Greater Hershey Area townlively.com
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
ALSO SERVING HUMMELSTOWN & MIDDLETOWN
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXVII • NO 10
FIA banquets will showcase international impacts
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riends In Action International (FIA), a faith-based nonprofit organization in Middletown, will offer the choice of two different dates and venues for its annual awareness banquet. The organization exists to assist missionaries serving in areas of limited infrastructure by using construction projects to help them share the Gospel with unreached people groups. One banquet will take place on Friday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m. at Lebanon Valley Bible Church, 1482 Horseshoe Pike, Lebanon. A second, identical banquet will be held on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m. at the Sheraton Harrisburg-Hershey Hotel, 4650 Lindle Road, Harrisburg. Attendees at both locations will enjoy a dinner buffet complete with a dessert bar. The event’s theme is celebrating reaching
the nations and generations for Christ. Throughout the evening, guests will see how God has combined the experience and generosity of the greatest generation with the strength and exuberance of the next generation to make frontline Gospel impacts. At each event, the keynote speaker will be FIA’s field leader in Vanuatu, Levi Pitman, who will share stories about serving NiVan villagers living in the region. Guests will learn how FIA volunteer travelers use trade and construction skills to make progress on water projects that will bring clean water to more than 3,500 villagers. Experienced construction owner Randy Schnieders will share details of the work, and younger volunteers Camden Palmer and Nathan Sensenig will describe how their worldviews have been See FIA pg 4 Attendees socialized at the 2023 FIA banquet.
The Hummelstown Area Historical Society has opened the exhibit “Have a Seat.” The show may be viewed at the History House, 32 W. Main St., Hummelstown, during normal business hours on Mondays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. There is no charge for admission. For more details, call the office at 717-566-6314. Chairs for adults and children of all shapes, sizes, and ages are on display. Each chair is identified by how it would have been used rather than by its style or A painted plant bottom kitchen history.
A farm chair purchased from Ed Stover at a public sale
Concert to feature competition winner The Hershey Symphony will kick off its 56th season at the Hershey Theatre, 15 E. Caracas Ave., Hershey, on Saturday, Sept. 14, at 7:30 p.m. with “Romantic Reveries,” a program that includes Dvořák’s Prague Waltzes and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major. The concerto will be performed by Daniel Huang, the symphony’s 2024 Young Artist Competition winner. “I was impressed with Daniel’s command of the piece,” said
maestro Greg Woodbridge. “He captured the power and the elegance without ever being out of control. He plays with a rhythmic precision and a beautiful, singing tone.” Huang has been studying piano for 12 years and plans to study violin performance in college. “It has been a great honor to be selected as the winner of the Young Artist Competition. I am very excited for this opportunity to be able to play with such an incredible orchestra and in front See Concert pg 3
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