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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVII • NO 37
Just Fiddlin’ Around NHSAP To Conclude With Labor Day Picnic
on McVey, one of the main organizers of the annual Fiddler’s Picnic, and Sue Noll, secretary/treasurer of the New Holland Summer Arts Program (NHSAP), are happy to be planning the end-of-summer event once again. “It’s nice to be able to hold it this year,” said McVey. “A lot of people are excited about it,” said Noll, who has been fielding calls from area residents who want to make sure it will be held. NHSAP did not hold any events in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. This year’s picnic will be held on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the New Holland Community Memorial Park, which is located in the 400 block of Jackson Street, New Holland. Live music will begin at 10 a.m. when the Summit Hill Bluegrass band will take the stage. Musicians are encouraged to arrive early to
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reserve a slot on the park stage. Square dancing, under the direction of Glenn - The One-Man Band will be held in the Kiwanis Pavilion from 1 to 3 p.m. The performance schedule allows a group to sign up for a 30-minute spot and a single or duo to register for 15 minutes. Usually 15 or more acts perform, and the picnic is often a place for musicians to join up to make music together. Individuals who play accordion, banjo, ukulele, bass, guitar, as well as those who sing, often take part. “I have seen flutes as well,” recalled Noll, who noted that musicians often team up to play together. “Whether they are strangers or have known each other all their lives, (they form groups),” she noted. Well-known favorites that are often heard in the park include “Turkey in the Straw,” “Dueling Banjos,” “Shenandoah Breakdown,” and “Ragtime Annie.” The picnic portion of the event is
supplied by the New Holland Lions Club, which brings its food trailer and offers items for purchase. According to Lions Club representative James Bronson, club members will serve the organization’s signature hot ham sandwiches, barbecue chicken halves, chicken corn soup, hot dogs, and beverages. Members of the Garden Spot High School (GSHS) marching band will help the Lions in the trailer. In return, the Lions will make a donation to the GSHS Marching Band Booster Club. Charles Ludwig Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 7632 will sell water at the event. A queen-size quilt made and donated by the Garden Spot Village Quilters will be given away at the picnic. The quilt features 20 handappliqued tulip blocks set on point against a background of white and hunter green. NHSAP is an all-volunteer organization that has existed in New Holland for more than four decades. See NHSAP pg 10
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During 2020, Fairmount streamlined its annual Sharing Fund benefit by holding chicken barbecue sales off site and moving the annual auction online. For 2021, many of the activities associated with the event will return, but the fundraiser will not be held at Fairmount. Instead, New Covenant Mennonite Church, 529 E. Farmersville Road, New Holland, will host the 32nd annual benefit auction and barbecue on Saturday, Sept. 11.
Local Story To Become Feature Film BY ANN MEAD ASH Grant. “Good movies need to resonate with people,” he added. “You need to “I think Stan Deen was a remark- know people like (the characters in able man in the way he encouraged the film) or be like (them) or wish you and helped other people,” said Dale were like (them).” Grant discovered the true story Bradley of Inspiring Films. “He defined his life with that.” Dale has behind the film about five years ago moved to Lancaster to make “Brave when visiting Lancaster County the Dark,” the story of the late Garden looking for possible film subjects. He Spot High School (GSHS) teacher Stan met Nate, who works at Sight & Deen and the troubled young man he Sound, and heard his story. Nate was took in during the 1980s, Nate Busko, orphaned at a young age after a now Nate Deen. “But there are lots of tragedy involving his parents. He men and women like that, so this is an became part of the foster care sysNate Deen (left), formerly Nate everyman story,” continued Dale, who tem, eventually leaving as a teenager Busko, and Stan Deen are the runs Inspiring Films with his brother only to find himself homeless living
See Fairmount pg 5
See Stan Deen pg 10
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