| VOLUME XXX No. 321 | Narrowsburg, NY | August 5 - 11, 2004 |
Johnny, we hardly saw ye’ MATAMORAS, PA—If he had been in an airplane, you could have termed Senator John Kerry’s hasty Friday passage through the river valley as a “fly-by.” A planned noon-time opportunity to meet the Democratic presidential ticket didn’t quite work out as planned for about 200 area residents who showed up to greet the candidate at the Pennsylvania Welcome Center in Westfall. Matamoras Mayor Dick Gassman and Pike County Democratic Chair Maurine Giordano said they received phone calls on the prior Wednesday asking them if they could get some people out on Friday to meet the candidates who were to be on their way from Boston to a large Scranton rally. | |||||
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Getting ready for Renaissance JEFFERSONVILLE, NY—With the judging for this year’s Sullivan Renaissance awards only two weeks away, members of Jeff Enhances Main Street (JEMS), including young gardeners Sawyer, Austin and Rianne Erlwein and Brad Hemmer got busy spreading the mulch around the most recent plantings at the gazebo, which will be the village’s entry in this year’s contest. |
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Gertner speaks about the Hasidic movement FOSTERDALE, NY—In a suave mix of English and Yiddish, Jewish women discussed their children while sitting in the lobby of Mel Gertner’s Relax Inn Monday morning. “My life is the kids,” one elderly woman said, and the conversation came to a temporary halt. It was as if her words apprehended the one single message masked by the details of dialogue. |
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