PORT ALLEGANY — A spaghetti dinner to benefit the Pastor Randy Headley Memorial Award for Community Service will be held on Sunday, April 24 at the Port Allegany Moose Lodge from 12 p.m. until sold out.
The dinner, including spaghetti and meatballs, salad, breadsticks and dessert, will be available for $10 per person or $5 for half-dinners available for children 12 and under.
In addition to the dinner, there will be a bucket auction, a lottery ticket frame raffle and a 50/50 raffle.
Headley loved serving his church and community and loved spending time with and supporting the youth of the community. The Pastor Randy Headley Memorial Award for Community Service is given to help keep his memory alive and to encourage more youth involvement in service to their school, community and churches. Students in grades 7-12 at Port Allegany HIgh School may apply for the awards.
Headley served in the U.S. Marines and worked in sales before entering the ministry in 1991. He served United Methodist Churches in Shinglehouse, Ceres, Trinity (now Port Allegany UMC) Port Allegany Evangelical UMC (now closed), Crosby, Riverside and Fishing Creek, all in the Kane District of the UMC.
He served on the Board of Directors of the Cole Memorial Health System where he also served on Executive, Patient Safety, Public Relations and Voluntary Chaplin Committees and was named an Honorary Director of the Board at Cole Memorial. He was a member of the Port Allegany Rotary Club where he served as President and was named a Paul Harris Fellow, twice. He also served as a board member of the Port Allegany Ambulance Service, Port Allegany Borough Council, Economic Development Council and Port Allegany Asbestos Advisory Council.
Headley’s Headliners and More! was held in 2019 with a variety of activities including a variety show featuring local musicians, dancers and more and the fund began. What had planned to be a yearly event was halted due to COVID in 2020 and 2021.The spaghetti dinner on Sunday will help keep the fund and awards going. The dinner is sponsored by Headley’s Headliners and Port Allegany Moose Lodge 460 F.C. The bucket auction, lottery ticket auction and 50/50 raffle are sponsored by Headley’s Headliners and the Port Allegany Rotary Club.
Donations to the Pastor Randy Headley Memorial Award for Community Service can be mailed to Pam Fischer, 3786 Route 155, Port Allegany, Pa. 16743. Checks should be made out to Headley’s Headliners. To donate to the bucket auction, purchase tickets for the dinner or lottery ticket raffle, call Fischer at (814) 598-3132.
