April 01, 2010 - Lilly Lines

LILLY LINES

By Jack Barlick

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April 1. 2010

EASTER EGG HUNT

The Lilly Washington Public Library will hold its annual Easter Egg Hunt this Saturday, April 3^rd for the young children of the area at the Firemen’s Pavilion on Railroad Street. The event will begin promptly at 1:00 PM.

EASTER SERVICES

The United Methodist Church on Willow Street will hold a Sunrise Service at 7:00 AM Sunday morning.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel National Catholic Church on Hilltop Road will have a Holy Thursday Service at 4:00  PM today, A Good Friday service will be held on Friday the 2^nd at 3;00 PM and an Easter Vigil on Saturday the 3^rd at 3:00 PM. The Easter Mass of the Resurrection will be held Saturday, April 3^rd at 4:00 PM. There will be no Sunday service.

St. Lukes Lutheran Church will join with the 1^st Lutheran Church in Portage for a 7:00 PM Maundy Thursday Service including the stripping of the altar at Portage. On Good Friday the Portage Ministeriun will hold a service from noon until 3:00 PM at the Trinity United Church

On Good Friday at 7:00 PM a Tenebrae will be held at Saint Lukes here in Lilly for the Lilly-Portage Parish. Then on Saturday, April 3^rd at 8:00 PM there will be a Parish Easter Vigil Service with Holy Baptism at St. Lukes. On Easter Sunday there will be a 6:30 AM Easter Sunrise Service at Saint Lukes in Lilly followed by light refreshments. There will be a 9:00 AM Easter Service at the 1^st Lutheran Church in Portage. There will not be an 11:00 AM service at St. Lukes.

Our Lady of the Alleghenies Catholic Church will hold a Mass of the Lords Supper with a Procession this evening April 1 at 7:00 PM. There will be visits to the Repository until 11:00 PM. On Good Friday there will be a Liturgical Service of the Passion and Death of Our Lord and a Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion Service at 1:30 PM.

On Holy Saturday there will be a Blessing of the Paschal Baskets at the Church at 2:00 PM and an Easter Vigil Service & Resurrection Mass at 8;30 in the Church. Easter Sunday Masses will be held at 8:00 AM in the Chapel and 10:00 AM in the Church.

WAR MEMORIAL CLEANUP

The Lilly-Washington War Memorial Association will be conducting a spring cleanup at the ball field to ready the grounds for the coming season. All players and coaches are asked to help out for a couple hours starting at 9:00 AM. Bring rakes and shovels if you can. The general publics help will also be appreciated.

The War Memorials monthly meeting will be held April 7^th at 7:00 PM at the Lilly Borough Building. New members are welcome. This is one small way to help better the community.

I saw the hardy volunteers tearing down the ice skating rink for the season. They even built a shed to store it in. Give this small group the credit they deserve and donate to their annual fund drive and help them clean the field.

ROAST BEEF DINNER

St. Likes Church ladies are hosting a Roast Beef Dinner on Saturday April 17^th from 4:00 PM until 6:30 PM at the Church. Advance tickets are required and can be obtained by calling the Parsonage at 886-2222 or Helen Claar at 886-7289. Adults are $8 and children age 5 to 12 are $5. You can dine in or take out.

BIRTHDAYS

Today, April 1 is John Skura, Jr’s. birthday and then on the 2^nd Dave Beck Sr., Shirley Przybyz, John Pyo, Pat Shedlock, Duane Misiura Sr,.

 And Christine Wheeler all celebrate as will Rita Norris on the 3^rd.

April 4^th besides being Easter will be a busy party day for Terry McGarry, Jean McGarry’s grandson in Florida who celebrates as does John Bost, Patricia Muldoon, Francis Risko and Jeffrey Szpala who all celebrate both Easter and birthdays. On the 5^th Shane Hartline and Matthew Nadolsky get to party as will Amy Davies and Alyssa Seaman on the 6^th.

Another busy day falls on April 7^th as Brooklyne Clinemyer, Caityn Klatt, Mary Kay Lukacs, Jean McGarry and Deborah Wilson all celebrate

THROUGH THE YEARS

We often wonder were classmates and neighbors wind up after the years go by. Two people a lot of the 60 to 70 year olds will remember are Charlie Stanko and Gloria Vermeulen. They both graduated from Lilly High School and got married in 1965 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church after Charlie got out of the Marines. Gloria had been a majorette in the high school band and graduated in 1964.

Well they are retired now and live in the eastern part of the state in Phoenixville near Valley Forge National Park. Charlie had worked in Philipsburg New Jersey until he retired. They have two children: Gregory and Kimberly.

What is unique about this couple from Lilly is the fact that they are both assistant co-coordinators for the Marine Corp League’s Toys for Tots Program in Montgomery and Chester counties. Each October they are involved with collecting toys from over 100 sites and organizing the packaging by age group and distribution of over 20,000 toys to needy children in those counties. They have done this worthy project since 2001.

VETERANS BOOK

If you have any family visiting in Lilly for Easter that have been in the Armed Forces have them call me and see if I have their information for the book. Some people think you had to be in a war to be a veteran; a veteran is anyone that served in the Armed Forces Peace time or War time. The military is like a football team: War time is the Offense, Peace Time is the Defense. It’s the readiness that counts.

Several people were a great help this past week in tracking or providing information including Pete Bulinsky, Bonnie Sheridan, Ted Kunko and Charles Tremel Jr. I will continue my list next week.

Wishes for a very Happy and enjoyable Easter are extended to all Mainline readers and besides having a nice Easter enjoy the spring and watch the flowers bloom. Oh, Pete Bulinsky tells me that deer love to eat crocus flowers. Never knew that.