APRIL 17-23, 2014 Your Local News
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An East Allen Settlement Thrives by Ed Pany, Page 8
The Home News
Bath Egg Hunt
Scarlett Jandrisevitz, 5, won three prizes in the Easter egg hunt held at Ahart’s Market in Bath on Saturday morning, including a brand new bike. She’s shown with two Ahart employees. – Home News photo
48 language students at Northampton school board meeting
By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News Three presentations were a part of the Northampton Area School Board meeting on Monday. The first was a visit by 48 students in the German American Partnership Program led by Ms. April Krempasky. Those who spoke said the program is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the cultures of both countries, and they expressed their thanks. This year was the tenth exchange in the program, all of which have been a success. Two students from Northampton will spend three weeks in Germany after schools end the year here, but are still in classes in Germany. All of the boys and girls shook hands with the school board before leaving the meeting. Advanced Courses The second presentation was about the Advanced Placement Program, in which pre-college students select courses they believe will be helpful. To date, 481 requests were made to take the
Lehigh Township’s Board of Supervisors will have a workshop with personnel of the Lehigh Twsp.Volunteer Fire Co. as they work together in an effort to resolve their financial needs. It would be a follow-up to their recent public meeting when the residents offered their own ideas. Supervisor Keith Hantz said at the township meeting this past Tuesday that he would like the board to have a list of things which they should know. Among them are an audit of the fire company’s receipts and expenses
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the past three to five years; use of their equipment, and what kinds of calls they get. The banquet hall above the fire station is used for public functions as well as their internal needs, Fire Chief Rich Hildebrand said. No date has been set as yet when the workshop will be held. Other Matters • The township has been getting quotes and information for a maintenance building over the past few months. The latest which Township Manager Alice Rehrig has received would be a 100x200-ft. building, with a 20x200-ft. office, with interior work done by the public works crew. No decision has been made to this point. • Approval was given to a Lehigh Township Lions Club project in which they would refurbish the Bryfogel sign at the park. • Police Chief Scott Fogel Continued on page 14
tal science, European, Germany, government, macro economics, micro economics, physics, Spanish, statistics, and U.S. history. The presentation was given by Steven Seier and Mrs. Lydia Hanner. Kovalchik said AP teachers are very highly qualified. Continued on page 3
Relay runners for One Run come into Bath By THE HOME NEWS STAFF
Twenty-six runners, part of the One Run for Boston, arrived in Bath at about midnight Thursday after coming into the borough from Walnutport on Rt. 248, a distance of 12 miles. They carried an American flag. The group was the second-to-last Pennsylvania segment of runners from Los Angeles-to-Boston, raising funds for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing
on April 15, 2013, which killed three people and injured 260, many of them left as amputees. Led by Bart Yasso of Coopersburg, they had headlamps, reflective gear and blinking lights to warn motorists of their approach. They also carried a torch, which was passed on to the next segment of the relay team. Support vehicles were also in front and at the Continued on page 16
Lehigh Valley medium Comes to Bath
Lehigh Supervisors plan Workshop with fire company By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
14 courses . There is a minimum of 15 students for each course. Superintendent Joseph Kovalchik said that next year they want to reduce the courses to 10. Courses that were offered, in which the low number attending was 11 and the highest 74, included: biology, calculus, chemistry, English, environmen-
Marianne Michaels By DANIELLE S. TEPPER Special to The Home News One weekend a month, the banquet room at Gaetano’s in Bath (at Southmoore Golf Club) is full of expectant souls hoping to connect with a deceased loved one and receive messages from “the other side” through Marianne Michaels. “Death is the end of a life, but not a relationship.” This is the mantra Marianne Michaels has lived by all her life. She is a selfproclaimed spiritual medium who puts her unique talents to
use by helping those struggling with grief, partly because she says that’s how she got started. “It was part of my upbringing,” she explained. “My mother was very open to seeing the spirit world. You see too much of when people die, they call someone’s name. I believe that the loved ones in Heaven can still communicate with us and they come for us when we die.” Marianne said that after her brother died when she was only five, “it was very hard living in a house full of people who were grieving. I didn’t really want anything to do with the spirit world.” So she moved to Manhattan and studied fashion buying and merchandising at the Fashion Institute of Technology. It wasn’t until her thenhusband took a job at a local newspaper that she moved back to this area. She now resides in Bethlehem. In 1997, she helped start a spirituality department at Northampton Community College, where she taught until 2002. She then taught at Lehigh
Carbon Community College for two years. “I taught meditation and intuitive development and living in the moment,” she said. “I try to focus most of my work on people who are grieving and teaching them that you have to be in the moment, because if you think about the past, then the future’s too painful. If you stay in that present moment, it’s a lot easier.” So what does she do, exactly? Michaels claims that she can reach deceased loved ones and bring messages, much like Theresa Caputo claims to do on her TLC reality show, Long Island Medium. “I take you through meditation, just 30 seconds of quiet mind. In those 30 seconds, you can feel them touching you; you can feel them hugging you. You start to realize you can get the same communication,” explained Michaels. “I was lucky as a child. Kids see things and it either freaks the mother out or it doesn’t. My mother would say, ‘what did he look like,’ and Continued on page 12
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