Continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, r. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to honor the life and service of alan al pingy. He passed away tuesday, april 23, at home. He was mcking county commissioner and i flew a flag over the capitol to be presented to his family and colleagues. Prior to becoming commissioner, he was part of the bradford professional firefighters and retired as captain in 1988. He then served as bradford township supervisor, 11 years as chairman. He enlisted in the u. S. Marine corps and honorably discharged as a corporal in september, 1970. Mr. Speaker, al pingy has served his nation and community. Above all else, he was family man, a loving husband of 36 years to his wife, deborah, and father to his four children, andy, scott, jeff, and jody. He was a grandfat
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Emmet Gowin, Winner of a Guggenheim, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and others
Emmet Gowin, Renowned Photographer, to Speak at Newtown Quaker Meeting
Emmet Gowin, Professor Emeritus of Photography of Princeton University and a member of Newtown Meeting, will speak about his latest works via Zoom to the adult class of Newtown Quaker Meeting at 9:45 a.m. on Sunday, May 9 http://www.newtownfriendsmeeting.org). Zoom Meeting for Worship in the manner of Friends will follow at 11 a.m.
Gowin will give a quick overview of his past work in order to place in context the book on which he is now working, The One Hundred Circle Farm. Gowin s previous books have received rave reviews, e.g. Mariposas Nocturnas published in 2017 was called stunning, brilliant, spectacular, and an object of beauty and a document of inestimable value.
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Quaker Kids Raise $3,000 at Hybrid Virtual Lasagna Dinner for Charity
The Quaker Kids of Newtown Quaker Meeting have done it again! Hosted an extraordinarily successful fund-raiser during a pandemic and raised over $3,000!
The designated charity for their event this year was the Mercer Street Friends Summer Pre-School Program in Trenton, NJ, a a Quaker-affiliated, nonsectarian organization focused on hunger, poverty and access to educational opportunities.
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Newtown Meeting Quaker Kids have now raised and distributed to charities of their choice more than $34,000 over the past fourteen years by serving simple meals for voluntary donations.
In lieu of prices for servings of lasagna and desserts available for the Virtual Dinner, purchasers were asked to make donations when they picked up their orders.