Category: Happenings

Spots On Sale For HMB Flea Market –Spaces are on sale for the flea market and crafter at Holy Myrrh-Bearers Church Slavic Food Festival.

It’s 9 a.m. through 3 p.m., Saturday, May 16 at the church at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore.

Spaces are $25. No food may be sold though.

Payment is required by May 7.

Call 610-544-1215 or email HMBChurch@Verizon.net for information

Free Piano — Our friend Katie tells us the time for music lesson is over in her home and she is giving away a piano to anyone who is ready to pick up the instrument again or for a family ready to let their children learn how to play it.

She lives in Middletown, Delco, Pa.

If interested call her at 610-888-4807.

HMB Cookie Walk Dec. 13 — Holy Myrrh Bearers Church is holding a “cookie walk” starting at 10 a.m., Dec. 13 at the church, 900 Fairview Ave., Swarthmore, Pa. 19081.

The cookies will be homemade and include Ukrainian and European specialties.

A cookie walk is where a customer is given a box and let loose to fill it among rows of cookies. The box is weighed and the customer pays.

The event lasts until the inventory is sold out.

Tickets are now on sale for the Holy Myrrh-Bearers Basket Raffle which will occur at the church’s annual Feast of Saint Nicholas Luncheon, Dec. 7.

They start at $2 each for a regular basket and but one can get 17 for $20.

Grand prize basket tickets are $5 or five for $20.

One does not have to be present to win.

The church is at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore, Pa.

Services are 5 p.m., Saturdays and 10 a.m., Sundays.

Ukrainian Food Fest Is Saturday At Holy Myrrh-Bearers — Holy Myrrh-Bearers Church is holding its Ukrainian Food Festival and flea market, Saturday, Sept. 27, at the church, 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore, PA, 19081.

It runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Come out and have a great and delicious time.

Swarthmore GOP Presents Curt Weldon Former Congressman Curt Weldon will be the guest of the Swarthmore Republican Party, 7 p.m., Sept. 24 at the Inn at Swarthmore, 10 S. Chester Road.

In addition to his 20 years of service in the U.S. House of Representatives (1987–2007) for Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District (now the 5th District), Curt Weldon has built a remarkable career as a firefighter, fire chief, teacher, and advocate for first responders.

He is the author of Awakening the Sleeping Giant (2017), which highlights his decades-long effort to empower firefighters and first responders worldwide; and Countdown to Terror (2005), which recounts critical intelligence warnings ignored by the CIA.

He is also the subject of the 2021 documentary Firefight, which follows his journey from small-town fire chief to the halls of Congress.

For event information, contact: Jim Riviello at 215-880-5230 or jimrsbwp@outlook.com

HMB Food Fest May 24 — Holy Myrrh-Bearers Ukrainian Catholic Church will have a food festival and flea market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., May 24, rain or shine.

The food includes homemade Ukrainian delicacies including pyrohy (perogies) halupki, halushky, and kielbasa and sauerkraut.

Take out is available.

The church is at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore, Pa. 19081.

Call 610-544-1215.

HMB Offering Free Yard Sale Spots — Holy Myrrh-Bearers Church is offering free spots at it May 24 yard sale which runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the church at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore, Pa.

Spaces must be reserved by May 16. Call 610-544-1215 or email HMBChurch@verizon.net