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Penn Manor DECEMBER 5, 2018
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LV • NO 36
MONTHLY MEAL
Millersville-Manor Senior Luncheon will be held on Monday, Dec. 17, at the Millersville VFW, 219 Walnut Hill Road, Millersville. Anyone over 55 years of age is welcome to attend. The meeting will start at noon with a luncheon. Entertainment for this month will be provided by Chris Ressler and Nan Witmer, who will offer sounds of the season. There is a set fee per person, and the fee will include the meal, entertainment, and door and birthday prizes. Giveaway drawing tickets will be on sale. Interested attendees should make reservations by Monday, Dec. 10, by calling Vie Herr at 717-464-2557 or Bill Kreider at 717-872-8191. HOLIDAY FILM
Quarryville Library, 357 Buck Road, Quarryville, will host two Christmas film events for adults. The movies will be shown from 1 to 3 p.m. on Fridays, Dec. 14 and 21. The community is invited to attend. For details, call 717-786-1336. GIVING EVENT
will hold its annual Gift Fair on Saturday, Dec. 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Farm and Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, Lancaster. Thirty local, national, and international nonprofits will offer opportunities to purchase alternative gifts that will directly benefit the organizations’ missions. Shoppers who purchase gifts will receive greeting cards to give to loved ones. The Marketplace will feature tangible gift items available for purchase; these items will be social enterprise, fair-trade, or both. The event will also feature family-friendly activities and local food vendors. After the Gift Fair, alternative gift items will be available for purchase online through Monday, Dec. 31. For more details, visit http://giftsthatgivehope.org/lancaster/. WALKING OPPORTUNITIES
Penn Dutch Pacers Volksmarch Club will offer noncompetitive 10K and 5K walks on Saturday, Dec. 8, in downtown Lancaster. The start point will be Isaac’s, 25 N. Queen St., Lancaster. Participants may start anytime between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Walkers must complete the event by 4 p.m. All are welcome to participate. There is a nominal cost for IVV credit. All others may take part for free. For details, contact David Barber at 717-626-6103 or visit www.avaclubs.org/pdp.
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A Fine And Folksy Tradition pg 3
Penn Manor Students Support Cancer-Related Causes Penn Manor students have recently been active in supporting individuals with cancer. Letort Elementary School students and staff members raised nearly $1,500 in a door decoration fundraiser, and Penn Manor High School students collaborated on a variety of events to support Grace Cancer Care Ministry. Letort’s funds were raised for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where sixth-grader Megan Martin has been treated for acute myeloid leukemia since the summer. “Teachers at Letort feel very connected to all the families, and when one of our students went to St. Jude, we rallied to support her,” said Megan Peart, a Letort teacher who organized the fundraiser. Teachers and students decorated classroom doors in fall themes, and Letort students and staff members were encouraged to place donations in
Letort Elementary School sixth-grader Megan Martin is being treated for leukemia at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. cans at each door. The doors that generated the most donations belonged to Lisa Suydam’s and Danielle Gwyn’s classrooms. As it happens, Megan’s sister, Audrey, is in Suydam’s classroom. See Penn Manor Students pg 4
Letort Elementary School held a door-decorating contest to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Displaying one of the festive doors are (from left) Noah Murray, principal Carly McPherson, teacher Lisa Suydam, Audrey Martin, and Leksi Stork.
Historian To Speak On Frontier Warfare LDHL Launches Secret Santa Event Dr. Patrick Spero, the librarian and director of the American Philosophical Society Library (APSL) in Philadelphia, will discuss his latest book, “Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776,” when he speaks during the Millersville Area Historical Society (MAHS) meeting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8, in the Millersville Municipal Center, 100 Municipal Drive. Using PowerPoint to illustrate his talk, Spero will unveil the story of a group of ragtag frontiersmen that launched Native American tactics of warfare on the largest ever peace-keeping assembly of British and Native American leaders. The frontiersmen, known as the Black Boys because they dressed as Native Americans and smeared their faces with charcoal, foiled the peace effort and thereby became part of the interwoven struggles to determine whose independence
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Patrick Spero would prevail on the American frontier - the British, Native Americans, or colonial settlers. A question-and-answer session will conclude the talk. Spero is a scholar of early American history. He specializes in the era of the American Revolution and has published more than a dozen essays and reviews See Historical Society pg 6
Founded in 1961 as Citizen Scholarship Fund and changing its name to Dollars for Scholars of Lancaster County for a time, Lancaster Dollars for Higher Learning (LDHL) has always had one mission: that of helping county residents to attend college full time by providing interest-free loans. “We offer a hand up, not a handout,” said executive director Christie Livengood. She noted that LDHL has a 96 percent repayment rate. “Students pay (their loans) back because we’re a local nonprofit and they know it matters. By paying it back, in turn, they help someone else.” LDHL gives loans once a year, and Lancaster County students attending an accredited program anywhere in the world full time may borrow money up
Lancaster Dollars for Higher Learning executive director Christie Livengood (left) and administrator Amy Heth invite the public to contribute to the new Secret Santa event. to four years. Loans are not automatically renewed; borrowers must reapply every See Secret Santa pg 5
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