YOUNGWOOD

COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

Issue #16 “Independence Day” July 1, 2011

From the Editor’s Desk

Carnival Time in Youngwood has always been the highlight of summer. I remember when they closed Third Street down at Depot and the Ferris wheel was set up in the middle of the street in front of the Moose. My aunts and cousins would come for the week and the ladies all played bingo to try and win nylon stockings. At that time we lived in the 300 block of Third Street and when we saw the Ferris wheel start going around it was time to start “out street”. Now you know about how old I am. I haven’t missed a carnival yet. MAK

The annual Firemen’s Carnival will start on Monday, July 11 and runs through Saturday, July 16. The kitchen will open at 6:30 p.m. each evening with a full menu of food. The rides and Firemen’s booths will open at 7:00 p.m. There will be early bird discount price nights throughout the week for the rides. A Karaoke Contest will be held on Wednesday Night and Bob FM 96.9 will broadcast live on Friday evening. The event closes with the Fireworks Display on Saturday evening at 11:00 p.m. The Ladies Auxiliary will have Bingo every night in the air conditioned Fire Hall along with the popular Bake Sale. We hope to see everyone come out and enjoy the Carnival and support your local Fire Department. The firemen are contacting local business owners to be Firemen’s Booth sponsors. Baked Good Pick-up Schedule: Monday, 1st, 2nd, Chestnut, Depot, & Milliron Sts. Motel & Haydens Ways, Silvis Farm & Race Track Rds., Klingensmith & Bean Lns. Grandview Ave. Tuesday: 7th, 8th, 9th,10th,Locast, Newill, Painter, & Wilson Sts., Genard, Rose, Hillview, Oak, & Lachie Lns. Wednesday: 6th, Walnut Sts. Clawson Ave., Overhead Bridge Rd, Wineman Lane. Thursday, 3rd, Johnson, Lowe, Reynolds, Academy & Helman Sts., Haller, McKinley, North, & Burton Aves., Friday, 4th St., Sherwood Cir., Kennedy Way, Skyline Dr., Farm Lane, Elgin Way, Bayer Dr., Lincoln St. Saturday, 5th St., Roosevelt Ave., Mt. Airy, Hillis St., Wagner Rd., Eagle Crest, Crago Lane. I you live on Depot, Race Track Rd. or Silvis Farm Rd. please bring you items to the the firehall or call 724-925-2012./ 787-6345 for pick up. This is due to the high traffic and safety of our kids making the pick ups.

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK

June Council Meeting

Youngwood Borough Council held their regular monthly Council Meeting on Monday June 6, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Just a reminder that several solicitors have requested applications to go door to door. A new ordinance has been approved to set costs and times for soliciting. Ask for their documents if approached. If they don’t have them, they have to go to the borough office to apply.

July Council Meeting

Youngwood Borough Council will hold their monthly Council Meeting on Monday, July 5, 2011 at 7 p.m. The portrait of deceased Councilman Thomas Bompiani, will be unveiled and dedicated.

August Agenda Meeting

August agenda meeting is Monday, July 25, 2011 at 7 p.m. for general discussion and public hearings.

MONTHLY PUBLICATION is currently available at the Borough Office, pharmacies, banks, Youngwood Post Office, churches, Youngwood Library, Sunoco, Adams and Helper’s Hardware.

For August 1, 2011, please send all information to be published by July 20, 2011

Mary Ann Klingensmith, Editor

724-925-2480 PKling5504@aol.com.

Kris Long, Co-editor

724-433-3121 long.kris@comcast.net.

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

Youngwood Volunteer Fire Dept www.youngwood fire.com

SUNDAY EVENING DANCING music provided by a D.J. from 6 to 10 p.m. on July 24th..

WEDNESDAY EVENINGS live bands play music from the Big Band Era, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

POLKA DANCE will be held at the Fire hall on Saturday, July 2nd with music provided by the ever popular Mikey Dee Band from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 2:00 p.m., Kitchen will be open.

MONDAY, JULY 25, there will be a Red Cross Blood drive from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m.

The Fire Dept. is always looking for new members that are interested in learning fire fighting skills and helping with the many Fire hall functions. Contact any current member if interested.

The Youngwood Volunteer Hose Co. #1 answered 241 calls this year through June 22, 2011.

The Annual Firemen’s Carnival will be held on Monday, July 11th through Saturday, July 16th.

Please continue to support our annual fund drive now going on.

The Hempfield Garden Club

The Garden Club participated again this year in the Annual Community Yard Sale. In addition to homemade herbal vinegars, over 350 plants and herbs were sold - mostly home grown from seeds and seedlings, as well as from members gardens. Also lots of yummy homemade baked goods were sold to hungry customers. The "Steeler" afghan was won by Bernie Crago. The Club thanks all those who supported our sale.

The Garden Club's annual July Covered Dish Picnic will be held on Thursday, July 7 at the Youngwood Park & Pool beginning at 11 AM. If you would like to be our guest at this or a future meeting, please call 724-635-0339 for more information.

GARDEN TIP: If you have mums in your garden, now is the time to pinch them back. Don't be afraid to use your pruners and cut your mum plants down half way, as this will produce a greater number of colorful flowers for late summer and fall. An easy way to remember to do this is to always cut them back around the 4th of July, but not much later than that.

Youngwood Area Library

The Youngwood Branch of the Greensburg Hempfield Area Library had the Kick-Off for the Summer Reading Program at the Playground on Friday June 10th at 10:30.

There were 57 children and 9 adults in attendance. The theme for this summer’s program is “One World, Many Stories.” They were entertained by two young ladies from Stage Right with songs and dances from around the world. There is a brochure at the Library with information about the summer reading programs – there are 3 or 4 programs a week. All programs are free but require registration in advance at the Youngwood Library.

The Youngwood Library is having another fundraiser at Bob Evans Restaurant in New Stanton – 2 days – Saturday July 23 and Sunday July 24th. You can get a coupon/paper at the Library or you can request one at the Restaurant. The Library benefits 15% of your total bill. You must have the coupon when you pay your bill. These Bob Evans’ Fundraisers are a great help to your Library!!

YARD Youngwood Area Revitalization & Development

There are still 39 Community Cookbooks left and are available at Bayer’s Pharmacy, Hepler’s Hardware, Youngwood Borough Office, and Cyber Depot. The books are $10 each.

11th Annual Community YARD Sale

We hope you had a successful YARD Sale Day. Thank you to those 41 residents who contributed by paying their $2 or more, the 4 families who paid their $10 to set up at the Community Center. and the businesses, churches, and organizations who took out ads on the flyer. Without your funds there would be no publicity, no flyers and no YARD Sale. We appreciate your support and hope we can do it again next year on the 2nd Saturday of June. YOU make this the success it is.

Youngwood Park & Pool

The Youngwood Area Park & Pool Association is “Celebrating 50 years of summer fun”. The schedule of events has filled up starting July 30th and continuing until August 6th. The committee, made up of members of the Park & Pool and the Youngwood Area Business Association, is looking forward to a great week. The schedule is as follows and flyers are to be available with all the details.

Sat. July 30 old pass ½ off pool admission day – bring an old season pass from the past “Twist and Splash” with the “Back in Time Band” featuring Youngwood's Paul “T-bird” Kettren 7-10 pm - $5

Sun. July 31 bar-b-que chicken dinner - 1-4 pm - adults $6 – kids $4

tickets will be available

bake sale by the G-Force youth group

car cruise - 12 noon - $10 per car

Mon. Aug. 1 kids day – featuring programs and stories by the Youngwood Branch of the Greensburg/Hempfield Library - 12-3 pm

magic show by Steve

Tues. Aug. 2 moonlight swim - 8-10 pm - $2

Wed. Aug. 3 50 year day – hot dogs, drinks, ice cream $ .50

kids crafts day - by the Youngwood Branch of the Greensburg/Hempfield Library 12-3 pm

Thurs. Aug. 4 moonlight swim - 8-10 pm and “Twist and Splash” with the “Wicked Band” featuring Hempfield's Bree Fox - $5

Fri. Aug. 5 drive in night at the pool – 8 pm - movie starts at dusk - $5

movie and swimming featuring the Youngwood Lions Club popcorn

Sat. Aug. 6 Youngwood Borough's Annual Community Picnic - 12-6 pm

all borough residents welcome

Hayden's Pharmacy will be sponsoring the Car Cruise at the Youngwood Park N Pool on July 31st from 12:00pm-5:00pm. Classic or Custom welcome $5.00 or donation to Park N Pool per car.

Raffles! Food! Prizes! Spectator Choice Awards by class and first 50 entries will receive a commemorative plaque. All proceeds go to the Park n Pool Enterprise Project Fund! A great day for family fun and a stroll down memory lane! Any questions, call Ed Christofano at (724) 925-8077 or email at edc@haydenspharmacy.com.

The Youngwood Lions Club

Get your birthday/anniversary on the Lions Birthday Calendar!! What is the Lions Birthday Calendar? It is a calendar with you and your family’s individual birthdays and/or anniversary listed on their proper date. You can also have birthday listings in memory of a loved one. The cost is $6.00 per calendar and that includes 10 listings. Additional listings are available for 25 cents each. You can see a calendar at the Youngwood Library or Hayden’s Pharmacy and if you’re interested give them your name & phone number and a Lion will get in contact with you or call Marilynn Brown at 724-925-9585. Support your Lions – they support our Library!!

The Lions Club will hold their FAMOUS BROOM SALE at Dr. Mondock’s parking lot at Burton and 119S on Saturday, July 16 beginning at 9:00 a.m.

CHURCH NEWS & EVENTS

New Beginning Evangelical Church 724-755-0105 Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 a.m.

Blended worship style with a six piece worship team. Sermon level is challenging and scriptural

Wednesday Night Community Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

First Trinity United Church of Christ-724-925-7043 Sunday Service: 9:00 a.m.

The time for Summer Sunday Service will continue until the end of September. Our June Church Mission was to fill 6-5 gal. buckets with cleaning supplies. Those supplies have been delivered to a distribution point in Virginia. Be sure to watch our sign for future messages.

Saint Luke’s Lutheran Church

Sunday, July 17th is the 2 p.m. afternoon liturgy in our additional worship site, in our church hall, which is handicap accessible. St. Luke's 1901-2011 is celebrating it's 110 Anniversary this year

SPECIAL EVENT: Seminar hosted by Representative Tim Krieger

Senior Expo on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm at the Delmont Fire Hall, 2360 Rt. 66,

Delmont, PA 15626. Free admission

Notice: If anyone finds a bible in a zippered blue canvas case, please return to the boro office.

46TH ANNUAL YOUNGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

ALUMNI REUNION

Classes 1911 thru 1956

Youngwood High School Alumni Reunion

will be held on Saturday, September 17,

2011 at the Youngwood Firemen’s

Banquet Hall. Anyone who attended

Youngwood High School Is welcome.

Call Mayor Joan Derco, 734-925-9461 for information.