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Middletown JULY 17, 2019

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL LX • NO 28

ANNIVERSARY EVENT

A Korean War veterans memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 27, at 11 a.m. to remember the 66th anniversary of the cease-fire in Korea. The event will take place at Veterans Park, 1955 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg (Susquehanna Township). For more information, call Roy Knupp at 717-432-5552 or Shirley Kannegiser at 717-921-8536.

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Foundation Will Award Grants For Equine Initiatives

EDUCATION COURSE

Conewago Rod and Gun Club,

The Pennsylvania National Horse Show Foundation has announced that grant applications are now available at www.PAnational.org. The foundation will accept grant applications through Saturday, Aug. 31. The grants will be awarded in January 2020. Readers may email applications to Susie@PAnational.org. Applications may also be submitted by mail; for more information, readers may contact the aforementioned email address. Last year’s recipients included 24 facilities serving therapeutic riders

1483 Turnpike Road, Elizabethtown, will host a hunter-trapper education course on Monday, Aug. 5, and Tuesday, Aug. 6, from 5 to 9 p.m. Participants must attend both days. For more information or to register for this free class, readers may visit the Pennsylvania Hunter-Trapper Education page at www.pgc.pa.gov.

UPCOMING PROGRAM

Lower Swatara Township Historic Preservation Society

PET CLINIC

PAWS and The Dogs’ Den

Graduates Receive Scholarships Community Picnic To Feature The Rotary Club of Hummelstown Herbert A. Schaffner, are given to recently presented five graduating seniors who demonstrate good charac- Forgotten Friend Reptile Show Lower Dauphin High School students ter and academic excellence. The scholwith $2,000 scholarships. Representing the Rotary Club at the high school’s senior award night was Rotary Club member Jean Seibert. She presented scholarships to Madison Shradley, Josiah Helmer, Carli Little, Vanessa Skidmore, and Sophia Yocum. The scholarships, named in honor of

arship fund is maintained with proceeds from the club’s annual golf outing. Now in its 27th year, the golf tournament has provided funding for more than $240,000 in scholarships to Lower Dauphin students. The Hummelstown Rotary Club meets on Wednesdays at noon at Hoss’s Steak and Sea House in Hummelstown.

Hummelstown Rotary Club member Jean Seibert (far left) presented $2,000 scholarships to graduating Lower Dauphin seniors (continuing from left) Madison Shradley, Josiah Helmer, Carli Little, Vanessa Skidmore, and Sophia Yocum.

By Chelsea Peifer

Rissers Mennonite Church, 8360 Elizabethtown Road, Elizabethtown, will host its annual community picnic on Saturday, July 27. The entire event

is free, and registration is not required. All are welcome. Festivities are slated to begin at 4:30 p.m. with activities for children and adults. Children’s activities will include a barrel train ride, a bounce See Community Picnic pg 3

Area residents are invited to the annual community picnic at Rissers Mennonite Church in Elizabethtown on July 27. A free barbecue chicken dinner will be served, and entertainment will include children’s activities, lawn games, an outdoor movie, and a Forgotten Friend Reptile Show.

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will hold a low-cost vaccine clinic for cats and dogs on Sunday, July 21, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at PAWS, 9803 Jonestown Road, Grantville. Veterinarian Kate Papp will provide distemper and rabies vaccinations for cats and dogs; for a three-year rabies vaccination, owners must provide proof of previous rabies vaccination. Most vaccines will have a set cost. Microchips will also be available for an additional cost, with the price covering registration. For more information on the clinic, readers may contact The Dogs’ Den at 717-469-7325 or Doggieden@aol.com.

and equine rescue. Those facilities are Beyond Wishes Therapeutic Riding Program, Buffalo Therapeutic Riding Center, Capital Area Therapeutic Riding Association, Chasing Rainbows, Days End Farm Horse Rescue, Equilibrium Therapeutic Horsemanship, Equine Rescue and Rehabilitation, February Star Sanctuary, GallopNYC Therapeutic Horsemanship, Graceful Acres, Greystone Manor Therapeutic Riding Center, Hope Springs Equestrian Therapy, Horse Power Farm, Horses & Horizons Therapeutic See Grants pg 3

Becky Kinsley (front, left), Pennsylvania National Horse Show Foundation grant coordinator, and Susie Webb (front, center), Pennsylvania National Horse Show Foundation executive director, presented a check to Ben Nolt (front, right) and others in 2018. The foundation will accept applications for the next round of grants through Saturday, Aug. 31.

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will host a presentation by John Ziats titled “Middletown Underground Railroad Stop Recycled” on Thursday, July 18, at 6 p.m. The program will be held at Lower Swatara Township Firehouse, 1350 Fulling Mill Road, Middletown. The program and coffee are free, and the event is open to the public. For more details, contact lsthistoricpreservationsociety@gmail.com or 717-944-9891 or visit www.lsthistoricpreservation.org.

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