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Middletown NOVEMBER 21, 2018
CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 121 N. Spring St., Middletown, will hold a Christmas bazaar and indoor yard sale on Saturday, Nov. 24, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. In addition to yard sale items, there will be a Christmas shop and a silent auction. The kitchen will be open for meals, snacks, and baked goods. The public is invited to attend. For details, call 717-944-4651.
“A CHRISTMAS CAROL”
25 N. Court St., Harrisburg, will present “A Christmas Carol” from Saturday, Dec. 1, to Sunday, Dec. 23, in its intimate 120-seat theater. The seasonal favorite, a reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic story, will follow Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly owner of a counting house. Performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Dec. 6 and 20; Fridays, Dec. 7 and 21; and Saturdays, Dec. 1, 8, and 22. Matinees will begin at 2 p.m. on Dec. 8 and Sundays, Dec. 2 to 23. A matinee will also be offered at 11 a.m. on Dec. 22. A 7 p.m. performance will be held on Sunday, Dec. 9. Tickets and details may be purchased by contacting 717-232-6736 or boxoffice@ openstagehbg.com or by visiting www.openstagehbg.com. Student and group discounts are available.
Middletown-area homes and historic buildings will be showcased during the annual Middletown Holiday Home Tour, slated to take place on Saturday, Dec. 8. The annual Middletown Holiday Home Tour will take place on Saturday, Dec. 8, from 1 to 8 p.m. The tour will feature many Middletownarea homes decorated for the holiday season, along with area artists set up in several historic buildings. The purchase of tour tickets includes a brochure with information about each tour site and a map of the tour route.
Payment must be made by cash or check. Tickets will be available for purchase at the Press and Journal, 20 S. Union St., Middletown, on Mondays to Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. until Dec. 8. On the day of the tour, tickets may be purchased at the Event Place, 11 S. Union St., Middletown, between noon and 6:30 p.m. In conjunction with the event a Holiday
Nutcracker Suite Tea will be held at the historic Fulling Mill Inn Restaurant and Bed and Breakfast, 3268 Fulling Mill Road. Seating for the tea is limited. To purchase tickets, readers may contact Carole Shanaman at 717-930-0931 or carole139@comcast.net. Readers may also purchase combination tour and tea tickets for a discount. For more information and an updated
District Provides Special Learning Activities Middletown Area School District elementary schools are provided with a variety of teaching resources through Title I funding. Reading specialists at each school have a resource library full of games, activities, and manipulatives that children may use to practice a wide scope of reading skills. Students can sign out games
for two weeks and select a new one when they return the borrowed item. By sending resources home, the district aims to help parents stay informed of what skills their child is learning at school and thereby
strengthen the partnership between home and school. The kindergarten teachers at Fink have taken this idea of partnering with parents a step further. April Hughes and Anastasia Cerritelli have created their See Learning Activities pg 12
TREE SALES
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Karen Battenhausen, Fink reading specialist, displayed the school’s Parent Resource Library.
Fink students (from left) Rowan Mock, El-Amarmii Bature, Miley Haste, and Jaxon Clarke demonstrated some of the letter activities included in Fink Elementary’s take-home packets focusing on reading skills for kindergartners. Rowan practiced letter recognition by matching block letters to the letters pictured on the Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom tree. In the center, El-Amarmii and Miley created letters using a modeling compound to match the letters on picture cards. Jaxon arranged letters in alphabetical order to reveal a completed photo.
schedule of activities, reader may visit www.MiddletownHolidayHomeTour.co m. Information is also available by searching for “Middletown Holiday Home Tour” on Facebook. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Middletown Area Blue Raider Foundation’s RaiderPacks program. For details, readers may visit www.raid erweb.org/for-community/raiderpacks.
Coming Together For Christmas TreE-town By Chelsea Peifer
This year, the Elizabethtown Area Chamber of Commerce (EACC) is spearheading a collaboration between numerous local businesses and organizations to focus holiday efforts under one brand: Christmas TreE-town. EACC executive director Heather Hohenwarter said that the initiative will highlight the many events that take place in the Elizabethtown area during the holiday season. “The idea behind Christmas TreE-town was to curate the many existing events under one banner,” Hohenwarter explained. “It made sense to create a central source of information for families racing to check things off their hectic holiday to-do list, like ‘visit Santa,’ ‘see Christmas lights,’ and ‘buy teachers gifts.’ So why not do it all in charming Elizabethtown?” A website for Christmas TreE-town, www.christmastree-town.com, recently See Christmas TreE-town pg 4
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will hold its annual Christmas tree sales starting on Black Friday, Nov. 23. The sales will take place in the Grove Car Wash parking lot on East Main Street, Middletown. On Black Friday, the sale will be open from noon to 7:30 p.m. After Black Friday, sales will occur from noon to 7:30 p.m. on weekends and from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on weeknights. Tree netting and drilling will be available. For more information, call 717-944-1644.
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