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¯Online Basket Raffle Fundraiser -- Benefits West Beaver Township Veterans Memorial Pool, the week of March 8. This online event is replacing the Annual Basket Auction and Chinese auction. Chances will be sold for several baskets weekly. Winners will be chosen via Facebook Live every Sunday. Chances can be purchased at https://west-beaver-township-veterans-memorial-pool.square.site/. For more details, visit the McClure Veterans Memorial Pool Facebook page. For more information, or to donate baskets, items, or gift certificates for raffle, call (717) 994-3204.
¯Soup Sale -- March 20, Milroy Presbyterian Church, 321 South Main St., Milroy. $3.50/ quart. Ham bean, beef barley, vegetable beef and chicken noodle will be available To order call (717) 667-3438 or (717) 667-6530. Leave message if no answer.
¯Pot Pie Sale --McClure Volunteer Fire Company will be having a Pot Pie Sale, by the Quart, on March 20, 2021. Pot Pie can be pre-ordered by calling Heather Shilling 717-953-5976 or Shirley Corson 570-658-7377. Price is 9.00 a quart and it comes with applesauce, cole slaw, and a roll. It can be picked up from 3-5 p.m.
Monday, March 15
¯Mifflin County Library Board of Directors meeting -- 5:15 p.m. via Zoom. Email smiriello@mifflincountylibrary.org for link and more information.
Tuesday, March 16
No events scheduled
Wednesday, March 17
¯Free community lunch -11 a.m.-noon, Faith United Methodist Church, East Waterford. Drive-thru only. Enter church parking lot by way of state Route 75, exit by alley. Menu: spaghetti and meat sauce, garlic bread and cake. Details: Sharon Milliken at (717) 734-3162.
¯Democratic Committee – The Mifflin County Democratic Committee will meet by Zoom at 6:30 pm. If interested in attending, please email mifflincountydemocrats@gmail.com to request the Zoom link.
¯Mifflin County Library's Zoom Book Group meeting – 2:30 p.m. The topic for this month will be "Women in History/fiction books." Read your choice of a book and join the group to discuss what you have read. Email pbelfiore@mifcolib.org for the Zoom link.
Reunions
Upcoming reunions are published as part of the calendar. Missing classmate requests are published once and repeated only if updated. Brief reports of reunions and class reunion photos with the people identified in the order in which they appear are accepted for publication in the Living section. The deadline for submitting notices is one week before publication. Submit reunion notices to Jeff Fishbein at The Sentinel; email living@lewistownsentinel.com, or call (717) 248-6741.
Connie Parkes is offering old pictures to relatives that she possesses. These are photos of the Albert O. and Emma (Worrall) Fultz family, in particular deceased daughter Sylvia Viola Fultz Bobb. Family members include brothers Jesse, Raymond and Jay Fultz; sisters Helen Zimmerman (Ralph), Frances Pick (Jay), and Daisy, Josephine and Henrietta Fultz. Many were members of Milroy Methodist Church. If you are a relative and would like these pictures, please call Parkes at (717) 667-2008.