COAL TOWNSHIP - Our Lady of Lourdes Regional High School will hold an alumni weekend Jan. 20 and Jan. 21 featuring a social and alumni basketball games.
A social for all Lourdes alumni will be held at 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 20, at St. Francis Home Association on Race Street in Shamokin. The cost to attend and receive a commemorative alumni T-shirt is $20 per person or $30 per couple.
At noon Saturday, Jan. 21, former Red Raider boys basketball players will compete in an alumni game at the Lee Korbich Memorial Gymnasium. The teams will be coached by former Lourdes principal and boys head basketball coach John McKay and current longtime Lourdes teacher and assistant basketball coach William Gilger Jr.
A girls alumni game will be held at 1 p.m. Current athletic director and longtime girls basketball coach Michael "Gish" Klembara will be among the coaches.
Former Lourdes cheerleaders also will participate.
The games will precede the boys junior varsity contest with Northumberland Christian School at 4 p.m., followed by the boys varsity game at 5:15 p.m.
The school's homecoming queen will be crowned at halftime of the varsity game.
The alumni weekend is being organized by Lourdes alumni James Sandri, Heather Krebs and Mary Bias. Sandri is a former basketball player and current assistant basketball coach. Krebs and Bias are former cheerleaders and current cheerleading team moderators.
They encourage all alumni to attend the events.
For more information or to obtain a registration form, call the school at 644-0375.