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DECEMBER 11, 2019

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL LX • NO 49

MEATLOAF DINNER

St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 27 E. Main St., Mount Joy, will serve a free meatloaf dinner on Sunday, Dec. 15, from 4 to 5 p.m. Although there is no cost for the meal, people planning to attend the meal should call the church office at 717-653-5493 no later than Thursday, Dec. 12, to make reservations so that the dinner team can be sure to have enough food for everyone. INFORMATION SESSION

412 S. Angle St., Mount Joy, invites the community to a foster parent orientation session on Thursday, Dec. 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. To register for the session, readers may call 800-722-0136 or email Holly at htanner@families4kids.org. COOKIES GALORE

St. John’s Lutheran Church, 11 N. Queen St., Maytown, will host a Fill a Box With Cookies event on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Two sizes of boxes will be available for purchase. Homemade cookies will include sugar, peanut butter, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin and snickerdoodles. The event, sponsored by the church’s Social Ministry Committee, will be set up in the church’s parlor. Attendees should enter the main doors along North Queen Street. Proceeds will benefit Lutheran World Relief and the St. John’s building fund.

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Beautiful weather with temperatures in the 50s graced last year’s New Year’s Day charity motorcycle ride along the Susquehanna River, and organizers are crossing their fingers for more of the same this time around. “Last year we raised over $35,000, and it was our biggest year for the amount of money raised. That brings our total for the 10 years we’ve had this ride to over $160,000 that we’ve raised for veterans,” stated organizer Tyler Stumpf. Billy Hecht, who started the

event with Stumpf and some other friends, emphasized that 100% of proceeds from the event go toward helping veterans who utilize services at the Lebanon VA Medical Center, with no overhead or administrative costs. The 11th annual New Year’s Day motorcycle ride will take off from the Walter S. Ebersole American Legion Post 185, located at 255 W. Main St., Mount Joy, at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. The registration fee, which is a set per-person donation, will include a meal at the conclusion of the ride. See New Year’s Day Ride pg 2

Inviting the community to join in the 11th annual New Year’s Day charity motorcycle ride to support veterans at the Lebanon VA Medical Center are (from left) Jen Stumpf, Tyler Stumpf, Guy Caplinger, Nicole Tipping, Jeff Andrews, and Billy Hecht. Registration will open at 10 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2020, at the Walter S. Ebersole American Legion Post 185 in Mount Joy, with the ride taking off at 1 p.m.

Carving Out Time For The Holidays

PUBLIC RECOGNITION

By Dayna M. Reidenouer

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will honor its veterans on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at the East Donegal Township Building, 190 Rock Point Road, Marietta, at 7:30 p.m. Boy Scout Troop 64 of Salem United Church of Christ Rohrerstown will place seven wreaths one for each branch of the military and one for prisoners of war - during a short ceremony that evening. The ceremony is part of the Wreaths Across America program.

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New Year’s Day Ride To Support Local Veterans By Chelsea Peifer

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The plaintive strains of “Silent Night” played on a harmonica filled the air as members of the Manheim Township Woodcarvers Association (MTWA) and the Lancaster County WoodCarvers

(LCWC) placed ornaments on a small artificial evergreen tree on Dec. 4. Each of the more than 170 ornaments had been painstakingly carved and decorated by members of the two groups. “Some of them are so beautifully ornate. They really bring the spirit of See Woodcarvers pg 9

Hospice & Community Care staffers Kevin Frain (far right) and Lauren Musser (seated, right) accepted a Christmas tree stocked with ornaments for inpatient clients and their families from Manheim Township Woodcarvers Association and Lancaster County WoodCarvers representatives (continuing clockwise) Ruth Stetter, Clarence Kiehl, Mark Arbogast, Pete Kovarovic, and Rick Bledsoe.

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Parent Teacher Fellowship Plans “Christmas At Kraybill” Celebration The first-ever Christmas at Kraybill Craft Fair and Celebration will be held on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Kraybill Mennonite School (KMS), 598 Kraybill Church Road, Mount Joy. Admission is free. The craft fair will feature 35 local artisans, crafters, and vendors offering wares including hand-turned wooden bowls, wood-fired pottery, quilts, blankets, Christmas decorations, and children’s toys. In addition to individual See Kraybill pg 7

Kraybill Mennonite School students, including (from left) first-graders Sawyer Methax and Josh Bushey and kindergartners Anna Kneisley and Jessa Robertson, invite the community to the Christmas at Kraybill Craft Fair and Celebration at the school from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 14.

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