Elizabethtown townlively.com
JUNE 2, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXII • NO 17
Bringing Faith And Fellowship Along For The Ride BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Over the past seven years, Lifecycles has helped young people ride the equivalent of more than four times around the Earth on their bicycles. “I track all the mileage of our local rides and our bigger trips, and we have now ridden more than 110,000 miles,” said Lee DeRemer, who runs Lifecycles with his wife, Marcie. The organization is open to boys and girls ages 12 to 18 and offers participants a chance to enjoy friendship, mentoring and bike riding, all with a faith focus.
Pastor Daryl Heistand (left); Miranda Heistand (second from left), holding daughter Selah; and Arlene Heistand invite the community to a strawberry social at Rissers Mennonite Church.
Celebrating Strawberries BY CATHY MOLITORIS
une is strawberry season in Lancaster County, and Rissers Mennonite Church will celebrate with a strawberry social. The event will be held at the church, 8360 Elizabethtown Road, Elizabethtown, beginning at 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 12. “We’ll have lawn games and kids’ activities like a pinata and bean bag toss, and we’ll have our playground open for kids to play on,” said Arlene Heistand, chair of the social committee. “We’ll serve a light supper, and then we’ll have a variety of strawberry desserts.” The social will also include two demonstrations, one on growing strawberries and one on making strawberry jelly. This is the first year the church is holding the strawberry social, said pastor Daryl Heistand, although the congregation has organized other community events in the past, including an apple festival. “We thought we’d try something new this year,” he noted. “ We
“It’s a chance to meet friends and have fun. You can play the games and enjoy the activities, or you can just sit around, eat and talk. It will be a very laid-back, easygoing event.”
The strawberry social offers a chance to enjoy tasty treats and socialize, said Arlene. “It’s a great opportunity for people who have been cooped up inside to get out and enjoy an evening outside,” she stated. Daryl agreed, adding, “It’s a chance to meet friends and have fun. You can play the games and enjoy the activities, or you can just sit around, eat and talk. It will be a very laid-back, easygoing event.” He said events like the strawberry social are important to the church members, who want to connect with their neighbors. “It’s a time for the community to come out and get to know us,” he explained. “We care about the people around us, and we want to encourage being friendly and working together. The more we know each other as a community, the better our community becomes.” Rissers Mennonite Church holds services on Sundays beginning at 9 a.m. with Sunday school for adults and children, followed by worship time at 10 a.m. For more information, call 717-653-4549.
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Lifecycles offers young people a chance to ride bikes while also sharing faith and friendship.
Creating Community With A Box BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Outside her home at 124 Cedar St. in Elizabethtown, Emily Henderson is building a community. For two years, she has operated The Puzzle Box of Elizabethtown, encouraging people to “take one, leave one, or do a bit of both.” “My mother-in-law moved in with us, and she started buying and doing puzzles, but when she was done with them, I had to figure out what to do with all of them,” Emily recalled. See Box pg 6
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and they will be doing a detailed demonstration of how to grow strawberries, including covering different varieties and cultivars,” he explained. “Many of the women in our church also make homemade jelly, so we thought it would be neat to do a demo about that as well. Not everybody has somebody in their family who makes jam or who has experience with making it, so this will be an opportunity to see how it’s done.”
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planned it to happen just as strawberries are in peak season.” He emphasized that the demonstrations will be informative and educational. “We have people in our congregation who are avid gardeners, horticulturists really,
“We offer the boys and girls a positive experience, encouragement, a challenge, goal setting, mentoring and spiritual growth,” Lee explained. “Because our program includes all of that, there’s no room left for bullying or people making fun of each other. … We don’t have kids tearing each other down. We like to say we find out what the teens are doing right, and we build on that.” Lifecycles began its current season on April 19 and is looking for more riders as well as more volunteers. Currently, the group has a girls’ team that rides on Mondays in Lititz and three boys’ teams - one in Marietta on Tuesdays, one in Landisville on Thursdays and another in New Holland also on Thursdays. The group also rides on two Saturdays a month.
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