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FEBRUARY 12, 2020
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 6
GUEST SPEAKER
The Elizabeth Hughes Society will hold its next general meeting on Monday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 398 N. Locust St., Elizabethtown. The speaker will be Roslyn Hurley, who served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps from 1963 to 1965 in El Salvador. She will relate some of her varied experiences on a five-member team assigned to a small mountain village. All are invited to attend. Call 717-689-3572 for more information. NEW GROUP
A Marine Corps League organization is being formed in the Elizabethtown and Mount Joy area, and current and former Marines are invited to join. For more information, email usmarine7476@gmail com or call 609-923-6547. COMMUNITY BREAKFAST
Florin Church of the Brethren, 815 Bruce Ave., Mount Joy, will offer its free monthly Breakfast Bowl community breakfast on Saturday, Feb. 15, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. A variety of breakfast foods will be offered. Free parking will be available at the lower end of the parking lot, and attendees should enter through the double glass doors under the drive-through. The event is open to the public, and reservations are not needed. For more information, call 717-653-1202, ext. 2.
The Masonic Village Hospice Relay For Life team
4-H Benefit Auction Planned pg 2
By Chelsea Peifer
Susquehanna Stage Company (SSC) will perform Katori Hall’s critically acclaimed two-person drama “The Mountaintop” on select dates from Friday, Feb. 14, to Sunday, Feb. 23, in the Eater Theater at the Marietta Center for the Arts, 133 W. Market St., Marietta. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 14 and 15, and Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday, Feb. 20, 21, and 22. Matinee shows will begin at 2 p.m. on Sundays, Feb. 16 and 23. “The Mountaintop” is Hall’s fictional retelling of how the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spent his last night on Earth before his assassination. The 90minute drama is set entirely in one room at The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, and will star Jeremy R. Patterson as King and Pilisa Nicolette Mackey as Camae. King See “The Mountaintop” pg 4
“The Mountaintop,” a fictional depiction of how the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spent his last night on Earth before his assassination in 1968, will be performed by Susquehanna Stage Company in Marietta on select dates from Feb. 14 to 23. The two-person drama will feature Pilisa Nicolette Mackey (left) as Camae and Jeremy R. Patterson (right) as King.
Maytown Square To Undergo Walkway Restoration By Chelsea Peifer
The walkways in the historic Maytown Square are about to get an update thanks to the efforts of American Legion Auxiliary Unit 809 of Maytown.
“Conversation E-town” To Feature Lecture On China’s Xi Jinping
Auxiliary members invite everyone to purchase personalized, engraved bricks that will then be permanently installed in the new walkways. Auxiliary president Sara Gutshall said that the new brick walkways are tentatively set to be installed in midApril by Marietta-based Tom Jones Landscape and Lawncare using bricks supplied by Drohan Brick and Hardscaping in Mount Joy. Gutshall noted
David Kenley, Ph.D, director of the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking and professor of Chinese history at Elizabethtown College, will
See Maytown pg 9
The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 809 of Maytown, led by president Sara Gutshall, is currently selling personalized, engraved bricks that will be put into the new walkways set to be installed in the Maytown Square in mid-April. The sale of bricks will help to pay for the project.
David Kenley
present an interactive lecture as part of the Winters Heritage House Museum’s annual “Conversation E-town” series. “Populist President: China’s President Xi Jinping in the Trump Era” will focus on Xi Jinping and his goals for China and how that future might impact the international community. The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27, in the H. U. Coble House, 33 E. High St., Elizabethtown. Kenley’s presentation is free and open to the public. Kenley has been a keen observer of China for over 30 years. Fluent in Mandarin, Kenley lived in China in the 1980s and continues to travel throughout Asia on a regular basis. Kenley is the author of three books and numerous other publications. He and his wife live in Elizabethtown, where See Kenley pg 5
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is sponsoring a gift card bingo event to benefit Lancaster Relay For Life. It will be held on Sunday, Feb. 16, at St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church, 2111 Millersville Pike, Lancaster. Doors will open at 1 p.m., with bingo to start at 2 p.m. There will be 20 regular bingo games, plus two special games as well as food. An advance ticket price has been set, with a higher price at the door. Electronic tickets can be purchased by visiting www.eventbrite. com and searching for “Gift Card Bingo for Relay for Life,” with Lancaster, PA as the location, or individuals who wish to purchase tickets can text or leave a message for Kristin at 717-433-4331. Ticket presales will end at 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 14.
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Susquehanna Stage Company To Present “The Mountaintop”
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