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JANUARY 17, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 4
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It takes a community BY ANN MEAD ASH
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Kerri Burns, market director at The Factory Ministries, is looking for food donations and volunteers.
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8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Gathering Place, 6 Pine St., Mount Joy. The event will cover everything people need to start the hobby of beekeeping. “We provide a continental breakfast and a very nice lunch,” Gorman said. “I personally teach a class in honey bee biology and hive biology. We teach classes in how to extract honey, where to place your hives, a little bit on diseases. We try to prepare a new beekeeper with the basic info they need to start beekeeping.” Gorman has been a beekeeper for seven years. He started the hobby after he retired from a
Local author releases book on patience BY ANN MEAD ASH
In her quest to bring lessons from the Fruits of the Spirit, found in Galatians 5:22-23, to both children and adults, local author Shelleen Weaver has produced four books. The most recent is “Grizz Bear and Skippy Cricket,” the tale of a ferocious and impatient bear whose w inter hib er nation is interrupted by an annoying cricket.
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As with all Weaver ’s “Fruit Fables,” the books, which employ Weaver’s rhymes alongside Cody Wood’s illustrations, contain nuggets of truth for all family members. “It’s about a control freak who has a situation he can’t control,” explained Weaver. “He tries to control it with smashing (the cricket), but he can’t because (the bug) is out of reach. His next form of control is intimidation, which doesn’t work
Author Shelleen Weaver displays the four “Fruit
See Shelleen Weaver pg 5 Fables” books she has written.
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“Hone y b e es p ollinate a third of everything we eat,” said Master Beekeeper Denny Gorman. “Without them, we wouldn’t have most of the fruit we eat. Honey bees also pollinate 100% of the almonds grown in this country.” Gorman, who is vice president of the Lancaster County Beekeepers Society, is passionate about the insects. He invites other people who are interested in learning more to attend the 2024 New Beekeeper Workshop. It will be held on Saturday, Jan. 27, from
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ccording to Kerri Burns, market director at The Factory Ministries, 3293 Lincoln Highway East, Paradise, it takes a community to keep the market shelves full and ready for customers. “I feel like I have a front-row seat to the generosity of our community every day,” said Burns. Burns cited the 2023 Thanksgiving food collection as an example of that generosity. “We collected almost 10,000 pounds of food just for Thanksgiving,” said Burns, who noted that a number of local organizations, including the Christian Motorcyclists Association, schools in the Pequea Valley School District, up to eight churches, the Paradise Lions Club, Lancaster Project for the Needy, several area businesses, and one farm in Maryland, all took part in creating 130 Thanksgiving meals to give out.
While Burns finds the holiday as hand sanitizer, shampoo, and giving wonderfully overwhelm- toilet paper. Paper towels are also ing , she acknowledged that available, and the market offers the market needs donations birthday celebrations in a bag, ye a r ro u n d to ke e p g o i n g. which include cake mix, party “November and December are hats, cake frosting, and candles. the giving months, and then it Each month, Burns creates drops off,” Burns said. “Every a list of specific market needs, day the market is which is posted to open, 800 to 1,000 “The Factory Min“I feel like I have pounds (of food) istries” Facebook leaves the market.” page. The January a front-row seat The Factory Market list includes peanut to the generosity butter, hearty soups, is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and of our community co ok ing oil and Thursdays for four spray, sugar, flour, every day.” hours each d ay. and laundry soap. During that time, “People can drop three clients visit per hour by items in The Factory lobby any appointment. More than 35 fam- time that suits them throughout ilies per week shop with a market the month,” explained Burns, who volunteer. Each family has a des- also drops lists at banks, thrift ignated quantity of Factory Bucks shops, and other local entities. to spend in certain areas of the Additionally, she organizes two to market. The market is regularly four monthly food drives working stocked with food items such as with schools, churches, businesses, fresh fruits and vegetables, eggs, and local organizations. Although milk, juice, and cheese, along Shady Maple Farm Market prowith personal care items such vides about 500 pounds of produce