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Middletown FEBRUARY 6, 2019
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIV • NO 50
BRUNCH BUFFET
Hershey Area Women’s Connection will host a “Tasty Treats” brunch buffet at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Hershey Italian Lodge, 128 Hillcrest Road, Hershey. The event will feature pianist Rex Athey from Hummelstown and a presentation on “Recipes to Die For” by Irene McFadden. Lori Worthing, a real estate agent from Middletown, will discuss the errors people make when buying or selling homes. There is a cost to attend, which is all-inclusive. For reservations, contact Edna at 717652-0997 or Mary at 717-533-3497 or roseyposey3@verizon.net. The deadline for reservations is Friday, Feb. 8. TURKEY DINNER
Evangelical United Methodist Church, 157 E. Water St., Middletown, will serve a roast turkey dinner on Monday, Feb. 18, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The dinner will include stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, beverages, and dessert. Takeouts will also be available. There is a cost for the dinner. Call 717-944-6181. VALENTINE’S EVENT
Rosedale Church of the Nazarene, 1901 Rosedale Ave., Middletown, will hold a Valentine’s Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 5 p.m. The dinner will include either filled chicken or pulled pork, garden salad, mashed potatoes, corn, dessert, and a beverage. The public is invited. Separate costs have been set for couples and for individuals. To register for the dinner, email pastortony@rosedalenazarene.org. The deadline to register is Sunday, Feb. 10.
Playhouse Plans “Dearly Departed” pg 3
Deep in the interior jungle regions of the tiny South Pacific island of Vanuatu, NiVan villagers gather their jugs to begin the more-than-one-hour hike each way to collect water. In Pennsylvania, Douglas Flemmens, Messiah College’s director of The Collaboratory, wraps up preparations for The Collaboratory’s Monday night discipleship meeting with students. Two very different worlds collide when The Collaboratory teams up with Friends In Action Intl. (FIA) to complete life-changing community transformation projects in various regions around the globe. “Our Collaboratory mission statement boils down to two things: changing the world and changing us,” shared Flemmens. “(Working with FIA), we have the opportunity to do good projects in various places around the globe. This changes our interface with our
learning and the application of what we are learning. At the same time, it changes our hearts. We see in bigger ways what God is doing in various places around the world.” As part of this focus, Messiah’s engineering students have teamed up with FIA, which has a headquarters near Middletown, to provide more than 1,400 Rama Cay people with a block press to produce structural building blocks for residential housing off the east coast of Nicaragua, as storms and the elements rot wooden huts. The initial efforts on this project are slated to eventually relieve the overcrowding and unsanitary conditions of more than 200 families on the tiny island. In June 2018, Dr. Brian Swartz’s engineering students worked with FIA to construct a pedestrian bridge above a 20-foot ravine in Rama Cay that See Friends In Action pg 9
Concert To Feature Opera Selections Arts on the Square will present “L’Anima d’Amore: The Soul of Love” in the sanctuary of historic Market Square Presbyterian Church, 20 S. Second St., Harrisburg, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16. The concert will feature four vocalists from the local region and a six-piece chamber orchestra. Under the direction of Tyler Canonico, minister of music and organist at the church, the musicians will perform arias from famous operas, including Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” and “Don Giovanni” and Saint-Saëns’ “Samson and Delilah,” and works by Puccini, Wagner, and Hahn. The program will also include the world premiere of a new See Concert pg 4
Harrisburg Christian Performing Arts Center
Messiah College engineering students worked with Friends in Action Intl. to build a pedestrian bridge above a 20-foot ravine in Rama Cay, Nicaragua. The project was part of a partnership between FIA and The Collaboratory at Messiah College, which seeks to complete community transformation projects around the globe.
Burghdorf Named To All-National Band In the spring of 2018, Middletown Area High School student Megan Burghdorf qualified for AllState Concert Band, which allowed her to audition for the 2018 National Association for Music Education All-National Concert Band. Megan submitted her audition song, and soon after she was invited to perform in the AllNational Concert Band in Orlando, Fla., from Nov. 25 to 28, 2018. Megan was one of 500 musicians who were chosen for the event which, in addition to concert band, included chorus, guitar ensemble, jazz band, and orchestra. Megan was one of 13 trumpet players See Musician pg 9
Megan Burghdorf (right) performed in the All-National Concert Band in Orlando. She was congratulated by Dennis Glocke, the director of concert bands at Penn State University.
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Jordan Markham (left) and Tara Savarino (right), along with (not pictured) Brittany Leanne Drumm and Joshua Kobel, will serve as soloists for Arts on the Square’s “L’Anima d’Amore: The Soul of Love” concert at Market Square Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg on Saturday, Feb. 16.
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Local Partnership Has Global Impact
BUS TRIP
will offer a bus trip to New York City on Sunday, March 24. The bus will leave the HCPAC parking lot, 1000 S. Eisenhower Blvd., Middletown, promptly at 7 a.m. and travel to New York without stopping. Attendees will be dropped off at the Minskoff Theatre at approximately 10 a.m. and picked up at the same location at 7 p.m. Organizers anticipate that travelers will arrive back at HCPAC between 10:30 and 11 p.m. Space is limited to 53 people. The trip fee includes roundtrip bus transportation and a goodie bag. To register, visit https://thehcpac.org/new-york-cityday-on-your-own-bus-trip/. Students must be registered and accompanied on the trip by a parent or guardian.
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