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Garden Spot MAY 1, 2019
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LV • NO 22
YARD SALE
Schoeneck Fire Company, 125 N. King St., Denver, will hold special events on Saturday, May 4. A yard sale will begin at 7 a.m., and the Big John Nolt chicken barbecue dinner will take place from 9 a.m. until the food is sold out. For more information, call 717-336-6767.
Spartans Edge Ephrata, 3-2 pg 14
30th Annual Truck Convoy Slated pg 11
Spring Carnival Planned pg 2
PROGRAM ABOUT DEER
Caernarvon Historical Society, 2148 Main St., Churchtown, will host a program on “Deer Physiology and Behavior” presented by Stephen J. Shaw on Wednesday, May 8. The program will begin at 10 a.m. The public is invited to attend. For details, call 717-445-5040. HOT MEAL
Weaverland Community Church, 210 Weaverland Valley Road, East Earl, will offer a hot, nutritious meal on Wednesday, May 8. Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 6 p.m. in the lower level fellowship hall. The dine-in-only event is open to everyone. Registration is not required. For information, call the church at 717-445-6348.
Tremblay Exhibit To Include International Flair By Ann Mead Ash
New Holland Area Historical Society (NHAHS) board member Wilbur Horning recently expressed how honored the society feels to have been blessed with more than 60 original works and pencil sketches by the late Myrtle Tremblay. “We consider it a compliment,” said Wilbur recently. NHAHS will display “The Unseen Works of Myrtle Tremblay” at its museum, 207 E. Main St., New Holland, throughout the summer. A formal opening will be held on Sunday, May 19, at 2 p.m. Tremblay was known
for her paintings of Lancaster County scenery, but many of the works that will be featured in the exhibit were completed in Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, and elsewhere in South America prior to Tremblay’s move to New Holland. The technique used in these paintings is considered different from her later works. Tremblay was born Myrtle Cobb in Albion, Mich., in 1908. In her youth, she taught herself to draw by copying pictures. She attended Bay City Junior College, where her talent was recognized and she became art editor of the school yearbook. Tremblay earned a See Tremblay Exhibit pg 3
DAY OF PRAYER
Cedar Grove Presbyterian Church, 4833 Division Highway, East Earl, will hold a National Day of Prayer service around the flagpole on Thursday, May 2, at 10 a.m. This year’s theme will be “Love One Another.” Attendees are welcome to bring a lawn chair. For more details, call the church office at 717-354-5573.
New Holland Area Historical Society representatives (from left) Don Horning, Wilbur Horning, and Lou Ann Miller display works of the late Myrtle Tremblay. The historical society museum, 207 E. Main St., New Holland, will host an exhibit of the artist’s works throughout the summer. A formal opening will be held at the museum on Sunday, May 19, at 2 p.m.
Seventh Annual Hope For Haiti NHELC Earns Its Stars Benefit Auction Scheduled By Ann Mead Ash
SHREDDING EVENT
By Ann Mead Ash
433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland, will be the site of a Shred-It Day event on Friday, May 3, from 9 to 11 a.m. Members of the public are invited to bring up to five boxes or bags full of confidential documents to be securely shredded. Confidential documents may include financial records and legal papers. There is a suggested donation per box or bag. UPCOMING CONCERT
The Gap Male Chorus will be present a concert on Sunday, May 5, at Twin Valley Bible Chapel, 105 Shirktown Road, Narvon, at 6 p.m. The concert will include classic hymn arrangements, Southern gospel tunes, spirituals, and music in modern styles. Admission is free, but a freewill offering will be received to benefit the chorus’s chosen mission project.
According to Kristen Hertzog, organizer of the seventh annual Hope for Haiti benefit auction, this year’s event will feature something for everyone, including some of the smallest attendees. “We plan on children’s barrel train rides and pony rides this year,” said Hertzog. “The pony rides are new.” This year’s auction, which began when a group of neighbors decided to help Preparing for the seventh annual Hope for Haiti fund schools in Haiti, will be benefit auction are (from left) Kristen Hertzog, held at the Hertzog Homestead, 470 W. Metzler Road, Diana Anselmo, and Paul Anselmo. This year’s auction, which will help fund two educational and Ephrata, on Saturday, May business training projects in Haiti, will be held at 18, beginning at 9 a.m. the Hertzog Homestead in Ephrata on May 18. See Hope For Haiti pg 10
“We are so excited to be a STAR 3 (early education program),” said Wanda Bortzel, director of New Holland Early Learning Center (NHELC), 18 Western
See NHELC pg 11
New Holland Early Learning Center (NHELC) administrators Jen Morales (left), Dawn Ranck Hower (second from left), and Wanda Bortzel (right), along with some NHELC students, celebrated the Keystone STARS 3 award the center received at the end of 2018.
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Ave., New Holland. NHELC was awarded the STAR 3 rating at the end of 2018. Keystone Stars is an early education rating system that rates quality improvement. Bortzel, who became director at the center in 2014, said that NHELC has been making a dedicated effort toward earning the rating over the last two years. Gaining her director’s credentials was an essential piece of the new rating. “I had to take master’s-level courses,” said Bortzel, who completed the last of the necessary nine credit hours in December 2018. According to NHELC assistant director Jen Morales, the