazzi, Lackawanna County Library System. square, which was the goal.”

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activities. It resulted in a schedule that includes performances by bands like Rogue Chimp and the Great Party, theatrical performers

specials for the day, and food trucks will set up shop on North Washington Avenue.

And nearby, Scranton Cultural Center at The Masonic Temple, Albright Memorial Library and the Everhart Museum have collaborated to set up a stage on North Washington Avenue for “Art in the City: Text in Action.”

McGuigan described it as a “mini-festival” that will feature some interactive and spoken-word activities.

Organizers hope to hold the festival annually. Part of the reason events like this are so great is because they are free and accessible to everyone, McGuigan said.

“They’re free; you don’t have to buy anything,” she said. “You can just come down and enjoy the square, and it’s really beautiful.”

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“I just think it’s a great thing for the area,” Powers said.

“And I think it also just is a great way to support the artists and crafters and musicians in the area and also the local businesses that are in and around the downtown, and to give people something to do.”

Visitors will be able to try their own handiwork at a doit-yourself tent, check out demonstrations and browse art. They also can buy items from local artisans.

“That’s going to support their livelihood,” McGuigan said. “Hopefully (visitors will) also frequent other bars, restaurants and shops.”

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Mucking has multiple meanings

Dear Mark: I was catching up on my “required reading” and noticed your June 12 column concerning a poker irregularity. This reminded me of a question I have. Pick a game, any game. Consider a situation where, in the final round of betting, I have bet and been called. I show my cards and my opponent mucks. Can I demand to see their cards even though they have conceded the pot? I might want to do this to learn more about their style of play, or why they thought they had a winning hand.

Van L. The word “muck” is used one of two ways in poker. The collection of face down cards

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quality of someone’s playing style — bluff/semi-bluff/reasonable hand — when they call, then muck their cards, Deal Me In would give other players an insight into their game.

Although plenty of players think it’s poor gamesmanship if you don’t show your cards, others believe you should near the dealer composed of reveal as little information as discards and folded hands is possible. You want to leave called the muck. In the verb people wondering whether form, “He didn’t have any you folded due to barely being outs, so he mucked his hand.” beat, or because you never With your scenario, had a hand in the first place. because an opposing player There are card rooms that called your bet, typically that allow any player to see the player is not required to mucked hand at the showshow you his or her cards. down. This rule was origiYou can always ask, but nally set up to avoid collumany players will deny your sion. Also, if you’re playing request, simply because the in a tournament, all cards

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your cards does not automatically cause a dead hand.

For most card games, whether at the friendly confines of your kitchen table, or in a card room, the rule is “cards speak.” Your poker hand is what it is, regardless of how you call, miscall, and in certain circumstances, muck your cards.

Any verbal declaration as to the content of a player’s hand, or mucking it, is not Dead hand necessarily binding. If someDear Mark: one physically mucks their In poker, if you muck your hand or verbally claims that hand, is your hand automati- their hand is worthless, but cally dead? My poker group in fact had a straight, their is 50/50 on this question. We cards speak, and their hand await your response. is viewed for its genuine valGordon R. ue. That is, Gordon, as long The “act” of mucking as the folded hand didn’t hit

will be turned over, regardless of who went all in, or where the action is; flop, turn or river.

Here’s the deal, Van. Even though both players do not have to show their hands in cash games in the majority of poker rooms across the U.S., there is absolutely no definitive set of rules that are followed everywhere. Thus, house rules trump Hoyle.

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the muck pile or any other player’s card(s). If any card did, the dealer would rightfully rule their hand dead, and the thrower automatically withdraws from participation in the pot.

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CONCERT — Presented by national composer Terry Piontkowski and the Lumen Christi Ministry, 7 p.m., All Saints Church, 17 N. Cleveland St., McAdoo. Freewill

offering taken.

KAUFMAN’S BARBEQUE CHICKEN DINNER — Pick up noon to 5 p.m., FARM food stand, Schuylkill County Fairgrounds, 2270 Fair Road, Summit Station. Also, take-out dinner, 10:30 to 2 p.m., Moyer’s Car Care Center, Route 183 and 443, Schuylkill Haven.

Cost $8. Visit www.schuylkillfair.com to place order.

MEAT BINGO — 7:30 p.m., doors open 7 p.m., Mahanoy City Elks, 135 E. Centre St., Mahanoy City.

YARD SALE — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Treasures at the Corner, Routes 443 and 183, Schuylkill Haven. Benefits Ruth Steinert Memorial SPCA. Donations of clean usable clothing and household items needed. Call Lee Yeager at 267-334-4220 or shelter at 570-345-3540 and leave message.

DELCAMP’S

St. Clair • 8AM to 8PM • 570-429-1470

Blue Mountain Lakes Summit Statio n, Route 895

570-754-7934

Sat. 10 p.m “Still Rockin.-1 a.m. ’ in PA Aug. 17th ” 2nd Annual Show & SwapBike Meet

Tonite "FRED NEBULA" Saturday "AMOS STONE TRIO"

CALL NOW FOR MORE INFO OR TO SIGN-UP FOR THE FALL SEASON.

WEEKEND SPECIAL

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 5:30 am to 2 pm We Accept Credit Cards

Tuesday, July 30 8pm-10pm th

We Have Mackerel

Pepper Onion Pepper Jack Cheese Omelet

Thur.-Fri.-Sat.-Sun. 6 a.m.-12 noon

$.75 A Game Per Person When You Bring This Ad. We have openings in our Youth Jr./Sr. Mixed Lg. Ages 8 to 18 • 10 am Starts August 17th

(570) 622-8740 Check us out on Facebook!

Weekend Specials Friday

Boneless Breaded Pork Chops 895 Chicken & Spinach Rollentine 1095 Broiled Sea Scallops 1395

116 Ringtown Blvd Ringtown 570-889-2357 Join Us This Weekend!

Myrtle May’s Café 236 Sunbury Street, Minersville PA 17954 • (570) 399-5110 www.myrtlemayscafe.com

OPEN SUNDAYS 7am-2pm Open Tues. Thru Sat. 5am-2pm

Music by DJ Drew. Food for sale. Sponsored by Frackville Rotary with all food proceeds to benefit Frackville Pool.

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.

MEETING — Park Crest Fish and Game Protective Association, 2 p.m., Brandonville clubhouse.

SOUTH CASS FIRE CO. RT. 901 PRIMROSE

BREAKFAST Sunday, July 28th 7:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

BREAKFAST SERVED ALL DAY!

Summit View 2501 West End Ave., Pottsville

Branchdale Call 570-544-5105 Weekend Special

to view family film and tour fair before it officially opens. Food items will go to 17 food pantries in Schuylkill County.

FLEA MARKET — 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Sunday, Renninger’s Market, Schuylkill Haven. Benefits Ruth Steinert Memorial SPCA. Donations of clean usable clothing and household items needed.

Call Lee Yeager at 267-3344220 or shelter at 570-3453540 and leave message.

FREE CONCERT IN THE LOT — Presented by Catawissa Military Band, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., parking lot of St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, 100 E. Main St., Ringtown. Bring lawn chair or blanket.

FREE LUAU SWIM PARTY — 6 to 8 p.m., Frackville Pool.

Restaurant & Pub

Anne's Bakery and More

570-622-8740

LEAGUES BEGIN 2ND WEEK IN AUGUST.

570-544-6096

1240 Centre Turnpike Route 61 Orwigsburg, PA • 570-366-1914

2501 WEST END AVE., POTTSVILLE, PA 17901

WE HAVE OPENINGS FOR INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES & TEAMS ON ADULT & YOUTH LEAGUES

STEVE’S

14-16 Sunbury St. • Minersville

Breakfast Served All Day

STRIKE ZONE ALLEYS FALL LEAGUES NOW FORMING

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST — 8 a.m. to noon, Hometown Fire Company, Route 54, Hometown.

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST — 8 to 11 a.m.,Altamont Fire Company, Morea Road, Frackville. Adults $8, children $4. Call 570-874-4384.

ANNUAL UKRAINIAN SEMINARY DAY — 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., St. Nicholas picnic grounds, Route 901, Primrose. Ethnic food, entertainment. All proceeds benefit St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Seminary, Washington, D.C. CAN FILM FESTIVAL — 7 to 11 p.m., Schuylkill County Fairgrounds, 2270 Fair Road, Summit Station. Bring one non-perishable food item per person

Eggs, Corn Beef Hash & Homefries

Friday

Shrimp Dinner ...$4.99 Tuna Hoagie .......$3.99

SUNDAY

Saturday

Veal Cutlet Cordon Bleu 895 Chicken & Shrimp Scampiover Angel Hair 1095 Grilled Prime Rib 1395

Closing for Vacation

Sunday July 28 to Wednesday Aug 7 Reopening Thursday Aug 8 at 8am

See you then!

570-754-7535 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays Between 4 PM & 5 PM Receive 10% Off Your Entire Food Bill

Corner Nice & Spring Sts. Frackville • 570-874-4496

Serving Dinners

Fri. & Sat. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

•SEAFOOD •PASTA •WINGS •PIZZA •SANDWICHES •OTHER SNACK FOODS ETC. Lobster & Sauteed Shrimp Combo

$19.95

Route 183, Summit Station

Delmonico Steaks

Wed. & Thurs. 4-8pm • Fri. & Sat. 4-9pm Sun. Noon-7pm • Closed Mon. & Tues.

Dining Room is now Smoke Free

16 oz.

Pine View Acres Saturday, July 27th.

“MIXX”

Sundays Big Breakfast Buffet

$16.95

Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge

Sonny’s Smoked & Tiki Bar Now Open

SPECIALS

FRIDAY SEAFOOD BUFFET

King Crab Legs-Steamed Clams Haddock-Shrimp (Fried & Cocktail) Includes Dessert & Salad Bar & 12 other items

$19.95

NEW SPECIAL

STUFFED PORK CHOPS $13.95 2ND DINNER $6.95 WINGS $6.50 DOZ. EVERY NIGHT Now Accept 570-628-3207 • Chamberlaine Ave., Pottsville WeEBT Cards

(Fruit Filled Crepes, Cinnamon Bread, Creamed Chipped Beef, Biscuits, Scrapple, Ham, Potatoes, Sausage & Kielbasi)

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From 4 to 8 p.m., John Stevens’ Doubleshot Polka Band will debut at Ukrainian Seminary Day with lively music. The band has appeared on numerous television shows, including “Pennsylvania Polka” (WVIA), “The Jolly Joe Timmer Show” (RCN) and “The Bethlehem Musikfest” (Service Electric Cablevision).

The menu will have the traditional homemade favorites, along with a new item: fried pyrohy. Due to requests over the years, organizers decided to serve them in addition to the traditional pyrohies with butter and onions.

There will also be halushki, halupki, kielbasa, barbecue, sausage with peppers and onions, bean soup, clam chowder, bleenies, hamburgers, hot dogs, french fries, funnel cake, ice cream and other baked goods.

Anyone who has problems choosing, there is a sampler platter, which has kielbasa and sauerkraut, halupki, rye bread and a choice of halushki or pyrohy. Beverages include soda, water, beer and mixed drinks.

Vendors and crafters will

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sell traditional Eastern European items, a theme basket auction will feature more than 30 baskets created by the parishes, church organizations and individual parishioners, and there will be games for children.

Ukrainian Catholic Seminary Day began in 1934 in Lakewood Park, Barnesville, and continued through the 50th anniversary held in July 1983. Seminary Day was a “coming home event” for many of descendants of Ukrainian immigrants who left the coal region to work in the larger cities.

The Seminary Day tradition at Lakewood Park ended in 1983, the year the park was closed.

In 1985 Ukrainian Seminary Day was revived and moved to Primrose.

The deanery parishes have been among the strongest supporters of the Semi-

Middleport Inn Coal St., Middleport

Friday Specials

Honey Dipped Chicken Shrimp and Crab Au Gratin Western Filet Mignon Lobster Bisque Thursday - Wing Night

570-277-9015

DENNY’S FIGHT FOR LIFE WEEK JULY 29TH TO AUGUST 4TH THURSDAY, AUGUST 1ST OPEN POOL TOURNAMENT @ 7 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 3RD LUCK OF DRAW ELECTRONIC DART TOURNAMENT SIGN UP @ NOON STARTS @ 1:00 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 4TH RIDE FOR BOOBIES POKER RUN SIGN UP 11 AM TO 1 PM RIDE - 5 STOPS FOOD AND BEVERAGES NICK MICHELS WILL PERFORM 5-8 PM CHINESE AUCTION 6:00-6:30 PM ALSO DON’T FORGET THIS SATURDAY, JULY 27TH VICTIMS OF VINYL @ 10 19 FRONT ST., CRESSONA • 570-385-1927

FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2013

nary Appeal since the seminary was founded. From 1985 through 2012, Ukrainian Seminary Day has raised more than $580,000 for St. Josaphat’s Seminary Fund, which provides financial support for St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Seminary, adjacent to the campus of The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. It is the only Ukrainian Catholic seminary in the United States.

You’ve Waited Patiently and now it’s time for the

10th Annual Newspaper in Education

PINE GROVE LEGION POST 374 42 S. Tulpehocken St. Pine Grove 570-345-8050

FRIDAY PLATTERS 4-7PM BLAZING Bs RIBS W/ CHOICE OF POTATO & COLE SLAW HADDOCK W/MAC & CHEESE SAT. BREAKFAST 7-11AM SAT 8-11PM “JOHNSON BROTHERS” COMING AUG 3RD “THE NEW INDIVIDUALS”

Lakeside Ballroom Presents August 3rd Green River Band (Tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival) 9pm - 11:30pm Doors Open at 8pm

$15 in Advance $20 at Door

August 10th Bruce in the USA (Tribute to Bruce Springsteen) Doors Open at 8pm 9pm - 12 midnight

$20 in Advance $25 at Door August 16th WXW Wrestling Tickets $15 Doors Open at 7pm Bell time 8pm

40 Crystal Lane • Barnesville • 570-467-2630 www.lakesideballroom.net

POTTSVILLE (PA.) REPUBLICAN HERALD

4 Days Only Thursday August 1 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday August 2 10 am. to 8 p.m.

Saturday August 3 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Sunday August 4 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Prices Thursday & Friday

Paperbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.00 Hardbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3.00 Thin Romance (Harlequin) . .5 for $1.00 Children’s Paperbacks. . . . . .3 for $1.00 Children’s Hardbacks . . . . . . . . . . $1.00 VHS Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50¢ Books on Tape/CD . . . . . . . . . . . . $3.00

Saturday (Half Price Day)

Paperbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50¢ Hardbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.50 Thin Romance (Harlequin) .10 for $1.00 Children’s Paperbacks. . . . . .6 for $1.00 Children’s Hardbacks . . . . . . . . . . . $.50 VHS Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25¢ Books on Tape/CD . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.50

Sunday (Bag Day)

$5.00 a bag - we supply the bag

ADDITIONAL BOOK SALE INFORMATION SUCH AS AUTHOR & CATEGORY LIST CAN BE FOUND AT: republicanherald.com/booksale