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Manheim Township townlively.com

JUNE 30, 2021

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

VOL XXXVII • NO 7

Music In The Park Amphitheater Foundation Plans Concerts BY ANN MEAD ASH

uring 2020, the amphitheater at Long’s Park sat empty. For 2021, Dave Wauls, president of the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation, is looking forward to filling the venue with eight different bands. “Everybody is excited, and we anticipate bigger crowds,” said Wauls, who noted that the food trucks will be back for hungry concertgoers. Concerts are planned beginning Sunday, July 11. Performances will start at 7:30 p.m. each Sunday through Aug. 29. Brad Zuke, chair of the Long’s Park Summer Music Series committee, said that each year the group endeavors to bring acts that represent a wide range of musical genres. In 2020, many of the bands that were booked to play just happened to be fronted by women. “It looked like it was going to be the year of the woman,” noted Zuke. “When everything was canceled, agents and bands wrote back and said, ‘Can

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we just move ahead to next year?’ That was our starting point (in creating this year’s schedule).” Indeed, only The Big Takeover, a reggae band scheduled to perform on Aug. 1, was not on the 2020 roster. Zuke noted that contracting bands to play the venue can take several years. He listed scheduling factors for both the performer and the amphitheater, along with travel arrangements and current visas for the performers. “Several years ago, we had Old Blind Dogs from Scotland (play a concert),” he said. “It took us six years to finally have them perform here.” This year, the opening concert on July 11 will feature Bakithi Kumalo, a South African bass player who was one of the top session musicians in his country when Paul Simon went there to develop his album “Graceland” in 1985. “Simon invited him to America to finish studio sessions,” said Zuke of the Grammy Award-winning Kumalo, who eventually settled in the U.S. Both Maggie Rose, who will perform on

Brad Zuke (left) and Dave Wauls are looking forward to the Long’s Park Concert Series that will be held on Sunday evenings in July and August.

Rappelling Ferris Wheel Turns Used Clothing Into Compassion BY ANN MEAD ASH For A Cause: a Lititz neighborhood that came to be known as Ferris VisionCorps Sets Back in late 2013, Sherry Wheel Clothing Bank. “We were going to focus on Gassert’s husband sustained a Eye Drop 2021 head injury. During the first kids’ clothes,” said Gassert, BY FRANCINE FULTON

“There is no practice. Only determination,” said Chester County resident Natanya Sortland, who will rappel 10 stories on Friday, July 9, in support of Eye Drop 2021, VisionCorps’ signature fundraiser during which participants rappel 120 feet from the roof of the Holiday Inn in downtown Lancaster to the ground, after committing to a fundraising minimum. See Eye Drop pg 2

who coordinates the bank with her daughter Steph Stiffler. However, the pair started to see the need for clothing for parents, as well as grandparents taking care of their grandchildren. From there, the bank mushroomed into providing household items, pots, pans, bedding,

few months after that happened, a neighbor named Pharis helped Gassert’s family in myriad ways. “I wanted a way to repay him,” said Gassert, who decided to pay it forward and honor Pharis at the same time. By April of 2014, Gassert had started receiving donations for a nonprofit clothing bank in

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Sherry Gassert (left) and her daughter Steph Stiffler organize gently used clothing items to be distributed to those in need through Ferris Wheel Clothing Bank.

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