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Garden Spot JANUARY 16, 2019

VOL LV • NO 7

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

SAVE THE DATE

The ELANCO Library Community Fest will be held on Saturday, May 11, at Garden Spot High School, 669 E. Main St., New Holland. The event will include a rummage sale, chicken barbecue, food trucks, children’s activities, and more. The community can support the event by donating items to the rummage sale, volunteering to assist at the event, and attending the event and shopping. For more information, contact Heather Smith at 717-354-0525 or hsmith@elancolibrary.org.

FASHION-FORWARD EVENT

The Walk for D.E.S. will hold a designer bag bingo fundraiser on Sunday, Jan. 20, at the Farm and Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, Lancaster. The doors will open at 11 a.m., and the event will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. Prizes will include designer bags and purses. The event will include food, door prizes, drawings, and a silent auction. Tickets may be purchased in advance by contacting Nicole Dombroski at 717-808-5252 or ashbrihai@gmail.com or Mark Schantzer at 717-917-1796 or mschantz@ptd.net. They will also be available at the door for a higher fee. All proceeds will benefit the DES Foundation of Lancaster County, which focuses on suicide awareness and prevention.

TASTY FUNDRAISER

will benefit from a fundraiser for its Room to Grow Capital Campaign on Friday, Feb. 8, starting at 6 p.m. at Foxchase Golf Club, 300 Stevens Road, Stevens. The snow date is Sunday, Feb. 10. The event will feature five courses of food and beverage pairings, with the menu including brie with fig jam, French onion soup, French country salad, chicken Francaise with potato tartiflette and steamed broccoli florets, and creme brulee cheesecake with fresh berries. There is a per-person cost, part of which will be a taxdeductible gift to the library’s Room to Grow Capital Campaign to support its new home, located a block away from its current location. Tickets are available at the library, 3000 N. Reading Road, Adamstown. For details, call 717-484-4200.

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Grants Will Help FFA Member Remodel Courtyard By Ann Mead Ash

Jack McCarty, a sophomore at Garden Spot High School (GSHS) and a Grassland FFA member, has chosen what might be considered an ambitious project to fulfill his FFA Supervised Agricultural Education (SAE) requirement. McCarty is working to restore the GSHS enclosed courtyard and turn it into an area that offers green space and an educational resource to his fellow students. Katherine Ranck, GSHS agricultural science teacher and Grassland FFA adviser, believes in McCarty. “Jack has a serving heart,” said Ranck of McCarty, who is also a member of Boy Scout Troop 48 in New Holland. Members of the National FFA Organization have shown faith by investing

a $1,000 grant in McCarty’s project. McCarty, who submitted a comprehensive report on the project to apply for the grant, has also been awarded a state grant. McCarty’s application for the national grant was selected from more than 2,100 applications nationwide. On the state level, McCarty was one of 10 students to receive a grant of more than 40 who applied. The courtyard McCarty seeks to restore has languished since the death of teacher Tracy Marchini in 2014. According to Ranck, school staff maintained the gardens and the fish pond, but the landscaping class that Marchini taught is no longer offered, so students were not involved with the upkeep of the area. That changed when McCarty approached Ranck about restoring the courtyard. See FFA Member pg 5

Winter Meeting Will Feature Heirloom Apple Expert

Jack McCarty, a sophomore at Garden Spot High School (GSHS) and a Grassland FFA member, has received two grants to help him remodel the enclosed courtyard at GSHS with plans to turn the area into a more beautiful and educational space for the school population to enjoy.

Making Disciples In Uganda Pastor Earns Doctorate Through LBC

By Dayna M. Reidenouer By Ann Mead Ash

“The only apple I remember from my childhood was the Red Delicious someone gave me at Halloween. I felt ripped off that they didn’t give me candy,” recalled author and Maine apple historian John Bunker. “(At that time), I thought apples came in only red and green.” After Bunker grew up, graduated from college, and moved to Super Chilly Farm in Palermo, Maine, he discovered apple trees, specifically those ancient specimens that grow in backyards and in far-off fields throughout rural Maine. Appreciating a potential source of free food and seeing as no one did anything with See Apple Expert pg 2

John Bunker, who specializes in the heirloom apples of Maine, will be the featured speaker at the annual Backyard Fruit Growers winter meeting on Jan. 19 at the Farm and Home Center.

There are many quotes exhorting people to be part of something bigger than themselves. Richmond Wandera, a native of Kampala, Uganda, has lived them. On Dec. 14, 2018, Wandera graduated from Lancaster Bible College (LBC) with a Doctor of Philosophy in leadership, with the goal of taking what he has learned back to his home country to spread knowledge among pastors there. “Uganda has 40 million people and 85,000 pastors, but 70 percent of (the pastors have) had no training,” said Wandera. “(Yet) they are forced to explain complex theology.” Wandera added that theological information is not easily available. Wandera realized that a biblical solution to the problem existed. “Jesus identified a few leaders See LBC Student pg 6

Richmond Wandera stands in the lobby of the Good Shepherd Chapel of Lancaster Bible College, where he graduated with his Doctor of Philosophy in leadership on Dec. 14, 2018. Wandera is the founder of a nonprofit called Pastors Discipleship Network and the recipient of LBC’s Wesley K. Stafford Leadership Development Scholarship.

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