Good times, good causes

We found out about the Third Annual Helping Hands Car Cruise held last Sunday in Plains too late to provide advanced publicity but not too late to send a photographer (see pages 32 and 33). The event was held to honor and to benefit Army Captain TJ Hromisin, who at 29 is suffering from traumatic brain injury and blindness as a result of being hit in the head by a sniper bullet in 2007 while in Iraq.

A Pittston resident, son of Jerry and Mary Ellen Hromisin, TJ is a hero in every since of the word. He was an ROTC student at the University of Scranton who received his commission at graduation and was off to Iraq to defend his country’s freedom. It was highly appropriate for him to be honored last Sunday and many, many more times in the future.

Another worthwhile event that reached our desk too late for last Sunday’s paper but will continue today and tomorrow is The Fallen Heroes Memorial Fair being held at the Northeast Fair grounds located just off Suscon Road (see page 16). The event is presented in memory of Trooper Joshua D. Miller and proceeds will benefit Katye’s Helping Hands, Tri-State Troopers, Trooper Paul Richey’s widow and children and the American Cancer Society. Stop by if you can.

You might also consider dropping by the Pittston Little League stadium, the former Fourth Ward Park, at the end of Church Street, Pittston, any time today from 9 on. Pittston Police are staging their annual softball tournament with all proceeds going to The Earthly Angels Autism Fund. There’s food and T-shirts in addition to some exciting softball.

Between softball and the fair in Suscon, you can swing by the Hughestown Hose Company for their annual pig roast. Proceeds benefit the hose company.

And next Saturday, you can help amazing 14-year-old Stephanie Jallen keep working toward her dream of representing the USA in the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Russia by attending a classic car show and auction in Scranton. Details can be found in a story on page 6. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Stephanie Jallen Paralympic Fund.

Stephanie, who has appeared several times on Dispatch pages, was born with only one arm and one leg. She has been training and competing as a downhill ski racer in Colorado, Utah, Montana, and New England and recently medaled in the open adult class, racing against competition much older than she.

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