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FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014

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Pottsville’s Relay for Life

For a review of “XMen: Days of Future Past,” see Page 3

Day of remembrance

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Lori, left, and Brianna Rauenzahn, Schuylkill Haven

From left, Frank, Garrett and Christine Ratkiewicz, Ringtown For more photos from the fundraiser, see Page 5

Honoring our heroes Local communities to celebrate Memorial Day with parades, services

BY ERIC PEDDIGREE COPY EDITOR

epeddigree@ republicanherald.com

P

eople around the United States will honor the men and women who gave their lives in military service Monday in observance of Memorial Day. In Schuylkill County, communities are planning parades, ceremonies and church services to commemorate the annual holiday.

A full day of activities are scheduled in Orwigsburg, beginning at 8 a.m. with a parade through the borough.

Borough Manager Mike Lonergan said a special program will follow the parade in the community parking lot with Schuylkill County Register of Wills Theresa

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Santai-Gaffney serving as the guest speaker.

In addition to special readings and prayer, Lonergan said, a 21-gun salute will go off in honor of the fallen soldiers.

Lonergan said other events throughout the day will include Little League baseball games and a chicken barbecue from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., hosted by the Orwigsburg Lions Club.

“In Orwigsburg, it’s sort of a tradition. It’s probably one of the events that people look forward to,” he said.

In Cressona, hundreds of people are expected to line the parade route Monday, according to parade organizer Carl Jones. The parade will step off at 9:30 a.m. from SAPA, Pottsville Street. A program will follow at Legion Plaza sponsored by

the Cressona Lions Club, American Legion, Cressona Ministerium and Cressona Borough Council. The guest speaker will be Manuel DeLeon, a retired Pennsylvania State Police officer and Cressona Boy Scoutmaster.

“The committee thought he was a good role model to hold up for the community,” Jones said.

Despite speculation, the annual parade in Mahanoy City will be held this year on Monday. The Mahanoy Area United Veterans made the announcement May 9, but the traditional Sunday program was canceled.

The plan is to have three divisions as per past years.

The first division will be led by the police, color guard, Please see MEMORIAL, Page 8

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Mark Atkinson, grand marshal of last year’s Memorial Day parade, left, and Robert C. Bedford, president of the Pottsville Joint Veterans Council, place a wreath on the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument during last year’s Memorial Day program in Pottsville.

Memorial Day events AUBURN — Parade begins 11 a.m. Monday, featuring Blue Mountain High School band and Hawk Mountain Highlanders. Service follows parade at Auburn Church of God. In case of inclement weather, parade will be canceled and service will be held at 11:30 a.m. at Auburn Church of God. CRESSONA — Parade forms at SAPA parking lot and begins at 9:30 a.m. Monday. Program will follow at Legion Plaza, sponsored by Cressona Lions Club, American Legion, Cressona Ministerium and borough council. The featured speaker will be retired PA State Police officer and Cressona Boy Scoutmaster, Manuel Deleon.

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brance ceremony, sponsored by American Legion Post 309, will begin at 11 a.m. Monday at Thomas M. Sullivan Funeral Home, West Main Street, and will end at Veterans Memorial, Third and Ogden streets. Guest speaker, Staff Sgt. Carisa Markowicz. In case of rain, ceremony held at post home, 122 W. Main St. LLEWELLYN — Parade begins 8 a.m. Monday, Llewellyn Elementary School, Branch Township, followed by a ceremony at Veterans Memorial. Service will be held at 10 a.m., Friedens Lutheran Church. In case of rain, parade will be canceled and ceremony moved to school’s auditorium.

MINERSVILLE — Parade begins 9 a.m. Monday, ceremonies

follow at Veterans Memorial, South Fourth Street. Participants urged to assemble by 8:45 a.m.

PALO ALTO — Service, 1 p.m.

Sunday, Palo Alto monument.

Guest speaker, Lt. Cmdr. Laura McHugh.

PORT CARBON — Church service, 6 p.m. Sunday, Grace United Methodist Church. Parade begins 9 a.m. Monday, lineup 8:30 a.m. on Spruce Street both sides, starts down Washington turns right onto Pike Street, ends at red light, followed by ceremony by American Legion at gazebo.

POTTSVILLE — Parade begins 10 a.m. Monday on West Market Street, between 12th and 14th streets. Ceremonies will follow at Garfield Square. Grand marshal

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John R. Russell. Sponsored by Pottsville Joint Veterans Council.

SAINT CLAIR — Service, 1 p.m. Sunday, Saint Clair Area Elementary/Middle School cafetorium. Sponsored by Saint Clair Veterans Welfare Council, American Legion Post 719 and AMVETS Post 142.

SCHOENTOWN — Ceremony, 2 p.m. Monday, Vietnam Veterans Joseph C. Cappella Memorial Home (Port Carbon).

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — Service, 1:30 p.m. Monday, Vietnam Memorial, Route 61.

SELTZER — Service, 9 a.m., Seltzer Memorial. Conducted by Walter Griffiths Post 180 firing squad.

TOWER CITY — Harry Heart-

ter American Legion Post 468 will raise flag, 9 a.m. Monday, public square. Parade begins 10:30 a.m., program follows at public square.

Speaker, retired Sgt. Maj. Warren P. Parks. In the event of rain, program held in post home, 2 Clarks Valley Road.

TREMONT — Program, 1 p.m.

Monday, Robert “Pete” Wiscount Veterans Memorial Park. Guest speaker, retired Army Sgt. Maj. Craig Rothermel.

WICONISCO — Service, 8 a.m.

Monday, Honor Roll. Keynote speaker will be Wiconisco Township Supervisor Sean Flynn. In case of rain, program will be held at Calvary United Methodist Church, Pottsville Street.

‘Future Past’ fun summer romp

Leave it to the X-Men to put the fun back in summer blockbusters.

Hugh Jackman, in the role he was coiffed to play, and the rest of the crew from pretty much every film in this past, present and future franchise, deliver the action and the laughs in “Days of Future Past,” an all-star/all-X-Men outing designed to transition from the aging first generation cast into their younger selves. It’s too long and so cluttered with characters and exposition that if you aren’t a fan of the comics, you may feel you’re being punished.

But it delivers the 3-D thrills and the Wolverine (and Quicksilver) giggles, and how.

In a “Terminator” future, the robotic Sentinels have all but wiped out humanity and the mutants who love them.

But with the aid of time-bending Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page), the X-Men may be able to stop the mad — or at least greedy and irritable — scientist (Peter Dinklage) who invented these machines back during the Nixon administration.

Future mutants send the greying Wolverine (Jackman), or at least his consciousness, back to 1973.

And from the minute the guy wakes up in a world of lava lamps, Little Feat and Lectric Shave, things are popping. Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his nemesis-turned-ally Magneto (Ian McKellen) need Wolverine to convince their feuding young selves (James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender) to prevent a vendetta by Raven/ Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) that dooms the future.

So Wolverine, Beast (Nicholas Hoult) and the two mutant leaders contend with the Vietnam War peace talks, Richard Nixon, as well as the young soldier (Josh Helman) who will age into the evil Stryker as they chase Mys-

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Because she’s seen the experiments this scientist has been doing on mutants.

She’s been to Vietnam, where a selection of them were used in combat. And she’s got blood in her blue-green eyes.

History is twisted and sent up, from the Kennedy assassination to “Star Trek.” They need to bust into the Pentagon, so they track down a punk teen, the future Quicksilver (Evan Peters, who just kills in this part). That breakin scene, in 3-D slow motion “bullet time,” may be the coolest action beat ever filmed in 3-D and packs the biggest giggles in any X-Men film.

Meanwhile, in the future, Bishop (Omar Sy), Storm (Halle Berry) and Blink (Bingbing Fan) try to hold off the Sentinels using some of the most spectacular effects (instant wormholes) you’ve ever seen in a fight scene.

Jackman has most of the one-liners. He drops in on the past version of Xavier’s school for gifted (mutant) kids, which has closed as the professor has lost his way and crawled into a bottle.

“Are you a parent?” Hank / Beast asks at the door.

“I sure as hell HOPE not!”

The acting is all you could hope for from this cast, with Page bringing the empathy and Jackman delivering the cool. Dinklage could have added a bit more villainous glee, but McAvoy re-interprets Xavier nicely and Lawrence doesn’t let down the side.

There’s no Stan Lee cameo, the onslaught of characters is a bit much and the third act drags and drags before delivering a heartfelt payoff. But “Days of Future Past” is most everything we’d hoped the summer’s earlier popcorn pictures would be — fun.

“X-men: Days Of Future Past,” a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi violence and action, some suggestive material, nudity and language.Running time: 135 minutes.★★★

“Blended” If you can get through the first 20 minutes of “Blended” — a nonstop regurgitation of old jokes, annoying characters and unfunny ideas — don’t relax. It gets worse.

The new Adam Sandler/ Drew Barrymore comedy looks at what happens when two single parents end up on the same vacation through an absurd and contrived plot line. They decided to stay together in the same room (don’t ask) so they can enjoy

the trip to Africa.

It’s at that point where the movie should have been called “Deported” so we could send these two unlikable people — and their equally unlikable offsprings — home.

Instead, director Frank Coraci keeps trying to milk something funny out of the painfully trite script by Ivan Menchell and Clare Sera.

There are the movie’s big storylines: Will the couple find true love? If you don’t think they will get together in the end, then you have never seen a Sandler movie.

Will the young girl (Bella Thor ne) who everyone believes is a boy finally turn into a beautiful swan? First, the running joke never works

and second, the transformation of boyish girl into beauty has been around since caveman drawings.

Will the young boy (Kyle Red Silverstein) ever learn to hit a baseball? Even a script written this poorly isn’t going to leave the child a big loser.

He has to grow to set up the predictable ending.

The film might not have been such a disappointment if Sandler and Barrymore hadn’t had so much chemistry in “50 First Dates” and “The Wedding Singer.” None of the connections they made in those films are present here.

They just muddle through the film, pausing long enough to let Sandler improvise a few jokeless lines.

As if the film wasn’t enough

of a disaster, the very funny Wendi McLendon-Covey is wasted; Shaquille O’Neal — whose acting is the only thing worse than his free-throw shooting — is asked to create laughs; and Terry Crews plays an African lounge singer in a running joke that quickly loses its punch.

From its unoriginal premise and lack of comedy to the absence of sparks between the central couple, “Blended” has all the appeal of being gored by a rhino and then dropped into a lion’s den wearing a meat suit. At least that agony would end quicker.

“Blended,” a War ner Brothers release, is rated PG13 for crude and sexual humor. Running time: 102 minutes. Grade: F

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Rule change squashes chances of winning

Dear Mark: Is video blackjack the same as a live game? Is each new hand dealt a new game?

Is the strategy the same as live blackjack? I have tried playing the casino’s blackjack machines and I don’t seem to do very well.

Dave S. Your problem, Dave, is that the rules of the video blackjack machine in the casino where you play might have one little deviation that will definitely turn a winning visit into a losing one: what you get paid for a blackjack.

Most video blackjack machines that you will find in a casino pay even money on natural 21s instead of the true value of a blackjack (3 for 2). Because you can

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giving away the farm here.

Other video blackjack machines round down on blackjack payoffs. If you do Deal Me In happen to locate a machine that does pay the bonus for a blackjack, make your bets in even amounts so that you can get the maximum value of a blackjack (a payoff of $3 expect a blackjack every 21 for every $2 wagered). With a hands, the loss of that bonus $1 bet and rounding down, will cost you an additional the theoretical payout of 2.3 percent. $1.50 for a blackjack would Considering that blackbe rounded down to just $1! jack has a house advantage Additionally, Dave, you are of less than 0.5 percent to a probably playing more knowledgeable player — hands per hour on a video which possibly, Dave, could blackjack machine than you be another problem you have would on a live table game.

— your losses are more than With any casino game that likely tied to this tricky rule has a built-in advantage, and change. With an even money blackjack even with perfect payout on blackjack, you are play is certainly one of them,

Mark Pilarski

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Be it coins, or vouchers, you always want to cash out following any significant score so you can see those winnings converted into cold hard cash. The convenience of not lugging 50 pounds of coins to the cashier is a benefit of TITO machines. The discipline of not spending winnings, with whatever method, is all on you. I can’t help you there.

Gambling wisdom of the week The Stickman at the crap table should be a Mary Poppins optimist, delight in his voice when he calls out a winner.

— Mario Puzo, “Inside Las Vegas” (1976) (Pilarski can be reached at pilarski@markpilarski.com)

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Setting aside winnings from yesteryear meant you had to carry buckets of coins to the cashier to be counted.

Today, it’s ticket-in ticket-out technology, which pays players in bar-coded tickets. Casinos love these ticket-in ticket-out machines because they reduce the labor costs of slot personal, jam-up repairs, hopper fills, emptying the machines of coins, and the hard counting of those coins.

Cashing out your tickets New tickets and squirreling away vouchers instead of playing credits Dear Mark: is a convenient way of preDo you find it easier, or serving winnings, unless of harder, to save winnings course, you reach in your top with these new ticket left pocket for them. Coins machines versus the older nestled in a metal tray are coin ones?

George R. just as easy to grab at.

the more hands you are exposed to, the more the machine will eat away at your bankroll.

As to your other two questions, yes, each hand is dealt randomly from a newly shuffled virtual deck. Also, the basic strategy on a video game is comparatively the same as that of a live game, so, Dave, don’t forget your blackjack strategy card to use as a reference for those hands that you are not quite sure of.

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THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS TODAY BLOOD DRIVE — Noon to 5 p.m., Yuengling Brewery, Fifth and Mahantongo streets, Pottsville. Sponsored by D.G. Yuengling & Son Inc. CHINESE AUCTION — Shop and drop, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, drawings 1 p.m.

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FOOD PANTRY — Hosted by New Life in Christ Ministries, 3:30 to 5 p.m., 217-219 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.

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BLOOD DRIVE — 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., community area, next to Air Force Recruiter Office, Cressona Mall, Route 61, Pottsville. Sponsored by USAF. Call 570-205-8761.

BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS — 9 to 11 a.m., First United Methodist Presbyterian Church, 200 N. Ninth St., Ashland. Distribution of non-food, personal care items for struggling families. A valid driver’s license or photo ID for adults and children required. Nonprofit Christian group comes to the church on the second and fourth Saturday of every month.

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YARD SALE — 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mahanoy Area High School parking lot, 1 Golden

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CELEBRATE RECOVERY — 2 to 3 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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DINNER DANCE — Celebrating 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church, Shenandoah, 5:30 to 10 p.m., Fountain Springs Country Inn, 562 Country Club Road, Ashland. Cost $45, family-style dinner. Music by New Individuals.

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KAUFFMAN CHICKEN BARBECUE — 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Llewellyn Elementary School, Old Llewellyn Road, Llewellyn. Cost $7.

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Oversharing can have consequences How many people do you think will lose a bet if I don’t write about my missing cat this week?

My guess is about five at least. But I’m not going to write about my missing cat — not exactly.

I’m going to write about my experience in enlisting social media for help with the situation. After a number of exhausting — although kind-hearted and helpful — responses to my issue, I’ve learned a few lessons in oversharing.

It’s what happens when you make public details of your personal life. You open yourself up to a barrage of different reactions.

But I basically put myself out there for a living. That’s what I feel gives this column life. If I didn’t share personal things, this column would likely not be relatable.

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was in an unfamiliar scenario I had shared too much. and didn’t know what to do.

Once I started to think logically , I decided to post a bit What it is Jenna of a retraction. A bit of a, I was honestly touched by “thanks, but no thanks.” I Wasakoski the outpouring of support basically asked everyone to and advice. I truly appreciat- back off, all the while knowed every message no matter ing their reactions were all what was said or repeated. It my doing and they were only was a testament to the fact trying to help. cisms and I’m OK with that. that there really are good Bar fight I’ve grown accustomed to people in this world.

However, it then became Much like a bar fight, when the various reactions to diffar too much.

Too much inforyou get a lot of people in one ferent things I’ve written. I have come to embrace Sound mation. Too many conflicting place with a lot of emotion and opinions, there is always Off criticisms and Letters to theories and suggestions. potential for conflict.

In sharing my situation the Editor as feedback, not Although 97 percent of the insults. Everyone is entitled about my missing cat, I didn’t feedback I received was posiwant pity , I wanted direction. to their opinion and it would I wanted someone to tell me tive, there was one little spat be very unsettling if everywhat I should do. I didn’t real- on a comment thread. one’s aligned with mine. ize in my panic, there was no Let’s just say I turn into a I generally keep Facebook real treat when I’m exhausted absolute answer. generic and scoff at the peoThen I proceeded to give and by “treat” I mean the word ple who put every detail of that means “female dog” play-by-play of what was their personal life — fights going on every night in my which is usually associated with their spouses, things search, inviting everyone to with a hot-tempered woman. they found in their kid’s diaBut, you’re not always watch the situation unfold per, what they had for lunch, and follow along with advice going to hear what you want how sad they are to be single to hear. along the way.

— but in my current situaIn putting your story out And people were so kind tion, I kind of panicked. I was desperate for help because I and so helpful. But I realized there, you make yourself

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er and be done with it. Giving a play by play and obsessing over the developing situation by posting every detail was a huge mistake on my part.

So, my advice is: before you take to Facebook with every detail when you find yourself in a tough spot — whether your lawn mower is broken or your cat went missing — just relax. Take a deep breath.

Educate yourself on the situation through research and Back away slowly take a realistic approach For me, I’ll back away based on the logical data you slowly while still being collect. Keep a level head. appreciative of the help I Always. In any situation. You received. should also welcome the Would I ever take this advice of others, but don’t approach again? No. I mean, obsess over putting into I don’t think I would. action every single piece of it.

I love that people shared Most importantly, be her photo and flier. I love that appreciative of the nature of people love animals as much good-hearted human beings as I do. I love that people because I’ve learned there understand how much it are plenty. hurts to miss your pet, but so (Wasakoski, an assistant much advice just became too editor at The News-Item, can much advice. be reached at jenna_ In hindsight, I’d share the fliw@newsitem.com) vulnerable to any and all comments anyone who can see your post would like to share. It may not be nice, but you opened the gates, so don’t cry when the flood waters come crashing in. Or, in my case, do cry and get really angry and defensive.

Then, get over yourself and grow up. It’s just an opinion. Something is bound to be voiced that you weren’t prepared for. Man up.

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by Upper Schuylkill Marching FREE FEEDING PROGRAM Band. Rain or shine. Bring — Soup kitchen open 1:30 a chair. Sponsored by Karto 2:30 p.m. every Sunday, litskie-Mazur family.

PRESENTATION — Indians New Life in Christ Ministries, 217-219 Market St., Cumbo- of Pennsylvania, presented by Dave McSurdy, 2 p.m., meet la.Call 570-277-6041.

CONCERT — Patriotic Mu- at Waterfall pavilion in the sic and Prayers for Peace, Waterfall parking lot, Sweet 7 p.m., St. Paul’s Lutheran Arrow Lake County Park, WaChurch, 215 N. Warren St., terfall Road, Pine Grove. Free JOHN E. USALIS/STAFF PHOTO Orwigsburg. Featuring music and suitable for all ages.

William “Bill” Gower, Girardville American Legion Post by Orwigsburg Festival Choir, PRESENTATION — “Two instrumentalists Men’s Legacy,” 2:30 p.m., 309 commander, presents his Memorial Day address soloists, Tremont Borough Building auand handbells. Free. last year at the Veterans Memorial in Girardville.

FLAG CEREMONY — 1 ditorium, 139 Clay St., TremContinued from Page 2 tackle for a fish-for-free event. p.m., Second and Oak ont. Presented by Donald the mayor, grand marshal and The program, sponsored by Streets, Mount Carmel. Flag Tobias, son of Arthur Tobias, the state Fish and Boat Comthe Mahanoy Area High raising in memory of John R. World War II, and grandson of mission, permits anyone to School Marching Band. The Scott, Pennsylvania Calvary Henry A. Tobias, World War I. second division will be led by fish, regardless if they have a Civil War veteran. Sponsored Sponsored by Tremont Area the AMVETS Band. Fire com- license. Williams said the pro- by Mount Carmel Area Joint Historical Society. Call 570695-3792 or 570-695-3308.

Veterans Committee. panies and other participants gram will be held from 8 a.m.

SANDWICH AND SUNDAE OUTDOOR MEMORIAL to noon. During that time, chilwill be between the bands, William “Bill” Paul, Mahanoy dren can get their picture tak- WEEKEND CONCERT AND FUNDRAISER — Noon to PARK RE-DEDICATION — 6 5 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to en with fish they catch. WilArea United Veterans vice liams said the pictures will be p.m. Arch Street Park (Good- noon Monday, Steph’s Sampresident, said previously. will), Frackville. Performance mich Shop with Coalcracker posted on the park’s website.

According to www.usmeAlso, children can take morialday.org, Memorial their fish to the program shelDay became an official national holiday in 1971 and ter for a demonstration about is celebrated on the last Mon- filleting and deep-frying.

Bob Evanchalk, Schuylkill day in May. In addition to it 30 North Claude A. Lord Blvd. being a day of remembrance, County Parks and Recreation supervisor, said the people use the day off from Rt. 61, Pottsville, PA - 570-622-2324 free fishing program will school and work to spend time with family and friends also be held at Sweet Arrow Prices in Effect Lake County Park, Pine and outdoor recreation.

Thurs., May 22 – Mon., May 26 Grove. In addition to the fishLew Williams, park manWhile Supplies Last! ager for Locust and Tuscaro- ing, the canoe and kayak ra state parks, said the three- concession will open for the day weekend acts as a type of season Monday and an introgrand opening for the parks. duction class for canoeing and kayaking will be held.

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CHICKEN BARBECUE — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Orwigsburg Veterans Memorial Building, Grove Street. Sponsored by

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ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST — 8 to 11 a.m., American Legion Post 74, 108-110 E. Centre St., Mahanoy City.

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BLOCK PARTY — 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Citizens Fire Company, Plane and Otto streets, Gordon. Live music and skid loader bounce house.

CEREMONY — 9 a.m., Old White Church, Ringtown.

Conducted by Harry A. Kase American Legion Post 289.

MEMORIAL ROSARY AT CEMETERY — 6 p.m. Sunday, St. Casimir Cemetery (outdoor altar), near Mahanoy City. Bring folding chair.

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