Pequea Valley JANUARY 16, 2019
IN THIS ISSUE: BURNS NIGHT CELEBRATION TO FEATURE ALL THINGS SCOTTISH page 8
VOL LV • NO 7
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
SHOW AND TELL
The Historical Society of Salisbury Township will meet on Thursday, Jan. 17, at the Salisbury Township Building, 5581 Old Philadelphia Pike, White Horse, at 7 p.m. The meeting will feature a show-and-tell program. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, call 717-442-4071.
PV Girls Top Lebanon Catholic, 52-44 pg 10
Fraktur Classes Slated pg 7
Little Lambs Preschool Plans Open House pg 6
Youth Ministry To Expand
OPEN HOUSE
Lancaster Mennonite will host open house events at four of its campuses, including Lancaster, Locust Grove, New Danville, and Hershey. The events will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24. Refreshments will be available at 5:30 p.m. A welcome meeting will begin at 6 p.m., followed by tours and activities. For details, visit www.lancastermennonite.org/ openhouse. In the case of snow, the open house events will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 29, instead. PROGRAM AND DISCUSSION
located at Emmaus Road Café, 1886 Lincoln Highway East, Lancaster, will host a program on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 7 p.m. Lifetree Café is a place where people gather for conversation about life and faith in a casual, comfortable setting. The program is titled “Kids Without a Country: An Illegal Immigrant’s Story” and will feature the filmed story of Reyna Grande, who crossed the border with her family illegally when she was 9 years old. Grande is now a teacher and the author of “The Distance Between Us.” Lifetree participants will discuss immigration reform, including issues surrounding children of people who entered the country illegally. Admission is free. For details, contact 717-473-9115 or ltclancaster@gmail.com. GOSPEL MUSIC
The Welsh Mountain Home, 567 Springville Road, New Holland, will host a concert of country-style gospel music by the Roland Zimmerman Family in the chapel at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 20. The concert will feature singing and music played on the pedal steel guitar. For more information, readers may call the Zimmermans at 717-354-6804 or visit www.RolandZimmermanFamily.org.
Factory Ministries youth advocate Micah Leaman, who is co-leader of the Factory Youth Center with Elizabeth Hoover, is looking forward to expanding the center’s offerings beginning in early February. “We will have an after-school program on Tuesdays from 3 to 5 p.m.,” said a beaming Leaman. “We’re excited to open (for) another opportunity (to serve area students) during the week.” The new program will be open to students in grades seven through 12. Transportation to the center will be provided by Pequea Valley School District (PVSD). Leaman noted that the program will offer one-one-one tutoring for students and hopefully workshops to help students work on making wise career decisions in the future. “It will be a fun atmosphere, but more focused on academics and developing
(career) resources,” he said. Leaman said the idea for the program grew out of the original goals the youth center has always worked to meet. “The mission (is) to be a safe place where area youths can come to have fun and grow closer to one another and to caring adults and to be very relational and offer a spiritual component,” said Leaman. According to Leaman, student responses to the center show that those goals are being met, but he and Hoover, who have been directing the center together for about a year, wanted to offer more. “(We were seeing) students graduate, no longer coming to our programs, and (dealing with) difficult situations,” said Leaman, who noted that not having the skills or training to find gainful employment was chief among these. One of the program’s goals is to incorporate CareerLink and other See Youth Ministry pg 9
Heirloom Apple Expert Will Speak At Winter Meeting By Dayna M. Reidenouer
“The only apple I remember from my childhood was the Red Delicious someone gave me at Halloween. I felt ripped off that they didn’t give me candy,” recalled author and Maine apple historian John Bunker. “(At that time), I thought apples came in only red and green.” After Bunker grew up, graduated from college, and moved to Super Chilly Farm in Palermo, Maine, he discovered apple trees, specifically those ancient specimens that grow in backyards and in far-off fields throughout rural Maine. Appreciating a potential source of free food and seeing as no one did anything with the See Apple Expert pg 2
Elizabeth Hoover (left) and Micah Leaman, co-leaders of the Factory Youth Center, are looking forward to expanding the center’s offerings with an after-school program for students in grades seven through 12, which is scheduled to meet on Tuesdays beginning in early February.
Aaron’s Acres Gears Up For Summer Camp By Chelsea Peifer
Aaron’s Acres is recruiting campers and staff for its 2019 weekday summer camp at the Manheim Community Pool
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and Memorial Park. The camp has programs for children, adolescents, and adults with developmental disabilities ages 5 to 21. The first session will run from See Aaron’s Acres pg 9
Aaron’s Acres, a nonprofit organization serving children and adults ages 5 to 21 with special needs, will host three sessions of weekday summer camp at the Manheim Community Pool and Memorial Park in June through August. Registration is now open for campers and staff.
John Bunker, who specializes in the heirloom apples of Maine, will be the featured speaker at the annual Backyard Fruit Growers winter meeting on Jan. 19 at the Farm and Home Center.
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