Mountain View Garden Club to meet Oct. 20

The Mountain View Garden Club’s next meeting will be held Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 6:45 p.m. at the Clifford Township Firehall. The program will feature presentations from this year’s education grant recipients in the Carbondale Area, Susquehanna and Fell Charter school districts.

After a 15-minute meet-and greet and discussion of agenda items, teachers will share updates on their projects. The meeting is open to the public, offering attendees an opportunity to hear the recipients’ stories and learn about the creativity and educational value of their projects.

On Sept. 12, club members met at the Pine Lake Pavilion at Lackawanna State Park for a mushroom walk led by David Wasilewski of the Wyoming Valley Mushroom Club. A potluck lunch and members’ plant exchange followed the walk.

For information about the the Mountain View Garden Club’s November and December programs, links to gardening resources and membership applications, visit its website, mountainviewgardenclub.org. Everyone is invited to join and gain practical experience in gardening and environmental topics.

Marywood to present ‘War of the Worlds’

Nearly 88 years after a radio program frightened millions in October 1938, Marywood University’s theater program will present “War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast,” a theatrical reimagining of an infamous moment in American broadcasting history.

The play is set in a live radio studio with shadow theater artists and Foley sound effect artists, recreating Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre’s radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds.” Many listeners took the radio drama literally and believed they were under attack by aliens.

The play goes on to look at the cultural panic that followed and the questions it raised. It was written by well-known playwright Joe Landry.

Performances at the Munley Theater in the Sette LaVerghetta Center for Performing Arts have showtimes from Thursday, Oct. 22, through Saturday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. each evening and a matinee-only performance on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $15, with Marywood students, faculty, staff and IHM sisters admitted free. Tickets can be purchased in advance by credit card online at Marywood.universitytickets.com or with cash at the door.

Honesdale National Bank celebrates 190 years with sweepstakes, ‘Feed the Need’ initiative

Marking its 190th anniversary this year, Honesdale National Bank is inviting customers, employees and community members throughout Northeast Pennsylvania to join in a celebration centered on giving back, strengthening connections and making a meaningful impact together.

The bank’s 190 and Counting Sweepstakes serves as the centerpiece of the anniversary celebration, giving participants the opportunity to enter for a chance to win a $1,900 grand prize while also supporting HNB’s Feed the Need Food Drive.

Through the initiative, which continues through Nov. 21, Honesdale National Bank aims to collect 190 boxes of food for local pantries, helping neighbors facing food insecurity across the communities the bank serves.

Community members can participate in multiple ways, including submitting a sweepstakes entry by contributing food donations at local Honesdale National Bank offices. Every food donation helps advance the bank’s goal of providing 190 boxes of food to area pantries.

To learn more about the 190 and Counting Sweepstakes, view official rules and submit an entry, visit hnbbank.bank/190.

Marywood’s Center for Law, Justice, and Policy to host speaker series

Marywood University’s Center for Law, Justice, and Policy is hosting a Policy Perspectives speaker series, “The Courts and Our Community.”

The lectures are being offered during the fall semester on several Tuesdays at noon at the Swartz Center on Marywood’s campus. The events are free and open to the public.

The Honorable Karoline Mehalchick and the Honorable Jennifer Wilson, United States judges for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, are coordinating speakers for the series. Mehalchick and Wilson are partnering with Patrick M. Seffrin, Ph.D., professor and director of the Center for Law, Justice and Policy at Marywood, to present these events, which give participants the opportunity engage with leading legal professionals and gain insight into key issues coming before the courts that affect the community.

The following events are scheduled for October and November:

• Tuesday, Oct. 20: Immigration Law. Presented by Professors Jill Family and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia and attorney Tracey Hubbard, this session will focus on the current status of immigration laws in the United States and the interplay of the roles of the immigration proceedings and the federal courts.

• Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Law. Presented by attorneys Donna Walsh and Nicole Boland and Marywood Professor Adam Shprintzen, this very timely session will discuss the modern constitutional issues pertinent to election and voting law in the United States.

• Tuesday, Nov. 17: Advocacy and Judicial Decision Making. Presented by retired Judge Thomas Vanaskie, Assistant United States Attorney Jenny Roberts and attorney Christopher Opiel, along with Mehalchick and Wilson, the final session will explore how cases move through the federal court system, the issues attorneys face in advocating for their clients and how judges ultimately reach their decisions.

For more information about the Center for Law, Justice, and Policy at Marywood University, visit marywood.edu/academics/center-for-law-justice-policy, email legalcenter@marywood.edu, or visit the center’s Facebook page.