Members and guests of Council 143 are, from left: Ann Marie Cunningham, Pat Weiksner, Tom Vaxmonsky, Don Waxmonsky, Sylvia Waxmonsky, Dennis Palladino, Janet Palladino, Jurate Kazickas, Marilyn Fitzgerald, June Supey, Eileen Kelly and Camille Stanis.
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Members and guests of Council 143 are, from left: Ann Marie Cunningham, Pat Weiksner, Tom Vaxmonsky, Don Waxmonsky, Sylvia Waxmonsky, Dennis Palladino, Janet Palladino, Jurate Kazickas, Marilyn Fitzgerald, June Supey, Eileen Kelly and Camille Stanis.

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Knights of Lithuania Council 143 of Pittston recently met Jurate Kazickas, a Lithuanian-American journalist from New York, who interviewed members and guests about their Lithuanian heritage in Northeast Pennsylvania.

Kazickas also gave out a book published by her father depicting his emigration from war-torn Europe after World War II. Kazickas was born in Lithuania and accompanied her mother and father to America as a child.