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JULY 28, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVII • NO 32
Pitchin’ In the Park Horseshoe Club Shares Decades Of History BY ANN MEAD ASH
ach Monday, a group of gentlemen gathers at the east end of the New Holland Community Memorial Park in the 400 block of Jackson Street. They are members of the Lancaster County Horseshoe League, a group that has been meeting in the park to play for more than three decades. Don Troupe, former New Holland chief of police, is among their number. “We come down here to have fun,” said Troupe, who has kept careful track of the development of the league since prior to its inception in 1985. Although the first meeting, attended by Paul Caudill Sr., Vernon Shenk, Jim Lafferty, and Harold Becker, was held in February 1985, Troupe said that the group dates back to 1981, when Lafferty first organized a horseshoe throwing contest for the New Holland Farmers Day Fair.
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In April 1985, Lafferty and Becker met with Warren Peachy at the park with a plan requesting that five courts be established in the area where the swimming pool had been located. The Farmers Day Association helped to cover the cost, and by the summer of 1985, the courts were installed and ready for a Farmers Day Fair team tournament on the first Saturday in October. In 1986, several non-sanctioned tournaments were held at the site, with the first National Horseshoe Pitchers Association (NHPA) tournament held in August of 1986. By the summer of 1988, the organization was holding league pitching on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. It was decided that more courts were needed to accommodate the club members, and in December, construction began, with four additional courts completed in May of 1989. Because many planing mill employees pitched during
lunch, the club approached mill president Jay Weber for assistance. “We went to him and asked him if he would finance the construction of (the four courts),” said Troupe. “We went back after (the courts) were done and asked how we would pay off the loan, and he said it was a donation,” he recalled. The courts were all installed to NHPA specifications and authorization, so that NHPA competitions among that national group’s members could be held there. “There are national, state, and even world tournaments,” said Troupe, who added that Lancaster falls in the Eastern region of the Pennsylvania division. “Almost every weekend all summer, there is a sanctioned tournament somewhere in Pennsylvania,” noted Troupe. Troupe explained that the distance between horseshoe pins is 40 feet for men, but women and anyone over age 65 may pitch from a 30-foot line. The area around the
County Treasures: Heritage Press Museum
BY FRANCINE FULTON
Churchtown Day, featuring community-wide yard sales and specialty foods prepared at Caernarvon Fire Company, will be presented by the Caernarvon Historical Society on Saturday, Aug. 7. “We’ve had it for years on the first Saturday in August, but because of the coronavirus we had to cancel last year, but we’re back,” said society president Yvonne Styer. “It’s a big event for people to come out and find bargains. They can spend all morning going up and
BY ANN MEAD ASH
The Heritage Press Museum, 346 N. Queen St., Lancaster, has its roots in the Lancaster Cultural History Museum, once located in the Lancaster Trust Performing Arts Center. Ken Kulakowsky is one of the volunteers at the Heritage Press and a member of the .918 Club, a group dedicated to preserving the art of printing and named for the See Heritage Press pg 8
Members of the Lancaster County Horseshoe League.
Caernarvon Historical Society To Host Churchtown Day
Flea markets will be part of Churchtown Day on Aug. 7.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Pork Barbeque Fundraiser . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Nutrition Program Vouchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Business Directory . . . . . .2 New Holland Swimmers . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 House Of Worship . . . . . .11 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . .12
See Churchtown Day pg 8
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