What is Monticello, KS. claim to fame? Wild Bill Hickock was elected its first constable. He was just 18 at the time.
Day: January 28, 2016
Holy Icons Restoration Commemorated In Ridley
Holy Icons Restoration Commemorated In Ridley — Lenten Vespers of the first Sunday of the Great Fast (that’s Lent) will be celebrated 4 p.m., Feb. 14 with a procession at Holy Myrrh-Bearers Eastern Catholic Church commemorating the restoration of the Holy Icons.
The church is at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore Pa, 19081 which is in Ridley Township.
The procession commemorates the end of second Iconoclast Controversy in the Byzantine empire in 843.
Holy Myrrh-Bearers is part of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Celebrants of the commemoration will be priests of the Philadelphia Deanery with Rev. Paul Makar, pastor of Saint Michaels Church, Cherry Hill, N.J.
Confessions will be heard starting at 3:30 p.m. by Monsignor Peter Waslo and Rev. Edward Higgins.
Eastern Rite churches are in full communion with the Holy See and Latin Catholics are welcome to participate in the sacraments.
Holy Icons Restoration Commemorated In Ridley
Paycheck Protection Advances In Pa.
Paycheck Protection Advances In Pa. — Paycheck protection, which is a bill that would ban the automatic deduction of political donations from members of public employees unions in Pennsylvania, is going to the full floor of the State House.
The bill was reported from the House State Government Committee, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 16-9 with on a straight party line vote with all present Democrats against it.
SB 501 was passed, 26-23, by the State Senate on Oct. 14. Again, all Democrats voted against the bill joined by Republicans Stewart Greenleaf (12), Robert Tomlinson (6) and, from Delaware County, Tom McGarrigle (26) and Dominic Pileggi (9), who has since resigned to take a Common Pleas Court seat.
The bill is overwhelmingly supported by the people of the Commonwealth. Polls show that 67 percent want it including 59 percent of registered Democrats.
Democrat leaders — who invariably get the support of these unwilling contributions — rather cravenly claim that automatic political donations are no different than deducting for health insurance or pension plans.
The House is expected to pass the bill where it faces a likely veto by Gov. Wolf, a man who also gets his share of support from the automatic deductions.
Paycheck Protection Advances In Pa.