Greater Hershey Area ALSO SERVING HUMMELSTOWN AND MIDDLETOWN
townlively.com
DECEMBER 8, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIV • NO 23
Hershey Resident Creates “Once Upon A Pesto” BY FRANCINE FULTON
he pesto that most cooks and diners are familiar with is pesto Genovese, a sauce that is green in color and is made from basil, Parmesan, garlic and pine nuts. However, Jessica Paholsky, creator of the Once Upon a Pesto website, explains further. “Pesto comes from the Italian verb that means to crush or to grind, so pesto is a process,” she said. “Because basil was such an abundant herb in northwest Italy, that was what they decided to crush and grind into sauce.” Paholsky, a resident of Hershey, founded Once Upon a Pesto in 2016, utilizing social media, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, to share fun facts about pesto. Her website, www.onceupon apesto.com, features information about how various cultures blend pesto sauce around the world. There are also more than 100 pesto recipes with photos on the website, such as passion fruit pesto from Puerto Rico, maple syrup pesto from Canada, Native American pumpkin pesto, parsley pesto
Family Donates Paintings To Hummelstown Historical Society
a publishing company. “To publish a history and food culture and learncookbook was in the back of my ing about other people around us.” To learn more, visit the previously head,” she said, noting that authoring a cookbook remains a goal for mentioned website, www.face book.com/onceuponapesto, www. the future. Now employed as a full-time instagram.com/onceuponapesto or videographer, Paholsky decided to www.twitter.com/onceuponapesto. utilize personal videos on social Individuals may also connect with media to better connect with her Paholsky on Pinterest and YouTube. audience. “In terms of my audience engagement, Instagram is my top platform,” she noted. “I have done Instagram live chats with people in Europe and South Africa.” Paholsky encourages people to check out her various social media sites to get new ideas about preparing pesto. “You get in a cycle. People have their routine - their favorite foods and restaurants,” she said. “(I hope people) will try something they’ve never tried before. A recipe for Nigerian yam pesto can be found at Jessica Paholsky of Hershey is the This leads to food www.onceuponapesto.com. creator of Once Upon a Pesto.
Holiday Tour To Showcase Middletown Homes
BY FRANCINE FULTON
The Hummelstown Area Historical Society was gifted with more than 40 paintings that were created by the late Frank Hutton, a longtime Hummelstown resident. The paintings are on display at the History House, 32 W. Main St., Hummelstown, where visitors can view or purchase the artwork during regular business hours, Mondays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Wednesdays from 3 to 7 p.m.
This farmhouse, originally built in 1875, will be featured on this year’s Middletown Holiday Home Tour.
Seven homes festively decorated for the holiday season will be featured during this year’s Middletown Holiday Home Tour, set for Saturday, Dec. 11, from 1 to 8 p.m. The tour will begin at The Event Place, 11 S. Union St., Middletown, which will serve as the tour’s hospitality center. Participants can purchase a ticket for the tour between noon and 7 p.m. Ticket holders will receive a wristband, which will allow them to enter the participating private homes, as well as a brochure with information about each tour site and a map of the tour route. See Holiday Home Tour pg 4
Grand Reopening Set At Parish House . . . . . . . . . .2 Christmas Bird Count Planned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . .10 House Of Worship . . . . . .12
scan this code for more local news R078229
See Paintings pg 3
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
BY FRANCINE FULTON
Let us show you the difference a caring neighbor can make. Rothermel-Finkenbinder Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc. Palmyra | 717-838-9211 Travis S. Finkenbinder, Supervisor
PRSRT STD ECRWSS U.S. Postage Paid Engle Printing Co
POSTMASTER: PLEASE DELIVER DEC. 8, 2021
Postal Patron
HCC
T
from Greece and Nigerian yam pesto. There are no fees to pay or clubs to join, so everyone is welcome to enjoy all the information that Paholsky has to offer. “I am just trying to build a brand; educate, entertain and grow an audience all over the world; and engage with people from every country,” she stated. “It incorporates all of my passions storytelling, art, photography, travel and education and awareness.” Paholsky grew up in Adams County and graduated as valedictorian from Littlestown High School in 2010 and then as college marshal in the College of Communications at Penn State University Park in 2014. “During that time, I studied abroad in Mexico, Cuba and Italy,” she said. “My first job after college was at a teen travel company. I spent two years there, and we arranged trips for high school students to foreign countries. It gave me that awareness of how big the world really is and the significance of learning about other cultures.” Paholsky started Once Upon a Pesto while working at Rodale Inc.,
Miller-Finkenbinder Funeral Home & Crematory Elizabethtown | 717-367-1543 Thomas W. Ford, Supervisor
Fager-Finkenbinder Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc. Middletown | 717-944-7413 Alana A. Ace, Supervisor