n McAdoo: The McAdoo Lions Club is sponsoring an evening trip to Mohegan Sun slated for Aug. 27. The bus will leave at 4 p.m. from All Saints Social Hall and will depart from the casino at 10:30 p.m. for the return trip. There will be a rebate of $15 in slot play and a $10 food voucher. The cost is $21 per person. For more information or to sign up, call Stephanie at 570-920-1012 or 570-778-6956.
n McKeansburg: A chicken pot pie dinner will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Aug. 24 at the Congregational Free Church of Christ, lower level, 81 McKeans Ridge Road. The cost is $8 for adults, $4 for children 3 to 12 and free for youngsters under 3. Dinners will include chicken pot pie, salad, dessert and beverage. Patrons may eat at the church or take dinners out. Everyone is welcome. For more information, call Mary at 570-366-2286 or Anna at 570-366-2049.
n Pottsville: Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 S. Second St., will feature pianist Ronald Stabinsky, a Minersville native, in concert at 4 p.m. Sept. 22, to kick off its 2013-14 concert season. There will be no admission fee, but freewill offerings will be accepted. Participants will be able to meet the artist at a post-concert reception. Stabinsky will perform works by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Prokofiev and Pottsville composer Paul Miller. The venue is accessible to the handicapped. Everyone is welcome.
n Shenandoah: Planning has begun for a townwide yard sale set for Sept. 21 by the Greater Shenandoah Area Chamber of Commerce. The sale will be at a central location - the lot adjacent to the Shenandoah Senior Living Community, East Washington Street. Jacqueline Webb and chamber President Marie Popoff are the coordinators. The cost for a table is $5 and all proceeds will benefit the chamber's Christmas lighting fund. All residents of the greater Shenandoah area are welcome to participate. People wanting more information should contact Webb, Popoff, chamber Secretary Betty Ann Bugden, Treasurer Mark Bernardyn or any chamber director. The chamber meets 8 a.m. the third Wednesday of the month. The meeting sites alternate between Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehabilitation, 200 Pennsylvania Ave., and the Shenandoah Senior Liviing Community.
n Shenandoah: The Shenandoah Area Free Public Library, 15 W. Washington St., accepts memorials in memory of or in honor of loved ones and friends. Library hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, noon to 7 p.m. Wednesdays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Debi A. Dodson is the director. The library can be reached by calling 570-462-9829 or via email to safpl@shenhgts.net. In addition to Shenandoah borough, the library serves the West Mahanoy Township villages of Shenandoah Heights, Weston Place, Raven Run, Brownsville, William Penn, Lost Creek, Lost Creek No. 2 and the Mahanoy Township village of Yatesville - a combined population of more than 7,000. Library officers include Mary Ellen Matunis, president; Kawika Daguio, vice president; Mary Luscavage, treasurer, and Mary Ann Mickelonis, secretary. Other board members include attorney Kathleen Palubinsky, Helen Beddall, Pam Conroy, Andrea Pytak and Roseann Mychak. Its offerings, according to its website - www.iu29.org/shenandoahpl - are more than 10,000 adult and children's books including bestsellers, a wide selection of paperback novels, local newspapers, a large selection of magazines as well as periodicals online, a large selection of large print books and local history material. Regarding audio/video, the library has a rotating books-on-tape collection, a rotating videocassette/DVD collection and rotating large-print books. For web researching, the library has access to the PA database, free Internet access, home access to the Power Library database of full-text periodicals and reference resources, a word processing program, electronic encyclopedias and other reference works.