Handmade dirndl apronstraditionally worn inAustria and Bavaria
will be all the rage atOctoberfest, set for Oct. 21, atthe Woman’s Club of Erie, 259W. Sixth St. The celebrationbegins at 5:30 p.m. with a socialhour followed by a specialethnic dinner.
“Combining the celebrationof German heritage withraising funds to preserveour beloved Woman’s Clubmansion is deeply motivatingas we approach our annualOctoberfest,” said co-chairwoman Nancy Rusnak.
She made all of the Bavarian-style aprons by hand, and eachcommittee member will wearone at the event. A speciallydesigned apron will be raffledoff that evening.
Catered by Erie Maennerchorchef George Ferguson, theheritage cuisine is sure toplease. Think Beef Roulade,Hot Potato Salad, RedCabbage, Green Beans withBacon, Black Forest Cake andbeer and wine.
Entertainment will beprovided by the GermanCultural Society Dancers, andthere will be a sing-around-the-piano session. Tickets arepriced at $25 per person.
“The members are passionateabout the mansion’s upkeepand restoration,” said dinnerco-chairwoman Dina Reale.She added that funds raisedby various events will gotoward the mansion’s upkeep,particularly the roof repairwhich will ensure its placeon the National Register ofHistoric Places.
Today’s club includes amembership of 82.
“Our Woman’s Club is one ofonly two clubs in Pennsylvaniathat owns a mansion,” saidpreservation chairwomanMarianne Heck. “We worktirelessly to make sure futuregenerations will get to see itsbeauty.”
The Octoberfest committeeincludes Kathy Costello, BarbaraHourigan, Joyce Navecky, MaggieDupre, Marj Inderlied, TrudySallach, Naomi Foust, JoannKaufer, Marilyn Walker and Mary JoMatheis.
Make your reservations forthe benefit by Wednesday. CallReale at 474-1585 or Rusnak at864-3427.
Cultural extravaganza
Lourdes Romano-Jana willemcee the Filipino-AmericanHeritage Day — a celebrationof dance, song and instrumentalperformances — on Saturday.The free event will take placefrom 3 to 5 p.m. on the thirdfloor of Gannon University’sPalumbo Center. Gannon’s ChrisMagno, Ph.D., president of theFilipino-American Associationof Northwest Pennsylvania, willwelcome the crowd.
Krystina Presnede Corpuz,vice consul of the PhilippineConsulate General in New YorkCity, will also speak. Beginningwith the Filipino-Americansymphony orchestra overture,festivities will include a paradeof members in native dress, andperformances will depict threepopular festivals: Christmas,Flowers of May and Santacruzan.
Names in the news
Niken Astari-Carpenter wasrecently awarded a CareerDevelopment Grant fromthe American Associationof University Women. She ispursuing a master of projectmanagement degree from PennState Behrend.
Astari-Carpenter, formerly adistrict court judge in Indonesia,came to this country four yearsago to join her husband, Erieradio announcer Allan Carpenter.She currently works for theErie County Library System inMillcreek Township.▀ Congratulations Ensign
Nathan Lorei, USN, a recentgraduate of the United
States Naval Academy atAnnapolis, Md. He is a first-year medical student at the F.Edward Herbert School at theUniformed Services Universityof Health Sciences in Bethesda,Md. He’s the son of Maureen andChristopher Lorei, of Frederick,Md., formerly of Erie, andgrandson of Marge and Joe Lorei,of Greene Township.▀ Former Erieite Sandra
Domeracki, R.N., of Larkspur,Calif., was a keynote speakerin Asada, Japan, at a daylongmeeting of the Associationof Occupational HealthProfessionals in Healthcare.
Domeracki, who is regionalmanager of employee HealthServices at California PacificMedical Center in SanFrancisco, is the daughter ofJoanne Domeracki, Erie, a formernurse practitioner, and the lateEdward Domeracki.
Cancer fundraiser
The StringsforaCure Pickin’On Cancer fundraiser, on Oct. 4at the Brewerie at Union Station,drew a standing-room-onlycrowd. A highlight of the eveningcame when cancer survivors inattendance sang “I Will Survive,”led by Robin Burick. She’s a localsinger and songwriter, who iscelebrating her first release,“Almost Forever.”
The event started with a VIPcocktail hour, which includedhors d’oeuvres and featuredacoustical guitar music by SamHyman. More than 40 beautifulgift baskets were raffled off.
Striking StringsforaCurejewelry — handcrafted by
Elisa Guida from guitar stringsdonated by famous musicians —were available.
A preview of the Faces ofStrings project, featuring aphoto gallery of 12 breast cancerpatients, was unveiled at theevent.
Sally Leubin won the doorprize, a Willie Nelson guitarstring pendant.
There was dancing and musicby Silverlight, whose bandmembers are Bill Arnold, Rik Cass,Derf Hopsecger and Chuck Leone.
The committee led by NicoleBrugger included Carol Hirsch,Ed Saloum, Guida, Beth Dubik, JanMinzenberger, Lisa Jenkins, RobinFox and Patti Larson.
All proceeds benefitprograms of the StringsforaCureFoundation, a nonprofitorganization that providesgas, grocery and pharmacygift cards, comfort basketsand medical grants to helpease patients’ emotional andfinancial burdens as they copewith cancer.
The focus this year was onbreast cancer patients whohave been helped by theStringsforaCure Foundation.
POSTSCRIPT: Ideally, couplesneed three lives; one for him,one for her, and one for themtogether. — Jacqueline Bisset (b.1946), English actress.
M E G L O N C H A R I C ’s columnappears in the Sunday Livingsection. Send e-mail to [email protected] or write to her in care ofthe Erie Times-News, 205 W. 12thSt., Erie, PA. 16534.
Octoberfest at Woman’s Club
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Woman’s Club planning committee members, from left, Dina Reale, Trudy Sallach, Kathy Costello, MarilynWalker, Mary Jo Matheis, Nancy Rusnak and Joann Kaufer will don Bavarian-style dirndl aprons at theirOctoberfest fundraiser.
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