STARTS TODAY: Do you enjoy reading? You won’t want to miss the
Newspapers In Education used book sale which starts today at the
former Salvation Army Thrift Store on Main Street next to PNC
Bank’s parking lot.

Sale dates are today and Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and
Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Our NIE coordinator, Jane Larson, says she has thousands of
books to sell, thanks to the generosity of our readers. Topics
include fiction, non-fiction, religious, children’s, westerns,
travel, cookbooks, biographies, self-help, gardening and more.

Jane says most books will be priced at 50 cents and $1, with
proceeds benefiting the Newspapers In Education program here at The
Era.

ON WING: There’s plenty of empirical evidence that the
hummingbirds are back: On Thursday. Sandy McDonald of Bradford
phoned to report she’d seen male hummers a few times since their
first arrival the preceding Thursday. Chris Butters of Marshburg
has had two at her feeder since Mother’s Day and, on Friday, was
host to the season’s first Baltimore oriole.

Skip Riekofsky of Kushequa dropped us a line Friday, “Well, I
just saw my first hummer of the year (6:40 p.m. Friday) — no
mistaking it, a little male sitting on a wire not too far from
where I usually hang one of my feeders. Needless to say, I don’t
have mine up yet but I will now. I have also heard one (of two) of
the warm weather residents — the mockingbirds.”

Trudy Victory of Emporium writes last Friday, “I put my
hummingbird feeder out the last day of April and I had a male and
female at the feeder the next week, that I actually saw. The cold
weather I didn’t see any, but this week they are here again. They
were really feeding yesterday (13th) and last evening. In fact
there is one on the feeder now as I am typing this. They are coming
and so, yes, get the feeders out as they seem really hungry.

Finally for today, Marlene Lang sent an e-mail Friday: “I had a
hummingbird at my feeder in Rixford before Mother’s Day but I
haven’t seen any since this cold, wet weather started.”