Happy New Year

As the sun sets on 2011 have a happy New Year

Going... Going... Gone!!!

Over the past month the barn at Jason and Mary Abell's has gone through a dismantling to make room for a new pole barn.

Start of barn board removal



Barn boards removed



Remove structural support and collapse barn.

MEMORIAL BENEFIT for Karson Riley Hopkins

MEMORIAL BENEFIT
for
Karson Riley Hopkins

Son of SFC Brian Hopkins (Retired) & Atisha Hopkins
of Rome, PA

Grandson of Dave & Judy Hopkins
of Wyalusing, PA

Karson fought a 2-year battle with Neuroblastoma Cancer. He turned 3 on November 7^th. He passed away on November 16^th.
Please come and support this family.

Spaghetti Dinner and Live Entertainment
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Wyalusing American Legion
2:00pm-6:00pm

Raffles, Silent Auctions, Chinese
Auctions, Live Entertainment

Admission: $3 at door or cost of meal

Cost of Meal: $7 adults, $5 ages 6-12, FREE for 5 & under,
TAKE OUT orders available

All Proceeds will be donated to the Hopkins family.

Contributions may also be made at any P&G Federal Credit Union under Memorial Fund for Karson Hopkins, c/o Atisha Hopkins.

For more information or to donate please call:
Crystal & Dave Baltrusaitis 570-833-0831
Danielle & Jonah Eberlin 570-833-4539
Deanna Vaskas 570-746-9469

Pipeline Progress

Over the past couple of weeks, crews have been working on clearing the right of way for the Wilmot pipeline. Trees along the pipeline route were cut last March and now the crews are clearing and chipping the trees.

The following photo shows a section of the woods at our cabin property where the crew is in the process of removing tree stumps and stacking wood to be chipped.



This is the same section of the woods after the clearing in complete.

Smile, You're on Candid Camera

I take a lot of pictures and sometimes people aren't aware I've taken their picture. I just found a picture of me on the internet, on Google Map!

The Google Map Satellite image for our neighborhood was updated with a more current, high resolution image. The resolution is so good I was able to find myself working at our cabin property.

When I started looking at objects in the lawn at our cabin it was easy to pick out my John Deere tractor and a hay bale. I soon remembered the hay bale was only in the lawn for one day in early October when I reseeded the lawn and I was there the whole time. On closer inspection I was able to locate myself working on the lawn. (Click on photo for enlarged view)


This view shows the cabin property, our barn property, the reclaimed well pad area, access road, driveway to the cabin and even freshly mowed areas.



Since this satellite view of Rome was taken after the recent flooding it also show some of the flood damage along Wysox Creek.