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Middletown SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXV • NO 30
SPAGHETTI DINNER
The Lower Swatara Lions Club will hold an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Lions building in Shopes Gardens, 2 Theodore Ave., Middletown. Proceeds will help the Lions Club continue to give back to the community. ANNUAL EVENT
The Pennsylvania National Horse Show (PNHS), one of the nation’s most historic horse shows, will return to the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, 2300 N. Cameron St., Harrisburg, on Thursday, Oct. 10, through Saturday, Oct. 19. The horse show will feature more than 1,400 horses and many of the best hunter, equitation, and jumper riders from across the nation competing for over $650,000 in prize money and championship titles. The complete competition schedule is available by visiting www.panational.org. EVENT FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Startup Challenge, a hands-on startup intensive for community, student, and professional early-stage entrepreneurs, will be held on Friday, Oct. 18, through Sunday, Oct. 20, at Penn State Harrisburg, 777 W. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown. A registration discount will be available until Monday, Sept. 30. No affiliation with Penn State University is required. For details and registration, visit https://harrisburg.psu.edu/invent/ startup-challenge?!. FALL CAMPFIRE
based out of Seven Sorrows BWM School in Middletown, will hold its Fall Campfire and New Cub Sign-up at Shank’s Park in Derry Township on Tuesday, Sept. 24, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The event will feature songs, games, skits, and s’mores. Call 717-443-2111. UPCOMING CONCERT
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The Old Blind Dogs, winner of the title of Folk Band of the Year at the 2004 and 2007 MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards, will present a concert of Celtic acoustic music on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m. at the Fort Hunter Centennial Barn, 5300 N. Front St., Harrisburg. The concert is sponsored by the Susquehanna Folk Music Society (SFMS). Formed in Scotland in 1992, the group has released 13 studio albums, and the group’s latest CD, “Room With a View,” was shortlisted for Album of the Year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards in 2017. The members of The Old Blind Dogs are Aaron Jones, bouzouki, vocals, and guitar; Donald Hay, percussion and vocals; Ali Hutton, pipes, whistles, and guitar; and Jonny Hardie, fiddle and vocals. Jones is a sought-after accompanist on the traditional music scene. He
tours worldwide and records with some of the biggest names in traditional music, including Kate Rusby, Siobhan Miller, Emily Smith, and Robyn Stapleton. He was voted Instrumentalist of the Year in a public vote at the 2005 Scots Trad Music awards and has been an official accompanist for the BBC Young Traditional Scottish Musician of the Year Awards for 10 years. Over the last 20 years, Hay has become a sought-after percussionist on the Scottish and English folk scenes. He has appeared on recordings by Sting, Eliza Carthy, Kate Rusby, Martin Carthy, Kathryn Tickell, Gordon Duncan, The Battlefield Band, and The Nuala Kennedy Band. In addition to The Old Blind Dogs, he currently performs with The Nuala Kennedy Band and harpist Mary McMaster. Hutton was inspired at age 7 to take up the bagpipes and rose through the See Scottish Band pg 4
Old-Fashioned Field Days To Highlight Dairy
REMA Event To Feature Vehicles, Ice Cream Royalton Emergency Management Agency (REMA) will host a motorcycle benefit ride, an ice cream social and a car and motorcycle show on Sunday, Sept. 22, at Kiwanis Park on Route 441 in Royalton. Registration for the benefit ride will be at
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The 22nd annual Susquehanna Old-Fashioned Field Days event will take place on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21 and 22, at Conoy Park, 2115 River Road, Bainbridge. Admission and parking will be free. Antique tractors, hitand-miss engines, model engines, and other items will be on display for the ever-popular machinery exhibits. Each year, organizers select a different agricultural process or antiquity to feature at the event, and this year’s theme will be dairy-related items. Revolutionary War and Civil War re-enactors will be set up on both days. A variety of live demonstrations will See Field Days pg 3
The Old Blind Dogs will present a concert on Thursday, Sept. 26, at the Fort Hunter Centennial Barn in Harrisburg.
10:30 a.m., and the ride will take place from noon to 2 p.m. The ice cream social and car and motorcycle show will occur from 2 to 7 p.m. The rain date is Sunday, Sept. 29. For more information, readers may visit www.royaltonpa.com.
Versailles Treaty Celebration Planned Organizers of Susquehanna Old-Fashioned Field Days, including (front, from left) Earl Fuhrman, Tonya Bernhard, Sandy Baker, Kevin Baker, (back) Cameron Reigle, Darl Williams, Ron Bernhard, and Dori Hammer, invite the public to take part in the two-day event set to take place on Sept. 21 and 22 at Conoy Park in Bainbridge.
A lecture, exhibit, and reception to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles will take place on Friday, Oct. 18, at John Harris-Simon Cameron Mansion, 219 S. Front St., Harrisburg. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. For six months in 1919, Vance McCormick, former mayor of Harrisburg, was President Woodrow Wilson’s official representative to the Versailles Peace Conference that ended World
War I. McCormick kept a personal journal of his activities and observations while he was traveling to and participating in the peace conference. The lecture, led by Dr. Michael Barton, will look at McCormick’s journal. Barton will also discuss McCormick’s recommendations on reparations from the Germans. The exhibit will feature mementos that McCormick brought back from the See Celebration pg 2
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will present the annual “Harvest Home” concert at Historic Peace Church, 350 St. John’s Church Road, Camp Hill, on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 3 p.m. The program will feature singers and instrumentalists, including the Wind Spirit Flute Ensemble and organist and pianist Swain. The concert is free and open to the public, with seating limited to 125. Visit www.historicpeace church.org or call 717-571-5189.
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