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Cedar Grove Is Hosting a Peach of a Festival BY JEFF FALK
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edar Grove Presbyterian Church is about to celebrate the uniqueness of the peach. “Peaches are delicious,” said Kris Poontajak, who’s been Cedar Grove’s pastor for 15 years. “There will be peach pies and sliced peaches. There will be familiar faces and new faces smiling and chitchatting. They will be relaxing with goodies to eat and items to take home.” The church’s peach festival has become an eastern Lancaster County tradition. This year, the community carnival will be conducted from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15, inside and outside the church, 4833 Division Highway, East Earl. The event is free to attend, and everyone is welcome. Barb MacMaster is serving as the peach fest coordinator. “The goal of the peach fest is to
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In Line of Duty, Burnell Imhoff Made Ultimate Sacrifice BY JEFF FALK
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“But people were people, and crime was crime. Things did happen; things were still going on. “New Holland was probably a smaller town at a quieter time,” Zimmerman added. “But there still was crime. Was it like it is today? No. But it still existed.” Burnell Imhoff is the only New Holland police officer to ever die in the line of duty. When Zimmerman, a bit of a history buff, became acquainted with Imhoff ’s See Imhoff pg 6
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Not everybody is a leader. But almost all of us have some leadership skills. Leadership Lancaster’s role in the community is to uncover leadership abilities, foster them and help others to make the most of them. “A leader is someone who sees potential in either another person or they see potential in an idea,” said Sarah Kemble, program director for Leadership Lancaster. “They kind of bring everyone together to achieve goals. It’s never about themselves. They are people who put their egos aside.” A community nonprofit located at 115 E. King St., Lancaster, Leadership Lancaster accomplishes its mission through training, exchanges of ideas, connection and collaboration and four key programs - college core class, core class, executive class and encore class. That range of classes allows Leadership Lancaster to bring out the best in individuals, regardless of their experience or their standings in the community. “One of the things we ask our participants is ‘When did you first consider yourself a leader?’” said Kemble. “ What it boils down to is that leadership is about caring about people you’re working with in the community, realizing your own unique set of skills and wanting to contribute to something bigger than yourself. At the end of the day, it’s about being your best self and achieving something great with people. See Leadership pg 4
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New Holland is a quiet, secure, law-abiding town. But the moral of Burnell Imhoff’s story accentuates the dangerous and risky nature of police work, no matter where it is performed. “There was crime back then, but New Holland was probably a pretty safe place,” said Mike Zimmerman, who worked as a police officer in New Holland from 1996 to 2004.
Lancaster Leaders Make Everyone Around Them Better BY JEFF FALK
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