William Penn Life, 2013 (48. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
2013-11-01 / 11. szám
Branch News Branch 10 Barton, OH Branch 40 Martins Ferry, OH Branch 248 Monaville, WV Branch 349 Weirton, WV Branch 8164 Steubenville, OH by Joyce Nicholson Hello from the WPA branches of Barton, Martins Ferry, Weirton, Steubenville and Monaville! Our local WPA branches held a combined picnic and bacon fry on Sunday, Sept. 15, with the Ohio Valley Hungarian-American Cultural Society at Warren Township Park. The picnic began at 1:00 p.m. with a delicious buffet of food followed by the bacon fry later in the afternoon. The weather was clear but a little cool-just right for hanging out by a fire while roasting bacon and talking. Our branch Christmas party is slated for Sunday, Nov. 24, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Pizza Hut party room, 51338 National Road East, St. Clairsville, Ohio. Save the date and join us. All of our branch members are welcome to attend this open house party at Pizza Hut. So, stop by while you're out Christmas shopping, say hello, have some fun and maybe win prizes. All branch children will receive a treat bag. We have many blessings to be thankful for, and we want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. If you have any news or for information about branch activities you would like to share, please call Joyce Nicholson at 740-264-6238. Branch 13 Trenton, NJ by Marguerite D. Beke After a short break during the summer, we resumed our meetings on Sept. 16. We discussed our Christmas party and the Holiday Members of Branches 10, 40, 248, 349 and 8164 join members of the Ohio Valley Hungarian American Cultural Society for a picnic and bacon fry Sept. 15 at Warren Township Park Basket program. We approved three baskets to be distributed at Thanksgiving, as we have in the past. Our family Christmas party will be held at the Hungarian Reformed Church, Bishop Beky Center, 105 Grand St., Trenton, N.J. on Dec. 8, 2013. Our meeting will begin at 2:00 p.m. with the family party following the meeting. We sent get well wishes to Eileen Smith, who had cataracts removed, and to John Fazekas, who suffered a stroke. Both are coming along nicely, and we look forward to seeing them at the next meeting. For more information on the Christmas party, please contact Branch Secretary Marguerite Beke at 609-617-0471. We look forward to seeing our members at the party. Branch 14 Cleveland, OH by Richard E. Sarosi Wow! What a beautiful fall we are having in Ohio. The colors have been bright, and the days are growing short. We hope that everyone had a safe Halloween. I just finished putting the pictures of the 2013 William Penn trip to Hungary and Romania/Székely Land into my photo album. Special thanks go to National Vice President-Fraternal Endre Csornán and Judit Borsay for working hard and coordinating our wonderful trip. Hadas Rudy of Discover Africa did a great job handling our flight arrangements to and from Budapest. Andrea Tordai of VIP Tours in Budapest and our bus driver Krisztián took care of our group in Hungary and Transylvania. My Hungarian classes paid off—I did really well with my Hungarian...as long as Andrea, Endre, Krisztián, Barbara House, Mary Ann Deri, Alan Varga or Ica Martincsek was close by. Some random thoughts about the trip: • Eating fresh kürtös kálacs (chimney cake), which I do two or three times each summer in Cleveland, was a daily occurrence on this trip. The kürtös kálacs stands that we saw reminded me of McDonald's in America—they were everywhere. I am glad that we have Lajos Mezősi of Cleveland's Transylvania Bakery to make this special treat every summer at picnics. • We enjoyed a wide range of meals, including chicken paprikás with dumplings, veal paprikás with dumplings, many varieties of gulyás, Dracula's blood soup (very delicious, except for strange things floating in it), lángos, a Romanian cookout that included a szalonna sütés (bacon fry), sausages and lad pecsenye. • The cream of broccoli soup was really, really green. • My favorite dessert was the 20 0 November 2013 0 William Penn Life
