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NOVEMBER 3, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXIX • NO 40
Birdsboro Resident Places In Sewing Contest BY FRANCINE FULTON
Empty Bowls Event To Benefit Twin Valley Food Pantry BY FRANCINE FULTON
s a reminder that “someone’s bowl is always empty,” special events that benefit local food pantries are held around the United States and the world as part of the Empty Bowl Project.
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Giving out handmade ceramic bowls at the Empty Bowls event are (from left) potter Jill Moyer, volunteer Sue Verdegem and Howard Moss, co-director of the Twin Valley Food Pantry.
Locally, the fifth annual Empty Bowls event will be hosted by the Twin Valley Rotary Club on Friday, Nov. 5, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at Conestoga Mennonite Church, 2779 Main St., Morgantown.
“It’s a community event to help those who may be experiencing some hard times and need the services of the food pantry.” For a set donation, ticket holders will receive a handmade ceramic bowl and the opportunity to sample up to 10 soups. An admission fee will be collected for children under age 10, who will receive soup, but not a bowl. Takeouts will also be available. All proceeds will go to the Twin Valley Food Pantry (TVFP), which is housed at the church.
“(People will) leave with an empty bowl to help remember the millions around the world who go to bed each night hungry,” noted Rotary Club secretary Mary Ellen Mahan, event organizer. The ceramic bowls given out during the event are made throughout the year by art students from Twin Valley High School (TVHS) and by residents of the Tel Hai Retirement Community in Honey Brook, as well as local professional potters. Rotary Club members also created ceramic bowls for the event during a workshop led by local pottery artist Jill Moyer. The soup will be provided by local restaurants, including the Heritage Restaurant and the Windmill Family Restaurant, both located in Morgantown. Soup, along with bread donated by local businesses, including Shady Maple Farm Market, will be served by volunteers. Servers and volunteers will be masked and wearing gloves.
See Birdsboro Resident pg 2
Pie Sale To Support Animal House Project BY FRANCINE FULTON
“(We hope that people will) help support Animal House Project by purchasing yummy pies from Shady Maple for (their) Thanksgiving dinner,” said MaryBeth Yannessa, board president of the Animal House Project dba Chester County Pet Food Pantry, when announcing the charity’s November pie sale.
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Sheila Martin created a tunic and tapered pants for the Pennsylvania Make It With Wool Contest.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Uniting In Praise Voices From The Ends Of The Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 CCWS Sets Run/Walk For Life . . . . . . .4 Community Calendar . . . .4 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . .9 House Of Worship . . . . . .12
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Making bowls are (clockwise, from left) Rotary Club member Chris Doyle, potter Jill Moyer and Rotary Club members Bruce Hartshorne, Mary Ellen Mahan, Jim Freeze and Dick Oswald.
“Sewing … is exhilarating and peaceful at the same time. I found so much passion and peace during the pandemic by sewing again. It lit my fire,” shared Sheila Martin of Birdsboro, who was recently was named the third-place winner in the Adult category of the Pennsylvania Make It With Wool Contest. Martin, who learned to sew from her mother and her junior high home economics teacher, Kathryn D. Brown, resurrected her passion for the hobby during the stay-athome order and decided to enter the contest for the first time last year. “In the depths of the pandemic in August of 2020, I read a call for entries in the Community Courier,” she recalled. “Having been in a fast-track business career for 35plus years, I had set garment sewing aside. I never forgot my sewing skills. I did draperies, home decor and slip covers, but no apparel sewing.”
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