Donna Detrick of Sayre was the winner at the Valley Bridge Club’s Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Game held in Athens Township. Beverly Dann of Athens Township finished in second place.
In August, Northern Tier Regional Planning and Development Commission, in partnership with Guthrie and the United States Geological Survey, were awarded $173,250 by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to conduct a county-wide groundwater study. USGS is providing $173,250 in match funds while Guthrie is contributing $23,250, bringing the total project cost to $369,750. Utilizing random sampling, the study will test water from private domestic-supply wells in Bradford Co. to characterize the quality of groundwater and provide baseline groundwater quality data.
Additional acres of Bradford farmland will be preserved following this week’s approval of the purchase of conservation easements by the state Agricultural Land Preservation Board, according to state Sen. Gene Yaw. Nearly 260 acres of farmland in LeRoy Township, Bradford County, will be preserved from non-agricultural development.
Have you been putting off returning your library books because of fines? We have good news for people who spent the summer with a good book but didn't return it on time. The Bradford County Library is waiving overdue fines from Monday, Oct. 26 through Saturday, Nov. 7. To participate, you must return your items to the Circulation Desk and notify the person at the desk that you wish to take advantage of the amnesty day when you return your overdue items. This does not apply to existing fines on previously returned items or damaged items. You must have your fines waived at the time you return them by speaking with the person on duty. Fines will not be waived after the fact or for items returned in the book drop. The Bradford County Library is located on Route 6 one mile west of Burlington. For more information, please call the library at 570-297-2436. Are you an adventurous local photographer? If so, join us at the Bradford County Library on Saturday, October 24 at 1:30 pm for our mystery location photo contest. Be prepared to venture to our unknown location up to 25 miles away from the library. Contestants will select photographs from this endeavor to enter in our competition. Entries for the photography contest are due by 6 pm on Friday, November 13. Contest rules are available at all public libraries in Bradford County for both adult and juvenile entries. Juvenile entries are not required to participant in the mystery tour. Ages will be divided according to grade levels (1st-4th, 5th-8th, and 9th-12th). A reception to announce the winners will take place on Saturday, November 21 at 1 pm. The gallery of photographs will be on display within the library for the week leading up to the reception. During this time, voting for the People’s Choice Award will take place. For further information, please call the Library at (570) 297-2436. The Northern Tier Partnership for Arts in Education and the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts announced and awarded grants to 36 local non-profit organizations from seven counties.
This year’s grantees include organizations and projects in the several arts, including film exhibitions, choral societies, square dance festivals, lectures and symposia and many more. Funding is awarded in two categories; project stream (funding for a single event or project) and program stream (general operating and organizational funding.) Local organizations receiving funding for the 2015-2016 Funding Year are: The Northern Tier Partnership for Arts in Education and the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts will announce and award grants to 36 local non-profit organizations from seven counties in a private ceremony on Tuesday, October 13, 2015.
This year’s grantees include organizations and projects in the several arts, including film exhibitions, choral societies, square dance festivals, lectures and symposia and many more. Funding is awarded in two categories; project stream (funding for a single event or project) and program stream (general operating and organizational funding.) Organizations receiving funding for the 2015-2016 Funding Year are: Moose Exchange Keystone College Troy Youth Arts Camp Blossburg Memorial Library Artists' Open House Weekend Downtown Bloomsburg, Inc. Jubilate Choir Deane Center for the Performing Arts Wellsboro Community Concert Association Tunkhannock Public Library Williamsport City Jazz Orchestra The Valley Chorus Victorian Christmas PA Heritage Festival Friends of Mt. Pisgah Arnot Health is sponsoring a candle lighting ceremony to mark Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. The ceremony will take place from 7 – 8 p.m. on October 15 in the Courtyard Green Space on Ogden Ave behind Arnot Ogden Medical Center. This is a worldwide event that sends a Wave of Light over the globe in loving memory of babies lost.
The service of remembrance is being held as part of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. It is just one part of the supportive services for bereaved parents offered by Arnot Health. The program allows bereaved parents and support persons to receive specialized support immediately following a loss and through the first year. At Bridge for Literacy, a fund raiser to benefit the Bradford-Wyoming Co. Literacy Program, several local bridge players recently took home top honors as well as gift certificates from local restaurants. Beverly Dann of Athens Townshhip was top scorer, followed by Bob Urban of Waverly for second place, and Jackie Luther of Waverly for third place. Jeffrey Dann was the tournament director.
By Kelsey Jones Anyone who has reviewed the early history of Canton has undoubtedly noted the reference to Beulah and her son Caesar, referred to as slaves of Ezra Spalding and Hannah Eaton, some of the earliest settlers in Canton.
The Spalding family are related to have arrived in Sheshequin in 1795 and it is further related that Ezra left his family there during the following winter, and, with his son Horace, located in Canton, “where Horace, now an old man past his fourscore and ten, still resides” (History of Bradford County by Rev. David Craft). Having chopped a fallow of about four acres and built a cabin, they returned to Sheshequin, and in the month of February 1796 moved to their new home. History indicates the family consisted of two sons and three daughters. “Besides these there were two negro slaves, who came from Connecticut, Beulah and her son Caeser. Beulah lived with her master part of the time, and died there. Caesar ran away; returned to his master,” but again left (History of Bradford County by Rev. David Craft). Undoubtedly, these few references were probably furnished by Horace Spalding who was living in 1878 when Rev. Craft wrote his history of Bradford County. |
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