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MARCH 16, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXX • NO 6
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Tel Hai Residents Gifted With Fresh Flowers Tel Hai is just one local retirement community that benefits from Volunteers with Petals Please the services of Petals Please, which recently delivered fresh flower bou- was founded by Chester County resquets to female residents at Tel Hai ident Beth Adams in the summer of Retirement Community in Honey 2018. Adams had the idea to take Brook. The bouquets, featuring red large bouquets of flowers such as roses, baby’s breath and greenery, those displayed at weddings and were displayed on a cart, and the funerals, break them down into recipients were invited to pick an smaller arrangements and then distribute them to local senior citizens arrangement of their choice. as a way to brighten their day. In the beginning, she and a few friends gathered the flower donations themselves and completed the work to repurpose them in Adams’ garage. Since then, Petals Please has expanded its services, attracted more than 100 volunteers and has established a workroom at Downingtown United Methodist Church. Petals Please volunteers deliver flowers to sites such as Harrison House in Coatesville and the PocopVolunteers with Petals Please recently present- son Home in West BY FRANCINE FULTON
Honey Brook Lions Dish Up Fish Fry Dinners BY FRANCINE FULTON
very Friday during Lent, members of the Honey Brook Lions Club are serving up fish fry dinners at the club’s community center, 14 Mount Pleasant Road, Honey Brook. The takeout meals will be available from 4 to 7 p.m. The dinner includes a 6-ounce haddock fillet, homemade macaroni and cheese with stewed tomatoes and cornbread. Additional quantities of each item can also be purchased. Remaining dates for the Lenten fish fries are March 18 and 25, and April 1, 8 and 15. “The fish is beer battered and deep fried. We make the macaroni and cheese and the stewed tomatoes,” said club president Barbara Hannig. “It used to be eat-in or takeout, but because of COVID, it’s takeout only. People come in and purchase how many dinners they want and how many extras and we have five or six people to serve them.” Proceeds from the fundraiser
Golf Tournament, set for Thursday, June 2, at Honeybrook Golf Club. The Lions Club, which has approximately 30 members including lifetime members, meets on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month at 6 p.m. at the community center. “We always have a full dinner at our meetings,” noted Hannig. “We are always looking for new members.” While the club is a community service organization, the members also enjoy camaraderie and participating in projects together to benefit the community. “(Sometimes) we work long hours, but we have a good time doing it,” Cutolo said. For more information about the Honey Brook Lions Club, visit www.facebook.com/HoneyBrook LionsClub. The Lions Club community center, which was once a Grange hall, is open for rental for those interested in hosting an event. Anyone wishing to rent the community center may call 610-633-5427 for details.
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Pastor Brings New Energy To GUMC BY FRANCINE FULTON
If congregation members at Glen Moore United Methodist Church (GUMC) were asked to describe pastor Daniel Hepner after seeing him play the drums in the church praise band or hearing his messages some of them may have chosen words like “enthusiastic” or “energetic.” “I am so happy to be here,” said Hepner, who was appointed GUMC pastor in the summer of 2021. “My energy comes from the Holy Spirit. See Pastor pg 5
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Community Calendar . . . .2 Discovering The Old Route 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Faith, Family, Farming . . . .4 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . .9 House Of Worship . . . . . .12
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benefit organizations that the Lions Club supports, including the Honey Brook Community Library and the Honey Brook Fire Company. The club also sponsors a Leo Club at Twin Valley middle and high schools, as well as Honey Brook Boy Scout and Cub Scout Pack 9, which meet at the community center. “All the money that we raise goes to the community - every penny,” said Hannig. “There are charities at the district level and the international level that we support,” added club member Joe Cutolo, noting that the club collects eyeglasses as part of a Lions Club International program. “We have a (collection) box out front and one at Eby’s General Store. They take out the lenses, clean them up and repurpose them.” In addition, the club presents an annual Halloween Parade, a Breakfast with Santa and an Easter egg hunt held on Easter Sunday at 10 a.m. Upcoming events include the second annual Curtis R. Mimm Memorial
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Honey Brook Lions Club members who help serve up fish fry dinners include (front, from left) Dan Hall, Barbara Hannig, Alfreda Labs, (back) Les Horton, Joe Cutolo and Dan Hiltebeitel.
