West End news for Jan. 30, 2020

Chestnuthill meeting

The Chestnuthill Township Board of Supervisors is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the township municipal building in Brodheadsville.

KC’s Free throw

This year’s Knights of Columbus free-throw challenge will be held on Feb. 15, beginning at 9 a.m. at Notre Dame High School in East Stroudsburg.

For additional information, call the church at 610-681-6137.

Clothing needs

The PVEN Clothing Closet has several needs. They include school uniforms: pants for both boys and girls, sizes 4-7; polo shirts for girls, sizes 6-6x.

For the men’s department the needs are gloves, sweatpants, PJ bottoms/lounge pants, flannel shirts, long-sleeved shirts, sweatshirts, long-john tops and bottoms, and Henley shirts.

Also needed are winter/snow gloves for boys and girls — the type that can be used to make snowballs.

And personal care items, such as shampoo, conditioner, feminine hygiene products, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant for both men and women, razors and shave cream are also needed.

Additionally, donations of linens such as bath towels and washcloths, standard-size white pillowcases are all appreciated.

One can bring such donations to the PVEN Center at 2334 Route 209 in Sciota to the lower rear entrance of the front building (center parking lot) or drop off clothing any time in the metal mesh basket on the big porch of the clothing building.

Volleyball ahead

Effort UMC has organized a church co-ed volleyball league every summer for ages 17 to 70 for years. Churches from all over the West End play. Games are Wednesday or Thursday nights at either 7 p.m. or 8:15 p.m. and are usually held at the church.

Effort UMC has three teams. If anyone would like to be on a team, or be the captain for a new team, email pdaz@ptd.net by Feb. 15.

Label the email: Volleyball.

A team must be affiliated with a local church.

ESU learning center

Want to learn something new? Something you enjoy? If you are an older adult, look at East Stroudsburg University’s Older Adult Learning Center.

It has no age restrictions and the programs are structured toward the preferences of older adults.

For more information, call 570-422-7810 or send an email to toalc@esu.edu.

Most classes are about 10 weeks long.

Contact Adele Argot at 717-933-4028 or arargot3@verizon.net. Contact the Times News at 800-443-0377 or tneditor@tnonline.com.