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IN THIS ISSUE: GOLF OUTING TO SUPPORT “NIGHT TO SHINE” page 10

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL LIX • NO 37

UNVEILING CEREMONY

The Mount Joy Rotary Club Clock will be rededicated during an unveiling ceremony on Friday, Sept. 28, at 6 p.m. The clock is located at the corner of Marietta Avenue and Main Street. The clock was installed in 2002 in honor of Mount Joy’s sesquicentennial.

Indian Girls Edge Blazers, 1-0 pg 6

Festival To Celebrate African Culture pg 5

Help The Fight Slates Fundraiser pg 2

NETWORKING EVENT

will hold a mixer on Thursday, Sept. 27, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Juniper Village at Mount Joy, 607 Hearthstone Lane, Mount Joy. To register by Friday, Sept. 21, contact kerry@mountjoy chamber.com or 717-653-0773. COMMUNITY BREAKFAST

The Willing Hearts group at Ironville United Methodist Church 4020 Holly Drive, Columbia, will hold its fall community breakfast on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the fellowship hall. The meal is free and open to the public. Call 717-684-8072. UPCOMING GATHERING

The Memory Loss Support Group for Caregivers will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 2, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the community room at Mount Joy Mennonite Church, 320 Musser Road, Mount Joy. The topic will be “What Is ‘The 36-Hour Day’?” FLOOD FORMS

By Chelsea Peifer

Frank Stellar’s railway garden was a dream deferred for many years as other ventures - like a successful teaching and coaching career at Donegal High School and raising a family - took priority. Upon retiring, he set out to design and install an expansive backyard layout at his Manheim home. Instead of starting small and gradually adding on, he opted to go big from the start. “At my age, I knew what I wanted to do and knew that it’d be a one-and-done thing,” said Stellar. The approximately 30-by-70-yard layout features a double-track railway with G-scale trains and a multitude of buildings nestled among eye-catching gardens. For the buildings - which include a train station, a power plant, a coal mine, a church, houses, barns, and

MCCS Announces Benefit Auction

advises individuals and businesses that were affected by flood damages to complete Individual Assessment forms available at the borough office, 21 E. Main St.; at http://mountjoyborough. com/; or at www.lancema.us/forms -resources.php. Completed forms should be emailed to borough@mount joypa.org, faxed to 717-653-6680, or mailed to or dropped off at the borough office. Office hours are Mondays through Fridays from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. SPECIAL EVENT

The 53rd annual Fall Plant Exchange will be held on Saturday, Sept. 29, at the home of Dan and Bobbi Thomasco, 4912 Bossler Road, Elizabethtown. The exchange will be held rain or shine from 3 to 4 p.m. Attendees should identify and label any plants to be exchanged. Bossler Road is located between Turnpike and Amosite Roads. Call 717-951-6403 or 717-808-3413.

more - Stellar worked from kits or modified birdhouses that fit his vision. Antique vehicles dot the roadways, and last summer Stellar added a small pond and babbling waterfall. Battery-powered trains travel along tracks that swirl throughout the yard at several levels of elevation, disappearing from time to time under tunnels or the deck before reappearing to cross bridges and trestles all hand-built by Stellar. “It’s all one continuous loop, and I can run three trains at a time,” Stellar noted. The tracks also lead through a small doorway into the garage, where they can loop around Stellar’s workshop before returning outdoors. Just how many hours go into maintenance and upkeep for the layout and garden is tough to say, but the entire project is a labor of love for Stellar. Railroading is in his blood and has See Garden Railways Tour pg 9

Manheim resident Frank Stellar’s garden railway will be among the 10 featured tour sites throughout Lancaster, York, and Chester counties on the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania’s 12th annual Garden Railways Tour on Oct. 7. Tickets are on sale now for the self-guided, family-friendly tour, which benefits the museum.

DSAA To Host Sober Spooktacular

By Chelsea Peifer

By Chelsea Peifer

Mount Calvary Christian School (MCCS), which serves students in preschool through 12th grade, will hold its 26th annual benefit auction on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29, at the school, 629 Holly St., Elizabethtown. The event will kick off on Sept. 28 with a barbecue dinner catered by a popular Mount Joy-based eatery. Dinner will be served from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., and takeout meals will be available in See MCCS Auction pg 4

As Donegal Substance Abuse Alliance (DSAA) chairman Stacy Emminger and assistant director Lexi Mercado brainstormed ideas and researched potential options for speakers at the organization’s upcoming fundraising dinner, they hoped to find someone from outside the local area whom people had not heard from before. When someone suggested Brandon Novak, a wellknown skateboarder and M T V celebrity with

Mount Calvary Christian School students (front, from left) Hannah Ferrari, Emma Smith, Madi Nace, (back) Ethan Miller, Patrick Miller, Owen Hostetter, Ethan Smith, Kyle DeGroft, and Dawson Arnold display a sampling of items that will be up for bids at the school’s annual benefit auction on Sept. 28 and 29.

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a powerful testimony and commitment to the recovery community, Emminger immediately began pursuing the possibility and was thrilled when he agreed to travel to Mount Joy to share his story. Novak will speak at the DSAA Sober Spooktacular, which is set to take place from 4:30 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13, at The Gathering Place, 6 Pine St., Mount Joy. The public is invited to attend and enjoy an evening of spookythemed festivities. “Part of our goal is to raise awareness, and we also wanted to make it fun so that’s why we went with Halloween,” Emminger noted. Costumes are optional but certainly welcome. See Sober Spooktacular

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Brandon Novak

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