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YARD SALES
Ridge Crest Mobile Home residents are having their community yard sales today, May 12, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. and tomorrow from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Milesburg's spring yard sale are happening today and tomorrow. Mark your calendars now for the fall yard sale dates in Milesburg on Oct. 6 and 7.
Myers Development in Nittany and Lamar area are having their yard sales May 19 and 20.
Beech Creek-Blanchard community yard sales will be June 9 and 10.
Centre Hall yard sales will be June 23 and 24.
100 Mile yard sale, July 21 and 22.
Please feel free to let me know of additional community-wide or church yard sales that will be happening and I'll add them to our list.
HFC YARD SALE
Howard Fire Company's Indoor Yard Sale will be on May 18-20. Drop off days are May 15-17 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. No car seats, tires, TV's or encyclopedias will be accepted.
Please make sure that your donated items are clean, dry and working. Please wait until Monday to drop items off because the fire hall is rented over the weekend and there's no room to store anything.
The yard sale will run from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday. The kitchen will be open serving up hot dogs, hamburgers, sloppy Joes and french fries. There may be homemade 12-inch subs if enough volunteers will help to make them. Any questions, please contact Lana at 814-360-0059.
Donations are the property of the Howard Fire Company and must be paid for. This indoor yard sale is one of the fundraisers that the fire company depends on to pay their bills during the year, so please be generous with your contributions when paying for your items.
CAN TABS
Save your soda and beer can tabs for Geisinger's Ronald McDonald House. Liberty Curtin Elementary in Blanchard is collecting the tabs during the month of May and then school representatives will be transporting them to Danville in early June.
You can send your tabs in with any elementary school student or teacher at Liberty Curtin or drop them off at the school office this month.
The school collects the tabs each year to benefit the Ronald McDonald House, so keep on saving the tabs for next school year's tab collection, too!
PATRIOTS
CEREMONY
The Howard Grange is participating in the National Grange Patriots Program and needs the names of all the local (living) veterans who served during WWII, the Korean War or the Vietnam War.
The Patriots Ceremony will be held on Sunday, June 4, at 1 p.m. at the Howard VFW pavilion. After the ceremony, light snacks and drinks will be provided for veterans receiving the certificates and their families.
REUNIONS
Descendants of Wilson and Hazel (Mace) Miller will gather for their reunion on Saturday, May 27. Bring a hot and cold covered dish to share for the noon picnic lunch that will be held at Bill Rogers pavilion. Bring a wrapped item for the auction and extra cash for the raffles. This year the family of Ray and Isabelle Miller are in charge of the reunion games and activities. For info call Hazel ("Dude") Mitchell at 814-355-8567.
Descendants of Andrew Dill and Etta Confer will gather for a reunion on July 22 at noon at Pavilion #6 at Bald Eagle State Park. Please bring a covered dish to share and your choice of drink for the noon meal. Plates and silverware will be provided.
Kaye Brown is planning the reunion from her South Carolina home, so if anyone local would like to volunteer to help that would be great. Send Kaye an email at kayebrown@pctechguys.net or find her on Facebook.
BASKET
BENEFIT
A basket raffle will be held on June 3 at the Friendship Community Center in Beech Creek for Ted Parker. Ted has been diagnosed with stage 4 laryngeal (throat) cancer and is undergoing treatment. Ted has already had surgeries and now travels five days a week to Geisinger in Danville for treatments.
Ted is a landscaper and this is his busiest time of the year with mulching and mowing a lot of grass for his clients in the area, so some of his friends have been pitching in and helping with the work until Ted is able to beat cancer and recover.
In the meantime, there are a lot of extra expenses (gas for all the daily trips to Danville, co-pays and such) that this benefit will help Ted and his wife, Jennifer, with.
Ted's sister, Tania, is organizing the benefit and is looking for the community's support in providing a lot of baskets for the event. Call Tania at 570-660-7603 and let her know that she can count on a basket or item (gift cards for gas stations, restaurants or grocery stores are excellent ideas) for the benefit.
LIONS NEWS
Howard Area Lions Club will have their Food Bank distribution on May 15 for those living in Beech Creek Borough or BC Township and those living in Centre County who missed their distribution earlier this month. Food bank hours are from noon to 3 p.m.
Master Gardeners from Penn State will be at the Food Bank on May 15 to offer vegetable plants and flowers.
Howard Area Lions Cash Bingo will be held on May 25 before taking a summer break until September. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and games begin at 6:30 p.m.
Our local Lions will be hosting a blood drive on June 7 at the Howard fire hall from 1-6 p.m. Please become a blood donor today to help save lives!
BENEFIT BINGO
A benefit Bingo is being held for Paula Leathers tomorrow, May 13, at KBR Bingo in the Piper Building, 1 Piper Way, Third Floor, Lock Haven. Elevator service is available.
Paula had been struggling with medical issues which led to her leg having to be amputated. Her husband, Keith, is now helping to take care of her and making sure she gets around and to all of her medical appointments. The couple needs some help with covering their household expenses (mortgage payment, electric, phone bills). Gas gift cards and grocery gift cards would also help the family out, too!
Doors open at 11 a.m. and Bingo begins at 1 p.m. The Bingo benefit will also feature a 50/50 raffle, a Chinese auction/basket raffle and rip ticket chances. The kitchen will be open, too!
Tickets for the benefit Bingo will be $20 and can be reserved by contacting Tiffany at 570-367-8316.
Donations of items for the Chinese auction/basket raffle are needed and will certainly be appreciated in helping the Leathers family.
MEMORIAL
SERVICES
Memorial services at Fairview Cemetery will be held on Sunday, May 21, beginning at 2 p.m.
Dave Etters, the pastor at the Fairview Church, will be the guest speaker for the service. A donation can is passed for a collection with the funds being used for grass mowing expenses.
Howard Area Lions will have a Memorial Ceremony on May 26 beginning at 5 p.m. at the Foster Sayers Memorial near the spillway area of Sayers Dam. Be sure to check out the newest bricks in the Walk of Honor at the flags and Sayers statue site.
Romola Bible Church in Marsh Creek is having memorial services on Sunday, May 28, at 2:30 p.m.
American Legion Post 623 in Beech Creek will be hosting the Memorial Day parade and will be holding cemetery memorial services, too. Before the parade starts services will be held at Hays-Fearon-Bossert Cemetery at 9 a.m.; Clark's Cemetery at 9:15 a.m.; and at Liberty Baptist Cemetery at 9:45 a.m.
Schenck's Cemetery memorial service will be on May 29 at 2 p.m. The speaker will be Matt Maris, history teacher at Bellefonte High, local historian and co-owner of Local Historia LLC.
HERITAGE DAYS
Porter Township will be holding the annual Heritage Days 5K Run/Walk at Brown's Hill Tavern on June 3. Registration is from 8-10 a.m. and the "colorful" run/walk begins at 10 a.m. Cost to register is $25 for adults; $20 for ages 12-17; and those under age 12 can run or walk for free. If you pre-register online at www.porterheritagedays.com before May 20 you'll receive a free T-shirt to wear for the event. There will be five different "color" stations during the course!
Proceeds from this Run/Walk will benefit the Porter Township Heritage Day Festival that will be held on June 10. If you have trouble with pre-registering online call Linda at 570-295-1052 or send her an email at jely2@comcast.net for more info.
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Howard Happenings is written and compiled by Tammy Coakley who can be reached by email at tammysue0115@gmail.com or by telephone at 814-625-2684.