Manheim Central SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
IN THIS ISSUE: SCRAP METAL DRIVE SLATED page 2
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LIX • NO 37
BABY PARADE
Manheim Farm Show
FALL FESTIVAL
St. Paul’s United Church of Christ (UCC), 50 N. Main St., Manheim, invites children and their families from the Manheim community to a fall festival on Sunday, Sept. 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. The free event will be held rain or shine. The festival will feature fall-themed games, music, crafts, prizes, food, and beverages. Free parking is available, and the church is handicapped-accessible. The church also invites the community to services at 9:30 a.m. on Sundays, followed by a time of fellowship with coffee. Small groups meet at 10:30 a.m., and nursery care is available as well. For more information, readers may visit www.stpaulsucc manheim.org or contact the church office at 717-665-2447 or stpauls manheim@ptd.net. VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT
is seeking volunteers for an event at the high school, 400 Adele Ave., on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Junior Achievement (JA) of South Central PA will offer its REAL Life program, and all 260 students in 11th grade will participate in daylong activities related to financial literacy. Volunteers will facilitate one of the activities during the day. JA will provide all the training the morning of the event, and a light breakfast and lunch will be provided. To sign up to volunteer, email real-life@jascpa.org. For more information, contact Allison Kierce, vice president of volunteer engagement, at akierce@jascpa.org.
By Chelsea Peifer
Frank Stellar’s railway garden was a dream deferred for many years as other ventures - like a successful teaching and coaching career at Donegal High School and raising a family - took priority. Upon retiring, he set out to design and install an expansive backyard layout at his Manheim home. Instead of starting small and gradually adding on, he opted to go big from the start. “At my age, I knew what I wanted to do and knew that it’d be a one-and-done thing,” said Stellar. The approximately 30-by-70-yard layout features a double-track railway with G-scale trains and a multitude of buildings nestled among eye-catching gardens. For the buildings - which include a train station, a power plant, a coal mine, a church, houses, barns, and
more - Stellar worked from kits or modified birdhouses that fit his vision. Antique vehicles dot the roadways, and last summer Stellar added a small pond and babbling waterfall. Battery-powered trains travel along tracks that swirl throughout the yard at several levels of elevation, disappearing from time to time under tunnels or the deck before reappearing to cross bridges and trestles all hand-built by Stellar. “It’s all one continuous loop, and I can run three trains at a time,” Stellar noted. The tracks also lead through a small doorway into the garage, where they can loop around Stellar’s workshop before returning outdoors. Just how many hours go into maintenance and upkeep for the layout and garden is tough to say, but the entire project is a labor of love for Stellar. Railroading is in his blood and has See Garden Railways Tour pg 6
Series To Address Opioid Epidemic By Chelsea Peifer
Lancaster County Joining Forces (LCJF), in partnership with Compass Mark and Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, will present a free, three-part series addressing the opioid epidemic in Lancaster County. All sessions are free to attend and will take place on select Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Alliance Church of Elizabethtown, 425 Cloverleaf Road, Elizabethtown. The lecture series will kick off on Sept. 25 with Jack Sodak of Retreat at Lancaster County sharing on “Addiction - A Disease of the Mind and Body.” On Oct. 9, Joel Jakubowski will speak on “How to Help a Loved One Struggling With Drug Use.” The series will See Three-Part Series pg 4
WRITING PROGRAM
Manheim Community Library (MCL), 15 E. High St., will host On Writing with Holly Bush on Monday, Sept. 24, at 6:30 p.m. For those writing toward publication or for personal satisfaction, Bush will share her writing journey and habits and will answer questions about the writing process. The program is free. Call 717-665-6700 or visit www.manheimlibrary.org.
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Sharing The Magic Of Model Railroading
Jack Sodak of Retreat at Lancaster County will speak on “Addiction - A Disease of the Mind and Body” on Sept. 25 at the Alliance Church of Elizabethtown. His talk is the first in a three-part series hosted by Lancaster County Joining Forces on the opioid epidemic in Lancaster County.
Manheim resident Frank Stellar’s garden railway will be among the 10 featured tour sites throughout Lancaster, York, and Chester counties on the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania’s 12th annual Garden Railways Tour on Oct. 7. Tickets are on sale now for the self-guided, family-friendly tour, which benefits the museum.
COBYS - Expanding To Serve The Community Foster Care Orientation Classes Slated By Ann Mead Ash
Don Fitzkee, director of development for COBYS Family Services, easily
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recalls the earliest days of the organization’s existence in 1980. “We began as a teen foster care agency with foster families in private homes,” said Fitzkee. During the last few years, COBYS has grown extensively in response to the drug epidemic. “You read stories in the newspaper about people affected by the opioid crisis,” said Fitzkee, “but you don’t read about the children involved.” Fitzkee noted that many of those children go into foster care. “COBYS is trying to care for those children while their parents deal with those issues,” See COBYS pg 7
To meet the growing need in the community, COBYS Family Services purchased a building on Murry Hill Circle in Lancaster and moved a number of staff to that location. Christened the Murry Hill Center, the building is the site of monthly foster parenting orientation classes, as well as adoption and foster care services.
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is seeking entries for the baby parade to be held on Monday, Oct. 8. Judging will begin at 5:30 p.m., and the parade will begin at 6:15 p.m. In the case of rain, the parade will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 9. The entry form and rules are available by visiting www.manheim farmshow.org or emailing Lisa Kowalski at lisagkowalski@gmail.com.