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Columbia/Hellam/Wrightsville

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

IN THIS ISSUE: DISTRICT SEEKS COAT DONATIONS page 3

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL LX • NO 47

Wrightsville To Ring In The Holidays By Chelsea Peifer

EYMS PTSO Gears Up For Winterfest

The community is invited to come together for Wrightsville’s annual Christmas tree lighting on Sunday, Dec. 1, at 6 p.m. at Constitution Square, Fourth and Hellam streets in Wrightsville. The event is free and open to the public. Rotary Club of Eastern York County member Ken Stoner will deliver the opening remarks. Wrightsville Assembly of God (AG) pastor Aaron McNatt will lead a local children’s choir in performing Christmas carols. Wrightsville AG hosts a Bible Adventure program on Thursdays for thirdthrough fifth-grade students from Wrightsville Elementary School who have signed up to participate. Throughout November, the students rehearse songs for the tree lighting event. “This year we have 80 kids in the program, See Wrightsville pg 2

The Eastern York Middle School (EYMS) Parent Teacher Student Organization (PTSO) will host Winterfest, an annual arts and craft show that raises funds to support student activities, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7, at EYMS, 746 Cool Creek Road, Wrightsville. Admission is free. Parking is available in the middle and high school lots, and a free shuttle service will be available to transport attendees from the high school lot to the middle school and back. Winterfest chair Valerie Hacker said that volunteers will once again transform the inside of the school into a holiday shopping wonderland, complete with a book fair, giveaways, and more than 100 vendors selling a variety of handmade crafts and products to help See Winterfest pg 2

By Chelsea Peifer

The annual Wrightsville Christmas tree lighting celebration is set to take place on Dec. 1 at 6 p.m. at Fourth and Hellam streets in Wrightsville. The event will include Christmas carols led by a choir of local children and a visit from Santa Claus on a fire engine.

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Food Box Delivery Set For Dec. 22 Tree Society Launches Membership Drive

Kevin Kraft Sr. (left) of Clyde W. Kraft Funeral Home presents a donation to (from second from left) Jack Gamby, president of the Columbia Lions Club, and Don Luttman and Don Ernst of the Sunsnappers to support the organizations’ annual Christmas Food Box Delivery for area families in need. The annual Christmas Food Box Delivery sponsored by the Columbia Lions Club and Sunsnappers will take place on Sunday, Dec. 22. The deadline to sign up to receive a meal box is Friday, Nov. 29. Those in need may sign

up for a food box by emailing ColumbiaChristmasFoodBoxes@ gmail.com or calling 717-715-3592. Households in Columbia Borough and the surrounding areas (ZIP codes 17512, 17547, 17368, 17554, 17582, 17575, See Food Boxes pg 2

The Columbia Tree Society has begun its annual membership drive for 2020. The society is the fundraising auxiliary for the Columbia Borough Shade Tree Commission. Membership dues enable the Shade Tree Commission to purchase and maintain street trees in the borough. Over the last 24 years, the Dean Little Clarissa Wolcott Shade Tree Commission has planted approximately 890 trees in the community and main- thereby reducing and cleansing runoff. tained street trees. Additionally, it has They also increase property values, received the National Arbor Day Founda- reduce air pollution, and lower noise tion’s “Tree City USA” designation for levels. Manageable storm water runoff results from abundant trees, multi-use 26 consecutive years. The Columbia Borough Shade Tree catch basins and rain gardens, reduced Commission strives to encourage street impervious surfaces, and increased tree plantings as well as tree plantings ground vegetation. The benefits may in yards, parks, and public places, as include lower costs and a more livable, trees retain large volumes of rainfall, sustainable environment. See Tree Society pg 3

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