With all the school supplies in the sale ads, that can only mean the return to school is coming. Be on the lookout for your students’ school information coming home via either the mail or the portal.

Salisbury High School will hold a free school supply event 1-3 p.m. Aug. 24 for all students. This is courtesy of Project Outreach. Please enter the school via Dauphin Street. For more information, contact Jill Williams via jwilliams@salisburysd.org.

Students in kindergarten, fifth grade and ninth grade will have an orientation day in their respective schools Aug. 30. This day will be an early dismissal for these students as well. Please refer to the information sent home or found in the portal.

If you have new students to the district in other grades, call your respective school and information about new student orientation can be discussed.

The official first day for all students to report to school will be Aug. 31.

There will be an operations committee meeting 7 p.m. Sept. 1 and a curriculum and technology committee meeting will follow 7:30 p.m.

All Salisbury Township schools will be closed for the Labor Day holiday Sept. 3 and 6. School will resume Sept. 7.

Salisbury wrestling will hold a cornhole tournament Sept. 11 at Emmaus Community Park. It will be a modified double elimination tournament. Cash prizes and a basket raffle will be held as well. Registration is available at www.salisburywrestlingcornhole2021.eventbrite.com. All questions can be directed to Kristine Alder via text at 484-223-7085 or Erin Krauss at 484-554-8866.

More than 600 Cub Scouts and family members will participate in a family camp out at Shankweiler’s Drive-In Movie Theater Sept. 9.

With tents popping up throughout the grounds at Shankweiler’s, this camp out has proved to be one of the most popular Cub Scout activities in the local Minsi Trails Council. Each year this annual event, now in its 15th year, is sponsored by the Scouting volunteers of the council’s Lehigh District.

Family-oriented double-feature movies will be shown starting at about 7:45 p.m.

Activities planned include inflatable activity centers, various team-building and skill oriented activities.

Following the movies, the Scouts and their families will spend the evening camping under the stars at America’s oldest drive-in movie theater located in Orefield. For more information about Shankweiler’s Drive-In, visit www.shankweilers.com.

To learn more about Scouting, visit www.minsitrails.com.

The township yard waste sites continue to be open alternating weekends for your drop off needs. Hours for drop off are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Thursday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The Devonshire drop off will be open Aug. 19 and 21, while the Franko Farm drop off will be open Aug. 23, 26 and 28.

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