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Octorara JULY 24, 2019
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXIX • NO 26
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE
Salisbury Township Branch Library, 835 Houston Run Drive, Gap, will host Phredd’s “Ukulele One Man Band” original music performance on Wednesday, July 31, at 11 a.m. The performance, geared toward families, will include singing, hand motions and audience participation. For more information, call 717-442-3304 or visit www.pvpl.org. UPCOMING MEETING
The Sadsbury Township Historical Society will meet on Monday, Aug. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Sadsbury Township Municipal Building, 2920 Lincoln Highway, Sadsburyville. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m. Ellen Endslow, director of collections and curator at the Chester County Historical Society, will present “Many Nations - Chester County.” The presentation will celebrate 300 years of diversity through the lens of migration. This is a change to the previously announced schedule. Sarah Alderman will now present her documentary “Bypassed: The Coatesville Project” at the September meeting. Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, call 717-4429240 or search for “Sadsbury Township Historical Society” on Facebook. MUSICAL GATHERING
the 17th annual Community Hymn Sings Series, will continue on Sunday, Aug. 4, at 7 p.m. at the historic Old Leacock Presbyterian Church, located at the corner of the Old Philadelphia Pike and the Old Leacock Road, 1 mile west of Intercourse. Tom Perella will lead the hymn sing, with accompaniment by Dianne Yuninger, who will play the church’s 117-year-old Esteys pump organ. Lemonade will be served in the church’s courtyard after the hymn sing. Call the church at 717-687-6619 or visit www.leacockpres.org. LANTERNFLY PROGRAM
Penn State Extension will offer duplicate sessions of a program on the spotted lanternfly, an invasive pest that threatens Pennsylvania agriculture and home gardens. Sessions will be held at noon and 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30, at the Farm and Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, Lancaster. The sessions will be repeated on Thursday, Sept. 5. The program is free, but registration is required at https:// extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternflypublic-meetings or by calling 877-3450691 on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Cross-Country Bike Trip Benefits K-9 Partners By Marcella Peyre-Ferry
Ron Storms (left), with support from Meghan Shreiner, made the trip by bicycle from Lincoln City, Ore., to Cochranville along with his dogs Onyx and Phoenix, as well as a life-size model of a dog (far right), to raise funds for Canine Partners For Life.
Joseph’s People Offers Free Unemployment Guide By Francine Fulton
Joseph’s People, a nonprofit organization that provides support, guidance and job counseling services to the unemployed, is now offering a free guide for all who have lost their job. Titled “The Journey,” the document is available at www.josephspeople.org. The availability of “The Journey” was announced by Cheryl Spaulding, president emeritus, who founded Joseph’s People in 1995. “‘The Journey’ is our 92-page guide to finding a new job and restoring your life after job loss,” Spaulding said. “The book has been the backbone of Joseph’s People for more than 15 years and helped literally thousands of people. Until just a few months ago, the only way to obtain it was to become a member of Joseph’s People by joining one of our groups.”
She said that once it was decided to make the booklet free to everyone, it was updated and reworked. “(Unemployed people) are from all over the United States,” noted Spaulding. “The principles that it covers are germane to anyone who loses their job, no matter where they are.” Different sections of the document were written by people from the community, such as mental health professionals. “We have a lot of experts from the community who volunteered their time to write sections. It took almost a year to get it updated,” Spaulding noted. Spaulding said that the newly unemployed or those who had never lost a job before can particularly benefit from the book. “It covers mental health issues, financial issues and how to network. People don’t think about all that, but it’s part of the process,” she said. See Joseph’s People pg 3
Quarryville native Ron Storms recently moved to Oregon, where he started work as a contractor. As he traveled coast to coast to complete the move to a new home, he thought he could be doing something good along the way as well. Starting out from Lincoln City, Ore., on March 1, Storms biked cross-country with his Labrador retriever, Onyx, in tow as a fundraiser for Canine Partners for Life of Cochranville. Having lived in the area, Storms was familiar with Canine Partners for Life. He also has an empathy for helping those with disabilities, such as his aunt Jane Storms. That was the beginning of Onyx’s Great Adventure. “I decided I wanted to do something unique,” Storms said. “As I was moving my life back from Pennsylvania to
Oregon, I kept looking at the shoulders of the roads. I thought, ‘I’m going to walk this with Onyx,’ then ‘No, I’m not going to do that to his hips. It’s too much.’ Then I had the idea of doing a covered wagon.” The idea to bike cross-country with the dog took planning and preparation by Storms and his partner, Meghan Shreiner. The dog could not be expected to keep up with the bike, so a bike trailer was prepared for Onyx. Since the trip was likely to be more than one dog could comfortably handle, Phoenix, also a black Lab, came along as well, taking over for Onyx from time to time. Even with two dogs, there were going to be times when the weather was too harsh or the traffic situation too dangerous for a dog to ride in the bike trailer. Instead, a life-size wooden sculpture of a dog took the spot in the trailer. In all, rider, bike, trailer and dog weighed See Bike Trip pg 3
The POINT Nears Completion Of Expansion By Marcella Peyre-Ferry
The Parkesburg POINT youth center is nearing the completion of its final expansion stage. The project, which will complete the complex, includes the installation of a new outdoor skatepark and basketball court, as well as the
repaving of the large parking lot and the addition of buffer landscaping. “We realized it would be several phases before we could get it to where we wanted it for our program,” said Dwayne Walton, executive director of The POINT. “Now we’re at the place where we want to finalize everything.” See The POINT pg 8
The Parkesburg POINT youth center is nearing completion of Phase 3 of its expansion plan. Shown near the facility’s new outdoor skatepark in progress are (from left) executive director Dwayne Walton, facilities manager Bud Herman and development director Debbie Supp. Ephrata
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