YARD SALES

If your town, community or housing development is having yard sales please let me know. Individual yard sales will not be listed, only specific towns or communities. If you put up signs to advertise your yard sales please remember to go back and take them down.

– Howard Fire Company’s Annual Indoor Yard Sale will be today and tomorrow, May 8-9. Sale hours will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday. The kitchen will be open today until 5 p.m.

– Milesburg Community Yard Sales will be on May 15-16.

– Bellefonte’s Community Yard Sales will also be on May 15 and May 16.

– Woolrich Community Yard Sales will be on Saturday, May 16.

– Mill Hall’s Community Yard Sales will be on May 29-30.

– Bargains and Blessings Community Closet will be open on Saturday, June 13, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Bossert Chiropractic in Beech Creek, weather permitting. Gently used, good quality clothing, shoes and accessories for the entire family are available. Sizes range from infants to 3X and are priced at $5 per bag full. Bags will be provided.

Bargains and Blessings is an outreach of the Faith Chapel United Methodist Church located at 551 Hunter Run Road, Howard. For more information, visit the church’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/faithchapelumc, or email jbumbarger@comcast.net.

– Millheim Yard Sale Days will be June 18-20.

– Centre Hall Community Yard Sale dates are June 26-27.

MEMORIAL SERVICE

Fairview Cemetery will be having their annual Memorial Service on Sunday, May 17, at 2 p.m., at the church/cemetery grounds. The guest speaker this year will be Representative Paul Takac. Donations for the upkeep (grass mowing) of the cemetery will be accepted during the memorial ceremony. If you have loved ones buried at the cemetery please consider providing a monetary gift to the Fairview Cemetery.

Fairview Cemetery is located in Boggs Township at the intersection of Bullit Run Road and Fairview Road and just up the hill from Curtin Hollow Road.

If you have any questions about the Fairview Church or the Fairview Cemetery, please call Pastor Dave Etters or his wife, Sabrina, at 814-355-2815.

LIONS NEWS

Howard Area Lions Bingo will be held on May 14 at the Beech Creek Fire Company social hall. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and Bingo starts at 6:30 p.m.

If Bingo players bring a bag(s) full of candy valued at $5 or more, they will get $5 off their Bingo packet price during the May 14 Bingo night. Please make sure the candy is individually wrapped pieces and no chocolate because it melts too easily.

The candy will be used by the Lions Club to throw to spectators at the Memorial Day parade in Beech Creek.

May 28 will be the last evening of Lions Bingo until September since the Lions take a break from Bingo during the summer months.

Milesburg Lions Club holds a weekly Bingo every Thursday night at the Milesburg Community Center. Doors open at 5 p.m. and Bingo starts at 6:45 p.m.

Howard Area Lions Food Bank distribution dates will be on May 18. Distribution is handled from the former Beech Creek Elementary and runs from noon until 3 p.m. Bring a sturdy box (or boxes) with you. A large number of boxes are needed each month for the food distributions.

The Lions business meeting on Tuesday, May 19, will be held at the Beech Creek Fire Company social hall since the Howard fire hall is not available because of Election Day voting. All club officers and original charter members are encouraged to attend for photographs to be taken.

Howard Area Lions will have their Memorial Service on Friday, May 22, at the Foster Joseph Sayers Medal of Honor Memorial Monument at the breast of the dam. The Lions will be coordinating the program with the Centre County Veterans Affairs office this year. Both the Centre and Clinton County Veterans Affairs offices participate each year, but take turns in helping to formally organize the annual program.

During the memorial program the new bricks in the Walk of Honor at the monument are unveiled. Anyone can purchase an engraved brick with a veterans name on it for the walkway. I think the bricks are $65. If you’re interested in purchasing a brick and having it engraved so it can be laid in the walkway, you can contact Lion Lloyd Rhoades for an application. Lion Lloyd’s email is lar2psu@gmail.com or you can call him at 814-355-1776.

More info will follow on the memorial service as it draws closer.

CLUB’S BREAKFAST

Susquehanna Valley Big Twins Motorcycle Club is having a breakfast on Saturday, May 16, from 7-11 a.m. The all you can eat, hardy breakfast is just $10 for adults and $6 for children ages 6-12 years. Younger kiddos get to eat free. The SVBTMC offers a breakfast each month so the club can raise money to help people in the community who are going through some critical hardships.

There won’t be a basket benefit for anyone during the May breakfast at the club. Some months the club allows families or organizations to have a basket raffle during their breakfasts to help raise funds when they’re needed.

You’ll want to be sure to come out for the May breakfast since there won’t be a breakfast during June or July.

SVBTMC is located at 84 Harley Drive, (Woolrich), Lock Haven. For more info on the club, call club president Brad Darby at 570-295-6577 or club secretary Bev Confair at 570-220-1919 or visit the club’s website and Facebook page.

FIRE NEWS

— Centre Hall Fire Company’s annual spring gun raffle will be held on May 16, 2026. Tickets are $10 and available from any fire company member or at the fire station while supplies last.

— Millheim Fire Company’s annual carnival will be held June 18-20. Thursday night kicks off with a firemen’s parade starting at 6 p.m.

— Miles Township (Rebersburg) Fire Company’s carnival will be on July 9-11. Parade starts at 7 p.m. with line-up an hour earlier.

— Snow Shoe Fire Company’s carnival is scheduled for July 14-18, held at the Snow Shoe Carnival Grounds. Parade is on July 15 starting at 6:30 p.m.

— Gregg Township (Spring Mills) Fire Company’s carnival will be on July 30-Aug. 1. Parade kicks off at 7 p.m.

I’ll have more information on the respective carnivals as the dates draw closer.

If other fire companies are having carnivals or special events, please be sure to send me an email with the details if you’d like it included here.

UPCOMING EVENTS

— Howard VFW’s Spring Gun Drawing will be tomorrow, May 9, from noon to 5 p.m., at the club along Walnut Street in Howard. Tickets are $10 each and can be obtained at the VFW Club while supplies last.

— The Howard Scouts are hosting a Mother’s Dinner on Saturday, May 9, at the Howard United Methodist Church. Take your mom out for dinner with the proceeds benefiting Scout Troop 353.

The menu for this special dinner honoring mothers will be stuffed chicken breast, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, cole slaw, applesauce, rolls with butter and strawberry shortcake! Reservations must be made by calling Patti at 814-625-2182. You can pick your eating hour from 3-4 p.m., 4:30-5 p.m. or 6-7 p.m. Take-out meals must also be reserved and must be picked up between 2-3 p.m. The meals will cost $15 for adults, $10 for children ages 5-12 and free for little ones.

— Centre Ballroom is sponsoring a ballroom dance on Sunday, May 10, from 2-5 p.m., at Lambert Hall in Bellefonte. The dance will start with a swing dance lesson. The cost is $10/person and those attending should bring a snack to share. Call Rod at 717-543-8348 for more info.

— Blanchard Church of Christ Food Pantry is open on Wednesday, May 13, from 3-5 p.m.

— Wingate Faith Church will be having a Summer Kick-off Picnic at the church on Friday, May 15, from 4-6:30 p.m. The meal will be pulled pork sandwiches, baked beans, pasta salad, broccoli salad, coleslaw, desserts and a drink. The cost will be $12 for adults; $6 for students and those ages 6 and younger get to eat free.

If you have a birthday during May and show your ID to verify your birthdate, you’ll get to eat for free! Wingate Faith Church is located at 111 Runville Road, Bellefonte, behind the Sheetz store and beside Wingate Elementary. For more info call Janette at 814-883-0893.

— Beech Creek Wesleyan Church will have the free Mobile Food Pantry at the church on Thursday, May 21, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Anyone may come and receive food. This distribution is being administered by the New Love Center in Jersey Shore.

The food distribution will be held at the church, 217 Main St., Beech Creek.

— The Back Porch String Band will have their Country Jam on Sunday, May 24, from 2-6 p.m., at the Yearick Center/Howard fire hall. Country Jam is held the fourth Sunday afternoon of each month except in December.

The afternoon of music is free, and those attending should bring a snack to share with others there. A hat is passed for you to contribute a few dollars to thank the Howard Fire Company for allowing the folks to gather there for Country Jam each month.

If you play an instrument bring it along and join in the fun! For more info call Connie at 814-625-2724.

— Milesburg Food Bank is open on Tuesday, June 2, from 1-3 p.m. This food distribution is held the first Tuesday of each month at the Milesburg Presbyterian Church.

— Food distribution will be on Thursday, June 4, from 4-6 p.m., at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 216 McAllister St., Bellefonte. There aren’t any income guidelines but a few questions are asked for those attending for the first time. For more info on these food distributions held the first Thursday of each month, call Leilani “Loni” at 814-548-7835.

— Howard Area Lions Blood Drive at the Howard Fire Hall, on June 10, from 12:30-6 p.m. Donors of all blood types are needed.

— Milesburg Museum is having a bronze sign made that lists the 15 Patriots from Milesburg as well as the 17 founding families of Milesburg to commemorate America250. An unveiling ceremony is being planned for June 28, at 4 p.m., at the Milesburg Post Office. There will be birthday cake, also!

Milesburg was settled in 1760, before the Revolutionary War, and the town proudly boasts that Milesburg had the most Patriots from Centre County!

More info will be coming closer to the Patriot unveiling and celebration date.

— Friends of the Egg Hill Church in Spring Mills will be honoring America’s 250th with a patriotic music celebration, a graveside memorial service honoring a Revolutionary War veteran buried in the church cemetery and having special guest speakers on July 18. For more info call Beth Kennedy at 814-777-1333, or visit their Facebook page for other events being held at Egg Hill Church. Monetary donations can be sent to Friends of Egg Hill Church, 221 Norman Ave., Pleasant Gap, PA 16823.

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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.