Columbia/Hellam/Wrightsville
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FEBRUARY 17, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXII • NO 1
Church To Offer Lenten Fish Fry BY CATHY MOLITORIS
For more than 40 years, St. Peter Roman Catholic Church in Columbia has been serving a Lenten fish fry to the community. While last year’s event was cut short by the pandemic, this year the event is continuing with a few changes. The Lenten fish fry will begin on
Friday, Feb. 19, and will run on Fridays through March 26. “We’ll be offering takeout service only, from 4 until 6:30 p.m.,” said Claire Storm, one of the event organizers. “(It) will be available at the Parish Center, Second and Union streets, in Columbia. Customers will be asked to wear masks and practice social distancing.” See Fish Fry pg 3
Horn Farm woodland steward Wilson Alvarez (center) leads a group of students in a hands-on class.
Horn Farm is offering a new Land Steward Training Program to promote ecological awareness and provide job skills.
Horn Farm Plans Land Steward Training Program earn how to be a good steward of the Earth at a new program offered by the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education. The Land Steward Training Program will begin Tuesday, March 9, and will run on Tuesdays through June 29 at the center, 4945 Horn Road, York.
“We want people to have a baseline ecological knowledge, whether they are looking to be farming in the field or wooded areas.” “Horn Farm has run training programs for several years now,” said Alexis Campbell, executive director. “We started with farmer training, which evolved into regenerative farming training.”
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From there, the center expanded its programming with a wider focus. “We developed a whole system approach so that we were not just focusing on field and farm spaces, but on wooded areas as well,” Campbell noted. “We hired a full-time woodland steward in 2018, and he developed a woodland training program.” The Land Steward program was a natural progression of the farm’s training focus. “We’re blending both the regenerative farming and woodland steward programs together and providing a hybrid program,” Campbell stated. “We want people to have a baseline ecological knowledge, whether they are looking to be farming in the field or wooded areas.” The Land Steward Training Program is an entry-level program that’s open to anyone with an interest in working with the land. “Our focus is on skill-building job readiness,” Campbell said. “ We’ll be
focused on deep ecological literacy.” The goal of the program is to equip students with skills that can be applied to a variety of land-based industries, including small-scale food production, regenerative farming, agroforestry, land restoration work and ecological landscaping. While the program will teach the basics of ecology, plant identification, horticulture and regenerative land management, it will also offer three practicums. Students may choose the regenerative farmer track, the woodland steward track or the whole landscapes track, which combines the two practicums. “It’s an intensive program, and we are looking to cater to people’s interests while still giving them a holistic experience,” Campbell remarked. The program will be taught by Andrew Horn, the farm manager, and Wilson Alvarez, the woodland steward, and will combine classroom training with hands-on work on the farm.
The creator of the over-the-top gowns on TLC’s “My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” will be the guest speaker at the next monthly meeting of the Lancaster Area Sewing Network (LASN). Couture designer Sondra Celli will join the group via Zoom at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 22. Members of the public are invited to attend and may email lancastersews@gmail.com for details.
See Horn Farm pg 3
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Mary Long, co-chair of St. Peter’s Lenten fish fry, offers a takeout order to a customer.
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