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Hellam/Wrightsville
JULY 4, 2018
Mount Pisgah Trinity United Methodist Church, 5615 Mount Pisgah Road, York, will present “Shipwrecked Rescued by Jesus” vacation Bible school (VBS) from Monday, July 16, through Friday, July 20. The program will run from 6 to 8:15 p.m. Call 717-252-4412. STAR WATCH
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CLOTHES CLOSET
St. James Lutheran Church, 2335 Cramer Road, Brogue, will open its Community Clothes Closet to the public on the first Saturday of every month from 8:30 to 10 a.m. The closet will be open on Saturday, July 7. Free clothing, shoes, and coats will be available for infants through adult size XXL. All items are clean, and some are new. Donations of men’s and children’s clothing in all sizes are needed. Call 717-927-9497, email stjamesbrogue@outlook.com, or visit https://stjamesbrogue.wix site.com/home.
Students Serve Through GROUP Workcamp By Chelsea Peifer
Hundreds of youths from various parts of the country visited eastern York County from June 18 to 22 to serve local residents through a GROUP Workcamp. Coloradobased GROUP Mission Trips facilitates the workcamps so that volunteers can provide home repairs to individuals and families in need. Students in York Youth Revolution, the community youth group at Faith United Methodist Church in Hallam, have been traveling to other states for years to volunteer with GROUP Workcamps, but this year youth leader Joe Bachman’s dream of hosting a site in eastern York finally came true. Several area churches and community groups formed the Eastern York Workcamp Initiative Community Team to sponsor the effort, raising funds to cover the costs of materials and coordinating area volunteers for various tasks such as providing snacks
for the work crews. A total of 188 teenagers from Wisconsin, Ohio, Maine, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, including approximately 25 from the York Youth Revolution, worked together in small groups at 24 homes. Seth Nolt, a youth leader with York Youth Revolution, said that there were more than 100 applications from area residents seeking free assistance with home repair projects, and the community team narrowed it down to 24. “That shows how much need there is,” Nolt remarked. Painting interiors and exteriors, repairing porches, adding wheelchair ramps, and installing trailer skirting made up the bulk of the week’s projects. “There’s been a lot of great feedback. (The residents) love the kids,” Bachman shared. The feeling was mutual, because Nolt said that many of the students visiting from other parts of the country commented that York was one of See Workcamp pg 3
A GROUP Workcamp with 188 students from throughout the country - including approximately 25 from York Youth Revolution in Hallam - served area residents in need by providing home repairs from June 18 to 22. The projects were done at 24 homes of individuals who had applied for the assistance and were selected from more than 100 applicants.
Marietta Bike Race To Offer Array Of Rides Kindness Over All By Chelsea Peifer
On Saturday, July 7, elite professional bicycle racers from all over the country, as well as amateurs, will take to the streets for the fifth annual Historic Marietta Bike Race. The event will feature divisions for women, men’s beginners, men’s masters, men’s professional/elite, children, and handcycle and recumbent bicycle riders. This year’s races will begin at 10:45 a.m. and will feature a new start and finish line in front of Lancaster Recumbent, 103 W. Market St., Marietta. The lineup will include the women’s open event at 10:45 a.m., men’s 4/5 at 11:45 a.m., men’s 40-plus at 12:45 p.m., children’s races at 1:45 p.m. with separate categories for ages 4 to 6 and ages 7 See Bike Race pg 3
Teachers Paint Positive Messages Across Campus By Chelsea Peifer
The fifth annual Historic Marietta Bike Race on July 7 will offer divisions for men, women, and children, as well as handcycle and recumbent riders. Spectators are welcome to cheer on the riders, and a variety of children’s activities will also be offered.
When students head back through the doors of Canadochly Elementary School in August, they will be greeted by a host of positive, encouraging messages in every hallway and bathroom. Once school ended in June, fourth-grade teacher Jodi Winter and five other faculty members set to work painting the messages on the walls in an effort to encourage kindness. “ We started a ‘choose kind’ initiative during the second half of this school year,” said Winter. The initiative was part of the teachers at Canadochly wanting to help students See Canadochly pg 2
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will offer a free public Starwatch at its observatory at John C. Rudy County Park, 400 Mundis Race Road, York, on Saturday, July 14, from 7 to 9 p.m. The observatory is located inside the park, not at the administrative headquarters. Visitors will be shown an astronomical presentation on the current night sky and other topics and then will view the skies through telescopes. Visitors are invited to bring their own telescope. For all observing activities at John Rudy Park, if the weather is questionable, readers may visit www.ycas.org or call 717-759-9227 for notice of any late cancellation. If it is completely cloudy or raining, the activity will be changed to an astronomical presentation only.
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Canadochly Elementary School teachers Jodi Winter (left in left photo) and Angie Mable were among the group of faculty members who volunteered time in June to paint positive sayings throughout the building as part of a kindness initiative that began during the previous school year.
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