Karl Rolappe attended the Nov. 6 meeting of the Towamensing Township supervisors to present the annual Historic Preservation award. Rolappe is president of the Towamensing Township Historic Commission, which has created a list of structures and buildings that are 100 years old or older within the township.

Each year an award is presented to the person or people who have done the most to preserve and maintain or rehabilitate these old structures.Old Big Creek Pike, the predecessor to Pohopoco Drive, has two remnants, each with a bridge. One is below the Wild Creek Dam spillway and one is in the yard of George and Janet Green along Pohopoco Drive.When that bridge was damaged, the Greens repaired it at their own expense.Janet Green said everyone knows where they live when there is an accident.Rolappe said the commission's main focus at this time is the Greenzweig School, which it owns. He said the fence has been completed and a driveway installed with the help of Supervisors Guy Seifert and Tom Newman.George Moyer of Danielsville has donated a picture of George Washington and Theodore Hittner donated two pre-1950s school desks.Some of the commission's funding comes from a cookbook in the process of being put together. Five people were in a hurry to buy the book and paid for it in draft form at the Towamensing Elementary School's craft fair and basket social.More recipes will be appreciated, and if there is a family story connected to the recipe, it can be included to make the book more interesting.A mission statement for the commission will be included in the next township mailing, which will be the garbage invoices.Newman said the commission is doing a great job for the township. The supervisors were given an updated list of old properties.Charles Laviolette, representative to the Palmerton Library, told about some of the activities.For children there is a preschool story hour every Friday at 10:30 a.m.; Paws of Hope in which children read to dogs on the second Saturday, 11 a.m. to noon; watercolor painting classes Tuesdays, contact the instructor at 610-737-9844; and a teen advisory group for grades 5-12. During the school year meetings are the first and third Thursdays.Other activities are a knitting and crocheting club on the first and third Mondays, from 6-8 p.m.; a Third Monday Book Club from noon to 1 p.m.; yoga classes on Saturdays at 9 a.m.; and the Sew What Quilt Guild, which meets on the second Thursday at 7 p.m.The library will present "There Is a Tree Where the Sidewalk Ends," adapted from Shel Silverstein's book. It will replace the preschool story hour at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 5.Laviolette turned in his resignation because he is leaving the area. He will continue as representative until the end of the year.