A'maize'ing

Corn Festival

The Revitalization Of Youngsville Organization (ROY) will hold its fourth annual A"maize"ing Corn Festival on Aug. 21-23 in downtown Youngsville. The Corn Festival is a community-wide celebration of Youngsville's heritage and pride in its community.

This year's event is planned to bring family, friends, and visitors to downtown.

There is no admission fee for the festival, but donations are accepted. The Corn festival is a true community effort with local churches, businesses, and non-profit groups pitching in to help make it a success. Although organizers try to make most activities free for the community, they are not free for ROY, which is hoping friends who may be able to contribute will help make up some of the cost.

The Revitalization Of Youngsville is a non-profit organization in partnership with Youngsville Borough and Warren Forest County Economic Opportunity Council. The event will be held rain or shine.

Women's Conference

On Saturday Aug. 8, from 9 a.m. until noon, the Wonder Women Ministries will present a day of music, testimonies, drama, and video that will encourage women to realize that through Christ they are made strong.

It will be at the Youngsville Free Methodist Church, 240 E. Main St. for a cost of $15. For information, contact Shelley Holcomb at memawpa@yahoo.com or call 563-3454 or Jill Bennett, at hukk557@yahoo.com or call 63-4918 or the representative from your church. Sponsored by Wonder Women Ministries and The Committee Bringing Love Inc. to the Brokenstraw Valley.

It's a 'maize' ing

On Friday, the festivities begin at 6 p.m. in Youngsville with wagon rides, a food court, the Roy and Pearl Pageant, the Bugle Boy Swing Band, the Bubble Gum DJ Marty Loomis, and the Ron Carrington Band.

Because there was such a demand, the corn maze will be open on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this year. ROY thanks volunteer Ian Ashbaugh, who designed and cut the intricate maze trail.

Those who choose to play the maze game, searching for the six hidden checkpoints, may work as an individual or join with others to form teams. The first-place team to complete the game with the fastest time wins a plaque, and the fastest individual to conquer the maze will be crowned King of the Corn.

The maze will be open Friday, from 3:30 p.m. until dark; Saturday, from 10 a.m. until dark; and Sunday from noon until 4 p.m. The cost is $3 per person or $10 per family. Food and refreshments will be sold at the maze.

The Corn Maze is located at the east end of the Davis Street ball field. For information or to volunteer to staff the doorway into the maze, call Ann Hernandez at 563-3241.

Yard Sales

YABA Days Yard Sales this weekend July 23-25 in downtown Youngsville. To donate your items, bring them over to the ROY tent at 235 E. Main St.

Class reunion

The Annual "Fifty-Plus Reunion" for Youngsville High School was held at the cafeteria on July 14. Two special classes were 1957, which was this year's host; and 1958 this being their first year of eligibility. The 1958 class will be the host of 2010's reunion.

A noon lunch was enjoyed by 104 graduates from classes going back as far as 1936. Lunch was followed by a one-hour program, including a welcome and invocation, a brief history of schools at Youngsville going back to the early 1800s, and recognition of each attending class.

A wireless-microphone system allowed each class to designate a spokesperson to comment on the importance of the reunion to that class.

Three $75 awards will be made to the General Scholarship Fund in the names of Bruce Meabon (oldest attending class, 1936), Beatrice Swanson (longest distance traveled, California), and Class of 1958 (most attendees, 11).

Classmates continued to socialize for another hour, with the reunion coming to an end about 2:30. All in attendance agreed the annual event has become a yearly highlight, and everyone is looking forward to next July.

New Fiction Books

at Youngsville Library

Each month, the Youngsville Library purchases new fiction and nonfiction items for its patrons to enjoy.

The following are some of the library's new fiction purchases (for adult readers): The Devil's Bones by Jefferson Bass, Written in Bone by Simon Beckett, The Lovers by John Connolly, Knockout: FBI Thriller by Catherine Coutler, Medusa by Clive Cussler, Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver, Finger Lickin Fifteen by Janet Evanovich, Memory Collector by meg Gardiner, The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman, Trust No One by Gregg Hurwitz, Relentless by Dean Koontz, Rogue of My Own by Johanna Lindsey, Fugitive by Phillip Margolin, Heartless by Diana Palmer, Swimsuit by James Patterson, Killer Summer by Ridely Pearson, Capture by Robert Tanenbaum, and Die For You by Lisa Unger.