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Spaghetti Dinner: Good Shepherd Polish National Catholic Church, 269 E. Main St., Plymouth, PA. on Saturday, November 15th from 4-7pm. Spaghetti with meat sauce, breadsticks, salad bar, dessert and beverage served. Adults pay $8; $4 for children younger than 10 years old. Takeouts available! A gift card raffle is included. Call 570-690-5411 for more information.

Cirque du Soleil’s WINTUK: The Polish Community Center is sponsoring a bus trip to see Cirque du Soleil’s WINTUK at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday, November 20th. Tickets are $85 and include a show ticket plus round trip charter bus transportation. A regular ticket alone costs $150!!! The bus leaves the University at Albany from the Collins Circle bus stop at 7am. The show begins at 11am. There will be free time in afternoon to see NYC. The bus departs NYC at 6pm arriving back in Albany around 9pm. For more information, please contact Susan or Cathleen.

Thanksgiving Service: St. Mary’s Polish National Catholic Church will host Duryea’s annual ecumenical Thanksgiving service Tuesday, Nov. 23 at 7 p.m. at the church, 200 Stephenson St., Duryea, PA. The members of the Duryea Police Department, the Duryea Ambulance and Rescue Association, the Excelsior Hose Company No. 2, and Germania Hose Company will be honored at this time. Clergy from other Duryea area churches will participate in the service. Following the service, refreshments will be served in the church hall. Lori Biscontini is the chairwoman for this event. The Rev. Carmen Bolock is the pastor of St. Mary’s PNCC, and Byron Wescott is the church chairman.

St. Andrew’s Ball: The Polish Community Center of Albany cordially invites everyone for our annual Fall Dance on Saturday, November 27th, beginning at 7pm. Food from our Polish-American kitchen will be served and there will be a cash bar. Tickets are $15 per person. Entertainment by the Galicja Band. The Center is located at 225 Washington Ave Ext., Albany NY. For reservations and information please call Dariusz Figiel at 518-235-6001 or Marian Wiercioch at 518-235-5549.

Andrzejki 2010: Zapraszamy na wspólną zabawę Andrzejkową która odbędzie się w Polskim Klubie, 225 Washington Ave Ext, Albany, NY na 27-go listopada o godzinie 7-ej wieczorem. Wstep $15 od osoby. Polsko–Amerykańska kuchnia! i “cash bar!” Gra zespół “Galicja” z Connecticut. Po bilety prosimy dzwonić do: Dariusza Figiel 518-235-6001 albo Mariana Wiercioch 518- 235-5549.

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Certain changes due to healthcare reform

FBMC.TV has published a series of videos describing the changes brought about by healthcare reform. Included are explanations of changes affecting Health Reimbursement Accounts; for instance, over the counter medications may no longer be covered for reimbursement. If you have such an account, it might be worthwhile to check out their videos so that you can make educated choices.

The following from the IRS: IRS Issues Guidance Explaining 2011 Changes to Flexible Spending Arrangements

The Internal Revenue Service issued guidance reflecting statutory changes regarding the use of certain tax-favored arrangements, such as flexible spending arrangements (FSAs), to pay for over-the-counter medicines and drugs.

The Affordable Care Act, enacted in March, established a new uniform standard that, effective Jan. 1, 2011, applies to FSAs and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). Under the new standard, the cost of an over-the-counter medicine or drug cannot be reimbursed from the account unless a prescription is obtained. The change does not affect insulin, even if purchased without a prescription, or other health care expenses such as medical devices, eye glasses, contact lenses, co-pays and deductibles. The new standard applies only to purchases made on or after Jan. 1, 2011, so claims for medicines or drugs purchased without a prescription in 2010 can still be reimbursed in 2011, if allowed by the employer’s plan.

A similar rule goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2011 for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and Archer Medical Savings Accounts (Archer MSAs).

Employers and employees should take these changes into account as they make health benefit decisions for 2011.

For details on current rules, see Publication 969 [large PDF] , Health Savings Accounts and Other Tax-Favored Health Plans. Updates on this and other health care reform provisions can be found on the IRS Affordable Care Act page.

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Setting the record straight

From the Kosciuszko Foundation and the American Center of Polish Culture: Please sign the petition demanding that the media stop calling “Auschwitz” a “Polish concentration camp.”

The Kosciuszko Foundation has posted a petition on it’s web site demanding that the media stop using libelous phrases such as “Polish concentration camps” and “Polish death camps,” which amounts to a form of Holocaust revisionism. News outlets that use these defamatory phrases are teaching new generations of impressionable newspaper readers, and the general public, that the Holocaust was carried out by Poles rather than Nazi Germany.

Poland did not exist from September 1939 until 1945. German maps from this time period show that the camps were built in “The Greater German Reich,” and the “General Government” area which were part of Hitler’s German expansion to the eastern conquered territories. The camps were established by Germans, run by Germans, and guarded by Germans. The Nazis gave them German names like “Auschwitz” and hung German words over the entrance, “Arbeit macht frei.”

Please assist in sending a message to media companies: They must stop using use these historically erroneous phrases. Please let the media hear our outrage about this by signing the petition.

Fundacja Kościuszkowska rozpoczęła akcję zbierania podpisów pod petycją do mediów, aby przestały używać określenia “polskie obozy koncentracyjne”.

– Jeśli nie narobimy hałasu, nic się nie zmieni. Jeśli Polacy chcą, aby świat myślał, że obozy koncentracyjne są naszym dziełem, to niech siedzą cicho. Jeśli chcemy przekonać wszystkich, że były to obozy niemieckie, nie siedźmy z założonymi rękami i podpiszmy petycję” – apeluje prezes Fundacji Kościuszkowskiej Alex Storożyński.

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Art at ASU – “Open for Business”

Arizona State University Art Museum & Downtown Tempe Businesses under curator John D. Spiak presents “Open for Business” from October 8, 2010 through January 29, 2011.

Open for Business calls attention to the importance of local artists, businesses and organizations. Simultaneously taking place in downtown Tempe businesses and an interrelated exhibition at the ASU Art Museum, this project features the work of sixteen Valley artists who address the purpose of each business, providing opportunities for audience members to interact with the physical space of each location and to discover, or rediscover, new aspects of their own community.

Individuals will be guided by maps available at the ASU Art Museum to art installations at downtown Tempe business including La Bocca, Rula Bula, Caffé Boa, The Shoe Mill, Brand X Custom T-Shirts, Monti’s La Casa Vieja, Mood Swings Salon, Fascinations, Cartel Coffee Lab, Buffalo Exchange, The Bicycle Cellar, The Headquarters, and Downtown Tempe Community, Inc.

The list of Valley artists participating in the exhibition include both internationally established and rising stars of our community, including Peter Bugg in collaboration with Ryan Peter Miller, Cyndi Coon, Wendy Furman, Jon Haddock, Saskia Jorda, Tania Katan, Mary Lucking, Matthew Mosher, Adam Murray, Marco Rosichelli, Erin V. Sotak, David Tinapple, Chris Todd, Jen Urso, Nic Wiesinger, and Whitney Zamá.

To insure the success and outreach of the project, the ASU Art Museum has partnered with Tempe Chamber of Commerce, Tempe Convention and Visitors Bureau, Downtown Tempe Community (DTC), Local First Arizona, Valley Forward Association, Creative Connect, Comerica Bank (Tempe, Mill), Scottsdale Public Art, and Volunteer Legal Assistance for Artists (VLAA).

Free public lectures, conversations and tours throughout the run of the exhibition

  • Lecture: Trademark Law for Arts/Business (VLAA): Thursday, Nov. 4, 6pm @ Monti’s
  • Friday Conversation @ 11: Tania Katan: Fri., Nov. 5, 11am @ ASUAM
  • Panel Conversation: Open for Business: Tues., Nov. 9, 6pm @ ASUAM
  • Friday Conversation @ 11: Mary Lucking, Saskia Jorda & Erin Sotak, Fri., Nov. 19, 11am @ ASUAM

Tours to be scheduled – look for announcements through the ASUAM blog.

Scottsdale Public Art is organizing the store front project IN FLUX in Downtown Scottsdale that will occur during the same time period. Through this collaboration, both institutions will combine efforts to create cross-over audience and awareness. A map showing all participating locations will be available at locations in Tempe, Scottsdale, the ASU Art Museum and online.

This project is generously supported by a grant from the Tempe Municipal Arts Commission, ASU Art Museum Advisory Board, and the Wilhelmine Prinzen Endowed Fund for Emerging Artists. In-kind support provided by Phoenix NewTimes, Ben Franklin Press, Inc., Melissa McGurgan Design, and Mannington Commercial.

The Arizona State University Art Museum is located at Mill Avenue at 10th Street, Tempe, AZ. More information may be obtained by contacting the museum at 480-965-2787 or by E-mail

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Upcoming events – activism, authors, food, and more

At Good Shepherd PNCC in Plymouth, PA: Potato-Cheese Pierogi Sale on Sunday, October 31st from 3-5 p.m. at the Parish, 269 E. Main St., Plymouth, PA. To place pre-orders, please call 570-690-5411.

At All Saints PNCC in Rome, NY: Parish Dinner and Food Sale: All Saints will be holding a fund raiser to raise money for a new heating system for the Parish on Sunday, November 7th from 12 noon to 3pm, or until sold out. A choice of Chicken Riggies or Pork Chops will be served with tomato basil soup, and salad. Appropriate side dishes will be served. Homemade desserts will be included. Orders for Thanksgiving pierogi and galumbki will also be taken. Cost for the dinner is is $10.00 per person. For more information, please call 315-337-2382 or send an E-mail.

From IWJ: National Day of Action Against Wage Theft: A National Day of Action Against Wage Theft is being scheduled for Thursday, November 18th. November 18 is one week before Thanksgiving, a time when we celebrate our plenty at feasts throughout the nation. But workers who have had their legal wages stolen will be struggling to provide for their families this season. IWJ and workers across the country whose wages have been stolen need your help.

A Conference Call discussing the event will take place next Thursday, November 4th where you can learn what you can do in your community on that critical day. Please join in at 2pm EST. The call-in number is (760) 569-0111 and the Participant Access Code is: 1085004#. Groups across the country are organizing rallies, bus tours, prayer vigils, educational forums and legislative visits to highlight the ongoing crisis of wage theft and the many ways that workers and communities are fighting it.

From Duke University: An evening with Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk: One of Poland’s best contemporary writers, Olga Tokarczuk, will be reading from her work at The Perkins Library, Duke University on Thursday, November 11th at 7:30pm. This is a great opportunity to learn more about contemporary Polish culture, the literary scene, and to meet the author of Primeval and Other Times. Please E-mail Beth Holmgren for more information.

Olga Tokarczuk was born in 1962 in Sulechów near Zielona Góra, Poland. A recipient of all of Poland’s top literary awards, she is one of the most critically acclaimed authors of her generation. After finishing her psychology degree at the University of Warsaw, she initially practiced as a therapist. Since the publication of her first book in 1989, a collection of poems, Tokarczuk has published nine volumes of stories, novellas, and novels. In English her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, as has her novel House of Day, House of Night. In 1998 Tokarczuk moved to a small village near the Czech border and now divides her time between there and Wroclaw. For her latest novel, Bieguni [The Runners], she received Poland’s top book award, the Nike Prize, in 2008.

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Our Savior PNCC celebrates 80 years

From Mosinee Today: Church celebrates 80 years

Starting out truly as a “church in the wildwood” by a few Polish families in the town of Ried, this month Our Savior Polish National Catholic Church in Mosinee is celebrating its 80th anniversary.

Newly elected Bishop Anthony Kopka will visit Saturday to celebrate with the parish at the 5:30 p.m. Mass. Following the service, an evening meal, prepared by the members, will be served. The public is welcome.

For the past 20 years, the leader of Our Savior’s flock is The Rev. Marion Talaga, who is originally from Poland… Talaga is also is the pastor of St. Mary Parish in Lublin and Holy Cross Mission near Pulaski.

Our Savior has been growing aggressively to meet its needs. A home next to the church building was purchased for use as a rectory, new classroom area and handicapped accessibility added, the church worship area renovated and the lower level social gathering space updated.

According to the Polish National Catholic Church website, the church was founded in 1897 in Scranton, PA. Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, people who are divorced and remarried are openly welcomed to receive the Eucharist, a priest can choose to be married and all [baptized] believers are invited to partake in the reception of Holy Communion.

Our Savior’s is at 804 Jackson St., one block south of the high school and two blocks east of the Rec Center.

Weekend masses are at 5:30 p.m. Saturday evening and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. A social hour follows all Sunday masses.

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Upcoming in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Area

Annual Polish Dinner and Basket Raffle: To be held Saturday, October 23rd from 4-7 p.m. at Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church, 23 Sheridan St., Wilkes-Barre. Adults pay $8; $4 for children 12 years and younger.

Home Style Turkey Dinner: Branch 1 ANS will host a Home Style Turkey Dinner on Sunday, Oct 24 in the St. Stanislaus Cathedral Youth Center, 530 E. Elm St.. Scranton, PA. Takeouts will be available from 10:30am to Noon. Sit down dinner will be served 12:30pm. Crafts and Raffle will also be featured. Tickets are $10 Adults, $5 Children (3-12 Yrs Old). For more information please contact Gloria Makowski at 570-498-3922.

Trail of Terror: Join for a night of fright when St. Stanislaus Cathedral Youth Association sponsors its annual Trail of Terror…..if you dare! Located at the YMSofR Park and St. Stanislaus Cathedral Cemetary on Kane Street in Scranton, PA. Dates: Saturday, Oct. 23rd and Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29th and 30th.

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SOLIDARNOŚĆ: Poland’s Struggle for Freedom at Wayne State

Lech Walesa to Visit Wayne State University In Detroit
By Raymond Rolak

DETROIT– The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University will be opening a new exhibit, SOLIDARNOŚĆ: Poland’s Struggle for Freedom.” The former President of Poland, Lech Wałęsa will be making an appearance to bring attention to the 30 year anniversary of the Solidarity labor movement.

The exhibit will open October 27, 2010 and run until July 1, 2011. The Reuther Library at 5401 Cass Ave. is across from the Main Detroit Public Library. “We are just the ambassador’s as so many people helped including the Office of the President, at Wayne State,” said Michael Smith.

Smith, Director of the Reuther Library at WSU and Marcin Chumiecki, Director of the ‘Polish Mission’ at St. Mary’s Schools in Orchard Lake got together last February and went to Miami to invite Lech Wałęsa to help kick off the exhibit.

October is also Polish Heritage Month in America. Smith added, “Wayne State invites the whole community to view the displays during the run. It is concise, informative and historical. The exhibit will be open to the public starting at 9:00 A.M. on Wednesday October 27.”

“The Reuther Library has a strong tradition of reaching out into the community to document our labor history,” Smith added. “We will have some very rare photos and artifacts from Soldiarnosc in the exhibit.”

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at WSU is the largest labor archive in North America. Its mission is to collect, preserve and provide access to the heritage of the American labor movement. Reuther was the long time leader of the United Auto Workers and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1995 by President Bill Clinton. In Metro Detroit the I-696 Freeway is named the Walter P. Reuther Freeway in his honor.

Reuther and his wife May were killed in a 1979 plane crash near Pellston, Michigan.

Smith and Chumiecki also travelled to Poland to research and document the background for the exhibit. There are first person accounts, which are the most valuable in a history account. Some items are on loan from the Polish Mission. Smith added, “Wałęsa said he was honored to come to Detroit to announce the opening of this exhibit. He was genuinely enthused and of course added insights that only he could do. This is living history.”

Wałęsa was President of Poland from 1990-95. He was front and center for the “Solidarity” trade union movement that eventually changed Poland and led to the break of control from Russia. This was the catalyst for the political changing of the borders of the USSR.

A former welder at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his human rights efforts throughout Europe.
Wanda Strozyk, President of Fiat Solidarity Union in Poland will also be appearing in Detroit. Her visit just happens to coincide with a historic labor vote that will affect the aviation industry. Thru November 3, the Delta Airlines Flight Attendants and the former Northwest Airlines F/A’s are voting to determine if there is going to be representation by the Association of Flight Attendants-Communication Workers of America (AFL-CIO). Delta is now the largest commercial airline in the world.

Wałęsa, who will be on a restricted schedule during his Detroit visit, was the first democratically elected president in postwar Poland. During his area stay, he will meet privately with labor and community leaders. On October 28, he will travel to Chicago for a fundraiser.

Groups can make arrangements to view the Reuther Labor Library Detroit exhibit at 313-577-4024, starting October 27.

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WBFO Covers Buffalo-Katyń Connection

WBFO radio aired a very well done story about the Katyn exhibit currently on display at the Downtown Library in Buffalo Connection to the Katyn Massacre. In the piece, reporter Michael Mroziak interviews a descendant of a victim of Katyn who had been born in Buffalo, New York before his family moved back to Poland.

About one year ago WBFO aired a great story about Polish WWII survivors living in Buffalo, a story that later received a prestigious award.

Note that the Katyn exhibit continues at the Downtown Library Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning. On Sunday, October 17th, the English-language version of Andrzej Wajda’s film “Katyn” will be screened at the library at 2 p.m. The library opens at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Arrive early to view the exhibit.

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Installation of our new Prime Bishop

The Most Rev. Dr. Anthony Mikovsky will be formally installed as the Seventh Prime Bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church on Sunday, November 21st at 3pm in Saint Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Cathedral, the Mother Church of the PNCC in Scranton, PA.

All are invited and encouraged to attend this event which only happens in our Church about once every decade. Please continue to pray for Prime Bishop Mikovsky, all of our Bishops, clergy, members and friends, for vocations to the priesthood, and for the entire Holy Polish National Catholic Church.

O God, the pastor and ruler of all the faithful, mercifully look upon Thy servant Anthony, who Thou has been pleased to set as bishop in Thy Church; grant him, we beseech Thee, to be in word and conversation a wholesome example to the people committed to his charge, that he with them may attain everlasting life. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. — A Prayer for a Bishop from A Book of Devotions and Prayers According to the Use of the Polish National Catholic Church.

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