Dunmore
Festival: Drive-thru takeout festival, Wednesday and Thursday, 5 to 6:30 p.m., St. Rocco’s Church grounds, 122 Kurtz St. (drive up on Luke Avenue). Includes pizza fritta, hot or sweet sausage and pepper sandwiches, and pasta and meatballs. Tables will be set up for outdoor dining (no table service). Preorders can be placed by calling the parish office at 570-344-1209. Drive-up orders will be taken at the festival until sold out.
Lackawanna County
Bus trip: AARP NEPA Chapter 3731 will host a Christmas bus trip Dec. 6 to the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse in Hampton, N.J., to see the musical “Playhouse Christmas.” The show is filled with dazzling costumes, vibrant sets and timeless holiday classics performed by the HHP Orchestra. Dinner is included. Choose from five table-served cuisine dishes and 30 varieties of desserts. Price is $150 and open to the public. Board at McDade Park,1 Bald Mountain Road, Scranton, at noon and arrive back in Scranton at 8 p.m. For reservations, call David at 570-892-1619 or Eileen at 570-328-3359.
Regional
Concert: The Anthracite Opera will present “Autumn, a Harvest of Music,” Oct. 25, 3 p.m., at St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1000 Taylor Ave., Scranton, with vocalists singing opera, Broadway and popular music. Instrumentalists will include Jason Smeltzer playing the theremin, Kyle Jenkins playing the classical guitar and Phil Rossi as singer/guitarist. Masters of ceremonies are Helen Tinsely and Patrick Marcinko, Linda Houck is musical director and accompanist, and Gary Richards is coordinator and founder of Anthracite Opera. General admission, $15; free for those 18 and under. Pay cash at the door. For information, call 570-335-7702.
Open houses: Marywood University will hold two undergraduate open house events and one graduate open house this fall for prospective students. Prospective undergraduate students can attend the open houses Oct. 24 or Nov. 14, both from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Registration for each begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Fireplace Lounge at the Nazareth Student Center, and the last campus tour departs at 1:45 p.m. A complimentary continental breakfast and lunch are included in the fall open houses for undergrads. For prospective graduate students, an open house is scheduled for Oct. 27 from 6-7:30 p.m. An optional campus tour will be offered beginning at 4:45 p.m. The early evening event also will feature light refreshments with Marywood admissions staff and alumni. For information and to register, visit marywood.edu/visitopenhouse or call Marywood’s admissions office at 570-348-6234.
Scranton
Fall festival: Scranton Tomorrow leaders have created a new seasonal event to scare up some business this fall: the Electric City Fall Festival. The event will be held in downtown Scranton on Oct. 24 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Event highlights include fall-themed food and drink specials at participating restaurants and pubs; retail promotions, sidewalk sales, in-store specials and incentives, and family-friendly activities, including a scarecrow display, trick-or-treating, selfie stations, face-painting, ballon animals, crafts and more at select downtown businesses. For a complete schedule of activities, visit scrantontomorrow.org and follow the organization on social media.