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Benefit auction: Johnson College\u2019s Carpentry & Cabinetmaking Technology program will host an auction to benefit the Children\u2019s Advocacy Center of NEPA on April 9 inside the Carpentry and Cabinetmaking Technology lab in Woolworth Hall on the Johnson College Scranton campus. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the auction starts at 6 p.m. The auction is open to the public.\u00a0More than 60 items will be available to bid on, including cutting boards, chess boards, tables, benches and custom woodworking. All items were created by students in the Carpentry & Cabinetmaking Technology program. Many of the items were made from repurposed material. The 2025 Carpentry Auction raised over $4,000 to benefit the Children\u2019s Advocacy Center of NEPA.\u00a0Register for the event at https:\/\/johnson.edu\/carpentry-auction\/.\u00a0To learn more about the Children\u2019s Advocacy Center of NEPA, visit\u00a0https:\/\/cacnepa.org\/.<\/p>\n
Potato growing workshop: Get Your Spud on! Growing Potatoes, April 27, 6:30 p.m., Greenhouse Project Regis, 200 Arthur Ave., Scranton. Penn State Master gardener Gary White will explain how to choose and prep seed potatoes, soil mixes, different ways to plant, watering and harvesting. Participants will take home seed potatoes, fee is $10. Registration is required; program@scrantongreenhouse.org.<\/p>\n
Scranton<\/p>\n
Garbage\/recycling collection: The Department of Public Works will be closed Monday in observance of Easter. Garbage and recycling will be one day behind.<\/p>\n
Night at the races: St. Mary\u2019s Byzantine Catholic Church Night at the Races, April 11, St. Mary\u2019s Center, 320 Mifflin Ave., Scranton. Doors open, 5:30 p.m., and post time, 6:15 p.m., $15 includes light refreshments; information: 570-343-5151.<\/p>\n
Throop<\/p>\n
Trash collection: Trash collection scheduled for Good Friday will be collected on Tuesday, April 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County Benefit auction: Johnson College\u2019s Carpentry & Cabinetmaking Technology program will host an auction to benefit the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-153537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}