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APRIL 21, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVII • NO 18
War Memorial To Host First May Market wreaths and other natural arrangements; lavender products; herbal and ast fall, a few creative skin care items; and candles. Items friends were talking. They such as handbags, garden aprons, had all taken part in fall ven- painted slates, and dryer balls will also dor events, and they wondered be offered for sale. Food items that hungry shoppers about holding a spring show. “We’re going to have fun,” said may purchase will include breakfast Barb Dagen, one of the organizers foods and coffee, along with hot dogs and hamburgof the first May Market. Dagen ...the timing of the ers at lunch time. The event will added that the tim- event just prior to ing of the event just Mother’s Day will raise funds for a nonprior to Mother’s provide opportuni- ULTWMA, profit, volunteer Day will provide opportunities to t i e s t o p u r c h a s e organization that purchase reasonably reasonably priced organizes and hosts priced gifts mothers gifts mothers will community events that honor the miliwill appreciate. appreciate. tary service of all May Market 2021 will be held at the Upper Lea- local residents. Readers who would cock Township War Memorial like to learn more about the organiAssociation (ULTWMA) Building, zation may search for “Upper Lea54 W. Main St., Leola, on Saturday, cock Township War Memorial AssoMay 1, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The ciation” on Facebook. May Market will feature about a dozen vendors specializing in vinOrganizers of the first May tage, natural, and artistic items. Market include (front, from Among the many items that vendors left) Barb Dagen, Betty Esbenwill offer for purchase will be baked shade, (back) Caroline Lindsley, goods; plants, including succulents; Joyce Deiter, and Barb Zook.
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Blessings Of Rotary Bike Ride Planned For The Community Hope Slates The Lancaster Sunrise Rotary has planned its 17th annual bicycle ride iCare Event for 2021, dubbing it the Ride for
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In February, when parts of Texas were hit by a fluke snowstorm, Aaron Fisher and David Lapp, CEOs of Blessings of Hope (BOH), a wholesale food bank located on Becker Road in Leola, decided to send Fisher to the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area with a tractor-trailer load of food and water through their Hands of Hope program. See Blessings Of Hope pg 6
the Community. Club member Steve Bareuther noted that in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions, the 2020 ride was postponed and then finally canceled, but this year, the ride is set to go live. See Bike Ride pg 7
Lancaster Sunrise Rotary members who took part in the last fundraising ride the club held, in 2019, included (from left) Clayton Dickerson, Jeff George, Rick Dickerson, and Steve Bareuther. The 2021 ride will take place on May 8.
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