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MONEY Oscars prep SAVING Tips and tricks for COUPONS hosting your own INSIDE award show party s 80804793 Sunday, February 19, 2017 BREAKING NEWS AT TIMESLEADER.COM '365/=[+<</M /88=C6@+83+sǍL Minimum wage WEEKEND FOCUS: ‘HOMETOWNS’/THIRD IN A SERIES hike possible, Conyngham with concessions By Marc Levy The Associated Press HARRISBURG — Years of pressure by Pennsylvania Democrats could yield a state minimum wage increase this year, although it likely will require sub- stantial concessions in the Republican- controlled Legislature. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf is propos- Wolf ing hiking the hourly minimum from $7.25 to $12. That would be the nation’s highest. He is tying the proposal to his budget plan as a way to provide more tax revenue and help fix Pennsylva- nia’s deficit-riddled finances. Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers have grudgingly left the door open to a minimum wage increase, the first in eight years, now that most of the nation has moved past Pennsylvania. But they aren’t necessarily See WAGE | 14A Sean McKeag | Times Leader Conyngham, population 1,881, is nestled in a valley just north of Hazleton. The borough seems reminiscent of the kind of small Health systems’ growth, town that Norman Rockwell used to paint. staffing shortages spur Quiet, familiar, historical — and don’t forget the food By Mary Therese Biebel area nursing recruitment 7,3/,/6Ľ>37/=6/+./<L-97 By Sarah Hite Hando =2+8.9Ľ>37/=6/+./<L-97 ONYNGHAM — Sensing a visitor was about to take her photo, kitchen volunteer Sue Oli- WILKES-BARRE — Two health care providers Cver slipped a fake pig snout over her nose and announced major recruitment efforts within a month grinned, proving she had a sense of humor as well of each other, intending to bring more than 300 nurs- as a huge supply of roast pork. ing and support staff jobs to Northeastern Pennsylva- “We’re going to sleep good tonight,” Jeremy nia. Thorne said as he helped Oliver load platters with Officials at Com- steaming meat and side dishes during the recent monwealth Health and pork-and-sauerkraut fundraiser at Christ Lutheran HOW TO APPLY Church on Main Street. To apply for a job at Geisinger say a nation- Commonwealth Health, go wide nursing shortage Cooking and serving some 800 meals for the to 2>>:Nll,3>L6Cl 5#/DL in addition to unprece- dinner — a church tradition for at least 45 years For more information on dented growth at their — was a big task, even with longtime parishioner a career in nursing, visit respective facilities are Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader Tom Boock and other church volunteers getting a /3=381/<L9<1l-+<//<= or call Church volunteer Sue Oliver shows her sense of humor 10-week head start. factors in the recruit- by wearing a pig snout during the recent pork and >966[0<// [#[L ment efforts. “The day after Thanksgiving, we cut up the cab- sauerkraut dinner at Christ Lutheran Church. Oliver was bage, salt it and stomp it with a wooden stomper,” Commonwealth working in the kitchen with Jeremy Thorne, left, and Health on Wednesday announced plans to hire about church pastor the Rev. Carolyn Hetrick. See CONYNGHAM | 5A 160 nurses and additional support staff at several hospitals this year, including Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. 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It “fish gulping for air.” An hour into the execu- ranked as the most-watched late-night show in the Heng Sinith | AP photo tion, his attorneys were on the phone with the past two weeks and is closing in on a third week at Actress Angelina Jolie smiles before a press conference Saturday Supreme Court, unsuccessfully pleading for an the top, CBS noted in its announcement. in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, where she launched her two- emergency stay. day film screening of ‘First They Killed My Father.’ Jolie said she hopes her new film about Cambodia under Khmer Rouge, believed Wood’s 2014 death prompted a review of exe- Nicole Kidman reveals past to be responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians from cution procedures in Arizona and underscored starvation, disease and execution, will help educate the world a problem death penalty states have faced for a engagement to Lenny Kravitz about the brutality of the 1970s regime and shed a light on the half-decade: It’s getting harder to put people to plight of young people in war zones today. death in the United States. NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Nicole Companies that manufacture the most com- Kidman has revealed that she was once sion of the movie, similar to Disney’s remake of “The mon lethal injection drugs have stopped ship- engaged to musician Lenny Kravitz. Jungle Book,” which he also directed. No release date ping them to death penalty states, distancing Kidman confirmed the engagement has been publicly set for the new movie. themselves from a practice many view as bar- with the rocker in a recent interview A similar process is being used for “Beauty and the baric. Some medical professionals have taken a with Net-A-Porter’s magazine “The Beast,” which debuts next month. similar stance, saying their duty is to save lives, Edit,” in which she discussed her Favreau has directed “Iron Man,” ”Iron Man 2” and not end them. Kidman upcoming HBO series “Big Little Lies.” is again producing the next two “Avengers” films. So death penalty states have improvised, Kidman said she already knew co-star taking a closer look at firing squads and other, Zoe Kravitz because she was once engaged to her Hugh Jackman is ‘fine’ older execution methods. They’ve used com- father. pounded cocktails of deadly drugs or ones that Kidman dated Lenny Kravitz a couple of years after after latest skin cancer bout are less effective, experts say. But the drugs her divorce from actor Tom Cruise in 2001. She never have occasionally led to horror stories of ago- disclosed an engagement, although she talked about a BERLIN (AP) — Hugh Jackman nizing executions that further soured public failed engagement in 2007 with an unnamed ex. She’s arrived at the premiere of “Logan” with opinion. currently married to country singer Keith Urban. a small bandage on his nose after tak- Now Arizona has responded with a new — ing to Twitter to announce he had been and some say bizarre — solution to this quan- James Earl Jones, Donald treated for skin cancer once again. dary: But Jackman insisted he’s OK. Death row inmates can bring their own execu- Glover in ‘Lion King’ remake “It is fine, it is all done, all fixed, all tion drugs. Jackman out. Thank you for asking,” he said at The state’s manual for execution procedures, NEW YORK (AP) — James Earl the Friday night debut of the film at the which was revised last month, says attorneys Jones and Donald Glover are lend- Berlin Film Festival. of death row inmates, or others acting on their ing their voices to Disney’s upcoming Jackman revealed Monday that he had another behalf, can obtain pentobarbital or sodium remake of “The Lion King.” basal cell carcinoma on his nose, tweeted out a pic- Pentothal and give them to the state to ensure a Director Jon Favreau announced the ture of his bandaged nose and urged people to wear smooth execution. casting of the two men as voice actors. sunscreen. Dale Baich, one of Wood’s attorneys, said it’s Glover, star and creator of television’s But his focus on Friday was the “Logan” premiere. untenable to think that an attorney who spent Jones “Atlanta,” will portray the adult Simba. It’s the third installment of the “Wolverine” spinoff years fighting for a client’s life would help kill Jones reprises the role of Simba’s father, series, and it may be the most ambitious.