Banner idea for Delaware Valley
An idea former Delaware Valley School Board member Jim Mooney presented to the current school board in July has been taken to heart by the district.
Jim's idea was to provide recognition for the national and state awards the school district has achieved over the past few years. He also wanted to thank the students, staff, parents and taxpayers for their roles in achieving this national success.
School board members agreed to place recognition banners at the main entrances to each school building reminding everyone of the importance of the success of the school district and thanking all for their hard work.
Sharon Siegel, an elementary school teacher, and the DVE-TV crew interviewed Jim during their morning broadcast about the banners located in front of the elementary school building. On hand for the interview with Jim were district Superintendent John Bell, project manager Chris Lordi and state Rep. Rosemary Brown.
Back to their roots
A group of family and friends has returned from a two-week tour of Italy and Sicily, where relatives, including six first cousins, returned to the area from which their grandparents emigrated.
In all, 39 were on the trip to southern Italy that started in Rome and included stops in Naples, the Isle of Capri, Sorrento, Pompeii, Matera, Alberobello, the Calabria region, where the cousins' ancestors lived; Taomina, Mount Etna, Agrigento and Palermo. The group of relatives and friends, Angelo Cerra, Laurie Cerra, Frances Coyne, Josie Mazza, Bernadette Lepre, Lynnette Lepre-VanDeusen, Tina Milewski and Nancy Shields, have family roots in the Calabria region and another person had roots in Sicily.
"It was a great experience to actually be in the area where our grandparents came from," Bernadette reported.
High notes
The Republican committees of Lackawanna and Luzerne counties will hold the first joint fundraising fall dinner in several years on Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Gramercy on Main Street in Pittston. Lance Stange Jr. and Bill Urbanski, chairmen of the Lackawanna and Luzerne committees, respectively, are honorary chairmen of the dinner. Barbara Davenport, vice chairwoman of the Lackawanna committee, and T. Lynette Villano, vice chairwoman of the Luzerne County Republican Committee, are co-chairwomen of the dinner.