SAYRE - As in the past, participants in the Seventh Annual Sleepout Fundraiser for The Bridge, which was held in Sayre this weekend, raised awareness about the plight of people who cannot afford heating oil or are homeless.
But one of the participants in the event, Marilyn Jeffrey, and her husband, the Rev. Dewey Jeffrey, who is the vice-president of The Bridge, said there is also a new problem in the area: a lack of emergency housing locally, as workers in the natural gas industry have rented motel rooms that had been used as emergency housing in the past.
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New Review poll topic published on Web site
The new poll topic for The Daily & Sunday Review Web site this week is: How many helpings of Thanksgiving dinner did you have this year?
- One.
- Two.
- Three or more.
- I did not have Thanksgiving dinner this year.
Last week's question was: How did you react to Santa when going to see him as a kid?
As of the end of the poll period on Saturday evening, with 563 responses received, the breakdown was as follows: I was happy and excited, 231, 41 percent; I was a little scared, 69, 12 percent; I cried, 15, 3 percent; I don't remember, 95, 17 percent; I didn't visit Santa as a kid, 144, 26 percent; Other, 9, 2 percent.
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TOWANDA - In recent months, Joe Haggerty of Wysox Township has erected an indoor tennis court on his property, which he plans to make available for use by the community.
"My goal is to make it a long-term, real asset to the whole community," Haggerty said. "It started out as something that would be for my kids ... Now I hope to have youth (in the area) take advantage of it. That would be great."
Haggerty said the facility will be primarily an indoor tennis court. But because the net posts and netting can be easily removed, the facility could be used by community organizations for indoor soccer games and other sports, he said.
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When he announced his run for Congress in September 2005, few even knew who Chris Carney was.
Upset that U.S. Rep. Don Sherwood and a House Republican majority aimed to intervene in the end-of-life Terry Schiavo case in Florida, Carney decided Sherwood would not get his usual free ride to re-election.
By then, news of Sherwood's marital infidelity was also publicly percolating through the electorate.
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TROY - Daniel Storrs, 26, of Bloomington, Ind., and his brother, Zeb, of Smithfield Township, were among the many dozens of people who watched the annual Troy Christmas Parade on Saturday.
"Our parents are in the parade," said Daniel Storrs, who was spending the Thanksgiving holiday with his family in Bradford County, where he grew up. "They are doing a float for their church," the Biker Haven Church, he said.
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You know how it goes ...
"Fifty years old - The Metallic Age: Silver hair, gold teeth and a lead bottom."
At least that's what Sharon Morales says, and she painted it on a wall hanging. The sign was just one of many, many hand-painted goodies - like the chair with the cat picture and the ironing board with Santa - on display Saturday at her LeRaysville shop, The Country Goose Studio.
"We do a little bit of everything!" Morales remarked.
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