COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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March 10
Pancake breakfast: Bally Mennonite Church, Route 100 in Bally, will be serving pancakes, French toast, sausage, scrapple, OJ, tea, & coffee in the Church Fellowship hall, from 7 - 11 a.m. The cost is a donation. Proceeds will provide funds for the Bally Community Center, a non-profit organization whose goal is to provide a haven for kids to have some good clean fun, play games, sports or just relax. Christian owned and run, the BCC is based on Christian principles of relating to one another in conduct, word and attitude. www.ballymc.org.
March 10
Pancake Breakfast: 8-11 a.m. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1749 South Main Street, Bechtelsville. Hot cakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, orange juice, milk, coffee, tea. There is a cost. Also, Wixon Shoo Fly Pie Sale in conjunction with the breakfast. Call the church office to order (610-367-1281) in advance. Pies available for pickup at the breakfast on March 10, or at the church on March 11.
March 10
24th Annual Daniel Boone Optimist Club Spring Craft
Show: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Daniel Boone Middle School, 1845 Weavertown Road, Douglassville. Quality Handcrafted Items. Over 100 crafters. Free admission, free parking, refreshments. Presented by Daniel Boone Optimist Club. www.danielbooneoptimist. com, email DBCraftShow@ gmail.com. Call Lydia at 610639-1439.
March 11
Design Your Pollinator Garden: a program with Penn State Master Gardener Margaret Yevics. Sponsored by the Friends of Hopewell Furnace, the free event will begin at 2 p.m. in the Hopewell Furnace Conference Room. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site located five miles south of Birdsboro, off Route 345. For more information visit www.friendsofhopewellfurn.org.
March 11
Charter Day: celebrates the signing of the Pennsylvania Charter by William Penn, noon to 4 p.m. at the Daniel Boone Homestead in Birdsboro. Admission free. First floor house tours of Boone House, working blacksmith, and textile demonstrations in Visitor Center. 2 p.m., Charlotte Puff will share traditional English and German tales in the Wayside Lodge, cookies and hot chocolate served by the fire for $2 per person donation. 610-582-4900 or www. danielboonehomestead.org.
March 15
Free Alzheimer’s Association Support Group meeting: 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Chestnut Knoll Personal Care and Memory Care, 120 W. 5th Street, Boyertown. Public invited to learn more about caring for your senior loved ones living with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Support Group to discuss newly signed law RAISE Family Caregivers Act.
March 15
Boyertown Lions Club dinner
meeting: 6:30 p.m. at Friendship Hook & Ladder Co., S. Reading Ave & Warwick St., Boyertown. Program speaker will be Col. K. S. Seiwell, speaking on the Carl Spotts Museum. All are welcome.
March 15
Berks County Patriots
Meeting: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Leesport Market. Pa Gubernatorial Candidate Paul Mango and three Lt. Gov. Candidates Peg Lusik, Joe Gale, Diana Irey Vaughan. Petition signing at 5:30 for federal candidates.
March 16
Restaurant Gift Card Bingo: 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Geigertown Fire Co., 3433 Hay Creek Road. For more info call 610-286-6481.
March 17
Chicken Pot Pie Dinner: 3to7 p.m., Calvary United Church of Christ, 1231 Route 100, Barto. Homemade chicken pot pie, green beans, corn, chow-chow, applesauce, rolls, coffee, ice tea, home baked desserts. There is a charge. Dine in only.
March 17
Boyertown Lions Club All You
Can Eat Breakfast Buffet: 7 a.m. to noon. Pancakes, Sausage, Home Fries & Scrambled Eggs & beverage. Friendship Hook & Ladder Fire Co., S. Reading Ave., Boyertown. All Proceeds go to the Boyertown Lions Charitable Projects.