Community Calendar
OCT. 1
Drive-Thru Sausage Sandwich Sale: St. Peter’s UCC, 122 W. Franklin St., Topton, from 10 a.m. until sold out. Cost is $6. Enter at Broad Alley and exit at Franklin Street.
OCT. 1
15th Annual Stahl’s Fall Pottery Festival: 9a.m. to 4p.m. Stahl’s Pottery celebrates the art of Pennsylvania German redware at the pottery site, 6826Corning Road, Zionsville. Pottery demonstrations, 30 contemporary potters selling their wares, tours of historic redware pottery museum exhibit, apple butter making demonstration, light lunch available. Admission $4for ages 18 and older; free for ages younger than 18. Free parking. www.stahlspottery.org or 484-306-3868
OCT. 4
Penn State Extension workshop on “Industrial and Right-of-Way Weed:” 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Berks County Agricultural Center, 1238 County Welfare Road, Leesport. Designed for licensed pesticide applicators; professionals controlling vegetation in rightof-way space clearances; professionals concerned with managing invasive weeds; and ecological land managers and stewards. Pesticide credits available. Register by Oct. 3. $75registration fee covers lunch. https://extension.psu.edu/ industrial-and-right-ofway-weed-meeting
OCT. 6
Hamburg Area Historical Society program: 7p.m. at Hamburg Area High School LGI room. Sandy Sorlien presents a program based on her book “Inland-the Abandoned Canals of the Schuylkill Navigation.”
OCT. 8
Iron Kettle Soup Sale: hosted by Hope Lutheran Church with the Kutztown FOE at 550 Fleetwood Road, Bowers. Soups made will be beef vegetable and chicken corn noodle. The cost is $8per quart. Pick up is between 10 a.m. and noon at the church. Preorder
by Sept. 29, call Renee at 484-646-9082, with your name, phone number, type and quantity.
OCT. 8
Strausstown Volunteer Fire Company’s Breakfast: 7:30 to 11:30a.m. at Strausstown Community Campus, 50East Ave. Full breakfast menu. Proceeds benefit the Apparatus Fund.
OCT. 8 & 9
Hay Creek Valley Historical Association’s Hay Creek Apple Festival: Historic Joanna Furnace on Oct. 8 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Oct. 9 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Apple pancake breakfast 7 to 11 a.m. both days in Joanna
Furnace Mule Stables. Throughout day, traditional apple food from freshly pressed cider to fritters, pies, tarts, dumplings, plus Mabel’s Iron-Kettle Soups, chicken pot pie, pulled pork sandwiches, hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, sausage sandwiches. Hay Creek Flea Market open both days. Scarecrow building, pumpkin painting, hay rides and Apple Barrel Express. Working blacksmith, demonstrations of casting process, charcoal making. Free admission. Parking is on Joanna Furnace site with a donation. All proceeds support educational and restoration projects. www. haycreek.org, 610-2860388