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Penn Manor OCTOBER 2, 2019
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVI • NO 27
SPECIAL EVENTS
Bethel E.C. Church, 3716 Main St., Conestoga, will host two special events that are open to the community: Movie Night, featuring “Mary Poppins Returns,” at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6, and a hymn sing, with a soup and sandwich meal to follow, on Sunday, Oct. 13, at 4 p.m.
Comet Girls Take On Manheim Township pg 10
Conference Will Focus On Marriage pg 12
Group Helps Fight Trafficking pg 4
LOCAL HISTORY
will celebrate Native American and Pennsylvania German cultures through living history demonstrations at the 1719 Hans Herr House and Museum, 1849 Hans Herr Drive, Willow Street, on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The festival will feature food, interpreters in traditional dress, hands-on activities, tours of the longhouse, and demonstrations of Colonial-era arts, crafts, and farm life. There is an admission fee. Children age 6 and under may attend for free. Visit www.lmhs.org.
PMEF Grants Fund Drone Acquisitions The drones have landed at Penn Manor High School. Penn Manor Education Foundation (PMEF) venture grants have brought several of the unmanned aerial vehicles to the skies above the school in order to benefit student learning. A $2,400 venture grant funded a drone for use by the agricultural education department during the 2019-20 school year to teach students how the technology is being used in farming for plant health and
APPLE FESTIVAL
Boehm’s Chapel Society will host the 34th annual Apple Festival on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Boehm’s United Methodist Campus, 13 W. Boehm’s Road, Willow Street, rain or shine. Homemade apple butter, dumplings, and apple ice cream will be available for purchase. Stehman’s Memorial United Methodist Church (UMC) will provide hot and cold luncheon foods. Boehm’s UMC will offer homemade baked goods.There will be door prizes, tours of the 1791 historic stone chapel, and a video outlining the story of Martin Boehm. Vendors will offer handcrafted wares. Contact boehmschapel@gmail.com or 717-872-4133 or visit www.boehmschapel.org.
The Lancaster Chapter Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) will hold a meeting and dinner on Thursday, Oct. 17, at Bent Creek Country Club, 620 Bent Creek Drive, Lititz. A social hour will begin at 5 p.m., with dinner and the meeting to follow. Chapter officers and directors will be elected. Retired Col. Ed Hurston, United States Air Force, will present an overview of the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at J.P. McCaskey High School. All current and past military officers are invited. Reservations are required by contacting Jim Cunningham at 717581-5299 or jetpilot37@comcast.net by Friday, Oct. 11.
Penn Manor High School teacher Brian Osmolinski (left) helped students Jackson Wagner (middle) and Jariel Reyes prepare the physics department’s drone for flight during a physics experiment.
Gifts That Give Hope Fair To Move To New Location By Chelsea Peifer
This year, the Gifts That Give Hope (GTGH) Lancaster Alternative Gift Fair is moving to a new location. The 12th annual event is set to take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7, in Landis Hall at The Junction Center, 1875 Junction Road, Manheim. People may visit with representatives of 30 nonprofits that are providing life-changing
benefits to people in both local and global contexts. Individuals will have the option of purchasing charitable gift donations to honor loved ones, and See Gifts That Give Hope pg 6
The Gifts That Give Hope (GTGH) Lancaster Alternative Gift Fair, founded by Jenn Knepper (third from right), will be held on Dec. 7 at The Junction Center in Manheim. Representing a sampling of the organizations that will take part in this year’s event are (from left) Feleen Nancarvis of Lancaster Meals on Wheels, Beth Weaver of AIM to Empower, Mustafa Nuur of Bridge, and Deb Becker and Carla Horn of Connection Ubuntu.
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The Penn Manor agricultural education department’s drone captured this photo of fields in the district. Osmolinski remarked. A third grant provided funding for the high school’s Robotic Club, which designs and builds robots and drones for competition with clubs from other schools. In all, PMEF has invested more than $8,000 in drone technology over the past two years at Penn Manor High School. For more information about the foundation, readers may visit https://pennmanor edfoundation.org/.
MAHS To Host Presentation On American Agriculture’s Development The Millersville Area Historical Society (MAHS) will host a presentation titled “The Development of American Agriculture Through the Eyes of Farm Journal” when it meets at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, in the Millersville Municipal Center, 100 Municipal Drive. The speaker will be Steve Custer, president of Farm Journal, an agricultural information company for farmers and ranchers, which was founded in Philadelphia in 1877. Custer’s talk, enhanced with slides, will trace the history of the company along with the monumental changes in American agriculture during the past 140-plus years. He will discuss how the company has adapted to these important agricultural See American Agriculture pg 2
Steve Custer, shown with his 1957 Allis Chalmers pedal tractor, has led the Farm Journal publication for more than 20 years. He will discuss the development of American agriculture during a presentation for the Millersville Area Historical Society on Oct. 12.
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erosion control planning. Students will also learn about drone flight training. “Drones are widely being used in agriculture for crop scouting, field mapping, and spot pesticide application,” said Neil Fellenbaum, Penn Manor agricultural education teacher. “Understanding how they work, how they can increase production efficiency, and how to fly them will give students another tool in the toolbox they can use in agriculture or many other industries in the future.” Another grant, for $2,100, was used to purchase a drone for physics classes. It has been used in an exercise known as the “egg drop” in which students design and build a structure to protect an egg from breaking when dropped from a specific height. Physics teacher Brian Osmolinski said the drone helped make the egg drop project “what it should have always been.” It also inspired one of his students to build his own drone. “Projects like this that increase the excitement for practical engineering challenges is what makes Penn Manor great and gets students excited about STEM,”
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