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“Faith Matters”

My wife and I just returned from a week’s vacation in the Happiest Place on Earth, Disney World down in Orlando, Florida, and I’ve got to say, it was pretty fun. Now though, I’m still having a little trouble adjusting to getting back into daily routine. As so of-ten happens, I feel like I need a va-cation after my vacation. I enjoyed our time away, but it was tiring. My mind is only now returning to what needs to be done back here in the real world.

Has this ever happened to you? Have you had trouble coming down from a restful and yet tir-ing vacation, or come back from a time away feeling like you could have stayed longer, if only to put off getting back to work? As much as we may enjoy our jobs, and love our lives, little can com-pare to having others cook for us, clean up after us, and not having to do anything unless we want to. Right now I hear parents say-ing, “Huh! Sounds like my kids have been on vacation their whole lives.”

It occurred to me as I was re-flecting on this state of mind I was in that we often build up va-cations, and other special events into the ultimate escape. We plan, and save, and spend in order to make this one event become the thing that will make us able to make it through the drudgery of the everyday so that we can go on another excursion, have a spe-cial day, or just spend time doing nothing. But are we really THAT stressed?

I realize that many folks are

dealing with things that ARE dif-ficult, and that can seem unend-ing but if we can’t take vacation, as many folks can’t, what have we got to look forward to? Do we just throw up our hands and ac-cept our lot, and suffer in silence? Do we try to do something dif-ferently, hoping THIS time it will change things?

What purpose does our every-day work, and striving, and stress earn us, even if we CAN afford a vacation? We’re not using that money for something sensible, like retirement, or savings, but for a week or so of time off.

My point is, why are we doing all this? Do we have so little to look forward to that we try to es-cape even for just a week, only to find our lives waiting for us when we return? The Good News is that this is NOT all we have to look forward to, not by a long shot! When we live in Christ our lives DO have a purpose, and that purpose is to express God’s love in everything we do every day of our lives, even in the midst of our ev-eryday, even when we’re stressed, even when things are not going our way, and we’d like nothing better to do than escape.

God’s purpose for our lives helps us to become the person God intends for us to be. He knows us intimately, and wants the best for us, but not just for our sakes. By offering us healing, wholeness, and His unconditional love, God makes us better at sharing what God has given us with others. Our lives affect those around us, and we have the chance to be ef-

fective to the degree to which we’ve submitted our wills to that of God.

If this sounds difficult to un-derstand, and more difficult to do, it IS. But it is also possible. It is possible through God’s action, not ours! We are called to live in Christ’s love, and then to share this with others in what we do, and say, in the very way we live. Until we finally realize this and give everything we are, and every-thing we have into Christ’s hands, we will continue to feel exhausted, hopeless, and unable to see the point of what we’re doing from day to day. Life is not just getting through until the next day off, or the next week off. Life is about liv-ing in the presence of God, over-coming the difficulties of each day, and knowing though faith that God has our ultimate best at heart, and has already given us a way to find true and lasting peace: His Son, Jesus Christ.

Heaven will make even Disney World pale by comparison, and we can be in Heaven when we turn to Jesus in faith for salvation. But even here on earth we can en-joy a foretaste of living each day to the fullest in sure and certain hope of a day when we won’t need to be concerned about pain, or dif-ficulty, or stress. May we all find that kind of lasting peace, now and always through Jesus Christ.

In His service,Rev John McCarty

Berean Baptist Church, Carbondale

Lynnette’s Twirlerettes will be headed to the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana to per-form halftime at the Sugar Bowl and march through the French Quarter on New Years Eve in the Sugar Bowl Parade. Their coach, Lynnette Lepre-Van Deusen has been offered and accepted the position of halftime twirling choreographer.

A fundraising Fall Fashion and Craft Fair featuring “Robert” the Uggs Guy and over a dozen vendors will be held on Saturday October 22nd 12-4pm at St. John’s Hall, Mayfield.

Pictured left to right are Sugar Bowl Twirlers....Ashley Sheard, Kylee Pendell, Allison King, Karissa Heath, Vanessa Van Deusen, Alyssa Shepps, Jennifer Natishak, Kaitlynn Elders, Chris-tina Denney, Brydee Burke, Aislinn Toolan, Hailey Norton and Samantha Thomas.

Lynnette’s Twirlerettes Fall Fashion & Craft Fair Sat., Oct. 22

Discover Croatia, Slovenia& the Adriatic Coast

May 6 to 17, 2017!

Deposit: $500 per person due by Nov. 20, 2016

Cost of trip: $4,019 Air and Land, Busing from Forest City, per person,double occupancy; single supplement $4,669.

Not included in price, cancellation waiver and insurance is $280 per person.

by Theresa OpekaA “not up to par” paving

job and funding for fire com-panies were among the items discussed at the Wednesday. October 12 meeting of the Clinton Township Supervi-sors. After the Pledge of Alle-giance, Ken Swan, Chaplain of VFW Post 531 Honesdale and former chaplain of American Legion Post 889 Waymart, led a moment of silence for Jodi Szweda, resident and former auditor for the township, who passed away on October 3. ROAD REPORT

In the road report, Super-visor and Road Master, Brian Non said they are applying for a Dirt and Gravel Road Pro-gram grant for Yarnes Road. He said he talked to the com-missioners about the Com-munity Development Block Grants and they are currently two years behind in getting funding for projects already applied for. CINDER SHED

Supervisor Ken Coles said Solicitor Jeff Treat needs to draw up a resolution for a loan for the cinder shed. He made the motion for it. All voted in favor. Motion passed.

Coles said they have begun building the cinder shed. He said it should be completed before it begins to snow.LIQUID FUELS AUDIT

The 2015 Liquid Fuels Audit was completed on September 22 and there were no findings.FIRE TAX MONEY

The township received a Foreign Fire Tax check of $15,761.51. Coles made a mo-tion to give Browndale Fire Company $7,761.15 and divide the remaining funds equally to Prompton and Waymart fire companies.

Supervisor Russell Curtis disagreed and made a motion to give $10,000 to Browndale. Coles disagreed and said their township has divided sections for fire coverage. Curtis re-plied, “No we don’t. Brown-dale has more calls.”

He asked Fire Chief Jason Obelenus how many calls they had this year. Obelenus replied, so far, they had 102, with mutual aid included. He then broke it down: 50-60 on average for Clinton Township without mutual aid. Waymart responded to six calls in the township and three calls in

the township were respond-ed to by Prompton. “I’m not understanding the differ-ence between Prompton and Waymart and us being the predominant fire company. We put the money towards the township. All the money stays in the township. Waymart gets over $19,000 from other municipalities. Prompton gets over $15,000.

Curtis said, “You are our fire company in Clinton Township.” Non said, “Yes, you are our fire department. You should get more money than the other two but they have to get something. He said Prompton and Waymart should get $2,700 each and the rest, $10,361.51, to Browndale.

Non made the motion for those amounts. He and Cur-tis voted yes. Coles voted no. Motion passed.PAVING WORK

Non said a recent paving job on Marion Street in Browndale done by Leeward was “not up to par.” He said Treat will look into what action can be legally taken. Non said he spoke to Scott Maciak of PennDOT. “He said we aren’t the first ones to say that about them.” Cur-tis said water runs down the middle of the road and there is 512 feet of unpaved blacktop. Treat said, “You need to have everything that wasn’t done to your specifications and send it to Leeward.” Curtis also said there are no aprons on the out-side of the roads. Coles asked Treat if they can hold payment. Treat said yes. Coles made a motion to hold payment until the work is completed to spec-ifications. All voted in favor. Motion passed. The payment is $39,502.32.

Poska asked if the supervi-sors used state money for the project. Coles said no and that it came out of the general fund. Poska said, “I would have Scott Maciak take a look at it.” Curtis said, “They pave every day. They did a cheap job. Make sure you put foot-age down and be specific.

Dan Droppa asked, “Which one of the supervisors watched what was going on?” None of the supervisors did. Droppa said, “You don’t have a leg to stand on.” Treat said, “That’s why you have a performance bond.” Non said, “I under-stand what Dan’s saying but if Maciak said other townships have said the same thing, then...” MONEY FOR FIRE CO.

Obelenus asked the super-visors if the fire company will be receiving any funding from the general fund in the new budget. Coles said, “We don’t have any money.” Non said, “We are at the bottom. We don’t have the money. We’ll

have to wait and see about the wage tax. There is lots of road work that needs to be done. Lots of roads need to be paved.”WAGE TAX

Matt Curtis asked how much of the wage tax was col-lected. Coles said approxi-mately $27,000. Matt Curtis said, “Sounds like a dream gone bad.” Coles replied, “If we didn’t get that money, the township would have shut down a month ago.” Treat said, “The money wasn’t going to come in all at once. It was going to come in intervals.” Coles added that they also received a partial payment from FEMA in the amount of $26,000 for the bridge on Yarnes Road.ROADS

Ray Vogt said, “95% of the job the supervisors do are the roads. Roads have to be main-tained.”FIRE REPORT

Obelenus said the fire com-pany had six calls for the month of September. They have given out 49 smoke de-tectors to date. If anyone needs one, they can call them at 570-785-5300. He said they are always looking for volun-teers. Russell Curtis said ev-eryone should donate to the ambulance and fire compa-nies.STREETLIGHTS

Tom Baileys asked when the streetlights are going to be changed in Browndale. Coles said he didn’t know but he said he would have Jill look into it or Baileys could call PPL himself to find out.

The next meeting is sched-uled for Wednesday. Novem-ber 9 at 7pm.

Clinton Twp. discusses recent paving work on Marion Street

Christmas Sign-Ups for Salvation Army

The Salvation Army will hold Christmas Sign-Ups on October 21 from 9AM to 12 Noon. Christmas intakes will be performed at The Salvation Army Forest City Ser-vice Center, 636 1/2 Main Street, Forest City.

Applicants must provide iden-tification for adults and children and proof of residency (Only Zip Codes 18421, 18413, 18430, 18470, 18820, and 18842). Applicants must perform the intake in person; however, The Salvation Army will accept referrals from certified case-workers of handicapped individu-als.

The level of service provided will be dependent on the resources of the family unit and also on the support received from the public in the Christmas Campaign.

Donations may be given to The Salvation Army Christmas Intake Worker or sent to The Salvation Army, P.O. Box 430, Waymart, PA 18472. Specify Forest City Christ-mas on the memo of the check or in a written letter along with the donation.

Other Emergency assistance should be directed to Trudy Butcher The Salvation Army So-cial Service Secretary.

For clarification, please call 570-785-HELP (4357).

Masquerade ballset for Oct. 29

The First Annual Mystical Masquerade Ball to benefit the development of the Susquehanna County Recreation Center will be held at Heart Lake Lodge on Sat., Oct. 29, from 6 to 10 p.m. There will be cocktails, dinner & danc-ing, live music, a silent auction and prizes. Tickets beginning at $100. Go to www.suscorec.org for more information and to purchase tick-ets.

The proceeds will support the construction of a facility that fulfills the needs of Susquehanna County focusing on fitness, wellness and social togetherness in a welcoming and encouraging environment. These services may include a com-prehensive fitness center for all age groups, athletic courts and fields, meeting and banquet spaces and childcare.

The deadline to attend is Oct. 15.

The Forest City Regional Mask and Hammer Drama Club will be performing the family friendly comedy “North Woods Nonsense” by Andrew Ross this fall. This comedy centers round a run-down hotel lobby in Moose Bottom Lake in northern Maine, where handyman Pete has written a news-paper article about Bigfoot “kidnapping” a local resident. The rumored sighting of Bigfoot provides the perfect excuse for Birch and Pine, assistants to the worst congressman in history, to suggest a trip to the senator. They have spent their careers trying to hide the inept congressman so he won’t speak in public and divulge his ludicrous ideas. With report-ers hot on the congressman’s trail and lunatic guests pursu-ing Bigfoot, the group that converges on the hotel creates one crazy scene after the other... especially when Pete decides the guests really should get a chance to see Bigfoot! The perfor-mances will take place on Friday, November 4th at 7:00 pm, Saturday, November 5th at 7:00 pm, and Sunday, November 6th at 3:00 pm in the high school auditorium. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students and senior citizens, and free for children 3 and under. Pictured above (left to right) lodge guests AnQi Chen, Star Akers, Blaise Albright, Matt Giles, Cheyenne Thomas, and Billy Williams question lodge staff (center) Lee Clarke, Caylin Gibbs, and Colleen Blount about sightings of Bigfoot.”

FCR Drama Club to present “North Woods Nonsense” Nov. 4, 5, & 6

Men’s Bowlingby

Paul Tomazic

This week’s action had NEP Telephone taking 21 points from Yacinovich Excavating, Guild Flagstone taking 20 points from TMT Builder’s, and Kozlowski Towing taking 17 points from Thiede Live-stock. High game and series this week was 278-732 by Dave Carroll. Team High Scratch game and series this week was 1148-3161 by Kozlowski Towing. Team High Handicap game was 1320 by Kozlowski Towing and team high handi-cap series was 3693 by NEP Telephone.

Other scores: Ed Kozlowski Jr 263-661, Robby Young 237-661, Trevor Payne 247-622, Bob Smith 235-618, Tommy Johnson 235-609, Derek Ben-son 268-608, Scott Dixon 205-603, Chris Lutz 227-586, Jim Mican 236-581, Bryan Tallman 234-576, Len Witkoski 223-575, Blake Tyson 204-550, Ed Ko-zlowski Sr 547, Al Snyder 543, Mike Cottrell 216-534, Matt Tomazic 223-533, and Mark Opiel 203-530.

The following splits were converted by: Len Witkoski 2-7, Mike Yacinovich 5-10 and 5-7, Jacob Weber 2-5-7 and 2-7, Blake Tyson 3-6-7-10, and Chris Lutz 3-10.

StandingsNEP Telephone 75 ½Guild Flagstone 69Kozlowski Towing 62Yacinovich Excavating 52 ½Thiede Livestock 50 1/2TMT Builder’s 46 1/2