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Morgantown/Honey Brook JULY 31, 2019

IN THIS ISSUE: “POLLINATOR SEARCH” SET page 2

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL XXVII • NO 28

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townlively.com for information about upcoming events and happenings in your community and throughout the region! Chester and Berks Counties • 91st annual Old Fiddler’s Picnic, Hibernia Park, Coatesville Saturday, Aug. 10 • Town Tours and Village Walks, tour of the village of Sadsburyville - Thursday, Aug. 15 • Free Third Saturdays at the Berks County Heritage Center, Reading - Saturday, Aug. 17 Dauphin and Lebanon Counties • Mount Gretna Art Show, downtown Mount Gretna Saturday, Aug. 17, and Sunday, Aug. 18 • “Picasso: A Life in Print,” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg - through Sunday, Sept. 22 • The Pennsylvania Make It With Wool contest, Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg - Saturday, Oct. 5 Lancaster County • Chiques Challenge, Columbia River Park - Saturday, Aug. 10

• Richard Oehme Memorial Golf Tournament, Overlook Golf Course, Lancaster - Saturday, Sept. 21 York County • The Penn State Master Gardeners of York County’s Butterfly Buzz, Hanover Junction Station, Seven Valleys - Saturday, Aug. 17 • Shrewsbury Flower Show, Shrewsbury Assembly of God Saturday, Aug. 24, and Sunday, Aug. 25 • Yorkfest Fine Arts Festival, downtown York - Saturday, Aug. 24, and Sunday, Aug. 25

Churchtown Day Events Slated pg 8

Community Invited To 4-H Fair pg 4

Honey Brook Library Offers Science In The Summer Program

Making Books Accessible To All

By Francine Fulton

By Francine Fulton

How food is digested, what makes the heart work and how DNA makes everyone unique are some of topics that students are exploring as part of the Science in the Summer program being offered in July and August at local libraries. The theme of this year’s session is “The Science of Me.” Locally, the program was offered by the Honey Brook Community Library from July 22 to 25. The sessions, led by instructor Tim O’Leary, an eighth-grade science teacher in the Avon Grove School District, were held at the Honey Brook Presbyterian Church. On the first day of the program, O’Leary taught the students about digestion and the role of the esophagus, stomach and large and small intestines while wearing an apron that depicted these body parts. To illustrate the process of digestion, students had to move a wooden ball through a 10-inch stocking representing the esophagus. To learn about the small intestine, students headed outside with ribbons that they stretched out for 20 feet, which is the length of the small intestine. See Science In The Summer pg 3

The Friends of the Honey Brook Community Library have made it their mission to ensure that books are accessible to readers of all ages by placing free library boxes in the community and providing books to hospital patients, senior citizens and people in need. According to Mary Ann Fritsky, president of the group, the Friends have placed a Free Sharing Library Box at Historic Poole Forge, 1940 Main St. (Route 23), Narvon. The Friends have also placed a bookshelf at the laundromat located at Eby’s General Store, 3801 Horseshoe Pike (Route 322), Honey Brook. At both locations, people may borrow a book to enjoy and then return it, or they make keep the book as their See Books pg 5

As part of the Science in the Summer program offered recently by the Honey Brook Community Library, students, including Ezekiel Nilson (left) and Beth Johnson, learned about the heart by viewing a sheep’s heart, which is similar in size to the human heart.

Mast Family Reunion Planned By Francine Fulton

The 2019 Mast Gathering, a reunion of the Mast family that immigrated to America from Switzerland in the 1700s, will take place on Friday, Aug. 2, through Sunday, Aug. 4, at Conestoga Mennonite Church, 2779 Main St., Morgantown. Highlights of the weekend will include a field trip to local sites, historic seminars, an auction and children’s activities. The event will conclude with an outdoor worship service on Sunday. Lois Ann Mast of Morgantown, who is co-chair of the event, explained that the reunion is open to all with the last name of Mast, as well as those who have Mast relatives. “You do not have to have a last name of Mast (to attend). You can be a wife of a Mast or have a grandmother who was a Mast,” she said. “There are people coming from 20 different states. They want to learn

about their heritage.” The reunion is being organized by a steering committee consisting of Masts from Morgantown, Hamburg, Ephrata and Lancaster, as well as out-of-state family members from Maryland, Ohio and South Carolina. “(Committee members) were responsible to tell their families in their areas, and it spread by word of mouth,” said Mast. “I am still getting registrations every day.” Mast, whose maiden name is Zook, organized a Zook reunion in 2016 at the same location. More than 600 Zooks attended the event, which was called the Zaugg Versammlung, which is Swiss German for Zook reunion. The Mast Gathering will begin on Aug. 2 with a field trip to historic sites where many of the early Mast immigrants first settled when they came to America. The field trip will end at a local Amish home for a traditional supper. Mast noted that the chartered See Mast Gathering pg 7

Concert To Feature Bovine Social Club

The Bovine Social Club will perform in Honey Brook Borough Park on Aug. 4 as part of the borough’s summer Concerts in the Park series. By Francine Fulton

The Bovine Social Club (BSC) will perform its unique brand of folk music on Sunday, Aug. 4, at 5:30 p.m. at Honey Brook Borough Park, 73 Pequea Ave. (Route 10), Honey Brook, as part of the borough’s summer Concerts in the Park series. In lieu of paying an admission fee,

attendees are asked to bring nonperishable food items to donate to the Honey Brook Food Pantry. During the concert, food will be available for sale by the Honey Brook Lions Club. Visitors should bring chairs and blankets for seating. According to BSC lead singer and guitarist Samuel Saint Thomas, the band’s show will feature originals, as well as See Concert pg 4

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• Elizabethtown Fair, Elizabethtown Fairgrounds - Monday, Aug. 19, through Saturday, Aug. 24

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