The I.Q. Quilt Club will present its 30th annual quilt show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 26 at New Vernon Grange, Clarks Mills. The grange hall is a short distance off Lake Wilhelm Road at Clarks Mills. Watch for signs.

This year’s show includes displays of local quilts, quilting and other demonstrations, plus a special feature of club member Elaine Peters’ quilts. The theme is “Kitchen Stitchen.” Quilt-related items will be sold at the country store and four local vendors will be selling fabrics and notions.

The Grange will serve lunch. A quilt will be given as a door prize. Anyone interested in showing their quilts should take them to the Grange hall before 2 p.m. Friday for registering them in the show.

Cost is $2 and proceeds benefit community needs.

Friday and saturday are the last days to buy your tickets for the St. Mikes Raffel in Greenville, the drawing will be held on sunday during the annual gold outting, steak dinner, and car cruise.

Someone will be on hand at the school on main street in greenville today and tomorrow to sell tickets for the grand prize.

Friends of Children’s Aid Society of Mercer County are having a Chinese auction from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Grove City Masonic Hall, 1340 W. Main St., Grove City.

There will be a special cash raffle. Drawing for raffle will begin at 3 p.m.

Admission is $3 and includes 25 Chinese auction tickets and refreshments. Proceeds benefit Children’s Aid Society of Mercer County.

Info: 724-662-4730.

Event Listings are free until January 2010, for all 501c groups, others are cvharged a 10.00 Fee.

You can email your listing to the event page, we will publish it, and invoice you, include a billing address, and contact phone number to verify the submission.

send to newsroom@mygtv.net

 Hartford Fire Association, along with Burghill-Vernon Fire Department will have a pancake breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall, located on Hartford Five Points Road in Hartford Township.

Breakfast includes pancakes, french toast, sausage gravy over biscuits, egg, sausage, milk, orange juice, coffee and tea.

Cost is $6 for adults; $5 for seniors; $4 for children ages 5 to 12; and children younger than age 5 are free. Takeouts available.

Greenville Area Leisure Services Association offers pottery classes on Thursdays beginning Oct. 1 and continuing through Nov. 5 at Greenville Recreation Center on Alan Avenue.

Classes for students age 6 to teens runs 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. Students will be instructed in hand-building, glazing, and firing and can build their own designs and creations with clay.

Classes for adults will be 6 to 8 p.m. and participants will be hand- building, glazing, firing and throwing on the potter’s wheel

There are fees. Registration: 724-588-4810.

The Mission Team of First Presbyterian Church of Sharon, 600 E. State St., is having a chicken pie dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday.

Dinner includes chicken pie, green beans, mashed potatoes, gelatin salad and dessert.

Cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children ages 12 and younger. Proceeds go to the church’s fall Mexico mission trip.

Thiel Choir benefit buffet runs 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 13 at Greenville Pizza Hut, 26 Hadley Road, Hempfield Township.

By Pat Septak

Theatre-goers who are looking for something a little different will love the latest version of STOMP, a tribute to anything that even resembles a beat. I’m not even sure you can call it a musical, since there isn’t any singing. Nor is there any musical instrument used in the entire production, at least not in the traditional sense of the word.  There’s no melody. There aren’t even any spoken words in this show. Just noise. But not just any noise. Noise that has rhythm. Noise that has a beat. Noise that has feeling. Noise that makes you want to clap and stomp your feet, even though there is clearly no tune to whistle to.

 Add to that a nice dosage of humor and you have yourself a very clever and a very entertaining production. The cast is outstanding, even though there are no characters being portrayed here. They all share the same talent: using their hands, feet and mouth (yes, mouth) to create some of the bizarre percussion sounds you’ve ever heard. The set is minimal, looking something that resembles a back alley in some urban location. No orchestra. They don’t need one. Not only don’t they need one, but it would most likely get in the way of what they’re trying to acomplish: to create a rhythm and make it interesting enough for the audience to get caught up in that rhythm.

State Rep. Michele Brooks (R-Crawford/Mercer/Lawrence) is encouraging local volunteer fire departments and volunteer ambulance services to apply for state grants through the Office of the State Fire Commissioner.

Last year, area fire and ambulance organizations received more than $210,156 in funding from the program, which was created by the General Assembly as Act 10 of 2007. The program is funded through state gaming proceeds.

The grants may be used for construction or renovation of a unit’s station, the purchase or repair of equipment, training or debt reduction. The maximum grant amount is $15,000 for volunteer fire companies and $10,000 for volunteer ambulance services. A total of $25 million will be awarded through the program.

Applications are available online from the Office of the State Fire Commissioner. Online applications are being accepted now through Oct. 23.

For more information, visit Brooks’ Web site at RepMicheleBrooks.com and click on “Fire and Ambulance Grants.”

Rep. Michele Brooks
17th District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
(724) 588-8911

(800) 457-2040

(814) 337-8132
(717) 783-5008

Contact: Jennifer Algoe Keaton

jkeaton@pahousegop.com

(717) 705-2094

Member Site: RepMicheleBrooks.com

Caucus Site: PAHouseGOP.com