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THE GUIDE
Outdoors T H I S W E E K : D EC . 14 TO 20, 2012 Christmas Bird Count, the 113th annual event. Participate by counting winter birds through Jan. 5. Call 675-9900 to sign up. Make a Treat for the Birds, string peanuts and make peanut-buttered pine cones for your backyard birds. Wild Birds Unlimited, Dallas Shopping Center, Dallas Memorial Highway. 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Free. 6759900. Pinchot Trail Hike, 6.5 moderate miles with the Susquehanna Trailers. Meet at the Park and Ride, Route 315, Dupont 11:45 a.m. Sunday. 6554979. Pocono Mountain Christmas Bird Count, the annual event with birders taking to the field to identify and count birds in designated areas. All skill levels welcome. Sunday. To participate, call 629-3061. Audubon Christmas Bird Count, a walk through the Florence Shelly Wetland Preserve to join in the 113th annual bird count. Meet at the parking lot, one mile north of Thompson on Route 171 opposite Stack Road. 2 p.m. Sunday. 756-2497.
FUTURE Birding in the Kirby Park Natural Area, with the Greater Wyoming Valley Audubon Society. Meet in the parking lot at Market Street and
Exhibits ONGOING EXHIBITS Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press, prints made at the Austin, Texas, press by more than 40 artists ranging from small-scale minimalist abstractions to enormous figurative scenes. Through Sunday at the Sordoni Art Gallery, Stark Learning Center, 150 S. River St., Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre. Noon to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. 408-4325. Giving the Gift of Art, drawings, paintings, pottery, jewelry, ornaments, cards and more by regional artists, all affordably priced for gift giving. New Vision Studio & Gallery, 201 Vine St., Scranton. Through Dec. 24: noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays and Christmas Eve. 878-3970. Winter Member Show. Artists for Art Gallery, 514 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton. Through Dec. 28: noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays. 969-1040.
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Dawes Avenue, Kingston. 8 a.m. Dec. 23. Free. 542-5948. Broad Mountain Lookout Hike, 11 moderate miles with the Susquehanna Trailers. Meet at the Park and
Ride, Route 309 near Blackman Street, Wilkes-Barre. 9:45 a.m. Dec. 23. 825-7200.
Trailers. Meet at the Park and Ride, Route 315 and Oak Street, Dupont. 9:45 a.m. Dec. 30. 825-7200.
Frank Gantz Trail Hike, 8.5 moderate miles with the Susquehanna
New Year’s Eve 5K Run and Walk. Ring in the new year by running
through the streets of Bloomsburg and along the river. Bloomsburg YMCA, 30 E. Seventh St. Dec. 31 with registration at 5 p.m. and race at 7 p.m. $20, $25 after Dec. 24. 7840188.