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MONDAY — Donations are being accepted for the Howard Fire Company’s annual yard sale. Donations of clean and working items can be dropped off at the fire station today through Wednesday at 5 p.m. The yard sale begins at 8 a.m. on Thursday, May 7. — Howard Area Lions Club Food Distribution, noon to 3 p.m., at the former Beech Creek Elementary School. Bring a sturdy box (or boxes) with you. — Dunnstown Fire Company offers a Cash Bingo every Monday night at the fire station at 119 Woodward Ave., Lock Haven. Bingo starts at 6 p.m. and all proceeds help to support the fire ...

May 9 is last Shoe Bank day before August

LOCK HAVEN — The Shoe Bank will be open Saturday, May 9, and then will close for two months, re-opening in August. The Lock Haven Area Shoe Bank is inside Covenant United Methodist Church, 44 W. Main St., Lock Haven. The program gives free new shoes to wee ones through high school ...

Covenant Cafe celebrates May Day; listens to local musicians

PHOTOS PROVIDED Covenant Cafe kept busy during its last meeting in April. On April 19, the group heard performances from musicians Wayne Young, on accordion, and Kim Barner, on guitar, who provided music for their May Day celebration. The duo played music as the group participated in a ...

Lockport Picnickers

EXPRESS FILE PHOTO Three of these ladies on a picnic near the Widmann’s Lager Beer Brewery in Lockport many years ago were identified as, at left, Mabel Clara Shaffer Myers; seated in front, May Seltzer; and standing at right, Estelle Zerbe Frey. The other two women remain unidentified, ...

Covenant Cafe to meet May 5

LOCK HAVEN — The Covenant Cafe, an activity group for those in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias, will be meeting on Tuesday, May 5, from 1 to 3 p.m., at Covenant United Methodist Church, 44 W. Main St., Lock Haven. The group will participate in a Kentucky Derby horse race and will also be celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a Mexican Hat dance and walking tacos for refreshments. The Covenant Cafe is a joint venture between the Nurturing, Outreach and Worship Committee of Covenant United Methodist, the Alzheimer’s Support Group and the Alzheimer’s ...

Civil War Round Table set for May 5 in State College

STATE COLLEGE — The Central PA Civil War Round Table will meet on Tuesday evening, May 5, in the Activities Room of the South Hills School of Business & Technology, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College, beginning at 7 p.m. The featured speaker will be Terry Beltz on “Unclaimed Valor: The History of the 130th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.” On July 4, 1862, Pennsylvania Governor Andrew G. Curtin issued a proclamation that “additional men are required to serve for the suppression of the rebellion.” Many historians have written that “manliness, duty and honor” were factors ...