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Penn Manor JANUARY 1, 2020
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVI • NO 40
UPCOMING GATHERINGS
Quarryville Library, 357 Buck Road, Quarryville, has posted several programs. A First Friday Film program will take place on Friday, Jan. 3, at 1 p.m. The film will feature the story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of an estate in the English countryside. The program is open to adults. Attendees are welcome to bring snacks. Additionally, the library will host the book club on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 1:30 p.m.; members will discuss “Memory Man” by David Baldacci. The Friends of the Quarryville Library will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 10 a.m. All are welcome to attend the book club and the Friends meeting. Call 717-786-1336. ORGAN CONCERT
First Reformed Church, 40 E. Orange St., Lancaster, will host an “Organic Reflections” concert on First Friday, Jan. 3. Larry Hershey will play on the vintage 1958 analog Allen organ. The concert is titled “Winter Lights” and will include works by Bach, Bedard, Durufle, Krebs, Lubeck and Purcell. The concert will conclude with an organ solo transcription of the “Hallelujah” chorus from Handel’s “Messiah.” The concert is part of the First Friday series, and all concerts are 30 minutes in length and begin at 8 p.m. each First Friday. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Call 717-397-5149.
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Jessica Kinsey, a board member with GiGi’s Playhouse Lancaster, wants families with children who have Down syndrome and other disabilities to know that a support system is available. “I would have loved to have had this once we had our prenatal diagnosis,” said Kinsey. “ We want to educate (the community by providing) more information (for families).” A huge step in raising awareness of the positive impact people with Down syndrome and other disabilities can have will take place on Saturday, Jan. 11, when GiGi’s Playhouse, a Down Syndrome Achievement Center, will open at 2503 Oregon Pike, Lancaster. An open house to celebrate the grand opening will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Although the open house is a drop-in event, Jen Voshell, who is also a board
member, said that specific activities are planned. Self-guided tours of the facility, which includes a large room, two small rooms, a kitchen, and a family room, will be available from 1 to 2 p.m. At 2 p.m., Nancy Gianni, who founded GiGi’s Playhouse in 2002 and named it for her daughter GiGi, will speak, as will GiGi’s Playhouse president Kim King. “Some of our families will talk about what GiGi’s Lancaster means to them,” said Voshell. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held, and refreshments will be served. Gianni, who founded GiGi’s in Chicago, was inspired to start the program after holding a support group meeting for families of children with Down syndrome in a room made available in a local hospital. “She took it upon herself to create GiGi’s Playhouse,” said Voshell. “She became well known and was able to help other communities open their own playhouses.” GiGi’s See GiGi’s Playhouse pg 3
Looking forward to the open house and ribbon cutting to be held at the new GiGi’s Playhouse on Oregon Pike are Jen Voshell (far left), holding Jacob, and Jessica Kinsey (far right), holding Nathaniel. The open house will be held on Jan. 11, beginning at 1 p.m. GiGi’s Playhouse in Lancaster will be the first facility of its kind in Pennsylvania serving children and adults with Down syndrome and other disabilities.
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will hold a luncheon at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at Bent Creek Country Club, 620 Bent Creek Drive, Lititz. Guest speaker Irene Pace will present on “Come Rain or Shine, It’s a Wonderful Life.” Skin care consultant Debbie Mays will present on “New, Beautiful You.” The cost is all-inclusive. All women are welcome. For reservations, call Pat at 717-951-0773.
Local residents are invited to register for the Racial Equity Institute, Part I, YWCA Lancaster’s core social justice training program. It will take place from Jan. 17 to 19. YWCA Lancaster will host the Racial Equity Institute, Part I (REI-I), formerly the Racial Justice Institute, at its offices, 110 N. Lime St., Lancaster, from Friday to Sunday, Jan. 17 to 19. This intensive two-and-a-half-day workshop represents YWCA Lancaster’s
core social justice training program. It aims to give participants a common understanding of racism and related concepts. YWCA Lancaster views REI-I as a foundation for working toward dismantling institutional and systemic racism. YWCA Lancaster intends that See Lancaster YWCA pg 3
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Harriet Tubman researcher and author Kate Clifford Larson (far right) addressed students in teacher Todd Mealy’s Race, Ethnicity, and Gender AP Seminar class at Penn Manor High School on Dec. 9. Students in an Advanced Placement (AP) Seminar class at Penn Manor High School recently had an opportunity to watch a new film about abolitionist Harriet Tubman and learn firsthand about the painstaking research undertaken by an acclaimed biographer and
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author who helped to ensure the movie’s authenticity. Students in the AP Seminar class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, heard Kate Clifford Larson, author of the Tubman biography “Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an See AP Seminar pg 2
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will hold a community blood drive in the Maureen Powers Community Room at YWCA Lancaster, 110 N. Lime St., on Tuesday, Jan. 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Readers may call 800-REDCROSS or visit www.redcrossblood.org and enter “YWCA” to schedule an appointment. Attendees will be entered for a chance to win a trip for two to the championship football game in Miami. Details are available at www.rcblood.org/SuperBowl.
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