PROSVETA Issue - June 22

  • Ten will compete for the 2012 Miss SNPJ title

    Jun 21, 2011

    The Fraternal Department is pleased to introduce four new contestants in the 2011 Miss SNPJ Pageant: Lindsey Meglich (53), Larah Chesnic (723), Emily Poklar (584) and Erika Beccard (89). The pageant will be held during Slovenefest XXX weekend, July 8-10, at the SNPJ Recreation Center. The seventh contestant to enter...

  • Lodge 138 lining up the ducks for their annual race

    Jun 21, 2011

    Guess what? O.K., you probably already know. The SNPJ Lodge 138 ducks are in training. It’s time again for the annual Lodge 138 Family Picnic and Duck Race. The big event is scheduled Saturday, July 16, on beautiful Chartiers Creek. This year’s schedule includes...

  • SNPJ mourns the loss of former National Board member Bro. Roger Evanish

    Jun 21, 2011

    The Slovene National Benefit Society regrets to announce the May 6, 2011, passing of former National Board member, SNPJ Slovenian Heritage Center Committee Chairman and longtime Universal, Pa., Lodge 715 Secretary Bro. Roger J. Evanish, 79, of Oakdale, Pa. He was the father of SNPJ National President Joseph...

  • Samsula members site-searching for the upcoming convention

    Jun 21, 2011

    Lodge 603 in beautiful downtown Samsula welcomed our Society’s Executive Officers – National President Joseph C. Evanish, National Secretary Karen A. Pintar and National Treasurer Robert J. Lawrence – in May with a steak and shrimp dinner topped off with apple and cheese strudel and potica. The...

  • West Coast members enjoy sweet taste of the grape at Lodge 786 picnic

    Jun 22, 2011

    It was another beautiful day in the wine country of Temecula, Calif., Sunday, June 5, when about 120 members and friends enjoyed the annual Orange Coast Lodge 786 Wine Tasting Picnic.

  • Lodge 2 celebrates member anniversaries

    Jun 22, 2011

    Lodge 2 congratulates its members who have reached SNPJ anniversary milestones: 50-year members Robert Mahnich, Fred Cass and Marilyn Gorsek; 60-year member James Barto; and 70-year members Stan Erjavsek and Ed Muhich...

  • Taking aim: experiments with the stink bug plight

    Jun 22, 2011

    With the lengthening of days and the warming of the atmosphere, the sprinkle of those little brown stink bugs many of us endured throughout the winter is about to become a deluge in the summer. So being a scientist at heart (and by profession), I decided to go about finding a simple solution to the perpetual...