Downingtown/Exton DECEMBER 4, 2019
IN THIS ISSUE: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TALK SLATED page 6
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXI • NO 43
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Chester and Berks counties •Holiday Lights at Gring’s Mill, Reading - Thursdays through Sundays through Dec. 29 •Christmas at Joanna, Historic Joanna Furnace Iron Works, Geigertown - Dec. 6 to 8 •Christmas at Langoma, St. Mary of Providence, Elverson Dec. 14 Dauphin and Lebanon counties •“The Homecoming” at Hershey Area Playhouse - select dates from Dec. 5 to 15 •“Joy to the Burg: A Live Christmas Concert” at Rose Lehrman Performing Arts Center at HACC, Harrisburg - Dec. 8 •Wreaths Across America ceremony at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery - Dec. 14 Lancaster County •The Train Guys’ holiday train display at Elizabethtown Public Library - select dates in December
•Performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” Memorial United Methodist Church, Quarryville Dec. 15 York County •Christmas Magic - A Festival of Lights, Rocky Ridge County Park, York - through Dec. 31 •The Midstate Ballet of Greater York Dance’s “The Nutcracker,” Appell Center, York Dec. 15 •Winter walks at Gifford Pinchot State Park, Lewisberry select dates starting Dec. 20
Greens Sale To Benefit Meeting House pg 6 Food Drive To Support Senior Center pg 2
Coatesville Christmas Parade Set For Dec. 7 By Francine Fulton
The Philadelphia Eagles Pep Band, Reggy the Purple Party Dude, sports team mascots, floats, cartoon characters and marching bands will be just some of the attractions at the 2019 Coatesville Christmas Parade to be held in downtown Coatesville on Saturday, Dec. 7, beginning at 10 a.m. The parade will travel on Lincoln Highway (Business Route 30), starting at Strode Avenue and ending at the performance and judging area at 11th Avenue and Lincoln Highway. Featured performers will include the Lukens Band, the Chester County Emerald Society Pipe Band, the Coatesville Area High School Red Raider Marching Band, the Reilly Raiders Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps and the Sixers Stixers from the West Powelton Steppers Drill Team - the official drum line of the Philadelphia 76ers. See Christmas Parade pg 6
Red Run Challenge To Feature 5K, 1-Mile Walk By Francine Fulton
Santa Claus, aboard a Coatesville Fire Department fire truck, will be the finale of the annual Coatesville Christmas Parade on Dec. 7.
Compeer Holds Friendship Luncheon
The fourth annual Red Run Challenge, which includes a 5K race and a 1-mile walk through the city of Coatesville, will be held prior to the Coatesville Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 7. Race-day registration will be held from 8 to 8:45 a.m. at Scott Middle School, 800 Olive St., Coatesville. The 5K race will start at 9 a.m., and the walk will follow at 9:10 a.m. According to Amy McFarland, a member of the Red Run Challenge committee, this year’s run and walk will start and end at Scott Middle School. “It is a certified 5K. It will go down 12th Avenue, make a left onto Lincoln Highway to First Avenue, turn around and come back the same route to the See Red Run Challenge pg 3
Church Plans Cookie Walk, Craft Sale
Agency Seeks Volunteers
By Francine Fulton
By Francine Fulton
Compeer Chester County, a nonprofit organization that pairs people living with mental health conditions with volunteer friends from the community, recently held its 20th annual Friendship Luncheon at Dutch-Way Family Restaurant in Gap. The event is held each year to Rob Chisholm (at podium), who launched Compeer celebrate the special Chester County in 1999, was the guest speaker at camaraderie among the the 20th annual Compeer Friendship Luncheon. compeers, which the dicto speak since he launched Compeer tionary defines as a companion or peer. More than 50 people attended the Chester County in 1999 and served as event, which was led by Donna Kueny, its first program director for 15 years program manager. The guest speaker before retiring,” said Sherry Thompsen, was Rob Chisholm. “We’d invited Rob Compeer program coordinator. See Compeer pg 6
Glen Moore United Methodist Church (GUMC), 1920 Creek Road, Glenmoore, will hold its annual Cookie Walk and Craft Sale on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The day will also include lunch and an outdoor flea market. Cookies of all flavors and descriptions will be sold by the pound in the upper part of the church. The sale will feature traditional favorites like chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin and sugar cookies, as well as less common selections such as Italian pizzelles. “ We will also have lemon bars; pfeffernüsse, which is a German cookie; rum balls; peanut butter bars; macaroons; and chocolate crinkles. All See Cookie Walk pg 3
Kate Bauman of Glen Moore United Methodist Church displays Italian pizzelles offered for sale at last year’s Cookie Walk and Craft Sale. This year’s event will be held on Dec. 7.
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•Gifts That Give Hope Lancaster Alternative Gift Fair, The Junction Center, Manheim Dec. 7
United Way Receives Donation pg 3