Community conversation

The Tamaqua Area Community Partnership held two "community conversation events" in September, looking for ideas, concerns of local business and community leaders as well as residents.A follow-up meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Scheller Student Center at Lehigh County Community College's Morgan Center on Van Gelder Street. Participants will focus more detail on five or six areas that had the most interest in the initial meetings. Joe Krushinsky will lead the session.The public is welcome to attend, whether or not they attended either of the two earlier sessions.For more information, call 570-668-4451 or email

gtay200@verizon.net.Trick or treatHalloween is coming and several local organizations are planning trick or treat events.• The Tamaqua High School Leadership Club will sponsor a Safe Halloween Night from 6-8 p.m. Thursdayat the Tamaqua Senior High School.• Also tonight is Walker Township's Safe Trick or Treat Night, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the New England Fire Company.• The Tamaqua Salvation Army, 105 W. Broad St., will sponsor a Halloween Dance/Social, from 6-9

p.m.Saturday. Reservation deadline was Oct. 26.• Zion Lutheran Church, Greenwood and Mauch Chunk Streets, will host Trunk or Treat from 2-4

p.m.Sunday. This is open to children between the ages of 2 and 10. For more information, call 570-668-4451.• Tamaqua's Trick or Treat Night will be held from 6-8

p.m.Monday. Several churches will be handing out treats, including St. John United Church of Christ, Bethany Evangelical Congregational and Trinity United Church of Christ.Calvary EvangelicalThe Rev. Phillip Sabas will officiate at the 10:25 a.m. worship service this Sunday in Calvary Evangelical Methodist Church in the Lewistown Valley.Sunday school classes will be held at 9:15 a.m.Praise, worship and Bible study sessions are held at 6:30 p.m. Sundays.An hour of praise and prayer is held at 7 p.m. Wednesdays.A family pumpkin carving night will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday.Zion LewistownPastor Jim Williams will officiate at the 10:30 a.m. worship service this Rally Day Sunday in Zion Church of the Lewistown Valley. A question-and-answer session will be held instead of a regularly scheduled sermon. Coffee and pastries will be served before the service.St. John LutheranThe Rev. Phyllis Wolford will officiate at the 9:15 a.m. worship service this Sunday in St. John's Lutheran Church. The service will include Holy Communion in observance of Reformation Sunday.Also on Sunday, Confirmation and Sunday school classes meet at 10:30 a.m.; bell choir rehearses at noon.Activities for next week include: Tuesday, worship and music committee meets at 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, learning ministry meets at 6 p.m.; Thursday, angel choir practices at 6 p.m., shepherd choir rehearses at 6:30 p.m. and chancel choir meets at 7:30 p.m.Deadline to order pumpkin rolls is Nov. 6.St. Peter's UnionSunday worship services are held at 9 a.m. in St. Peter's Union Church in Mantzville. Sunday school classes meet at 10:15 a.m.Also on Sunday, the Confirmation class will meet at 10:30 a.m.; the Sunday school will have a "Harvest Party" from 4-7 p.m.; Cub and Girl Scouts meet at 6 p.m.Activities for next week include: Tuesday, prayer group meets at 5 p.m., worship and music committee meets at 6 p.m.; Thursday, cherub choir meets at 6:30 p.m., junior choir practices at 7 p.m., senior choir rehearsal is at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, youth group hike at Boulder Field at 10 a.m.Contact Kathy Kunkel at 570-668-1250 or

kkunkel@tnonline.com. Contact the Times News at 800-443-0377 or

tneditor@tnonline.com.