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Octorara JANUARY 30, 2019

VOL XXIX • NO 1

SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954

STORY TIMES

Atglen Public Library, 413 Valley Ave., Atglen, will offer Hot Chocolate Story Time on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 4:15 p.m. The program will feature a winter-themed story time with hot chocolate, winter treats, and more. The program is open to people of all ages. Rangers from Chester County Parks and Trails will lead the regular preschool story time on Thursday, Feb. 14, at 10:30 a.m. The rangers will display mounts and specimens and lead a nature-themed Valentine’s story and craft. The program is open to preschoolers and their caregivers. Registration for the story times is required. To register, readers may visit www.atglenpubliclibrary.org and click on the Event Calendar tab. PROGRAM ON CHOCOLATE

ACE (Advocating, Collaborating, Educating) Anti-Human Trafficking Alliance of Oxford will meet on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Oxford Public Library, 48 S. Second St., Oxford. Chocolatier Albert A. Lauber V will educate the community about fair-trade chocolate and how to ensure that Valentine’s treats are not the result of modern-day slavery. Free chocolate samples will be offered, and candy will be available for purchase, in addition to fair-trade coffee, tea, and other items. For details, call 610-932-0337.

Meal-Packing Event Planned pg 5

Chester County OIC Has A New Home pg 2

Show To Feature Songs Of Inspiration pg 3

Octorara School Board Members Recognized responses from students who were asked what they thought school board members do. The responses were accurate in many ways, directly or indirectly. Young students thought the board members help teachers, pay the bills, clean the schools and make the buses safe. Some of them gave the board members credit for other jobs such as changing the letters on the school district sign board, stopping in after work to check on the buildings and watching the students all day. “Some of (the responses) are spot-on and very insightful,” Fox said. “It’s great to hear what they thought we do. We do what Members of the Octorara Area Board of School Directors were recognized during January, we can to provide for the school which is School Board Recognition Month. The board is composed of (front, from left) and help the teachers. That’s Brian Norris, board president Lisa Bowman, Matt Hurley, Bill Kloss, (back) Jere Zimmerman,

By Marcella Peyre-Ferry

January is School Board Recognition Month. Members of the Octorara Area Board of School Directors were honored by district staff members and administrators during the board meeting on Jan. 21 for the many hours of work they devote to the district without any financial compensation. The nine-member board at Octorara is composed of board president Lisa Bowman, Tony Falgiatore, Brian Fox, Sam Ganow, Matt Hurley, Bill Kloss, Charlie Koennecker, Brian Norris and Jere Zimmerman. As a part of the school board meeting, elementary-level principals presented a list of

See Octorara School Board pg 4 Brian Fox, Tony Falgiatore, Charlie Koennecker and Sam Ganow. PAWS FOR READING

105 West St., Parkesburg, will offer PAWS for Reading sessions. The program allows children to read to dogs so children may improve their reading skills. Fifteen-minute sessions will be available on the third Tuesday of each month between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. The next sessions will take place on Feb. 19. To register, call 610-857-5165. ESL CLASSES

Olive Street Presbyterian Church, 1400 Olive St., Coatesville, is offering free English as a Second Language (ESL) classes on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Students may enroll throughout the semester on any Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. There is a one-time fee for a textbook, which the student can take with him or her. Free child care is available for children ages 3 months to 12 years. Children will not be permitted in the classrooms. For more information, readers may call 610-466-7640 or email ESL@olivestreetpres.org.

90-Year-Old Keeps Active With Aerobics Volunteers Fill Backpacks By Marcella Peyre-Ferry On MLK Day Of Service Julian “Toots” Beltz of Cochranville turned 90 on Jan. 19, but there was an early surprise birthday celebration for her on Jan. 17 at her aerobics class. Twice each week, Toots is one of the first students to arrive at the East Fallowfield Township Municipal Building for the class, as she has for the past 37 years. A lifelong resident of the Cochranville area, Toots grew up on her family’s 179-acre farm, where she picked crops, milked cows and did other chores. “I worked right out with my brother and dad,” she said. “I think what gives her her strength and determination (is that) she was a farm girl and she was always outside working,” daughter-in-law Linda Beltz noted. See 90-Year-Old pg 5

By Francine Fulton

Local residents joined others nationwide who took part in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Jan. 21.

In Coatesville, volunteers gathered at the W.C. Atkinson Memorial Community Service Center to pack backpacks full of personal care products and supplies that were delivered to residents of area homeless shelters. See Volunteers pg 6

Julian “Toots” Beltz (left) of Cochranville celebrated her 90th birthday with her aerobics teacher Laurie Harman and her classmates. Toots has been attending aerobics classes held at the East Fallowfield Township Municipal Building for the past 37 years.

Among those who volunteered to pack backpacks full of supplies on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service were (from left) Octorara Area High School student Gabriel Alvarado; Coatesville youths Isaias Garcia and Rasul Abernathy; Dr. Bridgette Miles, an administrator in the Coatesville Area School District; and Octorara Area High School student Brooklyn Thomas. The

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