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OCTOBER 6, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXIX • NO 36
Watch Out For Jude Jones! Twin Valley Graduate Pursues A Timely Profession BY FRANCINE FULTON
“I always really liked watches from a young age,” said Jude Jones of Morgantown, who graduated this past summer from the Lititz Watch Technicum, where he became a Swiss American Watchmakers Training Alliance (SAWTA) certified watchmaker. “I was always very precise growing up. When I was young, I always liked to take things apart and put them back to together - and they always worked.” Jones, the son of David and Lori Jones of Morgantown, is a 2019 graduate of Twin Valley High School. He decided to pursue the field of watchmaking after a lesson on careers that he completed while a senior. “We had a class project revolving around careers and what you had to do to pursue them and what education you needed,” he recalled. “I didn’t know what I what I wanted to do with my life at that point. So, I decided to look up what
Displaying auction items are Conestoga Christian School students (back, from left) Justice, Bailey and Micah Watkins and (front) Ian and Nadia Crans.
Conestoga Christian School To Host Barbecue, Auction he community is invited to participate in Conestoga Christian School’s (CCS) 48th annual chicken barbecue and auction, to be held on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 15 and 16. All proceeds will benefit the school, which offers classes for students in preschool through 12th grade. The event will begin with the barbecue dinner on Oct. 15, which will be takeout only. Each dinner will include a half-chicken, applesauce, chips, a dinner roll and butter, a whoopie pie and a choice of water or lemonade. Half-chickens only will also be available. To order chicken barbecue tickets in advance, visit www.conestoga christian.net/auction-2021. Online ordering will end at 8 a.m. on
lot where we held our auction on Saturday. We are doing the same thing this year,” Parris noted. The live auction will feature a selection of items, experiences, artwork, quilts and homemade jams and yogurt. Auction highlights will include a Discovery Flight from Chester County Aviation; four tickets to the Eagles versus the Giants game on Sunday, Dec. 26; and a compound archery bow. In addition, each class at the school has designed a themed basket for the auction. Basket themes will include Date Night, Health and Wellness, Family Fun and Gardening. Bidding on class baskets will start at 9:30 a.m. Coffee, breakfast sandwiches, doughnuts, homemade yogurt, fruit and apple dumplings will also be offered for sale.
All things apple - apple dumplings, apple pies, apple crisp, homemade caramel apples, apple fritters, hot mulled cider and freshly pressed cider - will be the stars of the upcoming Hay Creek Apple Festival to be held on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 9 and 10, at Historic Joanna Furnace, 1250 Furnace Road, Geigertown.
See CCS pg 4
See Apple Festival pg 4
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Monday, Oct. 11. A limited supply of dinners will be available to purchase at the door. Dinners may be picked up in the school’s front parking lot from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Oct. 15. Michelle Parris, CCS admissions director, explained that the driveup service was implemented last year because of the pandemic. “It went so well last year, so we are keeping (it that way),” she said. “We were able to serve so many people. We actually sold over 2,200 dinners last year, all drive-through.” Also on Oct. 16, a gift certificate store will be open outside the school, and there will be homemade apple dumplings available for purchase. A live auction will be held on Oct. 16 from 9 to 11 a.m. “The other thing we implemented last year was a tent in our back parking
Jude Jones of Morgantown has graduated from the Lititz Watch Technicum.
Hay Creek Apple Festival Set For Oct. 9 And 10 BY FRANCINE FULTON
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Elverson Troop Now Sponsored By The American Legion . . . . . . . .2 Community Calendar . . . .4 School To Host Community Auction . . . . . .4 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . .5 House Of Worship . . . . . . .8
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