Community Living

CALLICOON, NY — The Western Sullivan Public Library will hold two 3-D design classes geared toward the holiday season. Come to the library to create your own holiday figures, and print them on the library’s 3-D printer.

CALLICOON, NY — Join local romance novel cover artist, Sharon Spiak at the Delaware Free Branch of the Western Sullivan Public Library on Tuesday, November 27 at 5 p.m.  Spiak will discuss her current exhibit, “The Art and Fashion of the Romance Novel,” as well as her career as an artist, beginning as an illustrator in the early 1980s.

Initially, Wayne Borough was established in 1853 from portions of Scott and Preston Townships. The town was renamed Starrucca in 1873 and sits at the confluence of the Starrucca and Shadigee creeks.

HURLEYVILLE, NY — The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA), in its role as Arts Council for Sullivan County recently, convened a meeting of arts organizations with the intent of exploring shared interests in fulfilling the organizations’ missions. The meeting was held at the Hurleyville Arts Centre.

REGION — The Pocono Arts Council is pleased to announce the 2018 PA Partners in the Arts (PPA) Grants. PPA is administered in the northeastern PA region by the Pocono Arts Council and is available to non-profit organizations and individual artists conducting arts programming in the counties of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike and Wayne.

LIBERTY, NY — SERVPRO of Orange, Sullivan & S. Ulster Counties will sponsor the next Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce First Friday networking breakfast on Friday, December 7 from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Rubin Pollack Education Center, 6 Wierk Ave. The breakfast will be catered by the Sullivan County BOCES culinary students.

I thought we were still in leaf-falling season—but apparently it is snow falling season. Nearly a foot of snow came down in Narrowsburg last Thursday evening. My pumpkins and mums are buried under a thick coating of ice and snow. It is early, but ready or not, the first major snowfall puts me right into the holiday spirit.

YULAN, NY — Children of the Religious Education program at St. Anthony’s in Yulan participated in an “Invite a Veteran to Church” event Sunday, November 11. The children honored local veterans with a prayer service and presented them with cards, thanking them for their service.