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NOVEMBER 15, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 28
Holiday Home Tour will return to Strasburg the event’s organizer and a member of the Strasburg Heritage Socihe Strasburg Heritage Society ety. “It’s nice to hear positive feedwill hold its annual Strasburg back on your home, and it also gets Holiday Home Tour on Satur- your house decorated early.” During the tour, several vendors day, Dec. 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, will be stationed in the fellowship hall 101 S. Decatur St., Strasburg. of First Presbyterian Church to sell The event will highlight multiple items such as Christmas decorations historic buildings throughout and handmade crafts. Lunch items will be available to Strasburg, and it purchase from local will feature a variety of holiday activi- “ T h e w h o l e i d e a Girl Scouts, including ties to get Strasburg behind the event is homemade soup, residents into the to bring the town sandwiches and Christmas spirit. together for a day desserts. Items from each vendor will be The tour will take of community.” available to bid on participants to seven during a silent auclocal homes, and although the buildings vary in tion, which will also feature prodtheir age and architecture styles, ucts from local businesses. Tickets each one is guaranteed to be elab- are available to purchase in orately decorated for the holiday advance at Main Street Antiques, season. This year, the tour will 2 W. Main St., Strasburg, and include six homes that have never Speckled Hen Coffee, 141 E. Main St., participated in the annual tradi- Strasburg. Tickets may also be tion before. “People like to show purchased at https://strasburg off their homes because they get heritagesociety.org in advance or so many great and appreciative at First Presbyterian Church on comments,” said Lorna Mentzer, the day of the tour. BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
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The Strasburg Holiday Home Tour will include a stop at Olde Village Mill, a historic building that was constructed in Strasburg in 1740.
BY ANN MEAD ASH
To celebrate three decades of presenting “The Nutcracker” to Lancaster-area audiences, the Viktor Yeliohin International Ballet Academy will hold a special presentation of the ballet, which will bring together on stage 20 dancers who have played Clara in the production. “The Nutcracker” will be presented at the High Fine Arts Center at Lancaster Mennonite School, 2176 Lincoln Highway East, Lancaster, on Friday, Dec. 1, at 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 2, at
Shopping small this holiday season BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
1 and 6 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 3, at 2 p.m. The former Claras will be honored at the 1 p.m. show on Dec. 2. The story of “The Nutcracker” has its roots in “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” written in 1816 by E.T.A. Hoffmann. The ballet tells the tale of a young girl, named Clara, who is given the gift of a nutcracker that comes to life on Christmas Eve. Clara’s beloved toy then battles the Mouse King. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the score for the ballet, which was first performed in 1892 and has since
Lancaster County’s economy is driven by small, local businesses. According to data from EDC Lancaster County, the county is home to more than 13,000 businesses, 97% of which have fewer than 100 employees. Truly, local businesses are at the heart of Lancaster County communities. What better way to celebrate the diversity, uniqueness, and creativity of independent, local businesses than by supporting them during the busiest shopping season of the year? “I love how relational the businesses in the Southern End are,”
See “Nutcracker” pg 6
See Shop small pg 5
Every year, residents of Strasburg get into the holliday spirit by shopping for gifts at local shops and gathering for the annual tree lighting, a tradition that was started almost 100 years ago.
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