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he roots of the annual Strawberry Festival at St. Mary of Providence Center cannot be verified, but there are some strong theories. The festival is now held every year in June, near the end of peak strawberry picking season. Editions of the Community Courier from the 1970s show that at one time a Strawberry Festival was held at the site annually, usually to benefit girls with developmental disabilities. At some point in the 1980s, the tradition ended. Children will have the opportunity to get strawberry-flavored candy out of a Decades later, the festival strawberry piñata. returned in 2022 and has now resolidified itself as a hallmark had a lot of strawberries grow- ton of strawberries that they were of summer in the area. However, ing on the property,” said Sister growing. Therefore, they started Brenda McHugh, site director. “I with this idea of (the) Strawberry the origins are still unknown. “I don’t know why they did it back think what Sister Joanna used to Festival.” This year’s Strawberry Festival in the ’70s or ’80s; they might have say is that at the time they had a See Strawberry pg 2
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A connection made within the Alzheimer’s Association has sparked a change in an annual local fundraiser. Lynn Cronomiz has held annual “Paint the Town Purple” fundraiser events for half a decade, taking different forms, like a 5K run or selling cookbooks. However, she found that the fundraiser’s numbers were not going up. “I just couldn’t seem to grow the amount of runners that I was attracting,” she said. “It’s very hard with 5Ks, because they’re all over, and I just couldn’t seem to grow it, so I thought about our great auto mall and how in our community it
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Over a quarter of reported pregnancies end in some sort of loss. Lily New and the Village Library of Morgantown feel that support is vital to recovering from that loss. That’s why Lily and her husband, Thomas, started their second pregnancy support group at the library, 207 Walnut St., Morgantown. The group, titled the “Sacred In-Between,” will cover a multitude of forms of loss, including miscarriages, stillbirths, infertility and other forms of early pregnancy loss. “It’s the in-between of the heavy grief of losing your child and then the hope that it’s not always going to be so heavy,” Lily New said. “Having support with a community really helps that.” The group held its inaugural meeting from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on May 11 in the library’s community room and will continue to meet the fourth Monday of every month at the same time. Due to the sensitive nature of conversation, no children are permitted. New shared that her and her husband have lost two babies, one through miscarriage and another through stillbirth. Joining a support group helped the couple recover from their losses, which is what inspired them to start the groups of their own. “It’s something that’s really close to my heart,” she said. “(The support group) has blessed my husband and I a lot ... we want to help parents just normalize their grief and be able to talk about See Support pg 3
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