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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXIX • NO 33
Township’s rifle squad is on target and on schedule
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BY JEFF FALK
to experience teamwork and competition, even if they’re not cholastic sports have so many super athletic. You can get so positives going for them. much value from being part of a Rifle is not your typical sport team. It allows kids to build those - in all the best ways. team bonds that are so important Or maybe it’s just the way that to adolescent growth.” Manheim Township approaches Manheim Township’s varsity it. prone air rif le Rifle is one of the te a m co m p r i s e s “It takes a lot of rare sports where 24 student-ath mental focus. boys and girls letes of var ying compete with and b ac k g ro u nd s . I t There’s a lot of against each other, hosts home meets mental energy side by side. Among in a multipurpose other things, rifle to it because it’s room set up as a teaches gun safety, rifle range in the about precision.” and it’s a discipline high school buildthat doesn’t require ing, and its season its competitors to be overly begins around Thanksgiving athletic. and runs to the second week of “Prone rifle is a sport that’s February. open to everyone,” said Allison Manheim Township competes Noecker, who’s been Manheim in the eight-team LancasterTownship’s head rifle coach for Lebanon (L-L) League, the only six years. “It allows students one of its kind in District Three
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See Township rifle pg 5 Manheim Township senior Amber Lefever takes aim at a target downrange.
Be an influencer “ There’s more demand for character coaches than there are volunteers,” said Ben Swarr, director for Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Berks County, who works with athletes in Twin Valley and Governor Mifflin school districts. Swarr is also a former character coach for Cocalico High School wrestling. “We are looking for volunteers and for coaches willing to have character coaches (help out),” added FCA’s Kyle Martin, who works with students at Lampeter -Strasburg, Conestoga Valley,
and Solanco high schools. Adam Burns, FCA area representative with Pequea Valley and Ephrata high schools, noted that the job of a character coach is to serve the coaching staff team in any way he or she can, and that a volunteer need not be proficient in a sport to be a character coach. Character coaches are asked to aid the head coach with a focus on social and emotional development of student-athletes. Objectives include encouraging athletes, working to create a positive culture, and helping to develop leadership characteristics in athletes. The first See FCA pg 3
BY JEFF FALK
It’s a workspace and a play space. It’s a venue and a destination. It’s a place to create art and a place to market art. But perhaps even more importantly, Mulberry Art Studios is about April Koppenhaver’s inspiration, her commitment to the community, her creativity, her love for art. “Art is fundamental to the growth and sustaining of a culture,” said Koppenhaver, the founder, operator and director of Mulberry Art Studios. “All
art makes us feel and think, and it shares with us different perspectives. All of life can be taken to the level of art. When people start putting things together, it’s art. It’s a higher consciousness. Sometimes when you see art and there’s no soul there - I have a hard time calling it art. It’s a way to connect with another person’s soul.” Located at 19-21 N. Mulberry St. in Lancaster - inside of what was once Gunzenhauser Bakery the 22,000-square-foot Mulberry Art Studios is home to a wide vari- Mulberry Art Studios founder ety of art forms, including music, April Koppenhaver always seems
See Mulberry Art pg 5 to find herself surrounded by art.
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