Downingtown/Exton JANUARY 29, 2020
IN THIS ISSUE: CCS HOLDS GROUNDBREAKING page 4
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXI • NO 50
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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
Program To Offer Youths A Fresh Start pg 3 Watershed Steward Training Planned pg 2
Girl Scouts Complete Bronze Award With SPCA Service Project By Francine Fulton
Members of Junior Girl Scout Troop 4204 of Downingtown, composed of 10- and 11-year-old girls who attend Brandywine Wallace Elementary School, recently completed their Bronze Award project by baking homemade dog treats and making rope pull toys for adoptable animals at the Brandywine Valley SPCA. The girls also personally delivered the items and visited with the dogs and cats at the shelter. Troop leader Tania Mann said that the girls voted to complete their project at the SPCA. They used a biscuit-making recipe provided by the SPCA. “The SPCA has four or five recipes on their website (to choose from),” Mann explained. The rope toys were made using green and white T-shirts cut into strips. The strips were tied tightly together and braided to form ropes. “I bought over 70
green and white T-shirts, and then someone donated 48 T-shirts when they heard about the project,” Mann said. “(To form the ropes) you trim the hem off the bottom of the T-shirt and cut them to form 2-inch-wide strips. Then, they roll up into a rope. It has stretchiness.” “We divided the white and green strands and knotted them and taught the girls how to create a kind of braid,” explained Mann. “They are made so that they are really tight so the dogs can’t chew through them.” The girls made the biscuits and most of the rope toys during a troop meeting with the help of parent volunteers. The remainder of the ropes were completed at home. The girls brought the dog biscuits and more than 60 rope toys to the SPCA during their visit on Jan. 15. “Community engagement coordinator Amanda (Rodriguez) gave us a tour of the entire facility, in which we learned See Bronze Award pg 5
Explorer Post To Meet At Anselma Mill Young men and women ages 14 to 21 are invited to learn about future career opportunities in a historic setting by joining the newly formed Explorer Post 1747. The group is based at the Mill at Anselma, a national historic landmark located on Route 401 in Chester Springs. The next meeting of the Explorer Post will take place on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 4 p.m. in the site’s visitors center. The guest speaker will be Ethan Healey, the law enforcement liaison and Project Naloxone manager at Good Fellowship Ambulance & EMS See Explorer Post pg 5
Members of Girl Scout Troop 4204, shown with troop leader Tania Mann (back, center), earned their Bronze Award recently by visiting the Brandywine Valley SPCA, where they donated homemade biscuits and homemade rope toys to the adoptable dogs and also visited with the dogs and cats.
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Welcomes New Pastor By Francine Fulton
By Francine Fulton
The newly formed Explorer Post 1747, open to young men and women ages 14 to 21, meets at the Mill at Anselma, a national historic landmark located in Chester Springs. The group’s next meeting will take place on Feb. 8.
When the Rev. Bradley Burke was named the lead pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Exton last fall, he began an effort not only to build on all the successful programs already in place at the church but to prepare the congregation for expansion and growth to meet the changing needs of the community. “ We are trying to do structural work to figure out how we build ourselves as an organization so we can provide for people’s needs,” Burke said. “ We want to make sure people are taken care of. We want to make sure there are See New Pastor pg 2
The Rev. Bradley Burke is the new lead pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Exton.
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