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Customer Service: 610-826-6650Business Office: 610-826-2115

Repair Service: 610-826-3444Gilbert Office: 610-826-9321

CONNECTIONJUNE 2019

CUSTOMER

Our new telephone directories have arrived and if you haven’t already received your copy, it will soon be on the way! No, it’s not the one you may have found thrown in your driveway or front walk; ours are delivered via the United States Postal Service. In fact, we think the book is so important that our employees personally deliver to some of our larger business customers.Be assured that we work right until the last minute to be certain the listings are as up-to-date as possible. The directory also serves as a wealth of information for more than just telephone numbers, including details about our optional services, a list of our local calling areas (where you can call without a toll charge), zip codes, a local article, details about your rights and responsibilities as a phone customer, emergency information, instructions for our optional features, and much more!

Our New Telephone Directories ARE HERE!

Would you like to know what’s going on near your home or business? We can help! Just visit the Community Events Calendar at www.ptelco.com to see what’s happening to benefit the non-profit groups in our area. To visit the Community Events Calendar, select ‘Community Calendar’ from the menu of our homepage.

Would you like to share an event for your local non-profit group? This page also provides a link to submit your non-profit group’s upcoming event dates!

Our website also contains a wealth of information, including current and past issues of our newsletter, directory book listings (both white and yellow pages), money saving promotions, detailed product information and much more.

What’s Happening in the Palmerton Telephone Company Serving Area?

Dear Valued Customer,

Are you planning a home improvement job? Planting a tree? Installing a fence or deck? Don’t go digging up trouble. Digging safely around our critical underground infrastructure is a shared responsibility. We are all in this together, and have a role to play in damage prevention or a serious accident. That’s why it’s important to dial 8-1-1 three to ten business days in advance of your planned excavation.

Every digging job requires a call – even small projects like planting trees and shrubs. Digging without calling can disrupt service to an entire neighborhood or harm you and those around you, potentially resulting in fines and repair costs. Calling 811 before every digging job gets your underground utility lines marked (for free!) and helps prevent undesired consequences.

PA law follows the Common Ground Alliance Best Practices for Temporary Marking. Here is what each color marking represents:

White: proposed excavationPink: temporary survey markingsRed: electric power lines, cables, conduits and lighting cablesYellow: gas, oil, steam, petroleum or gaseous materialsOrange: communication, alarm or signal lines, cables or conduits and traffic loopsBlue: potable waterPurple: reclaimed water, irrigation and slurry linesGreen: sanitary and storm sewer lines

Thank you for choosing Palmerton Telephone Company. As always, if you have questions about your telephone service, you are welcome to call or stop in to see us for assistance.

Best Regards,

Tim Hausman General Manager, Palmerton Telephone

From theManager’s Desk... Do you know that Palmerton

Telephone has been serving the area since 1900?

NOTICE:Palmerton Telephone Company charges a fee of $20.00 for returned checks.

465 Delaware AvenuePalmerton, PA 18071www.ptelco.com

Do you know that Palmerton Telephone copper wires, connected end to end, circle the earth 4 times at the equator?

Brain Teaser April 2019 WinnerCongratulations to Alice Kegel of Palmerton, Pa. Alice was the winner of a $25 Gift Card to Claude’s Creamery in Palmerton, Pa.

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies.

What is it?

Answer: a watermelon

JUNE 2019 RECIPE

Ingredients:

> 24 slices of French baguette> 1 tablespooon of butter, soften> 2 cups chopped fresh strawberries> 1/4 cup white sugar, or as needed

Directions:

Preheat your oven’s broiler. Spread a thin layer of butter on each slice of bread. Arrange bread slices in a single layer on a large baking sheet.

Place bread under the broiler for 1 to 2 min-utes, just until lightly toasted. Spoon some chopped strawberries onto each piece of toast, then sprinkle sugar over the strawber-ries.

Place under the broiler again until sugar is car-amelized, 3 to 5 minutes. Serve immediately.

Strawberry Bruschetta

Even if You Aren’t a Fisherman,

You Need to Know About Phishing!

It’s important for anyone who uses the Internet to know how to avoid getting “reeled in” by online criminals. Phishers are often the origina-tors of spam e-mail messages—especially the ones that mention a problem with and account and ask for personal information to deal with some urgent issue. If you receive an e-mail like this, attempt to confirm the validity of the message. You can do this by picking up the telephone and calling the organization or business in question or by visiting their official website. DO NOT click any links in the questionable email message and DO NOT give the sender of the message any per-sonal information.

How can you identify a phishing email?This mock email has some helpful clues to identify a phishing attempt. Do you see them? When you receive a message that appears to be from your bank, Internet provider or any other service provider, it may be phishing. Phishing allows criminals to use your personal information for their own benefit or profit. That’s why it’s important to look for clues to identify whether the message is legitimate or a scam.

Look out for these details:

A message from PenTeleData or most other reputable companies would not come from Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or any other free e-mail account address.

Don’t be fooled just because the sender uses your real name. The message can still be from a stranger across the street, across the country or around the world.

An informational e-mail will not ask you to respond. Phishers generally create a sense of urgency for you to reply.

Click-on links can be fake. In other words, they may not direct you to the website they appear to represent. A hyperlink is a word, group of words, or image that you can click on to jump to a new webpage, document or a new section within the current document. Unless these are clearly stated addresses (and even they can be deceiving), never click on a hyperlink.

Misspelled words and grammatical errors are often an immediate tip-off that the message is likely a phishing attempt.

No reputable organization or company will ask you for your social security number, account numbers, password, or date of birth in an e-mail.

If the message does not contain alternate contact information, such as a telephone number, that matches your credit card or billing statement, it is likely a scam.

A logo can make the message appear authentic, but anyone can copy and paste an image.

The URL should match any links in the e-mail. They should reference the same domain name, without any misspellings.

FUN FACTSJapan is a stratovolcanic archipel-ago of 6,852 islands. The four larg-est islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, which togeth-er comprise about ninety-seven percent of Japan’s land area.

Lungs take oxygen from the air and send carbon dioxide out through the air. Gills take oxygen out of the water and let water carry away carbon dioxide. Fish force water through their gills, where it flows past lots of tiny blood vessels.

The colors of the rainbow in order are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. A good way to remember it is ROY G. BIV.

Your teeth are also considered part of your skeletal system but they are not counted as bones. Your teeth are made of enamel and dentin. Enamel is the strongest substance in your body.

We’re not sure when or where a photographer first asked his sub-jects to state the name of the delicious dairy product, but we do know that when you say “cheese,” the corners of your mouth turn up, your cheeks lift and your teeth show.

Since trees are different sizes, it would be difficult to say how much paper comes from one tree. According to one paper manu-facturer, however, a cord of wood measuring 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet—or 128 cubic feet—produces nearly 90,000 sheets of bond-quality paper or 2,700 copies of a 35-page newspaper.

Potato skin contains B vitamins, vitamin C, iron, calcium, potassium and other nutrients. Potato skin also provides lots of fiber, about 2 grams per ounce. If you eat a medium baked potato, including the skin, you’ll get nearly 4 grams of fiber, 2 milligrams of iron and 926 grams of potassium.

Brain Teaser

I sound like one letter but I’m written with three. I show you things when you look through me.

What am I?

To enter, e-mail the correct answer to ptelco@ptd.net or send a 3” x 5” index card to 465 Delaware Ave. Palmerton, PA 18071. Please include your name, address, daytime telephone number (to call only if you win), and the Brain Teaser answer. All entries must be received by 6/20/19.

Good Luck! Palmerton Telephone

Palmerton Telephone is giving away a $25 Gift Card to Claude’s Creamery in Palmerton, PA.

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June 2019Product FeatureRoboBLOCK

Stop Robocalls with RoboBLOCK! There’s something most of us will agree upon: Robocalls are a nuisance. What can be done to reduce them? Despite FCC and other existing pro-tections to help consumers avoid unwanted nuisance calls, there are still an unacceptably high volume that occur.

One type of call, a spoofed robocall, utilizes a fake Caller ID display to hide the caller’s true identity. This trick, known as spoofing, helps robocallers get around the Do Not Call registry, which allows consumers to block calls from telemarketers. Scammers have also used spoofing to trick people into thinking a call is coming from the IRS, a bill col-lector, or other important matter. The FCC passed a rule that allows phone companies to block robocallers who use fake Caller ID numbers and authorizes phone carriers to continue to block calls upon the request of the subscriber.

Call us today to add this great feature to your telephone service.

Best of all, RoboBlock is only $1 per month!