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Columbia/Hellam/Wrightsville

JANUARY 29, 2020

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VOL LXI • NO 4

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Chester County Area •“Votes for Women: A Visual History” exhibition, the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford - Feb. 1 through June 7 •“Love Your Library” fundraiser, Heatherwood Retirement Community, Honey Brook - Feb. 14 •Valentine’s Breakfast Buffet, Historic Joanna Furnace Iron Works, Geigertown - Feb. 15 Greater Hershey Area •Caitlin’s Smiles’ Have a Heart Volunteer Day, New Hope Church, Harrisburg - Feb. 1 •“Voices of the Eighth: Rhythms of Resilience,” Gamut Theatre, Harrisburg - Feb. 7 to 9 •Performance by The Tamburitzans, Middletown Area High School - Feb. 22 Lancaster County •A Taste of Western Lancaster County, Elizabethtown Public Library - Feb. 7

•Patriotic Stitchers for Veterans fundraising auction, Veterans Hall of the War Memorial Building, Leola - Feb. 22 York County •1st Capital Leather and Lace Ball, Wyndham Garden, York Feb. 8 •Knights of Columbus Council 8891’s Polish Dinner Dance, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, New Freedom - Feb. 8 •Royal Tea Party, YMCA - Bob Hoffman Dover Branch March 15

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Rec Center Schedules Triathlon pg 2

Poppy To Deliver Pre-Groundhog Day Prognostication By Chelsea Peifer

Meet Poppy, the newest local Groundhog Day prognosticator and arguably the cutest. Poppy, a groundhog from the Raven Ridge Wildlife Center, will be visiting Columbia Crossing, 41 Walnut St., Columbia, on Saturday, Feb. 1, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. for some preGroundhog Day festivities that the public is invited to join in. There is a per-person admission fee, but children age 4 and younger will be admitted free of charge. All proceeds will benefit Raven Ridge Wildlife Center located in Washington Boro. Poppy and her handler, Betsy Shank, will offer a brief presentation on groundhogs, including some trivia on Groundhog Day. A Conestoga family discovered Poppy alone at approximately 4 weeks of age in May 2019 and transported her to Raven Ridge Wildlife Center. “When she was found, she was too small to be out of the den,” noted licensed wildlife

rehabilitator and Raven Ridge director Tracie Young. As Poppy was being cared for and acclimating to outdoor life at Raven Ridge, she began to show problems with her teeth. Veterinarians eventually determined she had maloccluded - or crooked - teeth that were not growing in properly, which would mean she could not survive on her own in the wild. “A lot of times mother nature and animals know things like that, so that’s probably why (Poppy’s) mother abandoned her,” Young explained. Poppy’s incisors were surgically removed, and she became trained and fully permitted by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and United States Department of Agriculture as an educational ambassador at Raven Ridge. Over time, Poppy bonded tightly with Shank, who is a Raven Ridge team leader. “Betsy takes care of Poppy and has the body language of Poppy down. So if we are ever at an event and Poppy is stressing, she’ll notice and know what to do,” Young said. See Poppy pg 3

Raven Ridge Wildlife Center director Tracie Young (left) and team leader Betsy Shank (right) invite the public to meet Poppy the groundhog at Columbia Crossing for pre-Groundhog Day festivities from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 1.

Parade Announces Grand Marshal The 37th annual York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade will step off at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, from Market and Penn streets. Live streaming of the parade will be on WRCTV sponsored by the Penn-Mar Irish Festival. Media sponsor CBS 21 and master of ceremonies Mike Gorsegner will announce parade entries at the Kinsley

Grandstand on Continental Square. The Rev. Patrick J. “Paddy” Rooney will serve as grand marshal, leading the celebration of Celtic heritage. Rooney is a native of England, born and raised in London. He has Irish heritage as his paternal grandparents moved from Dublin to England between the wars to help build the city. While working with See Parade pg 2

The Rev. Patrick J. “Paddy” Rooney (front, fourth from left) has been selected as the grand marshal of the 37th annual York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 14. He was congratulated by past grand marshals (front, from left) Dave Kennedy, 2018; Lynda O’Byrne Randall, 2017; Mary Yeaple, 2019; Rodney Yeaple, 2019; Tom O’Shea, 2014; Victoria Connor, 2015; (back) Ward Walsh, 2016; Jay Yeaple, 2019; and Bryan Tate, 2013.

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Japanese Drum Group Plans Performance The Arts at Millersville will welcome Yamato: The Drummers of Japan and its show “Jhonetsu - Passion!” to the Winter Visual & Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. The Winter Center is located at 60 W. Cottage Ave., Millersville, on the Millersville University campus. Yamato is composed of dozens of performers who travel around the

world with approximately 40 of Japan’s traditional Taiko drums. The group is in its 26th season, celebrating more than 4,000 performances in 54 countries and reaching nearly 8 million people. Yamato is based in Nara Prefecture’s Asuka Village, said to be the birthplace of Japanese culture, where the musicians See Yamato pg 3

The members of Yamato: The Drummers of Japan will perform on Japan’s traditional Taiko drums during “Jhonetsu Passion!” at the Winter Visual & Performing Arts Center in Millersville on Thursday, Feb. 6.

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