BOXHOLDER THE Presorted Standard U.S.POSTAGE PAID BLAKESLEE PERMIT NO. 18 POSTAL CUSTOMER JOURNAL FREE of the POCONO PLATEAU Take One Serving the communities of the Pocono Mountain School District and surrounding areas. #1 News Weekly ©2010, JOURNAL NEWSPAPERS, INC., All Rights Reserved in Monroe Co. VOLUME 14, NUMBER 40 Week of February 25, 2010 As the Plateau prepared for more snow on Wednesday afternoon, this winter wonderland at the Austin T. Blakeslee Nature Preserve in Blakeslee caught the eye of roving photographer Arrowhead gets OK for Dorothea Schaefer. new community center Projects and volunteers sought for by Seth Isenberg Keener. No action was taken. Tobyhanna Township Super - The Monroe County Control United Way’s Day of Caring on April 22 visors unanimously approved Center will receive an updated The United Way of Monroe project is Monday, March 29. cleaning, landscaping, minor Arrowhead Lakes’ conditional contact list for township per- County is seeking volunteers While many participants re - construction and painting to use for its new community cen- sonnel involved in emergency and worthy service projects as turn every year, new volun- packing/delivering lunches, ter building at their meeting on responses (this is done each it gears up for its 13th annual teers are always needed. working with children or doing February 8. It is to be built at year). Day of Caring on Thursday, Nonprofit organizations clerical work. Youngsters, the site of the old Manor Supervisors passed resolu- April 22. such as churches, health/ adults and seniors are all wel- House. Members of the Arrow - tion 2010-08 to close out the Day of Caring brings togeth- human service agencies and come to participate, and a T- head Lakes Board of Directors grant that hired the peer con- er employee groups and other civic groups are welcome to shirt and lunch are provided. met with supervisors and solic- sultant for the Top of the volunteers to complete much- submit projects for considera- Large and small businesses, itor Patrick Armstrong early in Mountain open space/parks needed maintenance and tion. Day of Caring helps organizations, and individuals this meeting in order to finish committee. improvement projects for non- these organizations complete get involved each year. the process. Battery back-ups for all the profit agencies throughout the tasks that might not otherwise Employee groups/volun- The community-visioning traffic signals along Route 940 community. Previously held in be completed due to lack of teers wanting to participate in proposal presented to supervi- in Pocono Summit have been September, it has traditionally man power, money and sup- the 2010 Day of Caring, or sors in January looks to cost installed. The contractor sub- been one of the largest one- plies. nonprofits interested in sub- the township more money than mitted a final bill for the work. day volunteer efforts in Mon - Volunteers can specify what mitting projects, should call expected, because of grants The owners of Moose roe County. kind of projects they want to the United Way at 629-5657. not being available for it, ac - The deadline for signing up help with and sign up for a full Information is also available at cording to supervisor Jamie Please turn to page 3 as a volunteer or submitting a or half day. Tasks range from www.unitedwaymonroe.org. PAGE 2–The Journal of the Pocono Plateau, Week of February 25, 2010 The Journal of the Pocono Plateau, Week of February 25, 2010–PAGE 3 Arrowhead gets OK... THE JOURNAL of the POCONO PLATEAU® (570) 443-8321 [email protected] Continued from page 1 A Product of Cross ings in Blakeslee asked bridge over the upper branch Four citizens, three mem- JOURNAL NEWSPAPERS, INC. supervisors for a five-year of the (Little) Lehigh River on bers of the Tobyhanna Town - Business office 211 Main St., White Haven, PA 18661 extension of their phased land Route 115 north of Blakeslee. ship Fire Company, supervi- Member: Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, MACPA, Pocono Mountains Chamber of Commerce, PMVB First Class Postage $75 per year. Bulk Mail Subscriptions are $35 for 52 issues development plans. After some The work will mean a closure sors John Kerrick, Heidi Pick - in PA, NJ & NY, $40 elsewhere. 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Zimmermann of VNA Hospice House, East Area Funerals Summit. Interment will follow at Tampa, Florida; two daughters, Strouds burg. Saints Peter and Paul’s By - Dona Raschke and her hus- Born in Staten Island, New Mary Ellen Simchak sales at her church, St. Nich - zantine Cemetery in Beaver band, Robert, of Cloverdale, York, she was a daughter of Mary Ellen Simchak, 79, of olas Byzantine Church in Po - Meadows. California, and Diane Tancredi Henry Sorensen of Blakeslee Mount Pocono, died Tuesday, cono Summit. of Danbury, Connecticut; nine and the late Florence (Lennox) February 23, 2010 at home. She is survived by two sons, Donald Zimmermann grandchildren; and three great- Sorensen. She lived in Staten She was the wife of the late John M. Simchak and his wife, Donald J. Zimmermann, 81, grandchildren. Island for 39 years before mov- Eugene C. Simchak who pass - Mary Ann, and her daughter, of Pocono Pines, died Monday, He was preceded in death ing to Pennsylvania in 2004. ed away in 2000. Jenn of Blakeslee, Jody G. February 22, 2010 at the VNA by a brother, Herbert V. Zim - She worked as a legal sec- Born in Beaver Meadows, Simchak and his wife, Kim- Hospice House of Monroe mermann Jr., and a grandson, retary at various firms in New she was the daughter of the berly, of Moscow; two daugh- County in East Stroudsburg. Bryan Haag. York City for more than 20 late Andrew and Anna (Mo - ters, Mary E. Wieczorek and He was the husband of Doris The Rev. Wayne Kaufman years. lnar) Kokinda. She received her husband, Joseph, of Po - (Suttmeier) Zimmermann, to will conduct a memorial serv- She was a member of the her bachelor of science degree cono Summit and Jean E.