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Calendar

The Sentinel offers nonprofit and other community organizations an opportunity to promote upcoming events for free in the community calendar for three days before the event. Events requiring reservations may be promoted for up to two weeks before the reservation deadline.

Events that require a purchase from a for-profit business, even if a donation is made to the organization, are not eligible for the calendar.

Submit items at least one week in advance via email, events@lewistownsentinel.com; call (717) 248-6741; online, Virtual Newsroom at www.lewistownsentinel.com; or mail or drop off, The Sentinel, 352 Sixth St., P.O. Box 588 Lewistown, PA 17044. The editor reserves the right to edit all submissions.

You must include a telephone number for verification purposes. The phone number is not for publication, unless so indicated.

Reserve Now:

• Goose Day dinner — 1 to 6 p.m., pick-up only Sept. 29, Decatur Fire Co. Cookhouse, Rte. 522 N., Alfarata.

Take-Out Only. Goose dinner $18 or chicken dinner $15, mashed potatoes, filling, gravy, corn, pepper slaw, applesauce and cake. To order, call (717) 543-0921 by Wednesday, Sept. 24. Pre-orders only served.

• Pita Principle Seminar — 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., Tuesday,

Sept. 30, PA Careerlink Mifflin County, 6395 Rte.103 N., MCIDC Plaza, Bldg. 58, Lewistown. Check-in from 8:30 am to 9 a.m. Presentation at 9 a.m. Guest speaker will be Bob Orndorf, Senior Director Career Service. Seminar fee is $35 per person, payable by cash or check and payable at the door only. Make checks payable to J/V EAC and bring to seminar. Power point provided to each attendee. Full course turkey dinner provided. To register, contact Margaret Winters at (717) 248-9849 or mwint1@verizon.net. Presented by the Juniata Valley Employer Advisory Council.

• Mifflin County Chapter PASR luncheon meeting — noon, Thursday, Oct. 2, Birch Hill Events, 1100 N. Pine St., Burnham. Guest speaker Forest Fisher will present “Spirits Among Us,” ghostly tales of Mifflin County. Menu: ham, sweet potatoes, cole slaw, green beans almondine, roll/butter, gingerbread with whipped topping. Cost is $17.50. To reserve, call (717) 437-6024 or email ldmjdj@embarqmail.com before noon, Friday. Sept. 26. All Mifflin County School District retirees are welcome.

Today

• Free community breakfast — 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., Freedom Avenue UM Church, 511 E. Freedom Ave., Burnham. All are welcome.

• Soup and bake sale — 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mount Rock Evangelical Methodist Church, 127 Spring St., Lewistown. Soups: ham and bean, chicken corn.

• Central Pa Food Bank — 9:30-11 a.m., White Memorial Church fellowship hall, Milroy. Bring your own box, bag or containers. Income guidelines apply. For more information, email kishdco@gmail.com or call (717) 348-4248.

• Apple Fest — 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Bender Park, Reedsville. Homemade apple butter, caramel apples, apple pie baking contest, Little Miss/Little Mister Reedsville contest. Food trucks, food vendors, merchandise vendors, information tables.

• LHS Class of 1958 breakfast — 10 a.m., Vince’s Pizza and Family Restaurant, Burnham. Classmates, spouses and friends invited. Information: (717) 994-7383.

• Rodeo Night — 5 to 8 p.m., First Baptist Church parking lot, Rte. 35, one mile north of Mifflintown. Mechanical bull, bounce house and games. Food and fun for all ages. Rain or shine.

Sunday

• Monthly breakfast — 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. or sold out, Milroy American Legion Auxiliary 287. Open to the public. Sausage gravy over toast or biscuits, creamed chipped beef on toast or eggs to order with sausage and toast. Includes fresh fruit cup, coffee, orange juice or milk. All just $10. Kids $5. Funds support programs for veterans and the community.

• McCoy House Museum —

1-3 p.m., 17 N. Main St., Lewistown. September schedule: Retrospective of artist Anne Kepler-Fisher’s work highlighting the Amish of the Kish Valley. Retrospective shown every Sunday in September.

Monday

• Bingo — 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., McVeytown Senior Center.

• Job Club — 10 a.m. to noon, Mifflin County CareerLink, MCIDC Plaza Building 58. Attendees can search for jobs, tailor resumes, apply for jobs and learn how to get jobs.

• TOPS (Take off the Pounds Sensibly) PA 13339 meeting — 6:45 p.m., Rhodes Memorial United Methodist Church, 500 Highland Ave., Lewistown. Weigh-in at 6 p.m. New members welcome. For information: (717) 994-0156.

Tuesday

• Coffee with friends — 9 a.m. to noon, Lack-Tuscarora EMS, 9320 Route 75 South, East Waterford.

• Dominoes — 9 a.m., Yeagertown Senior Center.

• Standard Steel retirees breakfast — 9 a.m., Sal-lee’s Dream.

• September Lewistown Book Group of the Mifflin County Library — 2:30 p.m., main branch, 123 N. Wayne St., Lewistown. The book is “The Little Village of Book Lovers,” by Nina George. New members are always welcome. Information: (717) 242-2391 or (717) 935-2880.

• Computer class — 4:30 to

6:30 p.m., PA CareerLink Mifflin County, MCIDC Plaza, Bldg. 58, 6395 Rte. 103 N., Lewistown. Register: (717) 248-4942, ext 117.

• Break Bread Together dinner — 5 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 21 S. Main St., Lewistown. Menu: Spaghetti and meatballs, salad, garlic bread and dessert. Dine-in only.

• Creative Minds Night —

5:30-6:30 p.m., Mifflin County Library, 123 N. Wayne St., Lewistown. Veterinarian and author R.J. Erskine will speak on his suspense novels that were based on personal experiences and events while practicing in Mifflin County during the early 1980s. Information: (717) 242-2391, www.mifflincountylibrary.org or the Facebook Page.

Reunions

Upcoming reunions, including missing classmate requests, are published as part of the calendar and should be sent to events@lewistownsentinel.com. 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 Saturday Living section and should be sent to living@lewistownsentinel.com.

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