Morgantown/Honey Brook
JUNE 26, 2019
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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXVII • NO 23
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townlively.com for information about upcoming events and happenings in your community and throughout the region! Chester and Berks Counties •The National Park Service and the Friends of Hopewell Furnace will present a reading of the Declaration of Independence: Thursday, July 4 •OneRunTogether’s Ready Set Glow! 5K Glow Race in Honey Brook: Saturday, July 20 •Atglen Public Library’s Di-Atglen Alley Wizard Fair: Saturday, July 27 Dauphin County •Forté Handbell Quartet concert at First United Methodist Church, Hershey: Monday, July 1 •Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Middletown’s Community Days: Thursday to Saturday, July 11 to 13 •Donegal Insurance Group Chocolate Tour to benefit Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute: Saturday, Aug. 3 •Civil War Living History and Tactical Exercises event at the Robert Fulton Birthplace: Friday to Sunday, June 28 to 30 •Lititz Historical Foundation Antiques Show: Friday and Saturday, June 28 and 29 •Washington Boro Tomato Festival: Saturdays, July 13 and 20 York County •Rivertownes PA USA’s Riverfest in Wrightsville: Sunday, June 30 •The Ma & Pa Railroad Heritage Village’s Early Auto Day: Sunday, June 30 •Bell Socialization Services’ Big Bed Race in York: Sunday, Aug. 4
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Teenage Actor/Director Recognized With Scholarship By Francine Fulton
Morgantown resident Lionel McCulloch was named the Casey Feldman Scholarship winner during the 14th annual Cappies Awards Gala held on May 19 at Unionville High School. Lionel is a 2019 graduate of the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School (PALCS) and the Center for Performing and Fine Arts (CPFA) in West Chester. Lionel, a member of the Greater Philadelphia Area Cappies, explained that the Cappies program trains high school theater and journalism students to strengthen their writing and critical thinking skills by attending
productions at other schools and writing reviews of those shows. Select reviews are published in a Philadelphia newspaper and at www.cappies.com. “(The participating schools) have a night where they set off a section for the Cappies critics,” Lionel explained. “I like writing the reviews, and seeing shows helps build your skills as a director and an actor.” Lionel performed in the opening number during the Cappies gala and was also nominated for the Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical award for his role in the CPFA production of “City of Angels” and for the Outstanding Senior Critic award for his Cappies
reviews. Lionel said he did not know that he received the scholarship until the night of the gala. “They have this special section when they talk about Casey Feldman, her life and what she had accomplished,” he noted. “Then, they said, ‘We would like to recognize a very special person in theater,’ and I started understanding who they were talking about: They were talking about me.” The $1,000 scholarship is given in memory of Casey Feldman, who was killed by a distracted motorist in 2009 at the age of 21. According to www.caseyfeldmanfoundation.org, one of the organization’s efforts is awarding a scholarship to a Cappies critic “who best exemplifies not only See Scholarship Winner pg 4
Lionel McCulloch of Morgantown, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School and the Center for Performing and Fine Arts in West Chester, was recognized with the Casey Feldman Scholarship for his work in local theater.
Elverson Borough Plans Annual Day In The Park DAR Presents
History Awards
By Francine Fulton
Elverson Borough will present the ninth annual Elverson Day in the Park celebration in Livingood Park, 101 S. Chestnut St., Elverson, on Saturday, June 29, beginning at 5 p.m. The event will include food, tethered hot air balloon rides, musical entertainment, children’s activities and more. The day will conclude with a giant fireworks display at approximately 9 p.m. Attendees are invited to bring their own food to eat in the park that day, or they may purchase dinner from several food trucks that will be on-site. The menu will range from burgers and fries and farm-to-fork specials to snow cones and iced coffee. Local musicians that will perform throughout the evening will include Ring of Fire, a Johnny Cash impersonator; Carol Ruffner and Company; and Dawson Estes. The Chester County
By Francine Fulton
Livingood Park will be the site of the ninth annual Elverson Day in the Park on June 29. The day will feature music, food, children’s activities, tethered hot air balloon rides and more. Band will conclude the performances. “When the Chester County Band is done with their set, we set off the fireworks. We try to follow the band’s last song,” noted Katie Estes, a member of
the Elverson Day Committee. For children, there will be pony rides, a barrel train, face painting, T-shirt decorating, a moon bounce and an exotic animal petting zoo. A new feature this See Day In The Park pg 7
The Chester County Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) recently presented Outstanding Achievement in American History Awards to local middle school students. As part of the annual program, all private and public schools in the county are welcome to participate. “I send out a personalized invitation around April to each of our schools in Chester County explaining what the award is and inviting them to participate,” explained Kym Dyer, history award committee chair. “We sent 21 invitations and all of the schools participated; we had 100 percent participation.” Unlike the DAR’s annual American History Essay Contest, which asks students to complete essays that are judged by DAR members, the See DAR Awards pg 3
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