Winter Wonderland

Craft Show

Winter Wonderland Craft Show will be held on Nov. 22. Time: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Youngsville Fire Hall. It has free admission; 107 tables of crafts; food available and a Chinese auction. For info call 563-4042

Youngsville VFD Turkey Party

Youngsville VFD Turkey Party will be held on Nov. 8. The doors will open at 6 p.m., the games start at 7 p.m. The event has free admission, food and refreshments.

Items available as prizes are the following: hams, turkeys, steaks and guns. You must be 18 years or older to attend this event.

Basketball Boosters

Annual Turkey Party

The Youngsville Basketball Boosters Annual Turkey Party will be held at the Youngsville Fire Hall on Saturday, Nov. 29. The group is currently selling cash raffle tickets. If you haven’t received yours yet and would like to purchase, call 563-4637.

Turkey Party

and Gun Raffle

Turkey Party and Gun Raffle will be held on Saturday, Nov. 15 at the Youngsville Fire Hall. Free food and beverages will be available. Doors open at 6 p.m.; wheel starts spinning at 7 p.m. Proceeds benefit Youngsville Instrumental Boosters. Gun raffle tickets are available at the door.

Thank You

The Friends of the Brokenstraw Valley Swimming Pool and the Youngsville Borough thank all participants who braved the elements for the Zombie Run. They’d also like to congratulate the top three finishers: John Page 1st, Liz Feronit 2nd, and Dave & Rhonda Trimpey 3rd; as well as the next five across the finish line: Jacob Hogg, Landon Baker, Devon Morris, Ash Lindell and Kyle Yeagle. Next year’s run will be held earlier in the season so start training now to take on the gruesome flesh-eaters in the “Zombie Run.”

Chicken and Biscuit

Fundraiser for BVSP

The Friends of the Brokenstraw Valley Swimming Pool will be hosting a Chicken and Biscuit Dinner at the Youngsville Free Methodist Church on Thursday, Dec. 11 from 5 p.m.-? The cost is $8. Proceeds from this event will go towards Capital Improvement projects at the pool.

YEMS PTO

Brooms Sales

We are selling Quinn brooms if you would like to buy a kitchenette broom for $ 10 or warehouse broom for $12.Call Kim from PTO 814-730-8176. The brooms will be delivered by Dec. 4 at Youngsville Elementary school for pick up.

Pittsfield Otterbein

United Methodist

Church

The Pittsfield Playground is here and being used by the families of the community. Thanks to all the people that gave their time and funds to help make the Pittsfield Community Playground a reality. Stop down at the corner of Dalrymple and Prospects streets in Pittsfield please come and try it out for yourself and bring your friends.

SURGE is the name of our middle school youth group for ages 5th to 8th grades. We meet at the youth house on Friday nights from 6 to 7:30. November and December we are using Francis Chan’s Theology curriculum.

We are doing something different for our annual Christmas Kick-off this year. The kick-off will begin at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7. There will be centers for the children to make Christmas crafts and decorate cookies. Wait, this is not just for the kids though, a free dinner and Christmas puppet show will follow. The dinner will be at 6 p.m. with a puppet show put on by The Otter Express. Come for an evening of fun whether you are 1 or 101!

Upcoming Events

at Youngsville Area

Churches

Youngsville Free Methodist Church: Nov. 23rd – Community Thanksgiving Meal starting at 4pm – 6pm; Dec. 5th – Journey to Christ live Nativity community Drama and Market Place from 6pm – 8pm

Youngsville First United Methodist Church: Weekly -KLFC, Sunday at 6 p.m.; Bible Study Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday, Nov. 23, 4 p.m. Vesper at the Rouse Home; Monday, Nov. 24, noon, Luncheon at Rouse Manor

Youngsville Evangelical United Methodist Church: Youth Group-Sunday at 5 p.m; Bible Study Wednesday, at 7 p.m. Y1st & EUM combined event: Christmas Caroling on Dec. 7

St. Luke Catholic Church: Wednesday, Nov. 24: Community Thanksgiving Service

Students Experience

Driving Simulator

The PA DUI association along with Warren County S.A.D.D. and Youngsville High School S.A.D.D. hosted the PA DUI simulator. Students in grades 9-12 were able to attend. The simulator simulates a distracted or impaired driver. The students were put into a large trailer where one student drove the simulator and the rest acted as passengers. The PA DUI representative was able to control the computer enabling the driver to understand the effects of being under the influence or being distracted.

Youngsville Public

Library News

Become a Library Angel and help the Youngsville Library. From now through Friday, Dec. 19 the Youngsville Library will have a special tree on display near the Circulation Desk. The Library Angel tree is filled with ornaments listing basic items (and their costs) that are vital to the survival of the library, (everything from stamps to DVDs to copy paper and light bulbs- to name a few). Community members are encouraged to take an ornament from the tree and make a donation at the circulation desk. You will receive a Library Angel ornament to place back on the tree for each Angel-donation that is made. Angel donations may also be made in honor of and individual or in memoriam.

To become a Library Angel just stop by the Youngsville Library during business hours and/or you can mail a general Library Angel donation to: “Library Angel Program” c/o Youngsville Public Library, 100 Broad St., Youngsville, PA 16371. Be sure to include the name you would like to be placed on the Angel. Library business hours: Monday & Tuesday Noon-7:30 pm, Wednesday 10-5 pm, and Friday Noon-4pm.

Annual Library

Board Meeting

The Annual Youngsville Public Library Board meeting will be Wednesday, Nov. 19 from 3 – 3:30 pm. Public is welcome.

YACF Letters of

Interest deadline

The deadline date for Brokenstraw, Pittsfield, and Youngsville community members who are interested in serving as a member of the Youngsville Area Community Foundation Oversight Committee is Friday, Nov. 21.

Letters of interest can be submitted to either to YACFCommittee@gmail.com (all one word, no dashes) or addressed “YACF Committee” c/o Youngsville Borough, 40 Railroad St., Youngsville, PA 16371.

Letters of interest must include the following: (1) Contact information, including phone, physical address, and email address, (2) Any relevant background information or experience (i.e. community services you are involved in, areas of expertise such as financial, organizational, or public relations skills), (3) Your long-term visions for improvements within your community and the surrounding areas, and (4) Educational and occupational skill-sets that you would consider assets.

Youngsville-Area Community Fund (YACF) Oversight Committee members will have an exciting opportunity to positively shape the future for the Brokenstraw, Pittsfield, and Youngsville areas. The YACF Oversight Committee will initially meet monthly, beginning in mid-January 2015, and will focus on strategies to locally raise the $25,000 endowment principal that will be matched by the Community Foundation of Warren County (CFWC). In addition, this committee will develop procedural doctrine about how the interest from this fund will be used to benefit local, non-profit projects in the fields of education, health, community, and the arts. Contact Steering Committee Facilitator Rick Brewster with questions 563-7331.

Youngsville TV

Corporation Meeting

The YTV Corporation Board of Directors, staff, and Mountaintop Holdings, LLC would like to invite all the members of Youngsville TV Corporation to come and meet the new members of the board and our two new managers from Mountaintop Holdings. We will have a public meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 7:00 pm. at the Free Methodist Church on Davis St. in Youngsville.

Join us for this meet and greet of the people behind the scenes at YTV. We warmly invite you to share any input you have and ask questions. We want to make YTV a better cable system by addressing your concerns, discussing such topics as what kinds of channels members would like, and how we can better serve you in the coming years. We hope to see you all there!

Class of 1964

The YHS Class of 1964 will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 18 for lunch at the Youngsville American Legion. Contact Fred Peters at 563-9493 for more information or questions.

American Legion

Auxiliary Unit 658

Donation

Youngsville American Legion Auxiliary Unit 658 collected for the “Give 10” program. The “Give 10” program was initiated to collect 10 items in a container of school supplies for the YEMS students. Each members collected these items, such as pencils; notebooks; crayons; safety scissors; writing paper.

The items were distributed to the students. This helps many families with school supplies that have multiple children attending school. The students and teachers greatly appreciated the items. All items collected stay in our school to help the students. If you or and any group would like to donation any these items or would like more information, contact Phyllis Westover at 688-2723.