Noteworthy
Knights to collect for nuns
SHAMOKIN - The Shamokin Knights of Columbus Cardinal Mindszenty Fourth Degree Council 932 will collect funds this weekend at area Catholic Church Masses to benefit the Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Elysburg and the Carmelite nuns in Danville.
Churches where collections will be held Saturday and Sunday include Mother Cabrini, Our Lady of Hope and Transfiguration Church, in Shamokin, and Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, Elysburg,
God's Chuckwagon swapping dates
God's Chuckwagon, which offers free meals to the needy, is switching its schedule starting Monday, March 19, after which it will distribute in Mount Carmel on Mondays and Shamokin on Tuesdays. Currently, it's the opposite.
The change is being made in part because Restoration Ministries is about to resume its community meal program in Shamokin on Mondays. With Chuck Wagon switching to Tuesdays in the city, there will then be three days of free community meals available for the Shamokin-Coal Township area when counting Shepherd's Table, which operates each Thursday at Our Lady of Hope Parish Hall, Coal Township.
God's Chuckwagon distributes from 5 to 7 p.m. in front of the WIC building in Shamokin and during the same times at Oak and Fourth streets in Mount Carmel.
Saturday Trains program open today
DANVILLE - The free Saturday Trains program at Christ Memorial Episcopal Church, Pine and East Market streets, will be open from 10 a.m. to noon today with its "talking train," the Amtrak "Pennsylvanian," among the dozens of trains children and adults can play with.
The Loose Ties Model Railroad Society will open its huge free operating display of more than 60 trains and 10,000 feet of track at Columbia Mall, Buck Horn, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The free Wheelchair Engineers program at Columbia Mall, with its wheelchair-accessible model train layouts, will be open 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, and every Monday, at the Sears end of the mall.