Jessup
Community input sought: Jessup-Winton 150th Anniversary Committee seeks community input for slide show highlighting your ideas of what makes Jessup special (past and present): places, people, events, food, businesses, recreation, etc. Submit ideas, photos, news articles or stories to Bonnie Urzen at bonalunni@yahoo.com.
Lackawanna County
Dementia education: The Wright Center for Community Health, in collaboration with Age Friendly Lackawanna, is offering free, informative sessions to help people better understand and support loved ones with dementia. Led by a specially trained Dementia Champion, these one-hour sessions focus on increasing knowledge about dementia and small, practical, everyday ways to support people who have it. Participants can attend a session in person or virtually. Sessions: Feb. 17, 3-4 p.m., Wright Center for Community Health Scranton, 501 S. Washington Ave.; March 13, 2-3 p.m., Wright Center for Community Health Mid Valley, 5 S. Washington Ave.; April 15, 3-4 p.m., Wright Center for Community Health Wilkes-Barre, 169 N. Pennsylvania Ave.; May 15, 2-3 p.m., Wright Center for Community Health Mid Valley, 5 S. Washington Ave.; June 23, 3-4 p.m., Wright Center for Community Health Scranton, 501 S. Washington Ave.; July 15, 3-4 p.m., Wright Center for Community Health Wilkes-Barre, 169 N. Pennsylvania Ave.; Sept. 22, 3-4 p.m., Wright Center for Community Health Scranton, 501 S. Washington Ave.; Oct. 23, 2-3 p.m., Wright Center for Community Health Mid Valley, 5 S. Washington Ave.; and Nov. 18, 3-4 p.m., Wright Center for Community Health Wilkes-Barre, 169N. Pennsylvania Ave. For information, including how to join a session virtually, contact Nicole Flynn, director of the Wright Center’s geriatrics service line, flynnn@TheWrightCenter.org.
Olyphant
Lodge temporarily closed: Kingsbury Masonic Lodge, 140 Delaware Ave., is “temporarily closed” until further notice based on damage to the structure from water damage caused by the recent cold weather. The Lenten fish dinner fundraiser scheduled for Feb. 20 is canceled.
Scranton
Chicken wing dinner fundraiser: The YPD of Bethel A.M.E. Church chicken wing dinner fundraiser, March 7, noon-3 p.m., Bethel A.M.E. Church, 716 N. Washington Ave., $15/dinner, includes chicken wings, Spanish rice, a vegetable blend, a roll and dessert. Proceeds will support the YPD’s Annual Assessment and help fund attendance at the Third District YPD Leadership in Training Institute Conference. For information, call 570-341-0754.