Manheim Township SEPTEMBER 16, 2026
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Festival Quest for Learning Keeps to Give Peace Hearts Young, Minds Sharp a Chance BY JEFF FALK
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The role of the Manheim Township Recreation and Park Planning Department (MTRPP) is to offer beneficial programs, encourage overall well-being and improve local lives. MTRPP’s Landis Woods Outdoor Fine Art Show is exercise for the spirit and activity for the soul. “The goal of the department is to promote a healthy and well community where residents can find activities that align with their interests,” said Chaley Bulla, Manheim
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In Lititz, peace is an event. “There is no true peace without justice,” said Jeanine Strom Boyer, outreach and relationship ministry coordinator for Lititz Church of the Brethren (LCOB) and an organizer of the upcoming PeaceFest. “When there is conflict or disagreement, we work together to be reconciled and find a resolution. In matters in which we are not of the same mind, we seek to live with forbearance toward one another. We believe that war only brings destruction and death. In times of war, as in all times, we work to serve the needs of people and to work for peace in nonviolent ways.” From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, the LCOB, which is located at 300 W. Orange St., Lititz, will host the inaugural PeaceFest: Forging Peace and Cultivating Justice. The event, which is a collaboration of a handful of local Church of the Brethren congregations - including ones in Lancaster, Elizabethtown, Mountville and York - will advocate for the concept of peace by physically turning guns into life-affirming implements like garden tools and jewelry. The event is free to attend, and everyone is welcome. “PeaceFest is a family-friendly event designed to bring people together in hope, education, fellowship and action around a shared vision of a more peaceful world,” said Strom Boyer. “This event reflects a longstanding commitment from the churches to promote peace, justice and nonviolence within our communities.”
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here are few things more invigorating, more inspirational, more exhilarating than sharing interests with likeminded people. Unless, of course, that shared interest involves learning. “These are people who just have always had a knack for learning new things and reading books,” said Diane Carroll, who’s been Quest for Learning Lancaster’s board president for eight years. “ They’re maybe a little Members of Quest for Learning’s board of directors nerdish. For senior citizens, almost all about education and fellowship. and discussion at the end - on a Designed for but not limited to variety of different topics at both everything they can do to keep the brain active is a really important older adults, Quest for Learning 9:40 and 11 a.m. on six consecutive part of aging well. There’s also Lancaster is gearing up for another Thursdays, beginning Sept. 24. There are modest costs associated a business of meeting up with series of informative classes at people, and their concern for each Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, with registering for the Quest for other. There’s a whole gamut of 31 S. Duke St., Lancaster. The Learning Lancaster classes. courses will offer four 50-minute Overseen by a board of directors, socializing that goes on.” Quest for Learning Lancaster is classes - with time for questions Quest for Learning Lancaster,