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Hempfield

JANUARY 15, 2020

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL XXXV • NO 45

NEW FACEBOOK PAGE

The Merchandiser is teaming up with Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc.’s other community newspapers - the Pennysaver, Advertiser, and Community Courier - to create one go-to spot to engage with the community on Facebook. The new Facebook page can be found at www.facebook.com/townlively. Community members may follow the new page to stay connected to the areas where they live, work, and play through nonprofit news, community happenings, local sports coverage, and much more. The Facebook page supplements EPC’s www.townlively.com website, where readers can find digital editions of the newspapers, read articles, learn about community events, and more. BENEFIT BABY SHOWER

Catholic Daughters of the Americas Lancaster Court Queen of Peace 1023 will host a baby shower for A Woman’s Concern on Sunday, Jan. 19, at 1:45 p.m. in the Parish Activity Center at St. Philip the Apostle Church, 2111 Millersville Pike, Lancaster. All Catholic women are invited to attend and may bring new baby items for infants or toddlers to age 4. Those with questions may email Margaret T. Giordano at mgiordano. sultzbach@gmail.com or leave a voice message at 717-390-9035.

Hempfield Girls Edge Falcons pg 4

YWCA Event Will Celebrate MLK Day pg 2

Blood Donation Challenge Launched pg 7

Comforters Offer Warmth At Providence Shelter By Dayna M. Reidenouer

When homeless individuals check into the new Providence Shelter at Water Street Mission, 210 S. Prince St., Lancaster, they keep warm under brightly colored comforters handsewn with love. Rosene Weaver has long been a member of the sewing circle at Hammer Creek Mennonite Church. The group makes comforters that are distributed to disaster survivors and refugees by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) as well as to homeless people by shelters in the Reading area. A comforter is made from a top pieced from squares that typically measure between 4 and 8 inches per side and a solid backing, together sandwiching quilt batting or a heavy piece of fabric. The three layers are tied together with knots made from

strong thread. The comforters are finished by binding the edges, and they measure 60 inches by 80 inches, large enough for a twin-size bed. A sewing factory in the Ephrata area closed a few years ago and donated a wealth of unused material to the sewing circle. Volunteers cut the fabric into squares, which Weaver organizes into groups for quilt tops. Weaver’s mother, Ruth Bruckhart, sews the tops, and then Weaver assembles the comforters. Erma Martin finishes the binding. Weaver noted that she does a lot of the work at home because her responsibilities at her family’s greenhouse business often prevent her from attending sewing circle meetings. “ We do this on the offseason,” Weaver remarked. “Our vocation doesn’t allow vacations, so I do staycations at home. I tie comforters in our See Providence Shelter pg 2

Hammer Creek Mennonite Church sewing circle members Rosene Weaver (left) and Erma Martin were instrumental in assembling and delivering comforters for the cots at Water Street Mission’s Providence Shelter. Opportunities to contribute to the emergency shelter are ongoing.

MARRIAGE WORKSHOP

MEETING AND A MESSAGE

The Hempfield Woman’s Club will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 2 p.m. at Salem United Church of Christ, 2312 Marietta Ave., Lancaster (Rohrerstown). Speaker Robert Frick will address the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Contact Barbara Kauffman at 717-293-5099 with questions.

Hamming It Up For Winter Field Day Tango Concert Is A Family Affair By Dayna M. Reidenouer

Twice a year, amateur radio operators - colloquially known as ham radio operators - set up their equipment out of doors and attempt to contact as many people around the globe as possible. “We’re practicing for emergencies,” explained Red Rose Repeater Association (RRRA) president Daniel Boone of Willow

Street. “Disasters don’t know the seasons of the year.” Field days are 24-hour events in order to include amateur radio enthusiasts in all time zones, as well as to give individuals experience broadcasting See Winter Field Day pg 3

Red Rose Repeater Association board members (from left) Leon Hess, Doug Rice, and Daniel Boone invite the public to attend the Winter Field Day from Jan. 25 to 26 at the Welsh Mountain Community Center in New Holland.

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“What if life was so generous that your son and your wife will be on stage with you, performing your own composition, orchestrated by your own wife, with a great orchestra?” bandoneonist and band leader Héctor Del Curto posted on his Facebook page in September after his trio performed with the Stowe Tango Music Festival orchestra. Life will again be generous to Del Curto, as the musicians are scheduled to reprise that performance, this time with the See Tango Concert pg 7

The members of the Del Curto-Ok family, (from left) Jisoo Ok, Santiago Del Curto, and Héctor Del Curto, will appear with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra as part of the “Provocative Passions” concert featuring tango music from Argentina on Jan. 18. Concerts at 3 and 8 p.m. will take place at Millersville University’s Winter Center.

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