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Celebrate Christmas In Birdsboro BY FRANCINE FULTON
Christmas in Birdsboro, offering a full day of fun and activities for people of all ages, will return this year on Saturday, Dec. 11, after a modified version was held in 2020 because of the pandemic. The day will begin with the Santa Run 5K and Fun Run at 9 a.m. at Rustic Park, 1314 Haycreek Road,
Birdsboro. The first-time event will take 5K runners through a trail in the park and along Route 82. The fun run will be a 1-mile run/walk in the park. All participants may enjoy hot cocoa provided by the Cherry on Top dessert truck. A link to register for the event is available by searching for the event page, “Santa Run 5K/Fun Run,” on Facebook. See Christmas In Birdsboro pg 6
Bob Stevens (left) and Bruce McCleary are excited for the public to view Tel Hai Train Club’s model train layout.
Tel Hai Train Club To Host Holiday Open House “Every section tells a story,” said Bob Stevens, a member of the Train Club at Tel Hai Retirement Community, when describing the train layout created by the club that will be open to the public for the first time as part of a Holiday Open House. The public is welcome to view the train layout free of charge from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays, Dec. 11 and 18, and Thursday, Dec. 30. The layout features many miniature communities, including a fishing village complete with boats on the water, an Amish farm and an oil refinery that includes stacks made from Pringles potato chip cans and pipes made of drinking straws. The display, which is located in the StoneCroft Commons on the
Tel Hai campus, features HO-, S- and O-gauge railroad cars, as well as a large G-gauge train that runs along the perimeter of the room. The train room is located inside an apartment building that opened in January 2018. Since that time, club members have transformed the once-empty room into an impressive train display that was built one section at time. “Almost all of the trains and a lot of the buildings were donated to us by the public or people moving in here, people who are train enthusiasts. (One donor) had a 60-foot-by-30-foot display in his basement and he gave a lot of it to us,” explained train club member Bruce McCleary. “I built the platform first, and several people got together to lay out where we wanted the track.”
McCleary keeps a scrapbook of how the train layout developed. “We started on the ground level, but we added an elevated level,” said McCleary, who is a retired engineer. “People gave me ideas, and I built them.” “There is a lot to look at,” said Stevens, pointing out the layout’s Christmas village, a fire scene complete with a burning building and firefighters and the Tel Hai car show, where vintage model cars are featured. “Every light in every building is hand-wired.” The Train Club meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays to work on the layout. “It (requires) continuous maintenance. Everything you see here is 60 or 70 years old because it has been donated,” said Stevens. “The track gets dirty and (we clean) every bit of track. For the engines, we have
BY FRANCINE FULTON
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Honey Brook Presbyterian Church, 4331 Horseshoe Pike (Route 322), Honey Brook, will present its fifth Polar Express event on Saturday, Dec. 11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In addition to a craft sale, the day’s activities will include a display of model trains, along with showings of the movie “The Polar Express.”
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See Polar Express pg 2
Church Presents Polar Express Event
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