Wilkes-Barre Club

President - Nancy Karpovich

Vice President -

Secretary - Ann Williams

Treasurer - MaryAnn Bellanca

Past President - Paulinette Tippins

Members-At-Large - MaryAnn Bellanca, Linda Shypulefski, Susan Hooper

Rosemary Gawat, Rose Stachowiak, Jean Mikush

Wilkes-Barre Club Meetings

Mondays - 9:00 a.m. - Craft Group, Plymouth CO

Wednesdays - Talking Book - Plymouth CO

Last Wednesday of the Month - 10:00 a.m. - Sing-A-Long Riverside Adult Day Care, Plains

September 26 - Paula's Walk/Lupus Loop - Kirby Park

October 21 - Bingo at the Blind Association

November 7 - Wilkes-Barre Veteran's Day Parade

Activities:

The Wilkes-Barre Club delivered a vacuum cleaner to Ruth's Place in Wilkes-Barre.  Ruth's place provides safe and temporary emergency shelter & care management services for women experiencing homelessness in Luzerne County.  We also purchased many household items for the Domestic Violence Center. 

Ten Pioneers were pen pals for the local 5th grade students at the Height-Murray Elementary School. 

The Lupus Society performs Lupus screenings at local health fairs.  Several of our members helped with the screening this year.

We helped sell daffodils for the American Cancer Society. 

Our Club helped the 5th & 6th grade Student Council at Hanover Memorial Elementary pay the shipping and handling of ten boxes that were sent to two soldiers in Afghanistan and Russia. 

Wilkes-Barre Club has donated 50 Hug-A-Bears, 25 backpacks and 50 baby hats to the Wyoming Valley Children's Association in Forty Fort. 

Still Pioneering On -  Times Leader Newspaper, June 28, 2010 issue (http://www.timesleader.com) had an article on Bill Lawson 83 years young who has macular degenerative and works with a magnifying glass to repair old talking books as a member of the area Telephone Pioneers.  Other volunteers Joe Canfield, Tony Yuscavage, Bill McHenry, Ed Osmanaski, Wes Egleberger and Charles Matiska. 

Inside the old Bell Atlantic Telephone Building sits eight men conversing around a table.  These retired employees of the former telecommunications giant volunteer their time to repair "talking books" or cassette players with Braille buttons that play recorded books for area blind residents.  They all have a lot of fun doing something good.