Newspaper drive

Members of St. John's Lutheran Church will hold their monthly newspaper drive on Saturday, Jan. 4. There will be one sweep of the Palmerton, Aquashicola, and Little Gap areas beginning at 8 a.m.Papers should be bundled and placed within sight of the collectors. They are collecting papers only, no magazines. The shiny inserts are acceptable. They also need grocery size brown paper bags.Persons missed, or those wishing to dispose of papers throughout the month, may take them to the garage across from the church on Fireline Road, which is always open. In case of bad weather, the drive will be held the following Saturday.Model RailroadThe Open House at the Carbon Model Railroad Society continues from 1-5 p.m. Jan. 4-5.The Railroad Society is located at 529 Ore St., Bowmanstown. Admission is free.For more information, call Garry at 610-826-6636. All are welcome.Blood drive resultsDespite being scheduled at a time of year when everyone is busy, 63 people registered for the Dec. 27 Miller-Keystone blood drive, and 54 units of blood were collected.The following people hit gallon levels at Palmerton drives: Lisa Green, 20 gallons; Martin DeSousa, seven gallons; Betty Furler and Mary Ann Shafer, six gallons each; Donald H. Berger and Robert Stevenson, four gallons each. There were four first-time donors. This drive was sponsored by Perma Snyder and Bernice Pastier.As usual, many volunteers were involved: Pam Andrews, George Ashman, Mary Beth Beers, Romaine Biege, Harry Brown, Marian Carty, Jane Cervenak, "Honey" Cyr, Thomasine Falcone, Linda Finley, Rita Goidich, Jean Halmi, Anita Harry, Betty Hartman, "Bif" Hayes, Michael Heeley, Cindy Heimbach, Roseann Heydt, Marian Hoffner, Bernice Kleintop, Nancy Kresge, Helen Nonnemaker, Darlene Nothstein, Susan Olivia, Carol Papay, Evelyn Plechavy, Gwen Rodrigues, Terri Sebelin, Betty Steigerwalt, Susan Steigerwalt, Dorothy Strohl, Mary Taschler, Annette Wargo, Tara Wargo and Joan Wivell.The next Miller-Keystone Palmerton community blood drive will be on Feb. 24.