The LuLac Edition #4,159, November 7th, 2019

STUDENTS RAISE MONEY FOR ‘SNEAKERS FOR SOLDIERS’

At Wyoming Valley West Middle School, it's all about sneakers. Students are focused on Sneakers for Soldiers, an organization that buys athletic shoes for troops serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
"I thought America gave them the sneakers and apparently they're not well fit for the soldiers and I think that's terrible. I don't think it's a good thing, yeah, but it's awesome we're providing it for them," said eighth grader Baraa Kamal.
This week, the students are collecting money to give to the nonprofit.
And it's a competition. This week, the homerooms at the middle school are fighting in a friendly way to raise the most. The winners will get pizza and ice cream.
"I think it's a great cause. We're helping the soldiers to get sneakers. It's hard for them to get sneakers. It's a shame we can't afford it for them, and I think it's a great cause to donate the sneakers for them," said Cole Hospodar, an eighth grader.
"They go through probably a lot of pairs of sneakers because they're usually walking all day and doing everything they need to do," said student R.J. Bell.
The competition just started and already school leaders said they are overwhelmed by the response -- $500 raised by the first day.
"We're getting money from all the staff from all the buildings and the kids are bringing money in left and right, they're always asking me for more signage," said Lori Tillger, a teacher and program organizer at Wyoming Valley West Middle School.
Competition aside, the students said they want to raise as much money as possible to make a difference for those giving their all for their country.
"It's helping someone and that's like, that's what we want to do in our school is help people," said student Isabel Kilgallon.
In addition, the students on Friday will be having a Veteran’s breakfast as well as an Honor Guard to those who served. (WNEP.com, LuLac)

NEW GOP MAJORITY IN LUZERNE COUNTY

Tuesday’s County Council election was a real slap to the Democratic organization as well as many Courthouse employees. The County Council come January will be a 7 to 4 majority pf Republicans. There are many questions being asked about the new make up. Like
1. Who will be the County Council Chair?
2.How will the new regime affect funding already in place?
3.What proposals that passed might be changed by ted new Council?
4. What will be the status of Count Manager Dave Pedri? Speculation is rampant but the talk is that the car fee as well as the condition of county roads might have been factors in the GOP turnout as well as Democratic complacency of voters of that stripe.

REP. CARTWRIGHT TO HOST “COFFEE WITH VETERANS” AT AMERICAN LEGION IN KINGSTON

Kingston, PA - Congressman Cartwright will host a “Coffee with Veterans” at the American Legion in Kingston.
Since America’s founding, our service members have made countless sacrifices to keep our families safe. In return, our nation owes veterans an invaluable debt, and our government has a unique responsibility to care for them when they come home.
“As a member of the Appropriations Committee, I was honored to join the Subcommittee on Military Construction & Veterans Affairs in 2019,” said Rep. Cartwright. “This as a unique opportunity to lead on the issues affecting veterans in our district and in the rest of Pennsylvania, which is proudly home to more than 800,000 men and women who have served our country.”
WHAT:
This is part of an ongoing series of events Congressman Cartwright will hold
across Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District throughout the year.
WHEN:
Friday, November 8, 2019
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

 MEDIA MATTERS

WALN TV

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

This week's guests are Jenn Warnetski, General Manager, and Jessica Zielen, Creative Director of the Marketplace at Steamtown in Scranton.
Tune in Sunday morning at 6 on 94.3 The Talker; 6:30 on 1400-The Game, NEPA's Fox .Sports Radio and 106.7 fm; and at 7:30 on 105 The River.

ECTV LIVE

Tim Fritz joins ECTV Live host David DeCosmo the week of November 11th to unveil plans for this year's edition of the annual Scranton Santa Parade! If you'd like to volunteer to help with this year's march you'll find how how to sign up. ECTV Live is seen three times daily on Comcast channel 19 and is also available on the electric city television YouTube page!

BUDDY RUMCHEK

Want to hear some great parodies on the news? Tune in to WILK Radio at 6:20 and 8:20 AM on Mondays. As Ralph Cramden used to say, “It’s a laugh riot!”

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Paul Roitsch of Pan American World Airways became the first commercial pilot to fly the supersonic Concorde airliner although Pan Am would never add the Concorde to its fleet of aircraft….A group of American Indians, led by Richard Oakes, seized Alcatraz Island for 19 months, inspiring a wave of renewed Indian pride and government reform . Oakes, a Mohawk Indian and a student at San Francisco State College, organized a gathering at San Francisco and began reading a proclamation reclaiming the former site of the federal prison "by right of discovery", and made an offer to compensate the United States government with "24 dollars in glass beads and red cloth", based on an apocryphal story that Dutch West India Company had paid 60 Dutch guilders to a group of Delaware Indians for their rights to Manhattan Island. After telling reporters that the offer followed "a precedent set by the white man's purchase of a similar island about 300 years ago", Oakes then accepted an offer by Canadian yacht owner Ronald Craig to sail over to Alcatraz at no charge, and 50 boarded the Monte Cristo. Oakes and Chippewa businessman Adam Fortunate Eagle (at the time, Adam Nordwall) swam to the island along with two other men. The group stayed for 15 minutes, and then was escorted back in a small boat, but Oakes and 13 others returned that evening and spent the night before being returned to the mainland on a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. After the symbolic taking of the island, a much longer siege would begin 11 days later on November 20, and would last until June …. Sesame Street aired its first episode on the National Educational Television (NET) network, the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), starting after school at various times [24] [25]. As one critic noted in informing parents that the new show for preschool children presented the alphabet and numerals in the form of commercials, "The first edition of Sesame Street comes to you today... through the courtesy of the numbers 2 and 3, and the letters E, S and W." [26] The AP's TV critic, Cynthia Lowry, praised the show as "a delight" that "is bound to have many post-school fans" as well and noted that new characters introduced were "a huge creature called Big Bird and another called Kermit the Frog while Rick DuBrow of UPI said that "This gentle, witty series... has the sound and feel of people who know and love children— not those whose idea is to exploit them." 

Ferdinand Marcos was re-elected to a four year term as President of the Philippines, defeating Senator Sergio Osmeña Jr. in a landslide and winning more than 60 percent of the vote . Marcos's Nacionalista Party also increased its huge majorities in the Philippine Senate, with 19 of the 24 seats, and in the Philippine House of Representatives (88 of the 110 seats) in what a news service described as "what appeared to be the Philippines' bloodiest election on record" , with at least 65 people killed in political violence since campaigning began, and orders from President Marcos to have the National Police shoot any armed persons attempting to harass voters.
One day after pleading not guilty in Miami to charges of indecent exposure and public intoxication during a March 1 concert , rock singer Jim Morrison was arrested again upon his arrival in Phoenix, Arizona. Morrison and his friend Tom Baker were charged with the federal offense of interfering with an airline flight, arising out of their disorderly conduct during a Continental Airlines flight from Los Angeles . A federal judge would later dismiss the charges against Morrison on April 20, 1971
…The story of the 1968 My Lai Massacre was revealed to the public by freelance American investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who was contributing to the Dispatch News Service. Hersh started with the words, "Lt. William L. Calley Jr., 26 years old, is a mild-mannered, boyish-looking Vietnam combat veteran with the nickname 'Rusty.' The Army is completing an investigation of charges that he deliberately murdered at least 109 Vietnamese civilians in a search-and-destroy mission in March 1968 in a Viet Cong stronghold known as 'Pinkville'...." The New York Times published a similar report from its own reporter, Robert M. Smith, at the same time  U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew took the unprecedented step of accusing the three American television networks (whose affiliate stations' broadcast rights were licensed by the United States government) of letting their newscasters and commentators of abusing "a concentration of power over American public opinion, unknown in history" and hinting that "perhaps it is time that the networks were made more responsive to the views of the nation and more responsible to the people they serve", and urged Americans to call and write their local TV stations Agnew, who previously delivered criticism against opponents of Nixon's policies, delivered the criticism after a disappointing response from the networks' news to President Nixon's Vietnamization speech of November 3. The site was the "Midwest Regional Republican Conference", an annual meeting of 500 Republican Party campaign strategists, which was being held at the Hotel Fort Des Moines in Des Moines, Iowa….

and fifty years ago the number one song in LuLac land and America was Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley