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Friday, February 26, 2010

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS Ida Totani, seated center, celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by her family. With her here are some of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Front row, from left, Lauren Cavanagh, Ida, Sara DiGrazia and Luke Cavanagh. Second row, Alexandria DiGrazia, Elizabeth Clewell, Allison Cavanagh, Theresa Totani, Kristan Campanaro and Emily Cavanagh. Standing, Maria Cavanagh. In the background is part of a timeline the family created to document her life.

Ida (Fortunato) Totani celebrated her 100th birthday last Saturday.

She was born Feb. 20, 1910 in Fontanelle, Italy, to Sofia and Nicola Fortunato.

At the age of 2, six months after the tragic sinking of the Titanic, Ida along with her parents and two sisters, ages 5 and 10 months, boarded an ocean liner bound for America.

They arrived at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, in October of 1912, where a sponsor led her family via train and trolley, to the small anthracite mining towns of Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) and Lansford in Carbon County.

Friday, February 26, 2010

CLASS REUNION

Jim Thorpe Area High School Class of 1990 will hold a 20-year class reunion meeting at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28 at Roadies Restaurant in Penn Forest Township.

Class members wishing to help plan the reunion are invited to attend.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Bach Choir of Northeastern Pennsylvania forming

A new singing group known as The Bach Choir of Northeastern Pennsylvania, will be auditioning voices for membership on Sunday, March 7 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in St. John's Lutheran Church, 319 South Ave., Jim Thorpe.

Membership will be open to all interested singers from anywhere in Northeastern Pennsylvania who wish to audition.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

SNOW DAY!

RON GOWER/TIMES NEWS Tyler Black, 4, tossing a snowball while playing outside in the snow. Tyler is the son of Joshua and Stephanie Black of Lake Hauto.

Snow days. You either love them or you hate them.

If you are a child and you get a day off from school, you love them.

As an adult who has to go to work, most people hate them. If you can take the day off, or it's a weekend, it's a day to be treasured a day to do whatever you want!

With a major storm bearing down on us, we asked several TIMES NEWS staffers, columnists and members of the community what they do when faced with a snow day.

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Online dating becoming more popular for seniors

She'd had it with the whole online dating scene. So had he. What was online dating, he liked to say, but a high-tech version of the proverbial meat market? But hope springs eternal, and last fall, he thought he'd give it another go.

And so on Nov. 4, courtesy of eharmony.com, a grandfather from Carmichael, Calif., sent his first e-mail to a grandmother from Texas. Then they talked, day after day, for hours on end. They met, first in Phoenix, then in Northern California.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Wanted! Submissions for 2010 Cookbook and Recipe Contest

AMY ZUBEK/TIMES NEWS Mary Linkevich's Chicken and Spinach Stuffed Shells took first place in the main dish category in the last year's recipe contest.

Have you submitted your favorite recipes for the 23rd Annual TIMES NEWS Cookbook and Recipe Contest? If not, there's still time to flex your culinary muscles and take part in this year's contest. Your effort could win you a grand prize valued at more than $300!

Over $900 in prizes are up for grabs this year and everyone who enters will receive a TIMES NEWS magnetic grocery list pad.

The cookbook will be included in the April 8 edition of the TIMES NEWS.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Valentine royalty in Tamaqua

The ABC Tamaqua Hi Rise celebrated Valentine's Day on Feb. 12 with the tenant association sponsoring a Valentine's dinner. Festivities included the selection of a Valentine Queen and King, Linda Conrad and Leo McGrath.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

WANTED

Donate your prom and wedding dresses today to benefit Dream Come True, Blue Ridge Chapter.

New and gently-used dresses and accessories including jewelry, purses, shawls, and shoes are being collected now until March 16 at the following locations: Blue Ridge Communications Walnutport and Gilbert offices; Michele's Family Hair Salon in Palmerton; The Treasure Shop in Jim Thorpe; The Lehighton Bakery; and Tiki Tans in Palmerton.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Consider growing heirloom roses

As wagons lumbered across the West, they carried with them remnants of home. While the husband may have brought seed or cuttings from his orchard trees, it was the wife who carried the roses. Wrapped in moist cloth were roots or twigs that would one day come to life again in their new home.

With modern roses it's all about color, but in the past that wasn't such a primary issue. Fragrance was paramount. Rose water, a leading cosmetic of the day, was rare in frontier towns.

Monday, February 15, 2010

'Carbon County Advocates for Hope' supports families with autism

Gail Maholick/TIMES NEWS Kim Rochow believes that attending the Carbon County Advocates for Hope support group meeting will be good for her and her daughter, Lena Beams.

For parents of children diagnosed with autism, life can be hectic, crazy and sometimes lonely.

While these parents love their children and know them better than anyone else, life is often full of surprises.

Dee Hall and Rebekah Emerson mothers of children diagnosed within the spectrum of autism knew how they were benefiting from sharing information with each other. Both families live in the Lehighton area.

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