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MAY 18, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXII • NO 12
Little Free Library Installed In Christiana BY FRANCINE FULTON
Christiana now has its own Little Free Library (LFL), located in front of the Fryberger home, 53 W. Slokom Ave.
The LFL, which invites people to take a book or leave a book, was constructed by Harold Fryberger and his son, Noah, a fourth-grade student at Octorara Elementary School. See Little Free Library pg 8
Natanya Sortland rappels down a building during Eye Drop 2021.
Representing Chester County In Eye Drop 2022 BY FRANCINE FULTON
espite her fear of heights, Natanya Sortland will once again represent Chester County in Eye Drop 2022, a fundraising event held annually by VisionCorps, a nonprofit organization that provides services to the blind and visually impaired. During the event, participants are asked to rappel 120 feet from the roof of the Holiday Inn in Lancaster down 10 stories to the ground. Sortland said performing the feat is part of her personal effort to raise funds for VisionCorps and to make people in the county aware of how she personally benefited from the services that the organization provides, including training individuals on how to use a cane to navigate obstacles both at home and in the community. “I went through the whole experience (of rappelling) and when I got down, I realized it
See Eye Drop pg 9
Harold Fryberger and his son, Noah, have constructed a Little Free Library.
A Very Good Cause
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Auction For Ronald McDonald House To Return BY ANN MEAD ASH
When Michael Leader, a longtime member of the board of directors of Ronald McDonald House in Hershey, wrote to Moses Smucker of Narvon in January of 2008, he was asking for help. Leader knew that Smucker had organized the auction for the Nicholas Stoltzfus House project in Wyomissing, and he was wondering if Smucker would lend his talents to a similar event for “a very good cause.” See Ronald McDonald House pg 4
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wasn’t as bad as the year I spent and put all the gear on. Right desperately trying to find help before, there is a room you are in and not being able to read a book and that’s where you get to pracor a recipe and feeling my way tice individually on how to do it,” through my house and almost she recalled. “I was the first to go. getting hit by a car,” said Sort- I looked over the edge and looked land. “What VisionCorps offers is down and I never felt such terror training and a way of living an in my life. Everyone looked like independent life with courage and dots. I just pretended I was OK. I faced the crowd and did a fist with pride.” Sortland’s vision was damaged pump, but no one knew how after she suffered a subarachnoid scared I was.” W hile rappelling, Sortland hemorrhage. Although her limited dressed like Lady vision is blurry, she Liberty to represent was aware of the building’s height “What VisionCorps her newly independuring last year’s offers is training dent life. She plans Eye Drop. “It felt like and a way of living to dress in costume it took forever (to an independent life again this year. reach the ground), with courage and “(People in) Chester County need to but the clock said six with pride.” know about Visionand a half minutes,” Corps,” she stated. “I she noted. Like the other participants, will do this every year until I am Sortland was secured with a har- the oldest person doing it. Even if ness and ropes that operated on a it’s not, I will tell myself it will be pulley system. “They cinch you up easier (this time).”
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