Helping Hands

Clemleddy plays Santa’s helper

HONESDALE, PA — For the third consecutive year, Clemleddy Construction staff is purchasing children’s gifts and gathering unwrapped toys from friends and colleagues in the community to distribute to the Wayne County Christmas Bureau and some children from our local schools and churches. Unwrapped new gifts for young girls and boys can be dropped off to Barb Theobald, left, or Ellen Chorba, right, at the Clemleddy Construction office in the Palmyra Professional Complex, on Route 6, across from the PPL Environmental Education Center. For more information call 570/226-2899.

Church holds community dinners

HONESDALE, PA — Grace Episcopal Church is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its first Thanksgiving Together Dinner this year. Instead of just holding a dinner on Thanksgiving, however, the church now also holds luncheons every Saturday at 11:00 a.m. It will also host special holiday dinners on Christmas and New Year’s at the church, located at the corner of Church and 9th streets.

In 1983 the Reverend Michael Fill Jr., then rector of the church, established the Thanksgiving Together Dinner, so that no one would be without a place to go or people to be with on the holiday. The idea was subsequently expanded to other holidays and to Saturdays.

Individuals come from all over to cook, serve and clean up, and volunteers from many area churches participate. Among the pillars of the effort are Al Schwartz and Alice Martin of the First Presbyterian Church. There has also been an outpouring of support from community businesses, which have donated over $2,000 this year to help defray costs.

For more information call 570/253-2760.