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2020 Create Columbia Plans Art In The Gardens Art in the Gardens will be held in the Columbia area on Saturday, June 13, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event has been coordinated by Create Columbia, a local nonprofit organization that is the artistic branch of Columbia’s
Merchant Association. The annual tour blends the artistry of several local gardeners with the talents of a variety of fine artists and musicians who have each been assigned to one of the venues. The garden tour has been planned with the optimistic anticipation that stay-at-home restrictions will be relaxed
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by June 13. The organizing committee hopes that visitors will enjoy the outdoors while maintaining appropriate social distance. Guests are asked to wear masks while attending the event, and procedures will be in place to limit the number of people at each venue at any given time. If guidelines prevent the
Art in the Gardens has been planned for June 13 in the Columbia area, dependent upon the easing of stay-at-home restrictions. June 27 has been set as an alternate date.
tour being offered on June 13, an alternate date of Saturday, June 27, has been set. Rain will not cause the tour to be moved to the later date. Art in the Gardens will be just as its name implies: Each of the participating residential landscapes will host at least one artist working en plein air. Paintings will be produced in acrylics, oils, collages, and more. Musical artistry will also be offered at some of the locations. The tour will feature seven gardens that showcase different styles and gardening features. The artists tentatively assigned to each location are included in the listings. The gardens of Justin and Jennifer Albright include fruit trees, a raised bed, and a water feature to complement the hardscaping. Jay Dombach and Elizabeth Patton will be the guest artists. Gary and Denise Brubaker have incorporated family handprints, patriotic plantings, and annual planters in
their outdoor layout. Peggi Donnan is the assigned artist. A pergola anchors the plantings in Jim and Beth Kramer’s predominantly shade garden. Freiman Stoltzfus will be the featured artist. Kelly and Rebecca Murphy’s Victorian-style gardens are a National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat and include a water feature, an herb garden, a pergola constructed from upcycled pieces, and more. Emily Frey will be the guest artist. Artist Janette Toth-Musser will be right at home in the garden she created with Jerry King Musser. Inspired by the English cottage style, the couple’s garden includes whimsical topiaries as well as native Pennsylvania flowers, herbs, and a variety of perennials. A wide variety of ornamental trees and perennials add color to Dave and Vivian Rupp’s garden, which includes a See Art In The Gardens pg 2
Pennsylvania suspended gatherings of 10 or more people, ValleyView moved quickly. Pastor Lee Nanfelt recalled Fisher and Habecker’s enthusiasm for making creative videos, some of which featured church members, especially fellow young adults, and for posting these videos online. Fisher and Habecker, who had both been laid off from their jobs due to the pandemic, agreed to edit videos for online worship. Services have included two selections of worship music coordinated by assistant pastor James O’Handly, who, like Fisher and Habecker, is an Eastern York High School graduate. Members of the congregation have contributed by reading Scripture or praying. Special features have been added most
Allison “Fish” Fisher (left) and Erin Habecker have been editing videos for ValleyView Alliance Church’s online worship services. The church began holding online services when the stay-at-home order was put in place.
weeks. For example, member Kathy Myer and her donkey were featured on Palm Sunday, and a recent video included an overlay of the Susquehanna River as Psalm 42 was read. Nanfelt has given a series of shortened messages called “Peace in Troubled Times,” largely focused on the Psalms. The entire worship sequence is about 30 minutes long to accommodate the online format. Online worship will likely continue in some form after in-person worship is resumed at ValleyView. Online messages are posted weekly late Saturday night or early Sunday morning and are available for viewing anytime afterward at www.valleyviewcma.org. ValleyView Alliance Church, 200 Alliance Ave., is located just behind Fulton Bank on Market Street in Hellam. For more information or to contact ValleyView, readers may visit the aforementioned website.
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Operating a business is a strenuous venture in the best of circumstances, and with the current economic climate, local entrepreneurs are being strained and stretched even more. But that has not stopped some tenacious Lancaster County residents from pushing forward with new or expanding businesses. LaundrE-town on Market in Elizabethtown is one such emerging endeavor. After more than a year of renovation and progress, the fully renovated, modern laundromat was slated for an April 1 grand opening, but state mandated closures postponed the final stages of completion. The essential business eventually opened successfully on May 1. “We started construction
Hush Money Bikes in Lancaster city, represented by partners (from left) Chris Caldwell, Nathan Baker, and Ted Houser, is offering bicycle sales and service as an essential business. sometime around September of 2019 and faced many challenges,” explained company president Gretchen Rothstein. “Fast
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Like many congregations, ValleyView Alliance Church in Hellam began holding its weekly services online when the stay-at-home order was put in place. Helping to make this format of worship possible are good friends Allison “Fish” Fisher and Erin Habecker. In mid-March, when
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