Due to an intervening scheduled meeting with the fire company, Towamensing Township changed its supervisors' meeting night to Dec. 10.

That didn't mean that the municipal meeting site was empty as Girl Scouts and the Towamensing Township Historical Commission took over the evening.Palmerton Area Girl Scouts of Troop 3580 were busy decorating the Christmas tree. They were Lucy Taylor, Ashley Mosier, Lindsey Fronheiser and Madison Finley.Leader Joyce Borger said the girls, all freshmen now, had been decorating the tree since they were in kindergarten. Her co-leader is Theresa Taylor.The Towamensing Township Historical Commission introduced its cookbook with proceeds from the sale to go toward restoring the Greenzweig School. The cover of the book has a picture of a chalkboard with the letters across the top, numbers on the bottom and the name across the middle. They are available at the township building or by emailing

seed361@ptd.net.The book is dedicated to Malcom Campbell and Curt Beers, commission members who passed away during the year.The commission will begin interviews with older residents in the spring. Tom Newman said they are busy sorting boxes of information found in the municipal building attic."Some of the things that were found are really neat," he said. For instance, it cost $53,000 to construct the building. Mary Beth Beers will head the sorting committee and help is needed.The Three-Thursdays programs in July were well-attended, as was Christmas in August with the Belsnickel. Both are held at the Kibler School.Roy Christman is doing a bat survey under the auspices of the Game Commission. The hundreds that made their homes in the Kibler School were down to three due to white-nose syndrome.He said this year he counted 56 coming out of the school and that Bob Reinhart made a bat box to try to lure them away from the school.Karl Rolappe, commission president, said his barn has a lot of bats. Christman said Rolappe should become a counter.Recommendations are needed for next year's preservation award.Rolappe thanked everyone who helped during the year.Don Bonett reported the results of the 19 nest boxes he monitored on a bluebird trail in Towamensing Township. Bluebirds nested in 10 of them, and in five at least one bluebird fledged. There were a total of 32 bluebird eggs in the nest boxes, and 29 of them hatched with 28 of them going on to fledge (fly).Five boxes were occupied by tree swallows with 26 fledglings and house wrens occupying five boxes with 34 fledglings.Bonett reported these findings to the Bluebird Society of Pennsylvania.