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MARCH 3, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXII • NO 6
Donegal To Present “The Addams Family - School Edition” BY CATHY MOLITORIS
hey’re creepy and they’re kooky … and they’re coming to the stage at Donegal High School. Donegal Performing Arts will present “The Addams Family School Edition” on Friday, March 12, and Saturday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. The show will be livestreamed for audiences to watch in the comfort of their homes. “The Addams Family” follows the tale of Gomez and Morticia Addams and their unusual family. When their daughter, Wednesday, falls in love with a “normal” boy, the family must figure out a way to handle it. “Audiences can expect a lot of laughter at this show,” said Ethan Steck, a 12th-grader who portrays Gomez Addams in the show. “It’s really a show about Wednesday Addams growing up and liking boys and wanting to be a normal teen, which goes against everything her family stands for. It’s also about Gomez keeping a secret from Morticia, which he’s never done before, and how he’s dealing with that.”
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Danielle Brady, a senior who plays Alice Beineke in the show, said audiences can expect to see two very different families coming together when Alice’s son, Lucas, played by Gerson Malave, falls in love with Wednesday, played by Erin Kready. “It’s a show about two kids from two completely different worlds learning to accept each other,” Brady explained. This is the second time Donegal students have performed a livestreamed show, having done so for their fall production of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” “Doing a livestream is really different from a typical performance on stage, because you have to get used to there not being an audience and you won’t have the audience reactions like you normally would,” Steck said. Brady agreed, adding, “It’s really a completely different experience. You have to get used to learning where the cameras would be and delivering your lines to the right place versus just delivering them out into the audience like you usually would.”
Historical Society To Offer Speaker Series
The cast of “The Addams Family - School Edition” includes (from left) Ashtyn Hess, Erin Kready, Ethan Steck, Ricky Fitts, Aubree Jones and Ryan Bedi.
GEARS To Hold Eggstravaganza BY CATHY MOLITORIS
BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Celebrate the history of Mount Joy by attending programs offered by the Mount Joy Area Historical Society. The society’s program series will kick off on Monday, March 15, with a presentation by John Brown on “Abraham Lincoln and the North Central Railroad.” Monthly programs will be held at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of each month See Historical Society pg 3
GEARS will hold its annual Eggstravaganza, including egg hunts, on March 27.
GEARS will hold its annual Eggstravaganza on Saturday, March 27, at Poplar Street Park, 70 S. Poplar St., Elizabethtown. The event will begin at 9 a.m. Although the setup will be a little different than other years, the event will still feature all of the fun and holiday spirt of previous events, said Karen Eberly, senior program coordinator for GEARS. “This year we’re not doing all the activities we have done in the past,” she stated. “ We have really revamped the event to follow COVID guidelines.”
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Library Receives Grant To Expand Collection . . . . . . .2 GriefShare Program Set . . . . . . . . . . .5 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Garden Series Trip Planned . . . . . . . . . . .7 Business Directory . . . . . .7 House Of Worship . . . . . . .8 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . .9
See GEARS pg 5
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