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Morgantown/Honey Brook OCTOBER 17, 2018

IN THIS ISSUE: HALLOWEEN PARADE SCHEDULED page 3

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL XXVI • NO 39

UPCOMING HIKE

The Berks Strollers

Speaker Describes Impact Of Shoebox Gifts pg 4

Caernarvon Fire Company, 2145 Main St., Churchtown, will host its fall family-style turkey supper on Saturday, Oct. 20. The fundraiser will begin at 1 p.m. The cost of a meal will feature turkey with all the trimmings. The public is invited to attend. Takeout meals will also be available. For details, call 717-445-7310. QUILT WORKSHOP

Berks County Parks and Recreation Department will host a Quilt Workshop on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Beidler House, 1130 Old River Road, Gibraltar. Members of the Hopewell Quilters will present a workshop on making a quilted potholder. There is a cost to attend. Attendees should bring a pair of sewing scissors. Registration and payment are due by Friday, Oct. 19. To register, call 610-374-8839. PRESENTATION ON DEEDS

Conestoga Christian School will hold its 45th annual benefit chicken barbecue and country auction on the school grounds, located at 2760 Main St. (Route 23), Morgantown, on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19 and 20. The activities will begin on Oct. 19 with the chicken barbecue, which will be available between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. in the school gymnasium. For those interested in takeout, drive-through service will be open from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at

Library Sets Book Sale, Craft Fair

Wallace Township 5K Adds Challenge For Firefighters

By Francine Fulton

By Francine Fulton

will sponsor a presentation titled “No Good Deed Goes Unrecorded� on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. at the historical society building, 2148 Main St., Churchtown (Narvon). James Landis will speak about deeds. For details, call 717-445-5040.

This year’s Wallace Trust 5K “Run for the Woods,� the second annual, which will be held in Wallace Township on Saturday, Oct. 20, will feature an added component. The township has partnered with the Glen Moore Fire Company (GMFC), which is using the event as a fitness challenge. In conjunction with the Chester County Department of Emergency Services and the Chester County Fire Chiefs Association, GMFC is asking firefighters to join the event and

SEED STARTING PROGRAM

Satoyama Homestead, 271 Laurel Road, Elverson, will host a free “Ready, Set, Grow!� pollinator seed starting workshop on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 1 to 3 p.m. Attendees will learn about seed saving and germination, and they will sow wildflower seeds in a milk jug greenhouse. The workshop will be held rain or shine. Space is limited. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted. To register, visit www.satoyamahs.org.

Conestoga Mennonite Church, located across the street from the school. Each dinner will include a half-chicken, applesauce, chips, a dinner roll and butter, a whoopie pie and a beverage. Half-chickens only will also be available. Tickets for the chicken barbecue are available from any school family, as well as in the school office and at the door. Those who choose to eat on-site will be able to shop in the craft room and gift certificate store and preview items that will be on the auction block the following morning. See Barbecue, Auction pg 3

Three generations gathered to display some of the auction items that will be available during Conestoga Christian School’s chicken barbecue and country auction on Oct. 19 and 20, including teacher Wayne Gascho (seated in go-kart); his daughter, Katrina Myers (second from left), who is an alumna and current child care provider at the school; and her three children, (from far left) eighth-grader Alissa Myers, sophomore Sarah Myers and senior Michael Myers. Gascho has attended all but one of the 45 auctions held at the school.

See Wallace Trust 5K pg 10

Andy Chambers (left), assistant fire chief at the Glen Moore Fire Company, and Barbara D’Angelo, Wallace Township supervisor and president of the Wallace Trust, invite the community to take part in the Wallace Trust 5K “Run for the Woods� in Wagenseller Park on Oct. 20. A new addition to the event this year is the Glen Moore Fire Company fitness challenge, which is asking firefighters to compete in the 5K while wearing their gear.

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Conestoga Christian School Plans Barbecue, Auction By Francine Fulton

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Members of the Friends of the Village Library of Morgantown will host their annual book and bake sale on Thursday, Oct. 18, through Saturday, Oct. 20. An early bird event was offered for the first time with the spring sale, and that event will again open the sale on Oct. 18 from 4 to 5 p.m. A fee will be collected at the door. The sale will then

continue with free admission from 5 to 8 p.m. “New for the fall sale is that we (lowered) the admission fee for the early bird event,� noted library director Natasha Donaldson. The sale will continue with free admission on Friday, Oct. 19, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 5 to 8 p.m. A bag of books sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 20. Bags will be provided. Shoppers may purchase a See Library pg 6

Judges Named For Essay Contest Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc. (EPC) has announced the panel that will evaluate the entries in the 2018 Children’s Essay Contest. Panelists will include Jim Martin, sales representative at Power Pro Equipment in New Holland; Marie Hoover, manager of Musser’s Specialty Foods in Goodville; and John Hemperly, sales manager at EPC.

Youths ages 11 to 14 may enter the annual contest by submitting original essays of 300 or fewer words on the topic “A Christmas Surprise.� Winners will be announced in a special section published in the Wednesday, Dec. 5, edition of the newspaper. $500 in prize money will be awarded. For more information, readers may email akilby@engleonline.com.

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will hike at Warwick County Park, 191 County Park Road, Pottstown, on Saturday, Oct. 20. The group will meet at 10 a.m. at the main parking area close to the new visitor’s building. Participants coming from Route 23 west are reminded that, because of road construction in the borough of Elverson, drivers must take Route 401 to Route 345 and go left to get back onto Route 23. For more information, contact Linda, the hike leader, at 610-913-0284.


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