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Berks and Chester Counties •STEPS Resource Fair, Lionville Middle School, Exton - March 7
Renewing Lives At Jubilee pg 3
Church To Host Stephen Ministry Workshop pg 4 Organists Will Present Concert pg 3
Seven Sorrows Marks Catholic Schools Week
•Irish Breakfast Buffet, Historic Joanna Furnace Iron Works, Geigertown - March 21
the school’s philosophy of education and highlighted its Catholic identity. Catholic schools aim to address formation of the intellect, character, and spirituality. Following a kickoff Mass and spaghetti dinner, students
Seven Sorrows Catholic Church in Middletown will hold its 23rd annual Lenten fish fry on Fridays, Feb. 28 through April 3. The fish fry will run from 5 to 8 p.m. each week at Seven Sorrows School, 360 E. Water St., Middletown. Doors will open at 3:15 p.m., and service will begin at 5 p.m. The menu will feature all-you-caneat batter-dipped fish for eat-in orders only, along with lemon-pepper fish, crab cakes, jumbo fried shrimp, macaroni and cheese, pierogies, lobster macaroni and cheese, crabby cheese fries, and a variety of desserts, including chocolate cake with peanut butter icing, lemon-berry mascarpone cake and coconut cream pie. For more than 20 years, the parish has been serving people who come
See Catholic Schools Week pg 3
See Fish Fry pg 4
•Elverson Antique Show, Twin Valley High School, Elverson March 28 and 29 Greater Hershey Area •The Federated Women’s Club of Hershey and the Hershey Lions Club’s pork and sauerkraut dinner, Grace United Methodist Church, Hummelstown - March 1 •Spring Garden Workshops, Lebanon Valley Agricultural Center, Lebanon - March 4 and 11 •Central Pennsylvania Handbell Festival, Lebanon Area Evangelical Free Church, Jonestown March 14 Lancaster County
•Purimshpiel, Congregation Shaarai Shomayim, Lancaster March 8 •Junior League of Lancaster’s Run4Luck, Lancaster Country Day School, Lancaster - March 14
29th Sapphire Gala Scheduled The 29th annual Sapphire Gala will take place on Saturday, March 14, at the Hershey Lodge, 325 University Drive, Hershey. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. The event will help support the mission of the American Lung Association in Pennsylvania: to save lives by improving lung health and preventing
World War II Roundtable Plans Meeting
lung disease through research, education and advocacy. The gala will feature a masquerade ball, music, dinner, dancing, drawings and a silent auction. The evening will highlight the fact that more than 1.7 million Pennsylvanians have chronic lung disease, like asthma and COPD. The event will honor lung heroes and champions and See Sapphire Gala pg 3
York County •Guinston Presbyterian Arts and Crafts Festival, Chanceford Community Building, Brogue March 7 •York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, downtown York - March 14
The Denim and Diamonds Gala will take place at Susquehanna Valley Harley-Davidson, 6300 Allentown Blvd., Harrisburg, on Saturday, March 21, from 6 to 10 p.m. Organizers anticipate that more than 100 Harrisburg area business and community leaders and residents will attend the event, which will feature silent
auctions, food and live entertainment. Attendees will seek to raise awareness and funds for Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Mid-Atlantic Region, which aims to help children and adults in the Harrisburg area with life-threatening, muscle-debilitating diseases live longer and grow stronger. MDA seeks to find treatments and See MDA Fundraiser pg 2
The Central Pennsylvania World War II Roundtable will meet on Thursday, March 5, at 7 p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church, 433 E. Main St., Hummelstown. During World War II, the Marines used a unique code to transmit messages in their battles in the Pacific Theater. The code was based on the Navajo language, an unwritten language spoken by few people who were not of Navajo origin. Historian and filmmaker Dr. George A. Colburn will tell the story of the men who made it possible for U.S. troops to utilize this unique language in his documentary “Navajo Code Talkers: A Journey of Remembrance.” Colburn will discuss the making of the documentary and show the film in its entirety. The program is free and open to the public. Approximately 400 Native Americans See Roundtable pg 3
Dr. George A. Colburn will show and speak about his documentary “Navajo Code Talkers: A Journey of Remembrance” during the Central Pennsylvania World War II Roundtable’s meeting on Thursday, March 5, at Grace United Methodist Church in Hummelstown.
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•Dance MS, a Zumbathon event, Manchester Township Building Rec Hall, York - March 21
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•Strasburg Fire Company’s spring donation and consignment sale, Strasburg - Feb. 28 and 29
Seven Sorrows School and Parish participated in the recent annual national Catholic Schools Week celebration. Registration for the 2020-21 school year has begun. Seven Sorrows School and Parish in Middletown participated in the annual national Catholic Schools Week celebration, which ended in early February. In her remarks to the school families and parish, principal Rebecca Harvey outlined
Annual Lenten Fish Fry Set
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