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Columbia/Hellam/Wrightsville
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 35
BLOOD DRIVE
The Columbia Lions Club and the Columbia-Middletown Elks 1074 will sponsor a blood drive on Monday, Sept. 9, from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Columbia Borough Fire Department, 10th and Manor streets. Readers may call 1-800-RED-CROSS or visit www.Red CrossBlood.org and enter “Columbia,” to schedule an appointment. BENEFIT EVENT
A Change Purse Party will take place at Mount Pisgah Trinity United Methodist Church, 5615 Mount Pisgah Road, York, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Women are asked to bring new or gently used purses, bags, wallets, and wristlets and place them in the donation bin and then shop the collection of donated items. Proceeds will support Change Purse, a nonprofit, faith-based organization benefiting victims and survivors of sex trafficking. For more details, call Bev at 717-617-4088. EXERCISE CLASS
Trinity United Church of Christ, 200 E. Market St., Hallam, offers a free exercise class for senior adults on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 to 11 a.m. Sponsored by Hershey Medical Center, the class is designed to reduce the risk of falling, improve balance and increase flexibility. For more information, call 717-818-9455. POTLUCK AND PERFORMANCE
510 Walnut St., Columbia, will hold a potluck dinner on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 5:30 p.m. Tony Gro will provide entertainment featuring old songs for the audience to sing along to. Transportation is available by calling 717-341-0396. SPORTSMEN DINNER
New Path Community Church will host the third annual Hunt and Gather Sportsmen Dinner on Saturday, Sept. 14, in the gymnasium at Kraybill Mennonite School, 598 Kraybill Church Road, Mount Joy. Doors will open at 4 p.m., and dinner by Harvey’s Barbecue will be served at 5:30 p.m. Attendees will have the opportunity to win door prizes and hear from accomplished whitetail deer hunter Brad Jerman of Springboro, Ohio. To order tickets, visit www.mynewpath.org/ sportsman-dinner or call 717-742-0639 by Tuesday, Sept. 10.
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Trust Plans Columbia Architectural Tour By Chelsea Peifer
On Saturday, Sept. 28, the Historic Preservation Trust (HPT) of Lancaster County will host the Columbia Architectural Tour, showcasing the beauty of buildings dating from the 1700s to the 1930s. “Each of the 25 sites is significant, and that’s why we picked it to be part of the tour,” explained Matt Barley, HPT board member and tour committee chair. The HPT was established in the 1960s in response to the urban renewal happening in Lancaster, and Barley said that since then a walking tour of a borough or town in Lancaster County has been offered to the public approximately every two years. The mission of HPT, then and now, is to encourage and facilitate historic preservation throughout the county. “At the Trust, we educate, we
collaborate, and we celebrate, and the tour hits all three of those,” explained Barley. “You’ve got to continually be educating because it’s so easily forgotten.” “The tour is about Lancaster County as a whole,” said Barley, noting that past tours have highlighted preservation in areas such as Marietta, Ephrata, Strasburg, and Bowmansville. “Having Columbia for this year’s tour seems to parallel the exciting things that are happening there.” Columbia is known to some as the jewel of the Susquehanna and still others as the Brooklyn of Lancaster, but organizers have promoted the Columbia Architectural Tour as a chance for people to see why some are calling Columbia “the Paris of Pennsylvania.” Barley, who resides in Columbia, admits that the phrase began somewhat in jest, See Architectural Tour pg 7
Determined To Give Back
Wright’s Ferry Mansion will be one of 25 sites featured on the Columbia Architectural Tour hosted by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County on Sept. 28.
Growing Inspiration Community Members May Explore Marietta’s Gardens
Walk Of Love Cross Country 5K Set For Sept. 14
By Chelsea Peifer
By Chelsea Peifer
In lieu of a sweet 16th birthday celebration a few years ago, Sayali Yoder, pictured crossing the finish line at Sayali Yoder opted to the Brittany’s Hope Walk of Love Cross Country invite friends and 5K in 2015 (left photo) and as a toddler (right family to join her in photo), is training to participate in this year’s 5K participating in the on Sept. 14 at Ironstone Ranch in Elizabethtown. Brittany’s Hope Walk Sayali was born with missing limbs, and her of Love Cross Country parents received one of the first adoption grants 5K and Fun Walk. awarded by Brittany’s Hope. Sayali’s parents received one of the very first adoption grants more than 26 surgeries and lived in awarded by Brittany’s Hope, an Eliz- an orphanage until being adopted at abethtown-based nonprofit commit- age 3. Today, she is determined to ted to aiding orphans in crisis give back to the organization that around the world. Born without she says helped her to become who hands and feet, Sayali went through she is. See Walk Of Love pg 5
Finding just the right mix of plants to thrive in shaded conditions can
prove difficult for some, but it was nothing that longtime gardeners Sherry and David Haneman couldn’t handle. Towering English and black walnut trees, along with evergreen and maple trees, anchor the property behind the Hanemans’ historic Queen Anne Victorian cottage, built in 1863. Visitors will be See Garden Tour pg 3
Seven gardens will be featured on the Marietta Garden Tour on Sept. 8, including the property of Sherry and David Haneman (pictured). Tourgoers may also attend garden-related seminars offered during tour hours at the Marietta Community House.
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