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BLUE VALLEY TIMES
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Trick Tray for
Caryssa Joy
By Anne Brown
PEN ARGYL- Caryssa Joy is
26 years old. She has severe
mental disabilities, cerebral
palsy, unsteady gait, non-verbal, seizures and requires full
care. Her family is in-need of
help to keep her living at home
with them. They need to add an addition
onto their home that gives her safety
and room to grow and learn.
There will be a tricky tray held on March
20th from 1-4pm at East Bangor Firehall,
30 E. Central Ave, East Bangor.
After losing her first born to S.I.D.S.,
Kelly Giamoni is determined to do
whatever she can to keep her daughter home. “I was completely devastated
after she was born but knew I was in
for the journey with her! She was fed
through a tube, placed on seizure meds
and endured so many tests & surgeries.
I never left her side!”
She relies on an adult for one to one
care. She has seizures nightly, her
needs are great and to this point the
family has made it by with what they
had, but now they need safety. “I can
no longer risk falls,
unheard
seizures,
equipment we could
use to help her exercise needs to be in
one room, not in the
attic and garage because we haven’t the
space for it, we need
help! The cost of an
addition is very costly
and to defray some
of the cost we are designing a tricky tray to bring people out
to have fun and for us to start a savings
for her addition. We need so much to
make it to our dream an architect, builders, material, and all that will go into
putting in an addition.”
Kelly’s 8 year old son, Kelton wants
to help his sister in anyway he can. This
year for Columbus Day the kids made a
boat and on the flag they wrote something they dreamed for. While most
kids dream of things for themselves, he
wrote “To raise money for my sister who
is special needs because I want a better home for her”.
“My two year old loves to sit with her
sister and watch movies and help with
what she can and my 25 year old helps
out during the week to give us a break
to spend time with our other children.”
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We are 37 days away from the tricky
tray and with 78 baskets promised and
hoping to hit 100 by the event. We need
basket donations, gift certificates and
the word of this event to help us be successful. Whatever you can do, we TRULY appreciate!! Any questions, please
call me at 610-597-1995.
“I have supported my daughter for 26
years out of my great love for her and never knew how many people were watching
and how many admired what I do and
have done is a feeling undesirable!”
The family is looking for people who
will volunteer to draw up plans for the
addition, builders who will help build, donation of material and anything else that
would go into the addition. Any help or
donation would be greatly appreciated.
Find us on Facebook “Crying for
Caryssa”.
Becoming the Queen of Your Own
Real-Life Faerie Tale
New Adult Classes
Starting March 7th
Totts Gap Arts
BANGOR – Starting in March TGAI
will be offering NEW adult classes ‘SIX
WEEKS OF CREATIVE FUN.’ Acrylic
Painting, Clayworks 1 & 2, WatercolorStill Life & Landscapes, Solvent-Free Oil
Painting, Mural & Scenic Painting, Figure Drawing Long Pose, Figure Drawing,
Creative Knitting/Crochet Circle, Creative
Digital Photography, Drawing Fundamentals, Blacksmithing and Private Art Lessons. Visit their website at tottsgap.org
or call them at (610) 588-5817 for the details of the classes.
TGAI has added lots of new events and
are planning on adding more. Be sure to
follow their calendar of upcoming events
on their website to keep up with what’s
going.
Totts Gap Arts will be celebrating TEN
YEARS! To mark the occasion, they are
planning Special Events throughout the
entire year. Be sure to check their website
often to see what we have in store. Don’t
forget they have LaNTA for transportation
to TGAI. Call them at (610) 588-5817 during business hours for more information.
Apartment For Rent
By Denise Crawn
BANGOR - As young girls, Queens and Fairy Tales were woven into the fabric of our lives. As young
women, we searched for the Fairy Tale and became invested in the happily ever after. As we mature
and grow, many of us find that the Fairy Tale has eluded us and we are far away from embracing “the
crown” and calling ourselves, Queen. What if we have been living the real-life fairy tale all along? What
if happily ever after exists here and now? During this retreat weekend we will use art, song, poetry,
movement, nature, ritual and much needed time alone to release, renew and reclaim our sovereignty.
We will come together as a community of women to witness, support and welcome each woman into
her own personal kingdom.
Come join Denise Crawn and Anita Bondi on July 29th - July 31st At Kirkridge for a Women’s Retreat:
Becoming the Queen of Your Own Real-Life Faerie Tale. Contact Denise at the Booknest at Kirkridge:
2495 Fox Gap Road, Bangor, PA 610-588-1793.
Downtown Pen Argyl
1 bedroom/1 bath, $700/mo
Call Kari at 609-815-0005
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Ken
Field
Owner of Slate
Belt Energy
Services
Cold and Powerless
I remember when we had long stretches
of cold temperatures. A few times temperatures didn’t go above 0° for a whole
week. That was when outside oil storage
tanks would cause problems and water
pipes would freeze and cars wouldn’t
start and a host of other problems would
crop up that were not fun to deal with in
those temperatures. Lately, we have been
spoiled by winters that only dish out a day
or two of these cold temperatures but you
still should be prepared for the possibility
of something going wrong on those cold
days. Last Sunday morning it was near 0°
and power went out for a number of homes
in Bushkill Township. I’m sure the power
company scrambled to get things back up
for them but what can be done during a
power outage in these cold temperatures?
Number one is don’t let any warm air out
of your home and don’t let any cold air in.
Keep doors closed and close drapes and
don’t go up into the attic looking for blankets or anything. As soon as you open the
attic entrance, all of the warmest air in your
home will be gone in seconds.
Don’t run any unvented gas appliances
inside your home. No gas grilles or charcoal grilles should ever be used inside.
They pump out huge amounts of carbon
monoxide and can kill you in less than
an hour. If you have a portable generator
and a provision to connect it to your gas or
oil furnace, you will be all set to keep the
house warm. The connection to that furnace should be installed by a professional
so that it is safe and reliable. It is a very
good way to let a small generator maintain
heat inside your home during a power outage without a lot of expensive hardware.
Never run a generator in an attached garage or basement. They also generate
huge amounts of carbon monoxide and will
kill you in short order.
Most portable generators won’t run a
heat pump or more than a single electric
heater so if you have a type of heat that
can’t be operated from a portable generator you might want to have one infrared
electric heater to move around the house
on an extension cord to keep pipes from
freezing in isolated areas. Open the cabinet doors under the kitchen and bathroom
sinks and let the heat from the room go in
there to prevent freezing. Planning ahead
is the best way to avoid a panic situation
during an unexpected power outage.
Ken Field is the owner of Slate Belt
Energy. As a certified energy rater
and contractor, he is qualified
to assess every aspect of energy
usage and prescribe solutions to
save energy. He can be reached
at 610-599-8832 or at
www.SlateBeltEnergy.com
Tony’s HANDY MAN
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BLUE VALLEY TIMES
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
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