Community Thanksgiving service set
SHAMOKIN - The Shamokin Area Ministerium will hold a community Thanksgiving service from 6 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in the Seventh Street Primitive Methodist Church, 34 N. Seventh St.
The Rev. Brian Betsworth, of Trinity Evangelical Comgregational Church, will be the speaker.
Also participating in the service are the Rev. Sam Bellavia, of Christian Missionary and Alliance Church; the Rev. Richard Earl, of Mountainside Assembly of God Church, and the Rev. David Wildoner, of Seventh Street Primitive Methodist Church.
A youth choir from Trinity Lutheran Church will provide music. Refreshments will be served after the service.
Benefit planned to help fire victims
SHAMOKIN - A $15 night to benefit two Coal Township people displaced by a fire last month will be from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Knights of Columbus.
Proceeds from the event will help Antoinette Scicchitano and Bob Wheary, whose houses on Berry Street in Boydtown were destroyed by fire.
The price includes all you-can-eat food and drink. There will also be door prizes, 50/50 drawings and a Chinese auction. Some of the Chinese auction items are an iPad mini, Budweiser neon, Yuengling framed poster, gift certificates, Weis Markets $50 gift cards and a Harley Davidson leather coat hook.
Five bands will also perform:
6:30 p.m. - Bush Pounders
7:30 p.m. - Four Car Pile Up
8:30 p.m. - Warren Dane
9:30 p.m. - R.A.T.L.
10:30 p.m. - Dying To Live