Linda Yulanavage, executive director, Tamaqua Area Chamber of Commerce, distributes

helium balloons at 10 minutes to midnight on Wednesday at the Chamber's New Year's Eve celebration. Festive music and revelry made spirits soar at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve during the Tamaqua Area Chamber of Commerce's New Year's Eve celebration. Several hundred swarmed the 200 block of East Broad Street in biting 16-degree weather.