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BBCP has successful Duck race fund-raiser
By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
The weather was beautiful and the Monocacy Creek was flowing freely on Friday afternoon as the Bath Business & Community Partnership (BBCP) held its annual Great Bath Duck Race. There wasn’t any cheering, but the crowd quietly watched as the tiny plastic, multi-colored ducks flowed along in the waters until they reached the Main Street bridge. It was there that volunteers gathered them up and placed the ducks in cartons to determine which were winners of a large number of prizes. The event was another by
the BBCP to raise funds for the Bath Farmers Market. Numbered tickets were sold at the farmers market on Friday, and at the scene along the creek, and earlier at local businesses for $5.00 each. These were the 17 lucky winners, the prizes, and donors: Peggy Moser, $250, by BBCP; Maryann Liddy, $20 gift card, Daily Grind; Peggy Moser, $25 gift card, My Place Restaurant’; Amy Birch, $90 gift basket, Tracy’s Cottage; Fi Mirabito, Dejavu Nail Care Kit, ESSA Bank & Trust; Dan Space, $20 BFM dollars, Sharon Davis of GLVCC; Eric Lane, $20 gift certificate, S. Seem Antiques; Cassie Jones,
$20 gift certificate, Steckel House Antiques; Mitchel George, $25 Visa gift card, Gilroy Family Chiropractic; Judy Serfass, $25 BFM dollars, Benchmark Analytics Lab; Garry Hunsicker, $20 gift certificate, Ahart’s Markets; Lawrence Fiedor, 1 yr. sub., The Home News and Lehigh Valley Style; Ann Shanley, $25 gift card for Regal Cinema, Linda Roth CPA; Brenna Kern, $10 gift certificate, The Friendship Tree; Bill Halbfoerster, Chick-fil-A gift basket, BFM; Brad Eckhart, 30 min. massage, Denise Mikovitch; and Sue Bain, last duck bottle of wine, Mayor Wunderler.
Contributed by: Fiorella Mirabito Borough Manager Tom Petrucci holds one of the banners that will mark the entrance to the community. Story on page 7.
Two farm robbers Caught in Maryland The Pennsylvania State Police announced the arrest of Dale Michael Mentzer, 35, and Heath Andrew Derizzo, 36, both with no fixed address. They are charged with the armed robbery that occurred at Cihylik Farms & Greenhouse, 3960 Cherryville Rd., Northampton (Allen Township) on July 19 at approximately 11:25 a.m. In the course of the robbery, the two men demanded money from a female employee. She was directed from one
part of the property to another, and made to provide money, property belonging to the Cihylik Farm, and her personal property to the robbers. During the course of the investigation, State Police of the Bethlehem Barracks received information relating to the investigation from several law enforcement partners, including the Northampton Borough Police Department, Continued on page 15
LAST-MINUTE TICKETS were sold by Carol Bear-Heckman at the creek for Friday’s duck race. They benefited the Bath Farmers Market.
THE TINY DUCKS flowed freely in the creek.
INDEX:
72nd Year, Issue No. 31
College Corner................4
Martin on Main ........8 & 9
Over Age 50?..................5
Classifieds ...................14
Outdoors .......................6
Focus on Folks 60+........16
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