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Customer Service: 610-826-6650 • Business Office: 610-826-2115 • Repair Service: 610-826-3444 • Gilbert Office: 610-826-9321 390 465 Delaware Avenue • Palmerton, PA 18071 • www.ptelco.com
From the We Love
Manager’s Desk: Our Hometown
BEST-EVER GLAZED SPIRAL HAM
Dear Valued Customer,
Phone Feature Reconstruction of Route 248
Here we are in April. With the warmer weather that spring brings, many of us are eager
of the Month:
to get outside and do some home improvements. If one of those home improvement These pictures were taken in June of 1962 and portrays the reconstruction of Route
projects requires digging, please remember to call 811 before you dig. By calling 811, 248. Traveling into Slatington posed a problem. Big boulders were placed at the end (recipe yields 12 servings)
you can get your underground utility lines marked for free. This will prevent any type of of the Lehigh Bridge so no traffic was able to get through. During the reconstruction,
possible disruption to service. Call Trace most people had to travel around the mountain to get into Slatington; there were a Ingredients:
few however that tried to squeeze their cars between those boulders. • 1 (8 to 10-lb.) whole cured, smoked, bone-in ham
811 is a national call-before-you-dig phone number. Plan to call 811 a few business days
• 1/2 c. apricot jam
before you start your project. Specific amount of notice may vary by state. You will need
to provide your address, including the county and nearest cross street. You will also need • 1/4 c. light brown sugar
to provide information on the type of project you are completing and the area on your • 2 tbsp. bourbon (optional)
Call Trace traces the number of the last
property where you are planning to dig. Plan for a few days for utilities to respond to your • 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard
call received and sends the number to the
request. • 1/2 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
local telephone office. The number will
This simple step of calling 811 before any big project can save you and your whole be provided only to a representative of
neighborhood from harm, fines and repair costs. Directions:
an authorized law enforcement agency(s) 1) Remove ham from refrigerator and let sit at room
Thank you for choosing Palmerton Telephone Company. We are here for you. If you and not to the subscriber. The customer is temperature for 1 hour.
need any assistance or have any questions regarding your Telephone or High Speed DSL required to contact the telephone company
service, please give us a call or stop in. 2) Preheat oven to 350°. Place a rack in a large
for further action.
roasting pan and cover the rack with foil. Pour 2
Best Regards, This service should only be used in the case cups water in the bottom of roasting pan and place
Tim Hausman of life-threatening, obscene or harassing ham on the foil on the rack.
calls. Use Call Trace from tone phones by
General Manager, Palmerton Telephone Company 3) In a small bowl, stir together jam, brown sugar,
dialing *57 and from rotary dial phones by
bourbon, Dijon, and red pepper flakes. Brush ham
dialing 1157. The cost is $1.00 per use.
with some of the glaze and roast, basting with
more glaze every 30 minutes, until an instant-read
thermometer inserted in the thickest part reads
140°, about 1 ½ to 2 hours.
4) Let rest 15 minutes before carving.
Image and information shared on the Love My Hometown Palmerton PA Facebook Group.
Community
Calendar
If you’d like to see what’s
happening to benefit the
non-profit groups in our
area, visit our Community
Events Calendar
at www.ptelco.com.
Just select ‘Menu’, then
‘Community Calendar’.
Product of the Month
Return Call
FUN FACTS
Return Call is a useful phone feature that automatically redials number of • The Easter Bunny legend began in Germany
the last incoming call, whether the call was answered or not. If the called
• The origin of the Easter Bunny dates back
number is busy, Return Call will keep dialing that number for up to 30
hundreds of years, beginning in pre-Christian
minutes and signal the calling party with a special ring if the called number Germany. Here, the hare was said to be the
becomes available. symbol of the Pagan Goddess of Spring and
Fertility.
Calls made using this service are subject to the regular local or toll charges.
Use Return Call from tone phones by dialing *69 or from rotary phones by • As Christianity spread across Europe,
Pagan traditions were blended with Christian
dialing 1169. The cost is $.50 per use or a subscription of $4.00 per month.
holidays, which saw the Easter Bunny lay a
Call us at (610) 826-6650 before April 30, 2021 to add Return Call to your nest of colorful eggs for children who were
phone service and receive FREE ACTIVATION! well-behaved on Easter Sunday.
• More than 1.5 million Cadbury Creme Eggs
are produced every day.
• Cadbury’s make 500 million Creme Eggs
every year! If you piled them on top of each
other, it would be 10 x higher than Mount
Everest.
• The Birmingham factory produces 1.5 million
Creme Eggs every day, and the Creme Egg
is the most popular egg-shaped chocolate in
the world.
• The act of painting eggs originates from a
Ukrainian tradition.
• For countless generations, Ukrainians have
been decorating eggs as a calling out to the
Gods and Goddesses of health and fertility.
• This traditional act of pysanka is made by
using wax and dyes, but this colorful custom
didn’t take off until Ukrainian immigrants came
to the U.S.
• The world’s largest Easter egg weighs in at
5000lbs
• Standing at 31ft tall and 18ft wide is
the world’s largest Easter egg. Found in
Vegreville, Alberta, Canada, the egg weighs
a hefty 5000lbs and took 12,000 hours to
complete.
Brain Teaser
Palmerton Telephone is giving away a $25 Gift Card to Brain Teaser | February 2021 Winner
Claude’s Creamery in Palmerton, PA.
To enter, e-mail the correct answer to jbrixius@brctv.com
Congratulations to Dale Smith, of
or send a 3” x5” index card to 613 Third Street, Palmerton, PA 18071.
Please include your name, address, daytime telephone number (to call Bowmanstown, PA. Dale was the winner
only if you win), and the Brain Teaser answer. of a $25 Gift Card to Claude’s Creamery
All entries must be received by 04/20/21. in Palmerton, PA.
Good Luck! A cowboy rides into town on Friday,
stays for three days, and leaves on
Friday. How is this possible?
Turn me on my side and I am everything. Answer: His horse’s name is Friday.
Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
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